Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 829 "Fame"
"Murder case?" Cai Ping felt her teeth chatter when she heard the coachman's words.

The coachman only thought she was afraid, and said: "It's really bad luck! Not only is the kiln sister unlucky, but also the lookouts employed by this family. They were all arrested by the old bustard, and they had to go to the yamen for a while. There are so many people watching the excitement, I'm afraid it's hard to tell, someone has already reported to Shuntian Mansion, and when the guards come, there will be delays, little sister, why don't we make a detour?"

"Detour, detour, uncle!" Cai Ping only felt her ears "buzzing", replied hurriedly, and closed the curtain.

The driver pulled the reins and turned the mule cart around.

Caiping was shivering in the car, her palms were covered with cold sweat.

Caiping also knows about Xia Chan's life experience, she is from Yangzhou, her mother died, she has a younger brother at home, and her stepmother secretly sold her to Ren Yazi.

Obviously this Xia Chan was given to his uncle by his third young master "envoy", so why did he become abducted by his uncle?

After getting along for half a month, she also saw Xia Chan's temperament, the most timid and fearful.Because she saw her uncle wielding the whip, she was so afraid that she didn't sleep well for the past few nights, for fear that one day the whip would fall on her own head.

Can a person who is afraid of being beaten have the guts to hang himself?

Caiping grew up in the gate of the Li family's mansion, so many people who don't know about the dirty things of the rich and powerful are aware of the abnormalities.

She was in a state of confusion, and she didn't wake up until the coachman went around the alley, stopped the carriage at the crossroads, and asked her how to go next.

She opened the curtain, pointed at the gate randomly, and said, "Uncle, I'm here. Get out of the car here, lest grandma know how to hire a car and scold me for being lazy." While speaking, she got out of the carriage and took out copper coins from her purse , cleared the fare.

The driver was simple and honest. Seeing that she was about to drop the paper bag containing the vegetables, he reminded: "Little eldest sister, don't leave things behind. It's not easy to be a slave or a handmaid."

Caiping thanked her, carried the paper bag, watched the mule cart leave, and then walked slowly towards Qianmen Street.

Sun's house didn't dare to go back. The servants in Sun's house thought she was Xia Chan's girl.If you go to the yamen and don't agree with what the old bustard said, you don't know what to say.

It seems that I have to go back to Li's house first and tell the third young master about the change...

*
On Sun Jue's side, he was riding back from the Yamen on horseback, feeling very depressed.

Not only is the family not peaceful, but the affairs in the yamen are also disturbing.His good friend, Shen Qingwai, who was in charge, was sent to Huguang to guard the way. Today, he was led by officials from the Ministry of Civil Affairs and left Beijing for Rehe.When your majesty is done seeing, he will go directly to the south to take up his post.

Everyone in the department said goodbye to Shen Qing today, and when they mentioned this matter, they were all envious.

Although most of the time when Beijing officials are released, they have to be promoted to one or two levels, but from a sixth-rank master to a fourth-rank Taoist, this is a four-level promotion.

Only officers with a professional background can have this chance.

Like Sun Jue, because he was born as an official donated by En Mengna, he belongs to a miscellaneous brand. According to the rules, he can only be an assistant official, and he cannot be an official.

Of course, if the family has a big backer and the emperor's grace, they don't have to be subject to this restriction, such as Cao Yong.

Huguang is the world's granary, a fertile land, and Shen Qing has really found a big job this time.

Sun Jue's heart was deeply touched, and he even complained about his father.He also secretly complained that if his father had not allowed him to become an official, but had allowed him to take part in the imperial examination and get a Jinshi background, would his future have been smoother.

However, thinking about the same year of the township examination, after passing the Jinshi examination, and being a county magistrate, the idea of ​​the imperial examination in Sun Jue's mind was extinguished.

The Sun family is different from the Li family. What Li Xu is thinking about is that the Li family can pass on the weaving mansion to his descendants just like the Cao family. Sun Wencheng hopes that the eldest son can return to the court, and the descendants of the Sun family will return to the family and restore the glory of their early years. .

