Queen Mother, she just wants to lie down

Five days passed by in a flash, and Hu Zhen lived up to the emperor's high expectations this time and found out the ins and outs of the case as scheduled.

The reason was that Ruan Zhaoxiang was dissatisfied with his marriage to the Jiang family, and Zhou Xin and others were beguiling him, so he ignored the empress dowager's order to stay away from home, secretly ran out of the house, and followed a group of dandies to the theater to listen to a play.

As for Zhou Xin and others who had no previous dealings with Ruan Zhaoxiang, why they suddenly contacted him so actively was because they were instructed by Jiang Honghui.

For some unspeakable reason, Jiang Honghui deliberately tempted Ruan Zhaoxiang's anger and confronted the Queen Mother.

When everyone was drinking tea in the theater, Ruan Zhaoxiang, instigated by the words of several other dandies, began to tease the maid who brought tea.

Although the maid served tea and water in the theater, she was not a slave, but a member of a good family who had to work because of her poverty.

The waitress was strong-willed and refused to be teased, so she was forced onto the table by Ruan Zhaoxiang.

The table was next to the window, and there were some grease stains on it from everyone eating food.

When the maid struggled to resist, her foot stepped on the oil stains and she slipped.

Ruan Zhaoxiang saw her falling and subconsciously wanted to reach out to pull her, but he failed, and the murder occurred.

This case is not a crime of murder, but a crime of coercion to death.

A well-behaved maid in a theater was molested and forced by Ruan Zhaoxiang, and she accidentally fell off the window sill and died. The main culprit was Ruan Zhaoxiang.

The other four people deliberately used words to stimulate Ruan Zhaoxiang and molest the girl, and they are all accessories.

According to the laws of Daxi, anyone who coerces civilians to death due to private matters will be punished with a hundred rods, twenty taels of funeral expenses, a fine of one hundred taels of silver, and a three-year prison sentence.

The penalty for an accomplice is fifty taels of rod and twenty taels of silver.

Jiang Honghui did not say any provocative words at the theater that day, nor did he commit any transgressions, so he was not considered an accessory.

However, he was an official and allowed people to induce Ruan Zhaoxiang to run away from home. His motives were impure and his character had obvious problems.

He is a sixth-grade editor of the Hanlin Academy. Hu Zuo is not qualified to make decisions on how to deal with flaws in his character.

It can only be submitted to the emperor's imperial case together with the ins and outs of the case and the punishment of other people.

He clearly wrote down the detailed process of the whole incident, as well as various main causes and incentives.

It can be seen that this person has a lot of skills as an official.

I had not made any political achievements before, mainly because I was afraid of losing my reputation and kept fighting.

After the emperor read the memorial, he called the Minister of Punishment over. The two discussed for a while and believed that Hu Zhen's sentence was appropriate, but the fine needed to be changed.

The emperor used Zhu Zhu to indicate in the fine column that all principal offenders and accomplices would be fined 10,000 taels of silver and confiscated into the treasury.

The reason is that dandies in Kyoto are a common cause of trouble. If heavy penalties are not imposed, this evil trend will not be stopped at all.

In addition, Ruan Zhaoxiang was fined an additional 100 taels of silver, and the other four accomplices were each fined an additional 50 taels of silver to compensate the deceased's family.

As for Jiang Honghui, he was edited by the Hanlin Academy and demoted to Yuehai County, two thousand miles away, as a county magistrate.

If he makes another mistake while in office, he will be removed from his position and demoted to a white body.

After the results of the case were announced, most families who thought their sons were going to be exiled or beheaded finally felt relieved.

Because of the emperor's threat in the morning of October 17, except for the eldest princess Ronghua, who went to see her son, no one went to Jingzhao Mansion to inquire about the situation before the case was announced.

Now that the formal results have come out, they are much better than what they had guessed, and everyone is finally relieved.

Although the fine of 10,000 taels of silver was very painful for them.

However, as long as the matter can be solved smoothly without affecting the clan members, they will be very satisfied.

As for the son being beaten fifty times, then let’s beat him fifty times, as long as he doesn’t kill him.

Even if they have to lie in bed for a month or two after the beating, they don't care at all.

Maybe after receiving this punishment, the child will have a longer memory and gradually become more sensible.

The only ones who were dissatisfied were the Ruan family and Zhou Xin's mother and grandmother.

