The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 97
Just listening to Wei Chen's last question, Xie Zhao also knew that he was also very angry about this matter.

No wonder.He was dumbfounded just seeing the memorial. Wei Chen went to check it himself for more than half a month. He was in contact with these every day, and he would only feel more depressed than him.

This kind of thing is so absurd, it's like a slap on the law and the face of the Da Qi Dynasty—the whole town drowned the baby girl first, and then conspired to buy and sell foreign women, and then even more Involving rape|defilement and other evil things, and then a new round of drowning girls...

Not only that, they dared to surround the royal guards of the imperial court.I don't know if they are afraid that the incident will be exposed and cause a catastrophe, or if they are just worried that the imperial guards will take away the bought woman and ruin their good plan of "carrying on the family line".

The so-called "villagers are simple and simple" is a lie in the scriptures.Xie Zhao believed in this when he was a child, but he no longer believed in it after experiencing many things.

The poorer the place, the more troublesome people there will be. These ignorant so-called "customs" will definitely not be seen in Luo'an City.

Things have become so bad that it is natural that "the law does not punish the public".

This word has always sounded ridiculous to him-why "the law does not punish the public"?Just because there are many people who break the law, they will not be held accountable, so who will the hurt people turn to to be the master?If laws and regulations cannot make decisions for these people, what is the use of laws and regulations?

Xie Zhao made up his mind that this matter must be linked together.Then check from the bottom to the top, and you can only finish the calculation if you really don't know which link you find.

For the rest, the officials are all accountable, and there are those who collect money from it and let the situation develop without mercy-when the parents and officials accept the money stained with the blood of the people, they should know that one day they will be dragged to be buried with them.

There are also those involved in these transactions.Human traffickers must be severely punished. Daqi never punishes human traffickers lightly, but the atmosphere in this place really needs to be cleaned up. Xie Zhao weighed it for a long time and chose a severe punishment with sufficient deterrent effect: car cracking.

As for those who "buy a wife" like Zhang Dongsheng, they are really ruthless, and of course... there are people who are even more ruthless than him!

These specific matters were handed over to the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Punishments to make up their minds together. Two days later, the two ministries drafted a memorial together: those who are engaged but not yet married will be sentenced to eight hundred miles; hundred miles.Those who are involved in abuse will be punished with a hundred sticks, sentenced to castration, and not enslaved; those who are involved in human life will be cut in half.

This is obviously a heavy responsibility according to his intention.Xie Zhao watched it calmly, and was quite satisfied. Reasonable things are for sensible people. These stupid people who don’t take human life seriously will have to be severely punished. If they are not allowed to know what "reincarnation of heaven" is, they will Never understand.

So he approved the word "Zhun" on the memorial, and appointed imperial envoys to cooperate with the imperial guards to handle the matter.

While breathing a sigh of relief... I still have to think about how to tell Sydney.

Thinking of this Xie Zhao actually gave me a headache, dealing with villains is easier than coaxing Lizi.That silly girl... She has been in the palace for so many years, and she doesn't know anything about her childhood. He even saw her express homesickness. He really didn't know that she had heard that her parents had "sold" her long ago. what will happen.

He was not afraid that she would turn against the family after hearing this, but he was really afraid that she would not be able to bear it.He even thought that he should not let her know, but he couldn't do it after thinking about it - if he didn't say it, he would marry her in the future, and he and her family would always have an intersection, at least he couldn't forcibly break the intersection between her and her family .

Is it better to wait for them to talk than for him to take the initiative?It's absolutely impossible, and it's probably better for him to say it now.

If he wanted to not hurt her, he could always speak as tactfully as possible, but not necessarily her family members.

So after clearing his mind, Xie Zhao headed towards the courtyard in Sydney.

That day, Sydney was on duty, so he asked Fugui to call him back.After closing the door, he made tea with his own hands, and Xueli was already beside him, showing a little nervousness.

She blinked her eyes and looked at him, then asked him, "Is your Majesty... what's the matter?"

"En." Xie Zhao nodded, handed her the teacup, and the two sat down together.

He carefully considered the matter and said it. In order not to make her too sad, he emphasized the insanity of the drowned infant in Xia'an Town, and deliberately mentioned two points: "find more people who don't know about it to buy daughters".As for the daughter-in-law who was bought in the past, if she was too angry and dissatisfied, she would be beaten to the point of submission. Many people were driven crazy and died for no reason. If they could not have a son, they would be forced to give birth to daughters one after another. Or do you want to kill him or something... I won't tell her, she is such a soft pear, she must have a nightmare after hearing this.

