Nangong Qin's lips were pursed into a straight line, and his complexion changed a few times.
Li Chengen was his student. At the beginning, he thought that this talent had good academic and moral character, so he betrothed his second daughter from a concubine to him, but he didn't want to be mistaken.
He was silent for a moment, and then ordered: "Go and bring me the man..." After a pause, he said again, "Call Er... Miss."
Nangong Yan is already married, and logically, she should be called Second Aunt Grandma, but Nangong Qin changed her name, making one have to guess what he meant.
The young man responded and stepped back first.
After a while, the servant brought a young man in his twenties into the study room. He was wearing a blue brocade robe, and his stomach protruded slightly. Lost the arrogance of his youth, his eyes wandered.
Nangong Qin looked deeply at Li Chengen in front of him. It turned out that his second son-in-law had changed before he knew it.
Li Chengen felt a little guilty when Nangong Qin saw it, but he still stepped forward bravely, bowed to the three of them first, and then said with concern: "My lord father-in-law, my son-in-law came here immediately when he heard that you were returning home. How are you?"
Nangong Qin stared at Li Chengen coldly, and said, "I'm fine. If you're fine, please go back."
Li Chengen's face froze, and he also knew that he was in a hurry after all, so he said respectfully: "Father-in-law, my son-in-law is here to take Yan'er home."
He'd have the nerve to say it? ! Nangong Cheng's face was cold. If his father and second uncle were not present, he really wanted to teach Li Chengen a lesson.
At this moment, the boy's voice sounded outside: "I have seen the second girl..."
Afterwards, Nangong Yan, who was wearing a lake-colored dress and a crescent moon bun, walked in unhurriedly. In just a few days, she became thinner, so thin that she seemed to be taken away at any time. Like the wind blowing away.
The moment she saw Li Chengen, her complexion was a little pale, and her steps slowed down, but then she continued to walk forward and saluted Nangong Qin and the others.
Li Chengen looked at Nangong Yan and said, "Lady, my husband is here to pick you up, so you should hurry up and tidy up." His tone was taken for granted.
Li Chengen is also a student of this imperial examination, but his name is Sun Shan. His father-in-law Nan Gongqin and several teachers in the academy said that he is almost ready for the exam, but...he can only sigh that his luck is not good, and this Maxima needs to have Bo Leshi, I can only wait for the next meeting to try. Unexpectedly, not long after the exam, there were rumors of favoritism and fraud in the Enke exam. Li Chengen also went to inquire about Huang Hetai's old works when he was in Jingzhou. Yuan Zhicai! He immediately decided that there must be cheating in the examination.
Their Li family has a scholarly family and a prosperous family, so naturally they can't have the daughter of a criminal minister as the clan wife, which will hinder the Li family's lintel. And as a scholar, how could he have anything to do with favoritism and fraud!
In order to show his reputation, Li Chengen immediately wrote a letter of divorce and divorced Nangong Yan after careful consideration. Only in this way could he maintain his reputation and get the approval of all the students who used to discuss poetry with him. Appreciate.
But no one expected that the situation would turn upside down on the day of the palace examination. To this day, Nangong Qin Xixue was released from the Heavenly Prison due to his grievances, and returned to his post.
Now that Nangong's family is innocent, Nangong Yan is still qualified to be Li's housewife, so Li Chengen came to the mansion to pick her up in person, and it was considered as a way to give her some face.
Li Chengen smiled at Nangong Yan reservedly, thinking that she would be grateful, but he didn't want Nangong Yan's eyelids to tremble slightly, his eyes were averted, and his face became paler.
Li Chengen frowned slightly, a look of displeasure flashed in his eyes, then he looked at Nangong Qin again, bowed and said: "My lord father-in-law, the son-in-law will take his wife back."
Nangong Qin's face sank like water, and he didn't respond to Li Chengen's words. He looked at Nangong Yan and asked, "Yan'er, I want to hear your thoughts as a father."
Nangong Yan's heart was shocked, and he looked up at Nangong Qin in disbelief.
Her father is straightforward and rarely beats around the bush. Since he asked her this way, he was really asking her what she thought. So what my father meant was that whether she wanted to go back to the Li family or not, the Nangong family would make the decision for her.
Thinking about it, a mist appeared in Nangong Yan's eyes, and his fists were clenched in his sleeves. She has never been in charge of herself in her life, this time, maybe it's time...
"Father," Nangong Yan looked at Nangong Qin without blinking, and said slowly but firmly, "Nangong's family has no abandoned wives."
Hearing this, Li Chengen's brows slightly stretched, and finally, although his wife is not generous enough, she still knows the general situation and the importance. But also, which woman is willing to be divorced, and which family is willing to accept an abandoned woman.
