Chapter six hundred and six cruel
The guards, honor guards and local officials and other large groups of people walked dozens of miles from Yugan County before they arrived at this Dayuanba Village. After some trouble, it was almost late. So everyone had to rest for a night.
The officials requisitioned a lot of houses, and fortunately the guards brought military tents, so a group of people could barely camp in this small village with nothing.
Qianrui and Du's mother lived in their own home. The yellow dog arranged many eunuchs and soldiers to take turns to guard outside. The mother and daughter lived in a dilapidated house, and several young palace maids were waiting for their daily life.
After nightfall, the bedroom was covered with dark brown dirt under the oil lamp, which was smoked by ash, and the dirt turned into by the dust in the humid air. There were even black things hanging on the roof, which were called "Yangchen", which was the thing after the remaining spider webs were smoked with wood ash. Qianrui had accidentally heard the palace maid's quietly complaints.
Du's mother said something useless, saying that Qianrui's clothes were very expensive and would be damaged, so she changed the old linen clothes in the cabinet before sleeping.
Qian Rui took the initiative to ask her mother (mother) how she lived over the years. Sure enough, when her mother said that her father became a murderer. After the crime, she not only had no food and clothing to make a living, but she was also often bullied. When she went out, she was poked on her back and chewed her tongue. For a while, she didn't even dare to go out.
No wonder Mom is so numb now! Mom is not confused. How can people survive if they are not numb in such an environment?
Everything is like a dream.
Qianrui remembers a sentence Zhu Gaoxu said: A person should live a little better, usually relying on his own ability; if he wants to become a good person, he must have luck.
Isn’t the Du family’s earth-shaking dream like this? The family became like this purely because Qianrui’s father was not doing his job properly; but Qianrui’s return to his hometown and having the current show was not determined by how much she had the ability to decide.
In his sleep, Qianrui really had a dream.
She dreamed that she was washing clothes by the pond, as if she was not old, because she often washed clothes by the pond before she was sold. Then she accidentally fell into the water! She was panicked and tried hard to run towards the water, but for some reason, there was a big stone tied to her body!
Qianrui felt her body sinking. The pond was so deep for some reason that it could not fall to the bottom. She felt that the water was cold and black. She was suffocated and panicked to the extreme, and she tried her best to pull the rope with the stone tied to her body.
At this moment, what Qian Rui hated the most was the heavy stones on her body. If she had no stones to drag her down, she could save herself!
Finally untied the rope, Qianrui kicked off the stone without hesitation and swam upwards. Although she was still in the water, she suddenly felt relaxed at this time, and a feeling of comfort came to her heart early...
The next morning, after Qianrui got up, she remembered the dream last night. She couldn't remember some details very much. Things in the dream quickly became blurred, but her feelings were very clear at that time.
The palace maids were waiting for the mother and daughter to dress up in thin air. Qianrui sat there in a daze, and when she thought of that dream, she felt a little touched.
She suddenly felt that her heart was very cruel!
Many times she acts very weak and kind, but she can do something. When Zhu Gaoxu came to pick her up, she left her messy home without hesitation and left immediately without hesitation; and she hasn't asked about the house for so many years.
This time she found out that her father was wrongly sentenced to death; she knew very well that it was indeed an injustice. But she didn't hate the county magistrate at all, and she didn't feel sad... Qian Rui couldn't feel sad after selling her biological father twice.
Of course, she was heartbroken when she was outside, after all, so many people had to see her filial piety. However, none of her tears shed for her father, because she was completely because of her poor mother.
Last night, the eunuch Huang Gou sent someone to prepare mourning clothes. In the morning, Qianrui wore mourning clothes and took a large group of people to the mountains to worship her father.
She knelt in front of a simple mound covered with weeds. She couldn't feel sad, so she had to think about her hard life. Last night, her mother was shaking hands holding a bowl of white rice, and she suddenly felt sad. She knelt in front of the grave and cried like a tearful person.
"Wow..." Suddenly, a loud cry was heard. Qian Rui looked sideways and found that it was the magistrate in a green robe. The magistrate cried even harder than her. While hunching his head and stamping his feet, Ordovician cried!
The rest of the officials were also sighing sadly nearby, and some even pretended to use their robe sleeves to gently wipe their dry eyes.
Of course, the saddest person is the magistrate, who is like his dead father. But Qianrui feels that his sadness is real, after all, the career of the government seems to be over!
Qian Rui knew that she was wrong in thinking this way, but she couldn't deceive herself: Not only did she not hate the county magistrate, she sympathized with him at this time.
Because of a moment of sympathy, Qian Rui suddenly thought: If she asked the county magistrate to exonerate and asked the officials of the Censorate to investigate and deal with the prison guard who was tortured and forced confession, could she help the county magistrate?
In doing so, Du Qianrui will definitely gain a good reputation in Shilin, Jiangxi; if officials are tolerant, they will of course say good things for Du Qianrui! But Du Qianrui thought about it and shook her head gently, thinking that it would be better to be cautious in words and actions, so as not to be caught in the hands of interfering in politics.
