Chapter 328 (2nd Watch)
As Brother Yun left Wan'an Palace, his uncle, Shaoqing of Dali Temple, took the lead in asking for the arrest of the people involved in the Xu family.
The old emperor, who was in the north for the summer, had already been prepared, and this time he did not delay at all, drove back to the palace, and personally issued an edict to condemn the Xu family.
The Xu family is like a stubborn tree, looking at the leafy branches outside, but they didn't prevent those side branches from being deposed and eradicated due to large and small incidents, and the roots and tendrils of this tree were broken. When the head of the Xu family realized it, then the young masters and sons of the family had that kind of thing in the other courtyard, and then they were infected with infectious diseases...... Those people in the court were thinking about how to kill his sick juniors, and the matter of his Xu family's collusion with the temple to wish the greedy ink incense and silver was dug up again.
This link made him dazzled, overwhelmed, and gradually powerless to resist. The huge Xu family fell apart in just one year.
There are more than 100 people up and down the Xu family, one is a first-class member, one is a first-class member, and there are nearly ten people under the third grade, all of which are related to the temple embezzlement case.
Maybe some are really innocent, but how could the emperor miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, that is, kill a thousand by mistake and not miss one.
He ordered that all those who were officials in the Xu family should be dismissed, and the descendants would be sentenced to be cut in half, and the side branches would be exiled. Other officials who were close to the Xu family were implicated, some demoted and some imprisoned.
For example, in the Luo family in the capital, Su Ri did a lot of bad things for the Xu family, and now it can be regarded as self-reaping. However, Cui Youliang, who was far away in the south of the Yangtze River, fortunately escaped.
For a time, the whole capital was shaken and uneasy.
Emperor Xu's concubine in Wan'an Palace has now become Concubine Xu. The old emperor was amorous and nostalgic, and Emperor Xu's concubine cried bitterly and swore to curse the temple for embezzlement of ink, which had nothing to do with her, she was deceived by her brother, and King Qi was even more innocent...... The old emperor was soft-hearted, so he only demoted her by two positions.
With the fall of the Xu family, some false unjust cases originally caused by his family began to come out and speak out.
Not to mention, Yue Yao, the little general of the Yue family who beheaded one of the feet of the little son of the Xu family out of righteous indignation, finally waited for the day when he saw the light of day again.
In addition, Yuan Zhiheng collected some evidence for the Yun family, and only after finding Qingyun and others, the case could be overturned.
No matter how turbulent it is outside, inside this Yuan Mansion is warm and happy at this time.
"Aunt Dongxue, can I go in and see my brother?" Sister Ci'er was outside the yard, stretched out her head, stopped the winter snow that was lighting wormwood in the yard, and asked in a low voice.
This courtyard was in the easternmost corner of the Yuan Mansion, and after someone cleaned it up, she took Brother Yun to live in.
Other people, maids, mothers-in-law, and others, including Yuan Zhiheng, were all blocked by her outside the courtyard, and they didn't see any guests. Only Dongxue covered his face every day and waited in the yard, serving food and water to sweep the yard.
Yuan Zhiheng searched for ancient books, and it turned out that this disease was not cowpox, but a severe rash. If this kind of rash is not treated, it will not necessarily die, and there is still an eighty percent survival rate, but after surviving, the face, hands, neck, arms and other places are blistered, and they will not look good after scabbing.
Fortunately, there is another party in that ancient book that specializes in treating this kind of rash.
Diancui guarded Brother Yun'er for seven days, taking a silver needle every day to break the bulging pimples, and then smearing the dragon's claw juice with the medicinal pulp on the affected area. In this way, in less than a day, the affected area will no longer have pus and become shriveled, and then sprinkle calamine lime on it.
In the past seven days, Brother Yun has burned several times over and over again, and the pimples on his body have also been extinguished.
Diancui almost didn't fit his eyes, except for applying medicine to Brother Yun'er, reducing fever, and feeding, he was holding the medicine mortar, and carefully grinding the slurry and calamine written on the prescription again and again.
Dongxue waved her hand and motioned to Sister Ci'er not to approach, Sister Ci'er is now obedient, and when she comes back from the water pavilion every day, she waits under a big ginkgo tree outside the small courtyard.
Occasionally, Diancui opened the door of the house and went to the yard to get food, Sister Ci hurriedly waved her hand vigorously, and Diancui nodded with a smile.
The mother and daughter looked at each other from a distance and felt very happy.
After the Xu family subdued the law, because of the introduction of one old case after another, Yuan Zhiheng was seconded to the head of the third division, and he was busy until late every day before he was able to return home, although Diancui did not allow him to approach, but he was never an obedient person, and he inevitably quietly entered the small courtyard at night to see his wife and son.
Gradually, on the court, King Gong and King Qi officially participated in politics, and he, a teacher, didn't even have time to go home to have breakfast with Sister Ci.
As for the three concubine rooms in the courtyard west of Yuan's mansion, one of them is a noble concubine, one is quieter than the other, and all of them are as quiet as chickens. 5200
On this day and night, there was a small movement in the courtyard of the noble concubine Qin Qingqing.
