The Red Mansion is so charming

Chapter 88

Widow Miao is a poor and settled family. When she was a girl, it was a matter of verbal disputes. The boss kept her solitary boudoir, and people from far and near were unwilling to marry her, for fear of causing more trouble.Widow Miao's mother had no choice but to ask a matchmaker to find relatives far away. It happened that Grandma Qi's father died and his wife was willing to spend money to marry Widow Miao back as a grandmother. Widow Miao's mother did not wait for her daughter's consent. , the marriage was approved.

Old man Miao's ears were soft, and he felt ashamed for marrying a big girl named Huanghua, so he relied on Widow Miao for everything.Widow Miao has a bad heart, and she doesn't say anything about beating or scolding her daughter who is not her own. After a few years of entering the house, she sold Grandma Qi to be a maid. marry a daughter-in-law.

Grandma Qi not only hated the widow Miao, but also hated the old man Miao for his heartlessness.

Later, Grandma Qi made a fortune, and Widow Miao lost her husband. In contrast, Widow Miao blamed Grandma Qi even more.

Young Master Qi only used a small trick to get the secret of the Nine-tailed Tiankui into his hands.

This Nine-tailed Heavenly Sunflower is a foreign species from the Western Regions, and it is rare in the capital. Old Miao’s ancestors used to be a flower farmer for a prince in the previous dynasty.It's a pity that although this flower is fragrant and fragrant, it is extremely difficult to feed, so few people in this dynasty know its origin.

If it wasn't for the fact that Xiuyanhua paid a lot of money to get news from Widow Miao, she wouldn't know how powerful Nine-Tailed Tiankui is.

According to word of mouth of the Miao family, the Nine-Tailed Tiankui itself is non-toxic, but once it is mixed with the juice of the poisonous arrow tree, it can cause sudden death in an instant.

The prince served by the ancestor of the Miao family used this method to bury the whole family's wives, concubines and children after the defeat of the previous dynasty.The Miao family was frightened by the viciousness of this method, but by mistake they kept the flower seeds of the nine-tailed genus.

Later, the Miao family settled down in the suburbs of Beijing and lived there for several generations. This secret was only passed on to males and not females. It stands to reason that Grandma Qi would never know about it.But Grandma Qi's mother didn't have a son, so she only raised her daughter as a boy, so she told Grandma Qi without telling the old man Miao, and even stole a few of the few remaining Nine-Tailed Sunflower seeds to her daughter.

It was also Grandma Qi who was surprisingly lucky. Of the few seeds she planted, three sprouted.

Grandma Qi, who has learned how to grow flowers from the old man Miao, naturally knows what poison arrow wood is, but this tree cannot appear suddenly in Qi's house.Because poison arrow wood also has a terrifying name-see blood seal throat.

The high temperature and humidity in southern Fujian is the best place for the growth of poisonous arrowwood. The ethnic minority tribes in the local forests will collect the poisonous juice from the leaves of the poisonous arrowwood and carefully wipe it on the arrows to resist foreign enemies.

If the poisonous arrow wood juice accidentally falls into the eyes, it can instantly cause blindness; if it enters the wound, it will also cause the blood to coagulate suddenly, and it will take a person's life after an unfathomable amount of time.

But these are not as fast as using the two at the same time with Nine-tailed Tenkui.

Grandma Qi is a woman in the house, and her natal family has no one to rely on, so it is impossible to go to southern Fujian to find poisonous arrow trees.The only explanation is...someone is secretly helping.

After Xiuyan sorted out these clues, she tactfully told Mrs. Qi some of her secrets. At the same time, she secretly told Widow Miao to make things worse.

Under Xiuyan's instruction, after the Qi family came to Daozikou, the widow Miao knelt in front of Dali Temple the next day, begging the Dali Temple to be the judge for her.Unexpectedly, Lord Yin Jiang of Shuntian Mansion was also there, and Lord Jiang's face was so ugly, because Widow Miao just lost her son. For such a thing, she should go to Shuntian Mansion instead of going past him to Dali Temple.

Leapfrogging to appeal, Widow Miao will be punished with [-] blows first.

Don't look at Widow Miao being cruel and ruthless to Grandma Qi, but for the sake of her precious son's future, Widow Miao knows that the twenty sticks will definitely kill half of her life, but she still gritted her teeth and kept going.

Xiuyan had ordered someone to take care of the execution officer in Dali Temple earlier, the stick looked fierce when it fell, but in fact it only hurt Widow Miao's skin and flesh, and did not hurt her bones.

However, it was the leapfrog appeal, and the whole case alarmed the Ministry of Criminal Justice.

In the Minister's Mansion of the Ministry of Punishment, Cheng Zimo held the pleading paper in his hand and read it back and forth three times before handing it over to his staff.

"My lord, there is something strange about this matter. A country woman, how did she know that she would come to Dali Temple to file a lawsuit? And she chose the time when Shuntian Fu Yin was there. In this way, even if Dali Temple wanted to quietly dismiss the case to Shuntian Even the Tianfu trial is impossible, after all, the twenty-kill stick can't let people suffer in vain."

The governor of Shuntian Prefecture is a serious official of the third grade, unlike other magistrates, he directly obeys the emperor's orders and has great power, otherwise everyone wants to be an official at the emperor's feet!The Judgment Temple of Dali Temple also wants to give Shuntian Fu Yin some face, but it is normal, when encountering this kind of leapfrog appeal, Dali Temple will at most scold and threaten with sticks, but today is different, things are very troublesome, The widow Miao who filed the complaint kept crying out for grievances, and Shuntian Fu Yin was also a cunning and cunning man. Seeing that there were too many people involved in the higher-ups, and there were secrets in the inner house of the Qi family, Shun Tian Fu Yin Le let him go.