She sacrificed her father and stood up, choked with tears on her face and said, "Officials, don't punish the person involved in the case seriously because of me. You must follow the "Da Ming Law" and follow the court's national laws. But my father was indeed wronged. I am his daughter. I will definitely not kill anyone who knows his character."
An official hurriedly bowed and said, "Mrs. Du understands the truth, knows the general principles, and admires the lower officials." The officials hurriedly agreed.
Du Qianrui said again: "The emperor has an imperial edict to come down and ask us to return to Beijing to meet as soon as possible. I dare not delay, so I set off today. This trip has insuffered from the official affairs of the various yamen due to my personal gain. After I return to Beijing, I apologize to the emperor."
The inspector's official hurriedly said, "Madam, just be at ease. The lower-ranking officials must investigate the matter strictly, give a brief explanation to the Du family, and give the Du family a cleansing. The lady is frugal and loving the people. The lower-ranking officials will submit a memorial to the truth, praise the wife for being wise and filial to the deeds of each township."
After hearing this, Du Qianrui also sensible and whispered: "You are working hard, I will speak to the emperor."
She then said to Muma who was standing next to her: "My mother and I go to Beijing and let Dilang be filial. I will ask Dilang to take care of Dad's grave. We can't delay the time this time."
She actually said it to the people around her, and it was also for filial piety. Because Qianrui knew that her mother was so resentful to her father, she didn't necessarily care whether to repair the grave or not.
When everyone returned to the village from the mountains, the eunuch Huang Gou reported: "Some people claim to be relatives of their wives and want to see their wives."
Du Qianrui frowned slightly, and remembered what Mu's mother said last night, "Everyone poked her backbone", and she said quietly: "We are going to rush into Beijing, and the warships are waiting for the Poyang Lake case; you can't delay this time. Go and send them away."
The yellow dog clasped his fists and said, "I obey the order."
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Recently, a large number of troops from several places have been rushing to the capital. In addition to the Shen family, Xu family and Sichuan Provincial Administration and the Sichuan Provincial Administration Office have also traveled eastward.
Mu Sheng and Weida received the imperial edict from the fast horse to Sichuan and set off for Beijing immediately; Sichuan's military affairs were handed over to Li Rang, the commander of the capital. However, there was no urgent military affairs in Sichuan now; the puppet dynasty official troops in the north and east had been successively ordered, and it was impossible to attack Sichuan again.
The Mu family, accompanied Wei Da and others, and led the guards to transfer many official ships in the Sichuan Provincial Administration and Commissioner's Office; then they walked into the river and went down the river to the east to Sichuan.
At this time, their fleet had just arrived at the boundary of Jingzhou Prefecture.
During the "Battle of Crime", Jingzhou had tens of thousands of troops, both in the naval and land. However, after Zhang Fu led the main force of the navy to surrender, the naval warships in Jingzhou were also eliminated; some of the owners of the warship fled, while some surrendered to the Crime Army.
But Lu Shi, who was stationed in Jingzhou Prefecture City, ignored it at first; it was not until Zhu Gaoxu's edict of ascension to the throne was sent to Jingzhou Prefecture that they obeyed the new emperor's edict.
The fleet from Sichuan was traveling through Jingzhou. Veda took a team of people and said he wanted to go to Jingzhou City to do something. Mu Sheng advised him a few words, but Veda refused to listen and still went into the city.
The emperor has been changed, and the garrison in the prefectural office of Jingzhou City did not have any hostile attitude; after they received the official documents, a group of people came to welcome Veda. People all know that Veda was one of the three guard commanders of the Han Palace and did not dare to neglect it!
The prefect said that he had prepared a reception banquet to fulfill his friendship with the landlords.
But Veda had no interest in this. He asked clearly where a general named Li Jiaming was, and then took his men to the camp and saw this man who was originally a general of the Han Wang Army.
When the puppet dynasty official army attacked Kuizhou, Li Jiaming opened the city gate for a reward of 200 yuan! Other brothers from the Li family were on the puppet dynasty official army. Li Jiaming made contributions and received the money and defected to the Jingzhou army.
Veda didn't know this person before, and he didn't say much when he met. Veda just said coldly: "Buy a vital city and a duke of two hundred guan, it's really cheap."
Li Jiaming already understood what was going on and was so scared that he knelt down to beg for mercy.
Veda sneered again, "But you can't get it well. If you do nothing, you can be a good thing to be a good official, but you don't want it, and you have to rush to die by yourself! Then I can't blame me!"
Veda pulled out his waist knife and stabbed Li Jiaming in public and died in full view of everyone!
"The surrendered officials of the puppet court are all fine. But this traitor of the Crime Army must die! He captured his brother and escorted back to Beijing, and let the Governor's Office of the Crime Army be treated as military law!" Veda told the magistrate.
Chapter completed!