Li Chengen straightened his back, and there was a trace of arrogance in his eyes.
But soon, the smile on the corner of Li Chengen's mouth could no longer be maintained.
I saw Nangong Yan looked at Li Chengen again, his always soft eyes were decisive and cold at this moment, and then said to Nangong Qin Zhengse: "Father, we are united because of righteousness, and we will be renounced because of righteousness. My daughter wants to be with Li Chengen. .”
Saying that, she gave Nangong Qin a deep blessing, "Also ask father to be the master for his daughter!"
For a moment, there was complete silence in the study. Neither Li Chengen nor the three men from Nangong's family could hide their shock, but Nangong Qin, father and son, and Nangong Mu calmed down quickly after a brief shock.
Nangong Cheng looked at this concubine sister unexpectedly, he really underestimated this second sister before.
But Li Chengen's face was as black as the bottom of a pot. He almost suspected that he was hallucinating.
Righteousness? !
Nangong Yan actually said that he wanted to break up with him? !
How can this work!
In Dayu, there are three ways for couples to divorce:
The first is to divorce one's wife. A man's divorce is a woman's violation of the seven rules, and the woman who is divorced will become the object of contempt by others;
The second is reconciliation. As the name suggests, reconciliation is the most important thing. The husband and wife break up peacefully after reconciliation, rather than a unilateral divorce by the husband;
The third type is Yi Jue, Yi Jue is the meaning of fraternity and righteousness. Generally, it means that if a husband and wife beats, scolds, kills, injures, or rapes other relatives, it is regarded as a husband and wife. From then on, marriage between men and women has nothing to do with each other.
Just imagine how this woman would have divorced her husband for no reason. It must be the husband or his family who made the woman unbearable. People who don't know will definitely think that they have lost their virtue...
Li Chengen can fully imagine that once their husband and wife die, he will become the laughing stock of the whole king, and his official career will be completely ruined...
"No!" Li Chengen objected with a livid face, "It can't be righteous."
He felt that his attitude was too tough, so he slowed down his tone and said: "Yan'er, I know that I acted a little impulsively because of a moment of righteous indignation, but now I have come to pick you up in person? Our husband and wife have always Respecting each other as guests, how can it be so righteous?"
He thought that he had done the utmost of benevolence and righteousness. According to the situation of the Nangong family at that time, it would not be uncommon for some cruel people to directly report Nangong Yan as a sudden illness.
He has always been upright, so naturally he couldn't do such a cruel and heartless thing. He just sent Nangong Yan back to her mother's house, but he didn't want him to care about the relationship between husband and wife, but Nangong Yan repaid himself with righteousness
Thinking about it, the anger in Li Chengen's chest churned like a sea wave.
Nangong Yan straightened his thin waist, looked at Li Cheng'en calmly, and said: "The gentleman treated his wife like nothing back then, so why come here to pretend today!"
Her tone was extremely flat, but it was filled with deep sadness.
Waiting for leisure to change the old man's heart, but the old man's heart is easy to change.
She no longer wants to live this life with a hypocrite, it is better than the ancient Buddha Qingdeng, at least the Buddha will not betray her...
"You..." Li Chengen suppressed the anger in his heart, and said his sleeves angrily, "Nangong Yan, if you don't want to go back with me, then the Li family can only divorce his wife!"
He wants the Nangong family to pay for their humiliation to him!
Who would have thought that Nangong Yan's expression was indifferent, since he was already heartbroken, he would no longer be hurt by the other party's actions. She said coldly: "Young Master Li, if you dare to ask the seven rules, which one did I break, why do you want to punish me?!"
"You..." Li Chengen was so angry that the veins on his forehead throbbed, and he was speechless for a moment.
Nangong Yan didn't want to talk any more with him, and said to Nangong Qin deeply, "Father, my daughter has made up her mind, and please father to fulfill her wish!"
Women are really impulsive! Li Chengen thought, no wonder as the saying goes, "hair is long but knowledge is short", he hurriedly said to Nangong Qin: "my father-in-law, there is a saying, 'it is better to tear down ten temples than destroy one marriage', you should help your son-in-law Advise the lady well."
Li Chengen doesn't think that Nangong Qin will agree to Yijue. This matter is not good for the reputation of the two families. The Nangong family is a century-old family, and there is no precedent for Yijue!
The Nangong family cannot have abandoned wives, but if there is a righteous girl, will the reputation be good
He looked at Nangong Qin with burning eyes, trying to use his father-in-law to dispel his wife's delusion, but unexpectedly, Nangong Qin said: "Yan'er, have you thought it through?"
This is a road of no return!
No matter what, divorcing his wife and reconciling with each other is still righteous, and the most disadvantaged ones are women! Such is the world!
