By Jia Xiuzhen

Seeing the snowflakes falling again in the evening, Li Wan was still not at ease after lying down, so he borrowed Ah Tu to look inside.She never left any mark on these people, but there is an amulet tied to Brother Xun's wrist, which is also Xichun's handwriting, so it's easy to find some.I saw people, and saw that they didn't wear the jackets they sent in, but they were still wearing the clothes they used to wear at home. Fortunately, they were still thick.

Mrs. Xing was locked up with Fu Qiufang and Second Sister You, and Mrs. Wang's mother-in-law and two aunts were locked up together. I don't know if this was done on purpose or by chance.Mrs. Wang and Baochai are next to each other, and Jin Chuaner and Ruier are protecting Brother Xun.Over there, Second Sister You hugged Brother Su and huddled in the corner of the Kang, and Mrs. Xing and Fu Qiufang each occupied one end.Except for the two children who slept soundly, the rest were half asleep.

Seeing that there was no serious problem, Ah Tu didn't dare to reveal his whereabouts, and went to the men's prison again, but the men's prison was much colder than the women's prison.Also, there was no padded jacket delivered in the afternoon, and several people were locked in a cell, but Jia Huan was not seen.Baoyu and Jia Cong were next to each other, wearing a shabby blanket with an invisible collar. Jia Zheng sat on the kang leaning against the wall, half closed his eyes, and wondered if he had fallen asleep.

With a thought in Li Wan's mind, Ah Tu looked at the guard's place in the prison. The two guards were sleeping soundly, so he went out again. Sure enough, he saw the two packages he had sent in in the prison guard's room outside.Seeing that they have all been opened and looked at, there are several large packages of different designs and colors piled up together.

There are five or six people in the prison at the moment, two of them are still having a drink, and the rest are also asleep.Ah Tu moved his hands slightly, and a bundle fell from the pile. The two drinking people listened to the movement, looked back, and didn't reach out to pick it up.The person sitting opposite said: "It's already snowing, let's send it in tomorrow, it still takes up space here."

The other grinned between his teeth and said: "Hey, what's the hurry, when all the things that should be delivered are delivered, just pick up the worthless ones and take two pieces in. They are all here, and you still treat them as masters." What about the wife? If you lose your head tomorrow, you still know what is hot and cold, so you can use a good dress for nothing."

Thinking that this kind of thing is common practice, the opponent didn't take it seriously, and just said: "It's not yet in court, but there are the prince's relatives, grandparents, and grandparents in it, don't really make a fuss about Dong, the higher-ups have appointed us to bear it." .”

The man said: "It's so cold! The clothes on them are still made of silk, satin and fur. Have we touched them? This is the end. Look outside, the ones in a single shirt and chicken feathers are not the same? Just them The gold is expensive?! Du Te Niang entered the cell and thought about what it would be like to live a fairy life! Not to mention the superiors, even if the emperor came, he would not be able to tell our faults! So many clothes, who knows what is inside! These are all criminals committed by the imperial court, and they may be related to treason, can we brothers investigate more clearly? This is a serious business! Who will say it, who dares to say it?!"

The one on the opposite side nodded, raised his wine glass in his hand: "What brother said is reasonable, so I will follow what brother said."

The cold prison, old rice, brown rice, sour pickles, even though there are no torture tools, after a few days, everyone in Jia's mansion already feels miserable.Only Ruier is an anomaly.She had fled to Chang'an city, and just happened to meet Jia's mansion to do good deeds, and lent a house to take in victims of the disaster. .Sister Feng decided to pick her in to do some errands. She was still young at that time, and she was picked by Aunt Zhou to be a girl.Later, by mistake, she became Jia Zheng's concubine and gave birth to brother Xun.

In the past, people looked down upon her background, but now she has become capable.When she got the rice with pickled vegetables, she first took her and Brother Xun's portion and went to the side to pick it out. She picked out all the grains of sand, gravel, hay and chaff, put the cleaned rice into a small bowl, and put pickles on it to coax it. Brother Xun eats.Brother Xun was disgusted at the beginning, and after two hungry meals, he stopped picking. Ruier let him eat, and he was honestly full.Rui'er ate the rest.