But in this case, the Ministry of punishment must intervene.

Because the Ministry of Criminal Justice ordered the case to be closed years ago, now Widow Miao not only sues her son for missing, but also sues the young master of the Qi family for poisoning her stepdaughter and making her a scapegoat.

After hearing what the staff said, Cheng Zimo turned to pace behind the table with his hands behind his back.One of the oldest and most prestigious aides among them, known as Mr. Wu, said slowly: "My lord, there is no need to be embarrassed. As long as Dali Temple accepts the case, we will not be afraid to confront him. This Widow Miao has evidence, we must not let him A good man has been wronged, and besides, Mrs. Qi has always been dissatisfied with the conclusion of the case by the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and now we reopen the trial, isn't it just as she wishes?"

A person sitting next to Mr. Wu hurriedly said: "Sir, what you said is wrong. Song Shangshu doesn't want the Qi family's affairs to stir up trouble again. Our lord has settled this matter, and now we bring it up again. Isn't it a breach of trust?"

"Stupid!" Mr. Wu snorted coldly: "At one time and another, at that time Mr. Martial Arts University scholar Fu did not say to return home, but now that Mr. Song is about to enter the cabinet, that old bastard Song Lian is obstructing us. I want his sister-in-law to take this position. Since he is ruthless and ungrateful, why should my lord have any scruples?"

As soon as Mr. Wu spoke, the surroundings fell silent.

Cheng Zimo put away the seriousness on his face, and smoothed things over with a smile: "Mr. Wu thinks highly of me. The emperor allowed me to take over the Ministry of Criminal Justice. Let’s do a good job for the emperor in a down-to-earth manner.”

Cheng Zimo's qualifications are too low, Xiaozong ascended the throne, almost every year he promoted Cheng Zimo several grades, and even drove the old subordinates of the Supreme Emperor to the countryside of Suzhou to retire.

The Supreme Emperor had long complained about this. During the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, the six ministers went to kowtow to the Supreme Emperor, and the old man gave him a pair of his own calligraphy.When Cheng Zimo opened it after returning home, he was surprised to see the four big characters written by the Supreme Emperor: There are scales on the abdomen.

Cheng Zimo felt dizzy at the time, so he quickly hid the scroll in the painting vat.

There are scales on the belly and the words "Three Kingdoms", which means that people hide a clever and deceitful heart.Cheng Zimo didn't know what word the Taishanghuang gave to others, but the way he sent it to him clearly showed his dislike for him.

The old man had to be so angry that he sent this picture to Cheng Zimo regardless of Xiaozong's face.

How could Cheng Zimo dare to complain to Xiaozong about his grievances? He wished he could find a hole in the ground to bury his paintings and calligraphy.But it was the reward from the Supreme Emperor, even if he was given ten guts, Cheng Zimo would not dare to do anything.

In addition, he had to guard against the Supreme Emperor's deliberate mischief.In case the old man gets interested one day and asks him to take out his things to cool, where can Cheng Zimo find him?

Thinking of his pride in front of Emperor Xiaozong, and his shame in front of the Supreme Emperor, Cheng Zimo just thought it was a world of ice and fire. When would such a hard life come to an end!
After entering the cabinet, Cheng Zimo was considered to have truly entered the center of imperial power.It would be a lie to say that you are not moved, as Mr. Wu said, Song Lian is an out-and-out old man. He is not only the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, but also the position of a scholar in the Palace of Baohe, and he can speak in front of the late emperor. , is also a celebrity in front of Xiaozong.

Why did he have to fight against himself!

Seeing that Cheng Zimo was silent, Mr. Wu and other staff said, "If your lord has any scruples, you might as well send someone unfamiliar to Dali Temple. First, he will show it to Song Lian, and second, we can grasp it."

"Do you have a suitable candidate in mind, gentlemen?" Cheng Zimo nodded. This idea is not bad.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and finally Mr. Wu said: "I think His Majesty likes Jia Lian from Rongguo Mansion, why don't you ask him to practice his skills?"

Cheng Zimo shook his head with a busy smile: "Jia Lian is only from the eighth rank of Shu Lingshi, where did he get the qualification to go to Dali Temple to assist in the trial."

Mr. Wu smiled slightly: "Your Excellency forgot, he also has an uncle who works in the Ministry of Punishment, and this Xing Zhong was personally recommended by the former Shangshu Lord. If the Supreme Emperor knows that the Lord reuses this person, he will definitely look up to the Lord."

Cheng Zimo felt guilty, it seemed that Mr. Wu had already noticed that the Supreme Emperor didn't like him?

At this moment, Xing Zhong and Jia Lian were sorting out the old case files from three years ago in the Ministry of Criminal Justice. When they received the task assigned by Shangfeng, they both looked at each other in disbelief.

Especially Jia Lian, he never imagined that he would get a chance to make a difference when he just joined the Ministry of Punishment.

Jia Lian's face flushed with excitement, "Uncle, tell me, is this the emperor's intention? Ask me to redeem my merits?"

After all, Xing Zhong is old-fashioned, and his ideas are far more complicated than Jia Lian.

"Don't act rashly, go back to Fengwei Hutong at night, let's analyze this matter in detail." Xing Zhong didn't have Jia Lian's optimism. If the people above had no doubts about flattering Jia Lian, he shouldn't be taking him along!Could it be that Cheng Zimo still has malice towards Lao Shangshu?
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PS: I finally made it to the recommendation~~ Coke is so good!

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