Zhutian: Since I was a child, I have been happy to be a father

Big news!
The first wife of Sheng Hong, the Left Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate, Wang, actually teamed up with her own sister Kang Wang, and stuffed the poisonous juice of ginkgo buds into cakes in an attempt to murder their own mother-in-law!

The ruling and opposition parties were shocked!

The emperor was furious and ordered the three judicial departments and the Northern Pacification Department to jointly try the case!
Yongchang Houfu.

Liang Family Ancestral Hall.

An important meeting concerning the fate of Molan and Minglan was held here.

The old man sat at the top. Although he was only in his early fifties, his face was full of seriousness.

Mrs. Liang sat aside, with some regret in her eyes. Without a doubt, she regretted indulging her son too much and letting him marry the two daughters of the Sheng family.

The couples from the second and third rooms were naturally also there, and they all looked at the miserable Erlan of the Sheng family.

Boss Liang Xuan is not here.

His wife, Grandma Liang, looked smug and looked at her brother-in-law's wives with contempt, deliberately mocking them:
"I think we should just get divorced! Our family is pure and innocent, and we can't let the daughter of the vicious woman who poisoned my mother-in-law be tainted!"

Upon hearing this, Molan and Minglan wiped away their tears.

Chen Tao said coldly: "Sister-in-law, you have no self-awareness. Do you think you are very filial to my mother? I like Chun Ge and respect my elder brother, so I don't want to care about it. Do you think I am weak and can be bullied? If you say another word, I will let my mother go to the Shuntianfu government office to sue you for being unfilial!"

Grandma Liang said angrily: "You..."

Chen Tao shouted: "Shut up!"

The voice was so loud that even the old man was frightened and almost got drunk, so he went downstairs to report in advance.

Grandma Liang was even more intimidated by the power of her brother-in-law and dared not act rashly again.

Chen Tao paused, looked around at everyone present, and then his eyes fell on the old man:

"Dad, let me make two points. First, Mo'er was raised by her biological mother since she was a child, and her mother has always been a mortal enemy of Wang's family, so she has never been influenced by Wang's mother. Second, Minglan has been raised by the old lady since she was a child, and obviously has nothing to do with Wang's family. So I will not have any prejudice against them, but will try my best to help them explain outside."

silence.

All are silent.

Finally, the old man sighed and said calmly: "Han'er, don't worry, let's take it slowly!"

Mrs. Liang also said: "Yes, this matter cannot be rushed!"

Can’t rush?
It’s not clear yet, so don’t rush to deal with us!
Molan and Minglan knew what was going on, but they could do nothing but wait for the decision.

Mother-in-law is also a mother.

Poisoning my mother, just thinking about it makes my scalp tingle!

How unfilial!

If you make a mistake, you will either be beheaded or strangled!

Being the daughter of such a man is worse than being a street rat!

Chen Tao said firmly: "Mom, we can't just sit there and wait! If you have nothing to do today, then please move around more and separate your daughter-in-law from Wang's!"

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Liang first glanced at her two sobbing daughters-in-law, then nodded in agreement.

Chen Tao then said to his second brother and his wife, and his third brother and his wife, "You guys are fine too, so stop just standing there and watch. Move around!"

Liang Ye responded, "Fourth brother, don't worry! Your second sister-in-law and I will definitely help you!"

He was very grateful to Chen Tao. If Chen Tao had not emerged as a rising star, he would still be worried about the issue of inheriting the title.

The third room also immediately expressed its agreement.

Chen Tao looked at Grandma Liang and said, "I know myself well and know that my sister-in-law will definitely not help me clarify the matter, so I won't ask you for help. It would be best if you are willing to help me. Even if you gossip and slander me, I don't care!"

After saying that, he stood up and helped the two pregnant women away.

When they walked out of the ancestral hall, the old man said to his eldest daughter-in-law without question:
"You also help to clarify, and you must be more filial to your mother-in-law in the future. Do you hear me?"

"..."

Grandma Liang was angry, but she could only agree to it obediently. What else could she do? Talk back to her father-in-law? Then she had to participate in the three-court trial.

Over the past three years, Chen Tao has made conflicts public many times in order to make the old man realize that his four sons are not united, but rather have deep conflicts. He wants to teach him not to be wishy-washy and to choose sides honestly.

The old man had nothing to say and could only stand on the side of his three sons. Anyway, Chen Tao, the fourth son, was also very promising, so he didn't have to rely entirely on the eldest son to carry the family.

The fourth master's courtyard.

Chen Tao gathered the maids and servants in the yard and gave them a lecture: "I have a lot to do, so I will keep it short. You are my people, so you must listen to me and Fourth Madam. If anyone dares to gossip, I will not let her off easily. I have killed many people, so I don't mind killing a few more who are not loyal to me. It doesn't matter whose nanny or maid you are, as long as you dare to disobey me, don't blame me for being cruel! Did you hear me?"

When the maids and servants heard this, they all said at once, "We heard it."

Chen Tao glared and said unhappily: "You are so weak, it seems you don't take my words seriously."

