Aoyama Chronicle

Yu Taishi's life is really hard these days, and Yu's faction is now in danger.In the past, when the third prince Yan Tianren was still the crown prince, their family tried their best to help the third prince ascend the throne smoothly. Almost all the courtiers who could be wooed were wooed over.Of the six ministers, at least three ministers supported the third prince. Although the minister of rites, Jiang Mo, did not express his position, but Yu Taishi has been in charge of the Ministry of rites for many years. It can be said that except for the minister of rites, Jiang Mo, who has not yet made a clear decision, everyone else is definitely on their side .It's just that now, Taishi Yu really can't understand that such a good momentum will suddenly turn into what it is today.

The harem was not peaceful either, the concubines were waiting to see the jokes of the two of them.Princess Anle is said to be doted on by thousands of people, and King Anle is infatuated with her. He is the only one in the mansion so far. Unfortunately, as soon as the illegitimate child happened, Princess Anle became a joke.The other person is Empress Yu Shi. The Empress has always been close to Princess Anle because of the adoption of the third prince, but now she suddenly knows that her younger brother's child is the offspring of King Anle.Moreover, a lot of unavailable evidence proved that Princess Anle had already known about it, and the relationship between the Queen and Princess Anle suddenly became tense.

After the Fourth Prince was appointed by the Holy Majesty to investigate the matter strictly, he did not dare to neglect it in the slightest.Among them, Concubine Tian and Master Tian, ​​Minister of the Ministry of War, also contributed a lot. In just over a month, they have already investigated the matter thoroughly.

After reading the results of the investigation, the Holy Majesty sighed deeply.In the end, for the sake of balance and the face of the royal family, the Yu family was sentenced to exile. As long as the Yu family members involved in the case of framing Cao Fengzhong were all demoted to common people, including Yu Taishi, it was really late.Although the queen has not been abolished, it is no different from being abolished. She is banned for life, which is tantamount to entering the cold palace.As for Wang Anle and Concubine Anle, since there is no direct evidence to prove that they knew about it in advance, and what happened to Mrs. Yu later has nothing to do with them, they were not blamed.The last one is the illegitimate son Bai Jinghan, he is really innocent, but if he is really asked to recognize his ancestors, it will be difficult to handle.If he was left alone, he was of royal blood after all. In the end, it was Lu Bonian who suggested changing his surname and place of origin, entering it into the royal genealogy, and making him a nominal county king. He was not allowed to enter Beijing without an edict.However, what surprised everyone was that it was rare for the Holy Majesty to directly designate Bai Jingqing, who was originally a commander in chief, as Hussar General.

Zhong Yiwen heard the verdict from Bai Jingqing, so he really didn't know whether to say congratulations or something else.

Bai Jingqing seemed to have unloaded a burden that had been carried for many years, and a smile began to appear on her face: "In fact, I have already seen through these things, and this ending is actually very good!"

"Your second younger brother before?" Zhong Yiwen had never heard anything about this person, so he was still a little curious.What if this person, like Yu Shi, comes to take revenge on them again?Maybe Bai Jingqing and the others are fine, but Bai Ji and Wang's are just ordinary merchants, and it is impossible to compare with a county king, even though that county king has no real power.

"It's okay!" Bai Jingqing didn't hide anything, "Second brother is pure by nature. In fact, many people don't know that the second brother is not smart. In order to delay the time of delivery, Yu insisted on taking a lot of medicines, but he gave birth prematurely. I also hurt my body, and I can no longer give birth..."

Zhong Yiwen nodded, no wonder Bai Jingqing said that this ending is very good.

"Okay, Brother Zhong, we will leave for Yanzhou in a few days. It is not convenient for the uncle and princess to come forward, so let me say goodbye on my behalf. We will definitely remember the great kindness of Brother Zhong, and if there is any If we can help you, just send a message to Yanzhou!"

Zhong Yiwen laughed: "Okay! I didn't expect that we would part again. Let's go for a walk and go out for a drink together. When we said goodbye last time, we said we would have a good drink after we reunited, but we were so busy that we still haven't had a drink yet." !"

Bai Jingqing paused for a moment: "Didn't you say that brother Zhong doesn't drink very much?"

"You can drink even if you don't have a capacity for alcohol, okay? Those are all rumors!" Zhong Yiwen yelled unconvinced, "Hurry up, let me show you that I can also drink very well!"

