Chapter 076: The Dust Settles (1)

"Righteousness" is a system of forced divorce ordered by the government, and the penalty for not breaking up is imprisonment. "Tang Law Discussion": "Those who commit righteousness will leave, and those who violate it will be imprisoned for one year." "Or husband and wife, grandparents, maternal grandparents, uncles, parents, brothers and sisters, killing each other...... All are righteous. ”

Of course, this is the legal requirement of Datang. The politics and law of the Great Zhou Dynasty were inherited from the Tang Dynasty, and on the basis of retaining the "Tang Law and Discussion", many new laws were added that were conducive to the Wu clan's rule. For example, the rules on what constitutes "righteousness".

If, according to the Tang Law, one of the husband and wife beats, commits adultery, kills or injures the other party or his relatives within a certain range or the relatives of both parties within a certain range, the government makes a judgment to forcibly dissolve the marriage relationship, and in the Great Zhou Law, in addition to the above circumstances, a new article is added, if one of the families of the man and the woman determines that the marriage relationship between the two parties has affected the interests of the family and damaged the honor of the family, and if Party A of the two parties to the marriage has seriously insulted and wrongly treated Party B, then the family of Party B can request "righteous renunciation" from the government.

In fact, when Zhou Taizu added this article to the explanation of "righteousness", it was inevitably related to the historical environment at that time.

On the one hand, he wanted to use the hands of the government to forcibly separate the relationship between several major families, because in the late Tang Dynasty and early Zhou Dynasty, in addition to the intermarriage between the clans with the five surnames and seven wangs, there were also some other old nobles, who were also related to each other by marriage, thus forming a very large force, which not only affected the social trend, but also affected the stability of the imperial court.

Therefore, in order to consolidate his rule and divide and rule, Zhou Taizu simply put his mind on the relationship between in-laws and relatives, and forcibly added the so-called 'family interests' to the scope of 'righteousness'.

In this way, the imperial court can intervene in private in-law relations in a grand manner, forcibly invalidating the marriage relationship they use to marry, and then separating all the major families with which they have an irrutable relationship.

As a result, in the early days of the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, because of the intervention of the government, many couples were inexplicably separated by 'righteousness', and the good husband and wife Lao Yan flew apart, and the two families became strangers.

Of course, this situation is a special phenomenon in a special period, and after Zhou Taizu successfully consolidated the rule of the Wu clan, he will no longer vigorously promote the policy of 'righteousness'. As for the people, they originally stayed away from the 'righteousness', but without the express order of the imperial court, everyone seemed to have forgotten this provision.

It's not that the people are using this to express their dissatisfaction with the Zhou Dynasty, it's really this 'righteousness' that it can't afford to hurt. Under normal circumstances, unless there is a major grievance, the two families will never choose 'righteousness' to end the marriage of their two children, for a simple reason: the consequences of 'righteousness' are too serious:

First of all, both men and women were sentenced to 'righteous renunciation', which means a complete break between the two families, once the righteous renunciation book takes effect, the original in-laws suddenly become enemies, and they don't want to communicate with each other, which will cause major losses to the two families.

Because the two parties to the marriage are basically similar or intersecting at the communicative level, otherwise it is impossible for two families with the wrong door to be united. If the young couple breaks up, then the social circle of both parties who are familiar with each other will also be forcibly divided, the familiar contacts will be gone, and the business partners will part ways, etc., etc., these situations will directly affect the vital interests of both families.

Second, once the 'righteousness is extinguished', both the man and the woman will have a bad reputation in the local area, which will affect the prestige and face of the two families. This principle is also very simple, if the husband and wife are not in harmony, but do not choose the less lethal 'harmony', but choose 'righteousness' regardless of the loss of family interests, then the party who puts forward the 'righteousness' demand, no matter how wronged, is also a person who does not care about the overall situation;

There are such serious consequences as a warning, in the Great Zhou Dynasty, very few families chose to 'rendezvous' to marry each other's in-laws.

Zhao Yongnian naturally understood this serious consequence, so when he heard Li Changbo's request, his face suddenly became extremely ugly.

"This ......, Li Shilang, we are all in-laws, and we have been friends for many years, not to mention that the two families have any vendettas, but there is occasional friction, aren't we all resolved in time, why do you still think of asking the government to 'be righteous'?"

