The duke of the governor's family is leaving again

Chapter 254: Concubine Ning's Family Matters
If it's the first one, it's easy to handle.

If it's the second type, then the prefect and the others didn't value their own ability when they found themselves, but instead asked her to take the blame.

However, this is just Chen Yuan's own guess.

"This case is an old case a few years ago. Are there any bones left?" Chen Yuan was not looking forward to anything at the scene of the crime.

Feng Siyu smiled lightly, "Compared with the old case of Shengfu in Weiyu County, it is still a few years later."

Mostly because he felt that the closer the year of the crime, the better it would be to investigate him.

Chen Yuan was worried that he was expecting too much, so she smiled softly, "Master Prisoner, the age is indeed important, but when examining the bones, the integrity of the bones is more important, and the age is also one of the factors that determine the preservation of the bones."

Such a reminder, is it euphemistic enough?You won't offend anyone, right?
Feng Delin paused for a moment, then smiled knowingly, "I see, this case happened nine years ago."

Knowing that it is easy to make jokes during the process of examining the bones, Feng Delin stopped playing around and directly talked about the situation of Concubine Ning's family.

"Concubine Ning's ancestral home is Lingnan Suizhou, Xiao family in Pulang County. Her biological father, Xiao Lezhang, is the master of the Xiao clan. Her mother, Li, weaves at home and seldom goes out. She also has a mother and younger brother, Xiao Bin."

This is a normal family of four in Nanliguo.

Being a gentleman in your own clan can also get the care and respect of your clansmen.

Chen Yuan, "Where does the grievance come from?"

Feng Delin, "At that time, Concubine Ning was just 10 years old. Xiao Yingqiu, the second daughter of the patriarch of the Xiao clan, was found to be pregnant. When the clan asked her, she kept silent about who the man who made peace with her was. Suicide by hanging."

"Then, Mother Xiao found two letters in Xiao Yingqiu's room, one of which was written in Xiao Lezhang's handwriting, "Jian Jia."

"The other letter wrote that you were born before I was born, and I was old when I was born. You hate that I was born late, and I hate that you were born early. This is Xiao Yingqiu's handwriting."

Chen Yuan was stunned when she heard that Nanliguo implemented a system of non-marriage of the same surname.

Not to mention that Xiao Yingqiu and Xiao Lezhang are close relatives of the same family. If these two letters are confirmed, it will be a major event that disrupts ethics.

At this moment, Chen Yuan suspected that Concubine Ning took the initiative to ask the emperor to investigate this case.

It was also after she became a concubine that her opponent exposed the bad things about her family and wanted to pull her off her horse, so she had to make a gesture and beg for an order to reverse the case for her father.

If it is the first one, maybe Xiao Lezhang is really innocent.

In the second case, the situation is more complicated.

In modern times, Chen Yuan would not have to think about it so much at all, but this is the feudal era where monarchy is supreme...

Forget it, no matter what the situation was, she just went for the autopsy in a realistic manner.

"Then, how was the case judged back then?"

"Xiao Yingqiu is dead and is about to be buried. Lu Qiao, a close maid, testified that Xiao Lezhang and Xiao Yingqiu had private meetings many times, and the time and place can be revealed. Therefore...the case was not reported to the yamen, and the Xiao family handled it according to the family rules. Because Xiao Lezhang has fame and fame, it is inappropriate to soak in a pig cage, so the clan just decided to expel Xiao Lezhang's family."

No wonder everyone wants to test for fame, it can really save lives at critical moments.

Chen Yuan, "According to what the Prison Master said, you want me to examine Xiao Yingqiu's body?"

"Chen Yu is in no hurry."

Feng Delin waved his hand, "Afterwards, Xiao Lezhang also hanged himself. He left a suicide note, proving his innocence by death, and begged the tribe to find out the real culprit, so that he would not die unjustly, and let the patriarch take in his family. Make your wives and children homeless."

That's one more life.

"With regard to Xiao Lezhang's last words, opinions and opinions within the Xiao clan are not unified. Some people think that Xiao Lezhang is unbearable to be humiliated, so he shows his ambition by death. A way out."

