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Chapter 39 Taking the initiative to plead guilty

"Son-in-law? Didn't you sleep with your wife? Why did you get up again?" Xiao Jiang asked.

"I'll go to the study to do business, don't quarrel with my wife." Ruoao Yuejiao walked out wearing a black brocade dress.

"yes!"

Xiao Jiang and the two maids nodded quickly, then put on a cloak, put on a lantern, and sent him out. Along the way, Xiao Jiang was paying attention to the change in the expression on Ruo Ao Yuejiao's face, and always felt that Mr. Ye had a lot of things in his heart, but he just didn't tell his wife.

The three of them walked through the main house of Canglang Pavilion, and suddenly a black shadow flashed in front of the study door, which scared Xiao Jiang and the other three girls. If it weren't for Ruoao Yuejiao's harsh sniffing and almost exhaled.

"Shut up! Get out of here! Come in with me!"

"Yes, young master!"

Xiao Jiang wanted to carry the lantern to the person who came, but the person looked back and hid in a half-dark dead corner, preventing her from illuminating the blood and scars on his face. Then he heard Ruoao Yuejiao's orders and two other maids opened the study room for them, lit the oil lamp, and saw them walking in one after another, turning around and leaving the study room.

The three girls who left couldn't help but look back at the study.

"Xiao Jiang, Xiao Ge, who did you say you were just entering? There was such a big smell of blood on your body... and hiding, it felt like you had done something bad..." A maid frowned hesitantly.

"Liu'er, I look at my body vaguely as if I am Commander Lu."

Xiaoge said with a fearful look on his face.

"It's impossible!" Liu'er said in surprise.

"Okay, stop talking about you two little hoofs. As for the son-in-law, we are a lot of servants. As long as we know that our good days are given by the eldest son!" Xiao Jiang glared at the two little hoofs with his eyebrows upside down, and the two women nodded repeatedly, "Yeah, let's go back quickly!"

The next day, in the large room of Ruoao Mansion, Ruoao Ziliang sent someone to spread Ruoao Yuejiao over early in the morning.

Zhou Jinghua heard Xiao Jiang say that it was because of the refugee case, and looked at him worriedly. Ruoao Yuejiao signaled her to be calm and then went to the main house by herself.

In the main room, Ruoao Yuejiao strode forward and shouted, "Father!"

"Here, what are you busy with recently? I heard from Jinghua yesterday that you have been busy recently, but the Wucheng Military Command and the Hu Ben Imperial Guard were too busy to take care of both?" Ruo Ao Ziliang sat in the seat and asked people to prepare breakfast for him.

"Because I have served as the military commander of the Five Cities these days, I have more things to do." Ruoao Yuejiao thanked him.

"Don't be too lucky to be miserable. Some things should be left to the people below, so leave them to the people below." Ruo Ao Ziliang patted his son's shoulder and asked him to sit down. "Have you had a meal early in the morning, and you are about to enter the palace again? If not, I will ask the butler to ask you to ask someone to give me another one!"

Ruoao Yuejiao shook her head, glanced at the butler who was bowing and standing aside and said warmly, "Then I'll bother the butler."

"Young master, please be polite. Then the old slave will go and arrange it now."

Upon hearing this, the housekeeper ordered people to set up bowls and chopsticks for the father and son, and after breakfast, he went out of the flower hall, leaving the father and son to speak alone.

"By the way, I will slowly retreat after this year. What about you... Our big house will definitely be supported by Jiaoer in the future, so I want to transfer you to me. For things like the imperial guards' night watch, I plan to leave it to others for doing." Ruo Ao Ziliang slowly said his plans.

"Father, do you want to transfer your son to Sima's Mansion?"

Ruoao Yuejiao frowned and asked when she heard this.

"Yes, Sima Zuo is old now. For my father, I want you to familiarize yourself with the operation of our Sima Mansion as soon as possible. I will leave this position for you sooner or later." Ruo Ao Ziliang took a sip of the porridge and nodded and said in a warm voice.

"But now the child is being favored by the king. If he leaves suddenly, he may be inconvenient to the king." Ruoao Yuejiao refused, a trace of fierce light flashed through his lower eyes, and his big hand holding the chopsticks tightly.

What he always wanted was not the position of Sima, but the position of Lingyin, who originally belonged to their big house.

Father, why don’t you understand?

The position of Ling Yin should have been from their big house, and the second house snatched it from them!

"You just give this a proper deputy, just bring him up. As for your father, I also want to enjoy the blessings early. You and Jinghua will also make branches and leaves for our big house early, so there is no need to work so hard..." Ruo Ao Ziliang smiled, and then ordered him to eat some food.

