As soon as the second brother of the Jin family entered Chang'an City, Haitang Haijiao got the news.
Hai Jiao found a familiar errand boy and sent a letter to Jin Jiashu in Zhou's three-bedroom villa. But Jin Jiashu didn't say anything in his reply. He just thanked him for sending the message and seemed to be able to sit still.
Hai Jiao couldn't help but complain to his sister Haitang in private: "It can be seen that Jin Jiashu is really calm. He is sure that the second roommate of the Jin family does not know the truth, and he is not worried that they will leak the truth!"
Haitang asked him: "Brother, does he know when the government will interrogate the second wife of the Jin family? The Zhenguo government will not care about it, right? Although the Empress Dowager Zhou mentioned the situation of the Jin family in the letter, the Zhenguo government did not We need to find out how Jin Juren died so that we can send a message to Beijing, right?"
"I heard that Duke Zhen Guo's letter to Beijing has been sent out." Hai Jiao said, "What the second brother of the Jin family will say is all side stories. I can just write a reply to supplement it in the future. Jin Juren and his family When they were killed, they were still in Pingyang Mansion, and they had not witnessed anything, so what new confessions could they make? Zhang Pinggui and Wang Laoliu had already confessed what they needed to confess. The Duke of Zhen Guo did not know about the relationship between Jin Jiashu and Xu Xianfei. The most real relationship is asking for more details, right?"
Hai Jiao felt that Duke Zhen was not in a hurry to interrogate the second roommate of the Jin family. After all, the relevant persons had been basically arrested and the case was very clear. At the moment, he and the rest of the Zhou family are mainly focused on the Sun family's conspiracy and the internal crimes of the border army brought about by Du Boqin. This is related to the future of the Zhou family and the stability of the border army. What does the Jin family case mean in comparison?
The ones who are really worried are the two people, Hai Jiao and Haitang, who know the inside story.
Haitang said: "The Zhenguo Palace probably no longer wants to get involved in the Jin family's case. It is up to Magistrate Huang to investigate. They only need to inform the Queen Mother and Concubine Xu Xian of the situation afterwards, and then take good care of Jin Jiashu. But. Magistrate Huang will definitely be more concerned about the Jin family. Since he took office, there has never been such a brutal murder in Chang'an Prefecture! What's more, it was done by the Sun family without telling the emperor, and he is considered the emperor. Even if it offends the imperial concubine and the elder, he will investigate the case clearly and give an explanation to the emperor and the eighth prince."
Hai Jiao thought for a moment: "In that case, under the guise of helping Jin Jiashu understand the case, I will go to Huang Captou to inquire about the information. If Huang Zhifu is not in a hurry to interrogate the prisoner because the government office has sealed the pen, I can also wait for a while Please urge me. Among Mr. Huang’s neighbors, there is a family whose husband and wife are both jailers in the government prison, so they should know about Jin Miao and the others."
Huang Captou has recently had helpers to take care of his wife at home, and he can concentrate on his work. He has made a lot of achievements, and is increasingly valued by Magistrate Huang. For the Jin family's case, Capt. Huang is now in charge, and he has better information than others. He can make the decision on some things without the consent of Magistrate Huang. It was easier for Haijiao to get information from him than others.
Considering Huang Captou's help to Haijiao, Haitang personally prepared a generous but low-key New Year's gift for her brother to drop by when he went to Huang's house. The New Year's gift includes food, meat, wine, good clothing and cotton. It may not be valuable at first glance, but it is more practical and affordable. Compared with the silver ingots and precious body-building herbs originally proposed by Haijiao, it is more suitable for the Huang family. Case.
Huang Baotou has a bright future and is valued by Magistrate Huang. He revealed the information to Haijiao in order to reciprocate the favor, but he did not want to bear the bad reputation of taking bribes.
This New Year's gift was delivered to the Huang family. Huang Captou was really happy when he saw it, and he accepted it without any burden.
The Chinese New Year is almost here, but he is still so busy that he doesn't even have time to buy new year's goods. He relies on his neighbors to help him. With the gift from Haijiao, he saved a lot of things. The food, wine and meat are just in time for the New Year, and the clothing and cotton can be used by his mother and son to make a new set of clothes each. The Suzhou widow they hired can make them, which is more practical than others, and even saves a lot of money for the New Year.
