Covering his neck, coughing violently, his face was covered with frost, and pointed at the two men in black, "Take it!"

The guards behind Gao's parents rushed up instantly and tied up the man in black.

The noise here instantly alarmed the entire He Mansion.

The lights are brightly lit.

The guard held two men in black and knelt in the annex.

He Dai sat in the main seat, standing next to He Jinrong.

Gao's mother's eyes were full of anger. When Chunliu sent a letter, she said that someone in the He family wanted to harm her, but they still refused to believe it!

He Jinrong climbed up to Baoling and did not dare to make a big deal. He would only send Gao Yingyue back! But they knew that they were actually trying to harm others!

"Mr. He, do you think these two people are sent to the official for treatment, or are our two families sitting here today to explain clearly?" Gao's father sat down on the chair beside him and looked at the two people on the ground coldly, "He Jinrong immediately wanted Princess Shang, and then the two thieves sneaked into the mansion of the third-rank minister to murder Yue'er. What impact will this incident have on the He family?"

He Jinrong is definitely said that He Jinrong is Chen Shimei, he is a princess, and Gao Yingyue blocks the way, so he kills his wife and marrys another one!

He Dai's face was gloomy and he looked at Gao Yingyue fiercely, but he didn't expect that she had such a way!

We have been strictly guarding against the He family for a long time!

Now that things have come to this point, He Dai decided not to let this matter spread.

"What do you want?"

Gao'er said, "Yue'er married into your He family for five years and gave birth to a grandson for your He family. He respected his parents-in-law and served his husband. He had no contribution and had no hard work. Now Princess He Jinrong Shang has climbed wealth and wanted Yue'er to free up the position of the princess's wife. It's not impossible. Return all Yue'er's dowry and take us away, and also pay mental damage, as well as the shock fee that Yue'er had just received, and Doudou's child support... a total of 20,000 taels."

"You are a lion's mouth!" He Jinrong couldn't help but change his face. The He family's total property was only 20,000 taels. Gao's father asked for 20,000 taels of silver as soon as he spoke. How can people not get angry?

Gao's father dusted his robe and took a sip of tea, "A princess is not worth the 20,000 taels of silver?"

Gao's mother poked Gao's father with her elbow, "Okay, don't talk nonsense to them. I don't think they can take it out and escort these two people to Dali Temple."

He Dai's eyelids twitched, they were planning to tear their faces apart!

"In-laws, our He family really can't get the 20,000 taels of silver. We can't get it out. Your request is reasonable, and we will agree carefully." He Dai winked He Jinrong.

"Yue'er, we are having a couple together. Do you really want to be so cruel and heartless?" He Jinrong looked disappointed.

Gao Yingyue sneered: "He Jinrong, if you care about the relationship between husband and wife, we shouldn't be here tonight."

He Jinrong choked and looked at the purple bruises on her neck, with a blue face. He never knew Gao Yingyue was a tough guy. She knew her father's plan and still let their people succeed. She made bruises on her neck just to get the evidence of guilt and reported them!

At this time, Chunliu came with Doudou in her arms.

Gao Yingyue was unwilling to get entangled with He Jinrong, "Ten thousand taels of silver, no penny left."

The He family took out this ten thousand taels of silver, which was considered a trauma.

Gao Yingyue did not allow any discussion and asked Chunliu to carry Doudou to the carriage to wait.

"If you can't bear to give up this ten thousand taels of silver, don't blame us for not caring about love." Gao Yingyue didn't want to tear her face, and she was too embarrassed. The He family was unwilling to let her go, and even planned to kill someone. Gao Yingyue naturally couldn't tolerate her. Since they couldn't let them confess their guilt, then cut a piece of meat from them!

"Ten thousand taels, we can't take it out..."

Before He Dai finished speaking, he was interrupted by Gao's father, "Come here, go and invite the Shaoqing of Dali Temple."

He Dai's face suddenly turned cold.

Gao's father stood up and was not afraid of He Dai. Although the Gao family was not as good as the He family, at least a queen was created, even if this queen was not of much use.

