The two returned to the pavilion, Xia Siling had already boiled the tea, for Xia Siling, Dad and husband could sit down quietly and drink a cup of tea, talk calmly, and ease the hostility between each other, that was the happiest thing.

Xia Siling personally helped the two of them pour the tea, Su Jin smiled and thanked him, picked up the tea and took a small sip, the tea was fragrant, although it was last year's old tea, but Xia Zhu was obviously very well preserved, and the taste was not much different.

Xia Zhu didn't drink tea, glared at Su Jin fiercely, raised his hand and slapped it a few times, and a servant flashed out of the bamboo forest in the distance and approached Shi Li and said, "What do you command?" ”

Xia Zhu said: "Go to the bookcase in the pavilion and get a few pieces of gold powder silk paper, and bring pen and ink to serve." ”

The servant agreed to go, and after a while came to the pavilion with the pen and ink of the study, Xia Zhu waved off the servant, lifted the pen to dip the ink brush, and wrote a copy of the marriage letter to Su Jindao: "Although the old man does not want to marry Ling'er to you, but the woman is not in the middle, and it is useless to say more now; The old man only hopes that you can treat my son well, don't let him be wronged, you can take the marriage certificate, the situation will be calm in the future, and you must do it in a big way, and you must not be so unclear. ”

Su Jin took the marriage book and looked at it, with a smile on his face; In fact, this marriage book should not be written by Xia Zhu, generally speaking, the marriage book is written by a third party, which is written with the birth date of both men and women, eight characters, who the matchmaker is, when they get married, who is the main marrying person, and the name of the grandparents and even the name of the great-grandfather and great-grandmother, etc., generally the marriage certificate is issued to prove that the families of both parties have approved the marriage relationship between the two, and like Su Jin and Xia Siling, they are living together illegally without permission, but at this moment they are forced to write the marriage book, as if Xia Zhu wrote the document of selling women, It is coercive and insulting.

Xia Zhu didn't know the humiliation, but he was helpless, he had no choice in the current situation, and he put up with it for a while, and then made a calculation.

Su Jin dried the ink on the marriage book, took it to Xia Siling and said: "Ling'er, now you are my rightful wife, you don't have to feel inferior anymore, Lord Xia has already written the marriage book by himself, take it and put it away, and you don't have to hide in the house in the future and dare not go out." ”

Xia Siling took the marriage book and bowed down, and said with tears: "Thank you daddy for making it happen." ”

Xia Zhu sighed and shook his head silently, Su Jin got up and said, "Lord Xia still has a lot of things to do, and Ling'er has said goodbye, what time is it today?" It's a good day. ”

Xia Zhu said coldly: "Today is indeed a good day, the old man will remember today, today is called the day when the tiger falls in Pingyang." ”

Su Jin laughed, took Xia Siling's hand and walked out, out of the park and boarded the car, Xia Siling asked Su Jin in the carriage: "What is the day when the tiger falls in Pingyang?" ”

Su Jin smiled and said: "The tiger fell in Pingyang and was bullied by dogs, your father is scolding me." ”

Xia Siling sighed: "Daddy still has prejudices against you, but Ling'er is very happy, Ling'er finally doesn't have to bear the name of fornication, with Daddy's marriage letter, I can be regarded as having the life of my parents." ”

Su Jin hugged her and said with a smile: "Let's step up our efforts, next time we come to see your father, let's bring a little tail." ”

Xia Siling said: "What little tail?" ”

Su Jin smiled and didn't answer, Xia Siling quickly understood, blushed and said, "Follow the order of the husband." ”

……

The next morning, it was calm as usual, there was still half a day before Su Jin's limited time, Su Jin was very curious, what means Xia Zhu would use to excuse himself, Su Jin himself also thought of many possibilities, but found that none of them could prevaricate, but I don't know what Xia Zhu had to excuse himself.

After lunch, Su Jin was about to take a nap, and suddenly came to the front yard to report, saying that the Tang Ti Punishment Department of Kaifeng Mansion asked to see him, Su Jin was stunned, this Tang Ti Xing he knew, the Dragon Boat Festival the year before last, when he was assassinated by the Bianshui River, he had seen this Tang Ti Xing, but there was not much contact afterwards, what did he do when he came to see him?

Su Jin came to the flower hall, and Tang Shi, the punishment of Kaifeng Mansion, was anxiously pacing in the hall, and saw Su Jin hurriedly stepping forward to give a salute.

Su Jin said with a smile: "If it's really Tang Ti's punishment, what kind of wind blew you here?" ”

Tang Tixing arched his hand and said: "I have seen Lord Su, I don't dare to come and disturb me if I have nothing to do, there is a personal murder case in Xicheng, and I want to ask Lord Su to come and make a decision." ”

Su Jin smiled: "Why do you want me to go to the case of Kaifeng Mansion?" ”

Tang Shi hurriedly said: "It is related to the case that Lord Su is investigating, how dare I not report it in Kaifeng Mansion, otherwise I will never come to work adults." ”

Su Jin frowned and said, "Oh? Something about the conspiracy of Fubi Shisuke that I'm investigating? ”

Tang Shi said softly: "Exactly." ”

A bright light flashed in Su Jin's heart, obviously Xia Zhu made a move, but he didn't know what kind of means.