Now, Sun Jue is in the capital, and his mind is full of thoughts about how to climb up.

This northwest war is a great opportunity.If the war is won, rewards will be given for meritorious service, and the officers in charge of military supplies in the Ministry of War will also have something to look forward to.

Thinking of this, Sun Jue felt less impetuous.

Don't worry, it's better to spend a few more years in the Ministry of War, after all, the Ministry of War is rich in oil and water.

The headache is still the Cao family.The wife has always been virtuous and submissive, but now she ran back to her mother's house when she had something to do, it was all instigated by the third sister-in-law.

Sun Jue already regretted that he shouldn't have allowed his wife to have more contact with them, otherwise it wouldn't be as embarrassing as it is today.

As for himself, he didn't think there was anything wrong.It's really nothing for a man to add a concubine.

When he was about to reach the door of the house, Sun Jue frowned when he saw several yamen servants parked outside the door and a woman among them.

He jumped off the horse and recognized the woman as Mrs. Chen, the cook in the outhouse.

His heart skipped a beat, and he raised his voice, feeling something was wrong.Could it be that "the incident happened in the east window", and Prince Zhuang's mansion wanted to investigate him for raping a beautiful woman?
At this time, a head catcher stepped forward, glanced at Sun Jue's official uniform, cupped his hands and said, "Dare to ask this lord, but the owner of this house is Sun Jue, a doctor in the military department?"

Sun Jue nodded and said, "It's Mr. Sun, if you dare to ask who are..."

The head catcher was in his thirties, tall and thick, and said: "Today, before dawn (30 o'clock in the afternoon), someone reported to the Yamen of Shuntian Prefecture, and a homicide occurred in Qudeng Hutong outside Qianmen. According to Mrs. Chen, the cook, the house where the fugitive prostitute Xia Chan lives is rented by Mr. Sun, and Mr. Sun is also invited to come to the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion next time to assist in investigating this matter."

Hearing "running away from a prostitute", Sun Jue just wanted to shake his head, only thinking that the other party misunderstood, how could Xia Chan be "running away from a prostitute"?
Yangzhou Slender Horse Shop is not an ordinary brothel, and the women who come out of it are not registered as prostitutes.

According to the law of the Qing Dynasty, local officials are not allowed to accept women from the tribe as concubines, and officials are not allowed to accept happy prostitutes as concubines.Although there are countless officials, gentry and wealthy households who take prostitutes as concubines, respectable families still have some scruples. After all, using prostitutes as concubines is harmful to family traditions.

It was Sun Jue who exchanged 9000 taels of silver for Xia Chan's body contract from Cheng Mengxian, and it was also the people from the Slender Horse Company who sold their daughter as a maid as a "foster parent".

But when he heard the mention of the cook Chen's family later, and Xia Chan's name also matched, Sun Jue was stunned: "What, Xia Chan is dead?"

The head catcher nodded and said: "That's exactly the case, so Mr. Fu Yin ordered Mr. Sun to go to Shuntian Mansion to assist in investigating this matter."

Although Sun Jue was in a daze, he also knew that something was wrong.He said: "Although this Xia Chan is temporarily staying in the house I rented, she is not a runaway prostitute from Huanxilou. Her body deed is kept at my house. When I get it, I will follow you back to Shuntian Mansion... "

Naturally, there is nothing to say about this head arrest. After all, Sun Jue is an official. Even when he arrives at the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion, before he is convicted, Jing Zhaoyin has to deal with it politely, and cannot torture him like ordinary people.

Sun Jue walked a few steps quickly and entered the gate, feeling his heart skip a beat.

Although it is said that the one who didn't laugh came out of Huanxilou, but Xia Chan hanged himself in such a good way that it was completely weird.

For a moment, Sun Jue couldn't tell whether it was panic or anger.

Could it be that someone from Cao's mansion went to the house over there to scare Xia Chan?
Seeing how the Cao family brothers treated him that day, they didn't take him seriously at all.If so, it is really deceiving people too much.

