good season

After suffering such a huge loss in silence, Mrs. Jin was so angry that blisters appeared on her mouth and her armpits were sore.

She was actually tricked by that bitch Tao!
Mrs. Jin pulled Censor Jin's sleeve and asked him to make a decision. Who could bear to be owed 50,000 taels of silver for no reason?

Censor Jin was also extremely worried. Although he regarded money as dirt, fifty thousand taels of silver as dirt was enough to be called a mountain of dirt.

What made him even more angry was that Mrs. Jin told him that they only had two hundred taels of silver in their account, and the fish scale book of the Jin Mansion was not found!
Jin Mansion is the house where they live now.

At that time, Censor Jin was listed on the list of men who could be chosen as a son-in-law, and he had no choice but to marry Tao, a merchant girl.

In order to be worthy of the son-in-law who had just passed the imperial examination, the Tao family prepared a generous dowry for their daughter, a ten-mile long red wedding dress that made all the poor students envious.

The Jin family was considered a well-off family in their hometown county, owning a small grocery store and several semi-new houses.

But this amount of property is not enough to be brought to the capital.

In order to get married, his family collected two hundred taels of silver. However, these two hundred taels of silver could not even buy a small courtyard in the capital.

Even so, Censor Jin refused to accept the mansion given by the Yue family, and he offered to buy it with money.

So, Uncle Tao had no choice but to sell the house that he had originally intended to give as a dowry to his sister to Censor Jin for two hundred taels of silver.

This house was originally an official residence. The original owner was sent away from the capital because of a promotion. Uncle Tao thought that the house had good feng shui, so he bought it for a high price of five thousand taels of silver.

A few years later, Censor Jin offended someone and had feces thrown at his doorstep one after another. Censor Jin felt angry, so Tao sold the house at a low price and added some silver to exchange it for the current larger house.

This house is surrounded by official residences, and ordinary people don't dare to throw manure here, so it is very suitable for a high-risk profession like the censor.

Therefore, Censor Jin believed that no matter from which angle you looked at it, this house was his and he bought it with real money.

Now the fish scale book is missing. It must have been stolen by that bitch Tao.

But Tao's whereabouts were unknown. Uncle Tao had ended his business in the capital several years ago and returned to his hometown in Wu.

In all likelihood, Tao fled back to Wu.

Censor Jin called A Zhong and asked him to take people to Wu to find Tao.

But Ah Zhong looked embarrassed and said, "Master, there is not much money left in the account. It is a long way to Wudi, so we must bring some money for the journey."

Censor Jin usually did not have a secret treasury, and he had never received his salary in person. He thought it was too degrading, and he disdained it.

When the day came to collect her salary, Tao would send someone to the Ministry of Revenue to collect it, and the money would be directly deposited into the government account.

As for Censor Jin's daily expenses, he kept accounts for everything he bought and ate outside, and the shop owners would come to his house to settle the bills. When he needed large sums of money, he just had to tell the accountant and the money would be delivered to him.

Therefore, now Censor Jin cannot even come up with ten taels of silver on his own.

Not only that, he still owed 50,000 taels.

Censor Jin thought of his elder sister-in-law Jin, who had always been frugal, so she must be rich.

But Censor Jin never expected that not only did Mrs. Jin not give him money, she also touched him like a shrew and scratched his face!
Censor Jin was struck by lightning. His sister-in-law, who was as graceful as a white lotus, was actually acting like a madman.

Is this a distortion of human nature or a loss of morality?
Censor Jin suffered a 10,000-point blow.

At the same time, Jin's nephew was also hit.

He thought that if he drove away Mrs. Tao and his mother became the mistress of the mansion, his status would soar.

When he heard that Prime Minister Feng's youngest son was holding a poetry reading in Qingfeng Tower, he went there with a chuckle.

This was a time when scholars from all over the country gathered in the capital, and Young Master Feng held a poetry meeting at this time, actually to make friends with scholars.

