Chapter Seventy-Three: Suffering
Uncle was stunned when he heard this, how could he mention this to Yulan?
If you don't want to mention it, you have to mention it. Xuan's uncle found Yulan and spoke hard: "Yulan, you are a good girl, it is Xuan's nephew who can't stand you!" Because you only have one hand, you are not a good match for your nephew, and your nephew wrote to you to leave him. I mean you can divorce without leaving home, just be my goddaughter, and find a good family in the future! ”
After hearing this, Yulan soured up, and tears came down. She can't forget Wang Xuan's life-saving grace to herself, and now that he has won the champion, since he has proposed to divorce herself, she must not embarrass him!
After dark, Magnolia quietly left home with a small burden on her shoulder.
Wang Xuanyi returned to his hometown, and the people of the villages along the road had to go to the village to greet him.
On this day, Wang Xuan was wearing a bright champion costume and riding a tall horse, and when he came to a village, he suddenly found a figure in the crowd who seemed to be his wife. In fact, this is the magnolia who ran away from home. At this time, Yulan also found that her husband saw her, and for fear of an accident, she turned around and slipped away.
When Wang Xuan fixed his eyes again, the familiar figure was gone.
Wang Xuan returned to Liuhezhuang, and the villagers greeted him ceremoniously and held a banquet to celebrate. Wang Xuan waited left and right, why didn't he see his wife Yulan?
He pulled his uncle over and asked, and the uncle asked puzzledly, "Didn't you bring a letter to let Hugh Yulan go?" It's all done as you want. ”
Wang Xuan was confused after hearing this: "How can there be such good news?" ”
The uncle replied, "Good tidings are good tidings, but there are words below the good tidings!" ”
Wang Xuan asked his uncle to quickly take out the good news, staring at the line of small words, Wang Xuan knew that someone had done it.
As soon as the celebration banquet was dispersed, Wang Xuan immediately instructed the local county magistrate to send someone to find the official who sent the good news, and asked what was going on with the small words on the good news.
The servant suddenly remembered: On the day of the good news, he had eaten in a tavern on the side of the road, and told the tavern keeper about the good news of the champion, and the tavern shopkeeper personally took out good wine and food to drink with himself, and later, he was very drunk, and only after waking up did he send the good news to the house of the old man.
Wang Xuan came to the tavern with the county order and a group of officials.
It doesn't matter if you check this time, the tavern was actually opened by Yulan's stepmother and his husband.
Wang Xuan looked at the man and woman, and spoke neither softly nor hardly: "I am Wang Xuan, the first Jinshi of the new department, why did you two get drunk on the official mission and tamper with the good news of the court?" Now that the human and material evidence is there, let's tell the truth! ”
It turned out that when the man and woman learned that Yulan's husband had won the champion, they were worried that they would not have good fruit to eat, so they drunk the official who sent the good news, and added a line of small words under the good news, wanting Wang Xuan to take a break from Yulan, but they didn't expect the incident to happen so soon.
Wang Xuan was angry after hearing this, and asked the county magistrate to sentence the husband and silver woman to death for the crime of bullying the king and murdering people's lives.
Wang Xuan led a group of officials and carried an eight-person sedan chair to find the village where Magnolia lived. When Yulan saw it, she was filled with joy and sorrow, Wang Xuan asked her to go home in a sedan chair, but she just refused.
Wang Xuan urged over and over again, urging urgently, and Yulan said in a hurry: "Husband, the concubine has only one hand, how can I wait for you in the future!" You're still going to be wrong, leave me alone! ”
Wang Xuan said emotionally: "The conscience of heaven and earth, I, Wang Xuan, have forgotten something, and I can't forget my wife, if you don't leave, I will kneel down for you!" ”
Yulan freshened up and dressed, and sat in the eight-person sedan chair.
After the verdict of the good news case, Yulan's stepmother's father thought that his daughter was just a coercion and would not be guilty of death, so he went to the county government to constantly complain and complain. But until the prisoner was beheaded, no result was reported. Although his daughter had died in Huangquan, he was still not convinced, so he went to Chang'an to open a shop and fight a lawsuit while making money. Finally, one day, he found a court official with his connection, and this official gave Emperor Gaozong a recital on the grounds that Wang Xuancao had lost his life.
After reading the music, Emperor Gaozong was furious and ordered to remove Wang Xuan's first name Jinshi from his reputation and rush back to his hometown. Wang Xuan had no choice but to return to Liuhezhuang with his wife and children.
At this time, Wang Xuan's uncle and eldest brother had passed away, and only the eldest sister-in-law, second brother and second sister-in-law were there, and the second brother and second sister-in-law were doing well.
When the second brother and sister-in-law heard that Wang Xuan had changed from an official of the court to a commoner, they suddenly lost their good faces, and only found two dilapidated houses for Wang Xuan's family to live in.
Wang Xuan has never done crop work since he was a child, and he can't do business, his wife is disabled, and his children are still young. At the beginning, the whole family could still use the original little savings to maintain, but later they spent it without going in and out, so they all relied on the second brother and sister-in-law to help them.
It's okay for ten days and a half months, but when the son grows, Wang Xuan's second sister-in-law won't do it. She thought, this Wang Xuan is a mourning star, not to mention his many disasters and difficulties, and he also piggybacks on others and can't live in peace, it is better to kill him, his wife will marry someone else, and the children will be taken away, and this burden will be gone. Wang Xuan's second brother couldn't stand his wife's muttering all day long, so he gritted his teeth and agreed.
On the night of August 15, Wang Xuan's second brother invited Wang Xuan to his home, saying that he was drinking for the full moon. The second sister-in-law added sweat medicine to the wine, and then diligently persuaded the wine. Wang Xuan was unguarded, and fainted not long after drinking. The two of them immediately rolled Wang Xuan in the mat tube, tied a few ropes, leaned against the door of the house head and foot, and prepared to throw him into the dry well in the back garden in the dead of night.
At this time, the sister-in-law who lived in the east house heard a movement in the second room, and tiptoed through the crack in the door to see the scene just now.
When the two of them fell asleep, she took Wang Xuan into her room, woke him up, and found her husband's clothes before his death for Wang Xuan to change, and took out a little money and handed it to Xuan, and hurriedly said: "Your second brother and sister-in-law have bad intentions and want to kill you, you have to get out of here quickly!" ”
Then he soaked the steamed buns in wine, fed the big yellow dog he raised, tied the drunken dog and rolled it into its original state, and sent it back.
At the third watch, Wang Xuan's second brother carried the mat tube, sneaked to the back garden, pried open the stone slab covering the well, and erected the mat tube.
Yulan saw that her husband did not return overnight, so she went to the second brother's house to look for it, and the second brother and sister-in-law sang and harmonized, pretending not to know.
The second sister-in-law sighed and said, "The third brother is so strong, does it depend on the family's difficulties, and he went out to earn money!" Yulan, it's not me talking about you, the third brother said goodbye without saying goodbye, most likely he won't come back, you are still pulling the two children, after today, how will you live tomorrow? It's better to find someone to live in! ”
Magnolia returned home and sat there in tears. She remembered that her husband was so kind to her that even if he starved to death, he could not remarry, and besides, her husband would not see anyone alive or dead, and she must wait for him to come back. She changed into coarse cloth clothes, found a broken basket and a dog beating stick, locked the child in the house, and went out to beg for food.
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