Regardless of the result after drinking, Zhong Yiwen was directly carried home.He tasted good wine outside and behaved well, but Zhong Yiwen started to be dishonest when he got back to bed, tormenting Qin Fei with his mission, but Qin Fei was so angry that he swore that he would never let Zhong Yiwen get drunk again.

A few days after seeing off Bai Jingqing and the others, Zhong Yiwen welcomed He Jianghai, and it was Tian Ping who sent him all the way.Tian Ping is now doing well under Chen Yinuo's hands, and has won Chen Yinuo's trust and reuse.Zhong Yiwen has always seen him once or twice a year in the past few years, but he has never been alienated.This time Zhong Yiwen wrote a letter inviting He Jianghai to Beijing, and Tian Ping happened to be in Yangzhou, so he offered to send him over.

In fact, Zhong Yiwen asked He Jianghai to come over because of the situation.Zhong Yiwen has felt a crisis ever since he found out about his bloody background, but no matter how well he is alone, there will always be negligence. Zhong Yiwen doesn't feel at ease at all if he asks other people for advice or finds a military advisor directly. , That's why he put his idea on He Jianghai's head.Although He Jianghai is too upright, he is still a smart person, and there is absolutely no problem with his loyalty.Although He Jianghai was very respected as a teacher in Zhongjia Village, Zhong Yiwen always felt that he was overqualified.It just so happened that after three years of schooling in Zhongjia Village, it finally achieved results last year. Two scholars passed the examination at once, and one of them went to a special academy to study and prepare to continue the scientific examination.The other person didn't intend to continue, and now he just happened to let that person take over He Jianghai's husband's business.

He Jianghai saw it very openly. After the handover, he entrusted the young students who were planning to take the entrance examination for children to Steward Fu and the others, and came to Kyoto alone.

Zhong Yiwen specially met He Jianghai and Tian Ping at home, but Li Zhang came uninvited.Zhong Yiwen simply asked someone to invite Wu Yuanheng over.Tian Ping only came here occasionally and didn't mention it, but He Jianghai wanted to live here in the capital, so it was appropriate for him to get to know his cousin.

This time, Qin Fei had greeted them in advance, and was determined not to allow Zhong Yiwen to drink, and even specially asked Qin Jiu to help supervise.But Zhong Yiwen couldn't help but smile bitterly, and finally had to drink tea with them instead of wine.Tian Ping was an acquaintance, and he had met Wu Yuanheng when he came to Kyoto before, and Li Zhang was an acquaintance. As soon as the table was served, he began to actively pour wine and persuade him to drink, and even punched Li Zhang to drink with great interest.

Zhong Yiwen and the others were chatting on the side, and He Jianghai mentioned the matter of the Zhong family in the state capital: "At the Zhong family in the state capital, Mrs. Chen and Mr. Zhong were sentenced to ten years in prison each, and Mr. Zhong was deprived of his reputation as a scholar. , Confiscated all the family property. Zhong Yibin started to sell the property as early as the Zhong family's accident. Not to mention a half-dead man, he also lost his reputation as a scholar. Now all the money has been confiscated, but the rest of the Zhong family has no news at all, and I don’t know where they went!"

Wu Yuanheng sighed and said: "If you do many unrighteous deeds, you will die! The Zhong family is also at the end, and you should marry a good man if you marry a husband. Mrs. Zhong married Zhang, and the descendants of the family can change their nationality to participate in the scientific examination. Zhang was so angry that he married The Chen family lost all their property in the end, all of this is retribution!"

"Those two brothers from my third uncle's house are all gone too?" Zhong Yiwen was a little lost. Those two brothers were pitiful. When he left Zhong's house in the state capital a few years ago, the youngest He looks like two or three years old, not much older than Xiaochen.The older one was only * years old at the time, but now he may be fifteen or sixteen years old, just the age when we should say goodbye, and now we don't know where they are living.

"It's said to be so. After all, I'm far away from Zhongjia Village, so I don't have any accurate information!" He Jianghai replied.

"Where did they go?" Qin Jiu said, "They're not young anymore, there's no way they'll just starve to death!"

