Chapter 21: The Past of Hu Zhai
From the joyful appearance on her face, it can be seen that this mind didn't realize that the person who went to her was an errand officer in the yamen, and she didn't expect that what was waiting for her was the iron shackles and the punishment of the national law. It's just that when she was taken to the courtyard and saw Diao Saburo in front of her and the servants behind her, she immediately softened into a puddle of mud as if she had confessed her sins, and fell to the ground.
"Brother Wang Yu, how did you deceive her?"
Seeing this look in his mind, knowing that his guess should not be wrong, Zong Jiyuan asked in a good mood.
Wang Yu squeezed his eyes at her with a smile,
"What? This time, you are finally willing to 'know' me? ”
"Where did you get so much nonsense, if you don't want to answer, forget it."
Zong Jiyuan said expressionlessly.
Seeing that his trick of "wanting to capture and indulge" did not work, Wang Yu hurriedly said,
"Okay, good, good, I said it's not okay, I'm really convinced of you. When I arrived at the Temple of Literature and found this thought, I said that Young Master Hu was very fond of Miss Yuan Jier, and after discussing with his wife, he planned to officially marry a young grandmother, and he would marry in the church today. And we specially invited her, the big matchmaker, to be there, and the thank you gift is naturally indispensable, fortunately, I just met her with Hu Shifa a few days ago, and she didn't suspect it at all, so she happily followed her. ”
"You're pretty good at getting things done."
Zong Jiyuan nodded, then turned his head to Diao Saburo and said,
"Third brother, can we go back?"
"Okay."
As soon as he agreed, Diao Saburo took the accompanying servants and escorted Hu Shifa and Xinnian into custody, leaving only the two of them to hide near the gate and secretly guard in case something else happened.
In order to prevent the six rescued girls from swaggering through the city in front of people, Zong Jiyuan specially instructed Wang Yu to find a carriage from the Hu mansion and let them sit in it and rush to the county office.
At this time, it was already the end of the afternoon.
Lord He was also overjoyed when he heard the news, but he didn't expect that this young master would really solve such a tricky case in such a short period of time, and immediately instructed the officials who were still staying in the yazhong,
"Go out with the official to greet you!"
When the two sides met, Zong Jiyuan hurriedly gave a salute, and then pulled Master He back to the lobby, concisely told the facts of the case he had learned, and focused on explaining the situation of the six girls, and then rushed to the second hall to change clothes.
Zong Jiyuan's statement of the case is quite clear and unambiguous, although in a short period of time, Lord He has fully understood what she means, so when Ji Yuan returned to the front of the hall again, the adult had already begun to raise the court to ask about the case.
At this time, kneeling in front of the hall were Hu Shifa and Young Master Hu.
I only heard Lord He ask,
"Hu Shifa, in your confession, a total of sixteen women were forcibly brought into your house in the past three years, right?"
"Yes, yes,"
Hu Shifa wiped his sweat and said,
"However, the villain took all this for granted......
"Really?"
Master He sneered and said,
"Okay, then you can tell the official in detail about the relevant situation in the past three years."
"Yes......"
Speaking of this, Hu Shifa's eyes fell on Zong Jiyuan, who had just turned out of the back hall and had recovered his men's clothes, and couldn't help but open his mouth wide in surprise,
"You, are you Jill?"
"Bold,"
Hearing him talk about other topics, Lord He patted the shocked wood lightly,
"Answer the officer's question, don't answer what you ask."
"Yes, yes, yes......"
Hu Shifa took his "reluctant" gaze away from Zong Jiyuan, kowtowed upwards again, and began to speak.
Zong Jiyuan sat down in his place silently and listened, and slowly clarified what was happening in the Hu mansion-
It turned out that Hu Shifa's father was an errand boy under a prince in the capital, and because he was smart and good at doing things, he was promoted little by little and got an official position. And this Hu Shifa is his only son, who has been pampered since he was a child, and everything is up to his temperament.
When he was twelve years old, his biological mother, that is, the eldest lady in the Hu mansion, died of illness, and his father had no time to discipline him because he had been in the capital for many years, and he was afraid that the child would be unrestrained and bad at school, so he sent the second lady married in the capital to Liaodong, so that she could take care of the whole mansion and restrain this Hu Shifa.
This old man Hu's idea is good, but things are not all going the way he hoped. At that time, Master Hu had already married the third lady in Beijing and stayed by his side to accompany him, so the mood of the second lady can be imagined.
At that time, Hu Shifa was only 13 years old, and he was in the transition to adulthood and was in urgent need of education. The two ladies wondered if being sent to Liaodong was a harbinger of falling out of favor, so they were bent on how to consolidate their position.
After thinking about it, he began to work on Hu Shifa, because the little young master is an only child, and everything in this Hu Mansion will be his, as long as he can catch him, he will catch all this.
In this way, the second lady began to try her best to please Hu Shifa, making him, who was already pampered, even more arbitrary. Although he also invited several gentlemen to teach him to read, these gentlemen also saw the way, in the final analysis, as long as they made the young master happy, the result was to coax him to play, so that a child who was originally smart grew into a freak who did not understand etiquette and had no feelings.