Chapter 571: The Devil of the Human Heart (9) (2-in-1)
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When Ling's second grandmother came out listening to the movement, she heard the thieves say that they were ploppy in the south of the city, and they were hired by the person named Wang Zhenye to rob the children. I fell in love with Ling's second grandmother, and she was annoyed, rushed over like crazy, and recognized at a glance that the nephew named Wang Zhenye was the second wife of Erfangyong......"
In the middle of the night, the carriage galloped through the street, and the horse's hooves and treaded axles creaked, and it was heard far away in the quiet night.
Fortunately, Songjiang does not have a curfew like the capital, otherwise many things would have to be delayed.
On the carriage, the little guy sent back by Changshou to deliver the letter was telling Shen Rui and Shen Quan what had just happened in the He family's house.
Shen Quan couldn't help but scolded: "The third room is too shameless!" Dare to come and grab the child! ”
When Shen Rui left Changshou to help take care of the house, he did tell him to guard the door and take more precautions, but he just felt that there were orphans and widows living in it, and safety came first. I really never thought that there were still thieves who could think about He's mother and son.
The salt merchant's property has not yet reached their hands, so naturally it is not a Jiangyang thief to rob it, but an "internal thief".
The little guy was also angry, and said: "The surname Wang was called to reveal his identity, but it was even more fierce, he pulled his neck and shouted at us to untie him, scolded us for not saying anything, and his mouth was not clean...... Flirting with Ling's second grandmother ......"
He couldn't help but lower his voice and said, "He said that the second wife of Yong allowed the second grandmother Ling to be his concubine......"
Shen Quan's eyes widened, and he scolded "shameless".
Shen Rui also slapped a few in annoyance, and his face was darker than the bottom of the pot. He knew that Sanfang was shameless, but he didn't expect Sanfang to do this.
What does it mean that Mrs. Yong sent a nephew to climb the wall of the He family? If you want to stain the innocence of the He family, you don't need to have any substance, just spread this matter, in this era of strict etiquette, spitting stars can drown the He family.
Also snatch the child! This is to take Brother Xiao Nan as a hostage and force the He family to take out the household register, so that Shen Ling can be recorded back to the family tree, and then swallow Shen Ling's pension?
It's a shame that the two of them can figure it out!
"Ling's second grandmother couldn't be angry, so she poked Wang Zhenye's chest with scissors at that time, and asked Liu's mother to stop her, otherwise she would see blood in ......" The little girl said, and a look of fear couldn't help but appear on her face.
At that time, everyone present could see that He Shi's momentum at that time was really going to kill.
"Mother Liu shouted to grandma not to dirty her hands for such a person, let the old woman come, Ling's second grandmother was still angry, and threw out the scissors in her hand, but unfortunately she didn't poke the thief." The little guy continued.
Although Shen Quan said before, "That beast should be killed", he also said: "It's really not worth dirtying your hands for this kind of person, and you will be beaten up first and then sent to the official." ”
Where to report to the official in the middle of the night?
When such a big event happened, Changshou didn't dare to deal with it without authorization, so he hurriedly sent the little guy over to ask Shen Rui to show him.
Shen Rui originally lived in Shen Quan's courtyard, and Shen Quan was also knocked on the door and quarreled, and heard that a thief broke into He's house, so he wanted to accompany Shen Rui to go with him.
In the middle of the night, Shen Rui and Shen Quan, young uncles appeared in the house of the young widowed sister-in-law, even if the house was full of people, it was also in the way of reputation.
And it was no longer safe over there, so Shen Quan sent the mother-in-law of the fifth room to take the car over first and quietly took the He family's mother and son to Mrs. Hongda's Guo's side, and he and Shen Rui rushed over to deal with the follow-up matters.
It happened suddenly, and the two hurried out without asking in detail, and then asked the little guy in the carriage.
After hearing this, Shen Quan said angrily: "Let the second brother hold a clan meeting tomorrow, so that everyone can see the dirty thoughts of these three rooms." ”
Shen Rui said coldly: "Before dawn, you have to get the confessions of all the 'thieves'. ”
Shen Quan was stunned: "Confession? ”
Shen Rui bowed slightly, the original means of interrogating Shen Zhu can still be used again.
