Chapter 1029 Burial of the Cow
Liu Li's face turned green in the lobby of Shuntian Mansion. Only then did he realize that the things he collected were discovered by the government. Fortunately, although the above views were shocking, they did not explicitly say that they would overthrow the corrupt feudal Ming Dynasty, etc.
After all, after three years of being away from home, Liu Li defended: "My lord is wronged. I just read the newspapers posted by others. I can't say that I have an affair with these people."
After asking for a long time, he realized that he was not well-informed and not very old, so he should have nothing to do with rebellion and had never had any bad records. He also brought the people in the bookstore to interrogate them, and they were all dutiful guys and had nothing to do with this matter.
As a result, he couldn't help but hesitate again. During the period when the emperor was seriously ill, it was difficult to kill people and establish his authority without conclusive evidence. Even if he insisted on asking for the death, he could not pass the Ministry of Justice and the Prince. Moreover, these guys were all native to Jinling, and their families would definitely gather to cause trouble, which had a great impact.
Mr. Huang was not a fool either. He saw that the prefect Hu pondered and said, "This person has kept illegal books privately, which shows that he is not a silly person. Let's save him from his death and detain him for a few years, so he can also collect his wildness."
"Then it's ten years." Hu Taishou said confidently.
"Ten years are too long, three years are enough." said Mr. Huang.
After talking about it, the two of them were sentenced to six years of imprisonment. The bookstore hosted bandits and immediately closed the store. The boss and others were sentenced to one year of custody, and the rest of the staff were released on bail.
The process of not killing people is easy to handle. There is no need for a review by the Ministry of Justice. The prefect Hu, who is confident, directly ordered someone to escort Liu Li to Shangyuan County to be imprisoned. Liu Li was sent in a confused manner.
When he arrived at the county government office, the official took out his documents and showed him, saying that you had violated the law and would be shackles on you. You should live in the prison for ten years.
Looking at the various torture instruments, Liu Li was stunned. Then he remembered his father and cried and begged the officials to see his father.
This move hit the other person's wish and asked someone to inform his family. Poor his father had not returned home for several days since his son was angry and ran away from home. He seemed to be anxious. Today, he was about to go out to the bookstore to see his son, but suddenly he saw a messenger from Baotong County coming and said, "Your son is in the county government office, waiting to see you, and you are going to go quickly."
The old man couldn't understand at first, so he asked what was going on. The person who came said it all in a row, scaring him to death.
The anxious and painful father followed the yamen and fell and crawled to the yamen. When the father and son met, they couldn't help but burst into tears. The old man looked at the hands and feet of his beloved son. He had already finished his work. He really cried and regretted it. He was a good student, but now he has become a prisoner. How could he not be sad?
It’s all like this, I can’t complain even if I complain. I don’t have time to teach a lesson, so I just said: “I regret not sending you to Liaodong, but I didn’t expect to harm you for the rest of my life.”
After saying that, he cried again. The guards were already impatient. They stepped forward and drank his father, held Liu Li, and sent him to the prison.
Suddenly, Liu Li turned around and shouted: "Dad, go find Master Xu San to save me!"
"Master Xu San?" The father sighed in tears: "Where should I go to find someone? Which onion is your father? Is the silly son?"
He sighed and looked at the prison door for a while, rushed home to raise money and then send it to him, and took care of everything for his son, so that the child could suffer in prison.
At this time, Xu Hao squatted in the Wang family's cowshed and kept sighing. The big bull's illness was heavier day by day, and he could no longer get up. Tears often flowed out of the cow's eyes. Not to mention that Wang Siliu was sad when he saw him, how could he feel good?
Wang Siliu had a premonition of the disaster, and what he couldn't think of the most was not because he wanted to rely on the big bull to help him get rich, nor because his family fortune he had worked hard for many years had disappeared in a flash. What was saddest was that in order to buy this cow, he sent his biological daughter to the fire pit in the Tong family compound to suffer.
When I think about it, it's like a knife stuck in the tip of his heart.
Xu Hao, who was squatting, had a faint look. The Tong family knew that he came to the Wang family every day, but he didn't even say hello. It was obvious that he had lost his power and no longer took it seriously.
If the Tong family does not rely on their power to suppress others, the Tong family will not agree to release Xiaoyao, and Xu Haoming will have no choice but to say anything, so he did not let anyone say anything in the past. Once the Tong family is not open, they will not agree. What will the villagers think of the Xu family? This is tantamount to causing humiliation to himself.
The villagers didn't think it was wrong about this. The Xu family would not bully others with their power. Since Wang Siliu didn't speak first, Xu Hao was naturally not good at interfering in his affairs. Besides, the contract is a contract. How could you regret it after signing the handprint?
At night, Wang Siliu squatted on the ground and started crying. His wife and son ran out to persuade him. Wang Siliu cried and said, "My daughter, Dad, I'm sorry for you."
Seeing that the big bull died of illness and was unable to lift his head, his breathing became heavier and heavier, just like Zhu Gaochi in the Qianqing Palace. It can be seen that even the emperor, who is the supreme emperor, could not escape, and he would return to the dust after death, and no one could take his status, money and reputation.
