After I bloom, a hundred flowers will kill

Chapter 223 Encounter with an accomplice

Scholars, farmers, businessmen, although His Majesty made a decree of grace after ascending the throne, promising that merchants' disciples could also enter official positions through scientific examinations, but the low status of merchants was deeply rooted. Li's elder brother wanted to do business wholeheartedly, but he had to give up because of the lintel of Li's family.

Lee also said with a smile: "Brother also often regrets that I can't realize my ambitions, so I can only help the family take care of the ancestral property."

Not long after, Li Shi's elder brother, Li Jing, came. This was not her eldest brother, but her second brother.

Slender, tall and very handsome, he brought two or three servants with him, and each servant was holding a lot of boxes. Tao Le led him over, and his uncle Tao Yuan also came after hearing about it, and personally looked after Shen Xihe.

Li Jing was very tactful and calm when facing Shen Xihe, but when Tao Yuan mentioned that he would personally check on Shen Xihe, his smile became a bit forced.

Tao Yuan has been immersed in business for these years, traveling all over the world. Naturally, his gaze is like a torch. He didn't notice anything at first, but after looking too much, he found that there were not one or two old objects, so he frowned. He didn't think deeply, but He told Li Jingdao: "Nephew, don't be old when you collect things in the future. There are not so many unworthy descendants in this world who are so downcast that they want to sell the things passed down from their ancestors."

This was a tactful reminder to Li Jing that Tao Yuan accepted so many potentially unclean things because he felt that Li Jing was being deceived.

In fact, Li Jing brought 34 items, and Shen Xihe roughly estimated that there were only four or five items that were unclean, and it was just a guess. It has not been verified whether it is really unclean, but Tao Yuan will kindly remind him if he has enough experience. One sentence.

"Third cousin, please go and invite uncle to come." Shen Xihe said to Tao Le.

She can't stand idly by on this matter. The imperial court is now thoroughly investigating this case. In the future, no one involved in the case should try to escape. Li Jing and the Tao family are related by marriage now, so don't provoke them now. When Li Jing gets deeper and deeper, Tao The family will also suffer a lot.

For the current plan, Tao Cheng can only find out something wrong, instigate against Li Jing, and let Li Jing take the blame and make meritorious service, so that the Tao family and the Li family can retreat completely.

Although Shen Xihe's face has always been calm, Li Shi is keen and always feels that something bad has happened. Seeing her uneasy, Shen Xihe said to her: "Biao sister-in-law, this matter has nothing to do with you. I just saw my in-laws, so it’s not good for me to invite Li Weng, outsiders will only spread gossip about you when they see it.”

On the first day of the bride's marriage, the husband's family invited the bride's parents to visit. How would outsiders think of the Li family and the Tao family?

Shen Xihe is a person who doesn't care about fame, but only for herself. This era cannot tolerate everyone being as reckless as she is.

"Princess..." Mrs. Li thanked Shen Xihe for thinking of her, but she was also worried about her brother, especially when she turned her head to see his brother's face tense, and his heart sank, "But brother, did you offend me? "

"Brother Ling did offend, but the one who offended was neither me nor a living person." Shen Xihe glanced at Li Jing lightly.

not alive...

That is the dead. When it comes to the dead, everyone of them knows about funeral objects. Li Shi looked at the objects on the table again, his face turned pale, his body softened and he almost fell down. Fortunately, Tao Le helped her in time and held her tightly. hands to support her.

The door was knocked, Shen Xihe asked Pearl to open the door, Hongyu brought Tao Cheng over, closed the door again, and guarded outside with Pearl.

"Little uncle, I was in the capital half a month ago..." Shen Xihe roughly explained the cause of the incident, "At this moment, Prince Bu has been ordered by the emperor to go to the Henan Mansion for a thorough investigation. His Majesty attaches great importance to this matter. The property of the elder brother of the Li family , most of them came from wrong paths, and when His Majesty investigates to this point, the name of the Li family will be ruined."

Digging people's graves, how unreasonable is this?
"Brother!" Li Shi screamed, she stared at her brother in disbelief, "How can you be so confused!"

If Father finds out about this, he will be removed from the family tree, and their family will be ashamed, and they will no longer be able to raise their heads in front of their relatives. She will also have no face to face her husband-in-law and in-laws in the future. Your marriage will also be hindered.

Li Jing actually had a lot of thoughts when he heard Shen Xihe's provocation, and wanted to say that he was not a participant, but was deceived by others and collected some old things. His teary eyes made him bow his head in shame.

Seeing this, Mrs. Li, who was still looking forward to it, couldn't bear it and passed out and fell into her husband's arms.

"Sanlang, take your wife down." Tao Cheng ordered in a deep voice.

Only Shen Xihe, Tao Yuan, Taocheng brothers and Li Jing were left in the room.

"Erlang, tell the truth about this matter, rein in the precipice, and turn around." Tao Cheng persuaded.

Yu Gong Tao Cheng is the governor, and it is his responsibility that such a thing happened in Linchuan.

Yu Si and Li Tao are now in-laws, so he has to be careful.

"Uncle Shi, this matter was done by me alone, and no one in the family knows about it." Li Jing knelt down with a thud, "I hope Uncle Shi will not mention this to my parents, I will go home tomorrow and commit suicide in fear of crime."

He also wanted to die here, but this would make Li Tao's family enmity and ruin his sister's good marriage.

"If you really do such a thing that hurts the peace of heaven, it is indeed an unforgivable crime, but a man is alive, standing upright, not afraid of making mistakes. Fearing the mistakes and not correcting them, and not seeing them." Tao Chengyu said earnestly, "You To commit suicide in fear of crime today is to avoid wrongdoing, knowing that you are wrong, the first thing to do is how to get over it, not how to end the mistake."

Li Jing understood what Tao Cheng meant, a gleam of light rose in his eyes, and then dimmed: "Uncle Shi, these people are extremely vicious, if I hadn't been forced, how could I have fallen to this point?"

After all, Li Jing is from a scholarly family, who grew up reading sage books, how could he not know how unreasonable it is to dig graves to collect money?
But he mistrusted his friend, stepped in, and there was no turning back: "My nephew witnessed with his own eyes that they slaughtered their close relatives against defectors..."

Li Jing was dripping with grief as he spoke, weeping uncontrollably.

"Do you think that once you die, they will let the Li family go?" Shen Xihe chuckled, "They will doubt whether you have told the secret to your family. You can't be kind when you do such things. Just in case One, they will try their best to mutilate your parents, brothers, and sisters after you die..."

Li Jing shook his body.

Tao Cheng also said: "What the princess said is very true, now you can save the Li family's reputation and save your parents from suffering by making up for your mistakes."

Li Jing was stunned for a moment, then raised his sleeves to wipe away the tears on his face, and looked at Tao Cheng firmly with a generous face: "Uncle Shi taught me!"

Tao Cheng helped Li Jing up, and asked Shen Xihe here, and did not avoid Shen Xihe. Shen Xihe knew more about this matter than they did.

It turned out that Li Jing was trapped by them, but Li Jing insisted that he only helped sell the stolen goods, and did not participate in the distribution of money or grave digging.

　During the Tang and Song Dynasties, merchants and their children were not allowed to participate in the scientific examination, so this place was set up privately.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)