As he spoke, he looked at a very cute little girl and asked, "Xiao Man, you like to move around a lot, have you ever heard anyone being dissatisfied with Fourth Grandma?"

This little girl was brought back by Chen Tao from the south. She usually follows Yuanyuan and has a very likable personality.

It would be more accurate to say that Yuanyuan was named for a good omen rather than according to the 24 solar terms.

Yuanyuan, Xiaoman? Perfection!
Xiaoman listened to Mr. Chen the most and stood up immediately.

However, before she could open her mouth, a woman came out and knelt down to beg for mercy.

Chen Tao said coldly: "Go back and find Chun Ge to get a beating!"

Then he looked around at everyone: "I usually don't care about things, but that doesn't mean my eyes and ears are bad. I like someone but that doesn't mean I will indulge her! Say it to me again, did you hear me?"

All the maids and servants responded loudly, just like Hirata who was tortured by Morishita.

Yuanyuan, who was watching from beside Chen Tao, secretly dubbed in her heart:

Very good, very energetic!
After Chen Tao dismissed everyone, he went to the side to have a private chat with Yuan Yuan: "Don't worry, it's not time yet!"

Yuanyuan rolled her eyes at him and said, "Huh, look at what you said, it's as if I'm eager to become your legal wife and force you to divorce her. I really don't think so. I can be a concubine, or even better, go to a nunnery. Anyway, I will never be jealous of them."

Chen Tao reached out and hugged her, punishing her for her nonsense mouth.

Yuanyuan looked disgusted, but her body was quite honest. She would take the initiative to let Chen Tao stay overnight in her house and would no longer give him to Molan and others.

That's right.

Although Chen Tao was willing to wait, after all, he liked to have a sense of ceremony occasionally and could wait until the wedding night to do the real thing, but the problem was that Yuanyuan didn't want to wait.

According to her mental age, she is almost a junior in college. How could she hold back when they were so close? She had sex with Chen Tao on the night of the beginning of summer last month.

Hot weather makes it easy for fires to occur. This is a natural phenomenon and there is nothing strange about it.

After Chen Tao finished eating Yanzhi, he took Yuanyuan back to the house and asked her to accompany Molan, Minglan and the child.

Chen Tao himself rode out on horseback to visit the Sheng family and the officials to inquire about the relevant situation.

In the book, Minglan brought her servants to surround the entire Sheng family and resolve the matter internally, but that is not the case now.

At this time, the Sheng family had been surrounded by Shuntian Prefecture officials and clerks, and outsiders were not allowed to enter or leave without permission.

However, there was also information that Wang had been kidnapped and Sheng Hong had been asked to cooperate with the investigation.

This is really no small matter.

It is easy to think of the case of Chen Shiru murdering his mother in the Northern Song Dynasty, which intensified the struggle between the new and old parties.

Chen Shiru's father, Chen Zhizhong, was once a Tongpingzhangshi, but because his tyrannical favorite concubine, Zhang, beat a maid to death, he was successively imprisoned and dismissed from his post. After his death, Zhang became more and more lawless, not only making all the servants in the family gnash their teeth, but also making Chen Shiru and his daughter-in-law Li hate him.

The Li family has a prominent background.

His mother was the granddaughter of Lu Yijian, who was once a prime minister, and the niece of Lu Gongzhu, who was also a prime minister. The Lu family was really powerful in the Song Dynasty.

In the play, Wang pretended that her father was worthy of being enshrined in the Imperial Ancestral Temple. Combined with the background of the Song Dynasty and the incident of poisoning her mother-in-law, this plot was basically borrowed.

After Li gave the hint, the servants immediately poisoned her, but the poison failed to kill her, so they nailed her to death with iron nails.

Later, he was reported by a family servant, and in the back and forth tug-of-war, the case of Li's murder of her aunt turned into the case of Chen Shiru's murder of his mother.

Chen Shiru was executed and many other officials were dismissed.

It is worth mentioning that Song Renzong wanted to show leniency to Chen Shiru. After all, Chen Shiru was Chen Zhizhong's only son and he had no offspring, so he wanted to keep him to inherit the family line.

But Cai Que insisted on killing him, so he was executed along with his wife Li and a dozen other servants.

In a famous Song Dynasty novel, the person whose head was smashed by Han Dachui's bone was this Cai Que.

To be honest, Chen Tao admires the weapon Guduo very much. It is necessary for him to practice it more as it will be useful next year.

But for now he still has to go to the Dali Temple to cooperate with the investigation. In addition to the investigation, he also specifically emphasized that his two wives have been at home to take care of their pregnancies and have nothing to do with Wang.

This confession was naturally accepted.

After all, Erlan has never been to the Sheng family since she became pregnant, and she has never been raised by Wang since she was a child. How could she have the motivation to help Wang deal with Old Madam Sheng?
In comparison, it would be better to call the son and daughter-in-law of the Sheng family, and the two legitimate daughters of the Wang family to come and question them.

Hualan and Rulan are in trouble.