"This matter, hey, Ah Wen, you should go and look for it, after all, it's still the blood of the Zhong family! It's just the two elder brothers, take them in for a few years, and forget about marrying them in the future. It can be regarded as accumulating some merit!" Wu Yuanheng Consolation said.

Zhong Yiwen thought for a while, then nodded: "Well, I'll send a letter to Yangzhou later, and ask someone to check it out for me!"

Zhong Yiwen knew what Wu Yuanheng meant, and now the Zhong family's bloodlines are strictly counted.No matter what, he lived in the Zhong family for more than ten years, and later inherited a large amount of property from the Zhong family, so he should take good care of the few remaining children of the Zhong family.If at the beginning, Zhong Yiwen still felt that he was at a disadvantage when the family was separated, and then he learned about his life experience, and knew that he had taken those family properties for nothing, even if they transferred all of them to Xiaochen, it would be no worse than the Chen family and his third uncle. Zhong Yiwen saw a lot of them.The Zhong family's evil spirits can be cured, but there is no need to beat everyone to death with a stick.

Wu Yuanheng nodded when he heard that Zhong Yiwen had listened to his own opinion, finally he was not wronged!

He Jianghai frowned slightly: "Master, you may not know that after the Zhong family's accident, they were sentenced to confiscate all their property, and some officers and soldiers went to Zhong's village to take back the house and fields of Zhong's village!"

"Is there such a thing?" Zhong Yiwen was very surprised, "Many people know about the division of our Zhong family. Who would go to Zhong Family Village to make troubles so blindly?"

"It's not clear who instigated it. But Lizheng took out the genealogy to prove that we have nothing to do with the clan of the state capital, and Steward Fu also took out your official documents. Later, it was Master Wu and Master Li in the state capital. Help, that's why they didn't succeed!" He Jianghai said, "We all feel very strange about this matter, it seems not simple, it seems to be deliberately targeting us. If we don't have enough evidence, someone from the government will help us Speaking, I am afraid that those people have already succeeded. Lord, you have to be careful!"

Zhong Yiwen nodded, this matter is really not simple.Needless to say, the two officials who helped him, one must be his father's classmate and Wu Yuanheng's former colleague, Master Li who helped him when the family was separated, and the other must be Wu Yuanan.

However, Zhong Yiwen really didn't expect that the people targeting him would come so soon!

Zhong Yiwen, who had been silent for more than two years, finally became popular again in the capital, and the reason directly made people think about it.The four brothers complained together outside Dali Temple and sued Zhong Yiwen.

In less than an hour, this matter has spread all over the capital, even the Holy Majesty has heard of this rumor, and hastily sent someone to inquire about it.Ever since Zhong Yiwen was innocently wronged once before, the Holy One really trusted Zhong Yiwen in every possible way.Now I am afraid that all the evidence is placed in front of the Holy One to prove that Zhong Yiwen is guilty. I am afraid that the Holy One will only doubt whether the evidence is true or not.

After listening to the report from Dali Temple, the Holy Majesty was really angry and annoyed, and directly sent an oral order for Dali Temple to conduct a trial immediately.In order to make Dali Temple pay attention, the Holy Majesty directly appointed Lu Bonian and Shen Ying to watch the trial.Still feeling that it was not enough, the Holy Majesty decided to take a look at it himself, but he didn't blatantly go there directly, so his preference for Zhong Yiwen would be too obvious, so he simply led Eunuch De to go there in disguise.

Zhong Yiwen, who didn't know it at all, was still working in the Imperial Academy, but was hastily called away by someone from Dali Temple.Zhong Yiwen was at a loss all the way, and after being sent directly to court, he was even more at a loss.

"Bring the plaintiff!" Li Wen was the presiding judge, who made Lu Bonian and Shen Ying both sit down below!

This is being sued!Zhong Yiwen glanced at Shen Ying, but didn't see what was going on at all.Hey, forget it, it's rare to be a defendant once, let's see who thinks highly of him so much.

The yamen servant directly brought four people up, all of them brothers.Two of them are a little older, the other two are a little younger, and the youngest is probably less than ten years old.However, Zhong Yiwen saw an old acquaintance in it, it really is a dog skin plaster that cannot be shaken off, Zhong Xiaoliu!

After the four came in, Li Wen slapped the gavel and directly asked them why they wanted to sue Zhong Yiwen, and the four began to tell their reasons.