Shen Quan slammed his fists and said, "Okay!" Black and white letters, signed and drawn. lest tomorrow they deny it! ”
When the two arrived at the Dongcheng mansion, Wang Zhenye and the group of splashes had already been tied up and imprisoned in the firewood room and utility room respectively.
Shen Rui didn't go to see Wang Zhenye, and first took people to the side of the splash.
Wang Zhenye's father is the third brother of Yong's second wife, and the cloth shop that was about to be tossed yellow by Shen Ling was the business of Wang Zhenye and his son.
During the days when Shen Ling was working hard to revitalize the shop, Wang Zhenye came to Shen Ling more than once, and he was very arrogant. Ho had seen him a few times behind the curtain and was so impressed by him that he could recognize him at a glance.
These hired pranksters are not just pulled by Wang Zhenye on the street, they have known each other for a few years or even more than ten years, and the ordinary Wang Zhenye father and son have some overt or covert evil deeds with the Shen family's in-laws, all of which are done by these pranks.
These people are bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, and when Changshou, who had just climbed over the wall into the courtyard of the He family and was awakened, he also shouted that he was the master of the Shen family, and told Changshou to wait for the dead slave to get away.
Later, I found that there were not only one or two mothers-in-law and miscellaneous servants in this courtyard as Wang Zhenye said, but a lot of domestic servants with big shoulders and round waists came out of Hulala.
They are all masters who are often arrested in the yamen prison, and they are solid when they go in and out, and they are not afraid to send the official when they hear Changshou say that they have broken their legs, and then they will be sent to the official, and they are busy explaining their identities to avoid the pain of the flesh and skin.
is such a group of goods, Shen Rui didn't have to make much effort to ask for a confession.
Although these guys don't know Shen Rui and Shen Quan, they see that they are dressed extraordinarily, and they have more healthy servants, and they also know that they can't afford to provoke them, so they will sell Wang Zhenye and his son to the bottom, and they all say that they are in the name of the Shen family and use shoddy products to bully and dominate the market.
One of them, Kui San, also confessed the news that surprised Shen Rui.
Wang Zhenye said that Shen Ling was in prison because he was in charge of the shop for him, and he was afraid that Shen Ling would invite the big official to come back and bring Shen Ling back, and then throw him in prison to make a scapegoat. Wang Zhenye said that Shen Ling was guilty of being a widow, and as long as no one saved her, she would definitely be beheaded. That's a hundred......"
Therefore, Wang Zhenye called those splashes, went to tie up Shen Ling's brother Liang Ping, abused and intimidated, and promised two hundred taels of silver, Liang Ping coaxed He's and didn't go to Nanjing to report to Shen Zhou for He's!
Shen Quan's fists clenched tightly, his teeth clenched, not only for Shen Ling, if the letter was delivered, Shen Zhou could rush back in time and make decisions for the children of the Shen family, Zhao Xianzhong was somewhat afraid, and his brother Shen Qi might not suffer so many crimes.
Shen Quan almost wanted to rush over to the firewood room over there and crippled Wang Zhenye.
Shen Rui also hated the root of his teeth, and he was really afraid that there would be no good people if there were no good things!
Shen Rui ordered Changshou to write down his confessions one by one, asked Napo Pikui San to sign and draw the detention, and then ordered him to be held in solitary confinement, and the Tomorrow Clan Association would have to be used as a personal witness.
After entering the firewood room, Shen Rui didn't say a word, and first gave Wang Zhenye a "rain falling plum blossoms".
Wang Zhenye is not as good as Shen Zhu, when the soaked rice paper was pasted on his face, he thought that the Shen family was going to kill him, he was shocked and scared, but after a few pieces of paper, he was already incontinent and fainted.
When the paper was removed, Wang Zhenye was woken up by a basin of cold water, and burst into tears, shouting "Don't kill me, my aunt asked me to do it" Yunyun, without waiting for Shen Rui to ask, he poured beans into the bamboo tube, and explained 1510: "My aunt said that He's little wave of hooves must not be able to hold it, and the family property will have to be remarried as soon as it is in hand...... Oops...... Uncle, I was wrong, I was wrong......"