"Master Marquis, Xiang'er was slapped with a hundred boards and probably lost more than half of his life. He will be exiled for three years. Doesn't that cost his life?

He is already engaged to the eldest daughter of the Jiang family. Please go and beg the Queen Mother to reduce the number of boards in half and avoid imprisonment. Say that Xiang'er has learned this lesson and will be obedient and marry peacefully in the future. Go to the Jiang family..."

After hearing the verdict, Chen immediately went to find Marquis Chengen in tears.

"Mother, Your Majesty has just made a decree not to allow anyone to plead for mercy, and you encourage my father to beg the Queen Mother. Isn't this obviously asking the Queen Mother to compete with His Majesty in the ring?"

Ruan Lin happened to be next to his father. After hearing this, he couldn't help but interject.

"You don't want to see your brother so much, do you want to see him die?" Mrs. Chen glared at her second son fiercely.

"What are you talking about? Why do you mean he doesn't want to see his eldest brother? Is there any mother like you?

You have three children, Ruan Zhaoxiang is spoiled by you, you favor him in everything, Lian'er is well-behaved, Lin'er is sensible and can read, but you don't like to see them in every way.

As a mother, there is such a big difference between the three children. Could it be that there is something shady about Yuan Zhaoxiang's life experience?" Upon seeing this, Marquis Chengen became angry.

Now, except for Ruan Lin, everyone in the Ruan family was not well received by the Queen Mother, which made Marquis Chengen start to please his second son without knowing it.

In addition, the eldest son disobeyed the Queen Mother's orders time and time again and went outside to cause trouble, causing him to be reprimanded repeatedly. This made him even more disinclined to see his eldest son.

After the recent murder case came out, his younger brother Ruan Zemin was afraid of being implicated, so he ran to his side almost every day and yelled: Brother, is there something wrong with your eldest son? He has no ability, and he still does things in different ways every day.

Does he have to harm our family and be completely disgusted by the Queen Mother and rush back to his hometown?

He looks nothing like our Ruan family. Those who don't know better think that he is not a descendant of our Ruan family.

The speaker has no intention, the listener has the heart.

Thinking about what his sister had said to him and his attitude towards Ruan Zhaoxiang, Marquis Chengen became more and more suspicious of his eldest son's life experience.

Now that Mrs. Chen was indiscriminately blaming her youngest son in front of her, the suspicion in Marquis Chengen suddenly exploded.

Ruan Lin was stunned when he heard this. What did his father mean? Is there something wrong with the eldest brother’s life experience?

He really doesn't look like the Ruan family, and he doesn't even look like his mother.

"You, what are you talking nonsense about? Xiang'er, he was born in a exile and suffered a lot, so I am more partial.

Over the years, I have cared so much and suffered so much for your Ruan family, but in the end you think of me like this, I can't live anymore..." Mrs. Chen's face turned pale, and then she started to cry loudly, and while crying, she wanted to stop. Hit the wall.

Ruan Lin couldn't just watch his mother being killed in front of him, so he rushed over and grabbed her.

During the chaos, a voice came from outside: "The Queen Mother's decree has arrived."

Following this voice, Queqi walked in, holding a rolled-up bright yellow edict in her hand.

"Hey, what are Madam Hou making? Are you dissatisfied with the government's verdict on the eldest son?" Queqi glanced at Chen and said.

"Ahem, Guard Magpie, I wonder what the Queen Mother's wishes are?" Ruan Lin coughed slightly and changed the subject.

"The Queen Mother has ordered that Ruan Zhaoxiang's engagement with the eldest daughter of the Jiang family be terminated because he has repeatedly disobeyed the order. No one is allowed to intercede for her, and those who violate it will be guilty of the same crime." Qie Qi remembered the business and opened the Yi Zhi in his hand.

"Why, how could this happen? Can the marriage given by the Queen Mother be changed at any time?" Mrs. Chen looked blank.

"Isn't Ruan Zhaoxiang dissatisfied with this marriage? He went out and committed a murder just to refuse the marriage. Who knows what might happen if we don't cancel it?

The Queen Mother also left an oral message. She knew that Mrs. Hou had a deep love for Ruan Zhaoxiang as mother and son. If you really can't worry about him, she specifically allows you to serve the sentence with him and take care of him in the exile. "

Chen's face turned pale when he heard this, and his whole body slid softly to the ground like mud.