Wen Shi only listened to it immediately, but he felt frightened, and still roared loudly: "This gold medal...... It was given to me by the first emperor. ”

The prison man didn't like it more and more, he had already got up, and sneered: "Dare to ask Miss Wen, what great achievements you have in our dynasty, and what kind of merits have you made in the royal family, the first emperor will reward you with a gold medal!" Miss Wen, don't talk nonsense, if you talk nonsense, if the emperor gives an order, someone will not be able to save you if they want to. ”

At the other end of the prison, a man's voice was heard: "Someone! The sinner woman Wen stole the gold medal of my Jiang family to avoid death, and her crime should be punished! He deserves ...... punishment."

Wen Shi stubbornly said: "Let my parents ...... quickly"

The prison servant shouted, "The bold sinner, who dares to steal the royal relics, has committed a capital crime." Come and report to Lord Gu truthfully. Take down the sinner woman of the Wen family for me, and talk about it with the Wen family, waiting for Lord Gu to send it! ”

A group of jailers rushed forward and trapped Wen's, some people took advantage of the situation to eat tofu, some people were annoyed that Wen's deceived them and made them kneel for a long time, and they were very heavy, Wen's was a weak woman, who was the opponent of the six jailers, and was soon embarrassed, not to mention the gold medal, and was pushed into the Wen's death row.

Hearing that Qigui knew the truth, he raised his hand and slapped him hard: "Stupid!" ”

Wen Shi held his aching cheeks, "I'm stupid! I'm not trying to save you. Who is involved in our family? It's not you yet, but now it's me? ”

Wen Qigui turned his face to the side in despair, "If you are a smart person, you should encircle the Jiang family, such as the He family, the Cao family, and the Li family in the third room, that is the best policy, your way of acting is to openly oppose the Jiang family, and it is to cut off the hope of the Wen family." ”

Wen Qigui's third aunt stood carefully in the next cell, she was an official prostitute. Whether it was an official maid or a maid, her daughter Wen Yawu was rescued by the Jiang family.

As soon as the turmoil in the prison of the Criminal Department subsided, Gu Lixing took people to Jiang's house.

Jiang Shuhong was so shocked that he thought something was wrong, and got up in the middle of the night to meet and deal with it.

As soon as Gu Lixing entered the Gathering Friends Hall, he had a cold face, "Your Jiang family was rewarded with a gold medal for avoiding death by the first emperor?" ”

When Jiang Shuhong heard this, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that it was some kind of disaster, and hurriedly said: "When the emperor was first." The little sister was awarded two gold medals for avoiding death because of her military merits in the Northwest Battlefield. ”

It turned out not one, but two.

Gu Lixing took out the gold medal, "This is one of them." ”

Next time, if he wants to attack the Jiang family, he is afraid that he will have to think twice before acting, and the Jiang family cannot be provoked. No matter how he calculates, the Jiang family has a way to protect himself, but he Gu family does not.

Furthermore. The Jiang family has never been rude to the Gu family, even if he Gu Lixing was suppressed in officialdom in those years, people were also polite and courteous to him, neither close nor distant, let alone offending the Gu family.

Jiang Shuhong carefully identified it and said, "It's true." This was handed over to my fifth brother Jiang Shuqi by my little sister herself, saying that after the case was decided, he might be able to save his family's life. ”

Gu Lixing told the story of what happened in the prison tonight.

Jiang Shuhong exclaimed: "Master Gu...... Are you saying that my fifth brother and nephew were both injured and were injured by Wen? ”

Gu Lixing sighed lightly. "I was going to tell you about you tomorrow, but I didn't think something so big would happen tonight." He paused. Showing some sympathy.

I have always heard that the Jiang family and the Wen family are not in harmony, the two families have already fallen out, I didn't think that the Wen family would dare to murder her husband, Jiang Shuqi was beaten by the Wen family and his head was covered in blood, and even the young boy who was only three years old broke his left leg.