"He Jinrong killed his wife, Princess Shang, and had a secret meeting with the princess at the palace banquet. This news spread in the capital. You He family should not be able to straighten your backbone and be a human being. And the news that the emperor tried hard to cover up was found by the envoy, what would he do? Anyway, you have all divorced wives, and our Gao family has no face, so we are not afraid of not being able to afford to lose this person." Gao's father closed his sleeves and said in a deep voice: "Let's go!"

"Slow down!" He Dai clenched his fists and suppressed his anger, "There are only 6,000 taels of silver in the public dynasty. Can you..."

"No!" Gao's father narrowed his eyes and said, "No one can be left behind! My daughter has given birth to children for your He family, and she is working hard. You don't appreciate her goodness. In the end, after squeezing her, she will kill her life! We will have to lose more than 10,000 taels of silver. If you delay, there will be no more than 20,000 taels, this matter will never end!"

He Dai's blood surged, and a fishy and sweetness emerged in his throat.

The veins on the forehead pounded, and I gritted my teeth, "Give it!"

"Father..." He Jinrong didn't know why he wanted to sell 10,000 taels of land and jewelry in the mansion.

He Dai took a deep breath and "Clear within half a month."

"Three days!" Gao's father raised his fingers.

He Dai supported the table with both hands and did not fall down.

"Father, this is the key to my dowry warehouse. You ask someone to go and count my dowry." Gao Yingyue gave another account book to Gao's father, "There are all accounts of He Jinrong embezzling my dowry, and let them fill it in the shortage."

"Yue'er..."

Gao Yingyue looked at He Jinrong's pretending to be affectionate and full of pain, and she couldn't help but feel nauseated. Her last feeling for him was ruined in the murder tonight.

"Baoling will soon marry into your mansion. If you can't afford it, you can ask her to pay me the dowry. Although I, Gao Yingyue, don't care about these common things, I have no habit of raising men for other women."

Gao Yingyue left this sentence, left the He Mansion, and left it to Gao's father for disposal.

Back on the carriage, Gao Yingyue took Doudou from Chunliu.

Doudou was sleepy, rubbed her eyes with her hands, and looked at her sitting in the carriage, "Mom, where are we going? Where are we going?"

Gao Yingyue raised her hand to comb the broken hair that covered his eyes, "Doudou likes Daddy very much?"

Doudou looked at the smile on Gao Yingyue's face and felt very bad. She rubbed her clothes with her little hands and didn't say anything.

"Mom tells Doudou that Doudou will live with her mother in the future without her father, so Doudou is willing?" Gao Yingyue sat on her lap with Doudou in her arms, looking at the mist accumulated in his eyes, and still chose not to hide it.

The lies told this time will need countless lies to be fulfilled in the future. The three or four-year-old child is already ignorant of some things.

Gao Yingyue felt that this matter was also related to the child, so she told Doudou frankly.

"Doudou won't have a father in the future?" Doudou looked like she was about to cry.

Gao Yingyue said softly: "He is still Doudou's father, but he just doesn't live with us. He doesn't want Doudou, but his mother is reluctant to let Doudou go and wants to keep Doudou by her side. Sorry Doudou, she didn't ask for your opinion, but in the future, I will give you all the love that my mother will love for her father."

Doudou pounced into Gao Yingyue's arms, tears fell down, and sobbed: "Doudou likes dad, but she likes her mother more. Doudou wants her mother!"

Gao Yingyue chuckled softly, her decision and persistence were not wrong.

After a while, Gao’s father and mother came out of the mansion, with smiles on their faces. The two walked to Gao Yingyue’s carriage, and Gao’s father rubbed his hands, “Yue’er, that ten thousand taels of silver…”

"This is what you want, I don't want a penny. Just return the dowry to me." Gao Yingyue didn't go to see Gao's father and mother's face. If it weren't for the temptation of this money, how could her parents make the decision for her?

"Okay, the dowry was given to you by your parents, why would you come back?" Gao's father's smile retracted, "Yue'er, should you know that the Gao family has no divorced daughter, you, mother and son, have you found a place of peace?"

Gao Yingyue pursed her lips and lowered her eyes, "You don't have to worry, I won't go back to Gao's house."

"Hey, okay. It's getting late, your mother and I will go back first." Gao's father took Gao's mother to the carriage and left.

Gao Yingyue looked at the carriage that disappeared on the street, looked down at Doudou in her arms, and hugged him into her arms.

"Miss." Chunliu's nose felt sore and she couldn't help calling.

