"You say what you said in my house that day, in front of all the old ladies and masters, if there is deception and lies, the ancestors of the Chu family are here, be careful of the thunder and thunder in the sky." The black-faced old lady pointed at Qiu Ju, and then pointed to the slowly piled up of tablets above, and said sharply.

"Yes, the slave and maid dare not deceive, otherwise the sky will thunder." Qiu Ju looked at the tablet in the hall and swore to the sky.

Then Qiu Ju talked about the old incident, which was a little more detailed than what Sister Tonghui once said.

The words fell, and the matter was finished, and the hall was silent for a while.

After a long time, I suddenly remembered the old lady's voice: "You said that you have been serving for your little master all these years, but where is your little master?" ”

"The slave and maid have searched many times, and it is in the bamboo forest in the back mountain, which has been listed as a forbidden place by you for many years." Qiu Ju replied loudly

When everyone heard this, they believed it a little more, because there was indeed a rule in the house that they were not allowed to go to the Houshan Bamboo Forest at will.

Chu Jinmin and Brother Xuan'er, father and son, found a place to sit on their own, and they couldn't see their joy or anger.

"In that case, why don't the thirteenth brother's people and the housekeeper go together to find out what is in the bamboo forest."

As soon as the old lady said this, Sister Hui'er's heart jumped, and when she raised her eyes, she saw that the old lady's face was very determined, and she couldn't help but secretly scream that it was not good, afraid that the uncle had been removed from the bamboo forest.

"That time, someone accidentally entered the bamboo forest, so I made preparations." The old lady glanced at Sister Hui'er, smiled and whispered slowly.

Sister Hui lowered her eyes, her face did not move, but she was already very anxious.

"Since Uncle Thirteen's people are looking for someone, it's boring for us to sit and wait, I happened to bring someone into Beijing, why don't you come in and tell some stories to your uncles." Chu Jinmin suddenly said with a smile

"Hey, how do you know that your uncle had better listen to this mouth, hurry up, bring someone up."

"Sixth, this is the ancestral hall! Don't look at the occasion either! The old lady reprimanded in a deep voice

"Hey, look, they've all brought it here, eldest nephew, tell your story to your uncle." The sixth old lady smiled and pointed to the few people waiting outside.

Chu Jinmin got up and nodded, then beckoned, motioning for Changjing to bring someone in.

"Brother Zhang, the ancestral rules, subordinates are not allowed to enter the ancestral hall. Drive out those idle people and others, don't break the rules of our ancestors. Suddenly, the old lady in the compartment was as imposing as a rainbow and said in a sonorous voice.

Chu Jinzhang nodded in response, the guards outside the door were all his people, and when he saw this, he immediately drove Qiu Ju and Changjing and others out.

The old lady, mother and son are obviously going to play tricks.

Qiu Ju and Changjing were about to fight back, but they were stopped by Chu Jinmin: "Stop!" Since the ancestral rules are here, then you can go to the door and talk. ”

When these words were said, it was obvious that Chu Jinzhang was choked, and he wanted to play tricks and continue to drive people away, but when he saw that all the clan elders were looking at him with solemn faces, he was a little weak for a while.

Qiu Ju withdrew her hand and stood outside the house. Changjing took Chu Jinzhang's gap, took the old couple, knelt at the door, and hurriedly said loudly: "Old ladies, this is the brother and sister-in-law of the old marquis beside Aunt Bai back then. ”

"Master Hou, ladies and gentlemen, the villain is the third child of the Bai family, and his family is a cloth merchant in the south of the Yangtze River. In the tenth year of Xihe, my father and my mother and sister went to Beijing to do business together, but my sister was greedy for fun and lost on the way. Later, the old marquis sent a letter of appointment to hire his sister as a second room. But five years later, my father inexplicably received the news of his sister's death, and ordered the villain to go to Beijing to inquire about the news, but he didn't even enter the door of the Hou Mansion. It was still the villain who made Yin Liang and the people of the Hou Mansion to inquire, and learned that his sister's child had smallpox, and his sister was too sad to die. I thought it was just destiny, and the old father at home was sad. But it wasn't until last year that someone came to tell us that my sister was killed by Mrs. at the time, and Mrs. Tai now. The old father was old, and he always felt ashamed of his sister, so he followed after a few days, and only before he died, he took the villain's hand and decided to go to Beijing once in the morning to find out what happened back then. ”

The middle-aged man kowtowed, said slowly, and when he came to the back, a little sparkle flowed out of the corners of his eyes. The middle-aged woman next to her had already wiped away her tears a few times.

