Chapter 631: Snowy Night
It turned out that Renxi's grandfather was implicated by his great-grandfather Jilanga and was imprisoned. When Jilang Ajian was there, he was the Wailang of the household treasury during the Jiaqing period, and in the nineteenth year of Jiaqing, Jilang A died. However, in May of the 22nd year of Shaoguang, the capital revealed a huge case of a large deficit in the treasury of the household department, which directly implicated Ji Lang'a.
Here's the thing: 28 years after Ji Lang's death, in May of the 22nd year of Shaoguang, Zhang Hengzhi, the owner of Wantai Yinhao, bought a Zhizhou official for his son Zhang Lihong, which has been completed, but the money has not yet been handed over. In addition to these, Zhang Hengzhi also wants to donate a wailang for his eldest son, so he wants to register first. When he was about to pay the money, he caught up with a friend who was usually better and had to pay the money on behalf of his friend on Tuesday, so Zhang Hengzhi asked him to pay it by the way, and told his younger brother, who was on an errand in the bank at the time, to help take care of it and enter the warehouse early. At that time, Tuesday brought 11,474 taels of silver, a total of 11 bags, which were sent to the silver vault. At that time, it happened that Zhang Hengzhi's younger brother was on duty. Because he was very busy, Zhang Hengzhi's younger brother mistakenly reported the second scale as the third scale, and the person in charge of the library did not pursue it, and everyone tacitly agreed, and Zhang Hengzhi's younger brother deliberately reported the tenth scale when he reported the seventh scale, so that there were four bags of silver left. Neither the imperial historian nor the treasurer found out about this matter, so these people were ready to divide the silver, but due to the uneven distribution of the spoils, the matter leaked out. Later, the people who heard the rumor came to blackmail, but without success, they reported the matter to the Yamen of the Nancheng Officials' Department, and finally made trouble to the Criminal Department. The Criminal Department had no choice but to report the matter to Emperor Shaoguang. Emperor Shaoguang was very angry when he heard this, so he issued an edict on January 18, the 23rd year of Shaoguang, ordering the Minister of Military Aircraft to work with the Criminal Department to interrogate him severely.
After the investigation of this matter is clear. Shaoguang is still not at ease. He sent a group of clerks to check the treasury. As a result, the deficit of the treasury bank reached 9.252 million taels, so Shaoguang ordered a strict investigation, ordering that since Jiaqing five years later, the successive treasury managers and related personnel will not let go, regardless of whether they are dead or alive, they will all pay compensation. According to the regulations, Ji Lang A should pay 43,200 taels of silver, because he has died. Therefore, the indemnity is halved to 21,600 taels. According to the order of Emperor Shaoguang, the compensation of the deceased should be compensated by his descendants. So this indemnity fell on Renxi's grandfather Jingrui. This is really a disaster for this family, and it has brought great shock and anxiety to the whole family. But an even bigger catastrophe is yet to come. Due to the inability to pay compensation within the time limit, Jingrui was enrolled in a book and sent to prison.
At that time, Renxi's father, Hye-jung, was very panicked and didn't know what to do. And Renxi, who had already found out what was going on, gave his father an idea and tried his best to raise silver taels. and borrowed money from relatives and friends to sell their property. Find ways to redeem people. Hui Zheng was a Taoist platform at that time and had a lot of friends, and Hui Zheng's father-in-law Hui Xian was a second-class official, so Renxi found a lot of relatives in the family, up and down, and finally collected more than 9,000 taels of silver in more than a year, and in the twenty-ninth year of Shaoguang, he handed over more than 2,800 taels, so that he barely made up 60% of the total, and the remaining 40% was compensated with land property and salary deductions. In this way, Jingrui was released.
Renxi's move made the family feel very gratified, so her story has been passed down to the people. After this incident, Hui Zheng said to his family: This daughter can be a son. Later, Renxi's reputation spread among relatives: Hye-jung's daughter was very capable.
