Chapter 149: Filial piety, benevolence, righteousness and good husband
Chapter 149 Filial piety, benevolence, righteousness and good husband
Chu Nanzhi and the patriarchs of Liu and Chu rushed to the yard, and saw Chang Lao, Nie Lao and several Lin family elders arguing with Qi Mochen's mother and son again.
Through the dim light from the lanterns and torches, one can vaguely see many county government servants and soldiers in armor coming densely outside the courtyard.
Chu Nanzhi fixed her eyes and noticed the figures of Hu Maoxi and Sun Wucai in the crowd. The two were shrinking their heads in fear, not daring to look up at Nie and Chang.
Chu Nanzhi and the two patriarchs walked over, Qi Mochen pointed at her face and gestured to a sturdy middle-aged old man next to her, "Master Duyou, this woman is my arrogant and unreasonable woman." Cousin, she is the one who instigated my uncle to hold my father's body and prevent my nephew from inviting me home."
Zheng Haichuan, governor of the 12th East County of Pingning County, although the scope of supervision in the fifty-six counties of the county is the narrowest, but because of his control over the fertile land of Luyan Port, he is highly regarded by the county governor Wu Enrong. Even the imperial court's special governor's reliance, becoming the first of the four postal governors.
Therefore, although this person saw Elder Nie and Elder Chang, although he was superficially respectful, in his heart he didn't pay attention to the two elders who had retired. He complimented the two elders a few times, and when he faced Chu Nanzhi, he began to have no scruples Putting up his official authority: "Master Chu, I have been ordered to inspect the counties within the county. I have the responsibility to supervise the county magistrates and powerful people. I heard that you are arrogant and rude today, and you snatched people's corpses. Can you be convicted?"
"Oh."
Chu Nanzhi responded unhurriedly: "Then, does your lord regard the women as county magistrates or are they powerful?"
As he spoke, he looked around and gestured: "It's just that a farmer in the countryside is able to alert Lord Duyou to visit. It really flatters the whole family of the slave family."
There is something in my memory about the Qi family sending money to senior officials in the county every year, but I don't know who it is.
Now it seems that the Qi family is so confident, obviously not because of Hu Maoxi's power, but because of this powerful and powerful head of the four postal governors.
Zheng Haichuan was very angry at her words, and was about to scold him, but Hu Maoxi hurriedly reprimanded him: "Ahem, cough, Mrs. Chu, don't be rude to Master Duyou."
Although he knew the right and wrong of this matter, he didn't dare to openly defend her in front of his boss, so he had to preemptively reprimand the woman, leaving Duyou speechless.
Chu Nanzhi raised her eyebrows, and glanced at Hu Maoxi with a strange expression: "Yes, what the county magistrate said is very true. Naturally, the women dare not be rude to the governor, and they are just telling the truth."
Zheng Haichuan felt a little embarrassed listening to Chu Nanzhi's back and forth words.
Indeed, such trivial matters should not be my own, but I have no choice but to collect a lot of money from the Qi family. How can such a fertile land like Luyan Port not have someone to make money for him.
He couldn't reprimand Chu Nanzhi face to face, so he could only look angrily at the county magistrate: "Hu Maoxi, I shouldn't have intervened in this matter, but you are a county magistrate, and you can't even punish a dirty woman. How to convince the public again."
"Hehe, Mr. Duyou is really sharp. He comes to this county every year, but he can't even tell who is a bad woman. I am afraid that he is not far away from returning to his hometown."
Nie Huai'an sneered, cast a meaningful glance at Qi Yujie, and sat down in his original seat angrily.
Chang Yanjue protested directly and silently, and sat down next to Mr. Nie calmly, eating and eating slowly again.
"Old Nie, what is the meaning of this?"
Zheng Haichuan said righteously: "Your Majesty is deeply favored by the emperor. Since then, I have shared your Majesty's worries everywhere. Such appalling things happened in the subordinate counties. I dared to **** the corpse and disturb the people's customs in order to prepare for the funeral. I have to investigate."
