Judgement

Chapter 23 A disaster from heaven

Ying Tianxiong, who was over [-] years old, looked at Ying Xiaolian, who was [-] years old, looking more and more charming, and felt both joy and sorrow in his heart.This girl is not going to stay in college, and she plans to marry Ying Xiaolian into the Wang family by the end of the year, and it will be difficult to see her in the future...

The prefect of Yangzhou received Gaozong's document and opened it to see that there was a sealed letter inside.There are only two lines on the secret letter: The governor Ying Tianxiong does not think about the emperor's kindness, and has a rebellious heart to punish him all over his family.

Liu Yizhou, the magistrate of Yangzhou, read the secret letter and the history of appeasement of the Yangzhou economic strategy, ordered 3000 troops, and surrounded the governor's mansion overnight.Ying Tianxiong just went to bed with Mrs. Liu to rest, only to hear the voices of people in the house.Putting on a long gown and going out to see what happened, when he opened the door, he was stabbed on the neck by two soldiers who had already been lying outside the door, and Mrs. Liu was also dragged out of bed by the soldiers who followed behind.

In the hall, the servant of the Ying family, Jia Ding, knelt on the ground, and the prefect of Yangzhou looked at Ying Tianxiong with a troubled expression.

Ying Tianxiong roared: "Brother Yizhou, I have known you for more than ten years, why are you doing this?"

"Brother Tianxiong, as a brother, this is the emperor's fate. I hope I will not be offended."

Ying Tianxiong heard screams and knocking on the door behind him, coming from the room of his daughter Ying Xiaolian.He said: "Brother Yizhou is the emperor's fate, Tianxiong will not make things difficult for you, but the youngest daughter is raised in the deep boudoir, seeing that she is afraid, I asked Brother Yizhou to withdraw the soldiers from the inner house, and let me call my Bao'er."

65-year-old Liu Yizhou twirled his long beard and looked at Jinglue to appease the history and said, "Master Li, what do you think?"

Jinglue comforted Shi Licai and said, "But it's up to Mr. Liu to make the decision."

"Okay then, my lord please." All the soldiers in the inner room were withdrawn, and Ying Tianxiong walked out of Ying Xiaolian's room with Mrs. Liu.As soon as Liu Shi called the door, Ying Xiaolian's personal maid, Xiaoju, opened the door.The mother and daughter hugged each other and cried, Ying Tianxiong looked up to the sky and sighed.

The maidservant beside her, Xiaoju, knelt down to Ying Tianxiong: "Master, madam. Xiaoju was originally an abandoned baby in Yangzhou City. Fortunately, the master's wife took her to live until now. Xiaoju is willing to die for Miss."

Mrs. Liu did not expect this maidservant to be so affectionate and righteous. Xiaoju and Ying Xiaolian were both of the same age, except that they did not have feet bound. Mrs. Liu bowed and kowtowed to Xiaoju.

While opening the suitcase, Xiaoju picked up a long skirt that dragged the floor, and said to Tianxiong, "Master, Miss has small feet and can't run, so hurry up and take her to run."

Ying Tianxiong picked up Ying Xiaolian, who was crying and dying, turned over and jumped out of the back window, and went straight to the gazebo.There are several powder buckets for picking lotus and lotus root beside the gazebo, and put Ying Xiaolian into the powder bucket.Ying Xiaolian firmly grabbed Ying Tianxiong's coat and cried, "Daddy won't leave, and Xiaolian won't leave either."

"You are confused. Once father leaves, the emperor will search the whole city, and then Xiaoju will die in vain. Be good, go to Lin'an to find your father-in-law, Wang Ziqi, according to father's words, he can protect you."

Ying Xiaolian cried more and more sadly, Ying Tianxiong had no choice but to hit Ying Xiaolian on the back of the neck with a knife, Ying Xiaolian passed out on the spot, Ying Tianxiong took off the ebony hairpin on his head that was cut in half Stuffing it in Ying Xiaolian's hands, he hid the powder bucket deep in the lotus leaf, looked at his daughter with tears in his eyes, and hurriedly jumped into the room from the back window.

At this moment, Xiaoju had changed into her dress and was crying with Liu Shi, Ying Tianxiong said: "From now on, Xiaoju, you are my daughter, Ying Tianxiong, it's a pity that our father and daughter will go to the underworld together."

Xiaoju said: "Xiaoju from ### without father and mother may become a ghost today, but it is enough for Xiaoju to have her parents by her side." The three of them cried again...

Ying Tianxiong took Liu Shi's hand, Liu Shi mixed "Ying Xiaolian", and the three came to the hall.Liu Yizhou said to the soldiers: "Search the whole mansion to see if there is still a fish that slipped through the net?"

