Man Tang Huacai

Chapter 77 Dutiful Son
This is a prison cell.

Ji Wen shrank weakly in the corner and licked his chapped lips. The stench in his mouth made him a little unbearable.

He gave all the perjury that Luo Xixi asked him to give, and he said all he could when Yang Shenjin was interrogated.It's just that the case of the dead man in Longyou hadn't been closed before, so he hadn't been convicted yet and was locked up in Dali Temple.

Suddenly the cell door opened, and amidst the clanking of iron chains, a tall prisoner with many scars was dragged up and sent to the next door to be detained alone.

Ji Wen crawled over on all fours, brushed away the greasy hair scattered in front of his eyes, took a closer look, and recognized the other party in the dim light of the fire.

"Yang Zhongcheng?"

"Jiwen?"

"Really Yang Zhongcheng?" Ji Wen was shocked, "How did you end up here?"

"I was wronged, Donggong framed me..."

The shackles on Yang Shenjin's body were much heavier than Ji Wen's, and he climbed a few steps with difficulty before getting close to Ji Wen and talking to him through the fence.

"The Longyou dead men you mentioned last time died in my house."

"What?" Ji Wen turned pale with shock, "Yang Zhongcheng, you are the only one who believes my testimony!"

Yang Shenjin smelled a stench, he was always elegant, but at this moment he didn't dislike Ji Wen, only crying.

The two cried together for a long time, analyzed the whole case, and sorted out many clues.

Although this kind of friendship of sharing weal and woe is short, it is much stronger than Luo Jiaji Wang's fake love.

The jailers came with lanterns.

"This is Ji Wen."

"Do not kill me!"

Ji Wen was startled, so frightened that he shrank to the corner of the wall.But the prison guards came forward without any explanation, picked him up and dragged him away.

He tried desperately to pin his feet to the ground, but was dragged out of the cell.

Suddenly there was a bright light in front of him, so that he couldn't open his eyes, he closed them desperately, tears kept streaming down.

"Don't kill me! I was wronged!"

"Ji Facao, stay safe."

Ji Wen turned his head to look, and when he saw Luo Xishi, he shuddered and lost his mind.

"Luo Jia, don't bite me... Please!"

"Jifa Cao said seriously, you have made a great contribution this time, and you have also received the sage's royal mouth award, congratulations!"

Ji Wen was taken aback, his eyes widened, and he asked, "What did you say?"

"Isn't it Ji Facao who discovered the signs of Yang Shenjin's rebellion and decided to search the Yang family's other house?"

Looking at Luo Xishi's mouth opening and closing, Ji Wen was in a dream, pinched himself hard, and shouted: "Yes!"

He knelt down in the direction of the Xingqing Palace, crying loudly: "Saint! Eternal Mingjun, Qiangu Mingjun!"

Weeping dimly, because he was really wronged, and he didn't want to experience Luo Xishi's torture again in his life.

Luo Xixi helped him up, and said: "You were the first to find out this case, and you also participated in the trial. The sooner the case is finalized, the better, and there must be no further mistakes."

"I want to see the Prime Minister."

"The case is finalized, and the right minister will meet with you, otherwise you will not be able to get involved with the case if the right minister is involved."

"Don't worry, you know my methods."

In an instant, Ji Wen completely forgot about his friendship with Yang Shenjin not long ago.

On this day, after he put on his official robe again, the first thing he did was to interrogate Yang Shenjin.

Judging by the method of "pulling the donkey's colt".

The prison guards fixed Yang Shenjin's upper body on the shackles and stuck his feet on the wooden donkey.

Hit the wooden donkey with a hammer, the wooden donkey moved forward, and it stopped with a "click", stretching Yang Shenjin a little.

Then came the second blow, Yang Shenjin gradually began to scream.With the sound of beating, the wooden donkey got farther and farther away, his body of more than six feet was stretched longer, and his waist was so thin that it seemed that it might break at any time.

"Recruit...I recruited..."

He knew it was a treasonous crime, but he really couldn't bear it.

A major case is being finalized as quickly as possible.

……

On this day, Ji Wen also met Yang Zhao.

Yang Zhao's official robe has changed from light blue to light green, embroidered with small flowers one inch in diameter, very bright.

"Hahaha, chicken tongue, you are finally cleared of your grievances." Yang Zhao was quite enthusiastic, stepped forward and whispered: "Do you remember what I told you before? Yang Shenjin offended the right minister and Wang Zhongcheng, and took death. You It must be right to choose him as a scapegoat, you see, is there anything wrong with what I said?"

Ji Wen has to admit that Yang Zhao sees things thoroughly.

The two exchanged a few words of greeting, and when they learned that Yang Zhao had been promoted to serve as a censor, they quickly asked Yang Zhao to drink.

He thought again that he didn't even have time to hold back his son's bones, and he felt great pain in his heart, but his face remained calm, and he asked in a low voice: "Xue Bai..."

"He has now turned to Mrs. Guo Guo. Although the right minister is angry, he is not something you can touch."

Yang Zhao only knew the inside story, but he snorted unhappily.

"That kid came back this morning and asked me to borrow money to save my father. It's ridiculous. Do you think I'm someone who can borrow money from him?"

~~
Xuanyangfang, Mrs. Guo's Mansion.

The sound of evening drums woke up Yang Yuyao who was sleeping.

She went to banquets one after another during the Shangyuan Festival, and she was also very tired. Now she can be regarded as full of sleep.

She turned over and saw Ming Zhu was sitting on the edge of the couch in a daze, hugging her and resting her head on her lap.

"What are you thinking about?"

Mingzhu said in a low voice: "I was thinking that Yang Shenjin and Shi Jingzhong should be dying soon."