"Yes, thank you for your concern."

Ruoao Yuejiao nodded and thanked him, picked up the chopsticks and picked up two more slices of beef, but he just wanted to have two bites and had no intention at all.

"By the way, Jiaoer, forgot to ask you before..."

Ruo Ao Ziliang suddenly changed his mind and was about to ask questions. The butler came in from outside, holding a roll of bamboo slips in his hand, so he turned to look at the butler.

"Sir, just ordered Lord Yin to intercept a scrip of the official letter of the Criminal Prison Si Tingli is going to submit to the king today. Please take a look!" The butler lowered his head and glanced at Yue Jiao, then presented the bamboo slips with both hands.

"Um!"

Ruo Ao Ziliang took the Secret and saw that his originally kind face changed suddenly, with a look of anger on his face.

The butler who came in seemed to be no surprise. He kept burying his head and leaning down, and said nothing more. He only used his light to sweep towards Ruo Ao Ziliang who was sitting peacefully in the upper seat.

In my ears, a "click" sound suddenly sounded like a loud sound of bamboo slips being closed. Only a high voice resounded through the flower hall, "Jiao'er, the Sima Mansion, who is the father, has never used a large number of common people, but why did the Criminal Prison Department impeach you and was related to the case of 50,000 refugees ban? In the morning, the old Situ also told me that Situ's Mansion had never registered such a large number of slaves and corvee labor. Let me ask where did the 50,000 slaves you gave to the king last time from?"

Ruo Ao Ziliang has always had a kind temper, and even ordinary slaves rarely make things difficult for them to be held accountable. He is famous for his good temper. Such loud questions are rare among the young masters.

The butler frowned when he heard this, and then saw that the eldest son had already pulled open the chair, kneeled down with a "thump", then looked up at Ruo Ao Ziliang on the seat, and said seriously: "Father, this case is indeed related to the child. If you want to punish me, I will punish me."

"Do you know what you did?"

Ruo Ao Ziliang slapped the table in anger, held Zu Jian's big hand angrily and trembled, pointing at him.

"What did Chen Huang write on it?! If it weren't for your second uncle stopping you, you would have a hundred reasons today, and you would have no choice but to argue!" Ruo Ao Zi turned around with a angrily and cursed. He threw out the bamboo slips in his hand with a "touch" and hit him in the face, "Tell me, what do you want to do with the 50,000 refugees?"

"Can't rebellion be done?!"

Second uncle?

Will the Yin Zi be so kind?

Ruoao Yuejiao sneered in his heart, and the bamboo slips wearing twine were smashed on their heads but did not dodge. The twine was broken into two pieces with blood, and all the bamboo slices were scattered all over the ground.

He said with a head start, "The child doesn't want to rebel, but it's just that each household has not bought refugee slaves privately? It's not just my Ruo Ao family?"

"You have any reason?"

When Canziliang saw that Yue Jiao refused to admit his mistake, he became even more furious. The housekeeper rushed forward anxiously and persuaded, "Stop being angry!"

"It's all you slaves who are usually protected. Look, how bold and arrogant he is now? Ah!" Ruo Ao Zi kicked the butler in the chest with a angrily kick.

The butler fell to the ground with a "Ouch".

Seeing this, the other servants wanted to go forward, but they did not dare to go forward. The rest wanted to report the letter to the owners of each house, but Ruo Ao Ziliang shouted, "Never leave the door of the big house today. All the words you heard will be ruined by my stomach, otherwise I will sell you all!"

All those who wanted to report the news were tenable.

Looking at each other.

"Correction them all!"

Ruo Ao Ziliang's destiny to the butler.

"Yes, sir!"

The housekeeper wisely got up from the ground, took everyone out of the house, and then ordered the guard to lock all the servants and maids who heard these words today into the woodshed.

Seeing everyone leaving, Ruo Ao Ziliang lowered his head and looked at the eldest son kneeling on the ground, as if he had never known him before, and spoke again, "You tell me, why did you ban so many refugees? If you are talking about atonement for the sake of essence, don't tell me to your father! The clerk said that the Zheng Guoxian Trading Company has already confessed, and 50,000 refugees are earned by several years, and it is impossible to have it overnight."

"Father, it's just that everyone outside said that my second wife of Ruoao family was the only one. My son was unwilling to let our big wife lose to the second wife, so he used this method to increase the number of people in my big wife." Ruoao Yuejiao kowtowed and apologized.

"When will our eldest house lose to the second house? When will the lack of people? Why haven't I, the head of the family, heard of it?" Ruo Ao Zi accused with a angrily voice, "What's more, who is stronger and weak in my Ruo Ao family, aren't they all from Ruo Ao?"

