On the pretext of bad weather, he held it for two days, and just when the old man Lou was about to find another third room, someone from the yamen couldn't help but say that Lou Chengzu and Liu Ah Mo were screwed away.

The old man Lou was so frightened that he trembled and instructed someone to call the third room, and he hurriedly brought dozens of taels of silver to follow.

This matter was controlled by Lou Hua and Lou Yuzhu, so naturally they would not know it, and deliberately held Lou Chengyi to delay some time, and when they arrived, Li Yue had already tried the matter.

I don't know what the reason is, Lou Chengyi only felt that the back of the middle-aged brother kneeling in the hall was very familiar, and he unconsciously walked to the front to take a look, his eyes widened: "Brother Lan, you are Brother Lan, right?" ”

I haven't seen him for twenty years, and I ruined my face again, but Lou Chengyi still recognized himself at a glance, which made Lou Chenglan cry. "Yes, I'm Brother Lan."

Without Li Yue's signal, Lou Hua invited Lou Chengyi aside. "Dad, this is the public court, and you have to wait until the next hall to talk about the past."

Li Yue is worthy of being the son of the prefect, with rich experience in public trials, and Lou Chengzu and Liu Ah are in chaos after three or two sentences. Seeing that the evidence was conclusive, he jumped up and scolded: "What if I sold it?" I'm his daddy, a money-losing thing that crawled out of my belly, and I can sell it if I want to! ”

Xiao is Li Yue felt that his bottom limit had been refreshed, and he was shocked: "This is the public court!" Who dares to be presumptuous?! On your knees! ”

Liu Ah Mo not only did not kneel but also reasoned: "My son is the head of the meritorious building family, and he is favored by the Son of Heaven, I see who dares to do something to me!" ”

Lou Yuzhu swept her eyes and muttered. Still the same idiot!

"Presumptuous!" Li Yue slapped the shocked wood and instructed the two officials: "Come on, take down this roaring court!" ”

An official stepped forward to hold Liu Ah Mo and knelt down, Liu Ah Mo refused, scolded nonsense in his mouth, and caught a glimpse of Lou Chengyi out of the corner of his eye and scolded: "Third child, you are not a filial son!" You still receive merit, you just let people belittle your daddy like this?! You're going to be thundering! ”

Lou Chengyi, who had not yet recovered from the blow of Lou Chenglan being forced to be sold as a concubine, looked at it blankly, and was immediately frightened by Liu A's hideous expression.

Li Yue and Lou Hua reached a consensus, and immediately shouted: "Roaring court ignores the law and discipline, come on, slap your mouth ten!" ”

Immediately, the official sent him forward to be executed, and Liu Ah, who was only beaten left and right, had red and swollen cheeks and bleeding from the corners of his mouth.

Lou Yuzhu covered her face, just said that it was him, it was really embarrassing.

Li Yue and Lou Huatong looked at each other, and slapped the stunned wood again: "Ten more palms!" ”

A slap hit Liu Ah Mo in the face, but Old Man Lou was as red as blood, which was even more uncomfortable than a slap in his face.

The real court scared Lou Chengzu, and begged for mercy at Lou Chengyi: "The third brother, I am your eldest brother, we are brothers, you can't watch us suffer." You were awarded the merit building card by the emperor, as long as you say a few words, they don't dare to do anything to us, you can't write two building words in one stroke, and your face is shameless when we are offended~"

Lou Hua took a step forward to block it, and his atmosphere was awe-inspiring: "Is there a mistake that there is a Great Yuan Law Decree, how to judge that there is also a Great Yuan Law Decree, how can others interfere with themselves?" Uncle has read all his life, so he should naturally know the principle of repaying virtue with virtue, and the more the emperor takes a fancy to us, the more we should respect the law and order, so as not to vain the emperor's favor. ”

Li Yue waved his hands and praised, and the two sang and drank two sentences, and then the public trial continued. Liu Ah Mo admitted that things would be easy to do, and Lou Chengzu still had the idea of putting all the guilt on Liu Ah Mo to get rid of himself.

