Chapter 35: Funeral
Lu Tong put on the curtain fence and walked out of the Bamboo Pavilion, and the silver kite greeted him from outside.
She walked to Lu Tong's side and said in a low voice, "Girl, all the silver tickets have been handed over to Cao Ye." ”
Lu Tong nodded: "Okay." ”
Cao Ye of Happy Building, originally born as a scoundrel, got his luck from nowhere, climbed into a nobleman, and was able to open a gambling house on Qinghe Street in the south of the city.
Cao Ye used to start by lending money in casinos and eating profits, and he was already bold, but now he has nobles behind him, and he doesn't take people seriously. On the same day, Lu Tong went to the gambling house, and Cao Ye didn't see that Yinzheng was out of a thousand games, but when Lu Tong handed over the two thousand taels of silver tickets won by Yinzheng to Cao Ye, Cao Ye was happy to help Lu Tong.
Cao Ye only needs silver, and he doesn't care about the undercurrent lawsuit below. What's more, if you can open a gambling house in the south of the city, can there be no big tree behind it? Even if Wanquan moves out of the Ke family, Wanfu is just a small servant of the Ke family after all.
is a little guy, Cao Ye really doesn't care about it.
The matter about Cao Ye was learned from Du Changqing when he had nothing to do in the medical hall before. He used to be a prodigal, and if there was a Qinglou gambling house in Shengjing, he was clearer than anyone else. casually mentioned Cao Ye's words, but Lu Tong remembered it in his heart. So I set up such an out, please put everything into the urn.
Now that Cao Ye has obtained a large sum of silver, he has helped Lu Tong to deduct everything, and also taught Lu Tong to save a lot of things.
Yinzheng saw that the carriage he called earlier had arrived, and hurriedly pulled Lu Hitomi into the carriage together.
The carriage turned around several times on the streets of Shengjing, Lu Tong and Yinzheng reversed a few more times, and when they were sure that no one was following them, the two returned to the medical hall.
In the medical hall, Du Changqing was lying in front of the medicine cabinet watching the rain, and when he saw the two of them coming back, he raised his eyelids and complained: "Doctor Lu, you are still running out on a rainy day, and you are not afraid of getting your shoes wet." ”
Yin Zheng looked at him while collecting the umbrella: "Anyway, there are few people buying medicinal tea in the medical hall these days, and the shopkeeper Du alone is enough." I went out for a walk with the girl, and I happened to see the rain scene in Shengjing. ”
Du Changqing laughed twice: "It's quite Yaxing." I just really want to enjoy the rain, why don't you go to the fairy tower in the south of the city to enjoy it? The upstairs near the river to see the willows, a rainy day, the smoke and rain, the river is green, if you find a painting boat to sit in it is better, please the boat lady to play a few words of the piano, and then drink some warm wine, call a plate of goose oil rolls, that is called the joy of the world......"
He was so intoxicated that when he raised his eyes, he found that there was no one in front of him. Only Ah Cheng pointed to the inner room and winked at him: "They went in." ”
Du Changqing said angrily: "It's rude, but I listened to someone finish speaking!" ”
At this moment, Lu Tong was really in no mood to listen to Du Changqing's showmanship.
Bypassing the small courtyard and entering the house, Yinzheng helped Lu Tong take off his rain-soaked clothes, change into a gray and blue Suluo thin shirt, and take the wet clothes to the eaves to wash.
Lu Tong sat down at the table.
There are two wolf hairs diagonally inserted in the old bamboo pen holder on the table, and there is pen and ink in front of the window.
This is the silver kite turned out of the yellow wood cabinet lattice in the house, perhaps the old thing left by the owner who lived here in the past. The silver kite sometimes writes in front of the window, reflecting the plum branches, and the wind and the moon are quite interesting.
Lu Tong rarely writes.
Most of the time, she grinds medicine in the yard, but today she sits at the table, takes a pen and paper, dips it in ink, and writes the word "Ke".
The handwriting is different from the hairpin of the silver zither, not only is it not beautiful, but it is very sloppy and wild.
Lu Tong looked at the word "Ke" and lost his mind slightly.
His father is a teacher, and his three children are all taught by his father. Lu Rou's words are warm and elegant, beautiful and elegant. Lu Qian's character is solemn, strong and solemn. Only Lu Tong writes, and he is full of nonsense, happy and angry.
My father was always so angry with the calligraphy she handed in, and the more he was punished, the more he was punished, the more he was punished. So Lu Qian took his father behind his back and found a copybook, and secretly stuffed it to her: "This is the handbook of the famous Master Cheng, his handwriting is weird and strange, and it is more suitable for you than other copybooks." You write well, stop scribbling, save your father from scolding you all day long, and it will make people upset to listen to it. ”
Lu Tong looked through the copybook, and it really suited her very much, so she copied the copybook over and over again, and the post was almost rotten. Later, I learned that the calligraphy was very expensive, enough to cost one or two silver, and Lu Qian copied the manuscript for half a year for his wealthy classmates in order to save money to buy this calligraphy.
