old lady in red

Jia Dailu disappeared, but the eighth house Xing was nervous, and the other ten houses didn't care.

Jia Dailu is a mysterious person, and it is common for him not to show his face for ten and a half months.

And at this time, Jia Dailu must have tried to find Xiao Jiu's concubine.

Regarding this, the clansmen looked down upon it a little: to let the original spouse's grandson not love him, and to oppose a son of an outsider's so much importance, is completely putting the cart before the horse!

Furthermore, is the son raised outside by that watery woman really Xiaojiu's kind?

This is also the reason why the clansmen learned that the sons of the eighth house were missing, they just sent the sons out to save face, and they didn't really help to find them.

Everyone said that this woman Xing made a lot of fuss and made a lot of trouble out of nothing.

Jia Daixing came to Bafang to deliver the letter, and Bafang happened to be in a mess.

Jia Dailu and Jia Zhai are not there, the eighth wife Xing is blocking the gate of the eighth house's eldest son, Jia Ban, cursing the street, scolding Jia Ban for being a wolf, and not worried about finding his father missing, or even framing him for no reason, saying that Jia Dailu's disappearance is probably an internal thief A foreign ghost was brought in.

Jia Ban was so angry that his veins were bursting, but he didn't dare to speak out against him, so he could only close the door and hide in the bedroom, sighing and crying: "Mother, look, this is the white-eyed wolf you rescued with good intentions back then. Death is not enough for you, and now you want to kill all your sons..."

The Xing family kept saying that Jia Ban had murdered his own father, and he was going to the Yamen to sue for disobedience.

In this way, not only Jia Ban is finished, but also his two sons are finished.

Jia Bin wanted to rush out several times: "Brother, I can't survive anyway, we will fight her..."

Jia Ban's daughter-in-law, Li Shi, brought her two sons and a daughter to block the door: "You brothers have to go out and do your best, first kill my mother and son, otherwise, you will be convicted of disobedience, and we will suffer..."

6 Jia Daixing arrived at Bafang at this moment.

Apart from Jia Dailu, no one in Bafang dared to take care of the Xing family.

Jia Daixing was not afraid of her, and scolded: "Eighth brother and sister, what are you doing?

Not to mention that the disappearance of the eighth brother has not been confirmed yet, even if it is missing, I can guarantee that it has absolutely nothing to do with the eldest nephew.

The eighth siblings should be clear that they have been like cats all these years, why have they ever disobeyed half a point?

If you have evidence, go to the ancestral hall and display it, and we will deal with it immediately.

If there is a false accusation with red lips and white teeth without any basis, and the reputation of the Jia family is ruined, don't blame the strict and unforgiving family rules! "

The Xing family dared to falsely frame the Jia Ban brothers and suppress them with filial piety, but they did not dare to be presumptuous to the elders of the clan.

However, Xing will not admit his mistake.

She turned her head and cried to Jia Daixing: "Uncle Xing, you are here. Our eighth master is really missing. It's been a long time, and Xiao Jiu will not come back when he goes out. I will let the eldest and the second go out and look for him." , but they were not happy, and I was also in a hurry, so I just cursed a few words..."

Jia Daixing couldn't reprimand Xing's weakness so much, so he had to comfort her a few words, wait patiently, and nothing will happen.

He asked again: "Brother Ban, didn't your father tell you where he was going when he went out?"

Jia Ban was busy saluting, and let Jia Daixing go to the hall: "Daddy is going out and my nephew knows about it, but I don't know where he is going. I just know that I went out with my ninth brother, looking for his son."

Jia Ban still kept his word, and didn't mention Xiao Jiu's private room.

Jia Daixing sighed: "Since your father is not here, you can go to the ancestral hall for your father to participate in the clan meeting. The young patriarch has returned to the clan. Today, the ancestral hall is open for discussion. Go quickly, and I have to go to other houses to inform."

Jia Ban's eyes lit up when he heard this, the current patriarch is back, Jia Zhai, let me see how you explain to the patriarch this time.

Jia Ban thought, judging from Rongfu's severe punishment of Jia Yan, it might not be good for Jia Zhai to snatch the women.

The two mansions of Rongning and Ningxia have been advancing and retreating together for many years, and they certainly cannot tolerate Jiazhai's act of snatching a wife.

However, Jia Ban was also a little worried. It would be good if Jia Zhai fell, but his father was not strict with his son.

Shangfang can still accommodate his brother at the moment, because he is in charge of the family affairs on his behalf, so it is not easy to give the truth.

Once Bafang's power is gone, his father will definitely do things even more unscrupulously under the instigation of that woman.

In his heart, Jia Ban still does not want any accidents to happen to his father.

Although the father connived at the woman to make things difficult for them and suppress them, and seized all the property.

