The weather is getting cooler.

At the end of October, all the water bandits who robbed the road on the Cao River were sentenced to beheading, and the manager joined the army, the judge, and the magistrate participated in the deliberation many times, the facts were clear, the evidence was conclusive, and it was reported to the Criminal Division, and then the Lord Zhizhou officially signed the verdict and publicized it outside the yamen.

Most of these water bandits are Huaidong people, a group of extremely vicious people, who have been doing evil on the Cao River all the year round, and the people have suffered for a long time. Knowing that they had committed a crime on the head of the envoy and were about to end up in a different place, the people all applauded.

It's not that no one suspects that there is another hidden story in the little bandits, but there is no empirical evidence.

At the same time as the Caohe water bandits, there was also the culprit in the Ge Yong case.

The criminal Ge Yong was corrupt and perverted the law for personal gain, and took more than 10 million stolen goods, which was the most greedy in Yangzhou Mansion, and caused a disaster to the society, and the crime was unforgivable. Thirty spine canes, pinned in the ranks, flow with Salmon Island. The rest of the accomplices, fifteen, eighteen, and twenty different spinal rods, and the places where they were distributed were also different.

Xin Yi got the news and sighed.

In the Song Dynasty, the conviction and punishment of corrupt officials were relatively light, and there was a thorny humiliation that began with Renzong, and in order not to damage the face of the scholars, there was no longer even a punishment. In the entire Renzong Dynasty, until the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, there was not a single case of an official being executed for corruption and bribery.

It's just that exile to the place of Salmon Island also has to endure some hardships, such crimes, exile and labor for a lifetime, and probably can't come back alive.

In early November, Yangzhou was rainy and rainy.

On the day Ge Yong went on the road, the people were crowded outside the Yangzhou Yamen.

A group of prisoners came out of it, with unhealed wounds from the back of a cane, a ten-kilogram shackle around their necks, and a thin and unkempt face, which no longer saw the glory of the former lobby.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way!"

"Stand back, stand back!"

The crowd squeezed forward on tiptoe, and the scene was very chaotic.

The officials are anxious to maintain order.

Ge Yong's wife, Chen, also stood in the crowd, watching Ge Yong cry silently.

Chen was released a month ago because of his meritorious work in exposing Ge Yong. However, the family property was confiscated, and she had nothing, but she was driven out by her brother and sister-in-law when she took refuge in her mother's house.

Several aunts in the Tongju Mansion were not implicated in Ge Yong's case, and went to the yamen to review it on the day of the raid, and then they cried and cried, tears of tears, and each rolled up a roll to find a way out.

Only Yu Mei was imprisoned with Chen and released from prison together.

Yu Mei was pregnant, exempted from punishment, and had nowhere to go after being released from prison, so she followed Chen's side, Chen hated her for hiding her from having an affair with Ge Yong, but in the end, there was a bit of past affection, Chen couldn't bear to let her go alone with a pregnant woman, so he left her by his side.

The two women wept and moved silently with the crowd.

Seeing Ge Yong walking with his back bent and escorted by the official, Chen was never sad.

"A good home, just like that."

"Master, do you have half a point of regret in your heart......

Yu Mei hugged the package in her arms, looked left and right, and whispered, "I don't know if the official is good or not? If it doesn't work, we won't have any more silver......

Chen looked at him angrily, "Aren't you going to seduce men? You go to the official and say a few soft words, and hand over the money, what is there to do."

These days, when Chen is unhappy, he will talk to hurt her, and when Yu Mei is extremely angry, he can't wait to brush his sleeves away. But she was pregnant with Ge Yong's child, so she just left, wouldn't it be cheaper for the Chen family?

Although Chen cried poor in front of her, saying that his family had copied it, and Ge Yong had nothing to plan for her before, except for his own money and jewelry, he had nothing, but Yu Mei didn't believe that an old fox like Ge Yong must have silver left.

So she has to be cheeky and follow Chen's side, at least she has to give birth to the child, otherwise who will take care of her at that time?

Chen was also accompanied by two girls from the family, and it was very unbearable to hear the master crying.

"Madame, look, is that the princess's car? Why don't we go and beg her?"

Early this morning, the Ninety-One Pharmacy sent someone to say that there was an incurable disease for Xin Yi to pass. Xin Yi was busy all morning, and as soon as he returned home, he ran into the prisoner and set off, so he had to park the carriage to the side.

Laughter on the long street.

The people applauded Ge Yong's downfall, and there was no misfortune.

Seeing him rise up a tall building, watching him feast guests, seeing his building collapse, fame and fortune became a thing of the past in a blink of an eye.

When he heard the shouts of Chen and Yu Mei, Xin Yi was lamenting the fate of Ge Yong and these Yangzhou magistrates from prosperity to decline.

Turning her head to look, she almost didn't recognize it.

People rely on clothes and horses to rely on saddles, Chen people are middle-aged, without the style of the official's wife, the whole person is more than ten years old, white hair has grown on his head, his face has wrinkles, he is dressed in cloth clothes and skirts, and his head is crossed with wooden hairpins, which looks no different from ordinary people.