Since helping his father save his grandfather, Renxi has been treated differently at home. But it's not just these aspects that she can win people's attention for. Renxi is very diligent in her studies. At that time, there were many women in Renxi's family who could make clothes, because in a big family, people usually rely on these women to sew clothes, so there is such a room in the family for making clothes. When Renxi was a child, she liked to learn to make clothes and embroidery with these women. Every time she made clothes, Renxi followed to help and learned to do some work by herself. Once, when Hui Zheng came back from outside, Ren Xi went to the living room to greet her, Hui Zheng found that her hand was red, and thought it was very strange, so he asked her what was going on, and Ren Xi took out an embroidered handkerchief from his room for Hui Zheng to see. Hui Zheng still didn't understand what was going on, so Renxi showed Hui Zheng with his hand. Hui Zheng smiled, it turned out that he was pricked with needles when he was embroidering. However, seeing Renxi's little hands, Hui Zheng was still a little distressed and told her not to learn this, but she had her own ideas, and she began to learn secretly.
Although the education of girls in the Bo aristocratic families of the Great Qian Dynasty was not as strict as that of the Central Plains families, girls still had to learn piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Renxi was very smart when he was a child and studied very hard, but he wrote with an average brush and did not grow much. Although the master of the family hall taught her one stroke at a time, she just couldn't write well. It is not horizontal, nor vertical, and it has been crooked. The Central Plains script is easy to do, it looks like that meaning, but Bowen is not good, if it can't be horizontal and vertical, it is not the shape of the word. Hui Zheng often checked her calligraphy, but found that her calligraphy did not improve at all, so he taught her every time because of this. Until one day, my father got angry, picked up a ring ruler, took Renxi's little hand, and hit it hard. Renxi's little hands were swollen, and he couldn't hold a pen for a few days, and it was difficult to even eat. Renxi was very sad because her father had never beaten her. Since then, Renxi has made up her mind to learn calligraphy well, so now Renxi's calligraphy and painting are very good, and in the opinion of Chiho Kirino, who has a high cultural quality, her calligraphy and painting are very standard.
What makes Chiho Kirino feel even more admired is the sensitivity of the Empress Dowager Renxi to new things.
Influenced by her beloved husband Lin Yiqing and personally participated in the Japanese Southwest War, Chiho Kirino also has a certain understanding of the navy, but she never thought that she would see a model of a steam ironclad ship in the imperial garden of the Daqian Empire and the study of the Empress Dowager Renxi.
And when she asked about her battlefield experience in the Southwest War, her words also showed that her understanding of warships and the navy was by no means comparable!
The current Chiho Kirino is full of admiration for the heroine of the Great Qian Empire.
But Chiho Kirino also understands. The reason why the Empress Dowager Renxi was able to become the heroine of the country. It has nothing to do with her marrying a mediocre and incompetent husband.
And Chiho Kirino thought of her heroic husband. My heart is filled with sweetness.
Just now, the Empress Dowager Renxi told her that Lin Yiqing made a contribution when he inspected the defense of Shanhaiguan, not only quelling the local Huidang rebellion, but also capturing the Russian spy. Celebrate the New Year in the capital.
Hearing the news, He Yunqing and Chiho Kirino were all overjoyed.
At this time, Chiho Kirino's heart had already flown to the mouth of Lushun.
When Lin Yiqing arrived at Lushunkou, it was snowing heavily, and when he heard that Lin Yiqing was coming, Yuan Baoling, the general office of Lushun Engineering, waited outside the city early to greet him, and prepared a carriage and horse. After entering the city, it was late in the day. Lin Yiqing and the others saddled their horses all the way in order to rest in the accommodation arranged by Yuan Baoling.
Yuan Weiting was in a nervous mood. I went to see my cousin.
When Yuan Baoling and Lin Yiqing met, he was present as a guard, and he was very happy to see the two of them at first sight, and their words were very speculative, but when Uncle Tang looked at him, his eyes made him shudder.
Of course, he knew why his cousin looked at him with such eyes.
"Uncle...... Nephew Weiting, please come to you. ”
Yuan Baoling seemed to know that he would come, and sat on the chair and looked at him coldly.
"Uncle...... Nephew...... I've come to ask you for my guilt......" Yuan Weiting clearly felt his uncle's anger, and said with a snort, kneeling down in front of Yuan Baoling.
