[Red House + Space] Falling Spring

On the way back, Liu Xianglian asked, "Auntie, what's the matter with the second brother Lian in the city? He has been gone for seven or eight days, and he hasn't returned yet. I don't know if the second brother Lian sent a letter back. He did it." Is there any difficulty in the matter? If there is, auntie can tell me that I also know a few friends in the city, and the friendship is very good, and I can say a few words in various aspects."

"It's not tricky, it's just a trivial trouble." Mrs. Xing sighed lightly and said, "You know the situation of our family. It was also very impressive at the beginning, but something happened later, so it became what it is today. It looks like this. There is a relative in the second room. You should have heard of the Xue family, the former imperial merchant. Their children beat someone to death in Jinling, and they covered up the matter with the relationship between our mansion and the Wang family. Who I know, it was found out later, and he was re-arrested into the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs. Our mansion has also suffered a lot because of this incident. The Xue family has only such a single seedling. In order to save him, the wife of the Xue family did not hesitate to go bankrupt. Xue Pan's death penalty was absolved, and he was sentenced to exile in the Northwest. Aunt Xue's wife was worried that her son would go to the Northwest alone. Besides, after this trip, she didn't know how many years it would take to return, so she planned to sell the remaining family property. Taking her daughter on the road with her exiled son, Lian'er was called by Aunt Xue to help with this matter."

After hearing Mrs. Xing's introduction, Liu Xianglian hurriedly said: "Fortunately, my aunt told me about this. There are a lot of Guan Qiaolian's second elder brothers who don't understand it. If they just went on the road in such a ignorant manner, I'm afraid the Xue family will have a lot of trouble." The three of them will be gone before they get to the northwest."

Hearing this, Luo Chun looked at Liu Xianglian in surprise, and said, "What do you mean by that? People can't disappear out of thin air, so what you mean is..." Luo Chun opened her eyes in disbelief, unbelievable Asked: "Could it be that the officials who escorted them will seek money and kill them?"

Liu Xianglian smiled wryly, and said, "There's nothing you dare not do. Every year, the country exiles so many criminals, and it's not bad that [-]% of the [-]% can reach the place of exile safely. It's not necessarily a case of murder. Some young and strong were secretly sold by officials on the road to mines, coal kilns, boiled salt and other places. The people who were sold to these places had only entered alive, and they would not be able to get out if they were dead. They can't speak, not to mention that after entering, even their closest relatives can't recognize the people who have been tortured to death, so there is no need to worry about being discovered. There are also some prisoners with family backgrounds and wealth. Spend a lot of money to secretly rescue people, change their names and surnames, and go away to live a new life. Some, because of the unbearable hardships on the road, or fell ill, in short, died on the road of exile for various reasons. … "

Hearing Liu Xianglian reveal all kinds of shady scenes on the road to exile, Luochun was stunned. She really didn't expect that although she knew the society was dark, she really didn't expect it to be so dark, and such a thing could happen. She couldn't help it Interrupting him, he asked: "How is this possible? Those officials are so rampant. When they arrive at the place, the side receiving the prisoners sees such a serious loss of personnel. Don't they doubt it? And there is a receipt later, take it back to the Ministry of Criminal Justice, is it true that the Ministry of Criminal Justice Are all the people blind, can't see the tricks in it?"

Liu Xianglian looked at Luochun with innocent eyes, and said, "What's there to doubt? We all know each other well. This is a matter of tacit agreement and common name. The income of those officials on the way is not the same. I will put all of them in my pockets, and I will naturally distribute some of them to the people who hand them over. Sometimes there are too many people, and the people who receive them over there will complain. After all, in the bitter cold place in the Northwest, there is not much oil and water. If you sell a few more people, they can share more. As for the people in the Ministry of Punishment, this is the official practice. Is it true that the ice respect, carbon respect, and various filial piety in the places they usually collect are all for nothing? Who? Will it be difficult for your own pocket? Besides, these are old rules in the officialdom that have been formed for many years. Anyone who wants to make things difficult for this rule will have a bad head and blood. No one will do this kind of money-losing business with the gangsters in the officialdom.”

Luo Chun was startled by Liu Xianglian's description of the darkness in the officialdom, it was so lawless, and wondered in his heart, did Baoyu know the darkness in the officialdom from their mouths when he stayed with people like them, so he was very interested in reading and being an official? Why are you so resistant?If this is the case, it is not that she does not understand Baoyu's choice.