When Baochai saw it, she also wanted to serve Mrs. Wang in this way, but Mrs. Wang took a mouthful of the rice and couldn't swallow it after chewing for a long time.Baochai felt enough just smelling the smell, but Jin Chuan'er frowned and followed Rui'er to take a few mouthfuls.Mrs. Xing's side was even worse. Fu Qiufang scolded that it was not something people could eat. She gathered up her strength and yelled to see her elder brother, and said that she was wronged; Holding Brother Su and crying, the whole person is sick.

Two days later, Yingchun and Nanny Xu came from Zhuangzi, and brought some clothes and food. When asked about the people in Jia's house, Li Wan had no choice but to say: "Everything has been sent, but it may not be able to be delivered to them." inside."

Yingchun sighed: "The fourth younger sister still doesn't know where she is wandering. If she is here, I'm afraid she can still think of a way."

While talking, there was a chuckle from outside, and Xi Chun came in, Li Wan said: "You are really elusive now."

Xichun smiled and said, "I went inside to see first, and the children are all fine, so I'm afraid of suffering."

Yingchun hurriedly said, "What about the others?"

Xichun rolled her eyes: "Someone else? Which other person! Second sister, you don't want me to rob people in prison, do you? Or use a transport method to conjure some big wool clothes for them out of thin air?! That's easy, even The interrogation is no longer necessary, and they were pulled out and set on fire!"

Yingchun sighed: "But there is no reason to just sit and watch them suffer. We are comfortable here, but they..."

Xichun shook his head and said: "You and I can't say that. We didn't get our skills from them. If we talk about being chivalrous, there are a lot of suffering people in this world. They are here! What's the matter? The same people, they have to wear silk and satin, and eat delicacies from mountains and seas is what they deserve? Shouldn’t they suffer at all?!

One more thing, I'm not very comfortable now, you didn't see me coming and going in the wind and rain!Besides, if I'm comfortable, so what.You Taohuaxue couldn't even light a charcoal stove back then, what were they doing back then? !If you have the ability, go ahead, I won't stretch out my hand! "

Yingchun was expecting her to come just now, but when she heard this, she looked at Li Wan.Li Wan said: "They did suffer from hunger and cold in there, but the others were fine. After a while, let's think about it after the trial and conviction."

Seeing that both of them spoke in such a tone, Yingchun had no choice but to give up.

But Li Wan thought of Jieyou Zhaoli Jialan's words, "If anyone has wronged our family, I will naturally not forgive them. If the crime deserves it, you ask me to save me. I don't have the face to save me. Just because it is our family, I will kill someone." Is it right to set fire?!"

After more than half a month, half a room of things was piled up in the prison warden's room. The clerk wrote down the list at the side, picked it up and blew it dry and said: "It's really a centipede who is dead but not stiff, and they have raided the house, and there are so many people. Take care. I advise you, don’t stretch too much, look at the people inside, the Duan family and the Ji family, they are all upstarts among the upstarts, and there will only be more prominent ones in the future. There are also Sihai Trading Company and Heshengdao, Tsk tsk, I don't know what kind of relationship. These few, the Lin family, are the ones who want to recruit the Nanzhao king! There is also Chengwang's mansion, and the two county princes who ransacked the house were led by the princes! These aristocratic families, It’s really not to be underestimated.”

Several people in the room nodded repeatedly, and the clerk handed the list to the prison warden, and said with a smile: "Please ask me to draw a note for me, old man. I am not making this up. I have to send it up later. Well, maybe where to send it, we'd better behave ourselves."

The prison warden didn't dare to hesitate, so he quickly drew a bet, then dipped it in inkpad and stamped his finger on it.After taking the document and looking at it carefully, he resigned and went out.

The few remaining people here looked at each other in blank dismay, the leader held back for a long time, and said bitterly: "Everything is ordered, and after tomorrow or the day after the trial and conviction, pick up two for them!" The people below all agreed.

What the document said was true, his piece of paper was indeed sent into the palace together with the dossier on the other side of the prison.The emperor looked at the dozens of bullying incidents involving the slaves of the Jia mansion on one side, the line of people delivering clothes to Dali Temple on the other side, and the words and deeds of the people in the Jia mansion recorded in the prison. He frowned and sighed. Voice.