Sun Jue rushed to the inner house angrily, and saw the eldest concubine Xie Shi brought two other concubines with worried faces in the yard to meet them, presumably because they heard the news from the front yard.Sun Jue was anxious and ignored them, directly picked up the bamboo curtain and entered the upper room.

It was only when he rummaged through the boxes and cabinets and couldn't find them that he realized that the body deed was not kept here, but was locked in a box in the outer house.

He patted his forehead, stood up, and let out a long breath.

Aunt Xie followed in carefully, her eyes were red and she said: "Master, do you want to go to Shuntian Mansion with the yamen servant? Let grandma come back, there must always be a caretaker at home."

Sun Jue paused, waved his hands impatiently, and said, "Why pick her up? I just went to the yamen to answer a few words, and it's not like I won't come back." Saying that, he strode out.

Aunt Xie was a few years older than him and had served him for more than 20 years. She knew his temper, no matter what was in her heart, she would not give in.

After Sun Jue left, she called her second aunt, Mrs. Liang, and said, "Sister, this good man is involved in a lawsuit again. I don't know when it will happen. There must always be someone in the family to host the middle school. I miss grandma in my heart, but I can't get rid of it." Love, let's go visit grandma and persuade grandma to come back."

Mrs. Liang snorted coldly in her heart, knowing that Mrs. Xie was planning for Sun Jue wholeheartedly. The young master is going to say hello to grandma."

When Mrs. Xie heard that the second young master came forward, he was more justified than their two concubines. He nodded hurriedly and said: "Okay, okay, it's getting dark now, let's go..."

Mrs. Liang responded, and went to pick up Sun Chu in person, and took a carriage with Mrs. Qian, and went to Cao's house together...

*
On the side of Pingjun Wangfu, Cao Yong talked with his sister for a while, and was dragged to the school grounds by a few nephews, shot a few arrows, and was kept by his sister.

After not seeing Tianhui for half a month, Cao Jia couldn't bear it anymore, and asked Cao Yong when he would bring everyone back to Beijing.

After all, Zhuangzi is in the mountains, and the temperature is lower than in the city. In August, the autumn wind suddenly blows.

Living outside the city for a few months, although the life of freedom is comfortable, it is very inconvenient to live and socialize.

Now there is another matter about Cao Ying, no matter what, Li and Zhaojia must be informed, it seems that before the end of the month, they should also return to the city to live.

After hearing this, Cao Jiashi was very happy, and discussed with Cao Yong about returning to Ning with a few younger brothers in the Mid-Autumn Festival.In addition to being with my mother, I also want to pick up my little niece.

Naersu went to war for more than half a year, Cao Yong was also afraid that his sister would be lonely and depressed, so seeing that she was interested, he naturally did not object.

This delay, when Cao Yong returned to the mansion, it was already the second quarter of the first day of Xu (07:30 in the evening), and the sky was dark.

As soon as he entered the courtyard, Zheng Hu came over and reported Sun Jue's going to the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion.

When Cao Yong heard that Sun Jue "hanged himself" in that outer room, he couldn't help frowning.I'm afraid it's not "hanging oneself", but "hanging oneself".

Although he was waiting for Cheng Mengxian's action, he didn't expect that the first unlucky one would be a woman.

Is this the Cheng family's attitude? "Fleeing a prostitute"?
A basin of sewage was poured on Sun Jue, but nothing happened to the Li family.

"Send someone to the East Mansion to ask if Xiao Wu is here. If Xiao Wu is there, ask him to come over. I'll wait for him in the study." Cao Yong said to Zheng Hu: "Things are a bit messy. Over there in Li's house, people keep an eye on him." Tighter."

Zheng Hu agreed, and ordered people to go to the East Mansion.

Cao Yong didn't go to the inner house, but went directly to the study, asked the boy to serve a pot of strong tea, and waited for Cao to come over.

Since someone from the Sun family came to greet Cao Ying, I don't know what Cao Ying thought.

Cao Yong held the teacup, wondering if he was too hard-hearted.

Hearing the news of Sun Jue's death in the outer room, what he thought of was that this might be an advantage to the Li family. There is no proof of this death, and even if the Li family's matter is found out in the future, the Li family can deny it outright.For the young woman who died suddenly, he had no mercy.

