After this year's Thousand Autumn Festival of the Holy Lord, he first made a small adjustment internally, and transferred several senior eunuchs back to his side.

The eight eunuchs specially left by the ancestor to the Holy Lord are all surnamed Tian, and in order: filial piety, loyalty, faithfulness, courtesy, righteousness, honesty, and shame. Considering that Tian Da is too shameful to hear, it is the so-called "shame and courage", so the Holy Lord kindly changed it to "Tian Dayong".

Up to now, only three of the eight eunuchs have died for various reasons, Tian Dazhong and Tian Dayi have been taking turns to serve the Holy Lord, while Tian Dayong is hidden in the Internal Affairs Office to cultivate a new generation of loyal successors for the next lord of the world.

The three eunuchs gathered around the Holy Lord, but no one suspected anything, only that the Holy Lord was old and nostalgic.

What made the ministers talk a lot was that the princes did not return to their respective fiefdoms as before, but stayed in Shangjing and were assigned tasks by the Holy Lord. The six princes, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Crime, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Industry, each assigned a department to help manage it.

What is unexpected is that the holy lord actually allocated the richest household to Li Jia, the eldest of the princes.

The courtiers didn't dare to speculate on anything, most of them remained silent, the six princes hid their thoughts, each showed their magical powers, and Li Rong, who was assigned to the Criminal Department, was the first to seize the opportunity.

At the end of November, the sky was overcast, and a middle-aged man drove an ox cart into the city, and on the simple ox cart, a half-blind old woman leaned on a man with a broken leg, both covered with weather. The middle-aged man who was driving the car jumped out of the ox cart, secretly stuffed a five-tael ingots to a city gate guard, and asked in a low voice: "This lord, the grass people want to ask, how to get to the lobby of the criminal department?" ”

The guard stuffed the ingots back and returned them to the middle-aged man: "Brother, we don't want to go to the capital, you walk along the ten-mile long street to the most prosperous area in the lobby of the Criminal Department, and you see a six-story restaurant called Xiangruilou, just find someone to ask." ”

The middle-aged man arched his hands and kept waving, nodding and thanking him. The guard saw that he was rough and honest, and that he was old and crippled in the car, and couldn't help but ask: "Brother, what's the matter with you?" How did you come up with the idea of looking for the lobby of the Criminal Department? Is there something wronged? Do you want to sue the government with the people? Or is it the people who tell the people? ”

The middle-aged man rubbed his hands and didn't know how to answer, so he could only simply pull the kind guard to the ox cart.

Seeing this, the old woman hurriedly straightened her clothes, and the middle-aged man hurriedly helped the two of them out of the car. The old woman gave a blessing to the guard: "My lord, the family is unfortunate, and the woman wants to find the adult of the criminal department in the capital to sue the eldest son for unfilial piety!" ”

"Mother-in-law, can you tell me more about it?"

"The eldest son of the people's woman falsely accused the people's second daughter-in-law of fornication, but the master misheard people's words and sentenced the people's second daughter-in-law to hang, and the people's woman and the second son begged everywhere and had no way, so they had to go to the capital to find the adults of the criminal department to administer justice for the people's women."

The guards at the gate of the capital have seen too many ordinary people who are helpless and can only go to Beijing to seek justice. When the city gate guard heard this, he looked back and explained a few words to his colleagues, walked up to the three of them and said, "Go, I'll take you over!" The three thanked them and followed the guards.

The guard, who was familiar with the way, took the three people to the second gate of the Criminal Department, walked up to an official, and said, "Mother-in-law, how did your eldest son falsely accuse your second daughter-in-law, and who accepted this case?" Just talk to this adult. ”

The man with the missing leg hurriedly took out a silver ticket from his body, and was about to hand it to the official, but the guard was quick and hurriedly stopped: "Brother, Shangjing is really not interested in this set, if you have any grievances, as long as you say it, the adults will definitely help you deal with it." ”

The disabled man sighed with tears in his eyes: "It's different in Shangjing, the grass people's family spent two hundred and seventy-four taels of silver on Shuoshui's side, and they made a small splash, and the jailer was only willing to help us send something to my wife, and we were not even allowed to see each other." ”

The guard patted him on the shoulder sympathetically and said to him, "Lord Yun is the right-hand man of Lord Shangshu Xiao of the Criminal Department, you can rest assured, there is no grievance, but it doesn't matter." ”

The old woman and the legless man nodded again and again.

