The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

When the two returned to the pavilion, Xia Siling had already made the tea. For Xia Siling, father and husband could sit down quietly and drink a cup of tea, talk calmly, and ease the hostility between each other. One of the happiest things.

Xia Siling poured the tea for the two of them with her own hands. Su Jin thanked them with a smile. She picked up the tea and sipped it in small sips. The tea was rich in aroma. Although it was last year's old tea, Xia Song was obviously preserved very well, and the taste was no different. How many.

Xia Song didn't drink tea, and glared at Su Jin fiercely, raised his hands and took several shots, a servant came out from the bamboo forest in the distance, approached and saluted, "What's your order, master?"

Xia Song said: "Go to the desk in the pavilion and get a few pieces of gold powder silk paper, and bring a pen and ink to serve you."

The servant agreed to go, and after a while came to the pavilion with the pen and ink of the study, Xia Song waved away the servant, picked up the pen to dip in the ink, wrote a marriage letter and handed it to Su Jindao: "Although the old man does not want to marry Ling'er Here it is, but the girl is not allowed to stay, so it is better to say more now; the old man only hopes that you can treat my son well, don't let him be wronged, and you can take the marriage certificate. Never be so ignorant." [

Su Jin took the marriage letter and looked at it, with a smile on her face; in fact, this marriage letter should not have been written by Xia Song. Generally speaking, the marriage letter is written by a third party, and it contains the birthdays, horoscopes, and matchmaker of both men and women. For whom, when they got married, who was the officiant, the names of grandparents and even the names of great-grandfather and great-grandmother, etc. Generally, the issuance of a marriage certificate proves that the family members of both parties have approved the marriage relationship between the two, while Su Jin and Xia Siling belong to private marriage. Illegal cohabitation, but "forcing" Xia Song to write down the marriage certificate at this moment, is like Xia Song's writing a prostitution document, which has the meaning of coercion and insult.

How Xia Song didn't know the humiliation involved, but he could do nothing, in the current situation, he had to choose, and tolerated it for a while, and then made further calculations.

Su Jin dried the ink on the marriage letter, showed it to Xia Siling and said, "Ling'er, now you are my rightful wife, so you don't have to feel inferior anymore, Mrs Xia has written the marriage letter with her own hand, take it away and keep it. You don’t have to hide in the mansion anymore and dare not go out.”

Xia Siling took the marriage letter and Yingying bowed down, weeping and said: "Thank you, Daddy."

Xia Song sighed and shook his head without saying a word, Su Jin stood up and said, "Master Xia still has a lot of things to do, I'm going to take Ling'er to say goodbye, what's today's date? It's really 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 falls into Pingyang."

Su Jin laughed out loud, took Xia Siling's hand and stepped out, leaving the garden and boarding the carriage, Xia Siling asked Su Jin in the carriage, "What is the day when the tiger falls in Pingyang?"

Su Jin smiled and said: "Huluo Pingyang was bullied by dogs, your father is scolding me."

Xia Siling sighed: "Daddy still has prejudices against you, but Ling'er is very happy. Finally, Ling'er doesn't have to bear the name of adultery. With Daddy's marriage certificate, I can be regarded as having the fate of my parents."

Su Jin hugged her and said with a smile: "We have to work harder, next time we come to see your father, let's bring a little tail."

Xia Siling said: "What little tail?"

Su Jin smiled but didn't answer, Xia Siling quickly understood, blushed and said, "Follow my husband's order."

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The morning of the next day was calm as usual, and there was still half a day before Su Jin's time limit. Su Jin was very curious about what methods Xia Song would use to excuse himself. Su Jin himself thought of many possibilities, but found that none of them The matter can be prevaricated, but I don't know what clever plan Xia Song has to excuse himself.

After lunch, Su Jin was about to take a nap when he suddenly came to report from the front yard, saying that Tang Tixing from Kaifeng Mansion's Criminal Division was asking for an interview outside Su Jin's mansion. Su Jin was taken aback. He knew Tang Tixing. When He Bian was assassinated, he met Tang Ti Xing, but he didn't make much contact afterwards. Why did he come to see him?

When Su Jin came to the flower hall, Tang Shi, the prisoner of Kaifeng Mansion, was pacing anxiously in the hall. When he saw Su Jin, he hurried forward to salute.

Su Jin smiled and said: "It really is Tang Tixing, what wind brought you here?"

Tang Tixing cupped his hands and said, "I've seen Mr. Su, but I don't dare to bother you. There is a personal murder case in Xicheng, and I want to ask Mr. Su to go and make a decision."

Su Jin smiled and said, "Why do you want me to go to the Kaifeng Mansion case?"

Tang Shi hurriedly said: "It's about the case Mr. Su is currently investigating. How dare I not report it in Kaifeng Mansion, otherwise I will never come to Mr. Labor."