Old Man Lou, who heard the meaning from Lou Chengzu's words, trembled angrily, looked at Liu Ah Mo, whose cheeks were swollen, and said with pain on his face: "That's your father." "From childhood to adulthood, Liu Ah has lost everyone, Lou Chenglan, Lou Chengli, Lou Chengyi are all indebted, even the old man Lou is indebted, but Lou Chengzu, from childhood to adulthood, Liu Ah Mo has not owed him the slightest!

Lou Chengzu was about to be driven crazy, staring at Old Man Lou, his bloodshot eyes looked crazy, and it was scary to look at.

Li Yue couldn't allow him to make such a good calculation, and took out the wedge of selling his body that he had traded with the Zhu family's son, and the signature of Chengzu was in front of Liu Ah. Another sinner, the son of the Zhu family, testified that Lou Chengzu could not escape the first crime.

"Lou Chenglan accused the second brother Lou Chengzu of being forced to sell as a concubine, and the official judged that the Shiliu family was an accomplice, and he will be accepted for the time being, and the decision will be made when the official goes to the prefect to make a decision!"

Lou Chenglan, who was wronged and greedy for wealth, finally apologized for his blood, but once the stigma of decades was cleared, he just wanted to cry. Wei Laosi stood next to him and silently let him rely on it.

The old man Lou was dizzy and weak.

Lou Chengzu broke free from the official errand and rushed to Lou Chenglan with a crazy face: "Why did you come back, why did you come back after so many years?" Obviously you were sold and you were a concubine, why didn't you die?! ”

Wei Laosi was busy protecting Lou Chenglan.

The official messenger rushed up, and Lou Chengzu, who failed to resist, was restrained again, his eyes were red and he scolded the old man Lou: "It's all Dad, what family business do you tell me, what ancestors are rich, what do you say I am talented and intelligent, and it depends on me to revitalize the Lou family, I must be admitted to the show, I must be an official!" If you hadn't instilled these things with me, I wouldn't be afraid of failing the exam, and I wouldn't be afraid of being looked down upon! ”

Old Man Lou's hands trembled and his face twitched.

Lou Yuzhu and Lou Hua looked at each other and pursed their lips. Because he couldn't bear the pressure, Lou Chengzu who forced Lou Chenglan to buy excellent student articles with money was a scumbag, but because he was such a scumbag, Mr. Lou did have to bear part of the responsibility. The son does not teach the father's fault, and the nutrients of the family's resources are too much, which directly causes the roots to rot; is also too high, afraid of falling down and falling to death.

The evil act of the younger brother forcing the brother to sell the elder brother as a concubine is hateful, and since the father is also involved, it is even more hateful, because it is too bad and related to the meritorious Lou family.

The Criminal Department received the excerpt and several bigwigs discussed it, and pretended to be stupid and put the excerpt in the fold to show the Son of Heaven.

At the same time, Lou Hua's excerpt of the guilty sin came to the hands of the Son of Heaven first.

The Son of Heaven scolded with hatred: "Since there are such vicious brothers in this world? It's really unheard of, unheard of! Since such wicked people are still talents? What did the blind examiner eat?! ”

The scarlet father-in-law carefully picked up the fold that the Son of Heaven had dropped, wiped it with his sleeve and put it next to the stack that he had read, and pretended to sigh unintentionally: "When the old slave went to Nanyang, I heard a few ears, compared with the third room, the big room and the second room are simply not a thing. The old slave also heard that Sanfang knew Pei Ergongzi at the beginning, because the Lou family's murdered fetus almost killed two corpses, and Lou Yuzhu, who refused to force twenty taels of life-saving money, went to the town to beg, and it also happened to beg in front of Pei Ergongzi, otherwise alas, I don't know what it would be. ”

The words of the scarlet father-in-law make people think about it down, the Lou family's one corpse and two lives, the three rooms are shattered, and the double-cropping rice method after that is naturally useless, the magic brocade is gone, and even the fruit wine that the Son of Heaven has been inseparable from recently is gone!

Is it okay for the Son of Heaven to think so?

After speaking, the scarlet father-in-law sighed again, and said jokingly: "Poor Sanfang, it is estimated that such a relative will be tired for the rest of his life." ”

The Son of Heaven wrinkled his eyebrows and thought about it, and immediately made an order: "Take away his talent and fame, and punish him for fifty years, and his children and grandchildren are not allowed to enter the scientific examination!" ”

The Son of Heaven personally ordered the Criminal Department to pay attention to it, and quickly replied to Nanyang, and when the decree reached Li Yue's hands, Lou Chengzu and Liu Ah Mo had been in prison for no more than a month.

