In order to find a way out for himself, Doctor Li worked hard to study while his brothers were fighting cocks, riding horses, and competing with others for wealth.
Although the Marquis's family did not expect their descendants to pass the imperial examinations and become officials, they still attached great importance to the education of the next generation.
The several teachers in the mansion are all well-educated. In addition to teaching the children and grandchildren of the current Marquis of Anqing, they also teach the children of the side branches that have long been separated from the mansion, as well as the children of the relatives of the masters of the mansion.
Doctor Li mingled with his brothers, cousins, and cousins, and studied diligently for seventeen or eighteen years, while also hiding his incompetence for seventeen or eighteen years.
It was not until he took the exam and advanced from a commoner to a Jinshi at the fastest speed that the people in the marquis' mansion began to look at him differently.
The attitudes of his cousins and servants in the mansion changed from contempt and ridicule to courtesy. His stepmother and his brothers, who originally had higher status than him in the mansion, changed from often ignoring him and occasionally bullying him to monitoring and suppressing him.
His stepmother married him to the daughter of a minor official, who was of no help to his career and had a very soft and easy-to-manipulate character. She also persuaded his father to separate all his illegitimate sons, including him.
Of course, the reason they said they were dividing it up was just to make the Marquis's Mansion look better. In fact, each of these illegitimate sons who were kicked out of the house only got a small farm and a small house.
As an unfavored and obscure bastard, Doctor Li got the worst farm and house among all his brothers.
However, compared with his incompetent but favored brothers, his father and stepmother had much more demands on him.
After more than ten years in officialdom, he himself could not remember how much he had done for the Marquis's Mansion and his legitimate brother, and how many messes he had cleaned up and how many blames he had taken for his other illegitimate brothers.
But even so, his father and stepmother still refused to let him and his family go. He and his wife and children were often called over to the Marquis' Mansion and humiliated and beaten in the name of admonition.
In order to make their small family more miserable, his stepmother had more than once given him concubines and maids to his wife.
Their house is like a leaky sieve. Not to mention hiding any privacy, even if something suddenly happens in the house one day, they won't be able to discover it in the first place.
Doctor Li was powerless to change the current situation and could only deceive himself and comfort himself by thinking that everything would be fine if he could just wait until his biological father and stepmother passed away, and then his family would be able to breathe a sigh of relief.
Unfortunately, his repeated tolerance did not result in the clouds clearing and the moon appearing one day, but instead he was framed by his second brother and his current superior.
His second elder brother relied on the family's influence to become a doctor in the Ministry of Works.
Although both were doctors, the weight of the doctor in the Ministry of Revenue and the doctor in the Ministry of Works was slightly different in the court.
Li Langzhong's second brother therefore disliked him very much. With the help of Li Langzhong's mother's nephew, Li Langzhong's second brother hooked up with Li Langzhong's current superior.
It just so happened that Li Langzhong's current superior, Minister Han, needed an unlucky person to take the blame for the missing disaster relief grain case, so Li Langzhong was gloriously chosen as the two of them hit it off.
His immediate superior, Minister Han, was responsible for providing strong evidence such as account books, letters, gold and silver, while his second brother was responsible for using the servants placed in Doctor Li's house by the Marquis' wife to smuggle the things into Doctor Li's house at the right time, so that the people who came to search the house could catch the person red-handed.
When Yu Zizhen received the task, Doctor Li had just been chosen by Minister Han as the scapegoat for the missing disaster relief grain case. Strong evidence such as account books, letters, gold and silver had not yet surfaced.
Yu Zizhen didn't want to alert the enemy, so he didn't openly contact Doctor Li, who was surrounded by people with holes in his eyes.
It was not until Minister Han produced the key evidence in the case of missing relief grain and gave part of it to Doctor Li's second brother to frame him that Yu Zizhen became enthusiastic about this last short-term task.
In the original book, Doctor Li was completely unaware that he had been framed until his servants "felt guilty and mustered up the courage to denounce their master," and Doctor Li's family was thrown into prison. He was still confused and unable to recover.
The person who framed Li was well prepared. In addition, among the officials in charge of trying the case, there were some who had benefited from the disappearance of disaster relief grain. Naturally, there were people who protected accomplices. As a result, Doctor Li was quickly convicted because of the "ironclad evidence".
After being convicted, his property was confiscated and he and his adult eldest son were awaiting beheading. His wife and daughter were sent to the Jiaofangsi to become official prostitutes, and his underage second and youngest sons were sentenced to exile.
On the contrary, the concubines and servants placed by the marquis' wife were secretly bought back by the marquis' wife when they were sold by the government.
Of course, the Marquis's wife didn't buy them to save them. She just didn't want those who knew a little about the inside story to go out and talk nonsense.
After Doctor Li and his eldest son were beheaded, his wife and daughter committed suicide in prison, and his second and youngest sons died in exile, those servants who had denounced their master because of "guilty conscience" and those women who had been Doctor Li's concubines all died quietly and in various ways in the marquis's dowry farm.
Almost all of their family, from the master to the servants, died, but the other people in the marquis' mansion were hardly affected by the disappearance of the disaster relief grain.
According to the system, the court of the Great Qi Dynasty is now on the decline and is showing signs of complete corruption. The darkness in the officialdom is far beyond the imagination of ordinary people. On the contrary, corrupt officials live better and longer than virtuous and capable officials.
In other words, there are quite a few people like Doctor Li who were suddenly blamed for something wrong, thus ending their careers and even the lives of their entire family.
This is certainly not a good thing for the survival of the Great Qi Dynasty, but for Yu Zizhen, who relies on points to exchange for various good things, the more cannon fodder she has, the more points she can get, so she actually hopes that the system can give her a few more cannon fodder rescue missions.
"Those that have been taken back by Doctor Li's second brother will sooner or later be transferred to Doctor Li's residence. I can then steal and replace them."
Compared to his second brother's home, the defense at Doctor Li's place was more lax, so it would obviously be easier for Yu Zizhen to do something.
"As for the portion that Minister Han kept for himself, I'll wait until my next break. I'll find a way to sneak into his house and smuggle the stuff out."
Anyway, she has the "disguise" skill that can transform her into a living person, so it is very convenient for her to steal something.
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