However, in order to save face, his father let him take an errand in the clan, and the salary was enough for him to support his wife and children.

Once his father loses power and replaces the acting patriarch of another family, his life in the eighth room will be even more difficult.

Jia Ban was so worried about gains and losses that he found Jia Daizhu, the concubine of the eighth house, and his uncles and nephews came to the ancestral hall.

The ancestral hall is located in the middle of Rongfu and Ningfu, and it was jointly funded and built by Rongning and Ningfu.

As soon as there was any movement in the ancestral hall, Shi Mei knew the news.

At noon on the [-]th, Jia Jing opened the ancestral hall and called the twelve chambers to discuss matters.

Jia Jing opened his mouth and threw out a thunderbolt: "The ancestral hall was opened today only because someone sued Mrs. Jia and handed over the pleadings to the capital. Thanks to my friend who was in the inspector's office, I intercepted it secretly. Otherwise, it would not be my nephew who came, but a Jin Yiwei is gone."

Jia Jing's fooling made the entire Jia clan elders tremble with fright.

Jia Jing throws out the forged complaint of Jia Dailu smuggling salt and tea for the elders to check.

Although Jia's family descended from generation to generation, they did not catch up with the best time.

Of course, after Jia Yuan Jia became successful in acting, he funded the school, and all the men in the clan went to the school to study for a few years.

Therefore, although there are few scholars in the Daizi generation, everyone can recognize some characters and have read the laws and regulations of the Great Moon Dynasty.

Everyone knows that salt, tea and iron are not sticky.

Twelve households, ten households, six households and seven households, did not deal with the eight households, and immediately reprimanded: "The old eight is really audacious. He makes a lot of money by himself, but drags the whole family to be convicted. It is really abominable!"

Wufang is the hard-core brother of Bafang. If Jia Daixiang was there, he would definitely jump out first to challenge Jia Jing and Jia She.

Unfortunately, Jia Daixiang from Wufang was eradicated by Shimei.

There are one, two, four, and nine houses left. These families are close to the eight-household Jia Dailu, and they got a fat job, and they are better off.

They didn't dare to turn against Jia Jing, and they didn't want to step on Jia Dailu, but asked Jia Ban: "Brother Ban, why did you come to your house, why didn't your father come?"

These words questioned Jia Jing's deception.

Jia Ban didn't have time to reply, but it was Jia Daixing who said: "It's not that the patriarch didn't inform the eighth brother, I went to the eighth room in person, but the eighth brother was not there, saying that he went out with Xiaojiu, I had to let brother Ban come."

Dafang Jia Daizhou said: "Young patriarch, since the eighth brother is not here, he is the acting patriarch. This matter cannot be settled by one-sided words. Why should the eighth brother defend himself face to face? Do you think it makes sense?"

Jia Jing said kindly, "That's the reason. However, the matter is so important that we have to issue it. If the plaintiff can write one complaint, he can write the second one. Therefore, we must deal with it before the government.

Otherwise, the entire Jia family would be implicated.Even my friends from the Inspectorate have to be responsible.He can delay for a while, but he cannot and dare not annihilate the complaint.We must seize the time, late will change. "

Jia Daizhou said: "But Lao Ba must be the acting patriarch?"

Jia She sneered at this moment: "Uncle, do you know that Uncle Ba is just the acting patriarch?

Now that the patriarch has returned, what generation of patriarch is needed?

Could it be that in the clan, the patriarch's words are not as effective as the patriarch's words?

Or is it that your Jinling Jia family has already expelled our Rongning Second Mansion and established another ancestral hall?

It's been almost a year since I came back, why haven't I heard of it?

If there is such a thing, our Rongning Second Mansion will leave the Jinling Jia Clan immediately, and we will return to Beijing to write a letter to the imperial court.

From now on, the life, death, honor and disgrace of the Jia family in Jinling will no longer have anything to do with our two prefectures! "

Jia Daixing is the grandson of the old third house and second Gaozu, and Jia Dailu's cousin. Jia Dailu dare not suppress him if he is not reused.

Hearing this, he hurriedly said: "Brother Xi, you misunderstood, there is no such thing anymore, our Jia family relies on the long house to establish a family, and there is no reason to set aside the long house to build a separate ancestral hall."

Jia Daizhou never thought that Jia She would dare to be so arrogant, ignore him at all, and dare to threaten n sect.

Everyone in the clan understands that the reason why the Jia family has gained a foothold in Jinling depends on the Second Mansion of Rongning and Ningxia.Today the clan is separated from the Rongning Second Mansion, and tomorrow, the Jia family's territory in Jinling will be divided up by others.

At this moment, Jia Daizhou didn't dare to intercede for Jia Dailu anymore, and said: "What does the young patriarch want?"