The evil deeds of the two are known to the county, and the wicked people who killed people and set fires in the prison all said that they couldn't do this kind of chaos, and of course the life of the two of them was not easy under the same hatred. The quilts and clothes sent by the third room can not be enjoyed by the two people, and the fresh food can not be enjoyed by the two people, the angry two people scolded, scolded the prisoners in the prison and scolded the officials and scolded the three rooms for fake benevolence and false righteousness, etc., when the official was in a good mood, he was in a bad mood, and when he met the official, he sneered and tidied up the cell and temporarily put the two in a mixed cell, how could the prisoner who was not a good person be polite, and the hands and feet were still light!

After cleaning up a few meals, the two of them were honest, and they stayed in their cells honestly and looked forward to the day they were released from prison. But I didn't know that the day I was released from prison was not heaven.

Lou Chengzu's proud lifelong talent and fame were once taken away, and the two legs were immediately broken when the fifty canes came, although Liu Ah Mo did not suffer, but kneeling to watch Lou Chengzu's execution, he was stimulated by the blurred appearance of flesh and blood, and the old man Lou, who had been sick for a month, forced his sick body to pick up the two of them, and when he heard that 'the three generations of his children and grandchildren are not allowed to enter the scientific examination', he finally rolled his eyes and fainted.

The money for the old man Lou and Liu Ah Mo to see a doctor and take medicine was out of the third room, but Lou Chengzu's did not come out at all, and no doctor was even willing to give him injuries, and the result was that the injury was delayed and both legs were wasted. As soon as he heard the good doctor announce the injury, Lou Chengzu immediately fainted, and when he woke up again, his body couldn't move.

Xu Chunting cut through the mess quickly, and at night while Lou Chengzu was asleep, he pressed the handprint of the book, and after cleaning up the soft overnight, he asked Lou Jinzhu and Lou Yinzhu if they were willing to go with him.

The two brothers were stunned at the time, and Lou Yinzhu subconsciously wanted to say yes, but was pulled back by Lou Jinzhu. "Daddy, take care."

Xu Chunting immediately looked cold, and took out ten taels of silver in the hands of the two brothers: "I won't be able to come to the door after I leave, and I won't be able to participate in the future when I get married, so I will treat Daddy as adding makeup to you first." ”

Lou Jinzhu shook her lips. In the past few years, their embroidery work has been sold in the town, dozens of small pieces of hundreds of texts, large and delicate pieces of two taels of silver, a year is far more than five taels of silver. The money has always been collected by Xu Chunting, but now when he leaves, he only gives five taels per person, and he also looks kind. "Thank you, Daddy."

Lou Jinzhu thought that instead of Xu Chunting, who was separated from him, he would suffer and marry a small family, if he had his back to the meritorious Lou family, he would not be able to marry a high-ranking family, but it was still okay to marry a squire, and be a gentleman. Lou Jinzhu's thoughts, how can Xu Chunting not know, doesn't he want to suffer with him? Then it's no wonder that he has a good life by giving him a silver tael, and if you have your back to the meritorious Lou family, you will not be able to afford the dowry.

You have your abacus, I have my calculations, and the father-son relationship of more than ten years has been calculated.

As soon as the morning dawned, Xu Chunting quietly left the Lou family, and the old man of the Lou did not know about the divorce until the Xu family's own family came to pick up the large dowry. Lou Chengzu lay on the bed and scolded angrily, but first Tang Lianxiao had a bad reputation and then ruined his reputation, and Xu Chunting couldn't stop anyone if he wanted to leave.

Lou Yuzhu, who heard the news, wanted to praise her cleverness. The son has long left his heart, and the two brothers are going to marry unreliable, and the rest of their lives are spent on a waste person, so it is better to take the money and find another way. However, this other way is not so easy to plan, and with his reputation of abandoning his husband and son, it is just a waste.

The son of Wen Wen and Binbin was tossed and half his life became a wasted person, Xiucai's fame was gone, and even his grandson's Xiucai fame was taken away, and the three generations of children and grandchildren were not allowed to enter the scientific examination and decided their way of life, and now even the husband and wife are gone, and the broken family is just like that.

