Tang Jing and Zhu Hui were arrested and entered the yamen of Yingtian Governor, only to see the officials standing on both sides of the public hall with sticks in their hands, Hai Rui asked Xu Zhang to avoid it for the time being, wanting to hear what these two people had to say.

After being the founding of the country, Tang Jing did not need to kneel in the court, and the two officials held Zhu Hui down and asked him to kneel beside Tang Jing.

Hai Rui sat on top of the court and asked sharply: "Tang Jing, according to this official's investigation, after you fled back from overseas, Xu Kun disappeared inexplicably, what's so strange about this?" ”

Tang Jing raised his head and replied unhurriedly: "Master Qingtianhai Mingjian, Xu Kun didn't come to me again, I'm already thankful, as for where he went, how do I know?" Perhaps he was so frightened of your prestige that he hid. ”

Hai Rui was frightened and said, "Nonsense! If you can't tell where Xu Kun has gone, you can only be tortured. ”

Tang Jing hurriedly waved his hands and argued: "Master Qingtian Mingjian, the grass people are really wronged!" After I came back, in order not to make Xu Kun trouble me, I took out the family wealth left by my ancestors, bought a house, and quickly moved, I was very busy every day, I, I really didn't do anything. ”

"Even if you move, won't Xu Kun find you yet? Tang Jing, this official will ask you again, why did you abandon the palace left by your ancestors? How much money did it cost to buy that house? Where does all this money come from? ”

Hearing this, Tang Jing suddenly became red-faced and thick-necked, quickly lowered his head, and replied in a low voice: "Xu Kun brought me a green hat and continued to live in the old prince's mansion. As for the ......money to buy a new house, our Tang family has lived in Jinling for a long time, and it has been eight generations, and my ancestors have left me some family funds, but this time I spent them all. ”

There was a Jiangnan scholar to give him a guarantee, Tang Jing said that the silver was left by the ancestors, and for a while, there was no evidence that he murdered Xu Kun, Hai Rui said angrily: "It's really hateful! Which house are you buying badly? I just bought Wu Xiang's house. Did You Know? Cai Dezhong, the former governor of Yingtian, has been participated in by this official, and is preparing to arrest his evil brother-in-law Wu Xiang, but at this juncture, you sent him 700,000 taels of silver, and now this little bastard has escaped with the money, do you know? You've committed a mortal sin! ”

If Hai Rui asked him about his relationship with Xu Kun, Tang Jing had already prepared the answer, he never expected that he would be implicated in buying Wu Xiang's house, and he just wanted to defend himself, but he was afraid that his old uncle Wu Xuezheng would be implicated, so he was dumbfounded.

"Put Tang Jing in prison. A detailed investigation will be conducted by the officer. ”

With Hai Rui's order, the officials on both sides came up and escorted Tang Jing out of the court.

At this time, Hai Rui stood up and said loudly: "Zhu Hui, I hope you can tell everything you know in the public court, and this official may be able to forgive your sins when you are young and ignorant." ”

Zhu Hui knelt on the ground, bowed his head and was silent.

Hai Rui remembered that yesterday afternoon, Xu Zhang's family had seen three Jinyi guards in the Tang family's old house, indicating that they should have been killed in the afternoon, so he continued to ask: "Zhu Hui, I remember that when Xu Kun's family tied you into the yamen, you once sued Tang Jingming for injustice, so you know that you are a knowledgeable person, and the official has a good impression of you. Tell me, what did you and Tang Jing do yesterday afternoon? ”

After waiting for a while, and finding that Zhu Hui still didn't answer, Hai Rui got angry and shouted loudly: "Give me a big punishment to serve!" ”

Zhu Hui was a little scared, and hurriedly waved his hand to justify: "Lord Qingtian spares his life, yesterday, we were packing up in the old house, and three brocade guards suddenly broke into the house, saying that they were looking for Xu Kun, so they drove us all out, and as soon as we entered the new house on the front foot, Master Wu came with someone and arrested my uncle into the yamen, and my aunt and I worked in the new house for a day, and my uncle was not released until late at night......"

