Under the Empress Dowager, all members will be King

Chapter 150 Live and Die Together
Mrs. Zhou's coffin was placed in the center of the main room, and acquaintances came to express their condolences. If an old man of the same generation as Mrs. Zhou arrived, a firecracker would be set off at the door first, and then Zhou Jie would come out to greet her in person.

When the hatchback meets, the eyes are full of tears, and death is like a lamp going out. After all, we have to cry. At first it was a fake cry, and then the people around us also cried, and the crying and crying became real crying.

Mrs. Zhou took the initiative to take up the burden of the family, leading her daughter to accompany the female relatives in the backyard.

Zhou Jingyi stood behind Mrs. Zhou, following her step by step like a shadow, learning her movements and expressions, observing her language and manners when dealing with people.

Half a month ago, she was still learning housekeeping from her mother, and half a month later she was learning how to prepare for her grandmother's funeral with her mother.

Zhou Jingyi rubbed her sore shoulders, Mrs. Zhou came in and took her sign language and said earnestly: "Jingyi, your grandmother's funeral will be taken care of by me and your father, and you will take care of my funeral and your father's funeral in the future, why don't you?" Where to increase and where to decrease, according to the ancestral system, there must be no loss of proportion, and no rules.”

Zhou Jingyi supported Mrs. Zhou's shoulder and cried, and Mrs. Zhou patted Zhou Jingyi's shoulder: "Cheer up, the days to come are still long."

Mrs. Zhou is in good health, and she could have lived to her seventies without disease or disaster, but now she has passed away early, and the culprit is that jealous tomb robber.

If they hadn't secretly dug the Zhou family's ancestral grave, why would the mother have been ill, let alone passed away so early.

Zhou Jie was holding back his anger, and his aunt at home did not dare to make Zhou Jie angry, so as soon as Mrs. Zhou's funeral was over, he rushed into the prison to trouble Yao Wenyuan.

A whip covered with chili water was whipped on Yao Wenyuan's body one after another. Yao Wenyuan was imprisoned for a month, skinny and barely human, just like a skeleton.

If Zhou Jie hadn't ordered Yao Wenyuan to kill himself, Yao Wenyuan would have died a thousand or eight hundred times.

All the instruments of torture in the prison were used once, but they hung on his breath to prevent him from dying, and tortured him alive.

The long whip as thick as a thumb was whipped on his face, arms, and back, making the sound of crackling and tearing.

The red-hot iron pieces were baked one by one, and white smoke came out from the skin, making a sizzling sound like roasting meat on a stone slab.

Yao Wenyuan still refused to say anything, Zhou Jie laughed back angrily, "Okay, very good, don't say anything."

"Come here, throw it out for him, and throw it at the entrance of Caishi on Dongjie."

Yao Wenyuan was knocked unconscious. Two guards put a sack on his head. One lifted his foot and the other his arm, and then he threw it onto the cart. Then he pushed the cart to the entrance of the vegetable market and poured water on the ground. One fell, swaggered away.

The old woman picking up the rotten vegetable leaves stepped forward to untie the sack, the person in the sack suddenly moved, the old woman fell to the ground in fright, and the acquaintance helped the old woman to get up.

A hideous face with wounds appeared in the sack, and the antique vendor on the street took a deep look at the person in the sack, and hurriedly ran to report to Yao Dayang.

The people in the market pointed at Yao Wenyuan, "It's so hard to beat people up, it's so ruthless."

No one came to claim it until dark, and a kind person brought a bed of cotton wool to cover Yao Wenyuan. The night was already very late, the sky was lit with sparks, and the smell of rice was coming from around the market.

In a simple brick and tile house, there is a square paulownia table with a pot of chicken soup on it. The chickens in the stew are free-range chickens. They eat the grass in the grass on weekdays, and the meat is firm. , A lot of mushrooms and green bamboo shoots are added to the chicken soup, as well as wild green peppers just picked from the mountain.