"Yes Yes Yes"……

Ying Tianxiong's heart was raised in his throat, and after a cup of tea, the kung fu soldiers came to report that no omissions had been found.

Liu Yizhou said: "The criminal minister, the governor of the Yangzhou government, intends to plot against the 38 people in the whole government. It is not neglected, and the trick is done. Let's do it, alas!"

The hall was full of cries and shouts, and the soldiers chopped with their knives.The sound of screams and the sound of knives chopping meat merged into a human tragedy...

"Master Li, please verify."

"Master Liu, there is no need for this."

Liu Yizhou clasped his fists to the sky and said: "According to the emperor's secret decree to kill the whole family of Ying Tianxiong, the governor, come here to pour oil and set fire..."

When Ying Xiaolian woke up in the powder bucket, she saw the fire in her home soaring into the sky, and the flames lit up half of Yangzhou City.When the sky was getting brighter, the fire was extinguished, and Ying Xiaolian climbed ashore from the powder bucket.Surrounded by soldiers outside the governor's mansion, Ying Xiaolian hid in the crowd and suppressed her grief when she saw the soldiers carrying out charred corpses from the fire.On the gate of the governor, there is an Anmin notice from the magistrate of Yangzhou: the sky is dry and the things are dry, and the governor's house is full of water.Hope people be careful...

Ying Xiaolian followed the soldiers' corpse truck all the way to the mass grave ten miles outside the city.Someone had already dug a big hole there, and all the charred corpses were poured into the big hole, and someone came to fill it up immediately.It wasn't until after noon that the soldiers withdrew and went back. Ying Xiaolian was digging the soil with her hands like crazy and crying bitterly...

Ying Xiaolian, who was penniless, pawned all the jewelry she brought for 100 taels of silver.Bought some paper foil for incense sticks, made wine and cooked meat and made obeisance: "Father, mother and daughter will definitely go to that Uncle Wang to give you justice."

A 15-year-old lady from a family who never walks outside the door, embarks on a big ship to Lin'an.After traveling thousands of miles from Yangzhou to Lin'an, Ying Xiaolian blackened her face with mud and hid herself in a corner of the boat.

After seven days, I finally arrived in Lin'an City. Ying Xiaolian didn't know where she was when she first arrived, and she didn't have much money left on her body. When she asked a passer-by where Prince Shaoqing, Prince Shaoqing of Lin'an Guozijian, lived, the passerby looked at Lian Xiaolian's The little feet said: "Wang Ziqi's home is in Liuhe Bay. You can get there before dark by hiring a donkey cart."

Ying Xiaolian thanked the passers-by, and hired a car to go to Wang Ziqi's mansion. Although Ying Xiaolian was only 15 years old, she was very smart, and there was a sudden change in her family.When she came to the gate of Wang Ziqi's mansion, she did not open the door directly but waited by the side of the road.

Waiting until a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl passed by, Ying Xiaolian stopped the girl: "Girl, can you do me a favor? Then give this hairpin to the prince and his lord in this mansion, and I will give you a penny as a thank you." .”

The girl agreed as soon as she heard that she could get a penny for handing over the things.Ying Xiaolian gave the girl fifty coins and an ebony hairpin, and hid on the side of the road, and the girl went up to knock on the door.

After a while, a servant came out from the mansion, and the girl said, "Is the prince there? I have something for him." The servant walked in with the girl.After about a quarter of an hour, Ying Xiaolian heard the chaotic footsteps in the mansion, mixed with the crying of the girl: "My name is Qian Shuihua, it's really not Ying Xiaolian, I told you that someone gave me a penny This broken hairpin..."

With a "bang bang", several servants came out with the crying girl, followed by a man in his forties.

"Where is the person you mentioned who gave you the hairpin?"

"I don't know, look, this is the fifty Wen that the girl gave me first."

The man in his forties knocked out the copper coins from the girl's hand and shouted, "Search for me."

The servants scattered to search, but came back with nothing.The man kicked Qian Shuihua hard, and amidst Qian Shuihua's cursing, the man closed the door and went back with his servants.

All of this was clearly seen by Ying Xiaolian who was hiding behind the courtyard gate across the street.After everyone left, Ying Xiaolian tiptoed out.

At this time, it was already dark, and Ying Xiaolian was walking alone on the streets of Lin'an City.Hungry and cold, think about that girl kicked by Wang Ziqi just now

It was as if he had kicked himself.Where in the boundless Lin'an City is my shelter? I only have less than 20 taels of silver on my body, how will I live in the future?

Just when Ying Xiaolian was thinking wildly, someone behind him gently patted Ying Xiaolian's shoulder, and Ying Xiaolian didn't know everything about the nightmare.