But Sydney was still bored for a long time after listening to it.

A pair of bright eyes looked at him without blinking, and the slightly white thin lips moved for a moment, and tears still fell down...

She has been in the palace for seven years, and she doesn't have a deep impression of her family, but she still feels homesick occasionally.

In her memory, the family treated her well in the past eight years. The night before she entered the palace, her mother hugged her and cried loudly, which made her remember it until now!
As soon as she heard this today, she suddenly felt as if everything had become unreal.I don't know which one is true and which one is false. Was the concern and sadness back then really for her?She thinks it is, but if it is, why would she betrothed to someone she doesn't know at all for 20 taels of silver...

This time she cried very quietly, not like she was crying because of An Jin's incident a while ago.He could hardly hear the sound, he could only see her constantly raising her hand to wipe her tears.

Xie Zhao still let her cry for a while, then sat next to her and hugged her: "Okay, this matter is over. I will call them in and ask what happened back then. If you are angry, you will have a better life in the future." Yours, they pass theirs. As for the others..."

He paused, and held her hand tighter: "I have to tell you that your parents are directly involved in this matter, and their guilt is inevitable according to the law..."

The crying in her arms stopped suddenly, and Xue Li looked up at him in surprise, the complexity in her eyes made him feel distressed.

The resentment that had just been born in Xue Li's heart was suddenly struck by this sentence, and it pierced into the bottom of her heart together with the spontaneous fear and worry, which made her suddenly not know what to do.

Pleading, the clarity in her mind let her know that he is right, and she can't interfere in matters of laws and regulations; but if she doesn't plead, she really can't be cruel...

Not to mention whether the family treated her well back then because of sincerity or out of remorse or other plans, but those cares really existed.It's so difficult for her to wave her hand and say "Your Majesty, you can figure it out, I'm not sad at all".

She wiped away her tears again, thought for a while, leaned back into his arms, and stroked his fingers gently and slowly, the helplessness in her heart was beyond words.

He originally wanted to ask her what she thinks should be done, but now it's better to let it go, and he can't embarrass her any more.

At the end of this incident, eleven officials were dismissed and four people were beheaded. The number of exiled and beheaded people in Xia'an Town took up half of the town.

That's it, Wei Chen also asked for an extra decree, requesting that the villagers in Xia'an Town not be allowed to marry outsiders in the future.

This memorial made Xie Zhao feel that Mr. Mingxuan was quite sinister at first glance, so he rarely laughed at this matter.It happened that Xue Li was next to him, so he told Xue Li about Wei Chen's request as a joke.

In the end, Sydney didn't understand, and asked him with a blink of an eye: "You are not allowed to marry outsiders? Then they won't be able to marry a wife anymore?"

Xie Zhao: "..."

This time he finally couldn't hold it back, he dipped his pen into the ink in his heart, and called her closer with a stern face, and wrote "dumb" on her forehead with the pen.

Sydney could feel it but couldn't see it, knowing that he had written on her forehead, but she didn't know what to write.So for a while, his face was still blank, and he looked at him seriously and waited for an explanation.

Xie Zhao threw his pen on the case: "There are so many baby girls who drown every year, and they are also involved in transactions and abuses. If we don't hurry up and strictly punish them to prove that the laws are strict, it doesn't matter whether they can get a wife? This is putting the cart before the horse!"

Why?Yes!

Sydney suddenly realized that it was right to do so!
Xie Zhao held back a smile and asked the palace servant to bring water to wash her face. Of course the palace servant would agree with him, holding a bronze mirror for her to take a picture before asking her to wash her face.

Sydney: "Ah!!!"

Then she squatted on the ground covering her face and refused to get up, and Xie Zhao laughed "hahahaha" so hard that she couldn't get up either.

In early September, Sydney's family was brought into Loan.Her brothers and sisters were still young at that time, so they didn't come to the palace, only her parents were called to question.

—— Xie Zhao and Wei Chen didn't hit them directly when they came in!

In fact, after asking about it, there is indeed some reason. In those years, her grandfather was seriously ill, and the family sold everything they could to treat him, and spent a lot of money on the funeral. Zhang Dongsheng.