The two children were lying at the table, drooling over the chicken soup, and the water did not touch the chopsticks first. The mother of the children was wearing a new red dress, and the three of them were looking forward to Yao Dayang's return.

A sudden wind blew outside, the eldest son was busy closing the window, and the younger son opened the door to look. It was dark outside, and the dog barking could not be heard.

"Mom, when will godfather come?"

The widow looked embarrassed and disappointed, "I can't tell."

The widow took a plate and covered the chicken soup. The two children were groaning with hunger. The widow took out a spoon to serve the soup to the two children, but they politely refused.

After a long time, the chicken soup was completely cold, and the two children fell asleep in a daze.

Yao Dayang finally came back, his clothes were stained with blood, redder than the widow's red dress.

"Dayang, eat."

"No, I'm here to say goodbye to you."

"Ocean."

"I'm afraid I won't be able to come back this time. You will keep the money."

Yao Dayang left a bag of money, and then walked towards the night, he came and went in a hurry, like a dream.

The widow sat alone at the table and began to drink the soup. The solidified grease on the chicken soup looked like a hideous wound.Life has to go on, food has to be eaten, she can't fall down, she still has two children to raise.

After all, Yao Dayang couldn't let go of his family affection. Seeing his elder brother getting closer to him, Yao Wenyuan urged Yao Dayang to leave quickly.

"Yao Dayang, are you crazy? You can break through any bright traps."

"Go, go quickly."

Yao Dayang did not retreat but advanced, "Brothers, we live and die together, share weal and woe."

Yao Wenyuan picked up a rock on the ground and threw it at Yao Dayang, "Get out, get out!"

"Sister-in-law is still waiting for you, you have been arrested, how will orphans and widows live."

The two brothers hugged each other and wept. Zhou Jie couldn't wait to see them play out the drama of brotherly love. With an order, the archers who were ambushing near the vegetable market showed their weapons one after another. The Yao brothers died under the random arrows.

The two brothers of the Yao family were sinners, the Yizhuang people didn't dare to accept their corpses, they rolled them up on a straw mat and threw them on the mass grave, where they were supposed to be buried in the stomachs of wild dogs.

Never thought that a woman brought her two sons to collect the corpse, and the jailer in charge of monitoring came to report.

"My lord, do you want to keep their mother and son alive?"

"Debts are cleared after death. I, Zhou Jie, am a scholar after all. I won't implicate innocent people. Let them go."

Zhou Jie worked hard, wrote a document and handed it in. After reading it, Zhu Dunyi reviewed it with a red pen, and the matter was finally settled.

As early autumn approached, most of the female students of Sanfei Academy had completed their studies. Those from wealthy families stayed at home to continue their studies, preparing to apply for female lecturers of Sanfei Academy.

There are also people who are good at calligraphy go to bookstores to copy books to make money to support their families, and there are even people with outstanding literary talents who take their manuscripts to bookstores to print and distribute, and sell books to make money.

Female students have their own hobbies and are good at things. Compared with ordinary girls, they are more lively and have more stable personalities. Therefore, in the marriage market, the girls of Sanfei Academy are more favored by rich and powerful families.

In the past, girls did not study. There are three main conditions to measure whether a woman can gain a foothold. The first condition depends on whether she can get married, the second condition depends on whether she can give birth to a son, and the third condition depends on whether he is magnanimous. Whether the parents-in-law are obedient, and whether they are generous to the aunt.

The female students from the Three Concubine Academy broke this fixed phenomenon. Among them were calligraphers whose calligraphy was hard to find, and female bookkeepers whose calculations were accurate.

There are also talents such as female shopkeepers and female lecturers.

They are self-reliant and gradually become the pillars of the family.

Zhu Dunyi was very happy about this. It just so happened that Zhou Yudie and Zhou Mengdie had also finished their studies, so he deliberately hosted a banquet for the two younger sisters.

Princess Zhou had offended Gu Yinwei before and was ashamed, so Princess Zhou was unable to attend this banquet.

(End of this chapter)