As soon as Wang Zhenye spoke, he was kicked a few times and screamed again and again.
Shen Quan couldn't help but go over and kick someone, but Shen Rui was expressionless, grabbed Shen Quan, waved his hand to signal Changshou to retreat, and let him continue.
Wang Zhenye shouted pain while continuing to explain.
Mrs. Yong's second wife asked her nephew to snatch her grandson away, and then ruined He's innocence.
If the He family seeks death, it will be just right, Brother Xiao Nan has lost his parents, and can only be raised by the second wife of Yong, and the family property will fall into her pocket; If the He family doesn't seek death, loses his innocence and loses his son, he will not be obedient, hand over the household post and let Shen Ling remember the family tree, and offer the salt merchant's property with both hands.
Wang Zhenye has a wife and children, and the second wife of Yong promised He to be Wang Zhenye's concubine, and also said that he would give Wang Zhenye the house where He now lives as a reward, and give him an additional 3,000 taels of silver.
Shen Rui snorted coldly, this is treating everyone else as a fool, and treating other people's things as something in the bag.
Shen Rui asked Changshou to bring the confession of the local ruffian, read all kinds of crimes related to Wang Zhenye's father and son to Wang Zhenye, and then interrogate him one by one.
Wang Zhenye's face is already as colored as earth, trembling like sifting chaff. He dared to take this matter, not only because of the benefits promised by the second wife of Yong, but also because he felt that even if he was recognized by the Shen family after he succeeded, for the sake of the family's reputation, this kind of defiled matter of widows in the clan would not be publicized by the Shen family, so he would take it steadily.
When Wang Zhenye was pasting paper, he really thought that the Shen family was going to kill him quietly, this kind of local clan, if they wanted one or two people to disappear, the government couldn't find it. But then he woke him up, but he was relieved to ask him about the cause and effect, thinking that this was the end of the matter.
Now as soon as these kinds of crimes are brought out, Wang Zhen's business is afraid, as long as these things are handed over to the government, his father and son will only have to eat prison for the rest of their lives.
Wang Zhenye wanted to grit his teeth and not recognize a word, but he also wanted to intimidate Shen Rui and said: "If you go to the yamen to sue me, I will ...... I shouted in the hall that I had raped that slut of the He family, so that your Shen family had no face......"
Shen Rui only threw out a few words, "You can try." ”
Soon the soaked rice paper was brought again, Wang Zhenye quickly collapsed, just put on the skin and shouted for mercy, he didn't want to bear the terrible taste anymore, and burst into tears for a while, asking what to confess and what to do, and quickly signed and drawn.
After getting a thick confession, Shen Rui and Shen Quan were too lazy to look at Wang Zhenye's ugly appearance, and ordered that the surnamed Wang and Popi Kuisan be taken away, and the others would be sent to the official office early tomorrow morning.
Because of the middle of the night, Shen Rui and Shen Quan did not alarm Shen Ying and the others.
When everyone got up early in the morning, they all saw this confession, and they were all furious.
Shen Qi immediately sent someone to each room to send a post, and asked the clan sons and clan elders to come to the ancestral shrine to hold a clan meeting and discuss something.
Because the female dependents of the clan want the clan women to manage and restrain them, they specially noted that the clan women of each room are also invited. Of course, the three-room Shen Yong couple was also invited.
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When Shen Yong and his wife received the post, they had just put breakfast on the table.
Shen Yong poked the salted duck eggs while muttering to himself: "I don't know what is going on, I didn't finish talking yesterday and I have to continue today." ”
Yong's second wife originally agreed with her nephew, and when she grabbed the child, she immediately sent it to her.
She is not kind, she is afraid that the child will be small, and she will toss and die overnight, and the salt merchant's family property will die before it is handed over, and if she doesn't confiscate the family property again, then she will be busy in vain. Therefore, he specially explained to his nephew, and also instructed his henchman to guard the door outside the door.
