When the imperial decree was sent back to the Zhenfu Division, Xie Ying asked someone to bring Mrs. Xu to the court, declared the decree in person, and asked someone to put her up with a big bar and execute her.
Madam Xu was so terrified that she shouted at Xie Ying, "Why beat me! Didn't you say you could redeem the staff? I'm willing to pay for the staff! My family is willing to give me the staff!"
Xie Ying sat in the hall and said lightly: "I'm talking about the wife of the life and the officer's wife Xu Huan, you have been stripped of your life before you went to prison, what are you redeeming? To be honest with you, you should have asked about it. Your eldest son wrote a letter asking you to be tortured on your behalf, and the saint was touched and gave him special grace, allowing your family to pay for the hanging, and also authorized your own son to send you to Pinghaiwei, Fujian to be tortured."
Madam Xu made a fuss and asked him why Cui Xie didn't come to be punished by himself. The executioners were about to laugh, and Xie Ying also squinted and said, "We Jinyiwei are listening to the emperor's orders, not just any woman making trouble. You have the ability to call your own son a few thousand more. The expression of the words, this official will enter the palace for you, and see if the emperor will allow it."
Others were tortured on behalf of their stepmother, and they were on behalf of their half-brother to be tortured on behalf of their biological mother. If they dared to appear on this list, Cui Heng would never want to be a human being in the future.
Madam Xu suffered in prison for the sake of her son, so how could she be willing to call her son on this list again, and get a reputation for being disrespectful to her brother? She also expects her son to become an official in the future, and she will commute her sentence.
With this hope, she didn't dare to make trouble again, and was tortured aggrievedly. The two wrestlers clamped him with bars, and they did not go to imprison Fu, so they gave her a hundred sticks lightly, so that she could live to serve her sentence in Fujian, and her son's feet had to step on the ground of Pinghaiwei and then come out.
The Zhenfu Division stabbed Mrs. Xu on the one end, and there were hundreds of households on the other end who came to the Cui family to ask for atonement coins.
The crime of anonymous posting should be hanged, and forty-two copper coins are redeemed. Because copper coins are expensive now, they would rather ask for money. The false accusation has a purpose and cannot be redeemed, and they are still to take the Xu family's parent-son Cui Heng to exile in Fujian with the Xu family.
Cui Xie was greatly surprised and asked worriedly: "My brother is young, this case has nothing to do with him..."
Cui Ju glared at him secretly: I know you're afraid, what are you doing with that terrifying expression on your face!
Xu Shi was about to give up, but when Jin Yiwei failed to do so, he just let her die in the prison in the name of Cui's wife. With Cui Xie's trouble, and Xu's life is alive, he will have a criminally punished wife occupying the wife's position, and he will also have to pay for a son and be exiled to the barren land of Fujian!
If it wasn't for Jin Yiwei, he would have wanted to teach this inconvenient son a lesson!
However, Jin Yiwei's attitude towards Cui Xie was different from others, but he treated him as politely as an old man in the middle of the family, and said with a smile: "Young Master Xiucai, don't worry, the emperor has a will to make his younger brother accompany his biological mother to exile, and he will return Allow him to come back, and those who are punished will have their own measure."
The real murderer was Cui Ju, and the murderer was the Xu family. This younger brother was at best a vested interest, but he had to go to Fujian with him. But he also knows that Daming is different from modern times. He pays attention to one person's guilt and implicates the whole family, and children are accessories of their parents...
If not, he would not have written a book to excuse Mrs. Xu.
He silently swallowed the thoughts in his heart, and sighed with his hands together, "My mother and brother-in-law have never traveled far. Fujian has high mountains and rivers, and there are many miasmas. Sir, can you let them pack up some things they need to use on the road before leaving?"
The Jin Yiwei saw that Cheng had a better look at him than others, but he didn't pull him away immediately, and said politely: "This is also human nature. The son just asks people to clean up, and he is not in a hurry to exchange copper coins, as long as the full amount is exchanged. It’s good to carry the money with the money, and we’ll be waiting here.”
While the two were talking, the servant of the Cui family had already brought the second son over. Cui Heng's legs softened. Seeing that Cui Xie and that Jin Yiwei were talking and laughing, the fear finally had a place to vent, and he shouted sternly: "It's you! Did you deliberately hurt my mother? Do you hold grudges? us… "
Cui Ju was so frightened that he hurriedly asked someone to cover his mouth with a handkerchief, and scolded: "Xu's crime should be punished for breaking the law of the country, if it wasn't for your eldest brother to express his sympathy for the sake of your wickedness, what would she do? There is a way to survive! It's just that I neglected to discipline you in the past, and even managed to let you be a beast who doesn't know human relations and disobeys your elder brother!"
