The He family, which had disappeared for more than 20 years, instantly became the talk of everyone on the streets of Beijing.
"Master Xie, the fifth-ranked master of the Xie family, had children before he married the eldest daughter of the Yun family. I heard that those children were born to the daughter of the guilty minister."
"Don't you know it yet? One of the children born to the guilty minister's daughter became Princess Anjing and the other entered the Imperial Academy. They are really powerful."
"Prince Anjing committed murder and rebellion not even a month after marrying the princess. It's hard not to suspect that it was the wind blowing from the princess's pillow."
"If Young Master Xie is allowed to stay in the Imperial College for a while longer, will all the students in the Imperial College be influenced to kill their fathers and mothers?"
"A person like him is not worthy of being a son of man, not worthy of studying, and not worthy of living."
"The Xie family has a house full of evil gods. It's really disgusting."
"Poor Mrs. Xie, she was kept in the dark and was implicated. It's so pitiful..."
"..."
Countless people gathered around the door of Xie's mansion, throwing rotten leaves, rotten eggs, small stones...
The door to Xie's mansion was closed.
The servants in the mansion were also discussing.
During this period of time, the Xie family has run out of money, and their monthly payments have been delayed for several days. All of them have long been dissatisfied with the Xie family.
Now that something happened to the Xie family, except for a few loyal servants, the other servants gathered together to talk about some details that had not been discovered before.
"No wonder Aunt He is so close to several young masters and ladies..."
"No wonder you treat Aunt He unusually..."
"I have long said that Aunt He died very strangely..."
Several aunts gathered around, looking at each other, completely unable to believe what they heard.
"I have long suspected that Aunt He is the biological mother of the eldest young master, the second young master and the eldest daughter..." Tingyu said, "But this matter is not important now. What is important is that the eldest young master committed patricide after he was a criminal. I’m afraid…”
"Then what will happen to our Xie family?" Aunt Jiang looked pale, "Will your Excellency be implicated?"
Aunt Tao held the child in her arms and said bitterly: "The He family is such a scourge. Why did you hook up with the adults? Why did you harm our Xie family..."
The three of them were just aunts and were not qualified to participate in the discussion, so they could only wait uneasily at the entrance of the ancestral hall.
Xie Jingyu was kneeling in the ancestral hall.
It was Xie Zhongcheng who asked him to kneel in front of his ancestor's memorial tablet and tell him everything clearly from beginning to end.
Xie Jingyu's body was very weak. He was half-kneeling and half-sitting. His voice was extremely hoarse: "When I met her, I didn't know who her family was..."
"Then when you found out her last name was He, why did you still fight with her? Why did you bring her into Xie's house!" Xie Zhongcheng was so angry that his head was spinning. "Why did you hide such a big thing from me? Why didn't I know anything about it? Why have we reached this stage today! Jingyu, Shian, you two are talking, what should we do, what should we do!"
Xie Shian lay prone on the ground.
He has always been smart, but now he can't think of a way.
He didn't know how to speak sharply to persuade the emperor to accept him as a criminal subject and then enter the Imperial Academy.
"Husband, madam..." Xie Jingyu looked at Yun Chu, "You have already known who the He family is, but you are still willing to stay in my Xie family. I know you must have a way to solve this matter..."
Everyone's eyes fell on Yun Chu.
Yun Chu stood coldly, glanced at the ancestral tablets of the Xie family, and slowly shook his head: "I can't solve this matter."
After she finished speaking, she turned around and walked out of the ancestral hall.
"Chu'er, don't leave..." Yuanshi held her back, "Now you are the only sensible person in our Xie family. You can't ignore it. Chu'er, please think of a way to help An Ge'er solve this problem first." Let’s wait until the difficulty is over…”
Yunchu took out his sleeves, took steps, and continued walking out.
"She is afraid that our Xie family will be implicated, and she is afraid that the Yun family will also be blamed!" Xie Zhongcheng said angrily, "She looks like she doesn't care, she must have made up her mind to divorce, Jing Yu, let me tell you , no matter what, don’t give her a divorce letter! Even a divorce letter won’t work! She will be tied to our Xie family’s boat for the rest of her life!”
Yun Chu, who walked outside, smiled when he heard these words.
Thanks to my family, I still can’t see the situation clearly...
Several members of the Xie family talked all night in the ancestral hall, but they couldn't come up with a reason.
The next morning, Xie Jingyu arranged for a carriage to take Xie Shian back to his hometown in Jizhou immediately to avoid the limelight.
As long as the green hills remain, there will be no need to worry about running out of firewood. Let’s avoid the limelight first.
However, as soon as the carriage was prepared, there was a knock on the door of Xie's mansion.
Xie Jingyu's figure swayed: "The imperial court will not take action so soon, so don't scare yourself."
He took a step forward, but he had already lost control of his left leg. It was his right leg that dragged his left leg, and he walked hard to the door and asked the boy to open the door.
Facing him was a young eunuch holding an imperial edict in his hand.
"Thank you family for listening!"
A group of people quickly knelt in the yard.
"Emperor Fengtian Chengyun issued an edict: Xie Shi'an, the eldest son, concealed the identity of a descendant of the He family and entered the Imperial College. This is a crime of deceiving the emperor. He must be thrown into prison and retried!"
The two guards behind him stepped forward, held Xie Shian down, put shackles on his head, and escorted him out.
"Brother An! No!"
Yuan couldn't help crying and got up to chase outside.
"I haven't finished reading the imperial edict. It's disrespectful to the emperor to stand up in the middle!" the young eunuch shouted coldly, "Xie Jingyu, a doctor in the household department, accepted the daughter of the He family as his aunt and concealed it for more than ten years, which violated the laws of this dynasty... Press According to the law, I will be removed from my official position, demoted to a commoner, and fined 30,000 taels of silver, and the descendants of the Xie family will not be allowed to take the imperial examination or enter the official career for life! I admire this!"
The young eunuch closed the imperial edict and said coldly: "If we can't collect thirty thousand taels of silver within one month, Mr. Xie will need to go to the border city to build the city wall and pay off the debt with his labor."
"puff!"
Xie Jingyu covered his chest, spit out a mouthful of black blood, and fainted.
"Yes, yes, yes, we must collect the money!" Yuanshi cried loudly, "My father-in-law, please tell me where our Brother An will be imprisoned. Can we visit the prison? There is still room for change in this matter. ?"
"He committed the crime of deceiving the emperor. It is the emperor's mercy that he was not sentenced to beheading!" The little eunuch said with a mocking look on his face, "If I had known about this, why did I do it in the first place?"
The person who announced the decree left, taking Xie Shian with him.
Many onlookers on the street threw rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs at Xie Shi'an.
Xie Shian's face was numb.
He thought that by forcing his biological mother to death, no one would know the secret, and he would be able to go to court without any scruples.
But he was wrong...
One wrong step, every wrong step.
His life is over...
Yuan covered her mouth and cried bitterly. Xie Zhongcheng, a grown man, also had red eyes. When he saw Xie Jingyu lying on the ground in the yard, he shouted coldly: "What are you guys doing standing around? Hurry up and get him up and call the doctor." !”
The group of servants looked at each other, waved their hands and left in unison.
The Xie family is like this, why are they still here, waiting to have their monthly salary deducted?
One servant packed up and left, and the other servants followed suit. In the end, only one or two of the master's confidants remained.
There is also Shengju, from the first-class maids to the rough lady at the door, everything is there.
Obviously, the servants of Shengju and the servants of Xie Mansion seem to have always been in two worlds...
