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Chapter 27 (1) Lai Wanger and his wife

As I said before, the tragedy of Sister Feng lies in the fact that she devoted herself to fighting against the bad guys for the whole family, but in the end she was caught and used as an excuse because of her own mistakes, which concealed her true talents and virtues and became a sinner. In defense, no one can express sympathy on his behalf. Her life's crimes, big and small, seem to be different, but we know only two of them.As for stealing interest from the public bank, it is also one end, but she neither faked expenditures to embezzle public funds, nor did she withhold the upper and lower monthly bills. It was nothing more than a few days later than the regulations, which is really not enough. serious crime.

She took three thousand taels of silver privately and broke up a marriage.This caused both men and women to kill one person, but they both committed suicide, and they did not kill each other, let alone formed a direct relationship with Sister Feng. The other thing is to make it small and use a dark sword, so that the second sister You had nowhere to go, and it was her own life.Its crime also lies in the joint killing of a male fetus-at that time, it was a big problem of "ancestors".But Jia Lian had a wife and a concubine, so he married his second sister secretly, and called her "the new second grandma" instead of her concubine's name.Don't put yourself in the shoes of women in that era, don't make any fair comparisons and judgments, just scold her for being dangerous, isn't it a one-sided view that only knows one thing and doesn't know the other?In these two cases, who was Sister Feng's trusted confidant?Coincidentally, they are all Lai Wanger.

For the first time, in order to force the defending (male) family to withdraw from the marriage, he used the power of his superior "Chang'an Jiedushi" Yun Guang to suppress him, that is to ask Wang'er to rush back home immediately, and ask the master Wen Xianggong (Master) to entrust Jia Lian A letter written to Yun Guang in name.It really took effect, and the defense family resigned the engagement in anger, but Zhang Jinge heard that he was divorced and refused to marry Li Yanei (the prefect's young master), so he committed suicide with a single rope - and the guard's son (former fiancé) heard the news and mourned Zhen Yi's wife, who had never met, also threw herself into the river and died.

The second time, it is strange to say: Second Sister You is also a daughter who has an engaged marriage, and her fiancé is Zhang Hua.In order to secretly marry his second sister, Jia Lian had to try to get Zhang Hua to resign.Zhang Hua was extremely poor at that time, and when he got the money, he agreed to divorce.But when Sister Feng learned of this, she sent Wang'er to look for Zhang Hua and told him to sue Jia Lian. At the same time, she bought the procuratorate to blame Zhang Hua, and finally called Wang'er to beat Zhang Hua to death on the road.This time, Lai Wanger didn't follow his instructions completely, and let Zhang Hua go secretly.

You know, according to the judicial rules at that time, when the master’s family committed a crime, as usual, his cronies, housekeepers, servants, etc. were summoned first, and the confessions of these people were first obtained, and then they were confronted with the master. His servants have let themselves go.It was the same when Jia's mansion was sued. When Sister Feng's incident happened, she was a woman herself, so she had to arrest her servants first.Lai Wanger was the first one.Why is Lai Wanger so useful under Sister Feng?It turns out that his wife is Sister Feng's accompanying room (like Zhou Rui's family under Mrs. Wang, and Wang Shanbao's family under Mrs. Xing). What is Laiwang's wife in charge of?It is Sister Feng's management agent who secretly puts money away for profit.Look at the sixteenth chapter. After Jia Lian came back from Suzhou, Jiangnan, he was talking to Sister Feng in the house once, and she favored her to give money and silver, but was stopped by Ping'er—because Jia Lian was hiding this kind of thing.

When Sister Feng was in charge of Qin Keqing's funeral, Laiwang's daughter-in-law appeared for the first time. She took the right card and went to the outer court to collect the "Paper for the Jingbang". Fang Jiao and she carried the paper in by herself.It can be seen how her identity is. When the defeat of the Jia family became obvious, enemies outside all rose up, retaliation for revenge, looting for looting, the first to be sued was not Jia Zheng's side, but Jia She, Jia Lian and his son.But among Jia Lian's own crimes, it was actually a private matter done by Sister Feng.

As soon as the case was revealed, Wang Shanbao and Laiwang from Jia Amnesty's side were the first to be interrogated. Wang Shanbao and his wife, although they could not completely cover up the crime of Jia Amnesty, they could take advantage of the opportunity to blame Jia Zheng, and put many things on Jia Zheng's head - and the dispute between the two sides was "target". , and finally focused on Sister Feng alone. So Lai Wanger and his wife became the most unlucky scapegoats. "Chang'an Jiedu" Yun Guang was entrusted with guarding the case of retiring marriage, and the letter written by the master Wen Xianggong is the physical evidence.In Zhang Hua's case, there are the papers from the Metropolitan Procuratorate and 500 taels of bribes as witnesses.This cannot be excused.But it can't be "exaggerated" to aggravate the punishment, but the case of lending interest and eating interest is even more trivial and troublesome--the matter of confusing clues, many funds, and unclear accounts, once the bad guys add crookedness, they can no longer make it clear .

Sister Feng has always been too strict with her subordinates. This is the one that Zhou Rui's family "introduced" when she first saw Grandma Liu came to her.Ping'er also revealed: "Which one of the daughters-in-law and women who are in charge of the mansion is easy to deal with?" Even Sister Feng secretly feared their "three points"!As soon as these people saw that Sister Feng's general situation was over, they didn't add fuel and jealousy, and some of them did not. It's not that Jia Lian doesn't know a word about Sister Feng's personal wealth, but it's just that she can't find out the details.Because Laiwang's daughter-in-law had already mentioned this matter when he replied to Sister Feng.At that time, Sister Feng had made it clear that everyone wanted to "eat her raw" because of this, and Laiwang's daughter-in-law also said that she would "offend less people" if she collected it and stopped charging the money.So everyone's eyes were on the release of accounts.

Lai Wanger and his daughter-in-law have great abilities, and they were dumbfounded by the situation. Laiwang's daughter-in-law has not accounted for the details of the interest.This can add a catastrophe to Sister Feng. Who will save this disaster? No one expected it—it was the little girl Lin Hongyu, Xiaohong.
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