The famous book tour starting from the Red House

Chapter 292 Wang's Death
The time came to the beginning of July. The Northern Expeditionary Army returned to the court victoriously. The Emperor Tuzhen, regardless of the criticism from the government and the public, personally commanded officials of the fifth rank and above in Beijing, and went out of the city twenty miles to greet him.

The next day, at the court meeting in the Daqing Palace, Tuzhen asked all the civil and military officials to discuss how to reward the meritorious officials of the Northern Expedition.As soon as this remark came out, it immediately caused an undercurrent to surge in the court, because the Ministry of War had already submitted a reward proposal to Chen Ting and others.At that time, Tu Zhen didn't express his position, but now he let the ministers discuss it, obviously because he thought the reward discussed earlier was too thin.

Mu Xu stood in the ranks of nobles, watching everything that happened in the court with cold eyes. Generally speaking, the warriors did not have much opinion, but most of the civil servants felt that if they only put down the rebellion, they would be rewarded generously. It is inevitable that the group will gain power in the future, and it is impossible to repeat the situation of the Taizu dynasty, where the warriors suppressed the literati, so they are all roundabout proposals, and the rewards can be just as discussed before.

But these civil servants have ignored two points. One is the emperor Tuzhen's attitude towards this matter. After all, in Tuzhen's heart, Tuyu and his gang are the chief culprits who killed his father. Chen Ting and others have to be rewarded heavily.The second is that the civil servants collectively suppressed the generals, which aroused Tu Zhen's rebellious psychology, and also prompted a group of warriors to fight against the enemy. The reason is very simple. In the encounter of Chen Ting and others today, these generals saw themselves tomorrow.

In the end, with the strength of the emperor Tuzhen and the help of a group of noble generals, Chen Ting, as the main general of the Northern Expedition, was named Marquis, Feng Tang was promoted from General Shenwu to Earl, and the rest of the people had their own rewards.

After the matter came to an end, the court began to focus on Maitreya.According to Jing Huan's confession, the local government and the Embroidery Guards conducted a rigorous investigation and found that the number of people involved in this case is rare since the founding of the People's Republic of China.Especially the big families in the Jiangnan area, many of them have private contacts with the Maitreya Sect monsters, and some simply joined the Maitreya Sect like Jing Huan and served as senior leaders in the teaching.

In order to serve as an example to others, the imperial court followed the policy of strictness and quickness in the sentencing of a group of criminals. The number of people sentenced to exile alone was as high as [-].The rest of the people involved in the case, such as Jing Huan, Wang Ziteng, etc., were either sentenced to Ling Chi, cut in half, or beheaded.

It is worth mentioning that after Wang Ziteng's death, the Wang family was confiscated, and finally Wang Xifeng and Aunt Xue came forward and sent people to send Mrs. Wang Ziteng and her daughter to Jinling for resettlement.If anyone had the hardest time accepting Wang Ziteng's death, it would be Jia Wang's.After all, the Jia Wang family has been able to run rampant in Jia's mansion for so many years. Apart from Jia's mother's connivance with the second room, the biggest reliance is Wang Ziteng, the elder brother who is in a high position.

Therefore, even before Jia Wang's family was sent to the Buddhist hall by Jia's mother, he was still full of confidence, always coming out from time to time to find a sense of presence in Rongguo Mansion.The reason for this is that Jia Wang firmly believes that as long as her elder brother is alive, Jia's mother will not dare to be cruel to herself.

Now with the death of Prince Teng, Jia Wang's biggest backer is gone, and this woman began to panic all day long. Apart from being sad for her brother, she was more afraid that Jia's mother would settle accounts after the autumn. Many things have already broken through Jiamu's bottom line.Under such circumstances, within a few days of the news of Wang Ziteng's death, Jia Wang fell ill, and the illness was quite serious, and the days were numbered.

In other words, it was karma. When Jia Wang was seriously ill, only Jia Zheng, the bedside person, and Jia Baoyu, the son, expressed concern for Jia Wang in the entire Rongguo Mansion.Others have different attitudes towards this, but most of them are jokes.Take Jia's mother as an example, she is old and mature, how can she not know what Jia Wang's heart disease is, if she is willing, she can give her a reassurance, and I believe Jia Wang will recover soon.But she seemed to have forgotten it, and she didn't even want to ask a word, and she secretly hoped that this stupid woman would return to the West soon, so that she might be able to ease the relationship with Dafang, Lin Ruhai and others. .