"Friction? Hmph," Li Changbo sat on top with a straight face, and after listening to Zhao Yongnian's words, he smiled coldly, "President Zhao, it's not that I, Li Changbo, are making a big fuss, it's really your Zhao family who is too deceitful."

"Where does this begin?"

Zhao Yongnian saw that Li Changbo didn't give him any face, so he was a little annoyed at the moment, and he was a little more resentful in his words.

"President Zhao, the house's internal affairs, I don't want to comment on it, it's just that it is about my niece, and I have to say a few words," Li Changbo also felt the change in the other party's attitude, and the corners of his mouth hooked a mocking arc, "The second young master spoiled his concubine and killed his wife, Mrs. Zhao seized her daughter-in-law's dowry, and after greedy for the money in the inner account room, she threw the mess to her daughter-in-law to clean up, these are nothing." In the end, Mrs. Zhao even doubted the identity of Xiaoxin's brother, and then instigated a concubine who was not on the stage to frame Qi Niang...... President Zhao, tell me, if your little lady is treated like this in her husband's family, can you still be so indifferent? In addition, if the elders of your house are old and disrespectful, and there are no rules and distances in the inner courtyard, which family is willing to be your in-laws? ”

"Li Shilang, you?"

Zhao Yongnian is also the president of the Confucian Business Association, and he is also a four-grade official of the imperial court, although it is not a real shortage, but there is also a rank here, when did someone reprimand him so unscrupulously in person? Staring at Li Changbo's slightly thin cheeks, the anger in Zhao Yongnian's heart was burning, and he almost couldn't help but gush out.

Huh, no, no, now that the war in the northwest is at a critical moment, the emperor is still counting on these old nobles to fund and support the front line, and he can't break with the Li family at this time.

In addition, Zhao Yongnian doesn't care much about the affairs of the inner court, but he has heard a little bit about it over the years. He had heard a few things Li Changbo had just said, but he hadn't heard them as seriously.

However, no matter whether it is serious or not, he must find out what happened in the inner courtyard and how it caused such a strong reaction from Li Changbo.

Thinking of this, Zhao Yongnian lowered his voice and ordered: "Come on, don't call that son of a son to me."

“…… Second young master, that's the way it is, Li Shilang questioned the master on the spot, and kept telling the master to go to the government to ask for 'righteousness', and the lord and the lord ......"

As he walked, he whispered to Zhao Tianqing what had happened in the study just now.

"What? Does anyone still doubt the identity of Xiaoxin'er? Could it be that there is any rumor in the house? ”

Compared with other crimes, Zhao Tianqing cares more about this article, after all, this is related to his bloodline, and there is no room for sloppiness.

"Back to the second young master, in fact, since the young master Sun returned to the house, the rumors about his life experience have not been broken, some people say that he is not the biological son of the second young grandmother, but the boy brought in from the outside by the second young grandmother in order to keep his position as a young grandmother; Some people also say that Young Master Sun is not the biological son of the second young master, obviously when the second young grandmother left the house, she had already miscarried, where is the child? ”

The little guy lowered his head, not daring to look at Zhao Tianqing's expression, and told the second young master one by one about the various versions of the rumors he had heard.

"Nonsense, this, who is spreading rumors, their hearts can be punished"

When Zhao Tianqing heard this, his face turned red with a 'boom', and a raging anger rose in his heart. Who is this rumor, it is simply to paint his Zhao Tianqing's head with green paint, the former is better, it is said that it is a wild child brought by the second young grandmother; And the latter is a little vicious, obviously scolding him Zhao Tianqing is a king.

"I don't know the little ones, but my wife said, 'No wind and no waves.'"

The little guy was very clever and lifted Mrs. Zhao out with a word.

“…… Okay, I got it."

Although he said that he didn't believe it, unconsciously, a seed of doubt had been sprinkled in his heart, and Zhao Tianqing also began to question the identity of Xiaoxin'er.

"That's it, President Zhao, maybe you may not believe what I said, at this moment, the eldest princess, the ninth princess, Princess Jingwei, and the wife of the prince's guest, Lord Wang, as well as Mrs. Zhao and my wife, are all trying the case in the garden of your house, you can let people go to the auditors, and see if what I just said is true."

"What, all three princesses are there?"

When Zhao Yongnian heard this, his face was covered with frost, and he secretly scolded Mrs. Zhao in his heart - what an ignorant girl, don't you know the truth that family ugliness should not be publicized, why did she invite a few princesses to the mansion to 'judge the case', didn't this let everyone see the jokes of the Zhao family in vain?