Zhong Xiaoliu was the first to speak, her eyes turned red before she could speak, and she seemed to be of a higher rank: "My lord, I want to sue Zhong Yiwen for seducing a brother from a good family, and also frame me so that my innocence will be ruined. I was expelled from the clan. My lord, Zhong Yiwen came to Zhongjia Village at the age of 16. My family was poor at the time, and my dad owed a lot of money because of gambling. Zhong Yiwen pretended to be kind enough to help my dad pay off the debt, but secretly let me go with him That's a trivial matter. My brother has no money or power, so I can only submit to him. In two or three years, for the sake of fame, he took me to the remote ancestral grave many times in broad daylight. I didn't expect that he later After getting married, in order to clarify himself, he actually framed me as a prostitute! Woooo... Woo..."

Zhong Yiwen was rumored to have an affair with him by a secret prostitute. Zhong Yiwen had said it in public before, but now, the secret prostitute has come forward to explain the situation in person, and it seems to sound very reasonable. For a while, it is really confusing Find out who is right and who is wrong!

Even Zhong Yiwen couldn't help admitting that if he didn't know the truth, he might have believed Zhong Xiaoliu's words!Brother is already weak, so it is easier for people to sympathize, and then believe that Zhong Xiaoliu is the best among them.What's more, Zhong Xiaoliu's words can be regarded as talking about himself. For a brother who is not married, it is definitely a scandal.Brothers from ordinary families are really not so bold.

The second one to stand up was another older brother: "My lord, I am Zhong Yiwen's betrothed, I want to sue him for regretting the marriage without reason, abandoning the betrothed and marrying someone else. This is the marriage letter of the two of us."

Immediately, someone below took the things presented by this brother, and delivered them directly to Li Wen. Li Wen looked at it, then asked the master next to him to look at it, and finally nodded to indicate that the engagement letter was true.

"Back then, after my father helped me get engaged with Zhong Yiwen, Zhong Yiwen was infatuated with the brothel. My father was very angry and wanted to withdraw from the engagement, but he didn't expect that Zhong Yiwen's aunt Wu would take him away from the state capital. My father Thinking that Zhong Yiwen might be able to change, he didn't insist on retiring the engagement, but he didn't expect Zhong Yiwen to get married directly in the local area. Our family waited for him to explain the situation, but didn't expect that many years have passed since today, and Zhong Yiwen has never given Let's explain it in one sentence! And I have wasted many years at home for nothing!" This little brother is more rational, and the matter can be regarded as clear.

Zhong Yiwen did not expect that this person was actually the brother of the Liu family who had been engaged to him before.To be honest, the brother of the Liu family standing in the courtroom looks ordinary and inconspicuous, but he just doesn't know if this brother of the Liu family is real or not!

The remaining two brothers came out together, and the older one said: "We want to sue Zhong Yiwen for defrauding my Zhong family property! Zhong Yiwen is not a descendant of my Zhong family, he is the adopted child of my second uncle and my second uncle." He clearly knew about this, but he still insisted on getting our Zhong family's property. After our grandma's accident, let us go to find Zhong Yiwen, not to mention anything else, I just hope that he can see that he has taken so much of our Zhong family's property. For the sake of being able to take care of the two of us, Zhong Yiwen didn't even let us in. Please enlighten me!"

Zhong Yiwen looked at these two little brothers, and sure enough, there were shadows of Third Uncle and Little Chen.Unexpectedly, he just promised his cousin Wu Yuanheng to go to Yangzhou to find the two of them, but they were quick enough to come to the capital to sue him.What Zhong Yiwen was most wary of was how these two people would know that he was not a descendant of the Zhong family.This is definitely not what Mrs. Chen said. If Mrs. Chen knew about this, it would be impossible for her not to make trouble with him by now.

Sure enough, someone deliberately targeted him behind the scenes?Originally alone, Zhong Yiwen didn't think it was strange whether it was Zhong Xiaoliu or the brother of the Liu family who came out.But when they came together, some people knew that he was not a descendant of the Zhong family, so there was a problem.

"Lord Zhong Yiwen, what do you have to say about the above lawsuit against you?" Li Wen directly patted the gavel and asked.

Zhong Yiwen came out neither humble nor overbearing, and saluted: "My lord, I really have a lot of questions about these charges, please allow me to ask them a few questions first!"