Among these scholars, there may be some influential figures who will take part in this year’s provincial examination or next year’s imperial examination.

Therefore, the children of officials in the capital also came to join in the fun.

Nephew Jin did not have an invitation, but he saw Minister Li’s son outside Qingfeng Tower. As soon as Mr. Li got out of the sedan chair, nephew Jin went over to him.

"Brother Li, Brother Li, long time no see."

Mr. Li has always had a good memory and recognized at a glance that this was Jin Dazhuizi's country nephew.

He heard from his mother that Jin Dazhui drove his rich wife away and didn't even give her a dowry.

His mother scolded Jin Dazhuizi for a whole hour at home, and even told him to keep a close eye on her dowry in the future and that no one should take anything from her.

That’s right, Censor Jin was given the nickname Jin Dazhuzi because he bumped into the pillar.

Censor Jin has been recuperating in his mansion these days, and in fact only the three of them didn't know about it. The news that day that Tao was kicked out of the house with a small bag on her back, covered in dust, had already spread throughout the capital.

Along with this incident, there were also a few things that had to be said about Censor Jin and my sister-in-law.

Every day when the masters of each family returned to the rear quarters, the person they heard the most scolding from the women in their families was Jin Dazhuizi.

Therefore, with the help of Jin Dazhu, nephew Jin will soon be able to see the warmth and coldness of human nature.

Mr. Li: "Who are you? I don't know you."

Then, he looked around and saw a few familiar friends. He waved to them and pointed at his nephew Jin and asked everyone, "Do you know this person?"

Everyone: "I don't know him. Who knows which poor relative he is from?"

One of them even deliberately said, "Hey, why don't I see Master Jin?"

Another person said: "He is still young and can't play with us."

The Young Master Jin mentioned by these people is certainly not the nephew Jin in front of them, but the son of Tao, the legitimate Young Master Jin.

Nephew Jin was so angry that he wanted to eat shit. These people were so mean. They knew who he was but still said that on purpose.

He turned away and met a few familiar young men on the way. The same thing happened again. Before, those people treated him as a country bumpkin, but now they treated him like a fly and asked their followers to chase him away before he could even open his mouth.

I'm just kidding. If mom knew that they were hanging out with Jin the bastard, don't expect her to use her private money to support them in the future.

Although there is no real evidence, according to word of mouth among the women in the back house, nephew Jin is the illegitimate child of Jin Dazhuzi and widow Jin.

Therefore, Jin's nephew also got the nickname, Jin the Bastard.

Of course, this nickname is too elegant and the ladies would not bother to say it out loud, but every family has a few naughty kids, and when these naughty kids call Jin "bastard", it sounds very smooth.

Nephew Jin heard the nickname on the road before he even got home.

He returned home in a rage and saw Censor Jin with nail marks all over his face and Sister-in-law Jin crying her heart out.

"Do you know how I was bullied outside? You just live a shabby life and don't do anything serious!"

As he spoke, he grabbed Jin Yushi by the collar and shouted viciously, "Go send out invitations now, hold a family recognition banquet, and register me under your name. I want to be your eldest son. Get that little bastard out! Get him out!"

The little bastard that Nephew Jin mentioned was none other than Master Jin.

Censor Jin was already furious when he saw that his eldest son, whom he had always doted on, was so rude. He flew into a rage and suddenly transformed himself into Jin Jingang, who scolded all the civil and military officials in the court.

Not only did he scold his nephew Jin, he also slapped him twice.

Nephew Jin was stunned after being beaten. He covered his face and it took him a while to come back to his senses.

He pointed at Censor Jin and said word by word: "Okay, you wait, you wait!"

The people who kidnapped him that day were all right. In his biological father's eyes, he didn't even exist as a son. To his father, he was a mistake he made when he was young, a shame for him, and a roadblock standing in the way of another son.