Lu Tong looked at the black letters on the white paper.
I don't know where it was lost for a long time, but now when I put pen to paper, it's still the handwriting of the year.
She looked at it silently for a while, then picked up the pen again, and added the names "Qi Taishi" and "Trial Court" after the word "Ke".
Today she saw Wanfu, although Wanfu had something to hide, but it was obvious that the context of the whole thing was very clear.
In the thirty-seventh year of Yongchang, in March after the sting, Lu Rou was unfortunately humiliated by the prince of Taishi Mansion in Fengle Building.
The Ke family was afraid of the power of the Taishi Mansion, so they pressed this matter, and even in order to seek development, they did not hesitate to become a ghost, locked Lu Rou in their home, and slandered her for being insane.
But Lu Rou is not a submissive person, suffering from this catastrophe, no matter what, he has to seek justice, and he is not willing to be imprisoned in Kefu as a madman, so he wrote a letter to Changwu County to ask Lu Qian for help.
Lu Rou's letter was known to Ke Chengxing for some reason, and at the same time, the Ke family found out that Lu Rou was pregnant. In June of the same year, the people of Taishifu put pressure on the Ke family, so the Ke family, or Ke Chengxing, killed Lu Rou and killed him. Otherwise, it would not be possible to explain why someone came to the Taishi Mansion the day before, and Lu Rou threw himself into the pool the next day, and the kiln porcelain business of the Ke family was valued by the Taishi Mansion shortly after Lu Rou's death.
All kinds of behaviors are more like the coercion and temptation of the Taishi Mansion, exchanging Lu Lu's life for the Ke family's Tengda.
Soon after Lu Rou's death, Lu Qian entered Beijing, and the Ke family questioned Lu Rou's death, and soon after, Lu Qian was imprisoned, and the trial court sentenced the official Fan to punish Lu Qian.
Lu Tong made a heavy circle on the three words "trial court".
Lu Qian must have discovered something, otherwise he would not have been inexplicably charged with such a crime. It seems that because of Lu Qian's trip, even his father and mother had an accident.
The clues found by Lu Qian must be very important......
Lu Tong clenched his pen.
People in Changwu County said that Lu Qian got the news of Lu Rou's death in March, but Lu Rou was clearly alive at that time. Who bought or misled the neighbors of Changwu County, who has such a big hand?
Just one Taishi Mansion, can you cover the sky with such a hand?
A trace of coldness flashed in Lu Tong's eyes.
After washing and drying his clothes, Yinzheng came in from outside, and when he saw Lu Tong's words written on the paper, he couldn't help but be slightly stunned. After hesitating for a while, Yinzheng spoke: "The girl met Master Ke's little servant today, if he is willing to do things for the girl......"
“…… Is the girl planning to find out the truth and rehabilitate the Lu family? ”
"Rehabilitated?" Lu Tong looked out the window and whispered to himself.
The season is approaching summer, there is rain today, the sky is not as clear as before, black clouds turn ink, and there is light thunder.
She looked up, and her cold black eyes reflected the thick clouds, as if there was a flash of anger.
What to do in rehabilitation?
What's the use of the truth?
Lu Rou was dirty, unwilling to endure her anger, and desperately wanted to ask for justice, but was drowned in the cold pool and became a handful of souls.
Lu Qian was heartbroken for his eldest sister, with justice in his heart, and he had to run in person to search for evidence regardless of the cold conditions of the world, but his reputation was ruined, and he couldn't reveal the truth to the world until he died.
and her father, who has been a good person all her life, but ended up with such a miserable end.
If we find out the truth, can we be rehabilitated?
Even if they are rehabilitated, can they make those people have evil retribution?
Since Taishi Qi can buy the Ke family and the trial court, maybe he will buy the Dali Temple in the future, or he will be related to the emperor's relatives, even if the truth is revealed, with the blessing of the Son of Heaven, he will not be punished for capital crimes, and he will be released after three or five years, picked it up again, and put it down gently.
But the lives of the four members of her Lu family will not come back.
Why?
Why should the life of a powerful eunuch be noble, and the life of an ordinary person low?
Why did they kill a family of four, but they could still act as if nothing had happened?
Lu Tong said: "No, I don't plan to be rehabilitated. ”
Yinzheng looked at her in surprise.
The girl's body is thin, her black hair is slightly wet and hangs down on her shoulders, and before the cold wind and drizzle, it is like a bay of light clouds that are drenched by the rain, and it is easy to disperse.
She lowered her head, stared at the scribbled handwriting on the white paper, and slowly reached out to crumple the paper and put it in front of the lamp to burn.
The white paper turned into smoke in an instant, and was blown away by the wind.
"My sister is dead."
Lu Tong muttered, "I want him to be buried with him." ”