Daily Life of Jiang Liuniang

   Chapter 524 Past Events

  According to the Criminal Law of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the "Four Clans" refers to the four families of the father, namely: the family of oneself, the family of married aunts, the family of married sisters, and the family of married daughters. The "family" included the offender's grandparents, uncles, parents, cousins, siblings, sons and grandchildren, nephews and nieces.

  How many people are there in the four clans of the Anmeng family? There are more than 400 people who have been imprisoned and those who have been escorted to Kang'an in batches! The last group to arrive was escorted from Meng Huizhou's hometown of Quanzhou. Meng Huizhou's aunts, uncles, cousins ​​and sisters. On the day they entered Beijing, just in time for Jiang Liu to go out to Bai's house to practice martial arts. The prison cars passed by the road in front of her. The prisoners were unkempt and lifeless in the prison cars. The people on both sides of the road pointed at them. People dared to speak loudly, and Jiang Liu could clearly hear the sound of the wheels of the prison cart rolling over the stone slabs on the ground.

   The four Meng family members who were implicated this time are more than that in Quanzhou. Did the rest die on the road, or were they not caught in Beijing? Jiang Liu returned to the house with doubts, and when he entered the door and looked up, he saw the old housekeeper lying on the reclining chair, opening his mouth and sleeping very sweetly.

  Jiang Liu passed by the old man's house lightly, and happened to meet Uncle Qiu, who was very busy. Uncle Qiu stopped to salute Jiang Liu, and Jiang Liu returned the salute and asked, "Is Uncle Qiu busy?"

   Miss Six asked, and Uncle Qiu had to become less busy no matter how busy he was, "This old man has nothing to do and is going out for a walk, what is Miss Six's orders?"

   Don't dare to be told, Jiang Liu said, "I have something I want to ask you for advice."

   After that, Jiang Liu pointed to the table under another big pomegranate tree and asked Uncle Qiu to sit down. Nanny Zhao hurriedly ordered people to prepare tea and snacks.

"Just now I came out of the Bai's house and saw that the Meng family, who was implicated, had been escorted from Quanzhou to the city. There were more than ten prison cars, and there were at least thirty or forty prisoners. Uncle Qiu knows which of the Meng family were escorted into Beijing from Quanzhou. People?" Jiang Liu asked.

Uncle Qiu understood what Miss Liu wanted to know as soon as he heard it, "The old man knows a thing or two. After Meng Huizhou was sentenced, the sentence for involving the four ethnic groups was expedited to Quanzhou after 600 miles, and the local officials interrogated as required by the official document. The clansmen who were implicated, the Meng clan who were escorted to Beijing this time, are all guilty people of the four clans. Can Miss Six remember that when the second master went south to Quanzhou to take the exam, the Meng family secretly sought someone to take the exam for Meng San?"

  Jiang Liu nodded, "Remember, because I went south with Daddy, the Meng family's plan was broken and failed."

   Uncle Qiu continued, "Although it hasn't happened yet, the crime of bribing the examiner in private and looking for someone to bail for Meng San is real. I don't know what crime the others committed. If the girl wants to know, the old man will go and find out."

  Jiang Liu shook his head, "No need, I'm just asking casually, you can go shopping on the street."

   After Uncle Qiu got up and left, Uncle Hou, who was sleeping under the tree, got up and went to Jiang Liu, "Miss Liu is back?"

  Jiang Liu stood up, "I woke you up, did Uncle Hou drink tea?"

   "Thank you, Miss Liu." Uncle Hou sat down with a smile, took a sip of sour and sweet tea, and just put down the cup, "Is the girl nine years old this year?"

   "Well." Da Zhou talks about the age of imaginary, the child is only one year old when he is born, Jiang Liu's birthday is in April, and now he is eight years old.

