The law of the Jin Dynasty stipulated that false accusation was the crime of false accusation. It means to fabricate facts to slander others. Once investigated and punished, the false accuser will be punished with the crime of falsely accusing someone of leaving. The maximum penalty for punishment was 100 gauntlets and 3,000 li in prison.
Jiang Erchun and his wife falsely accused Jiang Liu of being unfilial. Although Jiang Liu has not been officially appointed to an official position, he is also a member of the official ranks as the champion of the new division. Jiang Erchun and his wife were sentenced to eighty gauntlets and exiled to Kunnu City for ten years.
Kunnu City was a place where the imperial court exiled felons who could not die. People there had to bear heavy labor to obtain basic living materials, and they had no freedom. Slave character, even if he comes out of Kunnu City after his sentence is completed, others will know that he used to be a criminal slave.
Therefore, for many people, exile in Kunu City is a more tragic punishment than death. Every year, many sinners in Kunu City commit suicide because they cannot bear such a life.
Before Jiang Erchun and Su Panyun could enjoy the prosperous life promised by the person who found them, they were taken away from the Lu family by the yamen who came one step ahead.
After suffering the 80th board, before the skin and fleshy wounds could close, the yamen locked his hands and feet with iron chains, and followed a group of criminals on their way to Kunnu City.
At this time, Jiang Erchun and his wife also guessed that this was Jiang Liu's revenge, but it was too late to regret it.
This time, Jiang Erchun and his wife have completely lost the chance to make a comeback. I am afraid that they will not appear in the lives of Jiang Liu's mother and son again in their lifetimes.
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"Fengtian carries the emperor, summoned... I will give Meng's phoenix crown, a pair of jade ruyi, a pair of jade ruyi bracelets, and two hundred taels of silver. I appreciate this."
On the day when Meng Yunniang was wearing makeup, an imperial decree came unexpectedly.
Not only Meng Yunniang, who was kneeling to receive the decree, was stunned, but also the ladies who came because of Jiang Canandao's affection.
They heard her husband talk about the process of Jiang Liu fighting Lu Guang in the courtroom. From the perspective of motherhood, they envied Meng Yunniang for having such a filial and caring son, but from a woman's point of view, they were both women, and not all of them were among them. They all agree that women remarry after widowhood.
It's just that now the emperor has issued a decree to reward the Meng family. Of course, everyone will not be foolish to think that the emperor is sincerely admiring the Meng family. This imperial decree only reveals a signal, that is, the emperor supports the widow's remarriage, so that these conservative ministers can be carefully weighed. , Are you going to fight against the imperial power
"congratulations."
These noble ladies are all good people, and they immediately changed their attitude towards Meng Yunniang, and held her as the center of the crowd very affectionately.
And Meng Yunniang held the imperial decree and looked at the phoenix crown, which was far more exquisite than her meticulously tailored wedding dress, and her mind was full of thoughts.
She thought of what she asked her the night after her son was admitted to the top spot and came back from a parade on horseback.
The son asked her if she wanted to marry the person she liked if there were no obstacles.
It was the first time her son had talked about this topic with her after eight years.
If there are no obstacles
Meng Yunniang thought about Hu Guirong, who had never been married, and the brief contact when he brought his servant to the tofu workshop to get tofu every day, the bitterness, joy, lingering, hesitation when his eyes met each time...
This relationship, which has never really been put down, has become more and more intense in the past eight years.
If there is no worldly pressure and prejudice, if it does not affect and hinder her son, Meng Yunniang thought, she is willing, that man has waited for her for more than ten years, and they have been begging each other for more than ten years. For a long time, she wanted to spend it hand in hand with that man.
It's just that the reality is that she can't marry Hu Guirong again. The so-called there is no obstacle, it's just a beautiful miss from her son.
But Meng Yunniang never imagined that after the heart-to-heart conversation that day, she would have to fulfill her long-cherished wish in a daze.
Not only did the patriarchs and elders in the clan agree to her remarriage, but even the high-ranking emperor sent her a married He Yi, which was like a dream.
But if this is a dream, Meng Yunniang hopes not to wake up.
*****
On the day of the wedding, the bridal team carried a full 72 dowries, among which the treasures that belonged to the royal gift were the most eye-catching.
In general, the dowry of a young lady from a large family is not as rich and valuable as Meng Yuniang's dowry. Except for the makeup of some relatives, friends and colleagues, most of the dowries are purchased by Jiang Liu privately. Meng Yunniang is not willing to take these things from her son. But she couldn't help but want to be filial and make up for her son.
