Erlang got a new daughter. Although it was a pity that he was not the one to take charge, after all, it was his first child. He happily said to everyone he met that he was a father all day long. But after he was happy, a new problem came. Mr. Ding sat down
I need someone to take care of me during confinement.
To put it bluntly, Erlang himself is only a half-year-old child, so how can he serve a woman during confinement? In addition to Jiang, there are no other women in the old house, but how can Jiang be willing to serve Ding? Erlang begged the old man
On the head, in view of the old man's words, Jiang was unwilling to serve him for two days and then quit. He complained that he was not feeling well. He put his hands on his hips and yelled and cursed all day long. He was going to suffer even more in his old age.
Erlang had no choice but to send a letter to ask Li to come back, but Li only asked someone to send him two taels of silver, and then said that he was sick and would not return. This made Jiang scold him for a long time and spread the news outside.
"It's a good thing that you advocated letting her go back to her old home to give birth. Otherwise, I'm afraid this matter would have fallen on us." After a while, Luo Shi said to Tian Minyan in fear.
Tian Minyan raised the corners of her lips with a sneer and said: "She is smart, but she treats people as stupid? Even if she gave birth at our house, I still have a way to move her back to the old house."
"I'm afraid she has unspeakable regrets," Luo Shi said, shaking his head.
Tian Minyan didn't say anything. It was inevitable for Ding to regret it. When she was a concubine, she was well-fed and well-fed, but she was a little lonely in the empty house. But after all, she had no worries about food and drink. Now she is following Erlang, and she is a serious adult.
Now that you are a village woman, can you not regret it?
Mrs. Ding really regretted it. She listened to Mrs. Jiang scolding her all day long, and her daughter cried all day long. She couldn't sleep well and couldn't eat well. Thinking of the past days, even though she was a concubine, she was beaten and scolded by her mistress.
, I can’t run out of food, I really regret it.
But no matter how regretful she was, life had to go on. She had no one to take care of her during confinement, so she had to fall on Erlang.
The days passed like this. In September, the county examination came. Rui Ge took the county examination with great anticipation from his family.
Although they knew that Rui Ge would have no problem taking the exam, Luo Shi and Tian Huairen were still very nervous. Luo Shi was not busy morning, noon and night, offering incense and praying to Bodhisattva to bless Rui Ge with success.
When Brother Rui was dismissed for the first time, Tian Minyan could be said to be the calmest one. It was not because of the twins' reaction, but because she had talked with Brother Rui and understood that with his current talent and learning, he could not escape his fame as a child.
And just when everyone was nervously waiting, news came from Henghe. Tian Huaide was dismissed from office for allegedly colluding with others to sell illicit salt, and the whole family in the second room of the first house was imprisoned.
Tea, private salt, and iron were all tightly held by the imperial court. Without a decree, no one dared to touch these three businesses. Selling private salt privately was tantamount to a crime. Once the crime was committed, the most serious case would be beheading, confiscating the family, and the least serious case would be genocide.
Then he will be exiled thousands of miles.
This is the reason why Qi Shiqi warned Tian Minyan that he can do any business, but these three things should not be touched.
And Tian Huaide was accused of this crime, which was a great disaster for the Tian family!
When Tian Minyan and Tian Huairen and Luo Shi arrived at the old house, Jiang Shi was lying on the unconscious old man and crying heartily. Erlang was at a loss and didn't know what he was doing.
"Lao San, Lao San, please look at your dad." When Jiang saw Tian Huairen coming in, she grabbed him.
Tian Huairen stepped forward. The old man's face was ashen, his eyes were closed tightly, like a dead man. He shook his arm and shouted softly: "Dad, dad, please wake up."
Tian Minyan stepped forward and took a look, pursed her lips, turned to look at the confused Erlang, and shouted: "Second brother, go and ask for Dr. Chen."
Erlang shouted, and under Tian Minyan's sharp gaze, he immediately ran out.
Jiang's crying made Tian Minyan's heart become confused. Her mind was so messed up that she couldn't calm down at all, so she simply walked out of the main room.
No chaos, absolutely no chaos.
Looking at the clear blue sky washed by water, Tian Minyan took a few deep breaths, closed her eyes and quietly analyzed this disaster.
Tian Huaide was ambitious but not talented. He was timid and inflexible. You could ask him to kill a chicken, let alone anything else. How could he not know that selling illegal salt was a capital crime? He had read books and learned the law.
He dares to do it even though he knows it, unless he is desperate for his life.
Although wealth can be gained through risk, Tian Minyan does not believe that Tian Huaide has the courage and courage to take such a risk. Apart from all these, there is only one thing: he is being used as a shield.
Tian Minyan had gone to find out about Tian Huaide's generosity in the state capital. He heard that Mrs. Chen knew some kind of lady, and the two became good friends, so they invited her to join forces in the trading and marine goods business, and they got a large sum of money.
silver.
Tian Huaide doesn't need to take care of business. As long as he uses his authority to open the dock for unloading goods, he can earn dividends every month.