These arguments are all reasonable, although Xiao Lezhang was not immersed in a pig cage in the clan, but his whole family was expelled from the clan.

The truth is very cruel, he is just a scholar who can't handle his shoulders and hands. Apart from teaching, selling calligraphy and painting, and being an accountant and housekeeper, he can't find a livelihood at all.

However, his reputation is bad, and no one will ask him to be a husband, buy calligraphy and paintings, or be a housekeeper.

Being expelled from the clan means losing the land in the clan, and he has no choice but to farm the land.

Therefore, it is very reasonable for everyone to speculate that Xiao Lezhang committed suicide to win his respect and seek a way out for his wife and children when he was dying.

"Well, both of them hanged themselves, and they have their own handwriting and letters to testify. They didn't participate in the investigation back then. Let me check the bones. I can't guarantee what can be found." Chen Yuan is not very optimistic.

Although in some cases, there will be forged handwriting.

But that's not all that common either.

There are also many ways to fake death by hanging. If it is a new dead body, it is easy to see the clues in the body.

Nine years have passed now, and it is difficult to replicate the fact that the bones of the two corpses burned to death by Mrs. Sheng can still retain their flesh and blood in the humid and hot environment of Lingnan.

Most of the flesh has decayed, leaving only bones.

Anyway, it is always right to say bad things first.

"Chen Yu is too modest. In fact, the matter is far from over. This is just the beginning."

"..."

Chen Yuan really wanted to say, my lord, just show me the dossier for myself. The way you speak out of breath really whets my appetite.

"After Xiao Lezhang voted, the Xiao clan finally did not bully the orphans and widows and let them stay in the clan. They just lost their pillars and the fields were taken back. The family of three can only rely on the weaving of Concubine Ning's mother Li."

Ancient hand weaving was very slow.

Instead of doing farm work and housework, he devoted himself to weaving, and only got one meter a day.

A piece of cloth is [-] to [-] meters, that is to say, it takes more than ten days to get a piece of cloth.

Ordinary people can only grow plants such as ramie and flax to weave coarse cloth, and the cost of weaving cloth with cotton is also quite high.

Not to mention that the silk threads of silk and satin are also more expensive, so they can only go to the cloth factory to get the thread back to be processed, and earn a processing fee.

Chen Yuan could imagine how hard it would be for a family of three who had lost their land to support their family only by Mrs. Li.

Feng Delin said again, "According to Concubine Ning's recollection, her mother didn't believe that her father would do something disregarding ethics, so she often investigated in private. One day, Mrs. Li finally smiled and told Concubine Ning that she had found some clues and would soon be able to give them to you." Xiao Lezhang overturned the case."

"Concubine Ning, who is 12 years old, is also very happy, but after two days of not being happy, Mrs. Li was found drowned in a fish pond."

"In this way, Concubine Ning and younger brother lost their parents, and the Xiao family will not be so cruel that the two children can't have enough to eat. They have taken good care of them, and made an exception to let Xiao Bin enter the family school again."

The hemp rope is only broken at the fine points, and bad luck only finds the poor. Chen Yuan can only sigh, "Fortunately, the concubine Ning has her own celestial phenomena, and all hardships come with happiness."

Feng Delin seemed to enjoy Chen Yuan's misjudgmental expression, "No, Concubine Ning's younger brother also died half a year after entering the ethnology school. According to Concubine Ning, my younger brother did not give up on investigating the truth about the death of his parents. "

"..."

So all of Concubine Ning's family members died, and she was the only one left.

This is in the old saying novel, she is the heroine.

Not to mention, she has already entered the palace, and she agrees with the old saying Gongdou novel very much.

Chen Yuan was wondering if she had become a passerby in some Gongdou novel with Concubine Ning as the heroine.

However, this kind of thinking is only for a moment. The productivity in ancient times was not good, and the conditions in Lingnan were even more difficult. There were actually many orphans who lost their parents due to bandits and pirate raids.

Everyone is the protagonist of their own life.

(End of this chapter)