Seeing the various second rooms of the big house, Lou Chengli was moved by what Ji Xiaorong said, and proposed to the old man Lou to split up. In the past, they didn't separate their families because they were looking forward to Lou Wen joining the office, but now not to mention that even the fame of Xiucai has been taken away, and the reputation is so bad that the benefit of exempting land tax can't be touched. The big house is old, the three small ten fingers don't touch the spring water, and the only concubine Tang Lianxiao is not a top matter, only their two rooms are labor, and the work is all done by them, but there are not as many big houses, Ji Xiaorong will be happy to be strange, and then think about the three big houses, one is not married, and two are not married, this money is out of the public and their second room must not die? Separation, must be separated!

Old Man Lou clutched his chest and said in a deep voice of grief: "Okay, points, I'll give you points!" ”

Sanfang was called to be a witness, and the old man Lou personally turned out the bottom of the house. Drawing out the two hundred taels that Liu Qingmei asked Liu Ah Mo to marry instead, when he saw the old man in the silver ticket building, he remembered that when the family was the poorest, he asked Liu Ah Mo to borrow the dowry, Liu Ah Mo cried and said that his family did not give him no money, and in order to tide over the difficulties, he intermittently sold the good land. When I think of these old men, my heart hurts. "It doesn't matter." It's his scar, and as long as he's there, no one can touch it.

Ji Xiaorong pursed his mouth, and was stunned by Lou Chengli, but he swallowed the words back to his stomach.

Old Man Lou turned his head to look at the three-room family, swept Lou Hua in official clothes, and Lou Yuzhu Lou Ming Lou Chen embroidered with delicate patterns and silk new clothes, and finally turned his eyes back to Lou Chengyi, and the expression on his face didn't know whether to cry or smile: "The third child has a lot of money now, and you probably can't look down on this idea, so you won't divide it." ”

Lou Chengyi nodded, looking at the old man's haggard face, he felt uncomfortable.

"Before, the family had 31 acres of fertile land, and gave the third two acres, and then the third came back, in recent years, the family has added 11 acres, and the sand has also added 2 acres, and the field has a total of 42 acres of fertile land, nine acres of sandy land, and four acres of vegetable fields." "The boss is partial, I will be more partial, divided into 20 acres of fertile land, 3 acres of sandy land, 2 acres of vegetable field, the second child will be divided into 15 acres of fertile land, 3 acres of sandy land, 2 acres of vegetable field, and the remaining 7 acres of fertile land and 3 acres of sandy land will be reserved for me and your father's pension money.

The fertile land can now be planted for two seasons, except for one and a half percent of the tax, and then give two and a half of the old, and the receipt of the hand is only three and a half, which is lower than the ordinary family's fine, enough for the second room and a family to eat on weekdays.

After that, the distribution of the house and some furniture and farm tools at home, after these divisions, the old man began to count the money.

Ji Xiaorong stretched his neck to look, Lou Jinzhu, who was sitting behind him, clenched his hands, his eyes stayed on the jade pendant tied around Lou Yuzhu's waist for a while, and he laughed at himself for being nervous about the silver money here, and it was estimated that he couldn't even match the corner of a jade pendant.

The facts are indeed not worth it, you must know that the things that Lou Yuzhu is wearing are all checked by Zhou Cheng personally, precious, exquisite, exquisite, and unique.

Lou Yuzhu didn't know that his jade pendant was still beckoning, and his mind was now curious about how much money the old mansion had. In fact, there is nothing uncurious in the entire third room, and even Xiao Louchen can't help but stretch his neck to look.

The old man Lou took out the box containing the silver money, and began to calculate it in front of everyone, the more he calculated, the more dazed he became, it turned out that his family had so much money, so why did he persecute the third room so much? "There are one hundred taels of silver, two of fifty taels, four of thirty taels, four of ten taels, twenty-seven taels of broken silver, and no copper plates, and a total of three hundred and eighty-seven taels of silver."

Hearing this, several people gasped.