Nangong Yan nodded resolutely. She was not outraged for a moment, but she had been thinking about it for several days.
As early as after the results of the palace examination came out, she knew that her father might be acquitted. From then on, she expected that Eli Chengen's temperament would probably come to pick her up, and as expected...
Nangong Qin sighed in his heart, and said, "Yan'er, since you have made up your mind, then let's do it."
The Nangong family's daughter doesn't just come and go when called.
Nangong Qin's words relieved Nangong Yan, and he didn't want to see Li Chengen again.
As a husband and wife, of course she hopes to have a good reunion, but when she mentioned Yijue, his first reaction was not to divorce, but to divorce his wife. Since he thinks he is right, so what if she goes back? In this life, she will not be able to get peace of mind; in this life, she will have trouble sleeping and eating.
Li Chengen looked at the people in the Nangong Mansion in the study in disbelief. No one in the room objected to such an absurd idea. Are the people in the Nangong Mansion crazy
On this day, Li Chengen returned to Li's house in a daze, alone.
On the next day, the affair between the second daughter of the Nangong family and her husband's righteousness became known to everyone in the capital, and some good people went secretly to find out the whole story, and quickly found out the ins and outs of the matter.
It turned out that the Li family was unkind and unrighteous. When they saw that their in-laws were involved in a fraud case, they kicked out their daughter-in-law Nangong Yan. When Nangong Qin was acquitted, the Li family came to pick him up again. Go back to your husband's house again.
What is commendable is that the Nangong family is thorough and understanding, and they agreed to Nangong Yan's request and agreed to break up with the Li family.
When the rumors spread wildly, Liu Shi, the eldest grandmother of Nangong Mansion, personally led the servants to Li's house in Hulu Hutong, and took back Nangong Yan's dowry.
This Li family is just a poor family. Li Chengen brought his widowed mother and younger siblings all the way to the capital to study. He sold the fields and house of his hometown a long time ago. Now the whole family's food and clothing are all paid by Nangong Yan. The dowry is supported, and even on weekdays, it is Nangong Yan's dowry that Li Chengen meets friends through literature and talks about poetry and flowers with those students.
In the past, Nangong Yan thought about the unity of husband and wife, and thought that the husband is a talented person who never cares about the family, but he didn't want all the money to be fed to the white-eyed wolf.
Now that the two families are in a relationship, Liu Qingqing is not polite to the Li family, and directly takes away all the dowry and servants.
In the end, there was only an empty Li family left, and the Li family was even pointed at by the neighbors around them, unable to lift their heads...
Li's mother was so worried that she almost fainted. Without Nangong Yan's dowry, the Li family's food, clothing and food would be gone in the future, but Li Chengen, who didn't hear anything outside the window, was only worried that his future career would be ruined by the Nangong family. block...
Liu Qingqing didn't bother to step on the dog in the water. She knew in her heart that the Li family had passed so smoothly in the past few years that they had no self-knowledge, and she didn't need to take action in the future. The reality would naturally hit them hard.
For the Nangong family, as long as Nangong Yan can think about it, everything will be fine.
After Liu Qingqing returned to Nangong Mansion, she learned from the nanny in charge that Nangong Sheng was in Nangong Qin's outer study, not only their father and son, Nangong Mu was also called.
At this moment, Nangong Muzheng in the study was taking a piece of tissue paper from his elder brother Nangong Qin, and after reading it delicately, he handed it to Nangong Cheng.
Seeing the strange expressions on the faces of his father and uncle, Nangong Cheng vaguely guessed that what was said in the secret letter was probably not simple, but even if he had been prepared for a long time, he was still surprised when he read it.
The expressions of the three men were all indescribably complicated.
"Brother, what do you mean..." Nangong Mu was the first to speak.
Nangong Cheng's eyes were also focused on Nangong Qin, waiting for his father's decision.
And Nangong Qin seemed not to have heard it, he lowered his eyes and pondered, and after a while, he said decisively: "Everything is according to what A Yi said."
The words are sonorous and powerful.
There was silence in the study, Nangong Cheng got up and put the piece of tissue paper in his hand on the candle flame, the moment the flame touched the corner of the tissue paper, it greedily devoured it, and in the blink of an eye, only a corner of the tissue paper fluttered down on the candle. On the bluestone floor, a few words were written on the unburned paper:...near the rivers and lakes but far away from the temples.
The flames jumped and flickered, and finally completely swallowed up the last sentence left on the paper, leaving only flocculent ashes...
For these three men in Nangong Mansion, this is destined to be a sleepless night.
The scandal of cheating finally subsided, and the common people quickly forgot about these things, while the new Jinshi began to devote themselves to the examination of Shujishi.
