Everyone looked at Zhufeng blankly, with disbelief on their faces!
"You, you, what did you just say?" Li Shimian couldn't finish his words, and his body started to tremble.
Zhufeng stepped forward to support him and spoke slowly again.
"The girl exchanged the secret method of making sugar with the emperor. The emperor also saw the old man's writing about the method of high-yield crops. He sighed at the old man's heart for the country and the people. He pardoned the Li family and restored them to their original place of residence. The old man and his family no longer have to stay.
In the exile village!"
Li Shimian heard clearly this time, but before he could react, Ma, Cui, and Miao all burst into tears and collapsed on the ground regardless of the coldness on the ground.
Bai Shi and Shui Shi held the children and tried to help them, but couldn't help them, so they squatted aside and started crying.
Li Shimian also shed tears, his lips were trembling, and he asked Zhufeng over and over again: "Don't lie to me, don't bully me, I'm not old yet."
"I didn't lie to you, I didn't deceive you!"
"The girl has been planning for so many years, but she finally waited for the opportunity. Knowing that the emperor was moving the capital and building the Forbidden City, and the national treasury was short of silver, she offered her sugar-making secrets in exchange for being summoned by the emperor. The girl took advantage of the situation to present her feelings to the emperor, saying that the old man had brought
He led the people in the exiled village and nearby villagers to plant high-yielding crops for the benefit of the people. The emperor was very moved and agreed to the girl's request on the spot."
Ouch...
"My son..."
Mrs. Ma couldn't stop crying. Her grandchildren were always thinking about exonerating them, and worked hard to exchange these secrets with the emperor without fear of angering the emperor.
"Sister Ning..." Li Shimian had tears streaming down his face and murmured Huo Xi's nickname, unable to say a single word in excitement.
"As soon as the girl got the emperor's approval, she sent the younger one to tell the old man the good news in person. The pardon document sent by the emperor to Shangyong County Magistrate will probably not arrive until the next year."
"Okay, okay..." I have been waiting for more than ten years, and it is not less than half a minute.
The family cried for a while before calming down their emotions. They were so happy that they asked, "Are you just going to forgive our family's sins?"
"You old man!"
Mrs. Ma scolded him, saying how much risk her sister Ning had taken to exonerate her family! What else was the old man thinking?
"I don't mean anything else..."
Zhufeng smiled and said: "I understand what the old man meant. Although the emperor agreed to the girl on the spot, he still ordered the Jin Yiwei to investigate afterwards, and he could not let the girl say what she said."
"The emperor heard that there were several families in the exile village who were planting crops with the old man, and they were all implicated back then. The emperor had no choice but to pardon the Li family's sins. If all the officials knew, it would be unavoidable to say that the emperor was talking to his ministers for money.
In exchange, we investigated the families in the exile village and heard that Shao Ji, a former Imperial Academy student, was among those pardoned."
Shao Ji's granddaughter Dong Chuxue has had a good relationship with the girl over the years. Mrs. Dong often brings her children into the house to play with the young master.
Mrs. Dong's former maid Shi Hua married Ta Yue and gave birth to a daughter who was as old as Master Yu'er. She was only a few days older than his son.
Zhufeng thought of his son and smiled on his cold face.
"Shao Ji was also pardoned?"
Li Shimian was very happy. Now Shao Ji's grandson married his granddaughter, and the two families were in-laws. This pardon would save the whole family from leaving, and still leave the granddaughter in the exile village. Can they be allowed to reconcile?
very nice.
When Mrs. Miao heard this, she was so happy that she couldn't sit still, "I'll tell my parents-in-law the good news!"
I was anxious to go out and tell my daughter the great news.
After walking only a few steps, he stopped hastily and said, "Father and mother, do you want to go to the dam and talk to Dianshui and the others?"
"What are you talking about! We haven't issued a clear document yet, can the magistrate exempt us from guilt? When you get to your in-laws' place, tell them as well. Just know it yourself, don't let it slip."
"Yes, my daughter-in-law knows." She ran out of the yard like the wind.
In the evening, when the afterglow faded and work on the dam stopped, Li Dianshou returned home with his two sons, brother and nephew.
Zhufeng was very happy to see Zhufeng, and everyone was stunned when they heard the news Zhufeng brought.
After confirming and confirming, several men cried when they learned that the news was true.
Li Dian and Li Dianzang were both grandfathers, so they couldn't hold back their tears.
I thought I would stay in the exile village for the rest of my life, and my children and grandchildren would have to do hard labor no matter how hot or cold it was. I didn't know when I would be unable to work anymore and fall on the dam.
Unexpectedly, one day I heard the news that their family was exonerated.
God! Thank you God for your compassion, and thank you to all the gods from all over the world! I can’t help but worship...
"Why are you calling me God! If it weren't for Sister Ning, would we be able to get away with it? I'm afraid the whole family will have to stay here forever."
"Yes, mother, I was wrong. Sister Ning, my uncle will be a cow and a horse for you in the next life!" Li Dianzang just finished speaking, and he was hit hard by Ma. "What nonsense are you talking about? Are you trying to break our Ning?"
Sister’s birthday!”
"Mom, I'm so excited, so excited!" He was so excited that he couldn't even speak clearly. He was so happy.
The whole family forgot to eat dinner and was so excited that they didn’t know what to do.
"Originally, I was worried that Ji'er was already twenty-two and still single. I was so worried that his father and I couldn't sleep. Now it's good, our Ji'er can go back to his hometown and find a family to marry."
When Mrs. Miao heard this, she also breathed a sigh of relief. The Bai family her son married was a good citizen, and the Shui family Xi'er married was from a nearby village. There would be no embarrassing things like them getting away with it and the in-laws not getting away with it.
"Father, mother, are we going back to our hometown?" After getting over his excitement, Li Dianshou discussed with his family the fate of the family.
"Why do you want to go back to your hometown?" Miao was very angry.
It's not that she looked down on the Li family. When she heard that their family had been convicted, she was eager to disassociate herself from them. She even divided up their ancestral genealogy, which was equivalent to expelling their family and dividing their clans.
If they were not afraid of going too far, they would have moved all the graves of their ancestors out.
Li Shimian and Ma also thought of the unpleasant events and remained silent.
But if they don't return to their place of origin, where can they go?
"We can go anywhere. The Emperor didn't say that we have to go back to our place of origin. The world is so big that we can't go anywhere! As long as we don't stay in Shangyong, we can go anywhere."
Li Ji is really tired of staying in this place. This place is his nightmare.
Zhufeng looked at the family and said: "I'm afraid the girl told you in the letter. Regarding your stay and stay, when you came, the girl told the younger one and asked the younger one to persuade you and let you go back to Jiangnan.
What a great family reunion."
Return to Jiangnan?
"It's good to go back to Jiangnan! Grandpa and grandma, let's listen to Sister Ning. Let's go back to the capital, right?"
Li Ji proposed heartily. He was born in the capital, spent his carefree childhood in the capital, and dreamed of everything about the capital.
Li Shimian frowned: "Our family was just implicated back then and suffered such a big misfortune. It can be seen that the emperor did not like to see the old ministers of the previous dynasty. If we return to the capital, under the eyes of the emperor, what if we are provoked again?
The emperor is here, I'm afraid..."
I'm afraid that there will be nothing to exchange with the Emperor by then. It will be a waste of Sister Ning's hard work.