Maybe it's because he knows.From the moment she became a pawn and joined the "beauty game" set up by the Cheng and Li families, this woman was already doomed to die.

Although Li Cheng came with a cruel heart, he was also somewhat childish. He refused to suffer, and refused to let Sun Jue take Xia Chan back to Sun's house. He just planned to "borrow a child" and wait until Xia Chan became pregnant before ending the game. .

At that time, regardless of whether the child is a boy or a girl, they will all be members of the Sun family.

The story of the Li family begging for the return of the twins can be re-interpreted, and the passive one is the Sun family.

This little calculation is not difficult to guess.

After Xia Chan gave birth to a child, her life would be over.

When the trouble came to Shuntian Mansion, a Huanxi Building was also brought out, Cao Yong picked the corner of his mouth.It seems that this time, Sun Jue will be "famous".

He is not a smart person, if he is in a hurry, he might bite Cheng Mengxian out, but he doesn't know how Cheng Mengxian will get himself out of the way.

If you want to follow each other closely, it depends on how powerful the Cheng family is in the capital.

The reason why Cao Yong didn't come forward to teach Sun Jue directly was because he was waiting for Cheng Mengxian's news.Now that this incident has happened, he feels a little uncomfortable.

As long as Sun Jue treats Cao Ying better, no matter how bad his character is, Cao Yong will take care of him.It is not Cao Yong's wish to calculate like this now.

Just as he was thinking, he heard footsteps outside.

"Brother, did you call me?" Cao Fu lifted the curtain and came in.

Cao Yong stood up, told him to sit down, and asked, "Is someone from the Sun family here? What does the elder sister say?"

Cao Fu curled his lips, and said: "It's just that two concubines brought Sun Chu over, saying they were paying respects to Eldest Sister, but they actually talked about Sun Jueran's lawsuit, and they changed their ways to persuade Eldest Sister to go back." Arriving here, she said with a smile: "Eldest sister is doing her best. It's not in vain that we spent so many days talking and thanking them for their kindness. We have to wait for my nephew to recover from his injury first."

Cao Yong heard the words, relieved.

No matter how much he hated Sun Jue, he couldn't ignore Nian Cao Ying's thoughts.Sun Jue is the father of Sun Li and Sun Xian, and the kinship is inseparable, and Cao Yong can't deal with him like he did to Li Ding.

If Cao Ying can't support the wall with muddy mud, and has to go back to Sun's house, then Cao Yong can only be speechless.

Cao Fu looked at Cao Yong's expression and knew that he was worried about Cao Ying, so he said, "Eldest sister's temperament is really too soft, but if there is a bit of the sharpness of the second and third sisters, she will not make Sun Jue look like this." But looking at the present, it seems that he has made up his mind and waited for us to make the decision. It's funny to say that Sun Jue's eldest concubine wanted to persuade the eldest sister to go back. The dowry Mrs. Liang brought Sun Chu over, He refused to leave, saying that she was originally the eldest sister's girl, so she naturally wanted to stay by her side to serve her. Even Sun Chu would stay by her aunt's side to serve her sickness. Hearing what the second sister-in-law said, that Xie's face turned green , cried and went back by myself..."

*
Dongzhimen, Li's residence.

Li Cheng stood in the yard and looked in the direction of the living room.It was brightly lit and visited by visitors.It was none other than Sun Jue who came back from Shuntian Mansion Yamen.

Sun Jue and the guards went from the main house to the outer house, and when they wanted to find Xia Chan's body deed, they were in vain.

The past few days have been chaotic, and Sun Jue doesn't know when the box containing Xia Chan's body deed disappeared.

The guards couldn't bear to wait and urged him repeatedly, but Sun Jue had no choice but to follow him to the Shuntian government office.

The main hall of the Yamen of Shuntian Prefecture has already received the certificate of the old bustard of Huanxilou.

In order to make it clear that Xia Chan was indeed the fleeing prostitute in Huanxilou, the old bustard not only presented Xia Chan's body deed, but also Huanxilou's servants, maids, and prostitutes as witnesses.