"Although I don't know the situation of Xue's family very well, I heard from my aunt that it is not appropriate for Mrs. Xue's family to take her wealth and her daughter to go on the road with her son. When I met Baoyu before, I heard him mention a few words The girl from the Xue family who was once a guest in the mansion, I heard that she originally came to Beijing to be selected, but she was selected because of her elder brother. She must be very talented and beautiful. Such a girl, even if there is no wife in the Xue family. How much money they bring, the Xue family girl alone is enough to arouse their bad intentions. The women's relatives on the road of exile have always been more worn out than the men. When they arrive at the place, only a few old people who can survive, or It's just a baby who is still in its infancy. Women over the age of three or four are basically rare..."

Mrs. Xing understood the meaning of Liu Xianglian's words, and couldn't help cursing: "Bastards! These people are really inferior to animals, even such a young girl!" She immediately sighed: "But it's true, those people in those places Girl, which one was not bought when I was young and carefully taught, although I spent a little more time and energy at a young age, but once I grow up, the money spent will be earned back in just one or two years. After all, the younger you are, the younger you are The bigger the better."

Luochun's reaction was not as quick as Mrs. Xing's. She didn't realize until after Mrs. Xing scolded. It turned out that the fate of women's relatives was not much better than that of men, or even worse!Thinking of the beautiful Baochai, how could her talent and appearance fall into the eyes of those lawless officials?Luo Chun couldn't help but shuddered in his heart, and didn't dare to think about it any further.

What Luochun thought of, Madam Xing also thought of.She hurriedly said: "If you don't tell Liu Erlang, we really wouldn't have thought of it. Although Lian'er has been taking care of the general affairs outside the mansion, he doesn't know about these things, so he probably wouldn't have thought of this level. In this case... ..."

Although Xue Pan's incident caused the Jia family a lot of harm, but the Jia family finally lost their title and dismissed from office, not only because of the Xue family's affairs, but also because of their own family's sins.Mrs. Xing and the Xue family have no deep hatred. In the mansion, although she is at odds with Mrs. Wang, Aunt Xue knows how to behave, and she maintains enough respect for Mrs. Xing, a big wife.As Mrs. Wang's sister, who also comes from the Wang family, Aunt Xue is just a guest in the mansion. It is already very good to be able to do this, so the two sides get along pretty well.Although the little girl Baochai was a bit cautious, she was not wrong in the end, if she didn't know it was fine, now that she knew it, naturally she couldn't just watch her fall into the mud.So Mrs. Xing said in a hurry: "No, you have to tell them about it quickly. If it's too late, it will be bad."

"But the family can't send anyone there?" Luo Chun also knew that this matter should be done sooner rather than later, and he had to tell them the news before Xue's family set out on the road.But when Jia Lian left, Zheng Da was taken away, and Jia She was not at home. The only males in the family were Jia Cong and the third child of Zheng's family, but these two were still young, so it was up to them whether they could deliver the letter or not. In other words, you are lucky not to lose yourself.

After thinking for a while, Luochun said: "Why don't I go?" Mrs. Xing looked over in surprise when she heard this, "You?" Then, she shook her head quickly and said very firmly: "No, absolutely No, absolutely not."

"If I don't go, who in our family will go?" Luo Chun asked back, and said, "Mom, you obviously can't go. The remaining second and fourth sisters and brother Cong can't be counted on, so only me and Lian are left. Second sister-in-law Heping is here. Lian’s second sister-in-law, Heping’er, is bold, especially Lian’s second sister-in-law, who is called a "hero among women", but you can see that they have traveled far away since they moved to the countryside, not to mention far away, even at the door of their house. They rarely go out, so you let them go to the city to find the second brother Lian, don't worry? From this point of view, only I am the most suitable, don't worry, mother, I have been to the city with the second brother Lian, and I am not alone Going alone, I will bring Mrs. Zheng..."

Liu Xianglian added next to her: "If Auntie is worried, let me escort Miss Six and go into the city with her." Mrs. Xing listened to Liu Xianglian's words, thought for a while, and then looked back and forth at Luochun He glanced at Liu Xianglian, nodded for a long while and said, "Okay, let Mrs. Zheng accompany you." Turning to Liu Xianglian, he said, "Then our family will trouble Liu Erlang."

Liu Xianglian just said that, he didn't expect Mrs. Xing to agree, so when he heard Mrs. Xing's entrusted words, he didn't react for a while, and then ecstasy flooded his heart, thinking that he could walk such a long journey with Luochun He was so happy that he didn't know what to do. Although there was Sister-in-law Zheng in the middle, he completely ignored her existence and regarded this as a separate journey between him and Luochun.Hearing Mrs. Xing's words, he was overjoyed and hurriedly said: "No trouble, no trouble, I am very willing, very willing." As soon as he said the words, he realized what he had said, and his face turned pale all of a sudden. Red, like cooked prawns.

At first Mrs. Xing was a little displeased when she heard Liu Xianglian's rash words, but when she saw him at a loss, as if he had made a big mistake and admitted that he was a child, she shook her head helplessly, so she didn't bother with him anymore.