Li Wen nodded: "Yes!"

Zhong Yiwen saluted again, then turned around and looked at the four brothers beside him, Zhong Xiaoliu was the first to look at: "I really didn't know the other three at first, so why don't you just ask from those you have met! Zhong Xiaoliu !"

Zhong Xiaoliu didn't know if he was guilty or afraid, instead of looking directly at Zhong Yiwen, he gave a soft "hmm" instead.It seems that the last confrontation in front of Li Zheng has made Zhong Xiaoliu feel afraid.

"You said that the two of us have been doing such careless things under the blue sky and broad daylight for many days, so may I ask, do you still remember the birthmarks on my arms?" Zhong Yiwen was not shy at all, and directly asked these questions openly. Privacy question.

Zhong Xiaoliu thought for a while, gritted her teeth and answered firmly: "No!"

"You are wrong! There is a very obvious light blue birthmark on my left arm!" After Zhong Yiwen finished speaking, he rolled his sleeves so that everyone, including Li Wen, could see clearly.

The person who saw it nodded, and looked at it from a distance, the birthmark was really quite obvious.

"I misremembered, I misremembered! You have a light blue birthmark." Zhong Xiaoliu quickly retorted, "I still remember you said that it was the only blemish on your body, unfortunately it was born with it, and it cannot be eliminated at all. !"

Li Wen frowned, and slapped the gavel directly: "Do you know?"

"I know, I know, I really know! It's just that it's been a while, and I forgot for a while, sir, please check it out!" Zhong Xiaoliu looked overly frightened, and looked at Li with tears in his eyes. arts.That really makes it hard to say anything serious.

However, Zhong Yiwen couldn't help laughing, raised his right hand and directly wiped the place he said was a birthmark, and quickly wiped it clean, leaving nothing behind, only to let everyone be surprised. Know what to say.

"I don't know when I wrote, I accidentally got ink on it, and I haven't had time to wipe it off." Zhong Yiwen said calmly, as if he didn't do those things just now, "Hey, I don't know when my arm This ink stain on it will be there a few years ago, and it can't be removed!"

Zhong Xiaoliu's complexion changed drastically, he didn't expect to be exposed by Zhong Yiwen so quickly, and immediately wanted to use the old trick, crying, making trouble, and hanging himself.Anyway, as long as this matter is settled right away, Zhong Yiwen won't be able to gain a good reputation no matter what he says.

Zhong Yiwen also saw that Zhong Xiaoliu was probably going to play cheap tricks again, so he rushed to ask Zhong Xiaoliu: "The imprint on the heel should have been washed clean, right? But, do you know that if it doesn't take long after washing, the skin and other places will be washed away?" It’s different, but you can still see it if you look carefully. Would you like someone to show it to you? It doesn’t matter even if you can’t see it for a long time, the potion used to clean the mark will last a lifetime, use some other special It can be seen through the potion, why don't you try it?"

Zhong Xiaoliu's face turned pale with fright, and she shook her head repeatedly.With that look, even if he doesn't speak, other people can also see that the content of the complaint he said before is probably true. I'm afraid it's what Zhong Yiwen said before that is true.

The Holy One and Eunuch De stood behind the courtroom, listening to the trial clearly.The two looked at each other, sighed and shook their heads.Sure enough, Zhong Yiwen is the best, those who want to take advantage of him are really pitiful.They were very interested in how Zhong Yiwen would deal with the remaining three people who sued Zhong Yiwen, and they always felt that they should not be disappointed.

However, Eunuch De had a faint feeling of uneasiness in his heart when the eldest brother of the Zhong family said that Zhong Yiwen was not a descendant of the Zhong family.When the Holy Majesty didn't find out, Eunuch De frowned unnaturally.

"Come on, take down this daring lunatic who framed the officials of the court immediately, and wait for his punishment!" Li Wen decisively settled the case against Zhong Xiaoliu.

This Zhong Xiaoliu is really a typical example of not being immortal, Zhong Yiwen almost forgot about him, and he even ran out to jump around specially to gain a sense of existence, and he deserved to end up like this!

After filming Zhong Xiaoliu, it was the turn of the other three.To be precise, there should be two of them. One of them is too small. I guess they came here to make soy sauce with them.

"My lord, please allow me to use a pen, ink, paper and inkstone!"