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Chapter 5 (4) Two Lives - The Unjust Case of Yuanyang

The downfall of the Jia Mansion was due to the complex intertwining of many internal and external factors, remote and near causes, which suddenly triggered a disaster and crime, and then they were linked together. .For this internal cause, the above "two major contexts" briefly described Lailong; what is the proximate cause?These are two lives, and it was the master of the East Court who had a major incident. Who does Jia Amnesty want to harm?Of the two lives, one was a woman.Jia Amnesty fell in love with her, and hated her again, vowing to get her, and if she couldn't get it, she would be killed.

This woman is the mandarin duck girl whom the old lady cannot leave all the time. Jia Amnesty is a lustful man with insatiable greed.The old lady said about him: There are a lot of children and grandchildren, and they don’t take care of their bodies. There is a little wife on the left and a little wife on the right... It’s really unbearable!For some reason, he fell in love with Yuanyang and sent his wife to be a matchmaker.The mandarin ducks resisted with death and cut their hair to show their attitude (in the Manchurian Banner family in the Qing Dynasty, women cutting their hair in a bun was the most ominous and taboo serious protest action).

Jia Amnesty also made an oath: Unless you don't get married, otherwise, you won't be able to escape my grasp no matter where you go!Of course, as long as the old lady is alive, Jia She dare not do anything, and if the old lady is not around, he will attack Yuanyang.And the mandarin duck is indeed the only way to escape the disaster by choosing to die. How Jia Amnesty forced the mandarin duck to death will be discussed later.Now let me add an injustice case. It turned out that during Jia's mother's birthday celebration, the fourth sister of the family and the second daughter of Xi's sister came to live. Jia's mother thought that their families were all poor. In this mansion, she was afraid that people's snobbish eyes would treat them poorly, so she ordered people at night. Go to the garden to convey orders, and everyone is not allowed to neglect.So the mandarin duck asks for an errand, and walks in the garden by the way.She found Xiao Cui Tang, and saw all the girls and young wives joking there.When the task of passing on the word was over and she was about to leave the park, the back of the mountain and rock broke into Siqi's private meeting with her cousin Pan Youan.Yuanyang had never seen this before, and she was ashamed and afraid, embarrassed and regretful——Siqi mistakenly thought that she had peeped into her secrets and intentionally "revealed" it!

Although Yuanyang explained and comforted her, Siqi felt uneasy in the end, because her personality, reputation, and future depended on Yuanyang alone (to cover her, or to report...), she expressed her deepest gratitude to Yuanyang. In the words of entrustment, Yuanyang also wholeheartedly assured her that she would not harm her. No, the instigation and instigation of Wang Shanbao's family staged a plagiarism and inspection of the Grand View Garden: but the matter of playing chess was exposed.Siqi was expelled from the garden and had to be interrogated (he didn't die "violently" hitting the wall like Cheng and Gao's pseudoben), but he was implicated in mandarin ducks!Therefore, Jia Amnesty and Xing's party bit the mandarin duck, saying that she conspired with Siqi to seduce adultery!You know, at that time, it was the ugliest and most unforgivable crime of daughters.The injustice case of Yuanyang is a big item.

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