At this time, Hai Rui slapped the shocked wood and shouted: "You don't have to quibble! ”

Zhu Huizhi regretted that he didn't throw the corpse into the Yangtze River, and hurriedly waved his hand and replied: "Qingtian Lord Mingjian, me, our uncle and nephew, how can we have that ability?" We didn't kill the three brocade guards. ”

"Early this morning, someone found their bodies in the Qinhuai River, what should be the explanation?" Hai Rui asked.

Zhu Hui's mind turned quickly, and he immediately replied: "Master Qingtian Mingjian, you were still asking just now, after my uncle went home, then Xu Kun never came to trouble again, and I will answer the strange questions." ”

In fact, as far as the dispute between Xu Kun and Tang Jing is concerned, it must be that Xu Kun is not reasonable, Hai Rui wanted to use this lawsuit to suppress the arrogance of the Xu family, but what is strange is that Xu Kun did not trouble Tang Jing again. At this moment, he wanted to hear how Zhu Hui should explain, so he calmed down his emotions, and then asked, "What's so strange about this?" ”

"Please listen to me and take a closer look." Zhu Hui said unhurriedly: "It wasn't until yesterday that we learned from the mouths of the three brocade guards that Xu Kun, under the banner of the first assistant university scholar, was looking for high-ranking officials and nobles in the capital to raise funds, and came to Jiangnan to lend usury. They chased from the capital to the Xu family in Huating County, Songjiang Prefecture, and did not find Xu Kun, only to arrive in Nanjing again, Xu Kun just owed them silver, as high as 500,000 taels, please think about it, how can Xu Kun still have the heart to come to us for trouble? Obviously, the three brocade guards chased and killed Xu Kun, but they were poisoned. ”

"So, Xu Kun is still in Nanjing? Have you seen him lately? Hai Rui asked.

"Master Hai Mingjian, Xu Kun is being chased and killed everywhere, he definitely doesn't dare to run around, he should be in Nanjing, but we really haven't seen him recently."

Regarding Xu Kun's inexplicable disappearance, it can be regarded as being verified from Xu Zhang's mouth, Hai Rui nodded while listening, but he was noncommittal to what Zhu Hui said, after all, the three brocade guards had been to the Tang family, indicating that Tang Jing and Zhu Hui were still inextricably linked, so he patted the shocked wood and shouted: "Put Zhu Hui in prison, and wait for this official to investigate and retry this case." ”

After Tang Jing and Zhu Hui were arrested, He returned home, changed his clothes, and summoned all the maids in the house to the living room.

In addition to knowing that Tang Jing wanted Yue'er to be a housekeeper, the He family was not familiar with them, at this time, Wanxi and Qingyang didn't know where they went, and they couldn't help but feel uneasy in their hearts, and pleaded: "Everyone, now you already know that the master has been arrested by the government again, and I don't know when I will be able to release it back, although you are all hired by the master, but now, we have such a big yard, and the total amount of money at home is only one hundred and ten taels of silver, how can we live this life in the future?" I advise you all to disperse. ”

Yue'er smiled, walked out of this group of maids, sat down beside He's side, and said reservedly: "Please don't worry, Madame, the master has instructed me to sell the old mansion, and our family can still live a good life." ”

Mrs. He knew that the deed and title deed of the old prince's mansion had been taken away by Jinyiwei, and when she heard Yue'er say this, she sighed and said with disdain: "Miss Yue'er, I'm afraid it's not your turn to talk about these things; What's more, you still don't know that the title deed of the old mansion has been mortgaged by your master. ”

Yue'er, who didn't know what was going on, sneered, took out a brocade box, shook it in front of He's eyes, and said unceremoniously: "Before the master left, he gave me the house deed and the title deed, see?" He told me to sell at least 60,000 taels of silver. ”

He couldn't help but be surprised, yesterday he obviously saw with his own eyes, Tang Jing gave the house deed and title deed to the three brocade guards, why did he run to Yue'er's hand after such a long time? Got up and snatched it from her hand.

Yue'er straightened her face, stood up too, and said angrily: "Please Madame return the brocade box to me!" As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to He.

He opened the brocade box and looked, and sure enough, it was right! I felt very uncomfortable in my heart, and it was inconvenient to attack in front of my subordinates, so I wiped the tears from the corners of my eyes, stared at Yue'er with my eyes, and thought to myself: No matter where I go, I am still the master of the house!