Jia Jing said, "Of course the shop will be sealed first."

Jia Daizhou asked again and again patiently: "What if Bafang didn't break the law or discipline?"

Jia Jing said loudly: "If Bafang is wronged, my nephew is willing to offer wine to Bashu to apologize, and then resign from the position of patriarch.

On the contrary, if the evidence of Bafang's crime is convincing, Bafang will be expelled from the family immediately! "

Jia Daizhou was stunned: This kid is more ruthless than Rongfu's order!

Wufang was just a branch of the clan, but he didn't change it in the slightest.

Jia Ban was completely shocked, expelling the family?

What about him and his brother's family?

The assets of Bafang are all in the hands of that woman and Xiaojiu, they just rely on the monthly routine to eat every month!

Jia Ban rushed out in a panic, threw his clothes to the ground, kowtowed and wept in the middle of the ancestral hall, "Young patriarch, uncles, you all know that father, he...since my mother passed away, our brothers...

Uncles all know that our brothers have never been involved in the shop management. I am in charge of the family’s land, and I only collect rent. My brother is in charge of the family’s cattle, horses, chickens, ducks and vegetable gardens. Know nothing.Please ask the patriarch to check clearly, and ask the uncles to speak a word of justice! "

Jia Ban spoke intermittently, but everyone understood.

What kind of life he has lived in these years is obvious to all.

What good does Bafang have? He must not let him touch it.

However, now that such a calamity has happened, I'm afraid his parents will pull him out to take the blame.

Everyone looked at him sympathetically, but no one could help him.

Jia Daixing sympathized with the Jia Ban brothers very much and wanted to say a word of comfort, but he didn't know what to say.

In this era, the king ordered the minister to die, and the minister had to die!

The father bid the son die, and the son had to die!

Jia Jing said: "Uncles, please go with me to seal up the store involved in the case of Bafang."

Jia Daixing said, "Now?"

Jia Daixing also felt in his heart that it would be best to wait for Jia Dailu to go home and inquire about the crime.

Jia Amnesty said at this time: "Soldiers are expensive and fast, this matter cannot be left overnight, once the news gets out, not only the stolen evidence will be transferred.

Selling salt tea privately, once alarming the government, is an unforgivable crime.

We must check ourselves as soon as possible, and then eradicate the black sheep to ensure that the Jia family is not implicated.

I suggest that everyone present today, except for the elders who participated in the closure of the shop, should not leave the ancestral hall for half a step. "

Jia Jing nodded: "That's right. Uncles, please recommend someone you trust. Time is life, hurry up!"

Although Jia Daiyu tried his best to help, he was not involved in the election of the seal representative.

After all, during the search for the day, the presence of the twelve rooms is too bad.

Everyone knows that Jia Dailu is harsh on the twelve rooms.

Twelve rooms will definitely add fuel to the fire if they seize the opportunity.

Everyone had a tacit understanding, and Jia Daiyu lost the election.

The big house, Jia Daizhou, the second house, Jia Daiquan, and the third house, Jia Daixing, were elected as representatives, and Jia Jing and Jia Zheng led a team to check the shop.

Jia Amnesty invited himself to sit in the ancestral hall.

Jia Amnesty had already prepared, and he took the 24 nurses from Rongfu with him.

At this time, Jia Amnesty told Jin Da: "Look closely at the front and rear doors of the ancestral hall. From now on, you are allowed to enter and not allowed to leave. I will not allow one person to leave!"

Jia Jing talked about sealing up the shops, but went straight to Bafang's more than 100 warehouses at the foot of the mountain when he left the ancestral hall.

Jia Amnesty had already found out that Bafang hid more than a dozen boatloads of smuggled salt in the outskirts of Beijing last October before the canal froze, and then smuggled it back to Jinling while it was snowing heavily in the twelfth lunar month.

He thought that people were not aware of it, but he didn't know that Rongfu sent people to watch him every day.

Jia Jing led people to break open the warehouse, and the sorghum and barley on the top of the granary, and the bottom was full of salt bags.

Everyone worked together and worked hard for an hour, half dead from exhaustion, and finally finished counting, a total of [-] bags.

Ning Mansion's Yanyin is only [-] catties, in fact, you can buy [-] catties, sell it secretly, and make some profits.

At this time, the official management, the salt merchants will give the local government and county government a contribution every year, for mutual benefit.

Jia Jing never thought that Jia Dailu played so much.

This bag of salt is two hundred catties.

A pack of private salt can sell for six or seven taels, or even eight taels.

This batch of salt is 10,000+.

However, Bafang gave the Ning Mansion seven or eight thousand silver at most every year, and complained endlessly, saying that it was boycotted by private salt, making it difficult to do business.

Jia Jing's face turned green with anger.

