The Crossing of Fortune and Prayer Jubilee

He used the bad weather as an excuse to hold on for two days, just as Mr. Lou frowned and wanted to find the third room again, someone from the yamen couldn't help but screw Lou Chengzu and Liu Amo away.

Mr. Lou was so frightened that his liver and gallbladder were splitting, he trembled and ordered someone to call Sanfang, while he hurriedly followed with dozens of taels of silver.

This matter was controlled by Lou Hua and Lou Yuzhu, so naturally they would not be ignorant of it, and deliberately asked Lou Chengyi to delay for some time, and when they arrived, Li Yue had almost finished the trial.

For some unknown reason, Lou Chengyi only felt that the back of the middle-aged man kneeling under the hall was very familiar. Unknowingly, he walked to the front and took a look, his eyes widened: "Brother Lang, you are Brother Lang, right?"

Not seeing her for 20 years, she ruined her face again, but Lou Chengyi still recognized her at a glance, which made Lou Chenglan couldn't help but shed tears. "Yes, I'm Lange."

Without Li Yue's signal, Lou Hua invited Lou Chengyi aside. "Father's here is the court, and we have to wait until the next court to tell the past."

Li Yue is worthy of being the magistrate's son, he has rich experience in public trials, and Lou Chengzu and Liu Amo are forced to mess up with just a few words.Liu Amo is a person who sees faults. Seeing the evidence is undeniable, he jumped up and scolded: "So what if I sold it? I am his father, a money-losing product that crawled out of my stomach, and I sell it whenever I want." !"

Even Li Yue felt that his limit had been refreshed, and he slapped the gavel: "This is a court! Who dares to be presumptuous?! Kneel down!"

Not only did Liu Ahmo not kneel, but she was also reasonable: "My son is the head of the Gongdelou family, and he is deeply favored by the emperor. Let me see who dares to do anything to me!"

Lou Yuzhu glanced at Liu Ahmo, curled her lips and muttered.Still the same idiot!

"Presumptuous!" Li Yue slapped the gavel violently, instructing the two officials: "Come on, take down this roaring court!"

An official came forward and pressed Liu Ahmo to kneel down, but Liu Ahmo refused, she cursed nonsense, and out of the corner of her eye, Lou Chengyi scolded: "Young son, you are not filial! You are still conferred meritorious deeds, and you just let people despise your father like this?! You will be struck by lightning!"

Lou Chengyi, who hadn't recovered from the blow that Lou Chenglan was forced to sell as a concubine, stared blankly, and was immediately frightened by Liu Amo's ferocious expression.

Li Yue and Lou Hua reached a consensus, and immediately shouted: "The roaring court ignores the law and discipline, come on, slap ten!"

Immediately, the officials stepped forward to carry out the execution. Liu Amo's cheeks were red and swollen, and the corners of her mouth were bleeding. Liu Amo, who had never been subjected to such a serious crime, immediately quit, rolling around, howling and cursing, and other nine-tier moves came. Over and over again, the foul language in his mouth didn't stop.

Lou Yuzhu covered her face, it was really embarrassing for such a bastard to say it was him.

Li Yue exchanged glances with Lou Hua, then slapped the gavel again: "Ten palms again!"

Slapped Liu Amo's face again and again, but Mr. Lou blushed like blood, which was more uncomfortable than slapping him on the face.

Lou Chengzu was frightened by the real swords and guns in the court, and he begged Lou Chengyi for mercy: "Lao San Lao San, I am your elder brother, we are brothers, you can't watch us suffer. You have received meritorious deeds." The building sign is favored by the emperor, they dare not do anything to us as long as they say a few words, they can’t write two words of building in one stroke, and your face will be ashamed if we suffer~”

Lou Hua stepped forward to block it, with awe-inspiring tone: "Whether there is a mistake or not is determined by the law of the Great Yuan, and how it is judged is also determined by the law of the Great Yuan. How can others intervene? Uncle has read books all his life, so he should naturally know the principle of repaying virtue with virtue." The more the emperor likes us, the more we should respect the law and the law, so as not to be in vain of the emperor's favor."

Li Yue bowed his hands in praise, and the two sang and drank a few words, and then the public trial continued.It would be easy for Liu Ahma to admit it, but Lou Chengzu still wanted to blame Liu Ahmao to get rid of himself.

