Chapter 589 Yang Qingbei's Unjust Death
Sun Shan silently glanced at Yang Qingyuan, who was silent and lowered his head.
At first, it was speculated that Qingbei’s death was related to Yang Qingyuan. If this was the case, it was understandable that Landlord Yang chose to conceal it.
But now Manager Yang said that Qingbei died unjustly and only Sun Shan could redress Qingbei's death. It was obvious that this had nothing to do with Yang Qingyuan.
Moreover, Manager Yang did not avoid Yang Qingyuan at all, proving that it had nothing to do with him.
Then Qingbei’s death can only be related to someone more powerful than Landlord Yang.
Manager Yang's eyes were red and swollen from crying, and he sobbed as he recounted what had happened.
Probably last summer, it was the birthday of Landlord Yang’s wife, and Qingbei took his wife, Jin, to the county town to buy gifts.
Jin was good at needlework and embroidery, so she thought of making a set of clothes for her mother-in-law as a birthday gift.
Jin had always bought cloth from Grandpa Guyu's cloth shop, but because it was her mother-in-law's birthday, the cloth she needed was finer.
The market positioning of Eunuch Guyu's cloth shop is that ordinary people naturally do not have the cloth that the Jin family needs.
Yang Qingbei and Jin went to a relatively upscale cloth shop which had just opened to buy cloth.
Jin was looking at the fabrics, and as she looked, she realized that this newly opened cloth shop accepted embroidery products.
Jin was overjoyed. Thinking that she had good skills, she also wanted to do some needlework to earn some extra money.
After all, they were the second branch of the family, and they would have to separate sooner or later. According to convention, most of the family property should be inherited by Yang Dalang, and Yang Qingbei could only inherit a small amount.
In addition, Yang Qingbei only manages the fields at home. After the division of the family, he will be equivalent to being unemployed and have no income, so he has to prepare for a rainy day.
When the shopkeeper saw that Jin was going to take the embroidery back to make, he naturally wanted to see her craftsmanship.
So Jin followed the shopkeeper to do embroidery in the backyard to show off her skills.
Embroidery is a delicate and time-consuming job. It will definitely take some time to complete an embroidery piece on the spot.
Qingbei saw that the shopkeeper was a woman, and thought that nothing would happen in broad daylight.
After all, in the limited life of Peking University and Tsinghua University, Mr. Wei has always been in power in Huangyang County. I have never heard of any major criminal cases in Huangyang County and have no idea about public security.
In order to save time, Yang Qingbei took his paintings to the "Jinbangtiming" bookstore to have them framed.
After negotiating with the bookstore, I will come back to pick up Jin.
Jin was protected by her mother since she was a child. The biggest injustice she had suffered was that her father favored boys over girls and scolded her all the time.
Because her mother was about to die, she was hastily married to Yang Qingbei.
When she arrived at the Yang family, because the mother-in-law was A-niang's best friend and her husband was gentle and good-tempered, the worst thing was the sarcasm of the eldest sister-in-law.
Jin had no concept of evil people, and the saddest thing in her life was just the quarrels over family matters.
Like Yang Qingbei, Jin naturally felt that nothing would happen if she stayed in Buyifang.
Jin just told her husband to go early and come back early.
Who knew that after Yang Qingbei left, the Jin family would be doomed.
This newly opened cloth shop was run by the new county magistrate's brother-in-law, and he would visit the shop from time to time.
Just as Yang Qingbei left, County Magistrate Tang's brother-in-law came, lifted the curtain, walked into the inner courtyard, and saw Jin concentrating on embroidery.
Jin was beautiful. Even after giving birth to Hu Ming, she was only twenty years old, as beautiful as a flower.
County Magistrate Tang's brother-in-law was also lustful, and his eyes lit up when he saw Jin.
At first, they used threats and inducements, but Jin refused to obey. She had a husband and children, and she was educated on the Three Obediences and Four Virtues. How could she do such a thing?
