When the two returned to the pavilion, Xia Siling had already cooked the tea. For Xia Siling, it was good for her father and husband to sit down quietly, drink a cup of tea, talk calmly, and relieve their hostility.
The happiest thing.
Xia Siling poured the tea for the two of them with her own hands. Su Jin smiled and thanked her, then took the tea and sipped it in small sips. The tea was rich in aroma. Although it was last year's old tea, Xia Song had obviously preserved it very well and the taste was the same.
How many.
Xia Song did not drink tea, and glared at Su Jin fiercely. He raised his hand and clapped his hands several times. A servant appeared from the bamboo forest in the distance, approached and saluted, "What are your orders, sir?"
Xia Song said: "Go and get some pieces of gold powder silk paper from under the desk in the pavilion, and bring some pen and ink to serve you."
The servant agreed and left. After a while, he came to the pavilion with the pen and ink from the study room.
Here you go, but I don’t want to keep my daughter, so it’s better to say more now. I just hope you can treat my son well and don’t want him to be wronged. You can take the marriage certificate. The situation in the future will be calm and the situation must be taken care of.
It must never be so unclear.”[
Su Jin took the marriage book and looked at it, with a smile on his face; in fact, Xia Song should not have written the marriage book. Generally speaking, marriage books are written by a third party, with the birth dates, horoscopes, and matchmaking information of both men and women written on it.
For whom, when they got married, who was the officiant, the names of their grandparents, even the names of their great-grandfather and great-grandmother, etc. Generally, issuing a marriage certificate proves that the families of both parties have recognized the marriage relationship between the two. However, like Su Jin and Xia Siling, it is private.
The situation of illegally cohabiting and now "forcing" Xia Song to write a marriage document is like Xia Song writing a document to sell a girl, which is coercive and insulting.
How could Xia Song not know the humiliation involved, but there was nothing he could do about it. He had to make a choice in the current situation and tolerate it for a while before making further calculations.
Su Jin dried the ink on the marriage letter, showed it to Xia Siling and said: "Ling'er, now you are my legitimate wife. You don't have to feel inferior to others anymore. Mr. Xia has already written the marriage letter in his own handwriting. Take it and keep it."
There is no need to hide in the house and dare not go out."
Xia Siling took the marriage certificate and bowed down, crying, "Thank you so much, dad, for making it happen."
Xia Song sighed and shook his head silently. Su Jin stood up and said, "Master Xia still has a lot of things to do. I'll take my leave with Ling'er. What's the date today? It's such a good day."
Xia Song said coldly: "Today is indeed a good day. I will remember today. Today is called the day when the tiger fell to the ground."
Su Jin laughed loudly, took Xia Siling's hand and stepped out, leaving the garden and boarding the carriage. On the carriage, Xia Siling asked Su Jin: "What is the day when the tiger falls on the Pingyang?"
Su Jin smiled and said: "When a tiger falls and is bullied by a dog, your father is scolding me."
Xia Siling sighed: "Dad still has prejudice against you, but Ling'er is very happy. Ling'er finally doesn't have to bear the name of adultery. With dad's marriage certificate, I can be regarded as a parent."
Su Jin hugged her and smiled: "We have to work harder. Next time we come to see your father, we will bring a little tail."
Xia Siling said: "What little tail?"
Su Jin smiled but didn't answer. Xia Siling quickly understood, blushed and said, "I follow my husband's orders."
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The morning of the next day was calm as usual. There was still half a day before Su Jin's time limit. Su Jin was very curious about what means Xia Song would use to excuse himself. Su Jin himself thought about many possibilities, but found that none of them The situation can be excused, but I don't know if Xia Song has any clever plan to excuse himself.
After lunch, Su Jin was about to take a nap when suddenly a report came from the front yard saying that Tang Tixing from Kaifeng Prefecture's Tixing Division was asking for an audience outside the mansion. Su Jin was stunned. He actually knew Tang Tixing. He was in Bianshui during the Dragon Boat Festival the year before last. Hebian had met Tang Tixing once when he was assassinated, but he didn't have much contact afterward. Why did he come to see him?
Su Jin came to the flower hall. Tang Shi, who was sentenced to death in Kaifeng Mansion, was pacing anxiously in the hall. When he saw Su Jin, he hurriedly stepped forward to salute.
Su Jin smiled and said: "It's really Tang Tixing, what kind of wind brought you here?"
Tang Tixing cupped his hands and said, "I've met Mr. Su, so I don't dare to come to bother him. There's been a personal murder case in Xicheng, and I want to invite Mr. Su to come and make a decision."
Su Jin smiled and said: "Why do I need to go to the Kaifeng Mansion case?" [
Tang Shi said hurriedly: "It is related to the case that Mr. Su is investigating. How dare I, the Kaifeng Mansion, not report it? Otherwise, I will never come to Mr. Labor."
Su Jin frowned and said, "Oh? It's related to the rebellion of Fu Bi and Shi Jie that I'm investigating?"
Tang Shi said softly: "Exactly."
A bright light flashed in Su Jin's heart. It was obvious that Xia Song had taken action, but he didn't know what method he used.
So he didn't ask any more questions, ordered people to prepare horses, and led Wang Chao, Ma Han and others to follow Tang Shi straight to the place where the crime occurred in Xicheng.
