Ying Tianxiong, who is over sixty years old, looks at the fifteen-year-old Ying Xiaolian who is becoming more and more beautiful. He feels happy and sad at the same time. This girl is too young to stay and plans to marry Ying Xiaolian by the end of the year.
Now that the Wang family is here, it will be difficult to meet them in the future...
The prefect of Yangzhou received the document from Emperor Gaozong and opened it to see a secret letter. There were two lines on the secret letter: The governor Ying Tianxiong did not care about the emperor's favor and had a rebellious heart to punish him.
Liu Yizhou, the prefect of Yangzhou, read the secret letter and the Yangzhou economic strategy and appeasement history, and ordered 3,000 troops to surround the governor's house overnight. Ying Tianxiong had just gone to bed with Mr. Liu to rest, and heard a lot of people in the house. He put on his long gown and went out.
After seeing what happened, as soon as she opened the door, she was struck by two soldiers who were already waiting outside the door with cold knives on her neck. Mrs. Liu was also dragged out of bed by the soldiers who followed behind her.
In the hall, the servants of the Ying family knelt on the ground, and the Yangzhou magistrate looked at Ying Tianxiong with a troubled expression.
Ying Tianxiong shouted: "Brother Yizhou, I have known you for more than ten years, why are you doing this?"
"Brother Tianxiong, this is a difficult thing for me because of the emperor's orders. I hope I won't take it personally."
Ying Tianxiong heard screams and loud shouts from behind him, coming from his daughter Ying Xiaolian's room. He said: "Brother Yizhou is in trouble because of the emperor's order, and Tianxiong won't make it difficult for you. It's just that the little girl in the family is raising
In the boudoir, when I saw someone was afraid, I asked Brother Yizhou to withdraw the soldiers from the inner house and let me call my treasurer."
Sixty-five-year-old Liu Yizhou twirled his long beard and read the summary to appease Shi and said, "Master Li, what do you think?"
Jinglue appeased Shi Licai and said: "But it is up to Mr. Liu to make the decision."
"Okay, please, please." All the soldiers in the inner room were withdrawn, and Ying Tianxiong took Mrs. Liu to the outside of Ying Xiaolian's room. When Mrs. Liu called the door, Ying Xiaolian's personal maid Xiaoju opened the door.
After entering the room, mother and daughter hugged each other and cried. Ying Tianxiong looked up to the sky and sighed.
The maid next to her, Xiao Ju, knelt down to Ying Tianxiong: "Master, madam. Xiao Ju was an abandoned baby in Yangzhou City. Fortunately, the master and his wife took her in and she is alive today. Xiao Ju is willing to die for the young lady."
Mrs. Liu didn't expect this maid to be so affectionate and righteous. Xiao Ju and Ying Xiaolian were similar in stature and age, but the only difference was that they didn't have their feet bound. Mrs. Liu knelt down and kowtowed to Xiao Ju.
Xiao Ju opened her suitcase and picked up a floor-length skirt, and said to Tianxiong: "Master, my lady's feet are too small to run. Please run with her quickly."
Ying Tianxiong picked up the crying Ying Xiaolian, turned over and jumped out of the back window, and went straight to the pavilion. There were several powder buckets for picking lotus and lotus roots beside the pavilion, and he put Ying Xiaolian into the powder.
In the bucket, Ying Xiaolian tightly grabbed Ying Tianxiong's coat and cried: "If daddy doesn't leave, Xiaolian won't leave either."
"You are confused. As soon as dad leaves, the emperor will search the whole city. Then Xiaoju will die in vain. Be good, listen to dad and go to Lin'an to find your father-in-law, Wang Ziqi. He can save you."
Ying Xiaolian cried more and more and became sadder. Ying Tianxiong had no choice but to hit Ying Xiaolian on the back of the neck with a knife. Ying Xiaolian fainted on the spot. Ying Tianxiong took off the ebony hairpin that was cut into half.
She stuffed it into Ying Xiaolian's hand and hid the powder bucket deep in the lotus leaves. She looked at her daughter with tears for a few times, then hurriedly jumped into the room from the back window.
At this time, Xiao Ju had changed her clothes and was looking at each other and crying with Mrs. Liu. Ying Tianxiong said: "From now on, Xiao Ju, you are my daughter, Ying Tianxiong. It's a pity that we, father and daughter, have to go to hell together."
Xiao Ju said: "Xiao Ju has no father or mother. Although today she is going to be killed by the sword, it is enough for Xiao Ju to have her parents by her side." The three of them hugged each other and cried...
Ying Tianxiong took Liu's hand, and Liu said "Ying Xiaolian", and the three of them came to the hall. Liu Yizhou said to the soldiers: "Search the whole house to see if there are still fish that have slipped through the net?"
