CHAPTER XXXV
The Ming criminal law has rules, the common people face the saint, need to wear prison uniforms, shave their heads, kneel barefoot on the nail board, by the special personnel of the criminal department, only the south gate of the palace, four people each hold a wooden sedan chair, carried to the front of the main hall, at that time, if the holy civilian is not dead, then the emperor to see, hear the grievances. {We don't write, we're just web word porters.} -
From the south gate of the Ming Palace, to the main hall of the Shang Dynasty, the ministers who do not bear the weight hurriedly walk, it takes a quarter of an hour's work, and the four people carrying the heavy load carry the wooden sedan chair to walk, and they must be careful to balance, and they cannot let the kneeling people above fall...... How can you get there without spending an hour?
Kneeling on the nail board and letting people carry it, don't say that it is an hour, even a quarter of an hour, and it is not something that mortals can bear! For an hour, not to mention how firm the will and determination of this saint are, just because of the blood shed along the way, eighty percent of the people will have to faint and interrupt the trip!
However, this sister-in-law Jiang's mother-in-law really relied on her own will and wisdom to complete this feat, successfully met the emperor at that time, and persuaded the emperor to pardon the old general's sins.
At that time, Jiang's sister-in-law begged the emperor like this, since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety are difficult to achieve, the old general for the country, ten years of resistance to the enemy, never for the family mother to do the slightest filial piety, this time homecoming, is every time the mother cried and pleaded, he had to do it, and there is no sense of not thinking about the grace of the king, and she married the old general, it is completely to fulfill the wishes of the old people in the family, just pretended to make a play, not true, therefore, someone impeached the old general, saying that he despised the monarch Yunyun, purely to verify the truth, slander the pillars.
In the face of such a brave woman as sister-in-law Jiang and her mother, the emperor at that time also admired a lot, and immediately issued an order to pardon the old general. Just "being stupid and not arguing" can't be regarded as a minor offense at all, and he was punished for a year, and he returned home to think about it for a month. After thinking about the full moon, he was reinstated.
The old general was saved. Sister-in-law Jiang and her mother were also dying due to excessive blood loss, she didn't want the old general to feel guilty, just after leaving the palace, the central people sent her to the nunnery outside the imperial capital, intending to wait there for death under the guise of becoming a monk, but unexpectedly. The teacher in the nunnery, before she became a monk, was a powerful doctor comparable to the holy hand, after giving her a few bowls of decoction and medicine, she saved her, she felt that the will of heaven made her immortal, so she really became a monk in the nunnery, and followed the teacher to eat fasting and recite the Buddha.
Then, good luck is not always accompanied by a person, and Sister-in-law Jiang and her mother lived in the nunnery for two months, and they didn't see themselves coming to Kwai Shui. At first, I thought it was because I was bleeding too much before, but later, I ...... Suddenly one day I started nausea and vomiting. Thinking that she had a strange disease, she asked the teacher to help her take the pulse to learn that she had a body for more than three months!
Before facing the saint, she told the emperor that she and the old general were fake marriages, and at this time, she had a child, counting the days, and it happened to be the time when they got married...... If this is the word goes out. Let others know and sue the emperor. It is a great sin of deceit!
When she went to face the saint, she was holding on to fighting for her life. Now that I'm lucky to live, I have also picked up a life, and if I die again, it's not a big deal, but if it is...... It has affected the old general and the old general's mother......
Just when Sister-in-law Jiang and her mother were worried and didn't know what to do, she heard from others that she was the mother of the old general who became a monk on this mountain...... In the name of worshipping the Buddha, I came to visit her!
When the two met, they first hugged their heads and cried, and then, she quietly told the old general's mother that she had the old general's child, and it had been three months. No death.
The old general's mother is a person of great friendship, before, sister-in-law Jiang and her mother risked death to save the old general's life, she was already moved and didn't know how to repay it, now, how can she agree to let her hurt herself and the unborn child?
The two held their own opinions and argued for a long time, but no one could convince anyone, and in the end, the teacher of the nunnery knocked on the door and walked in, and gave them a relatively compromise method, which was to solve the matter.
Sister-in-law Jiang and her mother left the child, peace of mind in the nunnery, the old general and her mother built a Buddha hall at the foot of the mountain, for the reason of the emperor's praise of virtue to live, when the child was born, sister-in-law Jiang and her mother found a small basket, sent the child to the Buddha Hall under the mountain to the old general and his mother, let the old general and her mother take the child home to raise on the grounds of recognizing the relatives, of course, in order to avoid trouble, the child's identity, the fewer people who know, the better.
After that, the old general's mother, as the old nun said, built a Buddha hall at the foot of the mountain, lived in it, ate fasting and recited Buddha every day, and waited for Jiang's sister-in-law and her mother to give birth.
