Auntie, what's wrong with the ledger? Wu Tianyi finally asked.

"You don't see that?" Xin Kun was stunned for a moment, she didn't expect that Wu Tianyi, who she had taught so well, didn't see the problem in the ledger.

"Auntie, please?" Wu Tianyi knelt down.

"I'll just guess, it's not necessarily true." Xin Kun pointed to a stool not far from him, smiled at Wu Tian, then thought about it, and smiled again, "Once upon a time, there was a pair of brothers, the elder brother was honest and the younger brother was clever, so the parents who had a little wealth asked for a teacher to teach their younger son. The younger brother is also really competitive, and he won Xiucai at the age of sixteen, but unfortunately, at that time, his parents died. ”

Wu Tianyi didn't move, sitting quietly on the chair in front of Xin Kun, he actually had a feeling, as if he had returned to the time when the ancestor was there, at that time, he didn't have much strength, and sometimes he couldn't stand, but when he taught them, he was so soft-spoken.

"There are only brothers in the family, so Xiucai's younger brother began to control the family plan, and the elder brother obeyed his younger brother's words." Xin Kun didn't stop, "Then, the brothers each got married, and the elder brother had a child. After the death of his parents, the life of the family was not as good as day by day, and the family was not bad before, but when the elder brother and child were more than a year old, they had no family wealth except for the ancestral house and the hundred acres of land. The sister-in-law may also have a mother's family, and after watching from the sidelines, she gave the sister-in-law an idea, asking her to go back and divide the family, even if it is divided into fifty acres of paddy fields, it is enough for their family to chew a few bites. ”

Wu Tianyi's hand clenched into a fist, and he didn't know what he heard, at this time, his face turned pale.

At this time, my younger brother wanted to go to the provincial capital to study in order to prepare for the next year's government exam. But there is no money in the family, and I guess what my brother said is that if he takes out this 100 acres of land, as long as he wins the promotion, then these lands can come back, and there will be more small families to take refuge. The sister-in-law was still thinking about how to talk to her brother about the separation, but now the younger brother said that he would pledge all the land for him to study, and he couldn't do it. So I proposed to divide the family, fifty acres for one person, your own land, how to use it is your own, but we still have a family, and we still have to eat! Xin Kun sighed lightly and shook his head. She could imagine the anger of the sister-in-law of the Wu family at that time, you have been a housekeeper all these years, and you have cleaned up the family property, and now you don't even leave their big house at all, how can you not be angry.

"And then?" Wu Tianyi's lips trembled.

"Later? Later, the sister-in-law returned to her parents' house, and her brother and sister-in-law did not allow her to take the child away, so she should tell her brother that if the sister-in-law took the child away, what if she didn't go back, if the child was at home, the sister-in-law would always return. Xin Kun smiled, "Then, the younger brother persuaded the elder brother, saying that he would think of other ways, they are brothers, and the eldest brother must not be embarrassed." The younger brother and daughter-in-law were pregnant, so they cooked at home, and the younger brother, who had never been in the field, followed his brother to plant rice. The child followed the men to play in the field, it should be the younger brother who said, the child is too noisy, don't affect the daughter-in-law's work at home, the brothers can still watch a child? So, a child as big as Xiao Yong drowned. I suspect that the child should have been poisoned, otherwise, a country child would not be so easy to be pushed down. And my brother should have been poisoned, so when his wife came home and made a fuss, my brother's heart was not calm, and when he was excited, he died of poison. As for saying, why is my sister-in-law alive? You are also an official now, if the family dies all of a sudden, do you think the government is really good-looking. On the contrary, it is better to say that the sister-in-law is not virtuous, and it is better to be crazy. I guess that the sister-in-law must have reported it in the county at the beginning, but everything was prepared, and there must be no evidence to get it today. So this matter has passed safely for twenty years. ”

"Ledger!" Wu Tianyi's lips trembled and he asked again.

"You don't see that?" Xin Kun smiled, looking at himself, a very smart student, but thinking about it, he hadn't taught him how to check accounts.

Wu Tianyi shook his head, although his face was blue, he tried his best to hold on to his seat.

"Deficit!" Xin Kun sighed, "After Xiao He got the account book, the first thing he asked was who made the account. He wanted to know who the family was at that time. Then, what he saw was a deficit, there was not a penny on the books, and he bought seedlings and hired workers, all of which were written with a red pen. The funerals waiting for your uncle and Xiaoren are all deficits. Until, the field was sold. It's finally in black letters. Then, the ancestral house was sold, and the ancestral tomb was sold. Even if he says that he is not selling the ancestral grave, but the tree on the grave. That, why don't you ask, who dares to sell the tree on the ancestral grave? By the way, the selling price of the land and the house is not bad, and it does not seem to have been negotiated in a hurry. ”

"Auntie, these are not evidence." Wu Tianyi took a deep breath and tried to look at Xin Kun calmly.

"I heard my grandfather say that after the death of my eldest brother, the emperor was seriously injured before he succeeded to the throne. The Xin family is in turmoil, you take the other five and go to the eldest brother in person to wear linen and filial piety, so that the Manchu Dynasty civil and military know that the Xin family still has six sons, and the Xin family is not easy to bully. What did you think at the time? Xin Kun looked like he had only been a student for a few months, but in fact, he was only twenty years old, and his face was full of childishness.

"That's what a student should do." Wu Tianyi didn't think there was anything wrong with this, and said hurriedly.

"Your father sold his ancestral business, and he calmly left his hometown with your mother. Then, they rented a house next to the academy, and I heard that the academy where your father went to school was also quite famous, and Shu Wei was quite expensive. The main reason is that he has good connections, your father entered school, made some friends, worshiped a good teacher, and soon won the lift, and then moved his family to Beijing, rented a house, studied in Beijing, was admitted to the Jinshi, and made steady progress all the way. And your mother, as you just said, her background is not obvious, and there should be no dowry in the family, right? From the death of your uncle to the release of your father from Beijing, for at least ten years, your family could only enter and exit. If you go back and look at the books of the years, you will find that your parents' income and expenditure are extremely unbalanced. Then, there are only two possibilities, either your parents have a hidden property, or your father has secretly done something corrupt and perverse in the past ten years. ”

"That doesn't prove that my father killed my uncle and nephew." Wu Tianyi's face was pale, but he still wanted to do a dying struggle.

"Do you know why your uncle and cousin have to die?" Xin Kun looked at Wu Tianyi.

Wu Tianyi shook his head with tears in his eyes.

"Once you invite the old man and your uncle to divide the family property, you will find that after the death of your parents, your father has been stealing the family property, and the fields and ancestral houses are not easy to sell, but the other soft ones have slowly changed their names. If these are found out, your father's fame will be gone, and what will happen to his Qingyunzhi. So, your uncle and cousin must die, and if they die, there will be no one to check the old accounts! ”