This reason can be forgiven by others, but Xie Zhao is still very angry, especially because her father is not pleasing to the eye: Your father is a relative, so your daughter is not?In order to cure his father's illness, the family can sell all the iron, and then they can't make it through, so they exchanged their daughter for money? !

Aren't there two older brothers in Sydney?Why don't you say sell the two brothers for money?A son is a human daughter, isn't it? !
Thinking about it this way made him even more angry, the emperor strode over with a cold face and lifted Sydney's father up against the wall as soon as he lifted his collar!

Her father was too scared to say a word, Chen Jijiang also panicked, and hurriedly persuaded: "Your Majesty? Your Majesty! This is Xueli's father after all, please calm down..."

The emperor gritted his teeth, stared fiercely for a long time before uttering a sentence: "If he hadn't been for Sydney's father, I would have killed him long ago!"

The palace full of people and even a few courtiers who came to wait for orders were frightened and knelt down on the spot!
——Your Majesty, he is so angry that he wants to chop people up!
In short, those Xie Zhao rolled up their sleeves and showed the courage of "a million corpses in a fit of anger", and finally put up with the matter of "burying millions of corpses" for Sydney, and asked her father to be dragged out for forty sticks, and then he The imperial doctor had to be sent to see the wound.

So she didn't let Xueli see her family for the time being, she didn't even know that her parents came to the palace for a walk, and she was very happy when she received a letter from her mother saying that everything was fine and she was not involved in anything.Xie Zhao sneaked a guilty look at her, thinking to himself that the result was not bad.

Two days later, it will be the fourth day of September, Xie Zhao slightly weighed it up, it is time to go to Roujia Palace.

At noon, he asked Chen Jijiang to send a message in person, and when he went in the evening, Concubine Hui was already ready.This time he intentionally asked Sydney to follow, which he had never done before.

Concubine Hui was not stupid, she felt something was wrong when she raised her head and saw Xueli after seeing the ceremony, she was slightly startled: "Your Majesty?"

"Let's eat first." The emperor sat down without saying a word, and Concubine Hui had no choice but to sit down too.

He couldn't bring the eunuch who served the imperial court with him when he came to the harem, so he waited for a while for Concubine Hui's person to come, and it really was An Jin.

Concubine Hui still didn't understand what he meant.

He smiled lightly, knowing that Concubine Hui was digging into a dead end in this matter, so half a month ago he didn't say much and only asked someone to send An Jin back so she didn't notice.He didn't say anything yet, and let An Jin serve the meal beside him.An Jin was indeed taught by Concubine Hui very well, she would look at him and react quickly enough.

So he had a peaceful meal, and after finishing the meal, he casually ordered some rewards for An Jin.After that, it should be the "crucial" matter, he waited quietly, and only looked at Concubine Hui when the female officer in bed came in.

Concubine Hui smiled softly and said to him: "The concubine has not been in a good spirit these two days, why not let Miss An..."

"Concubine Hui." The emperor looked at her, and the smile on his face gradually faded, "Did I tell you that you just take care of the people in the harem right now, and you don't have to worry about adding people."

Concubine Hui was startled, her smile completely froze.

"Do you think that I will like any young girl I choose, or do you think that I have to accept it after you bother about it?"

Concubine Hui was startled when she heard that, she hesitated for a while, and hastily left the table to bow down: "Your Majesty, forgive me, this concubine just feels that..."

"I don't need you to 'think' anything." Xie Zhao frowned at her.Explaining nicely that he'd told her so many times, but she had to do it the way she "felt" made him feel a little annoyed.

"Don't push people around me anymore." He said, "If you push another hundred people, I will return them to you as they are. Besides, I don't care about this matter but some people feel uncomfortable, so don't add to this mess , does no one any good."

Concubine Hui's body tightened, and she immediately understood who the "uncomfortable" person he was talking about was.

She stared at him dumbfounded, but before he could figure out what he was thinking, he got up and led the people away.

The palace servants who accompanied the emperor filed out from the Roujia Palace, and finally, the female officials who were still sleeping followed.

Concubine Hui knelt on the ground and was stunned for a long time, until An Jin hesitantly stepped forward to help her, she squeezed An Jin's hand: "What's going on?"

"The servant doesn't know..." An Jin was also very embarrassed.His Majesty's thoughts, Mrs. Concubine Hui didn't even understand, how could she understand?Just thinking about what happened that day, she felt extremely humiliated, she was waiting to go in and kowtow, but she didn't know what Ruan said, His Majesty sent her away directly.

