Daily Life of Jiang Liuniang

   Chapter 543 Pit

  Building a house is very fast for rich people. In three months, Jiang Ling's new house has taken shape. The structure of the new house is almost the same as that of Jiang Mansion. When entering the hospital, it is the residence of the house steward, the nurse, and the concierge, and the second entering the hospital has the living room, study, Qiu Shu and other people's residences. After passing through the flower gate is the inner house. A garden was also built on the east side near Jiang Jiayuanzi. On the north side of the garden, opposite the west courtyard where Jiang Erye lived, the east courtyard of Ren's house was Jiang Ling's study. The north courtyard of the Ren family is his residence, and the built west courtyard is temporarily empty. This is what Jiang Ling prepared for his younger sister and third sister.

   Originally, Jiang Ling wanted to live in the study and put the spiritual tablets of his grandparents, uncle and parents in the north courtyard, but Nan Jingjang said that this would lead to the decline of yin and yang in the family house, and the lack of vitality in the family. Under the persuasion of Jiang's second master, Jiang Liu, Jiang Ling placed the spiritual card in the small hall behind the main courtyard. The Daotang in the backyard is well-ventilated, sunny, clean and quiet. The front of the door is dedicated to the Sanqing Daozu invited by Yu Yuanzi for the Ren family, and the side of the Daotang is the tablet of the ancestors of the Ren family and Jiang Ling's grandparents, uncles and parents.

   After setting up the Taoist hall, Jiang Liu followed his brother in to worship the Taoist Sanqing and the ancestors and elders of the Ren family. After burning incense, kowtow, and worshipping devoutly, the brothers and sisters returned to the main room. Jiang Liu couldn't help but ask, "Brother, why don't we set up a Buddhist hall?"

  Kang'an people's families hang Buddha statues and deity statues in order to ensure the safety of their homes and their families. The large families with conditions have more Buddhist halls than Taoist halls in their houses. The Jiang family is the Buddhist hall.

  Jiang Ling explained, "Whether it is a Buddhist hall or a Taoist hall, we have to make offerings every day. We don't have the skills to do this. If we set up a Buddhist hall, we need to have people in charge. If we set up a Taoist hall, it will be done by Hezhi."

   Jiang Liu's eyes were bright, "Brother, wonderful!"

Jiang Ling smiled, took his sister's warm little hand and said, "Daoist Master Yu Yuanzi has calculated the auspicious time and auspicious day, the side gates of the two houses are being opened on the third day of the first month of November. White house."

   "Okay." Jiang Liu agreed. After the two Taoist priests, Gui Miao and Yu Yuanzi, looked at them, they chose to open the side door on the wall behind the rockery in Jiang's Garden. In addition to the auspicious time for opening the side door, the specific location, height, width of the side door, and even the number and color of floor tiles, as well as the location of the rockery that should be set up in the Renfu Garden opposite the Jiangfu Rockery, the size of the rockery, and the types and numbers of flowers and plants that should be planted on the rockery etc. are specified in detail.

  The two rockeries were arranged by Jiang Huai himself. In order to choose the right rockery, he traveled all over the Kang'an rock quarry, and even went to the rock quarry in Yingtianfu twice. Through this, Jiang Liu finally got a taste of the third uncle's fanatical love for stones.

  After the construction of the side gate on the third day of November, the house of the new house will be dried and removed from the tide. On the tenth day of December, Jiang Ling will move to a new house. When the brothers and sisters were lying on the new desk and thinking about furniture, Jiang Liu sneezed with an itchy nose. Jiang Ling immediately put down the pen and took his sister to the yard to bask in the sun.

   Counting nine cold days, standing in the warm sunshine is a very enjoyable thing. Jiang Liu followed his brother for a walk in the garden. The winding road in the garden has been paved, and it seems a little deserted because the flowers and trees have not yet been planted. However, this deserted place was full of expectations. Seeing this garden, Jiang Liu couldn't help but think about what to plant here and what to plant there, and his mind was full of spring.

   turned around, and the two turned to the wall near the Jiangfu rockery. Jiang Liu habitually looked at the cracks in the bricks on the wall. Through these large and small cracks, she and the fifth sister had a lot of fun. In a few days, these brick cracks will expand into a door. Jiang Liu raised the corner of his mouth and turned to look at the hole dug not far away, "Brother, is the rockery here?"