Li Rong, the king of Qi, happened to be assigned to the Criminal Department, and in the past few days, he has been taking turns to familiarize himself with several departments under the Criminal Department.

The old woman Zhao Qi here began to tell the cause and effect with a handful of snot and tears.

Zhao Qi has two sons, the eldest son Zhao Huan and the younger son Zhao Xi, both of whom are villagers of Zhao Jiaji. Zhao Qi's first husband died early, she raised her two children alone with hard work, Zhao Huan learned a carpenter craft, Zhao Xi learned a few hands of kung fu, farming and hunting, and life was good.

Seven years ago, Zhao Xi and his villagers encountered hungry wolves while hunting in the mountains, and another villager was killed on the spot. When Zhao Xi was dodging, he fell off the cliff, although he was fortunate to save his life, but his left foot was smashed by the falling rocks and could only be amputated. Zhao Xi's daughter-in-law, Zhao Jinshi, whose name is Qiao Ying, did not dislike Zhao Xi's cripple, but took good care of it, and the villagers also praised it.

With the passage of time, Zhao Huan's wife gave birth to five sons and two daughters, plus Zhao Huan's carpenter life was ordinary, the eldest son and the second son married daughters-in-law one after another when they were older, and the life of the whole family became more and more difficult.

On the other hand, Zhao Xi's family, although Zhao Xi was crippled, spent a lot of money on treatment in the first two or three years. But Qiao Sakura is ingenious, has a hand in the fake silk flower craft, and is good at embroidery, in exchange for money, food and clothing are enough.

Later, in order to make more money, Qiao Ying personally took her silk flowers to the flower building on Shuoshui City to sell.

Shuoshui City is on the side of the canal, there is a huge wharf, and it is only a hundred miles away from Beijing, and the merchants are accustomed to it as a transit station, stop here, reorganize the goods, and then go to the capital. Merchants basically have a few big money in hand, so Shuoshuicheng Restaurant, Hualou and even Dark Liaozi are very prosperous.

Qiao Sakura was an extremely intelligent woman, and at first she only sold silk flowers to those who were medium or even low. Then he hid under the largest and most luxurious "Qunfang Jingyan Building" in Shuoshui City, quietly observed the makeup, flowers, hairstyles, clothes and accessories of those famous prostitutes, and secretly wrote them down, constantly figuring out how to improve the quality of their silk flowers.

Wait until you have accumulated enough money to buy all kinds of better quality silk satin silk yarn and other materials, according to the makeup of those fireworks women, make more exquisite, more beautiful and unique silk flowers, and then sell them to the prostitutes of "Qunfang Jingyan Building" at a high price to obtain high profits. Later, in order to earn more money, I learned to make up again.

Qiao Ying helped these fireworks women to make up, design styles, and match exquisite silk flowers, and earned at least fifty or sixty taels of silver every month.

Zhao Xi's family suffered a hard life for two or three years, and then developed again. The eldest son of Zhao Xi's family is thirteen years old this year, and the second son is also ten years old. The 160 acres of Sanliang land hired a few tenant farmers to help take care of it, and this year's bumper harvest made Zhao Huan even more jealous.

Zhao Huan broke his leg long ago, basically "married his daughter-in-law and forgot his mother", and he could only ask for his mother Zhao Qi, and did not contribute anything else.

After Zhao Xi broke his leg, Zhao Qi didn't want to drag down his youngest son, so he wanted to live with his eldest son Zhao Huan, but was kicked out by Zhao Huan's daughter-in-law. Zhao Qi's couldn't think about it for a while, and almost threw himself into the river, but it was Qiao Ying and a few kind-hearted villagers who dragged Zhao Qi's home.

