Feudal scholar-bureaucrats reborn: marrying a husband and marrying a virtuous

When you go to Gusu, everyone sleeps on the river.

The Forbidden City has less free space and more water lanes and small bridges.

In the hazy moonlight, the autumn rain fell gently, hitting the clear river, and the entire city of Gusu was shrouded in a light veil of mist.

The cool breeze is blowing, the night is blurred, and the shadows of trees are dancing outside the corridor.Standing at the end of the corridor, Laifu poked his head and saw Lin Fangxu and was so frightened that he fell silent.From the gazebo behind the rockery came the sound of men and women teasing, and one could tell who was doing something wrong without looking.Lin Fangxu didn't have time to say anything more, he glanced lightly, and strode to the study.

Seeing that the master left without swearing, Lai Fu touched the cold sweat on his forehead, and couldn't help but exclaim in his heart that he was lucky.

When Lin Fangxu arrived at the study, Master Shen Mao had already brought a woman waiting there.

There was no need for Lin Fangxu to ask, Shen Mao said directly: "The master asked the students to check things, the students found some, and then met the aunt, and the aunt said that there was something important to tell the master, so they brought them back together."

Lin Fangxin couldn't wait to speak, but was interrupted by Lin Fangxu.

"Darong first tell me what you found out."

"Yes!"

"After the second master was admitted as a scholar the year before last, my aunt helped to make up the master book of Wujiang County, and the second wife followed. The second wife has always been on good terms with the wife, and then helped the uncle and wife Dong to persuade the wife to share the Liu family's sea Ship smuggling. The wife and the second wife only pay the share money to get the bonus, and all affairs are presided over by the uncle and wife.”

Seeing that the old man had no abnormal expression on his face, Shen Mao continued: "I learned from my wife's breast brother that my wife and second wife don't have much cash in hand, and each of them gets two dividends, which is only a few thousand taels a year. However, it is recorded in the account book of the Liu family that the wife alone took 10% of the dividend, which is several [-] taels a year. Now the second wife and the second master have been arrested by the procuratorate, and the account book of the Liu family is in the yamen of the procuratorate. The students bought part of the ledger written silently by insiders in the yamen.”

After Lin Fangxin listened to it, her face was full of surprise.Lin Fangxu didn't look at the account book handed over by the master, and asked, "Didn't Miss Xin tell me something?"

Lin Fangxin came back to her senses, with a flustered expression, she jumped up and pulled Lin Fangxu and said, "Cousin, will they implicate you in their smuggling? But Ai Xiaoya's smuggling was instigated by my husband behind her back, and she also dragged my sister-in-law into the water?"

Lin Fangxu looked at her red and swollen eyes, and the fear that was about to overflow from them, sighed slightly, and helped her sit down.

"Don't worry, let's talk about what you know in detail first, and we will figure out a way."

Lin Fangxin sat in a daze, as if recalling or regretting.

"I hate Ai Xiaoya. When I was young, I always said something in front of me: Life is precious, but love is more expensive. If it is for freedom, both can be thrown away.

I believe what she said, women should live for themselves and not be bound by feudal ethics.When my father fell in love with Wang Xiucai, I preferred Zhang Sheng who was with him.Ai Xiaoya helped me meet Zhang Sheng at her hot pot restaurant, and she helped me elope with Zhang Sheng after my father found out.After my father compromised, I also married Zhang Sheng. At that time, I was full of joy, but I didn't know that I had lost the face of the family and affected the marriage of the girls in the family.

Zhang Sheng's mother also used this to humiliate me, and took Zhang Sheng's niece as a concubine the next year.Now that I think about it, Zhang Sheng is willing to marry me. It should be the reason why my little brother won the Juren. There is no such thing as a pledge, otherwise I don’t know. "

"Little brother, do you know that the marriage between you and your sister-in-law was also planned by Ai Xiaoya, otherwise Liu Mingzhu would not know which Zen room my little brother is resting in."

Seeing that her cousin didn't show any surprise, Lin Fangxin thought she knew about it, and she was always smart and capable.Zhang Sheng still pretends to her, and Zhang's mother does not dare to raise her niece as an equal wife, isn't it just because her cousin is a co-prefect of Suzhou.