Until one night two days later, a house surnamed Hao in the west of Wangdu City was patronized by thieves late at night. Because the stolen house was an official's house, Jingzhao Mansion did not dare to neglect, and immediately sent more people to track it down, and finally caught the man the next day. thieves. However, among the seized property, the team leader found an account book. After reading the account book, Jing Zhaofu Yin's expression changed drastically, and he presented it to the imperial court as quickly as possible.
The account book records the details of the test questions, when and where they were sold to whom, and how much money was collected.
The emperor immediately ordered the interrogation of the official surnamed Hao, but when Lu Huaining and the Jin Yiwei arrived at the Hao Mansion, what awaited them was a dead body hanging from a beam, dangling in the air coldly...
As soon as this matter came out, the fraud case once again set off a wave.
It is conceivable who can know the exam questions in advance and sell them!
The chief examiner, Nangong Qin!
The censors jumped up immediately, and Zhu Yushi, Chen Yushi, Li Dashi and others went to the imperial study to play the emperor, and demanded the emperor to strictly investigate the fraud case.
The emperor was "forced" by these officials to the point of desperation, and he couldn't help but feel a little suspicious: the evidence is convincing, could it be that Nangong Qin is really daring...
The emperor thought about it again and again, until now, the only option is to detain Nangong Qin again!
"Huiren..."
Just as the emperor was about to speak, a servant suddenly came in hurriedly, seemingly out of breath, saluted and said: "Your Majesty, there is a good news! Hurry up for three thousand miles, and send someone from the southern border to bring the good news." !"
Hearing this, the emperor was overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "Xuan! Hurry up!"
Several other officials in the imperial study had different complexions, but Zhu Yushi's eyes were dim, and he had a faint premonition. The Zhennan Prince's Mansion and Nangong Mansion in southern Xinjiang are relatives by marriage. The principle of "one prospers all, one loses all" is applicable from the imperial court to the common people...
After a while, a vigorous young soldier in armor strode in under the guidance of a small servant. Looking at his dusty appearance, it was obvious that he had traveled a long distance.
The young soldier knelt down on one knee, gave the emperor a military salute, and said: "The last general, Tian Detao, came to see the emperor, long live my emperor, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, my emperor. The last general came day and night to deliver the good news to the emperor at the order of his son, half a month A while ago, Shizi led one hundred thousand iron cavalry to Ruijiang City, the capital of Baiyue, Ruijiang City was in danger and could be taken in a few days."
What Tian Detao said was impassioned and passionate.
However, in fact, he had already arrived in Yuhe Town near the capital ten days ago, lurking in disguise in the town, obeying the order of the eldest son, he did not enter the capital for the time being... Until yesterday, someone handed him the When he heard the news, saying that the time had come, he deliberately pretended to be in a hurry, and came to recite all the good news he had prepared in advance, without any fear of deceiving the emperor in his words and deeds.
Nanjiang is now under the absolute control of the Shi Ziye. To say something disrespectful, the Shi Ziye wants the emperor to know what he knows.
"well!"
After the trial, the emperor was overjoyed and said hello repeatedly.
Recently, he has been dizzy and exhausted because of this fraud case, and finally there is a piece of good news that cheers him up.
But then, the emperor frowned slightly hesitantly.
Xiao Yi has just made a great contribution, if he imprisoned Nangong Qin at this time, wouldn't it be a shame on Xiao Yi's face and a chill in his heart? !
The emperor squinted his eyes and thought for a moment, beckoned to Eunuch Liu, and then whispered a command to ask Nangong Qin to stay at home for the time being and not to go out.
Eunuch Liu left in a hurry, and Zhu Yushi below was guessing that the emperor didn't know what he said, so he heard the emperor order loudly to a small servant: "I will pass on my will and order Dali Temple and the Ministry of Criminal Justice to thoroughly investigate this case." !"
The little servant quickly agreed, but Zhu Yushi's heart sank to the bottom, but the emperor's arrangement was unmistakable. The emperor did not appease Nangong Qin, but ordered a strict investigation. What can he say to oppose it? ! The development of the situation seems to have deviated from the expectations of the two county kings...
Immediately afterwards, the emperor continued to order: "Come here, Xuan Kuilang will see you!"
The news about the imperial study room soon reached the ears of Han Lingfu and Han Lingguan. The two brothers couldn't believe it. How could the Nangong family be so lucky? ! It was as if there was an unknown powerful force protecting the Nangong family!
On this day, there was a sound of "bang bells and crackling" in the study rooms of the two county kings, and the servants were silent, knowing that the study room was about to be completely new.
When Han Lingfu learned that Kui Lang had been announced into the palace by the emperor, his face was even more gloomy.