When Mrs. Yuan and Mrs. Wen found out about this, they both asked their two daughters-in-law to agree to divorce immediately.

They all don’t want a daughter-in-law with a toxic mother and mother-in-law, otherwise they will be treated like this in the future. What will happen then?

That night was a sleepless night.

The two sisters, who used to quarrel with each other every now and then, now sat obediently on half of Chen Tao's shoulders, feeling sad and upset.

The two sons, who were almost two years old, were also there.

Minglan felt really uncomfortable.

First of all, the old lady had always been very protective of her, but now she was poisoned by Wang and Aunt Kang, which made her very angry.

Secondly, after this matter was exposed, she, as a daughter of the Sheng family, had no future.

Although her husband can still protect her, his parents' attitude has changed.

She knew without her husband telling her that her two sisters, Hualan and Rulan, would have a hard time in the future. They would most likely be returned by the Yuan and Wen families. How would they live in the future?

She is the same as Molan!

Because of this incident, the Sheng family might go from prosperity to decline, and the fruits of decades of hard work would be lost overnight. Without the support of her natal family, even if her husband doted on her, it would only be temporary!

Wang! Compared to Aunt Lin, you deserve to die even more!

The tenth day of the lunar month.

morning.

Mrs. Yuan came to visit and discussed that she had sent Hualan back to the Sheng family on the seventh day of the first lunar month and that Yuan Wenshao had divorced his wife.

In the afternoon, Old Mrs. Wen also came to visit with her maid.

In late July, Wen Yanjing was scheduled to be exiled to Quanzhou. She was eager to keep Rulan by her side and let this daughter-in-law serve him obediently, but Wang Shi could not let her daughter be bullied by her. So she went to the door of Wen's house and threatened her, saying that if she did not let Rulan go with her son to take up the post, she would go and ruin her son's job.

Old Mrs. Wen was scared at that time.

But now he is furious.

Because of her son's dispatch, it was frozen at this time.

Oh shit.

Wang really does what he says!

Then she has to show her attitude and drive Rulan back to the Sheng family!

As a result, Mrs. Liang, who still did not make any moves, received a lot of attention from the onlookers. They also learned that the two sisters, Molan and Minglan, were not raised by the vicious Wang family, and they were both pregnant now. So they understood why the Liang family did not make any moves. Maybe they wanted to wait until the child was born before driving them away? They couldn't just not drive them away!

If you, Madam Liang, don't chase them away, then don't blame everyone for expecting you to be poisoned!

And this strange expectation officially begins today.

Because the infatuated fourth son of the Liang family not only refused to divorce his wife, but also submitted a letter of resignation in order to take care of the two sisters.

Not allowed.

The emperor had already grasped the whole story of the matter at this time. It was that Wang Shi of Sheng had always had a grudge against the old lady, so she poisoned the old lady at the instigation and help of Wang Shi of Kang. It had nothing to do with the Sheng family's children, daughters-in-law, and Sheng Hong himself.

However, the government and the opposition have different opinions on how to judge the case, but these are just opinions and have not developed into a political dispute.

The reason is simple. The emperor will soon send troops to the northwest, so he naturally cannot allow internal chaos to occur first.

Therefore, a confidant like Chen Tao would certainly not be allowed to leave the important leadership position of the Bingmasi.

In addition, Gu Er also said some good words.

If he knew that Chen Tao was planning to use a bone flower to hit the emperor's family on the head, he would probably bring his troops to fight this guy to the death.

If we don't fight now, we will just have to go down this path until the end.

September 17th.

The case of Wang poisoning her mother-in-law finally came to a conclusion.

All the Wang sisters were sentenced to death, Sheng Hong and his eldest son Changbai were dismissed from their posts, and all the maids and servants who knew about the incident and did not stop it were exiled.

The Wang family is fine.

A woman should obey her husband, and there was nothing wrong with Chen Shiru's family.

Similarly, Hualan, Molan, Rulan and Minglan are not guilty.

Is this a heavy sentence? Normal.

This is extremely unfilial and cannot be simply equated with murder or intentional injury.

If Old Madam Sheng was fine, she would have to exile at least two thousand miles; if she was poisoned to death, she would basically be beheaded; now that she is injured, she will naturally be sentenced to hanging according to the law.

As for Sheng Hong? Since this case did not turn into a case of Sheng Hong murdering his mother, he naturally did not have to die.

Don't feel wronged about being dismissed from office.

He should thank God for not having his property confiscated and being exiled.

Sheng Changbai, who had served in the cabinet several times in the book, was quite aggrieved, but who made him the legitimate son of the vicious woman Wang? How could the court allow him to continue to serve as an official?

Don't say Wang is stupid or that he acted impulsively and regretted it afterwards.

Don't make any plots like Mrs. Sheng is willing to forgive her daughter-in-law and ask the court for leniency. In feudal society, such a great evil of human relations cannot be justified.

It won't let you change your ways, and there will only be a happy ending of making dumplings.

(I wish you all a happy New Year and all the best to your family!) (End of this chapter)