Chapter 118 – Falling down the well
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Jiang Yishi was surprised, “Big brother, what do you mean by this, what’s wrong with Great-Uncle Lady?”
Seeing Jiang Yishi, Grand Madam Jiang covered her face with a handkerchief and cried.
The old lady pulled Jiang Yishi to sit down beside her, pointing at the eldest Mrs. Jiang and scolding, “The family married a scourge, and put our family in harm’s way.”
After saying this, she was also in tears.
Jiang Bozhi hurriedly kneeled down, “Mother, you do not angry, it is the son is unfilial, married a stupid woman.”
Jiang Jin also followed and knelt down.
The old lady was unwilling to let her son lose his temper in front of the younger generation, wiped her tears with a handkerchief and said in a shaky voice, “Boss, get up. It’s not your fault, it’s my fault. My eyes are not good, I married the wrong person for you.” She also asked Jiang Yishi, “Yanyou, where is the deed from Tangzhou?”
Jiang Yishi said, “In order to let my parents know that grandmother, eldest uncle, eldest aunt to my good, give me how much dowry, I let the deed to be offered in front of Huzhuang my father and mother’s plaque …… uh, what happened?”
Jiang Yishi’s words made the old lady even more ashamed and angry, she pointed at the eldest Mrs. Jiang and scolded, “This evil woman is greedy and insatiable, even her niece’s dowry is covetous, but also dares to bribe officials to change the deed, the eating face is very ugly ……”.
Jiang Bozhi and Jiang Jin were so ashamed that their faces turned red and lowered their heads.
Zhou cried, “Granny, it’s me who was confused, I’ll give all the silver back to Xi Ya, Xi Ya, please let the eldest aunt go.”
Jiang Yishi was even more confused, “Eldest Auntie coveted my dowry? I didn’t know.”
The old lady had to make it clearer. Chang County County Minister’s corruption was denounced, and during the interrogation, he confessed to many offenses. One of them was that he was bribed by Mrs. Jiang to sell the sloping land as second-class land, and the small manor house as a large manor house, and overcharged by nine hundred and forty taels of silver. Mrs. Jiang sent 200 taels to the county magistrate and embezzled 740 taels herself.
The old lady begged, “Shi-Ya-Tou, the people don’t sue, the officials don’t correct, let Zhou’s spit out the silver, this matter is our family’s own disposal. We can’t let the matter get out, can’t let Zhou go to jail ah. If that happens, even if the Jiang family repudiates her, or if the officials sentence her to righteousness, the Jiang family will be disgraced, and not only will Jin’er, Wen’er, and Yan’er be affected, but the second and third houses will also be affected …….”
Because Zhou is Mrs. Wu Xiang Bo, the embezzlement is the dowry of her own niece, and this niece is the fiancée of Duke Cheng’s son. The officials who scrutinized the eucalyptus then suppressed the matter, and informed Duke Meng and Uncle Jiang.
If the two families are willing to withhold the lid of the pot to solve their own, let them. If they don’t, then Zhou will be sentenced according to the law.
According to the law, Zhou had committed bribery, tampering with a deed, and theft. If Zhou did not return the silver, she would be sentenced to death by hanging. If Zhou returned the silver, she would be sentenced to caning and exile.
Jiang Yishi’s face sank, sadness and indignation said, “We orphans and orphans are really living a difficult life, so bright silver dare to large numbers of greed and ink, private do not know how to bully us.”
Zhou cried, “Shi-yatou, really only this time, is that I am obsessed, you adults do not take into account the small man over, raise your hand, let me off the hook.”
These words made Uncle Jiang and Jiang Jin even more ashamed.
Jiang Yishi sneered, “Was it really just this one time? Who had the cook drug my brother’s rice on the day of and the day before he took the examination for the Jingwu Hall?”
Zhou’s sobs choked and she gave Jiang Yishi a horrified look, crying again, “What kind of words are these. Ya shi, you can’t talk nonsense with your bare mouth. I told you earlier that it was a case of picking and buying bad ingredients.”
Although she denied it, the expression on her face just now still forced people to suspect that she had indeed tampered with it.
Jiang Yishi snorted coldly, “If the ingredients were bad, why is it that only Xun’er’s rice has problems? Don’t treat everyone as fools.”
Uncle Jiang asked, “Maiden Shih, what do you mean by that?”
Jiang Yi shi also told the story about how she was afraid that someone was tampering with the rice and made Jiang Xun go to Scorched Courtyard to eat, while Jiang Xun’s rice was allowed to be eaten by two subordinates, and those two subordinates both had diarrhea. Now say, it is not a slight diarrhea, but a more serious diarrhea. Especially the next day’s meal, Sister Qin ate and then pulled several times, walking unsteady, if Jiang Xun ate the result can be imagined.
If you want to get rid of a stone, the stone should be smashed harder.
Jiang Bozhi was so angry that he stomped Zhou’s foot on the ground.
The old lady also pointed at Zhou’s cursed, “and stupid and bad evil woman, actually dared to such a scourge of my Jiang family children and grandchildren. I guess you killed that unborn child as well. You bad billet, as long as it’s not crawling out of your belly, you’re going to harm it.”
Jiang Bozhi thought of the year before that old man, even more angry liver pain, again a few feet stomped on Zhou’s body.
Zhou cried out, “Granny, uncle master, I didn’t ah ……”
She argued that it is useless, even bribing officials to change the deed dare to do things, to nephew rice under the Ba Dou such a small thing will certainly do.
The old lady also complained Jiang Yishi said, “Why didn’t you say it at first? Why didn’t you say so? If you had realized that this evil woman was wrong, you would have been able to clean up the mess earlier.”
Jiang Yi shi said, “At that time, I did not have any evidence, how dare I bring this matter to the elders, I only reminded the eldest aunt a few words in private. This matter, I implicitly told the fourth sister, I think the third uncle and third aunt also know.”
Although it wasn’t said right away, there were still people in the know. In the future, when things came out, there would still be people to testify.
The old lady glanced at Jiang Yishi, this granddaughter’s city was far deeper than previously thought.
She let out a long sigh and said feebly, ”Ma’am Xi, Zhou will be disposed of privately. You have someone bring the deed back to me tomorrow, and then have someone go to Chang County to have the deed changed.”
Jiang Jin handed over a few silver bills and said with a red face, “Second sister, these silver total nine hundred and forty taels, we’ll return them to you for my mother. I am my mother’s fault, I apologize to you. Please, you can’t let this get out.”
Uncle Jiang added, “Shi-Ya-Tou, Zhou is not virtuous, we won’t let her off the hook. But this matter is about the family’s decency, so we can’t let the Yamen interfere. You are a smart child, the reasoning should be figured out …… for Zhou’s disposition, shi yatou still have anything to say?”
This asked, both humble and unkind.
Jiang Yi shi said, “All listen to grandmother and eldest uncle arrangement. Tomorrow I’ll have someone bring back the deed, change it, and then offer it in front of my father and mother’s tablets.”
She took the silver check in Jiang Jin’s hand and coldly glanced at Zhou before walking out.
She knew that, not to mention that Old Madam Jiang and Uncle Jiang hated Zhou, just because Meng’s family and certain officials knew about this, they wouldn’t dare to let Zhou off the hook. Zhou had not only stolen her niece’s silver, she had also committed bribery and tampering with the deed. Even if she were to die, she would not let Zhou die in the Wuxiangfu mansion with the name of Jiang Bozhi’s wife.
The old lady’s heart is hard, even the grandson’s own granddaughter is not recognized, but also can recognize the family disgrace and not blood relatives of Zhou’s?