Mr. Lou, who heard the meaning from Lou Chengzu's words, trembled angrily, looked at Liu Amo with swollen cheeks, and said with pain on his face: "...that's your dear father." Everyone, Lou Chenglan, Lou Chengli, Lou Chengyi owed it all, even the old man Lou owed it, but Lou Chengzu owed him nothing since he was a little girl!

Lou Chengzu was about to be driven crazy, staring at Old Man Lou, his bloodshot eyes looked crazy, it was scary to look at.

Li Yue couldn't tolerate him making such a good plan, so he took out the body wedge that he used to make a deal with Zhu's eldest son, and Lou Chengzu's signature on it was in front of Liu Amo.Another sinner, Zhu's eldest son, testified that Lou Chengzu could not escape the first crime.

"Lou Chenglan accused his second brother Lou Chengzu of forcing him to sell him as a concubine. I judged it to be true...Liu's family is an accomplice. For the time being, I will accept the government... I will make a decision after I go to the prefect!"

Lou Chenglan, who was wronged for coveting wealth and wealth, finally cleared his blood. Once the decades of stigma were cleared away, he just wanted to cry.Wei Lao Si stood beside him silently letting him rely on him.

Mr. Lou was dizzy and weak.

Lou Chengzu broke free from the official post, and rushed to Lou Chenglan with a crazy expression on his face: "...Why did you come back, why did you come back after so many years? You have been sold out and become a concubine, why don't you die?!"

Fourth Wei hurriedly protected Lou Chenglan.

The officials rushed up, and Lou Chengzu, who failed to resist, was restrained again, his eyes were red and he crazily rushed to the old man Lou and scolded: "It's all my father, what are you talking about about the family business, about the richness of my ancestors, about my talent and intelligence to revive the building?" The family depends on me, you must pass the exam, you must be a scholar, you must be an official, you must be an official! If you hadn't taught me this, I wouldn't be afraid of failing the exam or being looked down upon by others!"

Mr. Lou's hands trembled and his face twitched.

Lou Yuzhu and Lou Hua looked at each other, curled their lips.Because he couldn't bear the pressure and forced Lou Chenglan to sell Lou Chenglan's money to buy outstanding students' articles, Lou Chengzu was a scumbag, but Mr. Lou was indeed partly responsible for making him such a scumbag.It is the fault of the son not to teach the father, and pouring too much nutrients into the family's resources directly causes the roots to rot; he also holds it too high, and is afraid of falling and falling to death.

The evil deed of the younger brother forcing the elder brother to be a concubine is hateful, and since the father also participated in it, it is even more hateful, because it is too bad and it has something to do with the Gongdelou family. Li knows After discussing with Zhipan, he was only sentenced to temporarily confiscate the government, and then quickly handed over the paper to the Ministry of Punishment.

The Ministry of Punishment received the notebook and discussed it with several big bosses, and pretended to be stupid and put the notebook among the notebooks for the emperor to read.

At the same time, the book of Lou Hua's pleading guilty went to the emperor first.

The emperor took a look at the case and cursed: "Since there are such vicious brothers in this world? It's really unheard of and never seen! Since such wicked people are still talented? What do blind examiners do?!"

Eunuch Fei carefully picked up the folder that the emperor dropped, wiped it with his sleeve and put it next to the fold he had already read, pretending to have no intention of sighing: "I heard a few ears when I went to Nanyang. Compared with Sanfang, how big is it?" Fang and Erfang are simply not a thing. The old slave also heard that Sanfang knew Mr. Pei at the beginning because the victim of Lou’s family had a gassy fetus and almost killed two people. He refused to pay 20 taels of life-saving money. Lou Yuzhu went to the town to beg, and he happened to beg in front of Second Young Master Pei, otherwise, alas, I don’t know what will happen.”

Eunuch Fei's words make people think about it, the Lou family has two lives, three houses are torn apart, and the subsequent double-cropping rice method is naturally useless, and the brocades that are ingeniously crafted are gone, and even the emperor has been inseparable recently. The fruit wine is gone!

Is it okay for the Son of Heaven to think so?

After finishing speaking, Eunuch Fei sighed again, and said jokingly: "Poor Sanfang, such a relative at the stall will probably suffer for the rest of his life."