So he didn't ask any more, ordered someone to prepare horses, and took the dynasty Ma Han and others to follow Tang Shi straight to the place where the Xicheng crime occurred.

The place where the crime occurred was an ordinary inn, in a small guest room in the back, a middle-aged man was lying upright on the bed, the white silk around his neck had not been lifted, several servants guarded the door, and a group of inn guests were pointing and talking not far away.

Su Jin knew that the man had already died of anger, but he still stepped forward to probe his breath, turned around and asked, "Tang Tixing, when did you find the deceased?" ”

Tang Shi said: "Near noon, the shopkeeper came to clean and saw that the door was closed, so he looked in through the crack in the window, only to find that this person had committed suicide by hanging the beam, and he had already died of anger when he was rescued. ”

Su Jin said: "Did you do an autopsy?" Is it sure it was suicide or homicide? ”

Tang Shi said: "The head of the team has been carefully investigated, there is no trace of fighting, the cause of death is indeed the death of the hanging beam, but it is too early to conclude whether he committed suicide or was killed by others, but this person has a suicide note, and the matter involved is very important, so he dared to invite Lord Su to preside." ”

Su Jin raised his eyebrows and said, "Have a suicide note?" Where? ”

Tang Shi waved his hand, an errand took out a piece of white paper from a cowhide seal and presented it, Su Jin unfolded it and looked at it carefully, and after reading it, his heart was bright, this must be the time when Xia Zhu's golden cicada came out of his shell, and this person became Xia Zhu's substitute ghost.

The suicide note is actually a letter of repentance, the deceased person is one of the abolished officials who came to Beijing to stir up trouble, this person's surname is Xiong Dekang, this Xiong Dekang was originally a county order under the jurisdiction of Taizhou Mansion on Huainan East Road, last year when the new policy was promulgated, Fan Zhongyan and Fu Bi two people toured two Huai Road and two Zhejiang Road to depose redundant officials, this Xiong Dekang was taken captive because of inaction, so he came to the capital with other abolished officials to make trouble.

But the emperor's attitude of supporting the new policy is resolute, although these people are making a lot of trouble, and even some people hang themselves on the cross street and fail to reinstate their officials, and other abolished officials have gone back one after another to make other plans, but this Xiong Dekang is unwilling to go back, and has been running around in Beijing to beg for help, shouting grievances.

On the letter, Xiong Dekang claimed to himself: "Yu Ben sold the assets of the world to avenge his grievances, and this grievance did not swear to return to his hometown, but the longer the time passed, the more unpredictable it became, and the saint was deceived by the traitorous party, and he did not know the grievances in various places. Yuan Ri and Shang Yuan, others gather together as a family and have a good time, but I am alone in the cold and my heart is like ashes, thinking about it, there is no way to redress my grievances, and the only one who harms me in such a situation is Fan Zhongyan and the two thieves are also ......"

Later, he fell full of resentment on the heads of Fan Zhongyan and Fu Bi, saying, 'Although I will die soon, also to punish the evil for the imperial court', and also explained his revenge plan, explained how he disguised himself to explore the affairs of Shi Jie's house, and after finding clues, he cleverly devised a trick to deceive Shi Jie's handwriting and seal in Ink Zhai, and hired someone to kill the old Gu of Ink Zhai, and then how to imitate Shi Jie's handwriting to write a false letter, and make Qian ask someone to bring the letter into the palace and put it in Huang Gonggong's house, in order to let the emperor know Yunyun, in short, everything is explained clearly.

As for the reason for his own suicide, there was also an explanation in the letter, saying that after the incident came out, although he was very relieved, his conscience was tormented, and he thought about it, and fabricated the crime of rebellion against others out of thin air for his own selfishness, which violated the teachings of the sages, and said that God has its own retribution, and the emperor would sooner or later understand that Han Fan Fubi and others were treacherous people, and it was not in line with the character of a scholar to do so, so he decided to tell the truth, but he was afraid that he would incur the scolding of the world if he turned himself in, so he chose to die and leave a book for others. Setting the truth straight.

The letter also said: His death is not to give in to Han Fan Fubi's traitorous party ilk, but to wash away his own temporary dirt, and to use it to advise the emperor not to be deceived by the traitorous party, and to hope that the emperor can see everything clearly, not let them do anything wrong, clarify the government and the opposition as soon as possible, and return to the correct way of governing the country.

After reading this letter, Su Jin was terrified, he thought of everything, but he forgot about Xia Zhu's vicious methods, needless to say, this Xiong Dekang was the scapegoat thrown by Xia Zhu, and put all the criminal circumstances on the head of this dead man, and this matter will be dead from now on.

Su Jin gritted his teeth and scolded, and at the same time felt a little regretful, although this Xiong Dekang is not a good person, the person who was abolished by Fan Zhongyan Fubi is either nepotism or corruption, at least he is also a corpse vegetarian and inactive, he may not be wronged if he dies, but after all, it is a life, Xia Zhu's methods are too despicable, and it is certain that this Xiong Dekang's death was not a suicide, but was killed by Xia Zhu.