Seven months later, Jiang's sister-in-law and her mother gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses, and the teacher sent the two children to the bottom of the mountain in baskets and handed them over to the old general's mother.
After the old general's mother donated a few thousand taels of silver to the nunnery, she took the two children and returned to her hometown, telling everyone, including the old general, that these two children were picked up by her outside, and she felt that they fit her eyes and wanted to recognize them as godgrandchildren and godgranddaughters.
The old general didn't know that Sister-in-law Jiang and her mother were still alive, so he naturally couldn't think about him more, he just felt that his mother was old and wanted to enjoy his family, and he and his wife didn't have children, so he agreed, and according to his mother's wishes, he recognized these two children as righteous sons and daughters.
The boy, sister-in-law Jiang's brother, has now replaced the old general and gone to the northwest border, and the girl, that is, sister-in-law Jiang, chose to sacrifice her happiness and continue to hide this secret when she learned her true identity and knew that her half-brother, who was one year younger than herself, had taken a fancy to her, and her father and mother-in-law, who did not know that she wanted to match her with her younger brother...... took the initiative to marry her father's adjutant, that is, the coachman Lao Wang, and broke off her half-brother's thoughts!
Of course, it is precisely like this, the old general and the old lady who originally loved her were angry with her, thinking that she did not know what to do, and did not know how to repay kindness, she had a hard time, and did not want to go against the wishes of her late grandmother, so she simply continued to stay in the barracks, and it was also in vain to make her father and grandmother angry, so she simply asked herself to leave the camp and returned to the small town of the coachman Lao Wang's hometown, took care of his father and mother for him, gave birth to children, often corresponded with him, and inquired about the news of the old general, that is, his father and mother-in-law, and knew that they were doing well, and they would feel very happy.
Knock one by one
Outside the door, the sound of an iron weapon landing on the ground suddenly made Liu Qingxin and Sister-in-law Jiang, who were talking in the room, stunned in place.
Liu Qingxin is very strict in governing the family, and she has already explained to the mother-in-law in the yard, and no one is allowed to enter the backyard without her permission.
Yu Li......
Outside this door, there shouldn't be anyone!
"Who?"
Slightly startled, Liu Qingxin instinctively reached out and pressed Sister-in-law Jiang's shoulder, signaling her not to panic, to find out the situation first, and then make plans.
"Light-hearted girl, Nizi, it's an old body, it's a ...... You guys, open the door for the old body......"
Outside the door, the hoarse voice of the old general's wife came, obviously, trying to hold back the sobbing, "Old body...... Something you have something to say to Niko...... You ......"
After all, paper can't contain the fire, and Sister-in-law Jiang never dreamed that the secret she had hidden for most of her life and wanted to bring it into her grave would come to this day, and it would be too late.
She looked at Liu Qingxin a little helplessly, and wanted to ask her for a solution, but when she saw it, she was also helpless, and persuaded her not to be too stubborn.
"Go and open the door to the old lady."
Liu Qingxin took a deep breath, looked in the direction of the door, gently snorted her mouth, and signaled Sister-in-law Jiang not to do any more useless struggles, "It's too cold outside, open the door first, let the old lady come into the house, her body is not good, and if it is cold, it will be more serious, and it will be more troublesome." ”
The door of the house opened, and the old general's wife, who was clumsy, stood there with tears in her eyes, staring at Sister-in-law Jiang for three breaths, before she suddenly opened her arms, hugged her tightly in her arms, and cried loudly, "Nizi, it's a godmother...... No, it's the eldest mother who is sorry for you, it's the eldest mother who wronged you, a good girl, it's the eldest lady who is sorry for you......"
"Old lady, old lady Hugh wants to say this, old lady, old lady has always treated Nizi very well!"
Seeing that the old general's wife was crying like a mess, Sister-in-law Jiang hurriedly hugged her with her backhand, patted her on the back, and comforted her, "Nizi has grown so big, I have seen my mother once, or when I went to her old man's house to see her off, Nizi grew so big, it was all taken care of by the old lady and grandmother, without the lessons of the old lady, Nizi, where can Nizi have, can there be ......"
"Isn't it a good thing that the misunderstanding has been solved!"
Seeing the two hugging each other and crying, Liu, who was worried about the old lady's body, hurriedly came up, and while opening her mouth to comfort the old lady who was crying bitterly, she wrote on Sister-in-law Jiang's back with her fingers, telling her that the old lady was not in good health and couldn't let her cry so much, "Sister-in-law Jiang didn't go against what she promised her grandmother at that time, and the old lady also knew what was going on. Come, come, wipe your tears, you two haven't seen each other for years, sit down and have a good talk! (To be continued)