The emperor frowned and thought for a while, and immediately decreed: "Take his fame as a scholar, give him fifty sticks, and three generations of his descendants will not be able to enter the official examination!"

The Son of Heaven personally ordered the Ministry of Punishment to take it seriously, and quickly returned to Nanyang. When the decree came to Li Yue, Lou Chengzu and Liu Amo had already been in prison for no less than a month.

The crimes of the two are well known throughout the county, and the villains who murdered and set fire in the prison all said that they could not do such a messy thing. Of course, the two of them had a difficult life under the same hatred.They couldn't enjoy the quilts and clothes sent by Sanfang, and they couldn't even enjoy the fresh food. The two were so angry that they cursed, scolded the prisoners in the prison, scolded officials, and Sanfang's hypocrisy, hypocrisy, and carelessness, etc. They were in a good mood when they met officials. Quan was caught in the ear, and when he met an official who was in a bad mood, he sneered and said to tidy up the cell and put the two of them in a large mixed cell for a while, how could a prisoner who is not a good person be polite, it would be light to scratch his hands and kick his feet!

After tidying up a few times, the two of them became honest, and stayed in their cell honestly, day and night looking forward to the day when they would be released from prison.Little did he know that the day he was released from prison was not heaven.

Lou Chengzu was proud of his whole life as a scholar, and once his reputation as a scholar was taken away, his legs were broken immediately when the fifty rods were struck. Although Liu Ama did not suffer the crime, but the one who knelt and watched Lou Chengzu's execution was irritated by the bloody look It was serious, Mr. Lou, who had been sick for a month, forced himself to pick up the two of them. When he heard that "three generations of his descendants are not allowed to enter the official examination", he finally rolled his eyes and passed out.

Mr. Lou and Liu Ama paid Sanfang for medical treatment and medicine, but Lou Chengzu did not pay any money. Not even a doctor was willing to injure him. As a result, the injury was delayed and both legs were disabled.As soon as the good doctor announced his injury, Lou Chengzu passed out immediately, and he couldn't move his body when he woke up again.

Xu Chunting quickly cut through the mess, and at night, while Lou Chengzu was asleep, he asked him to press He Lishu's handprint. After packing up the things all night, he asked Lou Jinzhu and Lou Yinzhu if anyone would go with him.

The two brothers were dumbfounded at the time, Lou Yinzhu subconsciously wanted to say yes, but was pulled back by Lou Jinzhu. "...Papa take care."

Xu Chunting immediately turned his eyes cold, and took out ten taels of silver and put it in the hands of the two brothers: "...I will not be able to come to the house after the divorce, and I will not be able to participate in the wedding after marriage. I will treat these as my father and add makeup to you first."

Lou Jinzhu twitched her lips.In the past few years, their embroidery work has been sold in the town. The small pieces cost tens of thousands of coins, and the large and exquisite ones cost more than two taels of silver. After a year, they are far more than five taels of silver.Xu Chunting had kept the money all along, but now he only gave each person five taels when he left, and he seemed to be very kind. "...Thank you Dad."

What Lou Jinzhu thought was that instead of being married to a small family with Xu Chunting who was separated from him, it would be better to rely on the meritorious Lou family, who would not be able to marry a rich family, but marry a country gentleman and become a gentleman.How could Xu Chunting not know what Lou Jinzhu was thinking, didn't he not want to suffer with him?Then it's no wonder he donated money so that he can live a good life. If you rely on the meritorious family, you will never be able to afford the dowry.

You have your calculations and I have mine. The relationship between father and son for more than ten years has been calculated just like that.

Xu Chunting quietly left Lou's house at daybreak, and he didn't know about the reconciliation until Mr. Lou, who came to Xu's family to pick up the big dowry.Lou Chengzu lay on the bed and cursed angrily, but first there was the incident of Tang Lian laughing and then there was the incident of ruining his reputation, no one could stop Xu Chunting from reconciling with Li.

Lou Yuzhu, who heard the news, wanted to praise her for being clever.The son has long since left his heart, and the two elder brothers will always get married and are unreliable. Instead of spending the rest of their lives on a useless person, Heli took the money to find another way.However, this other way is not so easy to plan. Based on his reputation of abandoning his husband and son, it is nothing more than a waste of time.