As a result, when I got up in the morning and asked, the cheap grandson didn't send it, and the nephew didn't come to report the news, and Mrs. Yong's second wife couldn't help but have some eyelids, worried that something would go wrong.
Hearing that there was going to be a clan meeting in the clan again, Mrs. Yong didn't think that it was her own incident, and she felt a little impatient, and when she heard Shen Yong say it, she said, "It's not!" When the new patriarch took office, he didn't see any good things, so he knew that he was tossing people every day. ”
Shen Yong snorted and said, "It's still a little good, but Shen Yuan lost some silver." ”
Mrs. Yong was dissatisfied: "That's just how much! If it weren't for the repentance of the marriage in the fourth room, the surname Yan was angry and led the Shen family to harm, where would there be so much loss! The patriarch only let him pay seventy percent, and he should be allowed to pay both! He muttered again: "If it weren't for the four rooms to lose money, who would be impatient to go to the clan and follow Shen Yuan!" He, Shen Qi, really wants to avenge his arm for everyone? ”
Shen Yong hurriedly scolded: "Don't talk about it outside. Seeing that Mrs. Yong was not convinced and glared, she said, "Eat quickly, there will be a clan meeting in a while." As he spoke, he only buried his head in the porridge.
Mrs. Yong's second wife snorted, ate two mouthfuls of porridge and threw it away, turned around and went out to find her henchman, and told her to keep an eye on the door.
After entering the courtyard of the ancestral hall and entering the second courtyard, Shen Yong didn't see the clansmen standing in the courtyard as expected, so he couldn't help but be stunned, and when he entered the main hall, he found that in addition to the sect and the clan elders, himself, Shen Quan, and Shen Li were not in charge of affairs in the clan, and Shen Zhou, Shen Li and others looked at him with a little cold eyes, and Shen Yong's heart was also uneasy.
The deacon's children shouted silence, and Shen Qi said: "The house where Dongcheng Ling's second sister-in-law lived in the middle of last night entered the thief's ......."
Shen Yong couldn't sit still, and couldn't help but ask, "Brother Xiao Nan is okay?" ”
Shen Qi glanced at Shen Yong meaningfully, and continued: "Yesterday, my mother took Ling's second sister-in-law back because she was worried that Ling's second sister-in-law would be wronged and uncomfortable during the day, and Ling's second sister-in-law's mother and son also escaped the catastrophe. The servants in the house were faithful, and they captured the thieves who came in through the wall, and gave a confession here. ”
This is also something that Shen Rui discussed with Shen Qi and others, and he can't let the reputation of the He family be damaged in the slightest, only saying that the He family's mother and son will go to the fifth room in the next day, and only the servants will stay in the house.
The deacon's children handed over a few pages of key confessions to the sect and the clan elders for circulation, and everyone's eyes changed when they looked at Shen Yong.
Shen Yong also noticed it, and when the confession reached him, he was busy looking at it at a glance, and suddenly felt five thunderbolts.
"This ...... This can't be, isn't there some misunderstanding? Shen Yong barely managed to stabilize his mind and looked at Shen Qi.
Shen Qi said: "If it weren't for the conclusive evidence, I wouldn't have invited you to come over for a clan meeting." He waved his hand and asked the deacon's children to invite the second wife of Yong, and asked someone to escort Wang Zhenye to confront him.
Mrs. Yong's second wife didn't know what was going on in the wing, and as soon as she walked into the courtyard, she saw her nephew being tied up by the five flowers, and when she landed, her feet were weak, and she almost fell to the ground, but two sturdy servants came over, and helped her into the hall with half a huddle and half a drag.
As soon as Wang Zhenye saw her, he shouted, "Auntie save me." ”
Mrs. Yong's second wife was in a state of confusion for a while, and when Shen Qi asked people in the hall to provide her with a mouth, and scolded her for sending her nephew over the wall into He's courtyard to do wrong, she blurted out: "In the absence of such a thing, this must be a trick!" ”
Everyone in the hall couldn't help but sneer, Wang Zhenye was slippery over there, his clothes were just dirty, and there was no trace of injury.