"Yes Yes Yes"……
Ying Tianxiong's heart suddenly rose to his throat. After a cup of tea, the soldiers came to report and found no omissions.
Liu Yizhou said: "The guilty minister, the governor of Yangzhou Prefecture, intends to rebel against the whole government. Thirty-eight people are not indifferent. I will kill him. Let's do it, alas!"
There were cries and cries in the hall, and the soldiers raised their knives to chop. The screams and the sound of the knives chopping flesh merged into a human tragedy...
"Master Li, please verify."
"Master Liu, this is not necessary."
Liu Yizhou clasped his fists in the air and said: "According to the Emperor's secret order, the assassin Ying Tianxiong's family was killed. Someone came to pour oil and set fire..."
When Ying Xiaolian woke up in the powder bucket, she saw the fire in her home blazing into the sky. The fire lit up half of Yangzhou City. When the sky gradually became brighter, the fire was extinguished, and Ying Xiaolian climbed up from the powder bucket to the shore.
The gate of the governor's office was surrounded by soldiers. Ying Xiaolian hid in the crowd and endured her grief when she saw the soldiers carrying out charred corpses one after another from the fire. On the gate of the governor's house was a notice from the governor of Yangzhou: Tianganwu
It's dry, there is trouble in the governor's house. I hope the people will be careful about the candles...
Ying Xiaolian followed the soldiers' corpse truck all the way to the mass grave ten miles outside the city. Someone had already dug a big pit there, and all the charred corpses were dumped into the pit. Someone came to fill it immediately. It was not until noon that the soldiers collected it.
When the team returned, Ying Xiaolian was digging on the ground with her hands like crazy and crying bitterly...
The penniless Ying Xiaolian pawned all the jewelry she brought for one hundred taels of silver. She bought some incense candles, paper foils, wine and cooked meat and worshiped her: "Dad, my daughter will definitely go to that Uncle Wang."
Give you justice."
A 15-year-old lady who had never left home stepped on a big ship to Lin'an. It was a long way from Yangzhou to Lin'an, so Ying Xiaolian rubbed her face black with mud and hid in a corner of the ship.
Seven days later, we finally arrived at Lin'an City. Ying Xiaolian didn't know anyone there for the first time, and she didn't have much money left on her. She asked a passerby where the Prince, the Prince of the Imperial Academy of Lin'an, lived, and the passerby looked at Lian Xiaolian.
Little Foot said: "The home of Wang Ziqi, the young minister of the Imperial Academy, is in Liuhe Bay. I can hire a donkey cart and get there before dark."
Ying Xiaolian thanked the passers-by and hired a car to go to the prince's house. Although Ying Xiaolian was only fifteen years old, she was very smart, and there was a sudden change in her family. When she came to the door of the prince's house, she did not open the door directly but walked on the street.
Wait.
Waiting until a girl of fourteen or fifteen years old passed by, Ying Xiaolian stopped the girl: "Girl, can you do me a favor? Then give this hairpin to the prince in this mansion, and I will give you a sling of money as a thank you.
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The girl agreed as soon as she heard that she would get a fortune for handing over the things. Ying Xiaolian gave the girl fifty coins and an ebony hairpin, and hid on the side of the road. The girl came to knock on the door.
After a while, a servant opened the door and came out. The girl said, "Is the prince there? I have something for him." The servant took the girl and walked in. After watching the scene for about a quarter of an hour, Ying Xiaolian heard that
The footsteps were chaotic, mixed with the girl's cry: "My name is Qian Shuihua, it's really not Ying Xiaolian. I already told you that someone gave me a bunch of money to give me this broken hairpin..."
With a "clang", several servants came out with the crying girl, followed by a man in his forties.
"Where is the person you mentioned who gave you the hairpin?"
"I don't know. Look, this is the fifty cents that girl gave me first."
The man in his forties knocked the copper coins out of the girl's hand and shouted: "Search for me."
The servants scattered around to search, but came back with nothing. The man kicked Qian Shuihua hard, and while Qian Shuihua was cursing, the man closed the door and went back with the servants.
All this was clearly seen by Ying Xiaolian who was hiding behind the courtyard door across the street. After everyone had finished leaving, Ying Xiaolian walked out quietly.
It was already dark at this time, and Ying Xiaolian was walking alone on the streets of Lin'an City. She was hungry and cold, thinking about the way Wang Ziqi kicked the girl just now.
It felt like I had been kicked on my body. Where in the vast Lin'an City was my place to stay? I only had less than twenty taels of silver on me. How would I live in the future?
Just when Ying Xiaolian was thinking wildly, someone from behind gently patted Ying Xiaolian's shoulder. Ying Xiaolian didn't know that all the nightmares had just begun.