"My son knows...so although my son has taken over this group of homeless refugees, he does not want to rebel. He just sent them to the farm under my Ruoao family's large house to work and increase more grain income. So over the years, the income from my large house has increased day by day..."

If such a large number of slaves were bought from other countries, it would be even more serious, so if they were called tenant farmers, it would be relatively lighter.

"But no matter what, you shouldn't be banning refugees privately. It's a serious crime to be in charge of the city!"

Ruo Ao Ziliang still cursed when he heard this.

"My son later knew that this was wrong. Under Jinghua's advice, I gave all these refugees to the king, wanting to atone for sins..." Ruoao Yuejiao knelt on the ground and wanted to kowtow again, but his head was bleeding. "That's why my son dedicated all these slaves to the king when he was giving martial arts in the western suburbs to show his loyalty, and these kings also knew about it."

"So no matter what, please don't get angry because of your son's stupidity and recklessness..."

Ruo Ao Yuejiao said nothing after he finished speaking, but just kept kowtowing and repeated, "My son knows that he is wrong now, so please punish him!... The son has no complaints!..."

After a long time, I don’t know how many crimes I asked for and how many kowtows. The broad and clean forehead was covered with blood, and even the bamboo scraps were covered with blood. Ruo Ao Ziyan suddenly stopped talking. Suddenly, he found that the bamboo slips he threw out had smashed the eldest son’s head and bloody. His eyes flashed slightly, and he looked at the eldest son who had made him proud since childhood, and kept kowtowing to admit his mistakes.

For a moment, it seemed like there were thousands of words that could not be spoken.

Ruo Ao Ziliang finally couldn't bear it and raised his hand, "Forget it, get up! For this matter, my father will think of a way for you..."

Thinking that his son was obedient since childhood and was very strong, he would never do such a bold thing. There must be some brave slave who was instigated by the instigation of the insults, so he thought, "But this matter will eventually cause trouble. Someone must come out, otherwise it will inevitably affect your career. I think such a big idea must not be thought of by you alone. You just said that someone told you that my big house was weak, and it must be that some ambitions instigated you to do such a thing. If I cannot keep such a person, I will sooner or later cause a big disaster because of him!"

Yue Jiao heard this and held his big hand on the ground tightly. Does even his father think this is called "wolf ambition"? So he said, "Thank you for your thoughts...but if this matter really affects me, Ruo Ao, just push my son out and apologize, and ask not to implicate others!"

At the end of the conversation, his voice even had two sobs and weakness, his lips turned white, and his forehead was covered with blood. It was just a pair of wolf-like eyes reflected on the blue bricks, cold and a bit creepy.

Ruo Ziliang had ever seen such an eldest son, and his face changed slightly, and he didn't care about getting angry anymore. He quickly helped the eldest son up and shouted to the outside, "Come on, please pass it on to the doctor and imperial doctor in the family!"

"Yes, I'll call the doctor and the imperial doctor."

The housekeeper ordered the person to carry a stretcher in.

Afterwards, Ruo Ao Ziliang thought about it and said to the housekeeper, "The eldest son has a Lu Yi. I am afraid that he has done these bold and reckless things that he has done to ruin the master. Even if it is not him, he will be guilty of not reporting it. The person who came here beat me and killed Lu Yi to serve as a warning! All the people around the young master have changed and sold it!"

"Yes, sir!"

In the Canglang Pavilion, there was a panic. Xiao Jiang and Liu'er looked at Lu Yi who was beaten and killed and said in a terrified manner, "Master Lu, I came back last night and was beaten and killed by the master today. I'm afraid I've really done something bad outside."

Zhou Jinghua frowned and said, "Nothing is allowed to be said!"

When Ling Yinzi heard the news of the return of the people in the big room, he just sneered, "Brother, I am still too kind-hearted. Even though I know such a lie, I can believe it. It's just a scapegoat that I just came out..."

"Sir Ling Yin, let's just forget about this?"

The second room housekeeper asked carefully while wearing the official uniform of the Five-tail Phoenix, tied his waist seal, put on the official boots of the Five-tail Phoenix, and finally tidied up the hem of the clothes.

"Stay in the big room, keep watching. It seems that I have to deal with some things myself in the end." Ling Yinzi Pian picked up the jade tablet on the tray held by the maid and walked out and said, "Let's go, arrange the carriage and horses to prepare for court."

"Yes, sir."

The housekeeper bowed and stepped back first and arranged the carriage and horses.
Chapter completed!
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