He cursed and looked at Jin Yiwei. The Baihu said, "Don't feel bad, Master Cui, don't you have a good son who is filial and loyal. I'll take this little one back to the Zhenfu Division to discipline you a few sticks. If you care about him, he will be sensible."
Although Mr. Cui hated this son, he still felt pain in his heart for several years, and he couldn't bear to see him get beaten. It was Cui Xie who chased after him and asked for atonement money, and the Qianren went to change the copper coins; and asked the old lady to arrange for someone to pack up Mrs. Xu's clothes and jewelry, and pack Cui Heng's private house; finally, they called a car and called Two mothers and footmen, who had worked in the lady's yard, followed.
He entrusted the whole package of jewelry and silver money directly to Jin Yiwei.
The Baihu smiled and said, "Young master is really a cheerful person, unlike those people, who have to tuck a few cents of money into a bag, for fear that our Jinyiwei will covet some of his things."
Cui Heng was so angry next to him that he wanted to scold him for using other people's cheap money to buy people's hearts. Cui Xieli ignored him and said to the hundred households, "My brother is too young, and his mother is a girl, so they can't keep them with money. I can't follow him out of Beijing, so I can only ask adults to take more care of their mother and son. I also asked the guards to give them some pieces of silver, lest they squander it early in the morning, and they can’t even find a place to stay there.”
Baihu said, "Don't worry, Chief Cui, your brother is ignorant, and the people we escort will be tolerant of your face."
When he returned to pay the decree, he sent the money as well, and asked Xie Ying to arrange it. Xie Ying asked him about the situation of the Cui family. He heard it so lively that he couldn't help sneering a few times.
Early the next morning, Xu's mother and son left Beijing. Cui Ju did not send it, but went to Shuntian to reiterate the meaning of divorce. On the other hand, Cui Xie took the initiative to bring someone and a car out of the city to see him off, regardless of whether the mother and son were happy when they saw him, and fulfilled his duty.
According to the imperial decree before the emperor of Chenghua, the case was closed, and Cui Xie should enter the palace to face the saint.
He performed several rituals in the Ministry of Rites, and Eunuch Gao personally came to the door to issue a decree and arranged for a sedan to lead him into the palace. After entering the palace, Eunuch Gao also arranged for an adopted son to lead him into the audience, and whispered to him the rules of the audience along the way, and asked him to keep in mind the royal etiquette of taboos and audiences.
Because there was Eunuch Gao's request behind him, the little eunuch said to him more: "You must not conceal anything when you speak in front of the emperor, let alone make false statements. The emperor doesn't care that you have such a pair of parents, but only considers that you are loyal and righteous. Only a talented young man wants you to enter the palace and say a few words. The adoptive father and his old man have said a lot of good things to you in the past, and if you make a mistake, he will also eat and hang."
Cui Xie told him to speak more nervously, and decided to enter the palace and open a PDF of the notes he had taken in the past few days. Before talking to the emperor, he should read the taboos of the royal family and calm down before speaking.
When he entered the Wuying Hall, he didn't even dare to lift his head. Under the instructions of the eunuch, he knelt down on the golden brick and bowed to the emperor, since he was a scholar in Chen Qian'an County. Emperor Chenghua looked at him wearing a veil and a blue book-length shirt. His complexion became more and more jade-like, his body was tall and slender, and his saluting posture was also steady and unrestrained. With a Xu Su bearing, he couldn't help sighing: "Tai, ancestral system. T-shirts are for such people to wear."
He didn't like to talk in front of outsiders, so he asked the eunuch Tan beside him to get him on a chair, and ordered Cui Xie to sit down and answer: "Your name is Cui Xie, how old are you, do you have any words?"
Cui Xie stood up as soon as he sat down. He lowered his hand and replied, "Go back to Your Majesty, the student is sixteen years old this year.
The emperor whispered: "Tell him to sit and answer."
The eunuch Tan who served was a mature and gentle person, so he passed the will on his behalf and told Cui Xie not to be nervous, just sit and answer. The Son of Heaven also had the intention of being a child prodigy in the examination. Because he was a little three-year-old desk leader, he asked him what questions he took in the three exams and how to solve them.
Cui Xie took a solid examination of this case, and even if there is a bit of human affection mixed in, his knowledge is not weaker than others. When the emperor of Chenghua was young, he encountered the change of the palace and the abolition of the establishment, so he read less, but the eunuchs who served were all reading with the scholars in the inner study. .