Aunt Qin lived alone, got up at night to drink water, accidentally slipped and fell, her ankle was swollen, and she screamed in pain. This voice was so noisy that Aunt Dong, who was only a wall away from her, didn't sleep all night, and wanted to rush over and scold her to relieve her anger, but she was afraid that the lady who would disturb her head would be dissatisfied. I had no choice but to go to Steward Li to call a Lang Zhong to take a look with her.
Who knew that after Lang Zhong arrived, he straightened Aunt Qin's foot bones, and by the way, he kindly checked her pulse, this pulse didn't matter, and he said that she was not pregnant at all......
When this matter reached the ears of Diancui, who was feeding Brother Yun'er rice paste, she just sneered twice, and before she could speak, a maid came to report again:
"Madame, Mrs., Aunt Qin, she's crazy!"
Lose your marbles? Dian Cui rummaged through the herbs on the bamboo strips in the courtyard and muttered.
"But no, when Langzhong just said that she was not pregnant, she went crazy, threw out the medicine box with a snort, and put the head on the top of the family, poor old Langzhong where had he seen such a battle, and he was overturned to the ground at once. This is not enough, the crazy aunt turned around and picked up a beautiful woman and was about to hold it on her head, but fortunately she was stopped by everyone, otherwise it would be even uglier if she went down at that time......" The little girl sat under the big ginkgo tree and talked about the situation, patting her chest as if frightened.
"Crazy, you can't be pretending to be crazy and stupid, right?" Dongxue was still burning the wormwood, and questioned in disbelief, that Aunt Qin is not as straightforward as our people in the capital, but she is a crooked intestine and very scheming.
The little maid immediately shook her head and shook a rattle: "No, no, it's really stupid, that Lang Zhong looked at her like that, and said it was stupid!" ”
Dong Xue looked at his wife suspiciously, but the old monk was settled, only concentrating on picking up the medicinal herbs, and there was no joy or anger on his face.
After picking up the medicinal herbs, Diancui went back to the house to pound the medicine. When it was time to eat at night, Dian Cui said to Dong Xue to let Aunt Xing buy a safe maid and send it to Aunt Qin to serve.
Dong Xue nodded, even though she didn't understand why Madame had repeatedly tolerated and regressed to that Qin Qingqing. She didn't know some of the situations in her previous life, and Diancui was not soft-hearted, but she just felt that it was really not easy for her to get mixed up to the point of pretending to be crazy and stupid now, so let's accumulate more good deeds for Brother Yun'er.
Summer passed in a blink of an eye, and when the weather was cool, Yuan Zhiheng looked for a day of rest and took his wife and children to a village on the outskirts of the city.
Sister Tzu refused to ride in the carriage, and the dwarf mare refused to ride, so she had to ride the man's tall horse, and shouted that she wanted to race with her father.
Diancui and Brother Yun's mother and son are sitting on the carriage obediently and skillfully, and now Brother Yun'er is sick, only a few pockmarks on his arms and arms, and his little face is white and tender. He also grew fast, and now a vegetable basket can't hold him.
"Mother, mother, you quickly agree, if you don't agree, my father will not race with me." Sister Ci'er's clear and sweet voice came, she was born in Hangzhou, although it has been almost two years since she arrived in the capital, but this accent always has a soft and glutinous feeling of a southern water town.
"You kid!" Diancui said angrily: "What are you yelling about?" ”
When these words came out, it was like her father was afraid of the inside......
Diancui stretched out his head, it was a coincidence that Yuan Zhiheng was looking at him with a smile, and now that he had grown a beard, Diancui found that he looked good with a beard, and he had another kind of throbbing spirit.
"Go, go, be careful......" Diancui didn't like to blush originally, and her skin was very thick, but after giving birth to two children, her face was still thin, and she was a little blushing when she was stared at by her father-in-law.
"Good! Drive! Sister Ci laughed and whipped like an arrow, and rushed out like an arrow.
"Good skills!" Yuan Zhiheng reluctantly turned his gaze, laughed and praised, and also drove the belly of the horse to chase after his daughter who had learned such superb riding skills at some point.
Yuan Zhiheng has been a civil official for a long time, and it is a little difficult to ride a horse compared with his daughter who studies hard every day. He couldn't help but be surprised when he saw his daughter's riding skills, and couldn't help but be secretly surprised when he saw the strength of her whip in her hand and her unusually flexible wrists.
The father and daughter arrived at Zhuangzi one after the other, and Diancui and Yun Ge'er's carriage also arrived slowly.
"The fourth sister and Brother Yun are here, come on, come on, Brother Yun hugs the eldest uncle, speaking of which, I haven't hugged Brother Yun yet." Li Sang was the first to come out to greet him, where did he still have the prestige of being a court official at this time, obviously he was the honest and simple old lady of an ordinary family.
"And the second uncle......" Tang Er also laughed, flicked the folding fan, and also followed Li Sang's footsteps.
"Big brother, second brother, it's clear that we are sworn brothers, how did we become uncles." It should be an uncle, Yuan Zhiheng listened to it quite tastefully.