Chapter 199 Searching the Liang Family
Mr. Liang Ge has been an official for decades, and his body cannot be clean.
But what he wants to do now, such as destroying evidence, killing people and silencing them, is already too late.
Now, the eyes of the entire capital are fixed on him. If he makes any move, he will be caught immediately.
At this time, he was unable to move even an inch and could not protect himself.
The ministers who don't deal with Mr. Liang Ge will wait for Mr. Yuan Ge to find out something. By then, Mr. Liang Ge will be in desperate situation.
Once Mr. Liang Ge falls, the biggest supporter of the Liang family will be gone. Then Mr. Liang's case will hang there, and no one will take care of it.
Not only that, Xia Zihan also knew something.
Mr. Liang Ge, who had never joined a party before, had no one to supervise him and Concubine Lu after Mr. Chu Ge died, so he secretly defected to the Lu family and became Lu Guifei's faction.
In the past two years, he has been secretly doing things for Concubine Lu.
Mr. Liao stayed in Yi'an City for three more years because of Liang Ge's words.
Of course, Xia Zihan didn't know that the reason why she knew that Mr. Liang Ge belonged to Concubine Lu was because after Concubine Lu's son became the emperor, Mr. Liang was still the chief minister of the cabinet.
So does Mr. Fang Ge.
But Chu Jingqi did a very good job this time. Not only did he and Xia Zihan get out of the incident involving Mr. Liang Ge, but he also unintentionally pulled Mr. Liang Ge out of the water and got rid of the most powerful one of Concubine Lu. Dark chess.
Xia Zihan praised Chu Jingqi fiercely, and as a reward, she decided to make two robes for him as soon as possible.
The weather has been getting warmer day by day since the Lantern Festival. As the first lunar month is coming to an end, Chu Jingqi will soon have to take off her cotton-padded jacket and put on a robe, and Chu Jingqi will have nothing to wear.
He has grown a lot in the past year, and his old robe from last year has become shorter. Now he is eagerly waiting for the clothes Xia Zihan made for him to wear.
Xia Zihan stayed up for ten days and nights before making him a light blue brocade robe, and added a thin layer of fabric inside, which was suitable for this season.
However, due to the short time, only two green bamboos were embroidered on it, which looked simple, elegant, and elegant.
Chu Jingqi liked it very much. After trying it on, she couldn't bear to take it off.
"The cuffs are a little wider. Take them off and I'll change them for you." Xia Zihan reached out and took off the clothes.
"Okay, I'll listen to you." Chu Jingqi grinned happily.
On the night of the Lantern Festival, after the fox chased the man in black, he had a fight with the man in black, but the man in black escaped. Chu Jingqi was worried that the man in black would find Xia Zihan and do something bad, so he would not allow it. Xia Zihan went out again.
A few days ago, the Dou sisters sent me a post, but Xia Zihan also refused because she felt unwell.
However, she knew everything about what was happening in the outside world.
After the Lantern Festival, in addition to the murder of Mr. Liang, the stories of Shi Wenting, Pei Yajing, and Song Huai were also spread by interested people on the street.
Of course, the rumors outside were that Shi Wenting and Pei Yajing were vixens who seduced Song Huai. They were caught by County Lord Chu Yu and bullied County Lord Chu Yu into running away in tears.
Everyone sympathized with County Lord Chu Yu. On the contrary, everyone scolded Shi Wenting and Pei Yajing very badly.
Shi Wenting was scolded by Shi Hanlin, punished by copying female virtues 500 times, and was also put in solitary confinement.
Pei Yajing was also taken back home by the Pei family and was punished. She was prohibited from going to the Song family again. Because of this, there was also a rift between the Pei family and the Pei family.
After the opening of Han Academy on the 20th of the first lunar month, Shi Hanlin's attitude towards Song Huai became much colder. He no longer gave him a new job, let alone Shi Wenting.
Song Huai, on the other hand, acted as if nothing had happened, studying as he should, calling him "teacher" as he should, and even when the students teased him about blooming peach blossoms, he acted as if he didn't hear them and focused on studying.
With the help of a maid, Shi Wenting once sneaked to Hanxue Academy to look for Song Huai, but Song Huai stayed away from her as soon as he saw her.
When the sharp-eyed Shi Wenting found out, she went home angrily and cried all afternoon.
Once, Shi Wenting was unwilling to sneak out of the house again and came to Hanxue University. She deliberately stopped Song Huai at the place where he was passing by, "Brother Song Huai, are you hiding from me these days?"
Song Huai was startled when he saw a person suddenly jumping out. When he heard the voice of Shi Wenting, he breathed a sigh of relief, "Miss Shi and I are no longer children. You don't want to walk with me anymore." It’s appropriate, we should avoid suspicion.”
"You and I were not children last year, and I didn't see you saying anything about avoiding suspicion. Why do you have to avoid suspicion this year? Is it because of Chu Yu and Pei Yajing that you ignored me?" Shi Wenting asked him crying.
Song Huai said softly, "Sorry."
Shi Wenting cried and shouted, "I don't want your apology, wuwu..." and ran away crying. Shi Hanlin found out about Shi Wenting's sneaking out, so he sent several old ladies to detain her at home so that she could never leave the house again.
Pei Yajing had been living in the Song family in the name of accompanying the Pei family. After this incident, the Pei family took her back.
The Pei family has always wanted to marry Pei Yajing into the Lu family, but the Lu family refused. Now that something like this has happened to Pei Yajing and she has been humiliated, Mrs. Pei is even more embarrassed to go to the Lu family to propose marriage.