Finding that Yue'er was still stretching out her hand reluctantly, He smiled reservedly, put away the brocade box, and said: "Miss Yue'er, I don't bother you about selling the house, I can sell it at a better price." ”

Yue'er stopped, turned around and gave a look to a few maids, and shouted, "Please respect yourself, Madame!" Give me back the box. ”

After hearing this, Mrs. He stood up with a look full of anger, brushed the tassels, her eyes were like lightning, and she was so frightened that she couldn't help but take a few steps back.

Approaching two steps further, He asked, "Yue'er, you are just a housekeeper hired by the master, and you are a minion!" Do you want to force me to send you to the government when you talk to the Lord like this? ”

Yue'er sneered and shouted, "Osmanthus, Qiu Xiang, stop her for me!" I'm going to show her the master's letter of resignation, and you want to send me to the government? ”

The two girls, who were called Osmanthus and Qiu Xiang, hesitantly stepped forward to stop He, and at this time, Tang Qiong ran in crying from outside, pushed them away, and blocked her mother's approach.

Tang Qiong pouted and pleaded in a childish voice: "Sisters, please don't treat my mother like this. ”

He took Tang Qiong in his arms, stroked her hair, stretched out his hand to Yue'er, and asked, "Where is the letter of resignation you said?" Take a look! ”

Yue'er seemed a little timid, swept her eyes over the group of maids, and thought to herself: It's time for you to stand in line......

At this moment, osmanthus and autumn incense were also like frosted eggplants, and returned to the group of maids, all of them were depressed, like wooden people, no one dared to gnaw.

Yue'er stomped her feet angrily, sneered again, and said, "Okay! Now I'll go to the Yamen of Shangyuan County and ask, does this letter of resignation count? Let's wait for the county magistrate to judge. With that, he turned and walked out the door.

He's mother and daughter hugged their heads and cried, and these maids and daughters dared to come over to persuade when they saw Yue'er leaving.

At this moment, I suddenly heard Yue'er shouting outside the door: "What do you want to do?" ”

The people in the house were all taken aback, and they didn't know what happened to Yue'er, so they looked up and saw Wanxi and Qingyang pushing her in again.

He didn't know what the Lan sisters were going to do, so they were so frightened that they went limped and collapsed on the ground.

Tang Qiong ran forward crying, and when she came to Wanxi and Qingyang, she begged, "Two sisters, spare us." ”

Qing Yang took Tang Qiong in his arms, Wanxi pushed Yue'er a few steps forward, and found that the Lan sisters were not malicious, so He got up from the ground.

Wanxi hugged her fist at Mrs. He and said, "Please aunt and everyone don't panic, now that the master is not in the mansion, we only recognize Mrs." ”

"Thank you, two girls!" He said weakly and sat back in his chair.

Yue'er was very unconvinced, turned around and asked, "Wanxi, Qingyang, I took you from your hometown in Haozhou, have you all forgotten?" ”

"Give us the letter of resignation written by the master for safekeeping, and wait for the master to come back." Qing Yang replied coldly.

"Y-How can you, go against the will of the master?" As she spoke, Yue'er shivered all over.

At this time, I saw Wanxi raising her thick eyebrows, her eyes were aggressive, she stretched out her hand and said, "Sister Yue'er, you know our family background, please don't force us!" ”

Yue'er was really scared, so she had to hand over the letter of resignation written by Tang Jing to Wanxi.

He got up and stood in front of Wanxi and Qingyang, pulled his daughter Tang Qiong, and said: "Thanks to the help of the two virtuous nephews today, otherwise, our mother and daughter would have to sleep on the streets. ”

"Auntie, I'm not afraid that you will be angry, do you know why you can live to this day?" Wanxi asked coldly.

Qing Yang continued: "Auntie, please don't blame us, the Tang clan in Zhongli's hometown has endured it for a long time, if it weren't for Xu Kun being the nephew of the first assistant of the dynasty, and for the sake of the two younger sisters, I really don't know what the ending would be now?" ”

He was ashamed, and longed for a crack in the ground to get into, hugging Tang Qiong and bowing his head silently......