Emperor Chenghua nodded and said, "Tell him to write poetry."
Qin Chang chose the title of "Wang Dao Ping Ping" and asked Cui Xie to write a poem that should be composed in five words and eight rhymes.
Cui Xie really had to kneel, fell on the ground and replied, "Students don't dare to deceive the sage. Students know and want to learn at the age of fourteen. They can only write essays, and have never studied poetry seriously."
But no matter how bad he is at poetry, he can't be as good as the examiner in front of the emperor. He still compiled a poem according to the rhythm, rhyme and rhyme method: "The holy way opens Yao and Shun, and the sound of virtue is transformed into the people. King Wu inherits the great order, and Jizi. On monarchs and ministers…”
This poem is written almost a hundred and eight thousand miles away from the word "prodigy", but it is barely a poem. The emperor of Chenghua sighed: "I know it's true, but I haven't learned it before. What's the matter? You can only write essays, prodigy."
Tan Chang immediately asked on behalf of the emperor, "Didn't that gentleman teach you to write poetry before?"
Cui Xie lowered his hand and replied, "When the students were studying at home, due to their dull aptitude, my husband hadn't talked about the classics. But my father saw the students getting older, so he asked the students to go back to their hometown to watch the field first. The students were afraid that the time would be too short. I asked the gentleman to teach writing essays first, and after the entrance exam this time, no matter whether you are successful or not, you will learn to write poetry.”
What a confused old man, I don't know where my son has learned, so he dares to let him go. Thankfully, this is a prodigy. If it were someone else, he would just study and test like this, and he would never go to school for the rest of his life.
Qin Chang couldn't help slandering Cui Langzhong a few words, and the emperor Chenghua shook his head and sighed: "It's not good sir. Go to Guozijian and have someone teach him."
Eunuch Tan hurriedly passed on the will of the emperor in a loud voice, and told Cui Xie to kneel down and give thanks. His own small servants passed the oral orders to the cabinet, and Zhongshusheren drafted the edicts.
Cui Xie saluted reflexively, with a little nervousness mixed in his happiness - he wrote so many articles before he was admitted to the county school, so he wrote a poor poem and entered the Imperial College? Does the Son of Heaven especially love poets
The emperor loved the poet but he didn't like him. After listening to one song, he didn't want to listen to it anymore. He just asked the eunuch to ask him why he wanted to make a statement for his stepmother when he knew that his stepmother was hurting him.
Cui Xie had been preparing for this big question for a long time, and he answered: "My mother is guilty of the country and should be subject to the country's laws. This is the legal principle; while children are filial to their parents, it is the principle of human relations and heaven. And disregarding the principles of heaven, there is no way to achieve both, only the body replaces it.”
The Emperor Chenghua asked, "She never raised you, but you are willing to be filial?"
Cui Xie replied: "Name comes first, and affection comes second. In the past, Da Shun was filial, and he never asked his parents to do good to him first. The sin of the mother has been dealt with by national law, and how can a student who is a son of a man escape from the relationship between mother and son? Treat her as a sinner?"
The Son of Heaven was silent for a while, and then ordered, "Tell him to go down and give him a feast."
Cui Xie came out of the palace after a meal, and the order for him to study in the Imperial College was sent to the Cui family.
Cui Ju immediately realized that the emperor did not intend to implicate the family because of Xu's crime, and wanted to give them a future for the Cui family. With this graceful son, in the future people will talk about his family, and they will say more that Cui Xie has received the grace, and the things Xu has done will gradually fade away. Besides, the sage wants to lift his son up, can Shuntian government suppress him again and forbid him to divorce his wife
Without the drag of Xu's daughter in the future, his future can also be looked forward to!
Sure enough, not long after, the governor of Shuntian broke him off and divorced the Xu family, and the Ministry of Personnel also reconsidered to promote him.
Cui Ju asked himself that the assessment at the beginning of the year was okay. In recent years, An Ansheng has been serving as a foreigner for a few years, and everyone has forgotten about Xu. If his son does a few things to gain the Sacred Heart, he will be able to be a father. Moved back to the capital again.
He waited full of hope until April when the official department was promoted, and this time he finally had his name, and he was also promoted to a level as usual, and was assigned to a fourth-rank official. But the place name prefixed with the official title made him feel cold when he saw it—
The Ministry of Officials pushed him to say that he was in the Ministry of Household to manage taxes, grains and military expenses in Yunnan, and he was familiar with population taxation.