The gentle and gentle son was tossed away for half his life and became a useless person. His fame as a scholar was gone, and even his grandson's fame as a scholar was taken away. In the past, it's nothing more than a broken family.

Seeing all kinds of second households in the big house, Lou Chengli was moved by what Ji Xiaorong said, and proposed to the old man Lou to separate the family.In the past, no separation of families was expected for Lou Wen to become an official, but now, not to mention being an official, even the fame of a scholar is taken away. The reputation is so bad, not to mention the benefits of exemption from land tax.The big house is old, the three little ones don't touch the spring water, and the only concubine Tang Lianxiao is useless, the only two of them are laborers, and they do all the work, but there are not as many as the big house No wonder Ji Xiaorong would be happy. Thinking about the big house three, one is unmarried and the other two are unmarried, if the money is paid out from the public office, the second house will not suffer death?Break up, must break up!

Mr. Lou clutched his chest, and said in a deep grief, "Okay, share, I'll give you share!"

Sanfang was called to be a witness, and Mr. Lou personally found out the family background.Pulled out the 200 taels that Liu Qingmei asked Liu Amo to marry instead, and when he saw the old man in the bank ticket building, he remembered that when his family was the poorest, he asked Liu Ama to borrow the dowry, Liu Ama cried and said that the family did not give him no money, In order to tide over the difficulties, he reluctantly sold the fertile land intermittently.Thinking of these Lou old men makes my heart ache. "...It doesn't matter." This is his scar, as long as he is around, no one can touch it.

Ji Xiaorong pursed his lips, but Lou Chengli winked and swallowed the words that came to his mouth.

Mr. Lou turned his head to look at Sanfang's family, and glanced at Lou Hua, who was dressed in official official clothes, and Lou Yuzhu, Lou Minglouchen, who was embroidered with exquisite patterns of silk, and finally turned his gaze back to Lou Chengyi, with an expression on his face that was crying. He still smiled and said, "The third son now has a lot of money, so you probably don't like this kind of property, so let's not divide it."

Lou Chengyi nodded, looking at old man Lou's old and haggard face, he felt uncomfortable.

"...Before, the family had 31 mu of fertile land, which was distributed to the third son and two mu. Later, the third son returned it. In recent years, the family's situation has improved by 42 mu, and the sandy land has also increased by two mu. The land property has a total of [-] mu of fertile land. Nine acres of sandy land, four acres of vegetable fields..." Mr. Lou tremblingly talked about the family's real estate, and then began to divide it. "I'll be more partial to the first one, divide [-] acres of good land, three acres of sandy land, two acres of vegetable fields, and the second child will divide [-] acres of good land, three acres of sandy land, two acres of vegetable fields, and the remaining seven acres of good land The three acres of sandy land will be reserved for me and your father's pension, and the second child, your family has a lot of labor, so I will give you the fine land and rent [-]% of it."

The fertile land can be planted for two seasons now, [-]% of the tax is deducted, and [-]% is given to the elders, and [-]% is received, which is lower than ordinary households. It is enough for the second-bedroom family to eat on weekdays. Lou Cheng Ideally, I agreed.

After that, the distribution of the house and some furniture and agricultural tools in the family. After these distributions, Mr. Lou began to count the money.

Ji Xiaorong stretched his neck to see, Lou Jinzhu who was sitting behind tightened his hands, his eyes lingered on the jade pendant around Lou Yuzhu's waist, distractedly laughing at himself that he was nervous about dividing up the money here, probably even the corner of a jade pendant It's not even worth it.

The facts are indeed not worth it. You must know that the things Lou Yuzhu wears are all personally checked by Zhou Cheng. They are precious, exquisite, and exquisite, and it is best to be unique.

Lou Yuzhu didn't know that his jade pendant was attractive, and all he was thinking about was wondering how much wealth the old house had.In fact, there is no one in the whole third room who is not curious, even Xiao Louchen can't help but crane his neck to look.

Mr. Lou took out the silver box and began to count in front of the crowd. The more he counted, the more confused he became. It turns out that he has so much money at home, so why did he force Sanfang so much in the first place? "... There are one silver ticket of 100 taels, two tickets of 50 taels, four tickets of 30 taels, four tickets of ten taels, and 27 taels of broken silver, not counting the copper plates. There are 380 seven taels of silver in total."

Hearing this, several people gasped.