"Because I hate Ai Xiaoya, I didn't interact with her when she came to Wujiang. In the middle of the night before she was arrested, I couldn't sleep and heard her arguing with my husband behind the rockery in the garden. Only then did I know about her smuggling It was all instigated by the husband, and it was the husband who gave her the idea to get her sister-in-law to buy shares, saying that in this way, others would not be embarrassed if they were concerned about her brother, and then borrow the Liu family's sea boat through her sister-in-law. Brother, now that Ai Xiaoya is arrested, if I Can I go to testify against my husband without implicating my brother?"

Lin Fangxu saw her expectant eyes, and didn't say much, but told her not to worry, and ordered his servants to lead her to the guest room to rest.Although Lin Fangxin was still uneasy, she knew that it was useless for her to stay here, so she followed the servants to the guest room.

"Master, why don't you ask my aunt to testify against County Magistrate Zhang, maybe there will be room for change."

"Hey! When did Darong become as innocent as women and children?"

Lin Fangxu sneered, looking at Shen Mao's scarred face, from the left eyebrow slanting across the nose to the right cheek, tsk tsk...it looks really scary, it's embarrassing for me to look at it for so many years.However, if he hadn't been hurt by his brother, Shen Mao would not stop at a scholar with his talent and learning, and could only be his own teacher.

"Da Rong, do you know why I came to the office so late?" Lin Fangxu said without waiting for Shen Mao's answer, "Dong Fuzun left me alone to talk about family affairs, but he cared about my nephew who participated in Chunwei. This year the main examiner is Dong Ge's old student , asked me if I needed to say hello. He also talked about my cousin who is far away in Dangzhi County in the southwest, saying that the bandits in the southwest are rampant and chieftains are rampant, so we should pay more attention to safety. Heck! Darong, do you think he really cares or pretends to care."

Shen Mao looked at Lin Fangxu's half-smile face, racking his brains and wondering how to break the situation.Lin Fangxu saw his anxious expression, although he was moved to treat each other sincerely, he had to speak out to break his illusion.

"Most of Dong Ge's old faction are from the south, and the silk weaving in Dong's ten thousand mu mulberry field has a lot to do with the sea. Kong Ge's idea of ​​strict smuggling at sea was originally aimed at Dong Ge's old faction, but it's a pity that Dong Ge's old tail dealt with it." It's clean, I can only find out some small things about sesame and mung beans. It can't hurt Dong Ge, I'm afraid it's planning to get rid of Dong Kun, the pillar of the younger generation of the Dong family. , you can leave tonight, and help me bring some things to my elder brother."

Shen Mao's face turned pale. In fact, he didn't know that this matter was a foregone conclusion, but he still couldn't help asking: "Is the master really at this point? Maybe it can be said that the madam made her own decision, and the master didn't know."

"Husband and wife, your reason is too far-fetched, and no one will believe it. Since the procuratorate has all the witnesses and material evidence, I will probably be in jail tomorrow. By then, it will be a breeze for the Confucian School to use me to involve Dong Fuzun. Hmph! But Dong Fuzun is not necessarily innocent. It’s just that I don’t know whose pockets the 10 taels of silver that the Liu family smuggled every year went into. It’s almost a trick, and if you plan such a trick carefully, you may be bitten back in the end.”

Shen Mao gritted his teeth with resentment on his face and said, "Master, he said that the Dong family knew about the Confucian party's plan, but they still dared to take the money. Is this because they planned to push the master out?"

Lin Fangxu's face was calm, and he was silent for a long time. He didn't speak until the second watch's clapper sounded, and said, "It's getting late, Darong, hurry up and leave."

Shen Mao rushed to Jinhua wearing stars and wearing moons, and handed the letter to Lin Fangqin.On the second day, Lin Fangqin ignored dissuasion and set off for Suzhou early in the morning. On the way, he heard that Suzhou Tong Zhi Lin Fangxu was smuggled by sea. A blood book.

The blood letter was written by Lin Fangxu, which roughly means that he is not strict in his family management, his wife competes with the people for profit, violates the national law, and his son is domineering.So he poisoned Fa's wife and son who broke the law, and he himself apologized with death.Afterwards, the Kong and Dong factions continued to act again, and the second master, his wife and the Liu family were sentenced to ransack their homes and go into exile.Lin Fangqin returned to Jinhua with the remains of his younger brother's family.