Shen Rui said with a cold face: "What does Second Mrs. Yong mean is that we tied your nephew from the house and threw him into the Dongcheng mansion, and then beat him into a trick?" ”
Mrs. Yong's second mind couldn't turn around, and she nodded again and again, "My nephew has been honest since he was a child, and he must have been framed!" ”
The words "honest since childhood" attracted a burst of laughter from everyone.
Shen Yong came back to his senses, snorted, and said, "Wang Zhenye! Are you making your own decisions and relying on your aunt indiscriminately! I can't spare you little brute. As he spoke, he bypassed a row of chairs and wanted to go over and beat Wang Zhenye.
Several deacon's children stopped in the head, and Wang Zhenye shouted loudly: "Uncle! My aunt told me to go! Otherwise, I know where the door of the house opens? My aunt said that they were all in the way of Brother Qiong, so I went to stand up for my aunt, uncle, you can't rely on me for a push. ”
Mrs. Yong's second wife also came back to her senses and screamed, "Wang Zhenye! Don't talk nonsense! You are plotting against me, and you are up to me to do it! ”
Shen Quan couldn't help but interject on the side: "What an honest person since childhood!" ”
Shen Rui also said: "Since you don't recognize it, you can send it directly to the official." ”
Second Mrs. Yong's face was red and white, knowing that Shen Li and Shen Rui could even invite the prefect to watch the Shen family's sect, if her nephew entered the yamen, she would confess everything, so she still had a good one? At that moment, he pointed at Shen Rui and Shen Quan, and said angrily: "Where is your junior's share of talking here?!" ”
Shen Zhou patted the case and said, "You are pointing at the sect of my Yiqing Hall!" I don't know, the son of the branch is not allowed to speak in the clan, but allows the woman of the side branch to sprinkle? ”
This is quite unkind, revealing the bottom of the three-room house, the three-room family is divided again, and Shen Yong can only be regarded as a side branch, so the side branch of the Shu branch does have almost no say in the clan. How much more is a woman.
Shen Zhou asked Shen Hu coldly in the third room: "This is the rule of the Liyi Hall?" ”
Shen Hu's knowledge and conduct are not very good, he has always liked to think of himself as a scholar, and Shen Zhou, who is a little afraid of being an official, felt that his face could not be hung up when he heard this, so he scolded Shen Yong: "Second child, tell me about your daughter-in-law!" This is the ancestral hall, and she can't help but be wild! ”
Although Shen Yong turned to look at the second Mrs. Yong, he didn't really scold, his lips trembled a little, and with some expectation, he asked, "You...... Isn't that little beast Wang Zhenye slandering you......"
Mrs. Yong was frightened by her husband's fierce eyes, her heart was pounding, and she nodded desperately.
Shen Zhou was already furious, and seeing that they still dared to pretend like this, he snorted coldly and scolded: "What a self-deception! You know for yourselves what you have done! Brother Ling's life is hard, and there are parents like you! I'll put my words here today, you don't want to play those dirty thoughts again, I will greet the yamen, even if you take the household post, don't think about moving Shen Ling! With me for a day, don't try to take advantage of Brother Ling's wife and children! ”
Shen Yong was so drunk that he woke up, and he was ashamed for a while, and lowered his head and didn't look at his wife again.
The second wife of Yong was shameless, seeing that her husband no longer paid attention to herself, Shen Zhou did not let them remember Shen Ling back again, and seeing that the large sum of silver flew away, she was angry and anxious, and she didn't choose what to say for a while, and scolded: "What do you mean by this?" Do you want to succeed Brother Xiao Nan as an heir now? What did you do earlier? I didn't see the benefits and kept dragging on and refused to succeed Shen Ling, now that Shen Ling is dead, and I have a pension money, you want to come and pick up the ready-made one again, I'm phew! ”
Shen Zhou made her fall down in anger, and shouted a few times: "Foolish woman! Shrew! He asked Shen Yong again: "You think the same way?!" ”
Shen Yong scolded his wife: "Don't talk nonsense! While sneering to Shen Zhou, he said, "I'...... I...... "In fact, in the deepest part ......of his heart, he didn't think like this."