It was also at this time that Meng Yunniang realized that her son was studying and secretly doing a little business. She didn't know how much money she made, but she took out the dowry so that it wouldn't hurt him. When he got married, he could take it again. Come out with a betrothal gift that is equivalent to or more regulated.
With this assurance from her son, Meng Yunniang reluctantly accepted the generous dowry, but she also thought about it, whether she would have children with Hu Guirong in the future, this dowry would be reserved for the future. Her most beloved boss.
This wedding has been talked about by the people of the capital for a long time. Even if more and more widows remarried later, the matter of the champion marrying his mother is still the biggest talk of the people in the capital.
*****
"Yunniang, have you had a nightmare?"
After a night of lingering, Meng Yunniang couldn't resist the drowsiness and fell into a deep sleep, but Hu Guirong was still immersed in the excitement of marrying his beloved woman. With the faint light of the dragon and phoenix candles, she watched Meng Yunniang for a whole night and was reluctant to close her eyes.
He was afraid that if he closed his eyes, when he opened them again, Yunniang would not be by his side.
It's just that when the sky just broke, Meng Yunniang seemed to have a nightmare, her expression became excited, her brows were furrowed, her hands and feet were constantly struggling.
Hu Guirong quickly hugged the person tightly and fixed her waving limbs, for fear that she would hurt herself.
"What a terrible dream."
When Meng Yunniang opened her eyes, she couldn't tell the difference between dream and reality, until she felt the hot body temperature between each other, she believed that everything she had experienced was real.
"Don't be afraid, it's just a nightmare. I will go to your nightmare and protect you in the future."
Hu Guirong said solemnly, he promised that Jiang Liu would protect Yunniang well, and naturally he would also guard her in the nightmare.
Meng Yunniang put her face on Hu Guirong's chest. She knew that this man was not good at lying. As long as he promised, he would do it. In that nightmare, he indeed kept her for the rest of his life.
It's just that the nightmare was too terrifying. In the dream, because of the frame of Jiang Erchun and his wife, she had to destroy her appearance to protect herself. Finally, her son was admitted to Juren, and because of a dispute with her daughter-in-law in her later years, the house was disturbed. He lived his life in a confused way, and also delayed his son.
On the contrary, the man in front of him, whether in a dream or in reality, is always the same, silently guarding her.
Meng Yunniang still remembered that she who was about to die in the dream took her son's hand and said that she had treated someone badly, and the person she treated badly was the person in front of her.
"We have a baby?"
Meng Yunniang couldn't help but speak.
"it is good!"
Hu Guirong was stunned for a moment, then nodded in ecstasy.
In fact, he was already prepared to have no children, but now Yunniang said that she would give him a child, a child of him and her, how could Hu Guirong not be excited and happy.
Seeing the smiling and foolish husband-in-law, Meng Yunniang couldn't help laughing out loud.
It was different. Her life was completely different from that nightmare. Sure enough, the dream was just a dream.
******
Four years later.
Four years ago, the reform to encourage widows to remarry made Jiang Liu in the limelight. The imperial court revised the Jin law, stipulating that husbands could not force widows to observe festivals, and the dowry was the woman’s private property. , received 30 gauntlets and five years of hard labor...
Because of the emergence of this law, the life of the widows in the Jin Dynasty improved a lot, and Jiang Liu also became a living Bodhisattva in the hearts of the widows who benefited from it. He was reused and promoted, but he was sent to the Hanlin Academy as usual, and became the seventh-rank editor of the Hanlin Academy.
But a discerning person could see that the emperor was tempering his temper.
Three years ago, at the banquet of Jiang Furong and Jian, Jiang Candao announced the marriage of his daughter and Jiang Liu, but he wanted to keep his daughter for a few more years and marry her after her eighteenth birthday.
Today is the big day for Jiang Liu and Jiang Furong.
After a night of sex, Jiang Furong and Jiang Liu took a shower under the service of the maids. Jiang Furong was about to draw her eyebrows in the mirror, but Jiang Liu took the eyebrow pencil in her hand, then held her face and took care of her. Detailed description.
"The lady is very beautiful."
After drawing his eyebrows, Jiang Liu lightly tapped the tip of his little wife's nose and said with a smile.
For some reason, Jiang Furong thought of what his mother said to coax his father every morning when he was at home.
Unlike her father, she still knew the true level of her appearance, but when her husband-in-law smiled and spit out these words, Jiang Furong couldn't help but feel more than half-hearted.
She felt that at least in the eyes of the other party, she was really beautiful.