Gu Lixing said: "Jiang Shuqi's case has been decided. Guilty of embezzlement of ink, the emperor ordered the Jiang family to make up enough of the 50,000 taels of silver he embezzled before he could be released. Jiang Shuqi was deprived of his official position and demoted to a showman, if he wanted to gain fame in the examination, he needed to find a person of virtue and prestige as a guarantee, so that he could participate in the Enke examination in the spring of tomorrow. ”

is only demoted to a showman, and he can also participate in the next scientific examination, and everything has to be done from scratch.

This is the lightest punishment since the founding of the Northern Qi Dynasty, but I am afraid that the new emperor will show it like this, most likely because of Su Yan.

Jiang Shuhong was secretly happy in his heart, Jiang Shuqi was not cut off, he could pass the big exam a few years ago, and he would be able to pass the exam in Mingchun. Hugging his fists, he said: "Thank you Lord Gu for telling me!" ”

Gu Lixing thought of the last time he was in the palace, and talked to Duan Concubine about his eldest son Gu Lingkuan, and Duan Concubine asked Gu Lixing to send Gu Lingkuan to the Imperial City Academy. Because the Jiang family is a Qingliu faction, they have a lot of friendship with the Yuanzheng, Mr., and Zhou scholars of the Imperial City Academy, and they clasped their fists and smiled slightly, "I still want to ask Lord Jiang for help with something." ”

"Lord Gu is polite, please speak up if you have something to say."

Gu Lixing said: "I have an eldest son, his qualifications are dull, and he studies hard, and he wants to go to the Imperial City Academy to study, but he has taken the exam twice in a row, but he has not been accepted by the academy. ”

Jiang Shuhong returned the salute with a smile, "This is easy to say, Master Gu sent Ling Lang here, my third brother is also familiar with the people of the Imperial City Academy, so I will do it for you as soon as possible." ”

"Thank you, Lord Jiang."

"Being an official in the same dynasty will inevitably have some difficulties, and this is also a gesture for my third brother, Lord Gu is polite."

The two of them politely chattered for a while, Gu Lixing had never had contact with Jiang Shuhong before, and this time he talked for a while, feeling that this person was not as good as everyone said, at least he acted calmly, treated people sincerely, and was full of human feelings. Xu was robbed of the scenery by his two younger brothers, who were literate and martial, but he seemed a little mediocre.

Jiang Shuhong politely sent Gu Lixing away.

Jiang Shuncheng also got the news and sent someone to ask what happened.

Jiang Shuhong was afraid that his father would be worried, so he personally went to Ruyitang to reply, saying that Jiang Shuqi's case was convicted by the emperor himself, and it was a crime of corruption and bribery, and he said it again according to Gu Lixing's words.

Yu Shi breathed a sigh of relief, "I still thought that this time I would use a death-free card, but it was fine." Of these two death-free cards, one was used as Yan'er's dowry, and the other remained in the Jiang family. ”

Jiang Shuhong said: "This is as it should be. ”

Jiang Shuncheng said: "Scrape together 50,000 taels of silver from the public and fish Jiang Shuqi out of the prison." ”

Yu said: "This year, several happy events have been held one after another, and the public middle school only has 3,000 taels of silver. For these three thousand taels, I still have to do a marriage in a big house. ”

Even if the family is big, it can't stand a few happy events, this dowry, wedding banquet, which is not money, this money is like flowing water, when saving money is like dripping water, finally dripping with a bucket of water, a bang, a bucket of water will be finished.

Jiang Shuhong said: "Ming'er, I summoned my brothers to raise money, and I can get together 50,000 taels." ”

Yu said angrily: "Wen's is looking for death, don't pay attention to her." Since Lord Gu has put her in the same place as the death row prisoner of the Wen family, and Lord Gu will go. ”

Jiang Shuhong said: "In the end, it is the wife of the fifth brother, and ask the fifth brother what he means, if the fifth brother has the intention of fishing her out, then find another way." ”

The next day, the brothers went home from the court meeting and gathered in the big study to discuss the matter of pooling money.