There was silence in the hall for a moment, and no one spoke up. The sixth old lady said slowly: "I remember that the aunt surnamed Bai was the one that the second brother liked very much, and she gave birth to a son, and then died of smallpox. That Aunt Bai did die of excessive injuries. ”

"You said that Aunt Bai was killed by my second sister-in-law, listen to what you said, although your family is a businessman, but that aunt is also a letter of appointment sent by the second brother, and she is a white family, not a slave of the Chu family. If all this is true, my second sister-in-law will have to bear the sin of murder. Don't be a fool of yourself, be careful to send you to see the official, and punish the crime of framing Mrs. Yipin of the court. The fourth old lady said leisurely.

Everyone in the hall hung their heads for a while and fell silent.

"The villain has proof." The middle-aged man hurriedly took something out of his sleeve and presented it.

Brother Xuan got up, took the envelope, presented it to the eldest lady, and then went down in order to circulate it to everyone.

When it arrived in Chu Jinzhang's hands, Chu Jinzhang's face turned red, and his hand trembled slightly while holding the letterhead.

"The villain still has a thing, this is a handwritten letter left by the doctor who treated the villain's nephew who died young. Although the doctor had no children, he left a successor, who was the treasurer of the Zhonghetang in Jingzhong. All the old ladies should go and check whether the letter is handwritten. The middle-aged man handed out another piece of paper.

Brother Xuan took it again and presented them to the masters one by one.

After Chu Jinli finished reading it, Chu Jinli, who had never spoken like this, couldn't help but shake his hands and get up and said, "Mother, are these true?" ”

"Fourth brother, don't listen to the nonsense of outsiders." Chu Jinzhang reprimanded sharply.

Chu Jinli was at a loss for a moment holding the letter in such a scene.

The first of the two letters was written by Qiu Ju and the Bai family by her master, Aunt Qiu, which recorded all the truths she discovered, and also explained how the child she was pregnant with was born back then, and how she used this matter to blackmail the old lady.

The latter is the evidence that Aunt Qiu mentioned in her previous letter to confirm the truth of her statements. All the contents are written by the same doctor back then. When the doctor was dying, he remembered the lack of virtue of replacing the medicine for smallpox with the medicine that killed him, and he was ashamed and recorded it, which was later obtained by Aunt Qiu.

The two letters together just confirmed the two things committed by the old lady: privately confining the concubine for more than ten years, and murdering the concubine and the second aunt from a good family.

Even if these two things are powerful and powerful, and the law can cover them, the ancestral hall family law can't tolerate them.

Chu Jinzhang also understood that all the clan elders in the clan were here this time, and he couldn't escape what his mother had done, so he gritted his teeth and muttered: "The person hasn't been found yet, the evidence is insufficient, who knows that these two people are not being bought." ”

The middle-aged man outside was about to argue, but he saw Qiu Ju wearing a gray robe, looking handsome, like a ten-year-old boy who looked like the old Hou Ye, and said loudly: "Hou Ye, this is the evidence you want." Ladies and gentlemen, this is the little master that the slave said, the old marquis left behind by the old marquis, the fifth master. ”

The old men, who were already getting older, looked at Chu Wuye who was slowly approaching with wide eyes, and they all nodded again and again, because with that look, it could only be the kind left by the old marquis!

"This is my second brother's son, second sister-in-law, you can explain." The sixth old lady smiled and shouted at the compartment.

"Mother, mother, mother" There was a sudden burst of gossip shouts from the compartment.

Then I saw the old lady rushing out of the cubicle, standing in the hall and looking straight at the child, pointing at the child with one hand, trembling slightly: "You, you, you" Before the words were finished, the person fell straight to the ground, and the hall was in chaos for a while.