380 seven taels, of which about 150 taels were borrowed from Sanfang one after another after the separation of the family. The expenses of Mr. Lou and Ama Liu have been paid by Sanfang in the past few years. There are 50 taels for the gifts and monthly rules given during the festival, which means that 380 taels of the 200 seven taels are three-bedroom houses.The remaining 180 seven taels, of which 70 taels are the dowry gift from the Guo family to Lou Mingzhu, and the remaining 110 seven taels are the real surplus money of the old house in recent years.

Don't underestimate the 110 seven taels. Based on the market situation in the past few years, the surplus money of a hundred or so households in the entire Yanjia Village is probably not as much as that of the old house.And how many of these 110 seven taels were donated by Sanfang?But old man Pianshenglou wouldn't even take out 20 taels to save Fu Linshu's life!How hateful!

"Grandpa needs to make it clear before distributing the money." Lou Hua raised his eyes: "A few years ago, Ah borrowed more than 100 taels from our third room one after another. It’s better to have an idea in your heart.”

Mr. Lou's face stiffened, and he said dryly, "...this money..."

"You don't have to pay it back." After saying that, Lou Hua got up: "We have something to do tomorrow, so we will stay soon. Grandpa will see the share. None of us, the third room, has any objections."

The whole three rooms left like water, Mr. Lou looked at their backs and was speechless for a long time, and then he continued under Lou Chengli's urging for a long time.

"...I and your father's expenses are covered by the third house, and you don't have to give the second child. It's just for the purpose of the Chinese New Year. I also know that you have saved a lot of private houses in recent years. The boss's private house was taken by the Xu family Take most of them away, Dalang, Jinzhu, and Yinzhu are unmarried and unmarried, so they spend a lot of money. You will suffer a little bit for the second child."

Lou Chengli held Ji Xiaorong's arm tightly, and replied in a low voice, "Father, tell me."

"For 380 seven taels of silver, the two brothers will share 100 taels each, and the remaining 180 seven taels will draw 40 taels for Lou Yuan and Lou Wu Cheng's relatives to hire, and the gift book will be given separately."

"Okay. I'll listen to Dad."

It was said that it was a separation, but in fact it was just a separation of the second room. Lou Chengli was not stupid and asked who the old man would like to be with, and he agreed to the separation with the old man, and within two days, he bought an old house that was not wanted by a family at the end of the village. , intending to overthrow the heavy cover.Before leaving the house, Lou Chengli led his family and kowtowed three times to Old Man Liu, and when he turned around, he couldn't help but sneer at Old Man Lou.

"...Brother Lan was forced to sell by the eldest brother, and at the end of the day, my father still didn't scold the elder brother; for the sake of the eldest brother's study, Da Lang's study, the father almost forced the third child's family to death, and at the end, he blamed the third child for not showing loyalty and not supporting brothers; Destroying the family's reputation is not worthy of being cast aside by others. In the end, my father didn't even ask me a word and still wanted to protect my elder brother. My father blamed me for mentioning the separation of the family. Did he think about us? My father always said how about my elder brother. He is studying, and now he is pitiful for him. Could it be that my third brother and I forced those things? Didn’t the eldest brother make it happen on his own? Dad said that the eldest brother is pitiful. Don’t blame you for favoring him. Then Brother Lan was forced to be a concubine. Isn’t it pitiful to be stigmatized for decades? Isn’t it pitiful that the third daughter-in-law almost died twice? I’m afraid my father forgot that when Brother Lan was tortured, the eldest brother was a talented scholar; The beautiful job of teaching raises the outside room to enjoy the blessings of everyone." Regardless of the shaking of Mr. Lou's hand, Lou Chengli said lightly: "Father gave birth to four of us, but all four of us turned against each other. Who does father think is the right one? The culprit?"

Lou Wen, who was listening next to him, raised his eyes and said sarcastically, "What's so good about Second Uncle himself? Didn't you ignore Uncle Lan's matter back then? Weren't you also an accomplice when Uncle Third got pregnant? You scolded us for being selfish. Li, how can you be better?"

"Yes, I am selfish." Lou Chengli turned his head, neither excited nor sad in his eyes: "So I bear the pain of my brother's rebellion, the pain of my relatives avoiding me, and my life of doing nothing. I accept my fate. "