The second house has also made a lot of money in the past six months, because the auction house of the two sons has a booming business. In the past six months, Jiang has opened three stores in Jizhou, Cangzhou, and Weizhou, and the monthly income is tens of thousands of taels of silver.

The second room cost 30,000 taels of silver, and the large room and the third room each paid 10,000 taels, making up enough for 50,000 taels.

As soon as the money was made up, Mrs. Gu led Gu Lingkuan to meet Jiang Shuhong.

Jiang Shuhong told Gu Lingkuan that he was going to study at the Imperial City Academy, and Jiang Shupeng thought that he owed the Gu family a favor because of Jiang Shuqi's case, so he readily agreed. went to Ruyi Hall to see the Yu family, said a few words, and led Gu Lingkuan to the Imperial City Academy to worship Mr.

It is very difficult for the Gu family, but it is familiar to Jiang Shupeng, since he went to the Hanlin Academy to serve, he also occasionally went to the Imperial City Academy as a gentleman, teaching several classes a month, and his teaching industry mainly teaches calligraphy and historical figures. Not only him, but also other bachelors and scholars of the Hanlin Academy, each of whom had free time and went to the Imperial City Academy to teach.

Gu Lixing read the favor of the Jiang family, and he had a headache when he saw the Wen family, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and the Jiang family is no exception, although the Jiang family is prosperous and everything is prosperous, there is a bad Wen family.

In the early morning of the 10th day of the ninth lunar month, the jailers prepared a sumptuous meal for the Wen family, including large fish and meat, and delicate and delicious vegetarian dishes.

Yu Manchu went on a blind date in the teahouse yesterday, and finally settled down, although he was an old palace maid out of the palace, people didn't think he was ugly and full of beards. The woman also said that when she was a child, she remembered that her father was like this, and that he was a real man, and that she was happy that she could not find the east, west, north and south. Early this morning, I heard that the Wen family injured Jiang Wuye, and let Xiao Jiu break his leg, thinking of the kindness of the Jiang family, the original good mood turned into a belly of anger.

Today, he was on duty, led two jailers to deliver food, and said loudly: "Lord Wen and Mrs. Wen should eat quickly, after eating this meal, there will be no need to eat in the future." ”

Wen Qigui's eldest son, Wen Yaxu, took the meal and put it on the table in prison, tears welling up in his eyes.

When Grandma Wen saw her husband crying, she cried loudly, and quickly raised her eyes to look at Grandma Wen: "It's the second master who has harmed the whole family arbitrarily." ”

Today, the Wen family will be pushed to the entrance of the Xicai market to be killed, where there is a special platform, but anyone who commits a serious crime will be pushed to the head of the killing platform after September 9 every year.

The women choked and wept, and the cries gathered in one place, and there was indescribable sadness.

Wen Qigui sat calmly at the table, poured a few bowls of wine, handed one bowl to his son, and one bowl to the eldest grandson, who looked like he was fifteen or sixteen years old.

The three slightly younger grandsons of the Wen family, looking at such a scene, also cried with Mrs. Wen and Grandma Wen.

The prison burst into tears.

Wen Qigui looked at a few younger grandsons, "You don't have to die, you will be sent to the northwest border pass to serve in the army tomorrow, you have to live well and breed incense heirs for the Wen family." ”

Outside the prison door, Yu Manchu laughed, "What about the incense?" A large number of children from good families in the northwest joined the army at the age of forty and couldn't marry a daughter-in-law, thinking that I was a concubine in Yu Manchu, and I hadn't married a daughter-in-law at the age of thirty-five. Wearing a sin hair, the face is to be tattooed, women who want to give birth to their own children are sinners, can taste the taste of women is blessed, and they still want to marry a daughter-in-law. ”

His words extinguished Wen Qigui's most disgraceful hopes.