Now that Zhao Xi's family is booming, Zhao Huan, his daughter-in-law, children and even grandson have repeatedly come to the door, crying poor and crying miserably, oil, rice, sauce, vinegar and tea, food and drink, old clothes, shoes and socks and even scraps of cloth.

Although Zhao Qi hated this son for not being successful, after all, he was born with his own flesh, and he was a loving mother, so he couldn't ignore it.

Zhao Xi has a good temper, Qiao Ying is generous, in order to save more silver taels, the silver is all deposited in Shuoshui City's money, thinking that there is no big money at home for Zhao Huan to go, so they don't care about anything with Zhao Huan's family. Unexpectedly, the kindness was not reciprocated, but Zhao Huan became more and more insatiable.

After Qiao Ying entered the winter, she was found to be pregnant, and Zhao Huan had bad intentions.

It has been seven years since Zhao Xi broke her leg, Qiao Ying has never been pregnant, and there are some people in the village who secretly gossip that Zhao Xi hurt his children and grandchildren, and it is impossible to have any more children. There are also those who are frivolous and take advantage of small advantages, and they are cheeky to tease Qiao Sakura, but they are all rejected by Qiao Sakura.

Later, Zhao Xi's body recovered well, and he asked someone to help him build a half-person high shelf, usually Zhao Xi often supported the shelf by himself, to check the cultivation in the field, and those wild bees and butterflies only saw the sake of the people in the same village, and let go of the flower of Qiao Ying.

Zhao Huan first secretly instigated a few villagers who were jealous of Zhao Xi's family, fanned the flames in Lizheng, and said bad things about Qiao Ying's disobedience to women's morals.

Li Zheng is old-fashioned and old-fashioned, and his ears are soft, and what Qiao Ying earns every day is the money from the sale of fireworks women, and she often walks by the river, how can she not get her shoes wet? So Li Zheng opened an ancestral hall and wanted to severely punish Qiao Sakura and correct the village discipline.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Xi and Zhao Qi's mother and son protected Qiao Ying to the death, and they had to come up with conclusive evidence, otherwise they would go to the capital to sue the emperor, and they had to get this innocence back.

Zhao Xi's family has a good reputation in the village, and they have lived a good life in the past few years, and they have helped the villagers who can help them, and no one testified that Qiao Ying did not abide by women's morals. Zhao Huan didn't dare to come forward to testify, after all, he still had to live in the village, and he had done too much, not only would he have a good place to fight the autumn breeze in the future, but he would also be poked in the backbone by the same villagers saying that he was not a big brother and bullied his younger brother to be disabled.

Li Zheng had no choice but to give up.

However, Zhao Xi's brand-new three-entry mansion, 163 acres of fertile land, and the pile of white flowers and silver earned by Qiao Ying made Zhao Huan restless day and night. Even in his sleep, his younger brother's family suffered miserably, he occupied all of Zhao Xi's industries, eating and drinking spicy food every day, that is, there was meat in the meal, and there was wine in the meal. When he has nothing to do, he counts the copper plates and plays, or supervises the work of the tenant farmers.

After carefully planning with his daughter-in-law and eldest son, Zhao Huan didn't do anything, and united with Zhao Jiaji's three idle Qi San, stopped Qiao Ying who went to deliver silk flowers in Shuoshui City, and tore her clothes, tied her and Zhao Tonghua, who was in the same village, to the government office, and falsely accused Qiao Ying of not abiding by women's morals, fornicating with others and even getting pregnant.

At this time, it was the end of the year, the government was very busy, the governor of the state was dealing with river affairs by the canal, and the master Bo tried the case on his behalf.

When Zhao Qi said this, he hated his eldest son and wolf, and even his brother and daughter-in-law were so ruthless for money. I was worried that Qiao Sakura and a weak girl were framed and imprisoned in prison, and now I don't know what to do, so I can't help crying.