The place where the crime occurred was an ordinary inn. In a small guest room at the back, a middle-aged man was lying upright on the bed. The white silk scarf around his neck had not yet been removed. Several officers guarded the door and surrounded a group of inns. The guests were pointing and talking not far away.
Su Jin knew that the man had already expired, but he still stepped forward to check his breathing and turned around and asked, "Tang Tixing, when did you find the deceased?"
Tang Shi said: "At nearly noon, the waiter came to clean the house and saw that the door was closed, so he looked in through the crack in the door and found that the man had hanged himself from the beam. When he was rescued, he had already died."
Su Jindao: "Did you perform an autopsy? Are you sure it was a 'suicide' or homicide?"
Tang Shi said: "Both the policeman and the police team have carefully investigated and found traces of the struggle. The cause of death was indeed hanging from a beam, but it is too early to determine whether he committed suicide or was killed by others. However, this man had The matters involved in the suicide note are very important, so I boldly invited Mr. Su to come and preside over it."
Su Jin raised his eyebrows and said, "Is there a suicide note? Where is it?"
Tang Shi waved his hand, and a guard took out a piece of white paper from a cowhide envelope and presented it to him. Su Jin unfolded it and looked at it carefully. After reading it, he felt clear that this must be the time when Xia Song's golden cicada escaped from its shell. This person became Xia Song. Song's scapegoat.
The suicide note was actually a letter of repentance. The person who died was one of the deposed officials who came to Beijing to stir up trouble. His surname was Xiong Dekang. Xiong Dekang was originally a county magistrate under the Taizhou Prefecture on Huainan East Road. Last year, when the New Deal was promulgated, Fan Zhongyan and Fu Bi were touring the Huaihe and Zhejiang roads to depose redundant officials. Xiong Dekang was kidnapped for his incompetence, so he and other deposed officials from various places came to the capital to cause trouble.
However, the emperor's attitude towards supporting the New Deal was firm. Although these people made all sorts of noises, and some even hanged themselves on the cross streets, they could not be reinstated. Other deposed officials went back one after another to make other plans, but this Xiong Dekang did not want to After returning home, he kept running around the capital begging for help, crying out for injustice.
In the letter, Xiong Dekang claimed: "Yu Ben sold all his property and property to redress his grievances. I will not return home until I redress this grievance. But the longer the time goes by, the more uncertain and unpredictable it becomes. The Holy One is deceived by the "treacherous" party and does not know the grievances of various places.
The sky in the glorious Song Dynasty has become filthy and obscure and has temporarily lost its clarity. On the Yuan Dynasty, when the Yuan Dynasty merged with the Yuan Dynasty, other people gathered together with their families and had a good time, but I was the only one who kept my humble home. My heart felt like death. I thought about it over and over again and redressed my grievances. The only person who harmed me was Fan Zhongyan Fubi.
There are two thieves..."
Later, he placed all his resentment on the heads of Fan Zhongyan and Fu Bi, saying, "Although I will die soon, I still want to punish evildoers for the imperial court." He also explained his revenge plan and how he would do it.
Dressed up in disguise to investigate the affairs of Shi Jie's house, and after finding clues, he devised a plan to deceive Shi Jie's handwriting and seal in Shui Mo Zhai, and hired someone to kill the old man of Shui Mo Zhai, Gu, to silence him, and then how to imitate Shi Jie's handwriting and write a letter of false accusation.
He asked Qian to ask someone to bring the letter into the palace and put it in Huang Eunuch's house, hoping to let the emperor know about it. In short, the details of the matter were clearly explained.
As for the reason for his own "suicide", there is an explanation in the letter. He said that after the incident happened, although he was very relieved, his conscience was tortured. After thinking about it, he fabricated it out of thin air to conspire against others for his own selfish interests.
His crime was contrary to the teachings of the sages, and he also said that God would have his own retribution. Sooner or later, the emperor would understand that Han Fan Fubi and others were "treacherous" people. What he did was not in line with the character of a scholar, so he decided to tell the truth.
, but he was afraid that if he surrendered, he would be reviled by the world, so he chose to die and leave a message to others to clarify the truth.
The letter also said: His death was not a surrender to the "treacherous" party of Han Fan Fubi, but to wash away his temporary stains and use it to remonstrate to the emperor not to be deceived by the "treacherous" party. I hope the emperor can
Be aware of everything, don't let them do whatever they want, clarify the situation between the government and the public as soon as possible, and return to the correct way of governing the country.
After reading this letter, Su Jin was horrified. He had thought of everything, but he had forgotten Xia Song's vicious methods. Needless to say, Xiong Dekang was the scapegoat thrown by Xia Song, and all the criminal plots were placed in the
On the head of this dead man, this matter has been proved to death.
Su Jin gritted his teeth and cursed secretly, but also felt a little regretful. Although this Xiong Dekang was not a good person. The person who was deposed by Fan Zhongyan and Fubi was either nepotism or a corrupt person. At the very least, he was a corpse-eater.
The death of a mediocre person may not be unjust, but it is a "life" after all. Xia Song's method was too despicable, and it is certain that Xiong Dekang's death was not a "suicide", but was killed by Xia Song