There is a saying that 'the year is afraid of the mid-autumn moon, and people are afraid of the cold when they are forty-nine years old'.
After the end of autumn, winter enters in a blink of an eye. In the blink of an eye, the new year is approaching.
Hu Weiyong, who suffered the pain of two murders, lay at home for two months before he recovered. On Laba day, he finally started seeing guests.
The person who arranged for him to receive guests was still Hu De. In the past two months, it was Hu De who took care of him from time to time.
His house was already sparsely populated. Now that his son is gone, his wife has gone back to her parents' house and will never come back, even the coachman, Lao Huang, and the concierge, Uncle Qin, have lost their jobs. They are beaten and scolded, so they can only count on their nephews.
There were eight guests who came to his house to drink Laba porridge today, including many of the seven monkeys, as well as Li Shanchang's younger brother Li Cunyi. Li Cunyi's son Li You was also killed by the Zhu family a few years ago, so he was older than Hu Weiyong. There is a feeling of shared hatred.
The case between the Seven Monkeys and the Fourth Prince has been delayed until now. So they are now monkeys and not marquis...
In fact, the case was about to be closed, but Zhao Butang of the Criminal Department had already given it a gentle hand by both parties.
The main trouble on the fourth side was the cannon. After Zhao Zhu and the pen-swordsmen of the Ministry of Justice combined, they concluded that the shot was a 'cannon', not a 'cannon'.
Because the cannon beside the stone is a trebuchet. The purpose of Lao Si's use of this kind of cannon is to throw stones to break the door, which is equivalent to a door-opening tool such as a door hammer.
Of course, the severity is much lower than using artillery in the capital.
As for the Seven Monkeys, it's even simpler. It's just settled as 'beat to death by mistake, the evil slave will bear the responsibility, pay a fine, and compensate the deceased'. There is no technical content at all.
Unexpectedly, just before the case was closed, Zhao Butang, who wanted to help others solve the problem, was actually killed first.
Last month, he was accused of accepting bribes to commute someone's sentence, which made Boss Zhu furious. The court pushed him out and beat him to death with a cane.
Boss Zhu, who was still angry, ordered Zhao Zhu's entire family to be executed, and even his ancestral graves were dug up for him...
Anyone who knows the inside story knows that the emperor is simply using the topic as a pretext. Zhao Zhu actually died killing a white duck for Hu Weiyong.
The dignified Minister of Justice, the emperor's minister of justice, did not enforce the law strictly for the emperor. Instead, he practiced favoritism and cheated on behalf of the prime minister. No emperor would be able to tolerate this kind of behavior.
Such an incident happened to the previous minister, so Kaiji, who took over as minister, was naturally cautious. It was too late to cross the river with the egg in his hands, let alone wade through the muddy water.
So the case was shelved indefinitely. The emperor did not push it, but when the new year was approaching, he lifted the ban on the fourth prince and the seven monkeys and let them go out for a walk.
But we don’t know when titles and positions will be restored, let alone military power...
It is conceivable that the seven monkeys are full of complaints and resentments, and they are almost filling the Qinhuai River.
So today’s Laba Banquet can be said to be a conference of the Alliance of Frustrated People...
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When the fragrant Laba porridge was served, Hu Weiyong started to burst into tears before he took two sips.
Everyone knows that Hu Xiang misses his son again.
Li Cunyi also cried along with him and was moved by the scene. He also thought of his son who had been barbecued by Boss Hu.
Although the seven princes could not shed tears, they sighed and could not help complaining about the emperor's coldness and ruthlessness.
"I'm ready to rebel." At this time, Hu Weiyong suddenly said quietly.
The atmosphere of crying and complaining suddenly stopped, and everyone stared dumbfounded at Hu Weiyong, who had always been criticized for being timid.
"Haha, Mr. Hu, I'm deaf and didn't hear clearly." Lu Zhongheng laughed and said, "You mean you've prepared breakfast for us?"
"Don't bother, we won't stay here, we can go home and drink till late." Li Cunyi and others quickly interrupted and said with a smile:
"Come on, drink, drink."
Hu Weiyong swept the crowd with cold eyes and raised his voice:
"What I'm saying is that I'm planning to rebel. Do you understand me?!"
"..." Now there was nothing anyone could do to interrupt, and no one dared to answer. There was a dead silence in the hall.
"Why, are you scared?" Hu Weiyong glanced at everyone with disdain and teased: "Aren't all of them very brave? Do you keep saying 'if you piss me off, you'll rebel against your mother' all day long?
"Don't you think I'm a coward all day long? Now that I'm a man, why are you so cowardly?" Hu Weiyong stood up on crutches and used the tip of the stick to touch the shoulders of several monkeys.
The monkeys had no temper at all. Lu Zhongheng whispered with a embarrassed face: "Didn't Xie also say, be careful that the walls have ears."
"Don't worry, there is no outsider in my house now. Even this meal was delivered by Xinghualou." Hu Weiyong said lightly: "Look at how scared you are."
Everyone then breathed a sigh of relief. "That's good, that's good..."
"Why did Mr. Hu suddenly come up with such an idea?" Fei Jutan asked. Everyone looked at Lao Hu, wondering whether he was ill or had taken the wrong medicine.
"Why, my only son was killed by his father and his son, and he was killed twice - isn't this a sufficient reason for rebellion?!" Hu Weiyong's old face turned red, even though two months had passed, he was still alive.
Thinking of how badly he had been fooled, he still couldn't calm down.
"Ah, wasn't Lao Liu the one who did that? Could it be that the emperor was also involved?" Everyone was shocked when they heard this.
"Without the emperor's acquiescence, he dares to play with me so unscrupulously?" Hu Weiyong said coldly.
In fact, Boss Zhu was not involved in that matter at all. But people always tend to think of their opponents as stronger after a failure. As if this can make their own failure less embarrassing.
"But the superiors have always preferred Hu Xiang." Everyone said in confusion.
"Preference?" Hu Weiyong was so angry that his mouth twisted, he trembled with his hands, and said with full of resentment: "If you really have a preference, you wouldn't have pretended to forgive my son knowing that I was kept in the dark. And then let me wait for my rejection.
Go to prison and behead him. And then you deliberately let me find out that my son has been replaced again? Since ancient times, it has been rare for an emperor to play with the prime minister like this!"
"It's really too perverted." Everyone sighed: "Just thinking about it makes me feel bad for Mr. Hu. But why does the emperor treat Mr. Hu like this?"
"Isn't it because of you?" Hu Weiyong said coldly.
"Ah, us?" The seven monkeys pointed at themselves.
"Why did you guys turn a deaf ear to what I said in the first place?" Hu Weiyong stopped being polite to them and scolded them:
"I told you, just ask for confessions and drive those spies out of the house. It would be better for you to be so bold that you beat them to death and even sent them to the fourth son's house for a demonstration!
"Do you think the emperor doesn't know that you are going after him? What a good thing. What was originally a reasonable matter has become a forced palace! If it hadn't been for that iron plate, the emperor would have killed you seven
The skin was peeled off and hung on the Meridian Gate for public display!"
ps. Today I can only write now, so I am posting. Continue...