Tian Minyan felt something was wrong at that time. How could there be such big toads jumping all over the street? She also asked the old man to persuade him to break off this so-called partnership, but Tian Huaide and the others said that they were nosy and looked down on people's wealth. She
No more words were said.
Unexpectedly, something really happened, and it was a big deal.
Tian Minyan's face was gloomy. This was a major matter of decapitation, but how could the eggs be completed in a crowd? If they were not careful, their family would be implicated. Moreover, Brother Rui was still taking exams, so this could not be affected.
Thinking of this, Tian Minyan's eyes burst out with a sharp and sinister cold light. The second bedroom in the big house is really harmful to people!
"Doctor, come on, this way." Erlang's voice came, and behind him was Dr. Chen who was being dragged and panting.
When Dr. Chen saw Tian Minyan, before he could say anything, he was dragged into the main room, and Tian Minyan followed.
After being pricked a few times by Dr. Chen's silver needle, the old man opened his eyes, turned his head, and saw his son's worried eyes, tears suddenly oozed from the corners of his eyes.
Doctor Chen was telling Tian Minyan not to be stimulated and wrote a prescription. Tian Minyan asked Erlang to grab the medicine, while she looked at the kang.
Jiang helped the old man up, took the coat on the side and put it on his shoulders. The old man's face was pale and ashen, and he suddenly seemed to have aged more than ten years.
"Dad..." Seeing the old man's appearance, Tian Huairen's heart throbbed.
The old man was trembling all over, and he got down from the kang tremblingly. No one knew why, but he suddenly knelt down in front of Tian Huairen and choked up: "Third brother, I beg you, please save your elder brother and the others.
, they are all your brothers."
Tian Huairen was so startled that he jumped away. He quickly knelt down to pull up the old man and said anxiously: "Dad, what are you doing? Isn't this your son? Get up quickly."
"Third brother, please agree. Now, you are the only one who can save them." The old man raised his head and burst into tears. It was very sad to see them.
Luo Shi stood aside and wiped his tears. No matter how strong and partial the old man was in the past, he was just an old man pleading for his son's life and death.
"Get up, why don't you give up your old bones? You have three advantages and two disadvantages. What should I do, you old man?" Jiang Shi cried and scolded.
"Dad, get up first, and let's find a solution later. Selling private salt is not a trivial matter." Tian Huairen's eyes were also red, and with a strong force, he pulled the old man up and sat down on the kang.
But the old man held Tian Huairen's arm tightly and said with red eyes: "Lao San, don't you know what kind of person your eldest brother is? Even if you give him ten thousand courages, he wouldn't dare to do these things.
This must be a misunderstanding and an arrest by mistake."
"Grandpa, didn't the person here say that it was my uncle who used his authority to facilitate the opening?" Tian Minyan frowned and said, "I told them at the beginning to let them push this business, but..."
The old man was startled, then howled, clapped his thigh and said, "It's my fault. I shouldn't have let him become an official in the first place. I was the one who hurt him. It was me." As he said this, he slapped his thigh hard.
His own head: "If he hadn't been allowed to become an official, this wouldn't have happened. It's all my fault. If I had known this, my old man would never have let him go even to death."
"Dad, don't be like this." Tian Huairen held his hand and choked: "As long as we find out clearly, brother will be fine."
"Third brother, your eldest brother must have been framed by someone. He wouldn't dare to do such a thing." The old man grabbed Tian Huairen with both hands and seemed to have thought of something. He looked at Tian Minyan with bright eyes and said: "
Girl Yan, go and tell the prince that this is none of your uncle's business and ask him to release your uncle, right?"
Everyone's eyes fell on Tian Minyan, who looked gloomy and said: "Selling illegal salt is a serious crime of decapitation. If the uncle really knowingly commits the crime, not even the prince can save him."
She would never dare to look for Qi Shiqi in a hasty manner without knowing anything. This would be a capital crime.
"No, your uncle wouldn't dare. He won't, Yan Yatou." The old man assured me urgently: "Your uncle is definitely unjust."
"Grandpa, you are not an uncle, how do you know if he has been dazzled by wealth?" Tian Minyan sneered. Seeing that the old man's face turned pale, she also knew that it was not good to provoke him any more, so she changed the subject and said: "It's useless to say anything now, let's
We don’t know what the situation is here or there. We have no idea how the uncle did business with others and what role he played in it. Grandpa, you should be lucky that we haven’t been taken away by the officials for trafficking.
Illegal behavior can lead to confiscation of homes and extermination of clans."
After hearing this, the old man's face turned ashen, and tears kept pouring out of his cloudy eyes. He trembled his lips and said, "Are you just going to watch your uncle and the others die like this?"
Tian Minyan was about to speak, but Butler Lin came running in from outside and reported: "Second girl, the prince is here and asked your family to talk."
After hearing this, the old man seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw. He hurriedly got off the kang and said, "I will go and ask the prince to go."
Tian Minyan was stupid at heart and didn't know the beginning or the end. Did she want to cut off their escape? She said in a deep voice: "Grandpa, you can't go. If you want to save uncle and the others, you can't go."
