Chapter XVIII: The Red Chamber 16
Jiqiu is not an ordinary girl, she has heard too much news over the years, knows a lot, and her knowledge has increased.
She understood Jia Yuanchun's concerns and nodded vigorously.
She loves gossip, but knows more about the severity.
Jia Yuanchun sighed, feeling a little guilty about the second master of the Shi family.
Liu Ji reached out and pressed the back of Jia Yuanchun's hand, and said softly: "Leave this matter to me, don't worry, I won't let the Duke of Qiguo think of our family." ”
Jia Yuanchun was very informative about Liu Hiiragi's ability, and when he heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief, and held Liu Hiiragi's hand with his backhand: "Then please uncle." ”
Ma Daopo has harmed many people, and Liu Ji quickly found three families who had been harmed by Ma Daopo.
Liu Hiiragi gave the three families guidance and asked them to go to the government to report Ma Daopo.
The imperial court was afraid of witchcraft and attached great importance to this matter.
After receiving the report, he immediately sent someone to Ma Daopo's house to arrest him.
The government raided Ma Daopo's home and found several clay sculptures of straw figures, some wearing headbands, some wearing nails on their chests, and some with chains tied to their necks. There are countless paper figures in the cabinet, and there are a few small accounts at the bottom, on which it is recorded that a certain family has fulfilled it, and a certain amount of silver should be found.
These are the evidence that Ma Daopo did evil things and harmed people.
And Ma Daopo is not a hard-mouthed person, as soon as the punishment is on, she recruits them all, and asks about the privacy of many official wives and girls.
Among them, she helped the aunt of the eldest lord of the Duke of Qiguo to do the evil law to harm the second master of the Shi family.
Ma Daopo was arrested, and the straw paper figures she did were taken to the Taoist temple to be dealt with by people with Taoism, and the evil law above was broken, and the evil law on the second master of the Shi family was naturally broken.
On the side of the Duke of Yiguo, the second master of the Shi family suddenly regained consciousness, and there was no other problem except for his weak body.
This made most of the people in the Duke Mansion of the Kingdom of Qiguo surprised and delighted, and they couldn't understand how the second master of the Shi family could suddenly go crazy and suddenly get sick?
It wasn't until someone from the government came to the door that the Shi family knew that the second master of the Shi family had been calculated.
The eldest wife of the Shi family immediately made a fuss, and she must give an explanation to the eldest lady of the Shi family.
Although the eldest man of the Shi family likes that aunt and loves his eldest son even more, he also knows that he must deal with his aunt, otherwise, he, the head of the family, will not want to sit firmly.
The people in the clan will definitely blame him for this matter, and on the court side, he doesn't want to develop.
After all, his aunt was involved in the witch curse.
That aunt was personally sent to prison by the eldest master of the Shi family, and died not long after.
His eldest son was influenced by his biological mother, and there would be no future in this life.
And the eldest son can no longer stay in the Mansion of the Kingdom, otherwise the eldest wife of the Shi family will have to kill the eldest son.
The eldest lord of the Shi family divided the eldest son in advance, divided it out, and only gave a small part of the eldest son's property.
But in private, the eldest man of the Shi family gave the eldest son a lot of his own assets and sent the eldest son's family back to his hometown to live.
After this incident, the relationship between the eldest man of the Shi family and his wife and sister-in-law became very poor.
The eldest wife of the Shi family was very dissatisfied with the way the eldest son of the Shi family was handled.
The other concubines and concubines of the eldest master of the Shi family also muttered in their hearts, quite disappointed in him as a family member.
The eldest master of the Shi family died two years later, and I don't know if he really died of illness or if someone secretly took action.
Other aristocratic families also had the same conflicts as the Duke of Qiguo.
There are many people who have been harmed by Ma Daopo, and even the Liguo Mansion has also been harmed by it.
Liu Erbo used to have a favorite concubine, who was a good concubine and was very beautiful.
Liu Erbo likes her very much, and has threatened the status of Liu Er's wife.