No matter how she thought about it, she felt that she was cheated by Ruan Shi, and she must have sued herself, otherwise these things would not be explained clearly.

On the way back to Zichen Palace, all the palace people will follow farther away willingly.Under the night, Xie Zhao stretched out his hand to touch Xueli's hand, noticing that she was hiding, and said lightly, "Aren't you happy?"

Sydney shook her head: "I can't say."

It's not that she's unhappy, she just feels awkward.It was obvious that he brought her here on purpose, but she didn't understand what he meant by letting her see these things.Is it to let her understand that he treats her better than Concubine Hui, or does he feel that this is a bad breath for her?
Everything made her feel weird.

"Sydney." The emperor stopped in his tracks with a slight smile, and he lightly held her arm, "I want you to see that I will let Liugong know my heart for you, and there will be nothing hidden." The place where you are tucked in. If I treat you badly in the future, I will be slapping myself in the face."

Is that so...

Sydney immediately felt that she was not good.

So he saw her nodding like a chick pecking at rice: "Your servant, don't think about it!"

"Well... and more." He smiled and narrowed his eyes.

Then she seemed to hear him mutter something in a low voice, but she really couldn't hear the specifics.Out of curiosity, she naturally moved closer and asked, "What?"

He leaned slightly and leaned into her ear: "I mean... don't you want to dominate me and not give it to others? Let you see my ruthless words clearly, so you can rest assured?"

what! ! !

As soon as her cheeks were hot, she stretched out her hand and pushed him, Xie Zhao smiled lowly and raised his arm around, wrapping her tightly around her with only one arm.

"There are so many people watching!" She struggled hard in his arms.

"I cried like that that day when I curled up in my arms, didn't I do it in front of everyone?" He choked her with a single sentence, but she couldn't remember for a moment that she was the one who took the initiative to hug her that day!

Xueli was so embarrassed that she didn't dare to move anymore, she buried her face in his arms and rubbed her face hard, frowning tightly: "I was crying that day!"

"Ah."

He gave a "huh" with a smile, and then gave her no other response.He lowered his head and waited intently. After a while, seeing that she couldn't hold on anymore, he raised his head hesitantly to look at his expression...

Before meeting his eyes, Xueli felt a heat on her forehead!
"Your Majesty?!" She panicked.In the darkness, Xie Zhao kissed her forehead without flinching. Anyway, she was also surrounded by him, so how could she let her hide?
ah ah ah ah...

Xueli screamed in her heart, her thoughts were confused again.After a while, when he let go of her, she couldn't react at all, she didn't need to be held by him anymore, she became a stone statue herself.

"Ruan." He tapped her forehead with his finger, and said in a cold voice, how to listen and how to be intimate, "I want to bully me so that no one else can see me, and you are not happy to kiss you? Wait, I will Call Anshi back."

As he spoke, he turned his head and headed towards Roujia Palace. When Xueli heard this, she stopped doing it, and rushed over two steps, and threw herself into her arms when she blocked it, saying coyly: "I'm not unhappy...don't look for me Anshi..."

Xie Zhao refrained from laughing, but after a while, he still smiled silently with complacency.

The palace people in the distance had already stopped their feet, and they were still startled when they vaguely heard the eight words that were obviously jealous of Xue Li just now, and then looked at His Majesty's reaction, and wanted to kneel down for her again: Definitely , convinced!Really convinced!

What else can I do if I am not convinced?Even jealousy is nice to hear!Others, be smart and don't just follow suit, it's really not a fate!
Over there, everyone has their own slander, and here the emperor leaned over and kissed again.

very nice.

How did she know that during the days when he was taking care of the affairs of Xia'an town, he couldn't stop thinking about what she would do if she really suffered those tortures.

It was an uncontrollable sense of fear, which made him worry that even if he knew she was by his side, he would still worry that she would disappear in the next moment, worrying for no reason that he would not be able to stop her bad luck.

Fortunately, after all the matter was settled by him, she is still lying in his arms safely and jealous.

Really...

The two of them hadn't slept on the same couch before, and she was domineering him and didn't want others to see her. That day, she burst into tears... He was so surprised for a while!

When did you start relying on him so much?
Xie Zhao kissed her and laughed.What a domineering pear!

(End of this chapter)