He was well prepared, if Sun Jue hadn't been convinced that this was the first time he had heard the word "Huanxilou", he would have wondered if he had really abducted the nobles there.

However, no matter how well prepared it is, it is useless.

Sun Jue is not only an official, but also in the banner. The case cannot be tried by the Shuntian Mansion, so it can only be transferred to the nine admiral's yamen.As for the interrogation at the Nine-Men Admiral's Yamen or the Dali Temple awaiting trial, it depends on the interrogation at the Nine-Men Admiral's Yamen.

Because it was getting late today, Sun Jue came back from the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion and waited for the admiral of the Nine Gates to be interrogated tomorrow.

Sun Jue secretly heaved a sigh of relief that he didn't have to mess around with the old bustard, but he was also worried about how to deal with the interrogation of the nine admirals' yamen tomorrow.

Now that I can't find Xia Chan's body deed, what I say is empty talk, even if Cheng Mengxian is bitten out, as long as he pushes with both hands, I will be fine.

Thinking of this, Sun Jue thought about the banquet that day from beginning to end, and finally realized that he had been deceived.

That Cheng Mengxian was not a good thing at all, the prostitute who had kidnapped the brothel acted as a maidservant to the palace, and defrauded himself of 9000 taels of silver.

Now the bustard filed another complaint, accusing herself of abducting Xia Chan, asking for 3000 taels of money to redeem her.

Furious, he first took people to Shichahai Cheng's house, but the house was empty, only a deaf porter stayed behind.After asking for a while, I couldn't say a serious word.

Sun Jue knew that even if he jumped into the Yellow River, he would not be able to clean himself up, so he could only raise money first, and see if he could have an affair with the old bustard of Huanxilou.To save this matter from getting bigger and bigger, I won't clean it up.

No matter how thick-skinned Sun Jue was, he didn't dare to borrow money from Cao's house, so he could only go to Li's house to find his brother-in-law Li Nai.

Li Cheng stared at the window of the living room for a while, lowered his volume, and asked Qian Zhongrui, the Chief Manager behind him: "The Chief Manager, why did he think of coming to beg father?"

Qian Zhongrui bowed and replied: "Back to the third young master, the Cao family is angering uncle because of the matter of uncle and grandma, and the clansmen of uncle's family in Beijing are all distant branches, so they can't be used. Naturally, they have to come to ask uncle." Help raise money to deal with."

Li Cheng felt ridiculous when he heard this, and said in a low voice: "Will father agree? When my father told him about twins before, he didn't think about the kinship at all."

"No matter what, uncle must always take care of grandma's side..." Qian Zhongrui thought for a while and replied.

Li Cheng snorted unwillingly, and said, "It was really done by the Cheng family? Cheng Qi is double-faced, what do you mean?"

Qian Zhongrui hesitated for a moment, and replied: "Third young master, Xia Chan is not a skinny horse, and sooner or later she will not be able to hide her identity, and it will eventually be a future trouble. Cheng Qiye probably didn't want to keep her from the beginning... Now that he is doing it, he probably will." Hearing about the movement of the Sun family, I was afraid that the Cao family would investigate, so we took the first step..."

*
Inside the Anding Gate, Prince Yong's Mansion, Study Room.

The fourth elder brother looked at the Tiao Zhe in his hand, with a sneer hanging from the corner of his mouth, the sons of the two big weaving children, Sun Li, could it be that the capital city was regarded as the south of the Yangtze River, so it was quite lively...

It's just that I didn't expect that the eldest son of the Li family was so obedient, and knew that he wanted to pay filial piety to the mansion here.It's just that after entering Beijing for a few months, after ranking behind other palaces, could it be that he felt that it was inappropriate to suppress a few treasures and wanted to rely on this side?

The insatiable servant should be punished!

*
The historical monthly ticket list is super fierce, with the fourth to eighth being almost the same, crying, Xiao Cao is in danger, and Xiao Jiu rolls around begging for a monthly ticket. .

(End of this chapter)