Yu Mei has a bit of a look, but after being imprisoned and pregnant, she is also a little deformed, and it is difficult to see from her face that the red card lady who used to be famous in Yangzhou is half beautiful.

"Mrs. Chen?"

Xin Yi motioned for the guards to get out of the way and summoned Chen forward.

"What do you want me to do?"

Chen's nasal cavity was sore, and tears fell down.

"As soon as the women are guilty, the princess of the county is still willing to see each other, and listen to the women say a few words of self-consideration, it is true, it is really a living Bodhisattva......

After Ge Yong's accident, Chen really realized the warmth and coldness of human feelings.

The sisters who were around her in the past, the relatives who were waiting to pat the horse were all gone, and she was fed up with the white eyes for a while, and turned her head to find that the princess of the county who she didn't like to see the most was the most approachable person who didn't look at her differently.

"Mrs. Chen, if you have something, just say it." Xin Yi didn't have any expression.

Chen turned his head and pointed to the package in Yu Mei's arms, and kept shedding tears.

"The old man was exiled to Salmon Island, the mountains are high and the road is far away, there are many hardships, his body is not good, and an old cold leg is in pain in winter, I made two pairs ......of knee pads, I want to bring them to him, I don't know if it is inconvenient for the princess of the county."

"It's inconvenient." Xin Yi had a cold face, "Mrs. Chen, please go back."

Chen didn't understand why the princess of the county, who was still kind and pleasant, changed her face in a blink of an eye, she was scared and sad, she choked and kept begging Yu Mei behind her, she didn't dare to approach Xin Yi, and she also cried with her.

Xin Yi looked at Yu Mei, who was pretending to cry, and Chen, who was really sad, with a very unhappy expression.

"Mrs. Chen, why are you doing this? Ge Yong treated you like that, he didn't even think of taking you with him when he ran for his life, and you even took into account the love of husband and wife, isn't this looking for guilt? Go back, find a new man, and live a good life."

Chen never thought about finding a man again.

She lifted her tearful face, looked at Xin Yi, and shook her head bitterly.

"The woman and he are a young couple...... He married me before he even joined the ranks, and had our eldest son...... When I was younger, he was really kind to me......

Chen couldn't go on anymore, hiding his face in grief and sobbing incessantly.

"Later, his career was smooth, the official became bigger and bigger, and he carried new people into the door one after another, although I was dissatisfied in my heart, I had to endure it, take care of his back house, and help him make friends with the official's wife......

In my life, I am prosperous and rich because of Ge Yong, and poverty is also because of Ge Yong...... I thought, "Well, maybe I owe him in my last life." Husband and wife, I can do a little for him now, it's a little. This time, the husband and wife will be over, and they will never see each other again in this life......

Chen cried breathlessly.

Xin Yi's face was silent, and when he saw Yu Mei hugging the package, he knew that it contained money. Moreover, it is very likely that all of the Chen family's belongings are going to be used to make official errands.

Yu Mei obviously didn't want the Chen family to give away the money, and kept tightening the burden, as if Xin Yi wouldn't be able to see it.

It's a little trick.

Xin Yi poked his head out of the carriage and glanced at the detainees in the distance.

"Once you get acquainted, I give Mrs. Chen one last piece of advice."

Chen looked up at her in astonishment.

Xin Yi hooked his hands, "Come."

Chen slowly approached the carriage and leaned his face in.

Xin Yi stared at her, "Be careful of Yu Mei, guard your money, and forget about the old immortal. Educate your son well, truly love your daughter, and start a new life. It's still too late for as long as you want."

Chen looked at her in amazement.

No one had ever said such strange things to her.

It's not like a serious word, but it's very pleasant.

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In a few days, Gao Minglou, Yang Huaimin and other criminals will be escorted back to Beijing.

The son of Dali Xiangguo, what the "human slaughter" Gaoming Building looks like, the people of Yangzhou have long been curious.

On the day I left Yangzhou, the weather was extremely cold.

Early in the morning, the sound of firecrackers was heard in the city.

The people spontaneously prepared artillery battles, invited lion dances, danced from the east of the city to the west of the city, and were as happy as the New Year, singing and dancing to send off the "plague god......

A person who has done many evils will be severely punished when he returns to Beijing, this is the consensus of the people. They wouldn't know that in Bianjing, thousands of miles away from Yangzhou, the Dali mission was constantly negotiating with the Great Song Dynasty and asking for people. Zhao Guan's hair turned a few whiter.

At that time, the sunlight broke out of the dense fog and shone on the stone lion outside the Yangzhou Mansion.

Two prisoner cars drove out of the corner gate one after the other, with Gao Minglou in front and Yang Huaimin in the back. Chained to the back of the prisoner's car were the pawns of the same case, as well as a large number of officials.

"Stop!" A servant with a long whip in his hand raised his arm and shouted, and the procession stopped.

The officers and soldiers cleaned up the team, and Zheng Liu brought the mount of the envoy, but Cao Yi's people were not seen for a long time.

"Where's the adult?" He asked.

Song Hua next to him glanced at him, Nunu mouthed.

Zheng Liu understood, "Alas!"

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