Yuan Weiting's father Yuan Baozhong died early, Yuan Weiting was taught by two uncles Yuan Baoheng Yuan Baoling, when he studied in Beijing for four years to gain fame, he was accompanied by his uncle Yuan Baoling, after the death of Yuan Baoqing and Yuan Baoheng's two uncles, Yuan Baoling was like a father in Yuan Weiting's mind.
"You still know how to plead!" When Yuan Baoling heard Yuan Weiting's words, she couldn't hold back the anger in her heart anymore, got up suddenly, came to Yuan Weiting, and gave him two hard slaps without saying anything.
These two slaps were hard and heavy, but Yuan Weiting didn't dare to dodge at all, and was beaten by his uncle stiffly, and for a while his eyes were full of gold stars, and his nostrils were bleeding.
"Bastard thing! I asked you to go to Qingjun for training, what else can you do besides causing trouble for me? Yuan Baoling said angrily.
Yuan Weiting lowered his head in shame.
"You're out of front of me, and you're still capable! Dare to flirt with a woman from a good family! If I helped you marry and have children, is this how you repay me? Yuan Baoling said sharply.
"Uncle's anger! Nephew damn it! Ask my uncle to calm his anger! Don't hurt yourself! Seeing Yuan Baoling trembling with anger, Yuan Weiting was terrified for a while, stepped forward on his knees, and hugged Yuan Baoling's crumbling body.
"Bastard thing! Who are you flirting with, you dare to tease Lin Wenxiang's daughter! You...... You are slapping your uncle's big mouth in front of Wu Junmen and Lord Lin! I-I-kill you brute! Yuan Baoling gave Yuan Weiting another hard slap.
"Uncle...... I beg you...... The nephew knew that he was wrong...... Don't be angry...... you don't want to be angry," Yuan Weiting said with tears in his eyes.
"You brute! You said! What did you think at the time? I didn't see that you were still such a disciple! Yuan Baoling glared at Yuan Weiting angrily, and her eyes almost popped out.
"Uncle...... The nephew has no intention of insulting Miss Lin, it is really ...... When her nephew saw her, he looked down on the women of the world in an instant...... I don't want to be a second person ......" Yuan Weiting cried, "My nephew loves her from the bottom of my heart, and I was dizzy for a while, and said something inappropriate......"
"What did you say?" Yuan Baoling couldn't help but be taken aback when he saw Yuan Weiting say such a thing.
"Uncle...... Nephew...... By no means lighter than her...... In her nephew's heart, she is like the Bodhisattva, and the nephew only wants to grow old with her...... Uncle Qiu...... Fulfill...... Even if the nephew dies immediately, he will have no regrets......" Yuan Weiting looked up at Yuan Baoling and expressed his heart.
"What a big dream you have! Are you crazy? Yuan Baoling immediately saw that this nephew he loved as his own was serious, and couldn't help but let out a heavy sigh.
"That's Lin Wenxiang's eldest daughter! How is it possible to marry you as a nobody? Have you forgotten that you are a family man? Lin Wenxiang's daughter, may you be a child? Are you crazy? Yuan Baoling struggled to break free of Yuan Weiting. Sitting in a chair panting.
listened to Yuan Baoling's reprimand. Yuan Weiting came back to his senses suddenly. He knelt there dumbfounded, unable to make a sound.
Oh, yes! He still has his wife and children at home......
I really hate to meet and unmarried!
"Even if you really like Miss Lin, this thing is impossible! If you divorce your wife and your children for this reason, you are ungrateful. It's impossible for Miss Lin to look down on you, let alone follow you! Yuan Baoling saw Yuan Weiting's dejected appearance, and became even more angry, "You cut off this idea for me as soon as possible!" You forgot she was! ”
"Uncle...... Nephew...... I can't forget her...... Unless...... Let my nephew die......"
"Get out of here! Get out! Bastard stuff! ”
Yuan Weiting can't remember how he left. He only remembered that there was heavy snow all over the sky, and the snow flakes hit his face and were cold to his heart.
He walked in the snow in a daze, foot by foot, until he came to a small building.
He suddenly realized that this was where Lin Yuxi and several other girls stayed.
He remembered that Lin Yiqing had given him the duty of guarding Lin Yuxi when he was at Shanhaiguan. He didn't expect that when he came out of his uncle, he walked to Lin Yuxi's residence without knowing it.
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