This good concubine later died of miscarriage and hemorrhage, and others thought that her life was not good.
But in fact, it was Mrs. Liu who let Ma Daopo kill the concubine and the child in her belly.
Liu Erbo knew the truth at this time, and he was so angry that he locked up Mrs. Liu in the Buddhist hall.
Even the second wife's mother's family can't go against it, after all, this matter is concerned by the emperor.
For a time, many wives in charge of the capital were imprisoned in the Buddhist hall, and many officials' concubines and aunts "died violently".
The rest of the people in the capital saw enough of the excitement.
Jia Yuanchun took the hug qin and ate melon seeds while listening to Jiqiu talk about the excitement of each family, and felt that the melon seeds were much more delicious.
The little girl came up with a few plates of pastries, Jia Yuanchun picked up a piece of fish cake and put it to her mouth, and felt the fishy smell rush into her nose, making her unbearable and just want to vomit.
Baoqin hurriedly stepped forward to stroke Jia Yuanchun's back, and seeing Jia Yuanchun's reaction, Baoqin, who had an experience, said: "Grandma, you haven't changed your clothes this month, have you?" ”
Jia Yuanchun took a sip of the hot tea handed over by the little girl, suppressed the nausea in his heart, and reacted.
Jia Yuanchun's face showed a touch of joy, and he said to Huqin: "Go and invite a Lang Zhong to come over." ”
Lang Zhong was soon invited into Liu's house, and Liu's mother got the news and thought that Jia Yuanchun was sick and immediately came to visit.
Jia Yuanchun has a very good relationship with Liu's mother, and she likes this mother-in-law who won't send maids to her husband to block her.
Jia Yuanchun said to Liu's mother shyly: "Don't worry, madam, I was just a little nauseous when I ate fish cakes, so I let Lang Zhong take a look." ”
Liu's mother reacted faster than Jia Yuanchun, then laughed, and said to Lang Zhong expectantly: "Lang Zhong, hurry up, give my daughter-in-law a pulse." ”
Lang Zhong took Jia Yuanchun's pulse and came to a conclusion.
He smiled and congratulated Jia Yuanchun and Liu Mu.
Mother Liu smiled from ear to ear, and asked Mama to give Lang Zhong ten taels of silver as a thank you.
Lang Zhong left happily.
Jia Yuanchun touched his stomach, and a happy smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Liu Hiiragi returned home and was a little surprised to learn that Jia Yuanchun was pregnant again.
He originally thought about waiting a few more years, and when his eldest son was enlightened, Jia Yuanchun had extra time to have a second child.
Unexpectedly, the eldest son was only one year old, and Jia Yuanchun became pregnant unexpectedly.
The child has arrived, and it is impossible not to do so.
Liu Ji put away his surprise and showed a smile to appease Jia Yuanchun.
Mother Liu sent someone to Rongguo Mansion to deliver the letter.
The people of Rongguo Mansion had already returned to the capital, and when Mrs. Wang heard the news, she immediately packed up a lot of medicinal herbs and came to Liufu to visit her daughter.
After knowing that her son-in-law moved to the study again and did not have a room, Mrs. Wang said enviously to her daughter: "You are a good man, married a good husband like your son-in-law." Your father is not worthy of lifting shoes for his son-in-law. ”
Jia Yuanchun smiled awkwardly, it was not easy to answer.
Jia Zheng is her father.
Although, she agrees with her mother's words in her heart.
After Mrs. Wang cared about her daughter, she talked about her distress.
She complained that Jia Zheng had given Jia Zhu the daughter of a "poor scholar" family.
Jia Zhu's wife in this life is still Li Kun.
Jia Zheng admires scholars the most, and he was able to let his son marry the daughter of the country's priest wine, or he asked Jia Daishan.
Jia Daishan felt that Jia Zhu's temperament was not suitable for officialdom, and it was even more suitable for places like the Hanlin Academy and Guozijian, so he promoted the marriage between the Jia family and the Li family.