Chapter 631 Fainting to death is better than beheading
Jiang Xinyan and his wife used their money to buy half of the entire Nie Mansion and Wei Mansion in the capital, because Nie Mansion is next door to Wei Mansion.
Everyone in the Nie family went to Xuanyan City, so the entire mansion was sold to Yaxing.
The Wei Mansion still had the second eldest son in the capital, but Grandfather Wei only sold half of the mansion at that time.
The Nie Mansion was already quite a large mansion, and with half of the Wei Mansion, it was even larger than the Zhennan Hou Mansion before Chu Lixuan.
Neither the Nie Mansion nor the Wei Mansion needed to be rebuilt, so Chu Lixuan ordered people to rebuild the walls and turn the two mansions into a large courtyard.
You can move into the Nie Mansion directly with your bags. Zeng Yongrui and Xiao Sisi each have a courtyard, and others with wives and children also chose corresponding courtyards.
Singles only have a few people in a courtyard, but each person has a room. There are many people in the slums of Beijing who have nowhere to go.
They were picked up by Chu Lixuan's men to do odd jobs, taking care of food and accommodation. Some beggars who had no father or mother signed a deed of prostitution and worked as servants and cleaning maids.
There is no need to protect the residence. They are all injured soldiers who returned from the battlefield. They can just take turns guarding the residence.
Jiang Xinyan can help treat ordinary old injuries, unless the broken limb cannot be found, then there is no other way.
Like Zeng Yongrui, Jiang Xinyan can be cured by surgery, but his lameness has not been treated with good medicine.
Xiao Sisi took care of her fifth uncle very sensibly. Jiang Xinyan thought, if Wang Wenshan is really going to Xuanyan to find Chu Fang.
So does she want Wang Wenshan to take little Sisi with him? Although Chu Nu is pregnant now, little Sisi is the flesh and blood that fell from her belly after all.
"Xinxin, don't worry about it alone here. Why don't you just ask Xiao Sisi for her own opinion?" Chu Lixuan frowned when he saw his wife.
"Then Wang Wenshan hasn't decided yet. I'm asking now, so I don't want to make little Sisi sad."
"Well, let's go to your grandfather's door now to watch the fun." Chu Lixuan just wanted her to be happy.
"Xiao Sisi, let's take you outside to watch the fun." Jiang Xinyan also likes to watch the fun.
"Uncle and aunt, let's go. I'll stay with my fifth uncle at home." Xiao Sisi said very sensibly. It's not that she didn't want to go.
"Sisi, you go with Mr. Li and his wife. Uncle Wu can only move his legs, but his hands can still eat and drink tea. Besides, there is a servant to take care of me."
Zeng Yongrui looked at his beautiful eldest niece, and he felt so soft in his heart. After eating well these days, his eldest niece was back to her former self.
Although Zeng Sisi is only five years old, she knows that she cannot be criticized by others like she did a few days ago, "Uncle Wu, I don't want to meet my father and acquaintances from Shangshu Mansion as soon as I go out."
Zeng Yongrui: "..." He couldn't have expected this.
"Then you stay in the house and accompany your fifth uncle. After a while, if Wang Wenshan takes the child to find their mother, then little Sisi should also go with him to find your mother."
After hearing Xiao Sisi's words, Jiang Xinyan immediately made a decision for her. No matter how good it was in the capital, it was not as good as being by her mother's side.
"Is it really possible?" Xiao Sisi missed her mother in her dreams. Since her mother left, she has not had a peaceful life.
"Okay." Jiang Xinyan saw the desire in the little girl's eyes and said with certainty.
The gate of Taifu Xu was surrounded by people who were gloating about his misfortune. They threw rotten vegetable leaves and mud at the gate of Xu's mansion.
Jiang Xinyan thought, why didn't they take the rotten eggs? It must be that the people in the capital were too poor and would eat the rotten eggs even if they were available.
"Is this Taifu Xu too arrogant? He actually dares to hold the Prime Minister hostage to challenge the Holy Emperor?"
"That's right, relying on the emperor's grace, he becomes lawless, and he really regards himself as the emperor's mentor!"
"I heard that Taifu Xu was the most trusted person around the emperor back then. I'm afraid things will be worse this time."
"Who says otherwise? I heard that the old gentleman has a very weird temper and we ordinary people cannot afford to offend him."
"Hush, be quiet."
Everyone was discussing it, but they saw that the Xu Mansion was surrounded by the Royal Forest Army.
The common people stopped talking when they saw the imperial guards. They were afraid that the emperor would take revenge on them if he let his mentor go again one day.
Zhang Hao was wearing official uniform and standing in front of the Taifu's Mansion. He was recalling his grandfather's words that the emperor at that time liked to kill donkeys the most, so he asked him not to stand out.
So he stood outside obediently, while the commander of the Royal Forest Army and the leader of the Jinyiwei led a group of people in to ransack the house.
Although Taifu Xu looks about sixty years old, he is already sixty-seven years old, but his body is very strong, his face is rosy, and his eyes are bright.
The whole family was having dinner happily, but why were they surrounded? Mrs. Xu didn't know that his daughter Xu Yumei had committed a heinous crime.
At this time, Eunuch Li, the chief eunuch, walked up to Taifu Xu and said, "Sir, are you ready? Please accept the order."
Taifu Xu raised his head and glanced at Eunuch Li, nodded, and then led the entire Xu family to kneel down to receive the order.
The young master, young lady and young ladies of Xu Mansion were all confused, they didn't know what was going on.
But everyone knew it was not a good thing. They had often seen the edict being read out, and the father-in-law at that time was always smiling.
At this time, Eunuch Li not only had a dark face, but was also accompanied by a large group of imperial guards with swords. Even a three-year-old child knew that this was not a good thing.
Eunuch Li stood aside, carefully observing Taifu Xu's every move, and secretly praised him in his heart.
Although Taifu Xu had a bad temper, a perverse personality, and even some weirdness, he was still so calm before his death, which is amazing.
How could Eunuch Li know that Taifu Xu had no idea that his death was imminent? At most, he only thought that one of his grandsons had committed a crime.
He had too many grandchildren, and the death of one would not make him sad at all, so he was very calm.
After a while, when everyone in Taifu Xu's palace knelt down, Eunuch Li unfolded the imperial edict and read it loudly in his characteristic drake voice.
Not only everyone in the Xu Mansion heard it, but also the people outside, and some people who were closer to the mansion gate also heard Eunuch Li's high-pitched voice.
"According to the imperial edict of Emperor Chengyun, Xu Taifu instigated his daughter to put a court official under house arrest, and also broke his legs. This was a heinous act without the king's law. Xu Taifu has been hiring killers from the Killer League to hunt down the court prisoners. I have specifically confiscated the homes of the nine Xu clans and destroyed them.
this--"
The moment he heard the imperial edict being read out, Taifu Xu shook his body and cursed angrily: "Evil girl, really an evil girl..."
Then his eyes turned white and he fainted. The other sons of the Xu family immediately helped him up.
Mrs. Xu asked eagerly: "Please call the imperial doctor quickly, please call the imperial doctor quickly..."
"Mom, my father fainted because of his anger. Where is the imperial doctor now? We are all going to behead him. It would be better for my father to faint and die without knowing the pain."
The eldest son of the Xu family didn't know whether he really thought that dying of fainting was better than beheading, or whether he was being sarcastic.
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