The Biography of Concubine Wen Xi in Qing Palace

Chapter 101
For the entire month that followed, the palace seemed to be calm and peaceful, but for the Niu Hulu clan, it was actually a turbulent undercurrent.

The Department of Punishment interrogated Shen Ye but couldn't tell the truth, so he brought the former old man in the mansion to interrogate him.

At the beginning, everyone still said that they didn't know about it, but later, some slaves who couldn't stand the torture always found some clues.

The truth is like a cloth bag made of stitches, if a hole is broken, the rest of the matter can't be concealed even if one wants to.

Later Wanyu also learned from other people that in the mansion back then, Lingyou's father, Lingbeijiang, was suffering from pox and entrusted him to Ye Bilong before his death. Lingbeijiang had saved Ye Bilong's life, and Ye Bilong Long naturally took good care of his son.

But later, because the Ling family lost their family due to pox, the house in the capital was confiscated by local officials.

As a result, a bunch of bundled hair was found in a dark box at home, and the accompanying Manchu officials were immediately furious. They wanted to expropriate the house, but ordered people to burn it down.

After the Qing army entered the customs in the first year of Emperor Shunzhi, the Manchu nobles headed by Dorgon drafted a decree to promulgate the "hair-shaving order" in order to consolidate the ruling power of the Manchus.

In the second year of Shunzhi, after the Qing soldiers marched into the south of the Yangtze River, Dorgon issued a "head-shaving order" again, stipulating that the whole country should be named, and all inside and outside the capital should be shaved within ten days.And there is a slogan of "keep your head but not your hair, keep your hair but not your head".

Although the Lingbeijiang family also had to shave their hair to respect the law when they served in the imperial court, Han people's thinking was deeply rooted in his bones. It was kept in a dark box in the house.

It would have been fine if his behavior hadn't been discovered, but now that it is revealed, he will be labeled as anti-Qing and Fuming.

When the incident spread to Niu Hulu's mansion, Ye Bilong had no choice but to send him out of the mansion for fear of harming his son.

Ke Lingbeijiang's entrustment before his death was to hope that his only blood would still serve the court in the future, but this matter stumped Ye Bilong.

If the male who went out of the mansion wanted to work in the palace, in order to avoid suspicion, he had to cleanse himself and send him to be a eunuch.

How could he have the heart to do this to his benefactor's only son?
After several proper arrangements, he found an innocent family and changed Lingyou's name to An and inserted him into the palace as a guard, and told the mansion that he was sent to the palace as a eunuch to stop Youyou's mouth.

When the child grows up in the future, Ye Bilong can also arrange a good job for him in the previous dynasty.

But who would have expected that the act of repaying his favor that day would cause him such trouble now?
It was an act of righteousness to say this, but the Forbidden City has never been a place for human kindness, and the empress family is staring at Niu Hulu's mansion, fearing that they can't find anything wrong.

Now that the incident happened, some people in the previous court even impeached Ye Bilong for choosing his cronies to enter the palace to spy on the holy will with unruly intentions.

But in the end, the emperor still believed in the future, not only because of Wan Lai, but also because of Shen Ye's heartfelt protection of the lord, and the reason for keeping himself safe for many years.

What's more, considering that Bilong was in great power that day, it would be very simple for him to place his cronies by the emperor's side, so why bother with these twists and turns?
Besides, if the emperor hadn't personally promoted Shen Ye, he might still be the last of the guards.

The emperor originally wanted to deal with Shen Ye secretly and suppress the matter first, but because of Wannai's pleading several times, and felt that this person was loyal and good, there was nothing wrong with it, so the imperial decree only demoted Shen Ye to be the city guard of Shenwumen.

The Hesheli clan didn't hold on to a single guard, in their eyes it didn't matter how the emperor dealt with a small soldier, the important thing was that this matter happened in the Niuhulu mansion, Ye Bilong must not let it go lightly.

Until the incident broke out, two days later news came from Niu Hulu Mansion, saying that Ye Bilong's concubine Shu Shujue Luo Shi confessed to the crime, and bluntly said that the matter was arranged for her, but Ye Bilong didn't know about it.

Anyone with discerning eyes in Hegong could see that she pleaded guilty in such a way to protect Ye Bilong, but even if other people were suspicious, they didn't say much, they just watched how the emperor would deal with him.

It was originally a scheming of power in the previous dynasty, but now it has become a woman's ignorance and benevolence, and this crime has dropped many levels.

The imperial court ordered the wife to do something wrong, so the empress, the master of the harem, should deal with it, so the emperor logically shifted the matter to the empress.

The queen got the decree, so she summoned Shu Shujue Luo into the palace, and she was called to clean up the matter before she was interrogated, but it was only to be punished by the queen.

Concubine Wan and Concubine Yi went to Kunning Palace every day to intercede with her. The queen felt pity for Shu Shujue Luo's frail body, but Concubine Hui spoke to the queen at this moment, saying that the emperor was lazy and let this hot girl The potato was handed to her, and she could just throw the potato out, Shu Shu felt that there were palace rules to follow for the crime committed by Luo Shi.

So the queen handed over the matter to the Ministry of Criminal Justice for trial, and this person was moved to the Ministry of Criminal Justice. Niu Hulu's family had no support in the previous dynasty, so the Ministry of Criminal Justice naturally punished him according to the law.

The palace stipulated that if the imperial court ordered a woman to interfere in the affairs of the previous court and recommend officials for personal gain, she would be punished by strangling, and at least fifty rods.

Shu Shu felt that Luo Shizuo just sent a guard into the palace and fined him fifty boards.

But her body is as thin as a weak wind willow, how can she bear the torture of fifty boards?

Wannai got the news, immediately went to plead with the emperor with her elder sister, even Rong Yue was there to help, and even made her mother's Tong family speak in the court, asking the emperor to read Shushujue Luo's first offense and always follow the rules Take it lightly.

The emperor's heart naturally turned towards Wannai, and because the courtiers who had strongly recommended Ye Bilong to be severely punished now saw that Shu Shujue Luo Shi was being punished, most of them did not want to argue with the woman, so they did not make things difficult.

Only then did the emperor draw up an order for the Ministry of Punishments to change the punishment from fifty sticks to ten sticks and impose a slightly less severe punishment, as a warning to others.

Liang Jiugong got the imperial decree and hurried to the Ministry of Punishment, but he was dumbfounded by the scene in front of him as soon as he entered the room before he could declare the decree.

Shu Shujue Luo Shi was lying on the torture bench, his trousers seemed to be stripped off, and his buttocks had been beaten bloody with a big stick. Liang Jiugong only found out that Concubine Hui had come earlier in the morning and begged for Shu Shujue Luo Shi's favor. He also rewarded her with money and asked the criminal officer to be merciful and reduce the number of punishments, and said that the execution should be carried out as soon as possible while the sun was setting, so as not to delay her return home for medical treatment.

Therefore, the original execution time at noon was brought forward to Si time.

And when Liang Jiugong arrived, he had already beaten forty big boards, and Shu Shujue Luo had already passed out because he couldn't stand the torture. When he saw the trouble, he hurriedly ordered someone to move Shu Shujue Luo back to Niuhulu's mansion, and then returned to his home. The emperor invited the imperial physician to treat him.

After being treated in the mansion for nearly half a month, Shu Shu felt that Luo Shi could not heal for a long time due to the ulceration and infection of the wound.

This news also reached Wanyu's ears in mid-September.

That day, she was sitting in the side hall of Chengqian Palace, sewing pajamas for the emperor, when she heard the news that her mother was seriously ill, she fainted in a moment of urgency.

(End of this chapter)