Shen Zhou was so angry that he pointed at Shen Yong and his wife with a trembling finger, the more anxious he was, the more he couldn't speak, Shen Rui hurriedly couldn't grab it, and served him tea and stroked his back.
Shen Qi also hurriedly reassured: "Zhou Erbo is not annoyed! A few nonsense words, not worth being angry about. He said coldly to Shen Yong: "Now that the evidence is conclusive, does Second Uncle Yong still want to bite back?" There is no need to be tried in that clan, and it will be handed over directly to the yamen. Second Uncle Yong and Second Aunt Yong also ask the court to argue, and ask the prefect to adjudicate. ”
Shen Yong hurriedly said: "I didn't mean it...... and then the second wife said: "I see that you are confused by Wang Zhenye, full of nonsense, why don't you quickly apologize to the second brother Zhou!" ”
Shen Zhou had relieved his breath, and when he heard this, he shook his hand and smashed a tea cup, and said coldly: "I, Shen Zhou, swear in this ancestral hall that I will never succeed Shen Nan as my heir and grandson in this life, and I will violate this oath, such a tea cup!" ”
The hall was extremely quiet for a while, and everyone was surprised and had their own thoughts.
Shen Zhou said again: "Although I am no more than Brother Xiaonan, I will take care of the affairs of Brother Ling's wife and children to the end!" His cold gaze swept over Shen Yong and his wife, "I'll say it again, if someone still calculates Brother Ling's wife and children, then don't blame me for being polite!" ”
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In the ear room on one side of the chamber, He sat quietly next to Mrs. Guo, Hongda, and tears rained down.
Guo did not take He to appear in the east wing where the female dependents were, but sat in the side room next to the council hall and listened to the movements in the hall.
He was originally worried that Shen Zhou would pass on Brother Xiao Nan, she had nowhere to settle, and when she heard that Second Mrs. Yong slandered Shen Zhou, she didn't even have the mind to argue for Shen Zhou, and she was faintly swayed by Second Mrs. Yong's thinking.
But when he heard Shen Zhou's oath that he would never succeed Brother Xiao Nan, instead of being relieved and relaxed, he felt a little unworthy for Shen Ling.
Shen Ling is full of admiration for Shen Zhou, and the He family sees it in his eyes, and he also does his best to take care of internal and external affairs for Shen Zhou.
After Shen Jue passed away, Shen Ling's little bit of anticipation, how could the pillow person He not know, of course, she was also looking forward to getting rid of the third room.
The second wife of Yong pretended to be sick and recalled the two of them from Nanjing, but Shen Zhou did not bless them, but directly asked Shen Ling to hand over everything in hand to Shen Lin, and Shen Ling and his wife actually came back with despair.
The reason why Shen Ling worked so hard to revitalize the shop was that she felt that she had cut off the way back to Nanjing, and she had to lay a foundation in Songjiang again, so she would work so hard and get into that damn lawsuit.
The yamen came to arrest people, and Shen Ling took the time to ask He to send a letter to Shen Zhou for help, his eyes flashed with hope, and his words were full of expectation. He's heart was about to break, not only looking forward to Shen Zhou to save him from prison, but also looking forward to Shen Zhou saving him from the third room.
In addition to the background of Xiang Gong, who is a concubine, where is his character and ability worse than the children of the Shen family next to him? Xianggong and himself have paid for so many years, but in exchange for Shen Zhou's resolute refusal to be the heir!
In the end, it is difficult to settle.
Guo Shi didn't know why, thinking that He Shi listened to Shen Zhou's words and cried for the mother and son to rely on in the future, held He's hand, and persuaded in a low voice: "Good boy, don't cry, your body and bones are not good yet, and crying hurts your eyes." In the future, you can rest assured, Uncle Zhou is full of promises, and when you return to Jinling, you will be properly settled for your mother and son. ”
He pursed his lips, held Guo's hand, and said very firmly: "Uncle, my nephew and daughter-in-law want to enter Beijing." ”