He hated it, he hated it so much! He should have believed what those people said a long time ago. It was all his mother's fault. She even advised him not to be deceived by outsiders. Outsiders all wanted to harm him.

He has no grudge against me and no vested interests in this matter, so why would you harm me?
Besides, if I wanted to harm him, I would have killed him that day instead of telling him the truth.

Yes, that person is absolutely right. His future and his prospects cannot be achieved by relying solely on his father’s charity. His father will not give him anything. He can only rely on himself and fight for it!

The first thing that Jin's nephew did was to find two thugs, tie up Master Jin, put him in a sack, and sell him to a human trafficker.

Mr. Jin was only about ten years old, fair and tender, with red lips and white teeth.

Nephew Jin specifically instructed the human trafficker to sell Master Jin to the distant land of Shu.

The human trafficker was very active and within half a day he sent someone to inform nephew Jin that a merchant from Shu had bought Master Jin and was taking him back to Shu and would never return to the capital in his lifetime.

Nephew Jin was very proud of the money he got from selling his brother.

Now, he is the only biological son left to his adopted father.

The second thing was that he asked his long-time attendant Asheng to beat the drum for reporting the incident, and he also tricked Censor Jin out of his home.

On a small building opposite the Dali Temple, the eldest nephew of Jin pointed at Ah Sheng who was beating the drum and said to Jin Yushi: "Either you recognize me as your own and make this matter public, or I will let Ah Sheng redress my mother's grievances and sue your elder sister-in-law Jianyin (a graduate of the literacy class) for being worse than a beast."

Censor Jin never dreamed that his eldest son would treat him like this.

For the first time in more than ten years, he regretted that he had slept in his sister-in-law's bed. He regretted even more that when he learned that his sister-in-law was pregnant, he did not persuade her to have an abortion.

It would be better to give birth to a pig than to give birth to such a stupid and bad thing.

Pigs can be slaughtered and eaten for meat, but this stupid thing only causes harm.

But now the arrow was on the string, and Censor Jin could only grit his teeth and agree, and promised to write invitations when he returned, to host a banquet for all the guests, and to write his name under his name in public.

Nephew Jin was satisfied and immediately raised a happy handkerchief at the window. This was an agreement between him and Asheng that when Asheng saw the handkerchief, he would come back.

I didn't really go to beat the drum to report the incident, I just did it to scare that old bastard.

But it was too late. Although Ah Sheng had not yet struck the Dengwen drum, he had already attracted countless people's attention from the moment he picked up the drumstick.

The drum in front of the Dali Temple was last struck three years ago.

Not to mention picking up drumsticks, any normal person would go around it if passing by.

So at this moment, the Dengwen Drum was already surrounded by people, and the people from the Dali Temple had also heard about this matter.

The sweat towel of Jin's nephew fluttered in the wind, but Ah Sheng could not leave. He was taken away by the people from the Dali Temple.

When the drum for reporting a case is struck, no matter if you are filing a complaint or seeking redress, you will be given twenty lashes of the cane first.

This is the rule.

The twenty blows were so powerful that before they were over, Ah Sheng confessed and told him everything that his nephew Jin had told him.

Hearing that Jin's nephew was going to sue Jin Yushi Jianyin's (a graduate of the literacy class) eldest sister-in-law, the people from the Dali Temple
Can decent people like them eat such a big melon casually?

The Shaoqing of Dali Temple was none other than the nephew of Earl Yan'an. Earl Yan'an was reprimanded by the emperor and fell ill after returning home. His mother was so distressed that she cried and scolded Jin Dazhui as a good-for-nothing at home.

The Shaoqing of Dali Temple had also heard the rumors outside in the past few days, but he was a government official, and he attached great importance to evidence when handling cases and enforcing the law. He would not take things seriously without evidence.

But now, the person’s nephew, no, the person’s son, wants to seek justice for his mother. This is the witness. If we have the witness, then this matter is true.