   Jiang Ling nodded, "It was dug according to the size of the rockery base, and the rockery can be transported into the house in the future."

  Jiang Liu walked to the pit and looked down. By coincidence, a plum blossom hairpin on her head fell off and fell into the pit. When Jiang Ling was about to jump down to get it, Jiang Liu stopped him, "Brother, I want to jump down and try."

   This pit is three feet deep, and my sister is already more than three feet tall, so there is no danger in jumping down. Jiang Ling nodded, took the cape that his sister had taken off, and watched her easily jump down to pick up the hairpin.

  Jiang Liu picked up the hairpin and scratched the soil wall flattened by the shovel with the hairpin, trying to see if the soil here was frozen solid. Who would have guessed that when she stuck a hairpin in, a large piece of the soil wall fell off. Jiang Liu looked down at his embroidered brocade skirt and embroidered shoes, speechless.

   "I hit it? Does it hurt?" Jiang Ling immediately jumped down and put a cape on his sister.

   "I thought the soil was frozen, but I didn't expect..." Jiang Liu said halfway, his eyes fell on the place where the soil fell, and he whispered, "Brother!"

"Well." Jiang Ling's eyes also fell on the purple-red spot in the soil wall. After he looked up and checked that no one was there, he took out the dagger from his waist and dug out one and a half parts from the soil wall. The square-sized wooden box was quickly wrapped in the cloak. After jumping on it, he instructed Jiang Cai to fill in the collapsed soil hole and restore it to its original state. He and his sister returned to the main room and closed the doors and windows, staring at the wooden box with soil on the table. . The four eyes looked at each other, all excited to find the treasure.

   Could this be what Qin Tianye was looking for when he rummaged through Meng Mansion? How could something so important be buried next to the wall? Jiang Liu rubbed the soil on his little hands and discussed with his brother, "Brother, let's open it up and take a look?"

  Jiang Ling was more cautious than his sister. He asked her to step back. After repeatedly testing the box with a dagger, he closed his mouth and nose to open the copper lock, and then lifted the box lid with the dagger.

   As expected, the contents of the box were wrapped in moisture-proof oiled paper. Opened the three layers of oiled paper, and inside was a memorial. Jiang Liu and his brother looked at each other for a moment, and then their eyes fell on the memorial.

   "See?" Jiang Liu asked.

   "Look." Jiang Ling replied affirmatively, everything was in front of him, so there was no reason not to look at it. He wiped his hands with a handkerchief, carefully took out the memorial with a rotten smell, and opened the first page.

   Long live my emperor:

  The minister, Jiang Mian, the minister of the Ministry of Punishment, paid his respects.

   Seeing the first two lines, Jiang Liu's heart was pounding, and he held his brother's hand and said excitedly, "This is the memorial that my grandfather wrote to the late emperor!"

  Sister's hands were very cold, Jiang Ling wrapped her in a cloak and hugged her tightly before unfolding the memorial and looking down together.

  This is indeed a memorial written by Jiang Mian to the late emperor. The content is about the case of the late emperor's decree ordering the Ministry of Punishment to conduct a thorough investigation and the corruption of money and money in Suzhou. Jiang Mian, as one of the presiding judges, conducted a preliminary analysis of the case based on the evidence sent to the Criminal Department and the confessions of the prisoners involved: the two million pieces of army salaries and rations that disappeared in Suzhou were 1.2 million pieces. It will be lost in the future before it can be shipped out of Gyeonggi. The 800,000 guans transported to Suzhou were embezzled and misappropriated by Suzhou officials and Zuo Wuwei soldiers. Jiang Mian believed that the 800,000 kuai rations that were transported to Suzhou could be ascertained in a matter of time, and the difficulty was the 1.2 million guang rations that disappeared without a trace. Therefore, Jiang Mian wrote an excerpt and invited the late emperor, hoping that Jingzhao House could assist the Ministry of Justice in investigating the whereabouts of this large amount of salaries.

   In the last column, the four complete characters of "Chen Jiang Mianzai" are written, followed by the half-written word "Bai". Jiang Liu stared at these half-words, thinking about what happened at the time, so his grandfather stopped writing, and he never had time to make up the last few strokes to complete the memorial.

   (end of this chapter)