flstandardbreds Chapter 302 The heroine is here, anyone who refutes her will die - Song Jinshu 1
Chapter 302 The heroine is here, anyone who refutes her will die - Song Jinshu 1
"It's me." Xihe walked out quickly. Everyone else in the family had gone out to play, and she was the only one at home.
"Who are you?" the man asked coldly.
"Song Jinshu, the eldest daughter of the Song family." Xihe stepped forward and answered.
"Go and gather all the people in your family."
"Yes." Xihe nodded and instructed the butler beside him: "Uncle Fu, go and get everyone to gather in the front hall."
"Yes, Miss." The butler responded respectfully and hurried to the backyard.
Soon, the concubines and illegitimate sons and daughters in the courtyard hurried over.
"Miss." They looked at Xihe in horror.
"Don't be afraid, just stand aside."
"Yes."
"The imperial edict has arrived." With a loud shout, the man raised the imperial edict in his hand high.
Upon hearing this, everyone knelt down hastily. Xihe also used a trick to deceive himself, making it appear that he was also kneeling.
"By the providence of Heaven, the Emperor decrees: Because Censor Song Song contradicted His Majesty in the court..."
In short, the whole story has one meaning: the patriarch of the Song family, Censor Song, contradicted the emperor in the court. The emperor did not respond to his request, so he hit his head and died in the hall.
Because his actions made the current emperor very angry, he ordered a search and seizure of the Song family.
Censor Song was a good person, and many of his colleagues pleaded for him. They were originally angry and wanted to put their entire family in jail, but now they changed it to exile.
After the imperial edict was read out, everyone in the Song family looked ashen. They had never imagined that their Song family would end up like this.
"Wow, wow, wow..." Someone couldn't help crying softly.
The man holding the imperial edict heard their cries and immediately widened his eyes. He shouted coldly, "Why are you crying? Do you have any objections to His Majesty's imperial edict?"
"Sir, they are just timid and did not do it on purpose. Please bear with them." After Xihe finished speaking, he winked at the butler beside him. The butler hurried forward and handed him a silver note.
"That's good. Mind your own words and actions. Other people won't be as easy to talk to as I am." The man took the banknote and his voice softened a lot.
"Yes, we will definitely restrain them."
Xihe smiled and nodded. This kind of person is just a villain who has succeeded. There is no point in killing him.
"Go, search carefully, and remember not to miss any corner."
"Yes, sir." The guards responded and filed in, rushing into the houses.
The people in the Song family didn't dare to cry anymore. They covered their faces with handkerchiefs and sobbed quietly.
"Don't cry anymore. Crying won't solve the problem now. Instead, it will just annoy them." Xihe looked at them and spoke calmly.
"Miss, the master and the mistress are not here, we..." A concubine came forward and asked Xihe in a low voice.
"They can't run away. We will meet each other then."
"Then...then I, I don't want to go, I want to leave." Another concubine came forward and spoke cautiously.
"Auntie, didn't you hear the imperial edict just now? All the people in the Song family, including the married women, will be exiled."
What? Married girls were also implicated? Everyone was shocked when they heard this. They didn't expect His Majesty to be so ruthless this time. In the past, married girls would be implicated when something happened. Why are married girls implicated now?
"Don't talk, you have forgotten what His Majesty has done over the years." Xihe reminded them in a low voice.
Everyone immediately shut their mouths and dared not speak anymore, because they all knew that His Majesty had become increasingly incompetent in recent years, and had done the same things over and over again, causing many ministers to lose their lives because of this.
"Come and search them." The men searched around but didn't find anything valuable. Another man stepped forward and pointed at the Song family members and said coldly.
Hearing his words, the concubines and daughters-in-law were so scared that they started crying. They were all female relatives. How could they survive if they were searched?
Xi He stepped forward to stop them, and said with a smile: "Sir, please talk to me nicely. They are all women. If they are searched, they will never be able to see anyone again. Please find two maids to search them."
The butler hurried forward and took out a silver note from his pocket and handed it to the man.
The man took the banknote and looked at Xihe's expression with a smile. His expression softened a bit and he ordered the people beside him: "Go, ask the maid in the carriage to come down and search them."
"Yes, my lord."
Listening to the reports from their soldiers, all of whom sounded resentful, the two leaders looked unhappy.
"Miss Song, I'm not angry, but how come your Song family is so poor? You don't even have anything valuable."
"Sir, although I live in seclusion, I know that my father is an honest official who loves his people like his own children. My family is poor, and I am sorry to have made a fool of myself in front of you all." Xihe answered him with a smile.
"Okay!" The man didn't say anything else. They knew that the imperial edict to confiscate the property had just come down from the palace. The Song family couldn't have gotten the news, and they had no time to transfer the family's property.
There is only one possibility now, that is, the Song family really has no money.
But considering the silver notes Xihe gave them, they couldn't send them to the Song family.
"Miss Song, please take your family with you. However, you must take off all the head ornaments and silks. They won't suit you anymore."
"Thank you, sir." Xihe waved his hand, and Fengqi came over from behind with a big package, which was full of coarse linen clothes.
"Hurry up and put all these on outside." Xihe called on the people around him to change their clothes quickly.
"It's not right for a young lady to do this in public." Someone wanted to be more hypocritical.
"Okay, stop making trouble and hurry up." Seeing the coldness on Xihe's face, she reluctantly picked up the clothes on the ground and put them on herself under the protection of the men in the family.
"Thank you, sir." Xihe signaled to the butler and handed over two more silver bills.
These people will soon be handed over to those who escorted them on the road. If we take their money now, we won't have to make things difficult for them later.
After the man took the banknote, he smiled even brighter. Then he said to Xihe in a deep voice, "Miss Song, please hurry up. Otherwise, it will be difficult for us if His Majesty sends someone to urge us later."
"Thank you for telling me, sir." Xihe and the others bowed, then waved to the concubines: "Let's go, let's go quickly."
"Yes." Seeing Xihe handling things with ease, everyone stopped hesitating and followed Xihe out of the Song family.
After walking outside, what greeted them was not the talk of outsiders, but the regret on their faces.