After talking in serious detail, seeing that the two elders ignored him, he turned around with a dull face, stared at Chu Nanzhi, and said insinuatingly: "This eldest son of the Chu family is the son-in-law of the Qi family. It should be taken care of by the Qi family, what qualifications do you have as a niece to undertake the funeral of someone else's family."
Pausing for a moment, he immediately added: "The mistress of the Qi family is smart and capable, with a gentle and virtuous temperament, and the young man of the Qi family is also a filial, benevolent and righteous man. Could it be that they can't manage their own funerals?"
Who knew that when he said this, the entire courtyard was in an uproar.
"Quiet, quiet."
Zheng Haichuan yelled twice, Qin Sihai, the servant next to Qi Mochen, inadvertently glanced at the table of the Chu family, looked at Chu Nanzhi with some disdain and said:
"Uncle of the Chu family is also the lord of the Qi family after all. Your family is bullying your uncle's body to undertake this funeral. It's nothing more than earning such unconscionable money. But look at what this funeral banquet is doing. It's so shabby. It is really chilling to see that there is not even a mutton bag on the surface to show filial piety."
"You are so filial. When your father passed away, you didn't see this dish on your table."
Chu Nanzhi looked at the vile face of this little village tyrant, and couldn't help but choked coldly.
"My family was poor and couldn't afford mutton."
"It's like someone's family is not poor."
Chu Nanzhi glared at him angrily, but Liu Chengming hurriedly explained in fear: "Master Duyou, it's not that I didn't prepare well for this meal, it's just that the Qi family sent a few mutton shops in the county. I bought all the mutton and cleaned it up, so I have no power to wait."
Thinking about what his niece taught him, he added: "Besides, filial piety lies in the heart and not in the surface. Don't listen to the Qin family's nonsense. He is just a village ruffian. How can he know what filial piety is? The old father was **** off by him back then."
"Liu Chengming, you old bastard."
Being exposed in public, Qin Sihai suddenly became angry from embarrassment. He was about to scold Liu Chengming, but Zheng Haichuan yelled back on the spot: "Shut up."
Then he straightened his posture and said: "I am here today because of the dispute over the corpse of the Qi and Chu families. You should talk less about other things. The Qin family's young man's words are not rough, and there is some truth in what he said , It is indeed outrageous to use any means to earn a few taels of silver."
"Master Duyou has wronged people."
Liu Chengming replied with a bitter face: "My niece's family just tried their best to do something for the deceased, so that the deceased could rest in peace, but they didn't collect half of the silk money from the neighbors. Today's funeral banquet is only My little sister and brother-in-law are just doing a little bit of the landlord’s kindness to thank the neighbors for helping to take care of the funeral.”
As soon as he finished speaking, the neighbors at the table who were facing the Chu family began to express their grievances with righteous indignation:
"Who wants to earn such unconscionable money, Lord Postmaster should be clear about it."
"That's right. I heard that the Qi family set up a running banquet for ten days and distributed funeral posts widely. However, they collected tens of thousands of taels of silk gold in three days. They couldn't get back the body of the uncle of the Chu family, so they thought of making a clothes tomb. It’s all about earning money by hook or by crook.”
"It was an ominous ceremony, but it was made like a happy funeral. If you don't know, you might think that Qi's son-in-law is in high school."
Hearing this, Zheng Haichuan glared at Qi Mochen who was a little annoyed.
Qi Mochen frowned in fright, and glanced at Qin Sihai angrily.
Qin Sihai looked at the group of useless idiots in front of him, also in a daze.
All day long, I was just eating and drinking at the Chu family, and I was still joking and talking about the people in the Chu family who were all brainless, and even paid money to treat everyone to eat and drink. I didn’t expect that the effort of a meal would win people’s hearts, it’s really shocking Caught off guard.
(end of this chapter)