Three hundred and eighty-seven taels, of which about one hundred and fifty taels were borrowed from the three rooms one after another after the separation, and the old man Lou and Liu Ah Mo have been out of three rooms in the past few years, saving a sum of money, plus the gifts given by the New Year's festival and the monthly examples, the large and small add up to fifty taels, that is to say, two hundred and eighty-seven taels are three-room. The remaining one hundred and eighty-seven taels, of which seventy taels are the dowry given by the Guo family to Lou Mingzhu, and the remaining one hundred and seventeen taels are the real surplus money of the old mansion in recent years.

Don't underestimate this one hundred and seventeen taels, as far as the market in the past few years is concerned, the surplus money of the hundreds of households in the entire Yanjia Village is estimated to be less than the old house. And how many of these one hundred and seventeen taels are offered in three rooms? But the old man of Bishenglou refused to even take out twenty taels to save Fu Linshu's life! How hateful!

"Grandpa needs to make it clear before dividing the money," Lou Hua raised his eyes: "A few years ago, Ah Mo borrowed more than 100 taels in our third room one after another, and the reason Grandpa also knew it. We don't need this money, but the eldest and second uncles must have a number in their hearts. ”

Old Man Lou's face was stiff, and he said dryly: "This money"

"You don't have to pay it back." After saying that, Lou Hua got up: "We have something to do tomorrow and we will stay soon, grandpa looks at it, we have no opinion in the three rooms." ”

The whole three-room room left like a stream, and the old man Lou looked at their backs and couldn't speak for a long time, and only continued under the urging of Lou Chengli for a long time.

"I'll bear the cost of three rooms with your father, you don't have to give the second child, and the meaning of the New Year's holiday will be fulfilled. I also know that you have saved a lot of private houses in recent years, and most of the boss's private houses have been taken away by the Xu family. Second, you will suffer a loss. ”

Lou Chengli tightly pinched Ji Xiaorong's arm, and replied angrily: "Dad, you say." ”

"Three hundred and eighty-seven taels of silver, the brothers each share one hundred taels, and the remaining one hundred and eighty-seven taels will be drawn forty taels for Lou Yuan and Lou Wucheng's subordinates, and the gift money will be given separately."

"Good. I listen to my father. ”

Said to be a division but in fact just to divide the two rooms, Lou Chengli did not make a stupid decision to ask the old man Lou who he was willing to with, the urn sound of the urn responded to the old man Lou's separation, and then two days after buying an old house at the end of the village that a family did not want, planning to overturn the heavy build. Before leaving the house, Lou Chengli led the family to kowtow three times to the old man Liu, and when he turned around, he couldn't help but smear at the old man Lou.

"Brother Lan was forced to sell by the eldest brother, and when it came to the head father, he still didn't scold the eldest brother; For the eldest brother to study, the eldest lang to study, the father almost forced the third family to death, and at the end of the day, he blamed the third child for not being righteous and not mentioning his brothers; The eldest brother spurned the family's reputation for being worthless, but my father didn't ask me a word and still had to protect my eldest brother. Dad blamed me for mentioning the separation, but did Dad think about us? Dad always said how the eldest brother was, he used to study for him, but now he is pitiful for him, are those things forced by me and the third child? Didn't the eldest brother make it to himself to get to this point? Dad said that the eldest brother is pitiful, don't blame you for favoring him, isn't it pitiful that Brother Lan was forced to bear the stigma for decades as a concubine? Isn't it pitiful that the third daughter-in-law almost died in two corpses? Dad is afraid that he forgot that when Brother Lan was tortured, the eldest brother was a beautiful talent, and when the third brother was pitiful, the eldest brother enjoyed the beauty of teaching in the town and raised the outer room to enjoy the blessings of all people. Regardless of the shaking hands of the old man Lou, Lou Chengli said lightly: "Dad gave birth to the four of us, but the four of them all turned against each other, who does Dad think is the culprit?" ”

Lou Wen, who was listening next to him, raised his eyes and said sarcastically: "How good is the second uncle?" Didn't you ignore Uncle Lan at the beginning? Aren't you also an accomplice when the third uncle has a tire gas? Scold us for being selfish, how good can you be? ”

"Yes, I'm selfish." Lou Chengli turned his head, his eyes were not excited or sad: "So I bear the pain of my brother's rebellion, the pain of my relatives avoiding me, and the life of doing nothing in my life." I accept my fate. ”