Su Jin frowned and said, "Oh? It's related to Fu Bishi's treason that I'm investigating?"

Tang Shi said softly: "Exactly."

A light flashed in Su Jin's heart. It was obvious that Xia Song had made a move, but he didn't know what method it was.

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 to the place where the crime happened in Xicheng.

The place where the crime happened was an ordinary inn. In a small guest room at the back, a middle-aged man lay straight on the bed, the white silk around his neck had not been removed, and several guards guarded the door, surrounding a group of inn The guests were pointing and talking not far away.

Su Jin knew that the man had already passed away, but he still stepped forward to check his breath, and turned around to ask: "Tang Tixing, when did you find the dead?"

Tang Shi said: "At noon, the waiter came to clean the house, and saw that the door was closed, so he looked in through the crack of the house, only to find that this person had hanged himself from the beam, and died of exhaustion when he was rescued."

Su Jin said: "Did you do an autopsy? Are you sure it was 'suicide' or homicide?"

Tang Shi said: "Wu Zuo and the arresting team leader have carefully inspected and found traces of fighting. The cause of death is indeed hanging from a beam, but it is still too early to determine whether the 'suicide' was killed by someone else, but this person has blood on his body. Sealing the suicide note, the matter involved is very important, so I have the courage to invite Mr. Su to preside over it."

Su Jin raised his eyebrows and said, "Is there a suicide note? Where is it?"

Tang Shi waved his hand, and an officer took out a piece of white paper from a cowhide envelope and presented it up. Su Jin unfolded it and looked at it carefully. Song took the place of the dead ghost.

The suicide note was actually a letter of repentance. The person who died was one of the abolished officials who came to Beijing a few years ago to instigate trouble. This person was surnamed Xiong and his name was Dekang. Last year when the New Deal was promulgated, when Fan Zhongyan and Fu Bi were touring Lianghuai Road and Liangzhe Road to oust redundant officials, this Xiong Dekang was captured because of his mediocrity, so he almost came to the capital to make trouble with other abolished officials from various places.

But the emperor's attitude of supporting the new policy is firm. Although these people are making noise in every possible way, and even some people hang themselves on the cross streets, they can't get their officials back to their posts. When I went back, I kept running around in Beijing, begging for help, crying for grievances.

In the letter, Xiong Dekang claimed: "Yu Ben sold the property of the world to redress his grievances. He did not swear that he would not return to his hometown. The sky of the brilliant Song Dynasty has become filthy and obscure, and temporarily lost its clarity; the first day merged with the last Yuan Dynasty, and other people gathered together to have fun, but I stayed alone in my humble house, my heart was like ashes, I thought about it, and I was wronged, and the only person who hurt me in this situation was Fan Zhongyan Fubi The two thieves also..."

Later, he put all the resentment on Fan Zhongyan and Fu Bi, saying, "Although I will not be alive soon, I will punish the evil for the court." He also explained his revenge plan and how he Disguised and dressed up to inquire about the affairs of Shi Jie's mansion, after finding clues, cleverly set up a scheme to deceive Shi Jie's handwriting and seal in Shui Mo Zhai, and hired someone to kill the old Gu Gu of Shui Mo Zhai, then how to imitate Shi Jie's handwriting and write a letter of slander, And asked Qian Qiuren to bring the letter into the palace and put it in Huang Gonggong's house, in order to let the emperor know this, and in short, explain the details clearly.

As for the reason for his own "suicide", there was an explanation in the letter. It said that after the incident, although he was very relieved, his conscience was tormented. The crime is contrary to the teachings of the sages, and he said that God will have retribution. Sooner or later, the emperor will understand that Han Fan Fubi and others are "treacherous" people. What he did is not in line with the conduct of a scholar, so he decided to tell the truth. , but was afraid that if he turned himself in, he would be scolded by the world, so he chose to die and leave a book to clarify the truth.

The letter also said: His death was not a submission to Han Fan Fubi's "treacherous" party, but to wash away his temporary stains and use it to remonstrate with the emperor. Don't be deceived by the "treacherous" party. Be aware of the details, don't let them do anything wrong, clarify the government and the public as soon as possible, and return to the correct way of governing the country.

After reading the letter, Su Jin was terrified. He thought of everything, but he forgot about Xia Song's vicious methods. Needless to say, this Xiong Dekang was Xia Song's scapegoat. On this dead man's head, this matter has been proved to death from now on.

Su Jin gritted his teeth and cursed secretly, but at the same time felt a little regretful. Although this Xiong Dekang was not a good person, the person whose official position was abolished by Fan Zhongyan and Fubi was either a nepotism or a corrupt person, at least he was a dead man. For a mediocre person, death may not be wronged, but it is a "life" after all, and Xia Song's methods are too despicable, and it is certain that Xiong Dekang's death was definitely not a "suicide", but was killed by Xia Song up.

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