Chapter 28: Outside the General's Mansion

It is naturally impossible that the inn is called Youjian Inn. It is easy to make do with one night. Ning Que and Sangsang walked out of the inn gate on the second day, but they had not remembered the name of the inn.

I looked for a kind-hearted old mother on the street and asked for the road clearly. The master and servant walked towards the south city, crossing the alleys and asking for directions and then asking for directions. Finally, I saw two big locust trees.

From the moment he saw the locust tree, memories that should have been blurred and actually very clear when he was a child poured into Ning Que's mind. He closed his eyes and thought for a while, then took Sangsang over.

There is a quiet street and alley between the two big locust trees. It is wide and narrow to pass through a carriage, but it does not seem very luxurious. There is no sound on both sides of the street. Many towering trees stick out from the courtyard wall and rest on the heads of three or two people, covering the clear light of spring and scattering a piece of shade.

When you walk to the middle of the streets, there are two mansion gates facing each other. The solemn stone lion standing next to the steps on the right is particularly clean, with no visible dust and leaves on it, the red door is tightly closed, and the copper ring is silent.

The house on the left seemed to be much more declining. The patent leather on the door fell off, and the two seals were floating weakly in the wind. There was only one stone lion left, and the other was unknown where it was moved. Even the remaining one was broken, with a lack of ears and claws. There was a slug of black mud accumulated behind the base, which was a bit like solidified blood.

Ning Jingyong looked at the broken stone lion in front of him, remembering the past when he was playing and playing with Xiaoshun next to the lion when he was a child, and then was caught by the adults in the mansion and cleaned up. Then he walked through the corner alley next to the mansion. He seemed to have seen another scene of the little guy running away from home bravely in order to avoid the wooden boards of his husband.

Sangsang's eyes were back and forth on the two gates and Ning Que's face, feeling his mood was dull, complex and depressed at the moment. For some reason, she also felt sad and sad, feeling that the wind in this alley was a little cold.

The dilapidated courtyard was the mansion of former General Xuanwei Lin Guangyuan. In the first year of Tianqi, His Majesty the Emperor inspected Nanze. A major case of traitoring the enemy and treason broke out in Chang'an City. His Highness personally presided over the trial. The prime minister and the ministers looked at each other and finally confirmed that Lin Guangyuan was convicted of treason. The Lin family was beheaded.

This case has long been dealt with as a de facto case, and no one in the government and the public thought of overturning the case. Even if some people who remember this incident occasionally think of those servants who should not have died, they regretted it and hated Lin Guangyuan, who was so guilty that he not only ruined himself and also dragged down so many innocent people.

The general's mansion had been given several times in more than ten years after it was taken back by the court. However, when the officials who received the mansion heard that it was this bad place, they all respected Xie Bumin. The city of Chang'an was vast and there were many houses, so they were not afraid of having no place to live. However, in this way, the mansion had been empty in this street and alley, becoming increasingly declining.

When he walked past the gate of the General's Mansion, Ning Que's eyes flashed, and there was no strange emotion on his face. He did not stop, and even his steps did not slow down. He still walked as usual. So Sangsang, who was carrying a big black umbrella, had to follow him as hard as he was always trotting. The big black umbrella was bounced away on the girl's back and fell back, and it sounded like a drum beat that represented the passage of time.

The two walked through the long alleys peacefully, between the rich and the broken doors, looking for it, just like two of the most common foreign tourists who accidentally entered a street and alley in Chang'an City in spring.

"No one wants that haunted house, but the house opposite the door is very popular. Why? General Xuanwei and Duke Tongyi lived opposite the door, but General Xuanwei was executed in the whole family, but Duke Tongyi rose up. Now he is a bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion. How many officials of the fourth and fifth ranks should be worth it?"

At the corner of the street and alley, Ning Que and Sang Sang sat on a small table in the corner, eating side dishes and drinking porridge quietly, but listening to the idle chatting of the old neighbors. For these old neighbors who have lived in the neighbors for decades or even for several lifetimes, the most worthy thing they talk about is naturally the treason case in the general's mansion and the Qingyun Avenue of Tongyi Doctors. They talked around them every day without getting tired of it, and it was inconsistent with the feelings of the master and servant.

"When it comes to Scholar Zeng Jing, he was just a counselor at the time, but later he suddenly rose up. There is something wonderful about it. I wonder if you have heard of it?"

"This incident was so big back then that even the palace spoke. Who hasn't heard of people living in this market?"

A middle-aged man shook his head and said sarcastically: "The dignified Tongjian doctor married a fierce wife. The wife of the wife became jealous and hated, and actually attacked the concubine's belly. This was not surprising. As a result, the concubine gave birth to a lot of hardships. She had to attack the poor child. In the end, if it weren't for the palace's orders, who would know what the mansion would be like."

"You only know that the palace said something, do you know who said it?" The man who spoke before sneered and bowed to the north of Chang'an City with both hands, "I can tell you that the Holy Queen was furious after learning about this. She personally wrote a letter to Lord Zeng Jing, and ordered him to discipline her mother."

"Empress..."

The people who drank at the table looked at each other and showed a heart-warming smile. Everyone in the world knew that the Tang Empire had an amazing queen who was deeply loved and trusted by His Majesty. They even held the power to review memorials and criticize officials. However, this queen was just a very ordinary concubine in the palace back then. In folk words, she was His Majesty’s concubine back then, and later became the wife.

The empress, who has such a background, is so concerned about the family affairs in the Tongyi Doctor's Mansion. Because the doctor's wife abuses her concubine and murders her concubine and gives birth to a child, everyone can think of the reason.

"Mr. Zeng Jing's wife was born in the Qinghe County family. It is precisely because of this reason that she has always been tolerant. But she didn't expect that the cowardly civil servants in the eyes of others would be really cruel! After the empress sent her handbook to the mansion, Mr. Zeng Jing summoned her family overnight and killed three officials who were murdering the concubine and having a son in public. Then she sent her wife back to Qinghe County with two slaps and a sedan chair. She divorced her wife so neatly!"

"By the way, the old man made such a decision back then, most of the time, he had to protect himself under the power of the empress. However, he did not expect that his clean and neat behavior fell into the queen's eye. He felt that this person was useful. In addition, some of the reasons behind him made the old man have a prosperous official career from then on, and now he has entered Wenyuan Pavilion! It is said that good fortune and misfortune are related, but who dares to imagine that a strong wife in the family can kill concubines and destroy children, and in the end he can achieve a man's lifelong fame?"
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