The next day, Dali Temple began to interrogate the criminals.Jia Zheng listened to the presiding interrogator's questioning about the private possession of funds by Jia's mansion, but he knew nothing about it. The presiding interrogator asked a few more things. Jia Zheng thought about the matter of involving Jia's mansion in lending money, and only Jia Huan framed it here. If there is a relationship, he will tell the matter from the beginning to the end.The presiding judge looked down at the several confessions in his hand, and glanced at Jia Zheng, with pity and contempt in his eyes.Jia Zheng bowed his head, so naturally he didn't see it.

Baoyu helped Mrs. Wang log in the account book, but he didn't know where it came from.The presiding judge let him look at the account books he recorded that day, and he still remembered that he had confessed, but he didn't understand what he saw.

Jia Cong was even more ignorant.Although Jia Huan was not locked up with them, he still went to the court for trial. He wanted to say something different about the details, and he even said that Mrs. Wang and Sister Feng conspired to kill Aunt Zhao.Although he said a lot, there was almost no evidence for it. After the chief interrogated him once, he asked the guards to take him down as well.

When the female prisoner was being interrogated, Mrs. Wang's face changed color when she heard about the cages in the warehouse of the Small Buddha Hall.The presiding officer asked a few more questions, and Mrs. Wang said: "That's what the two aunts of the Zhen family who married in Beijing entrusted someone to send them to me, but they meant to entrust someone to take care of them... Only later, their family escorted them to Jing, we can't help much. We just sent some clothes and food to several places, and prepared some money for the women who were sentenced to exile..."

The presiding judge slapped the gavel: "The Zhen family was convicted of a crime and ransacked their home, and it was reported to the world through the report. Accepting the property of the Zhen family is to hide the criminal property, and the crime should be punished. Do you know that?!"

Mrs. Wang hurriedly shook her head: "That's not the case, that's not the case. The cage was not sent by the Zhen family, but sent by the married aunt of the Zhen family. How can a married woman's belongings be considered criminal property?"

The presiding judge said: "According to what you said, since the girl from the Zhen family is married in the capital, if she wants to take care of everything, she can send someone to take care of herself, so why do you need someone else's hand? It can be seen that the preface is not true!"

Mrs. Wang was so panicked that she burst into tears, but she knew that this matter was absolutely undeniable, so she said: "The women of the Zhen family came to say that the Zhen family was raided, and the aunts and grandmothers of the Zhen family were also implicated in their husband's house, let alone Feel free to contact the outside world, because our family and the Zhen family are family friends, and the two aunts often come and go, and the second wife of the Zhen family and I are old acquaintances in the boudoir, so the two aunts sent people away. I brought something and asked me to take care of it for you. My lord, see clearly, what I said just now is true, please also see my lord clearly!"

The chief judge nodded and said: "Okay, since you insist on this, it won't be too late to confront the old servants of the Zhen family when it is passed on." After saying that, he asked Mrs. Wang to be taken down, and the rest were interrogated.

Mrs. Wang was so frightened that she wept when she returned to the cell. When Baochai came back from court, she hugged Baochai and cried bitterly, saying repeatedly: "I hurt Baoyu, I hurt you!"

Mrs. Xing heard it from the other side, and scolded: "It's you?! You committed a serious crime, but implicated us! We are wronged, we are really wronged! You Wang's family has no good things, troublemakers! Enter Whoever's family is in trouble!"

Mrs. Wang was crying uncontrollably. When Baochai heard that Mrs. Xing had included Aunt Xue in her words, she replied, "That's not what was written in the imperial decree of the mansion's confiscation of the house!"

Mrs. Xing was at a loss for words, and she wanted to say that Jia She's crimes had nothing to do with her, but she couldn't say anything, so she sat aside angrily.

Although there were many cases in the prison, the decisions were made quickly. Lai Da Zhou Rui, Wu Xindeng and others were either killed or exiled. The few on Jia Amnesty's side were still unclean, and they were all sentenced to death.Lin Zhixiao's family's roots are not deep, and they are usually cautious. Although they collect a lot of things, they have never used their power to harm others, so they finally escaped.Now everyone no longer realizes how hard it is to be locked up in this musty, dark prison where they can't eat enough and can't sleep straight, especially after watching Lai Da and others being dragged into the Tiger Head Prison.