In fact, Zhao Yongnian really wronged Mrs. Zhao, after Mrs. Zhao looked at the 'distinguished guests' present, she was really annoyed, she just wanted to end this farce regardless of the result, and then have a good life.

"Cook Zhao, you said that you saw Amethyst bring a big bag of safflower into the kitchen and add it to Aunt Su's bird's nest porridge, right?"

"Hui, back to Mrs., the old slave saw Amethyst take a big bag of safflower into the kitchen, no, the rest of the safflower is still here," Mrs. Zhao trembled and took out a butter paper bag, opened the hemp rope tied on the paper bag, and showed the contents to everyone, "However, the old slave didn't see Amethyst add safflower to Aunt Su's stew pot with his own eyes." ”

"Maid Buckle, you said that Amethyst gave you five taels of silver and asked you to go to Jishitang in Dongshi City to buy four taels of saffron, right?"

Mrs. Zhao asked someone to call the girl who was said to be running errands to buy saffron for Amethyst, and asked seriously.

"Mrs. Hui, exactly," Kou'er is the cleaning girl of the peony garden, the first time she saw so many distinguished guests, she was a little afraid, she timidly took out a piece of silver from the purse around her waist, and held it in front of her hands, "Mrs., this is the silver left over from buying safflower, Sister Amethyst said no, give it to me." ”

"Grandma Sun, you said that you found the record of buying saffron five days ago from Jishitang in Dongshi, right?"

Thinking about the quick decision, Mrs. Zhao did not delay at all in time, and after asking about the buckle, she called Grandma Sun again.

"Mrs. Hui, that's right, after the old slave listened to the chef's revelation last time, he thought, the medicinal materials in our house are all regulated, and the safflower of amethyst must have been bought from outside, so he immediately sent people to go to the major medical centers and pharmacies in the east and west cities to find out, but I didn't expect that the old slave really found the account book in Jishitang, and the young man in the pharmacy also identified the buckle in the peony garden, saying that she was the one who went to buy safflower that day."

"Well, bring me the account books," Mrs. Zhao nodded at Guo's mother and motioned for her to bring her things. Seeing this, Guo's mother hurriedly went over to take the account book and held it to Mrs. Zhao.

Flipping through the account book, Mrs. Zhao found the record from five days ago, and sure enough, she saw that it read 'Red Flower Four Taels', and the big stone hanging in her heart fell to the ground - huh, very good, very good, now that the human and material evidence are there, she finally did not wronged Amethyst.

"In addition, the old slave has something to tell his wife," Mama Sun peeked at Mrs. Zhao's face and knew that Mrs. Zhao had already believed their evidence and testimony, so she thought about adding another fire, "When the old slave stewed bird's nest for Aunt Su at that time, he left for a short while, and during this period, he ordered a girl named Xiaosuo to stay in the kitchen to take care of the fire......"

Mrs. Zhao also remembered that Grandma Sun had said this, so she bowed her head slightly, indicating that she remembered.

"After Aunt Su's accident, the old slave went around looking for this girl, but I don't know why, this girl disappeared as if out of thin air, and she couldn't find it," Grandma Sun said here, pausing deliberately, and looked up to see that the distinguished guests present and the second young grandmother standing on the side were all looking at themselves with concern, and felt proud in her heart, but she showed a sad expression on her face, and said: "It's just, I didn't expect that yesterday night, the old slave received a notice from Xiao Suoniang, saying that it was at noon yesterday, The little lock was called out by a girl wearing a green chintz skirt and never came back, and later, the mother-in-law on the pulp wash found a half-worn pointed-toe boot on the well platform in the backyard, which was identified by the little lock lady as the shoes that the missing little lock was wearing that day"

"What? You mean, Little Lock was pushed into the well by a girl in a green chintz skirt? ”

Mrs. Zhao is very good at breaking words and sentences, and in three or two clicks, she defined the so-called girl in a green chintz skirt as the murderer who killed Xiaosuo.

It is indirectly pointed out that this girl must be a subordinate in the peony garden, more precisely, it should be Wang Qifang's personal maid.

Because, in the entire Zhao Mansion, only Wang Qifang's close maids wore cotton skirts with uniform colors, uniform fabrics, and unified styles

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