"Sister, isn't it okay to be happy?" Ruoyu hurriedly asked.

Ruohui was too energetic, and then he eased up and said: "I feel uncomfortable for a while, but I will be fine for a while, didn't I say that I was going to the dock to make a sacrifice?" Why haven't you left yet? ”

Ruoyu said: "Our Li family has also experienced a lot of ups and downs in the past year, but fortunately, the family is safe and sound, and the eldest sister now has a good home." Mother said that they were all blessed by the god of water and the ancestors, and this time the sacrifice must be grander, one to thank the god of water, and the other to ask the god of water to take more care of it in the future. The mother personally organized the opening of the sacrifice, which was several times more than in previous years, because she left later. Mother and Shun'er will also go over to worship together this time.

Ruoyu talked to her sister and saw that her sister was fine, so she changed her clothes and walked with her brother-in-law Guan Ba. Soon, the sacrifices and procession were ready, and the old woman Li was in the center, with Shun'er and Ruoyu on the left and right. Lord Sima and Guan Ba also accompanied them to worship, following closely behind the three of them. Behind is a long sacrificial procession, in front are thirty-two people, a group of four carrying ritual vessels such as the bell for sacrifice, then thirty-two people carrying ritual vessels carved from beautiful jade and leather silk offerings, and then thirty-two people carrying pig's head and cow's head and all kinds of meat.

The group walked out of the Li Mansion and walked along the street towards the dock, attracting countless onlookers along the way, pointing fingers and talking about it.

The Li family is the leading household in Liaocheng, and the annual sacrifice to the water god is complicated and vast, and there are countless things to buy, and many people have profited from it. But this is the first time that such a large team has been formed this year, and many people are pointing to the team with great interest, and from time to time they will say a few words to the people around them.

The Shen family is the only way for the Li Mansion to go to the wharf, and when passing by, Ruoyu found that the gate of the Shen family was closed, and the blessing bag at the door was empty, but there was not a single post, and the two gatekeepers at the door were also listless, looking at the Li family's sacrificial procession with envy.

Ruoyu's heart moved, but he didn't expect the Shen family to be so lonely. Guan Ba behind him smiled, and said to Chu Sima in a low voice: "My lord, do you know that this Shen family seems to be powerful on the surface, but it is stormy inside." Guan Ba looks like a stout military man, but in fact, he is very gossipy in his heart, and he knows that Shen Rubai is also a small thorn in the uncle's heart, usually in addition to going to the Li Mansion to contact feelings, eating and drinking, is to inquire about the situation of the Shen family outside.

Sima glanced at Guan Ba and did not speak. Guan Ba continued: "On the surface, Shen Rubai is in a good position, and there is Uncle Bai Guo as a backer behind him, and even with his eldest brother, he also carps and jumps into the dragon gate, and entrusts him with important tasks in the DPRK. In fact, it is at stake. It is said that the saint was annoyed with his head and rat, and retreated from the matter of checking the shipping, and was very dissatisfied with him. According to the practice of Da Chu, this kind of confidant who returns to his hometown to recuperate, the Holy Lord will issue a decree to reward money and goods, and seal a lady. But Shen Rubai came back naked, not only did he not have any rewards, but there were not even a few people to see him off.

Uncle Bai Guo originally admired him and recruited him as his son-in-law, but now he is afraid that he regrets that he led the wolf into the house. During the Shengshang's inventory of shipping, he arrested many shippers who had colluded with pirates, and ten of them* were people who had taken refuge in the Bai family. It is rumored outside that Shen Rubai has betrayed Uncle Bai Guo by eating inside and out, and he can only catch it so accurately with the saint. Hehe, he Shen Rubai originally returned to his hometown in order not to be caught between the saint and Uncle Bai Guo, but now he is not a person inside and out.

Shen Rubai is not only unsatisfactory in officialdom, but also in the house. I heard that Shen Qiao's family was very domineering, and he often beat and scolded his subordinates, and he was arrogant to his original daughter-in-law. This time, Shen Rubai's new wife also returned to her hometown together, and Shen Qiao's family was still taking Qiao, treating Miss Bai San with the same attitude as she had treated her daughter-in-law, but she didn't expect to hit her head on the iron plate. Miss Bai San was also very spicy, first gave her mother-in-law Shen Qiaoshi a slap, thinking that it was not enjoyable, and then picked up the vase on the table and smashed it at Shen Qiao's, this daughter-in-law beat her mother-in-law, but she is really the first woman in Da Chu, I heard that the mother-in-law is still lying on the sickbed, and the blood on her head will not heal after the New Year! ”

Saying that, Guan Ba also sighed twice, full of schadenfreude.

Li Ruoyu was moved by the thought when he heard it, this shop under the name of the Bai family actually colluded with the pirates? She glanced at Chu Jinfeng, who had been silent, and knew that he must have done it. Otherwise, even if the Bai family really colluded with overseas, they would never leave such a big handle.

However, now the new emperor has supported a lot of important ministers. Although the Bai family was very prosperous, under the silent suppression of the new emperor, it was gradually declining and gradually revealing the color of the decadent Tang Dynasty.

The Bai family's qi is actually coming to an end!

As expected, before the first month, bad news came from the capital, the Empress Dowager Bai was infected with a cold because of listening to the play, and she was sick for a while and had a high fever for three days and three nights.