Hai Jiao looked at Huang Captou's genuinely happy expression after receiving the gift, and felt that he had learned a lot about the world.
It's just something that he doesn't understand. How can my little sister understand it? Could it be that she learned housekeeping from her grandmother and really learned so quickly?
In his heart, Hai Jiao trusted his little sister even more. After he returned home, he shared the new information he learned from Capt. Huang with his little sister.
It is said that when Jin Miao first entered the prison, he was not very honest and dragged his injured leg. He either complained about pain and wanted to see a doctor all day long, or he complained that the food sent by the jailer was not delicious and kept making noises. However, the other prisoners in the prison were not vegetarians. Even if Jin Miao lived in a single cell, the fence could only stop other people's fists, but not their verbal attacks. Even though Jin Miao was a gambling scoundrel, he had never been in jail and had never seen a truly cunning and vicious criminal. Not only was he scared out of his wits with just a few words, but he also easily let others find out the truth, and he didn't bring it upon himself.
Now everyone in the government prison knew what good deeds Jin Miao had done. They knew that he was from a small landowner family, but he only caused trouble and always lost in gambling. He lost his wife's dowry and also lost the 300 acres of ancestral land of his next-door cousin. He followed his family to Beijing to join his cousin, but because he had to return home before he could live for half a year, he resented his cousin, causing his wife to die. He also added insult to injury when his cousin fell into despair, and teamed up with his family to seize the family property.
When his cousin took his wife and children away from home, he encouraged his family to follow him. Just because his cousin refused to give him the gold at the bottom of the box for him to spend, he told the killer his cousin's whereabouts and asked the killer to kill his cousin's family, preferably the two children as well, so that they The family can then monopolize the cousin's property.
Hai Jiao told Haitang: "It turns out that when Jin Juren went to Beijing to take the exam, his first wife knew that the second house of the Jin family was unreliable, so she persuaded him to take her with her. The couple settled in the capital, away from the second house, and their lives were much quieter. Jin Juren's family had 300 acres of fertile land that had been passed down from their ancestors. They couldn't sell it, so they gave it to the second house to take care of. Unexpectedly, it was secretly sold by Jin Miao, the second house owner. The money from the sale of the 300 acres of fertile land was not enough to pay off the debt. Due to his gambling debt, the second brother of the Jin family simply abandoned their home and property and went to Beijing with their whole family to join Jin Juren! Because they were afraid of Jin Juren's complaints, when they arrived in the capital, they not only did not mention the land sale, but instead raked up the land and complained to Jin Juren. The first wife talks a lot. She knew that she had just given birth and her son was still young, so she actually encouraged Jin Juren to divorce his wife!"
Haitang was stunned when he heard this: "Can Jin Juren tolerate this? The second room in the Jin family is just his cousin in the next room, right?!"
"It is said that when Jin Juren's parents passed away, the second wife of the Jin family took care of him for a period of time. He felt that the second wife was kind to him." Hai Jiao curled his lips and said, "But the other prisoners in the prison were smart and pressed Jin Miao a few questions. He told the truth. When Jin Juren's parents died, he was already fifteen years old. With his reputation as a scholar, there was no shortage of housekeepers and wet nurses in the family, so he did not need any relatives to take care of him. On the contrary, the two old ladies of the Jin family took care of the orphan. With his name, he brought his whole family into the Jin family’s mansion, and they haven’t been able to leave since!”
The marriage contract between Jin Juren and his first wife, Xu, was made while his parents were still alive. Xu's parents also passed away at that time, and she was an orphan. When the period of filial piety was over, she had to pass away. But the second wife of the Jin family knew that Mrs. Xu was not easy to fool, so she actually encouraged Jin Juren to break their marriage and marry another one. They even selected a candidate for him, who was the sister of Jin Xin's wife, Jin Liu. If Jin Juren hadn't been confused and insisted on fulfilling the contract to marry Xu, I'm afraid there would be no Jin Jiashu today.
But even so, Jin Juren was still confused about the issue of ancestral land and ruined his ancestral property in vain.
Hai Jiao sighed deeply, but Haitang asked him: "Jin Juren did not divorce his wife in the capital, but sent her to the palace to be a wet nurse? Is this also caused by the second wife of the Jin family?"
(End of chapter)