After talking about Mother Jia, let's talk about other people in Jia's family. Aunt Zhao really wanted to celebrate Jia Wang's situation.It can only be said that Aunt Zhao is too naive, let alone whether Jia Zheng is willing or not, as long as Jia's mother is alive, it is impossible to agree to this matter.

Different from Aunt Zhao's simple happiness, Li Wan and Wang Xifeng's thoughts are more complicated.To Li Wan, Jia Wang's wicked mother-in-law was like a mountain on her head. For a long time, not only Jia Zhu's death was blamed on her, but also Jia Lan, Jia Zhu's posthumous son, was completely disrespected. Don't ask.Even though she never said it, Li Wan hated Jia Wang's deeply in her heart. Now that she knew that the mother-in-law was doing well, she was secretly happy, and even worried about her sudden improvement.

As for Wang Xifeng, according to her temperament of distinguishing between likes and hates, she should be very happy to see Jia Wang's end like this.But in fact, she was not as happy as she imagined in her heart. After all, the brother and sister Wang Ziteng and Jia Wang didn't say anything about how they were in private, but they were really good to her in the past.Now that one of them died and the other got sick, she couldn't help but hurt the other.

In this way, in the hearts of everyone in the Rongguo Mansion, the Jia Wang family did not make it through after all, and died of illness on the couch in the spring of the following year. Immediately afterwards, the mourners of the Jia Mansion began to run around the mansions of relatives and friends, and Dongping Wang Mansion naturally did not exception.

After sending away the boy who came to report the funeral, Mu Xu returned to the back house, and saw Daiyu sitting on a chair in a daze, not even knowing that he came in, so he asked, "What are you thinking, so lost in thought?"

Daiyu was awakened by Mu Xu's voice, and smiled wryly, "Hearing the news of my second aunt's death, I couldn't accept it for a while, and felt that the world is too impermanent."

Mu Xu shook his head and said with a smile, "You are always so kind-hearted. Have you forgotten how the Wang family treated you before? If you want me to say, you did all those evil things to her, but you can have a good death , it's too cheap for her."

But Daiyu said, "As the saying goes, a person's debt is eliminated after death. After all, she is also my elder. She is gone, so why should I hate her?" At this point, she hesitated, and then said, " In a few days, the second aunt's funeral will be held, and I want to pay my respects in person, what do you think?"

After hearing Daiyu's request, Mu Xu subconsciously refused, but when the words came to his lips, he thought of Daiyu's identity. After all, she is the granddaughter of Jia's family. If she chooses not to show her face on the day of her aunt's funeral, outsiders will inevitably Talking gossip will have a bad impact on her reputation.

"Forget it, then I will go with you."

Seeing that Mu Xu agreed, Daiyu couldn't help showing a smile on her face, and then she thought of Baochai again, so she asked, "Then shall we bring Sister Bao with us on this trip?"

Mu Xu slapped his forehead, and complained, "You are all such smart and dignified women, but I don't know what to say to have such a relative."

"What are you talking about? Can we still choose our own origin?" Daiyu asked amusedly after hearing this.

"Okay, let's stop arguing about this, let's talk about Baochai." Mu Xu thought for a while, then said, "She'd better not go, lest she come back and run afoul of Jin'er, what do you think?"

Daiyu thought about it for a moment, and gave a different opinion, "I think it's better to ask Sister Bao, and let her make up her own mind. If she wants to go, put Jin'er with grandma for two days. It’s okay to think about it if you’re lucky.”

Mu Xu was not afraid of offending his daughter, he just wanted to find an excuse not to let Baochai go, seeing that Daiyu took it seriously, he had no choice but to evade and say, "I will ask Baochai later. It won't be too late to make a decision at that time." Afraid that Daiyu would linger on this question, he hurriedly changed the subject, "Xueyan's wedding is not far away, how are your natal family's preparations going?"

As soon as this was mentioned, Daiyu immediately became interested, and immediately talked about her various arrangements to Mu Xu.Mu Xu occasionally interjected a few words, and the atmosphere in the room improved in vain.

(End of this chapter)