The Shaoqing of Dali Temple reported the matter to his superior, the Minister of Dali Temple. The Minister of Dali Temple laughed when he heard it. It was interesting, very interesting.

Without saying a word, he brought the Shaoqing of Dali Temple into the palace.

The speed of the action was definitely the fastest in the history of the Dali Temple.

When Emperor Yongjia heard about this, he was furious. What kind of bullshit was this? It actually happened in the capital, and happened to the censor whom he had always respected.

If it were in the past, Emperor Yongjia might have called Censor Jin over to give him a good scolding before talking about other things.

But now it is different from the past. In the eyes of Emperor Yongjia, Censor Jin has become a traitor who aids and abets the tyrant.

Yes, Zhao Tinghan’s return to Liangdi started with Censor Jin.

The mastermind behind this matter, whether it is the Prince of Liang's Mansion or the other seven princes, Censor Jin is the knife they sent to stab me.

The first knife!

The moment he saw Ah Sheng being brought into the Dali Temple, Censor Jin knew that something big was going to happen.

He slapped his nephew Jin hard in the face and went to the Dali Temple to rescue him personally.

It was a pity that he didn't even see Ah Sheng.

There is no way. He has made too many enemies. The officials of the Dali Temple also have their own backgrounds. Who knows who behind the scenes he has offended.

When he was finally able to see Ah Sheng, he was told that Ah Sheng had become an important witness and he could only visit him but not take him away.

No matter how much Censor Jin talked, he could only return empty-handed.

He returned to the mansion and had just sat down when the imperial edict arrived.

He was actually stripped of his official position and ordered to reflect in the palace and await his fate.

Nephew Jin was slapped again. He was already angry, and when he heard that his adoptive father had even been dismissed from his official position, he got so excited that he spoke without thinking and actually told others that he had sold Master Jin.

Censor Jin felt his blood rushing up, his eyes rolled back, and he fainted.

He was finally rescued, but his mouth was crooked, his eyes were slanted, and half of his body could not move.

He had a stroke.

Seeing that the situation was hopeless, Mrs. Jin took away the little money that was left in the house without even telling her son. She fled in a hurry taking only a maid. It was her eldest nephew Jin who discovered her and chased after her.

Seeing that the mother and son had left, the housekeeper calmly sent away the maid who was serving Censor Jin. He took out a document, took Censor Jin's hand, and signed and stamped the document.

Then he found Censor Jin's private seal and stamped it.

He went to the back door, got on the donkey cart, and left the city humming a little tune.

As soon as he arrived outside the city, he met Tao's maid. He handed the document to the maid and said, "This adoption document has been stamped with Master Jin's private seal. From now on, the young master has no relationship with the master. But it's best to take it to the government for record."

The maid smiled and thanked him, and handed the indenture and a land deed to the steward: "Here are your family's indentures, and the two hundred acres of good land that the lady promised to give you."

The housekeeper was overjoyed. From then on, he was a free man. With these 200 acres of fertile land, his family would never have to worry about food and drink.

The housekeeper didn't know that just now, Mrs. Jin and nephew Jin had also arrived outside the city. However, they were put into sacks before they had gone far. When they finally saw the light again, they found that the people standing in front of them were Tao, who had been missing for many days, and Master Jin, who was supposed to be sold to Shu.

Tao didn't even give them an eye, and said to the person standing behind them: "Brother, didn't you invest in a mine with Wanjinhao? Just send these two to the mine."

The mine is located deep in the mountains and forests, and there is always a shortage of laborers and women.

These two people are just right.

Mrs. Jin understood everything. The man was Tao's brother, Uncle Tao, and Uncle Tao was actually doing business with Wanjinhao. So the 150,000 yuan debt was just Wanjinhao that passed on to Tao.

But she realized it too late. Neither she nor her son would ever be able to walk out of the mine alive. (End of this chapter)