"Let's go."

The carriage slowly drove away, and Gao Yingyue took Doudou to rent a house in Nanxiang.

From now on, start a new life.

——

Shang Zhi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he learned that Gao Yingyue had successfully brought Doudou and Li with him.

Xue Shenzhi came out of the kitchen, holding a bamboo tube of water and two steamed buns in his hand, wearing a regular dress, and preparing to go out.

"Are you going to have a rest today?" Shang Zhi saw that he was not wearing an official robe and was holding dry food in his hand, "Will you come back for lunch?"

Xue Shenzhi said in a warm voice: "The water truck built by He Jinrong caused floods and caused all the crops in the fields of the people to die. Therefore, most places are famine. Today, I will report to the court and I will go to the surrounding villages with King Xiang to inspect."

"Are two steamed buns enough? I'll make another bowl of meat and vegetables for you." Shang Zhi stood up and walked into the kitchen.

Xue Shenzhi stopped Shang Zhi, "No, just fill your stomach." He glanced at the sky, "King Xiang is waiting outside, I'll leave first."

"Okay." Shang Zhi nodded.

When Xue Shenzhi walked out of the yard, he saw a carriage parked at the door. King Xiang leaned lazily against the wall of the car, looked at the steamed buns in Xue Shenzhi's hand, and said disgustedly: "Is this our lunch?"

"My." Xue Shenzhi placed it in the wall of the car.

King Xiang knew Xue Shenzhi's temperament and did not make any trouble for himself, so he asked someone to drive the carriage away to the village in the suburbs of Beijing.

Xue Shenzhi got off the carriage and saw that most of the deserted fields were uncultivated and most of the village was empty. At the beginning, the smoke from the cooking stove was curling, and the bustling village suddenly became less popular.

King Xiang couldn't help but frown, stopped a peasant woman working and asked, "Where have these villagers gone? Why don't you plant these lands?"

Don’t the people make a living by farming? If they don’t even plant the land, what can they use to support their lives?

The peasant woman lamented: "I can't afford to plant it. After the flood, there is no food in the field, and I can't fill my stomach. I have to pay taxes. The government doesn't care about the life and death of our people. What else can I do? In order to survive, I have to abandon the land to escape from the famine. If I weren't forced to do it, who would be willing to leave my hometown? This acre of land can sell a lot of money. Now there is a famine, no one wants it. I am old and cannot run away, otherwise I will run away. The family's laborers will farm during the day and work at night to earn money and pay taxes."

When King Xiang heard this, he frowned, "Isn't the tax very low? Why can't the people afford it?"

Xue Shenzhi looked at the desolate fields, with his hands behind his back, and slowly said, "The main tax is less, but the heavy taxes are miscellaneous taxes. The prince doesn't know that all kinds of miscellaneous taxes are based on fields, and labor is also distributed by fields. These are far more than regular taxes and are labor-intensive. Therefore, when encountering famine, people will abandon the land and flee if they cannot pay taxes. Some fields are not high, and the harvest of this part of the field is not enough to pay taxes, and the people will often abandon this part of the field and reduce taxes."

King Xiang nodded with a serious expression, "Don't blame the vast territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty, but the national treasury is empty. Land tax is an important source. If the people abandon the land and do not farm, the increase in the national treasury tax will be greatly reduced. Xue Shenzhi, how do you think we can solve the current problem?"

Xue Shenzhi was a poor family. He had a deep understanding of land tax, corvee labor, and miscellaneous taxes. Miscellaneous taxes were too heavy and many people could not afford it. However, people with little land and little land could not work and earn money because of the restrictions of the vocational service, and it was difficult to make a living.

"The national treasury is empty and the people abandon their land but do not farm. Another important reason is that the landlords collude with the government, occupy the people's land, hide the land and evade taxes, and also reduce many taxes. Resisting Japanese pirates and foreign tribes, the military expenditure is huge and the income is not enough, so the people's taxes are increased," Xue Shenzhi felt that if the problem of barren land was to reduce taxes. "If the land was not deserted, people did not flee, and money and food were not arrears, the taxes were reduced."

King Xiang looked solemn and the treasury was empty. If he proposed to reduce taxes, he was afraid that his father would not easily pass this reform.
To be continued...