Jia Daixing and Jia Daizhou were so frightened that their legs trembled, and there was no one to complain for Jia Dailu.

This is the warehouse of the Ning Mansion. If this happened, the Ning Mansion would collapse, and the Jia clan would be able to escape?

The good times are over.

Jia Jing's face was stern: "Uncles, tell me, what should we do next?"

Jia Daizhou is the most flexible person, saying: "Patriarch, this is a matter of life and death for the family, and it must not be tolerated. Such black sheep must be dealt with strictly. The money that Bafang has embezzled all these years must be spit out!"

This is exactly what Jia Jing wanted.

Everyone was also very unconvinced.

How much money did Jia Dailu make at this time, but the red envelopes of more than a dozen or 20 taels distributed to the clan members every year seemed to have cut his flesh.

It is really knowing people, knowing faces but not knowing hearts!

The three of them are representatives elected by the clan, and the three of them unanimously agreed to raid the eight houses!

It's definitely not the first time Jia Dailu has done this, and the money must be piled up!

Instead of waiting for the government to copy it, it is better to do it yourself.

However, according to Jia Amnesty's instructions, Jia Jing went to Bafang Study to search, but found nothing.

Obviously, Jia Dailu learned the lesson of Wufang and transferred the account books.

Jia Jing and Jia Zheng looked at each other in blank dismay, extremely frustrated.

If you can't copy the account books and banknotes for selling private salt, it can't prove that Bafang has been engaged in private salt selling.

That woman from the Xing family was afraid that she would deny it in every possible way, and beat her up, calling for injustice and saying that someone was framed.

Not only does Jia Jing have no face to be the patriarch anymore, but also he is not reconciled to being teased by Bafang like this.

Jia Jing is worried about gains and losses here, but he doesn't know that he has been calculated by others.

At this time, there was already a commotion in the ancestral hall.

But the eighth wife, Xing Shi, is very shrewd. Although she couldn't enter the ancestral hall, she already noticed something was wrong after Jia Jing left the ancestral hall and went straight to the warehouse.

This is also what Mrs. Eight said, Jia Dailu never hides anything from her.

Therefore, Bafang sells private salt, and the eighth wife is very clear about it.

The woman first hid the money, and while waiting for Jia Jing to enter the eighth room, she led her daughter-in-law and grandson and ran away through the side door.

Xing's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law went straight to the ancestral hall.

The eighth wife, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, as well as two granddaughters, grandparents and grandchildren knelt at the entrance of the ancestral hall and cried loudly.

They are imitating Jia Daiyu and coming to sue the ancestral temple.

"Oh, we can't live anymore. The eighth master was killed by you, and now he is killing our orphans and widowed mothers. Ancestors, open your eyes and see, what have these beasts in clothes and clothes done..."

Jia She dared to hit the men in the clan, but he dared not touch this woman again.

Jin Da thought of the man who entered the mansion last night, and what Lai Da said when he was ordered. He traveled all over the world with Jia Daishan, and he has become a human being. He knew that this might be his wife's trump card.

He moved to Jia She's side and said, "Master, this woman overshadows the sky in the clan. No one dares to provoke her. Only my wife can stop her at this time."

Jia Amnesty was overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "Old Zhao, go back quickly and invite your wife to come."

However, Zhao Shangyi returned in vain: "My lord, Lai Da guards the Rongqing hall to prevent the slaves from entering, saying that the wife is in retreat copying the Diamond Sutra, and she will worship the Bodhisattva and pray for the lord when the lord is Xiaoxiang!"

When Jia She heard the words, he immediately went blind: "How good is this? Why did you choose this time?"

Jin Da wondered, did he guess wrong?

In fact, at this time, Shi Mei also came to Bafang.

Yesterday, Jia Dailu's disappearance was a foregone conclusion, so Shimei sent Lai Da to invite Jia Ban's uncle, a poor scholar who taught Mengtong children in the suburbs of Beijing, to his residence in the name of recruiting school teachers.

Jia Ban's uncle had benefited from Jia's sponsorship and support when he was selected as a scholar, which also became one of the reasons why he lacked the confidence to seek justice for his sister.

Shi Mei knew that the Xing family could transform from an orphaned girl to a housewife, and she definitely wasn't someone who was waiting to die.

Jia Jing arranged for Jia Ban to move to the Xing family, Shi Mei felt it was inappropriate.

Although the Xing family was unlucky, Jia Ban's reputation would be ruined if he showed his father's evil.

His brother grew up in the hands of a wicked woman, how pitiful it is!

Furthermore, the Great Moon Dynasty emphasized filial piety, if Jia Ban did not cooperate, with Jia Dailu's management over the years, and the Xing's cunning, Jia Jing would definitely be in trouble!

Therefore, Shi Mei secretly arranged remedial measures!