"You were only three years old when the girl's grandfather died, so you don't remember much." People like to reminisce about the past when they are old. The old housekeeper didn't like drinking the girl's tea, but he liked to eat her snacks. He took a big bite and ate it. , then said, "After the girl's grandfather passed away, the late emperor passed away, and our mansion was surrounded by officers and soldiers, saying that we were going to execute the nine clans, and the servants in the mansion ran away more than a dozen in one night, and your father arrived with the girl in the middle of the night In the front yard, let the old slave find a way to send the girl out for placement."

   No one had told her about this, so Jiang Liu put down his snacks and listened carefully.

"The girl slept soundly at that time, but as soon as the second master handed the girl into the hands of Qingling girl, the girl woke up and cried to find her father. The second master's tears were unbearable. Coax the girl well, the old slave put the ladder on the ladder and was about to send the girl and Qingling girl over the wall, when there was movement outside the wall."

  Qingling was the name of the wet nurse. It was the first time that Jiang Liu heard someone call her girl. Seeing that the old housekeeper stopped talking, Jiang Liu urged, "What happened later?"

"The second boy of the Meng family was standing outside the wall on horseback. The servants carried lanterns and asked the old servant where he was going. The old servant had to say that there was no more rice and noodles in the house, so he went out to buy rice. After this toss, the officers and soldiers surrounding the gate of our house were After running over, the girl didn't make it. At dawn, the second boy from the Meng family brought us a bag of rice, what did the girl mean?" the old housekeeper asked.

What does    mean? One night, the Jiang family ran over a dozen servants and no one was caught, but when his father wanted to send him away, Meng Er led people to guard outside! Jiang Liu clenched his fists tightly, "He just told us that he's staring outside, and none of us want to run away!"

The old housekeeper grinned, "Miss Liu is as smart as the second master. If Miss Six didn't make it, the people in our house couldn't get out. The person who goes to Beijing to behead is named Jiang."

  Jiang Liu nodded, "Uncle Hou, Liu'er understands what you mean. Liu'er didn't think the Meng family was innocent, but just wanted to know who was brought here."

  The felony of implicated in the criminal law of Dazhou is clearly listed. Meng Huizhou and An Yunchang, as officials of the Ministry of Punishment, dared to murder and set fire to the major case files and witnesses ordered by the late emperor to investigate thoroughly, sooner or later this day will come. As for the relatives of the four clans who were implicated, Long Live has issued an imperial decree, killing the guilty and punishing the innocent. As for the punishment method, it depends on the official document of the sentence issued by the three divisions in a few days.

Uncle Hou took another piece of dessert and continued, "In the world, no one is softer than the second master. When the second master was walking, he would walk around when he saw the ants on the ground. After a few days, The second master will definitely go to Caishikou to be executed. The old lady is old, and the second wife is pregnant. When the second master comes back from the beheading, he has to insist that he is all right. At that time, the sixth girl will have to guard the second master, and the second master will be alone. People can't stand it."

   So the old housekeeper told him so much because he wanted him to take care of his father. Jiang Liu looked up at the old butler opposite, and asked for advice humbly, "Uncle Hou, what should Liu'er do?"

   "Ah?" The old butler turned his head and asked loudly, "What did Miss Six say just now? The old servant didn't hear clearly, the old servant's ears—"

  Jiang Liu is speechless, are your ears truly deaf or selectively deaf?

"what?"

   "It's okay, you have another snack, I'm going back." Jiang Liu pushed the snack in front of the old butler and said loudly.

   "Okay, thank you Miss Liu." Uncle Hou opened his wrinkled mouth and smiled extremely happily.

   Jiang Liu looked at him and smiled.

  On the third day after the Meng clan was detained in Kang'an, on the bulletin wall outside Jingzhao Mansion, the specific punishment for those who were implicated in the An Meng case was posted. Soon, these official documents were copied by the steward of the Jiang family and sent back to the mansion.

   After reading the grandmother, aunt, mother and third aunt, these handwritten documents were sent one by one to the four sisters of the Jiang family.

   (end of this chapter)