The neighbors felt sorry for Wang Siliu's large sum of money. His daughter paid in and advised him to kill the meat while the cow is still alive. Wang Siliu still firmly disagrees. He couldn't bear to use a knife to kill a good friend. Even if someone else takes action, he felt that his conscience could not be overcome.
Ten days later, the big bull finally died. Wang Siliu cried loudly as if his family had died, and the whole family cried with him.
At this time, no one went to persuade him, just let him cry happily! The whole courtyard sighed, and Xu Hao listened quietly, listening to the big guys' talk.
A woman said, "Mr. Wang is a good master of a kind of crop, and he is also like an honest big bull. He can bear the unlucky things he encountered this year. God doesn't care about us poor people."
An elderly man in his sixties sighed: "For many years, the Tongjiayuan has been a natural group and has not received the glory of the village's county-rival clan. These days we are envious of him for buying a cow. When he sees his fortune, who doesn't come to encourage him and hopes that he can accomplish things? Just to give him a breath for our poor neighbors. Unfortunately, the crops are all over, and the crops are bad, and the iron plates cannot be rented out. The cow is dead again. All the property is wasted, and the autumn plate fields cannot be plowed, which will affect the harvest next year. My daughter cannot redeem it. How unlucky is it? Let him cry!"
"Third Master." The middle-aged neighbor pointed at the surroundings and said, "Look at the families around the big yard. In the past, farmers like the Wang family had more than ten or eight households. As a result, they were defeated one by one and became tenants of Master Tong's family. So we all hope that he could rely on his own abilities and have a cow to work for him. He could really beat Master Tong, and he could also give everyone anger."
Everyone sighed. At this time, Wang Laosan from the big yard came and whispered: "Brother, I'm willing to pay some money to peel the cowhide."
Wang Siliu shouted, "If I buried it, I wouldn't give it to the people in your big yard."
He really picked up the wooden shovel and ran to the nearby bamboo forest to start digging. The men from each family went to help him dig when they saw this.
Xu Hao looked at this scene silently, and soon everyone dug a deep pit, dragged the dead cow into the pit, and covered the soil.
Wang Hu took out a pair of candles and lit them on the edge of the cow's grave. Xu Hao was moved and saw twenty or thirty men kneeling down with a solemn expression. The woman accompanied him to burn paper money, and the group of people refused to leave for a long time.
Xu Hao turned his head and looked at the tall Tong family. He had a bad idea in his heart. He had an impulse to rush into the Tong family and start a massacre and kill the Tong family.
Of course, this was just an idea. Xu Hao was thinking about how to destroy the Tong family, at least he had to ask the Tong family to get out of Xiaojia Village, give Wang Sili a cow, and make the villagers no longer be oppressed.
After a long time, when everyone was persuading Wang Siliu to go home, they suddenly heard a girl running and crying outside the bamboo forest. When everyone saw that it was Xiaoyao's girl. Wang Siliu thought it was Wang Laosan who told his daughter that a cow died at home, so she ran back.
It turned out not, but when Xiaoyao was about to run home, he heard that her big bull was dead. Everyone was burying the cow outside the bamboo forest. She ran over crying, threw herself into her father's arms, and shouted: "Dad, Dad!"
Wang Siliu hugged his daughter, thinking she was crying at the cow, and comforted her, "Don't cry, the cow is dead, why are you running out for?"
Xiaoyao suddenly threw himself into his mother's arms and cried and shouted, "Mom, I won't go back, and I won't go back to the big yard if I beat him to death."
Sister Wang hurriedly asked, "What's wrong? They're hitting you again?"
Xiaoyao said in tears: "It's Young Master, he wants to bully me, bully me, I run away and never go back to death."
"What? That beast wants to bully you?" The men around were angry.
"It's not a dead contract to work hard but not to sell yourself. How dare the Tong family do this?"
"It's too bullying. Let's go and make sense to his son."
"Xiaoyao should not go back. Everyone should pay for money and we will go."
The big guys were talking and talking, which made Xu Hao, who was already angry, feel warm in his heart. He quickly calmed down, but there was no excuse to deal with the Tong family. At most, he would beat the guy who bullied Xiaoyao. If he failed, he would not die.
Unless the Tong family made a fool of themselves, it was obviously impossible, otherwise the Tong family would not have been able to stand in Xiaojia Village for many years and would have been killed by him.
A housekeeper came from the big yard. Wang Laosan accompanied him and walked closer. The housekeeper said to Wang Siliu: "Your daughter ran away. Grandma asked you to send her back. If you don't send her back, you can explain it yourself."
"I won't go back, and I won't go back again if I die." Xiaoyao cried.
Wang Siliu suddenly burst out in anger. Without saying a word, he ran home and came out with a kitchen knife, and said to the butler: "Let's go, I'll go in with you and make it clear."
The housekeeper and Wang Laosan saw him holding a kitchen knife and ran away. Wang Siliu walked over with great strides, and seemed to be about to rush into Tong's house.
The neighbors hurriedly stepped forward and hugged him, snatched the kitchen knife from his hand, and advised: "Don't get angry, this matter is not without a solution, and you can't go."
"I won't let me live, I'll fight with them." Wang Siliu shouted, then squatted on the ground in pain, hugging his head.r1152
Chapter completed!