Chapter 167: Suppressing Bandits
Although the masters of the Xu family guessed that Xu Yanzhu had something to hide from them, they also knew that the most important thing now was Mrs. Jiang's funeral, thinking that with Mrs. Jiang's funeral, they would be able to come to the door a few times openly, and there would always be a chance to find out what was going on.
Therefore, there is no rush to find out anything.
But they didn't know that because of their idea, it would lead to many problems in the future.
Although Dong Shu was anxious to find out what Xu Yanzhu was about, she also understood that she couldn't do it too obviously.
Because Dong Shu's bad work was too obvious, Xu Yanzhu deliberately concealed it, and when Mrs. Jiang's funeral was finished, Dong Shu did not find out any news.
This is not the first time that the Jiang family has held a funeral, Jiang Han and his father died a few days ago, and Jiang Han has also experienced it, so after Mrs. Jiang's funeral is done this time, it seems that the Jiang family is very effective.
Before and after, the Jiang family was busy for a few days, and finally buried Mrs. Jiang, no matter what Mrs. Jiang did before, now that she has passed away, everything is buried with the loess.
But after Mrs. Jiang was buried in the ground, her funeral was not completed, and there were still 37, 57 and 77 and 100 days of worship later.
After the 100-day worship, the Jiang family can really guard their filial piety behind closed doors, but Jiang Han can't ignore the outside business.
Therefore, the Jiang family now really needs to keep filial piety behind closed doors, and only Xu Yanzhu is alone.
After Xu Yanzhu was reminded by Dong Shu that day, she said that she was sick after Mrs. Jiang entered the ground, her face was not lying, and she knew that it was not good to look at it.
The Jiang family has been staying in the Jiang family for most of these days, and when she sees her daughter sick, she will definitely stay and care for one or two.
"Your mother-in-law will pass away, and the marriage of Yanlang in the family will be postponed for half a year, and this bit of face still has to be given to the Jiang family." As soon as Jiang mentioned this, he was unhappy.
The Jiang family is her maiden family, and now that her sister-in-law has died of illness, even if she is in a hurry to arrange her son's marriage, it is not good to handle it when her sister-in-law has just died.
Pushed back for half a year, just waiting for the Jiang family's funeral to pass, which can be regarded as saving face for her mother's family.
Xu Yanzhu originally didn't want to keep her mother down to speak, although Jiang Han handled her mother-in-law's funeral, she was also distracted by this matter.
In addition, she has something on her mind and worries all day long, so she can finally rest behind closed doors for a while, but who knows that her mother stays with her.
However, she can't say that her mother is bad, after all, her mother will stay because she has a bad face.
"Mother, Yan Lang's marriage has been asked by her grandmother and aunt, and it will be okay to postpone it for half a year, as long as the Xu family has no opinion." After saying this, Xu Yanzhu picked up the teacup in her hand and took a sip of warm water, then looked at her mother and continued: "It's just that now the family is still keeping filial piety after all, and it's not good for you to stay in the Jiang family all day, and the grandmother of the province feels that you put the Jiang family above the Xu family again." ”
If it had been before, Xu Yanzhu would definitely not have said these words, but recently she really wanted to rest for a while.
But her mother is in the Jiang family, and she has to come to talk to her every day, and she can't avoid it.
But every day she has to devote energy to accompany her mother, she really feels tired and panicked.
The Jiang family also knew that what Xu Yanzhu said made sense, but a trace of displeasure flashed in her heart, but she also understood that it was not a matter for her to stay in the Jiang family all the time.
"That mother will go home early tomorrow morning." After saying this, the Jiang family thought about it, and finally looked at Xu Yanzhu and said: "Yanzhu, now that you have been married to Jiang Han for a year, plus your mother-in-law has died, you have to keep filial piety for another three years." In the past three years, you will be in your twenties, what rules do you have for this? ”
Xu Yanzhu didn't expect her mother to suddenly open her mouth to say this to her.
But she also understands that her mother will say this because she is worried about her.
"Mother, you should have understood these days that the current head of the Jiang family is Jiang Han. After three years, if Jiang Han wants a concubine, he can accept as much as he wants. As for herself, Xu Yanzhu understood that she must leave the Jiang family as soon as possible, even if she can't leave openly, even if she fakes her death, she has to leave.
Because Xu Yanzhu has decided to leave, she doesn't care at all about what Jiang Han will do in the future.
But Xu Yanzhu didn't expect that as soon as her words fell, Jiang looked at her with a look of 'why are you so unproductive'.
Xu Yanzhu didn't have Jiang Han in her heart, so she didn't care about how many women Jiang Han would have in the future, because she felt that she would definitely be able to think of a way to leave within these three years.
But Jiang didn't think so.
Now that my brother and sister-in-law have passed away, it is my nephew who is in charge of the Jiang family.
Although the Jiang family thinks that he is very good to this nephew, after all, this is a nephew, not his own son, and he must be separated by a layer.
But if the daughter can give birth to the eldest grandson of the Jiang family, with this level of relationship, they can continue to rely on the Jiang family in the future.