What's more, since ancient times, men have always gone to the woman's home to propose marriage, and no woman has gone to the man's home to propose marriage.
But Pei Yajing was about to get haircut, but something like this happened. Who would dare to ask her husband's family in the future?
The Pei family was all worried because of Pei Yajing's incident.
But Pei Yajing cried every day, missing Song Huai day and night, not thinking about tea, not wanting to eat, and restless in sleep. Before the first lunar month, she was thin and thin, and her originally round chin turned into a wheat tip.
Mrs. Pei complained that her daughter was not living up to expectations, and felt sorry for her daughter's infatuation with Song Huai. She did not want to watch her daughter die, so she went to the Song family and asked her sister-in-law about the marriage between Song Huai and Chu Yu.
Mrs. Pei could also guess some of the reasons for her sister-in-law's visit.
She also likes Pei Yajing who is gentle, sensible and polite, otherwise she would not often let Pei Yajing come to the Song family to accompany her.
If Song Huai could marry Pei Yajing as his wife, she would be the first to be happy and would support it with both hands. Her niece would become her daughter-in-law, and her daughter-in-law would have to be kind to her in the future.
However, even if she likes Pei Yajing, the Song family cannot do such a shameful thing as breaking off the engagement, not to mention that she has a mother-in-law pressing down on her head.
On New Year's Eve, her mother-in-law's rage was still vivid in her mind, so Song Baiqing ignored her for several days and had a problem with her. She didn't want to make her mother-in-law unhappy again.
If she decides to go to the Chu family to break off the engagement, she will be worried about her mother-in-law divorcing her. In her mother-in-law's heart, her status will never be compared to Mrs. Chu's.
Thinking of her mother-in-law, Mrs. Pei politely refused when Mrs. Pei hinted her intention. Mrs. Pei's face immediately looked a little ugly.
"You have watched Yajing grow up since she was a child. How can you watch her suffer without caring? Do you want to watch her die? Why are you so cruel? You are her aunt. She usually stays with her. You spend more time with me. She is so kind to you. Why did you stab her in the heart at the critical moment? Do you still have a conscience?"
conscience?
What is conscience? Can it guarantee her status in the Song family?
If she helped Yajing, what about herself? Who can help her when she is in deep trouble?
But... the Pei family is her natal family, Mrs. Pei is her sister-in-law, and now that her sister-in-law is in charge, she can't offend her too much. What if something happens to her in the future and her natal family doesn't care about her?
Mrs. Pei looked embarrassed, and finally decided to throw the ball to Mrs. Zeng and let Mrs. Pei talk to Mrs. Zeng herself.
"I can't decide Song Huai's marriage. Don't blame me. I'm in trouble too. If you really want to save Yajing, then go and tell my mother-in-law yourself. If my mother-in-law agrees, I won't say anything. , I will go to Chu’s house tomorrow to break off the engagement, and the day after tomorrow I will go to Pei’s house to propose marriage.”
Now that the words have come to this point, no matter how much Mrs. Pei doesn't want to, she can't bear to blame Mr. Pei.
Mrs. Pei went to see Mrs. Zeng on the pretext of going to pay her respects to Mrs. Zeng. I don’t know how she mentioned it. In short, Mrs. Zeng got angry and drove Mrs. Pei out of the Song family.
After Mrs. Pei was humiliated by Mrs. Zeng, she burst into tears when she got home. After crying for a while, she became angry, so she ran to scold Pei Yajing, and finally the mother and daughter hugged each other and cried.
From then on, Mrs. Pei never came to the Song family again. When Mr. Pei returned to her parents' home, she was also cold and indifferent to Mr. Pei without a smile.
After all, there is still a rift between the aunt and the sister-in-law.
Mrs. Pei blamed all this on the innocent Chu family. She disliked Chu Yu even more and hated Mrs. Zeng.
Half a month later, Mr. Liang Ge's case made progress. Mr. Yuan Ge took out a lot of personal and material evidence and presented it to the emperor.
Mr. Liang Ge had only been in the cabinet for less than five years, but he had already committed no less than thirty crimes, large and small.
Forcing people's daughters to death, seizing fertile land, and forcing women into prostitution were all committed by Mr. Liang. Mr. Liang Ge was implicated. Mr. Liang Ge sent people to use money to settle matters for Mr. Liang.
But he also committed the crime of covering up, not reporting what he knew, and deceiving his superiors and concealing it from his subordinates.
These are all minor crimes, but there are also major crimes, such as corruption, selling one's official position, pretending to be a public servant, avenging one's own vengeance, or even paying someone to kill someone. Any crime can lead to confiscation and exile.
The emperor read through page after page. After reading it, he was furious and furious. He immediately threw the evidence of guilt in the faces of the ministers angrily, "Is this the chief minister of the cabinet you recommended? He even sold his official position and bought it." He dares to do such a thing, what else can he not dare to do? ”
Then he ordered Jin Linwei to arrest everyone in the Liang family and raid the Liang Mansion.
When Jin Linwei's men took out Wan Guan's wealth from the Liang Mansion's warehouse, the people and courtiers who were watching were all shocked.
In the court, who doesn't know that the Liang family was founded by the old hands of Liang Ge.
The Liang family was a scholarly family, but it was almost in decline before Mr. Liang Ge passed the imperial examination. When Mr. Liang went to Beijing to take the scientific examination, he had to borrow money from relatives.
(End of chapter)