As soon as the queen mother died, the whole country valued filial piety, and even the fifteenth lamp market was banned.

Immediately afterwards, it was reported that the Bai family intended to rebel, the deeds were revealed, the capital was under martial law, and the entire Bai family was escorted to the prison overnight. And Uncle Bai Guo didn't know if he knew that he was guilty, so he committed suicide by drinking poison in the mansion. Of course, the thrilling and intrigue in this is only known to those in the bureau.

Such a thing would not have caused any waves in Liaocheng. These turbulent events are actually not about the gossip of the fathers and elders of Liaocheng.

After all, who became the emperor, the pickled crispy melon in this enamel bowl is still so sour, and the twisted tea leaves soaked in the mud pot are still fragrant.

But because Shen Ershao in the city is the son-in-law of the Bai family, the rise and fall of the Bai family also particularly affects the hearts of the fathers and elders of Liaocheng.

Are there eggs under the nest? The Shen family was also personally led by the officers and soldiers because they were in-laws with the Bai family, and none of the servants and masters in the family were spared, and they were all arrested and put in prison.

On the day when the officers and soldiers closed the door, it is said that Shen Qiao's reaction was particularly fierce, and he pointed to the third lady of the Bai family, who had been arrested by the servants again, and shouted that she was a broom star, which caused her innocent son to be blamed for this. is quite a bit of madness, rushing to drown in his beauty, venting all the depression of the previous days.

The wonderful scene actually made the parents and villagers who did not see the lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month particularly satisfied, and only felt that these wild history anecdotes could be talked about until the first month of the next year.

That Shen Rubai didn't expect the new emperor to turn his face and deny his account like this, he secretly helped him collect a lot of evidence of the Bai family's crimes, but in the end, he was still abandoned.

The Bai family's power in the government and the opposition has been intertwined over the years, and the emperor is also eager to make a quick decision. Important criminals will be executed and beheaded in a few days, and the case will never be allowed to be overturned.

That Shen Rubai is also on the list of death row prisoners, he has been in the camp for half his life, not hesitating to sacrifice morality and love, only to glorify the lintel and want to climb up, but in the end, he ended up losing everything, and his mother, brother, sister-in-law and nephew were also imprisoned together.

It's a pity that even if the mother is in the middle of the family, she is still the style of the rich mother-in-law, and the precious tobacco has never been short of half a tael, but now she wants to become a cheap slave...... His death is approaching, and it is ineffective to care about the future of his people, and he has only one wish, that is, he wants to see Ruo Yu again and repent with her face to face.

But when he was about to go to the guillotine, it was his wife Li Xuan'er who came to bring him this last meal.

"My sister won't see you, in fact, even your second brother-in-law doesn't want her to hear your name. After all, she is pregnant now, and she can't afford to miss the pool. Again...... You're not one of hers, so why do you want to see you? Li Xuan'er is still sick, but she still holds on to coming here.

She asked the maid to open the food box, which was filled with a few dishes that Shen Rubai liked, Li Xuan'er coughed a few times, and personally put those dishes in front of Shen Rubai and said: "These are all made by me myself, and I don't know if the craftsmanship is rusty after so long."

Shen Rubai said with a gloomy face: "Are you looking at my jokes? ”

Li Xuan'er picked up her wine glass, saluted Shen Rubai, and said after leaning up: "I'm here to thank you, now that I think about it, I was able to have a deep affection for you, and half of your hints and acquiescence are in it, in the Li family, you need an internal response to help you." It's ridiculous that I was determined that you had such a sincere affection for me.

Regardless of it, I would like to thank you for this catastrophe for me, which made me completely open the knot with my second sister. Just like the second sister said, men and marriage are not all for women, it just depends on what they are willing to put in the most important position, the second sister will not give up, Li Xuan'er will go out of the shipyard to try to help after recovering from illness, my younger brother is still young, I am the daughter of the Li family, and only the Li family is the foundation of my life. So today, instead of practicing with you, it is better to say goodbye to the short-sighted and vicious me I used to have.

I also wish Shen Lang all the way, and you and I don't want to have an afterlife......"

After Li Xuan'er finished speaking, she turned around and left. In the end, there are some similarities between the girls of the Li family, that is, once they are hard-hearted, they will never look at them again.

Shen Rubai looked at Li Xuan'er's back in a daze, at this moment, her back was a little similar to her second sister, her waist was so straight, and she walked so resolutely......

The second young man of the Shen family did not wait until the next day. When the executioner came to pick him up in the morning, he found that he had wrapped the strip of cloth that he had removed from his prison clothes around the fence, and the other end around his neck, and then turned his body until he had broken his neck because of the tightening of the strip of cloth.

This is the method of the girl who was stupid but not wise at all, and cut the iron bar of the window from the place where he imprisoned her, he always remembered, so he used this method to let himself leave this world quietly and decently.

On the last turn of the strip of cloth, he muttered, "You and I wish there was an afterlife......

The merchant ship that went to Nanyang finally returned home before the spring breeze in March.

Because of the collapse of the Bai family, Zhou Qianyu faintly felt a little urgent, and he was also in a hurry to leave Liaocheng, but unfortunately it was still a step too late. 166 Reading Network