How could Xu Yanzhu not understand her mother's thoughts, but Xu Yanzhu was unwilling to listen to her anymore.
"Mother, when I got married, I have fulfilled your wish and repaid your kindness. How I want to live in the future, you should not ask. ”
Xu Yanzhu finally said these words, if Brother Yan didn't show up, then she didn't mind staying in the Jiang family to be a qualified housewife.
But now, she wants to live for herself.
Jiang really didn't expect Xu Yanzhu to say such a thing, although she knew that because of the marriage, her daughter had been separated from her, but she never expected that her daughter would say such a thing to herself.
Although the Jiang family is partial to her son, Xu Yanzhu was also born to her after all, and when she listened to Xu Yanzhu's words, she only felt that her heart hurt badly, and she didn't stay here with Xu Yanzhu anymore, and turned around and left directly.
Watching the Jiang family leave, Cuihua, who was waiting on the side, stepped forward worriedly and said, "The eldest girl is already uncomfortable these days, so why bother to be angry with her body anymore." ”
No matter how much she says, Cuihua is not easy to say, although she has only served Xu Yanzhu for more than a year, she also feels sorry for Xu Yanzhu in her heart.
Xu Yanzhu also understood Cuihua's thoughts, raised her hand and patted the back of her hand, Xu Yanzhu said: "I know that you feel sorry for me, and I originally planned to let you go back to the third aunt during this time, but because you have to keep filial piety now, it is not good to let you go back now." After saying this, Xu Yanzhu thought for a while and continued: "It's better to wait until after the 100-day worship, and by that time, my body must have eased up." ”
"There's no hurry in this matter, Madame also sent a message from there, so that the servant can take care of the big girl more." Although Cuihua also wanted to go back to the Xu family, she also knew that it was impossible for her to go back recently.
Although she doesn't know medicine, looking at the face of the eldest girl, she also knows that she has been unwell recently and needs to take care of herself.
Xu Yanzhu saw that Cuihua really wanted to stay and continue to take care of herself for a while, so she didn't mention when she would leave the Jiang family, but in her heart, she increased the reward she originally gave to Cuihua a little more.
Here in the Jiang family, Xu Yanzhu obediently stayed in the yard to keep filial piety to her mother-in-law, and the Xu family was also very busy during this time.
The funeral of the Jiang family will naturally not affect the Xu family, but just a few days after the funeral of the Jiang family, the matter of the bearded military general and the long-faced military general has also come to an end.
Although the long-faced military general did not directly kill people, his wife could not clear the charge of murder.
The most important thing is that the long-faced military general violated the military regulations and left the barracks during the confrontation competition, according to Xu Shiqiu's setting, although this confrontation competition is only a competition, it must be treated according to the real battlefield.
If this is really on the battlefield, actions like the two of them will definitely be judged as spies.
Because the party that wanted to severely punish the two of them recognized this, it was not easy for the court to punish them too leniently.
And at this moment, the wife of the bearded military general, holding a large stack of account books, sued her husband.
These account books not only have the records of the generals who have deducted the salaries of the soldiers under them over the years, but also the records of the generals who have given bribes to their superiors.
I don't know what kind of character this bearded military general is, and in this account book, there is also the record that he used the silver to go to the flower building, and he embezzled part of his wife's dowry.
The bearded lady knelt in the lobby, crying that there was no way to do the domineering reputation she had spread outside over the years, otherwise she would not be able to protect her last dowry and two children.
Mrs. Beard's hand really stunned many people, she knelt in the lobby, not only said many wrong things that Beard has done over the years, but also said that Beard likes to drink and will beat people after drinking.
When a few of the women chosen from among the people entered the inner hall with the bearded woman and examined her wounds, the world understood what she had complained about her husband.
With such a husband on the stall, it is no wonder that this woman will kill her relatives in righteousness.
Yes, in the end, the definition of this woman by the imperial court was 'righteous annihilation', or a plaque written by the Holy Lord.
With this plaque, the bearded lady happily reconciled with the convicted beard, and completely disappeared into the capital with her eldest daughter and youngest son and the dowry that the court had liquidated for her.
After Dong Shu learned about these things at home, the more she thought about it, the more wrong she became, and she always felt that there was a handiwork of her father-in-law in this matter.
But before she could ask Xu Shiqiu, the court's reward for Xu Shiqiu's confrontation and competition came.
Emperor Ruikang allowed Xu Shiqiu to lead his troops out to suppress the bandits, and the proceeds of the bandits only needed to be handed over to the imperial court, and the remaining half was handled by Xu Shiqiu himself.
And the bandits that Xu Shiqiu wanted to exterminate were the Datong horse bandits who had trapped Yan Ye for a long time.
Knowing that Xu Shiqiu was leaving Beijing, Dong Shu naturally suppressed her suspicions and began to prepare for Xu Shiqiu's departure from Beijing.
Although he had long understood that Xiang Gong would have such a day as a military general sooner or later, Dong Shu was still worried about it when it really came to him.
Just in Dong Shu's worries, Xu Shiqiu still straightened out the soldiers at the beginning of September, took them with him, and left the capital.