When Magistrate Tang's brother-in-law saw that coercion and inducement didn't work, he resorted to force.
Jin shouted loudly, but the Buyifang was full of the county magistrate's brother-in-law's people.
Besides, this wasn’t his first time, so the servants could only pretend not to see it.
When Yang Qingbei came back, the Jin family was already in ruins.
How could Yang Qingbei encounter such a thing with his limited vitality?
From birth to schooling, marriage and having children, Yang Qingbei can be said to be a flower in a greenhouse.
Be it my parents, the people in Yangjia Village, or my classmates and teachers, everyone around me is a good person. I have never encountered such a villain.
Yang Qingbei went up to argue, but the frail scholar was no match for the villain.
County Magistrate Tang's brother-in-law ordered his servants to beat Yang Qingbei until he was almost dead, then put him in a sack and threw him out of the city gate.
Jin cried out to heaven and earth, but no one responded from beginning to end.
After satisfying his desire, the bully brother-in-law sent Jin out of the city and warned her not to tell anyone, saying that a dirty woman like her would only bring shame to others and her parents-in-law would only put her in a pig cage.
Jin couldn't find Qingbei by herself, so she hurried back to Yang's house at night and asked the landlord Yang to call someone to look for him.
When Landlord Yang's wife found out about this, she was so angry that she vomited blood and fainted.
Landlord Yang and Yang Dalang hurriedly took the tenant farmers out of the city. After searching for a whole night, they finally found Yang Qingbei in a ruin.
After opening the sack, Yang Qingbei's whole body was cold. Landlord Yang put his index finger under Yang Qingbei's nose.
Yang Qingbei has died.
Landlord Yang couldn't accept it for a moment and fainted.
Yang Dalang was also heartbroken. Although he had disliked this much younger brother since childhood and felt that he was trying to steal his family property, he felt that he was trying to steal his family property.
But no matter how much you dislike someone, after living together for more than ten or twenty years, no one can stand being beaten to death.
When Landlord Yang and his wife woke up, Jin knelt in front of them and told them the whole story so that Landlord Yang could seek revenge for Yang Qingbei.
The night after Yang Qingbei's death, Jin hanged herself.
Landlord Yang and his wife's hair turned white overnight, and they wanted to beat the drum to protest their grievances.
But Yang Dalang didn't dare to let them go.
The one who did the evil was the new county magistrate's brother-in-law. How could they, common people, defeat him?
Judging from the rules for collecting grain, it is clear that this new county magistrate is not a good person.
Their family's grain harvest was twice as much as when Lord Wei was in power. They are simply corrupt officials.
Although Yang Dalang was sad about Yang Qingbei's death, he was more concerned about the situation.
How could they defeat the county magistrate?
Landlord Yang and his wife lost their youngest son, and their eldest son was so heartless and selfish.
I was overwhelmed with sorrow and became increasingly weak both physically and mentally.
Landlord Yang thought that there would always be a place where people can reason, so he planned to bypass the county town and go to the prefectural city to file a complaint. But before he even left the city gate, he was threatened to go back.
At this time, the so-called lobbyists in the government office came to the landlord Yang and threatened that if they did not behave themselves, their house would be broken off.
After saying this, he threw down 50 taels of silver as a final conclusion to the matter.
Landlord Yang was so angry that he vomited blood, and Yang Dalang was frightened like a quail.
After a series of blows, Landlord Yang's wife became weaker and weaker, and she also passed away half a year later.
Landlord Yang had no way to seek redress for his grievances, and he was depressed and in poor health.
Landlord Yang actually thought about visiting the Sun family, but as luck would have it, Sun Shan had gone to Beijing to take the imperial examination and was not at home, so there was nothing he could do.
Manager Yang told Landlord Yang to wait until Mr. Sun came back, as Mr. Sun had a good relationship with the second young master and would definitely seek justice for the second young master.
Therefore, "waiting for Sun Shan" became Landlord Yang's greatest motivation and his last hope.