"There's no reason to mention these unlucky things." Yang Yuyao asked, "Is Xue Bai here?"

"Xue Langjun said that he would come to thank you one or two days after the Shangyuan Festival. He was talking about the two days after the curfew for the third day of Shangyuan?"

"That's why he didn't come?"

Yang Yuyao was not happy immediately, she recruited the maidservant, and was about to scold her, but she saw the maidservant took a greeting card.

After taking it over, it was indeed Xue Bai who handed it over.

Although she was unhappy, she felt that his handwriting was neat and beautiful.

"There have been changes in the family, and I hate missing the wedding, Yaoniang Haihan, I will go to make amends in the near future."

With a flick of her lips, she threw the greeting card aside, and said with a cold snort: "Could it be that I thought that the family name I found for him was not good, and that he missed his marriage with the prime minister's daughter. She refused to come."

"No, this servant has inquired. Mr. Xue Langjun's grandfather owed gambling debts, he was confiscated, and his ancestral house was also taken. Mr. Xue Langjun is running about this matter."

"Ah."

Yang Yuyao thought to herself, since he wasn't his biological father, how could Xue Bai run around.

But thinking about it again, I really lost face by finding such a house for him.

"Where is he now? Why didn't you come to me when something like this happened?"

"I heard that he has been in the Chang'an county government today."

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At sunset, Xue Bai was arriving at a village outside Chang'an City together with Yan Zhenqing.

Accompanied by two officials, the four got off their horses at the edge of the field and led the horses across the path.

The reason why they came here was because the Chang'an county government summoned Xue Ling's creditors today to deal with the dispute, and Xue Bai also prepared money to pay off the debt in court.

But the creditor said that he was not in Chang'an, and that he no longer occupied the house in Changshoufang.In this way, Yan Zhenqing had no right to investigate further because he was in Wannian County, so Xue Bai offered to sue at Jingzhao Mansion.

This matter was aroused in Changshoufang, but there was no progress.

Yan Zhenqing then gave Xue Bai a copybook, wanting to send him away, not wanting this kid to make progress, and wanted to worship him as a teacher.

He refused straight away, not wanting Xue Bai to know how to pester, and asked if he could give him a chance to test.

Yan Zhenqing thought that it would be a good thing if he could bring a young man who had gone astray back to the right path, so he allowed Xue Bai to test it by his side.

It just so happened that he had some hard work to do today.

Xue Bai even postponed seeing Yang Yuyao because of this...

"In your village, is there a man named Qu Ada?!"

It rained yesterday, and a farmer was digging a ditch to drain water. The county magistrate Gu Wende strode forward and asked aloud.

The farmer was in a daze, unable to answer anything.

Xue Bai also went over and asked again with a smile, "Old man, is there a man named Qu Ada in your village?"

The farmer looked at them in fear, shook his head, and finally opened his mouth.

"No...no..."

"How dare you say no!" Gu Wende has been an old official for many years, and he knew he was lying by looking at his face, and shouted: "I owe money to Datang, and dare to run away from home, aren't you afraid of being taken?"

"I... I... We are servants of the Pei family, and we don't pay rent..."

"Sure enough, you are also one of the escapees."

The old farmer turned and ran.

Even if Gu Wende wanted to chase him, he couldn't run him in the mud at all. After running a few steps, his boots got stuck in the mud and he couldn't pull it out.

In the fields in the distance, more farmers fled.

Yan Zhenqing was still very calm, standing there, stroking her long beard without moving for a long time.

"Look at the county lieutenant." Gu Wende managed to pull out his foot, raised his hand, and said, "They still dare to lie to the county lieutenant, saying that they don't even have a single mu of open land. There are at least a thousand mu here."

"Don't be impatient." Yan Zhenqing said with a slightly sad look in his eyes, "Go and have a look."

He walked like a car, and asked Xue Bai as he walked, "Do you know why this old man is here?"

"Chasing fleeing households, collecting rent and mediocrity?"

"Yeah, Jingyin has changed, and the county magistrate is urging him urgently."

Only then did Xue Bai know that Han Chaozong was demoted and released as he said.

"Teacher, the students can only understand a little bit, but they don't quite understand what Zuyong is?"

"Don't call me 'Teacher'." Yan Zhenqing said: "The so-called 'Zenyong Tiao', the rent is land rent, the mediocrity is forced labor, and the transfer is household adjustment. Ding Nan is over 20 years old, and he is granted [-] mu of land, and [-] mu is permanent. Eighty mu of farmland is divided into mouths and returned to the field after death. Every year, the land rents two stones of millet; hard labor for [-] days; household adjustments are paid according to the local production, and most of them are silk cotton, such as two feet of silk and three catties of hemp. "

"Regardless of the size of the land, rich or poor, every male should pay the same rent?"

"As I said, each person is granted a hundred mu of land." Yan Zhenqing said, "This is the system during the reign of Emperor Gaozu Wude."

Once Xue Bai thought about it, he understood that it was almost 130 years since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, and it has long been impossible to grant [-] mu of land per capita.

He pondered, and asked: "If you can't get the land, you still have to pay the rent?"

Yan Zhenqing had a bitter look on his face, and didn't answer right away.

Liu Jing, the county magistrate on one side, said: "As long as it is recorded in the household registration that a hundred mu of land is granted, it has to be handed over. Some people sold the land, and if they couldn't pay the rent, they fled. Is it good?"

Before speaking, there is a small village ahead.

A middle-aged man with a good temperament came up to him, crossed his hands and saluted Yan Zhenqing, and asked with a smile, "Why do you dare to ask a guest?"

"Yan Zhenqing, Wei Yan of Chang'an County, has chased the fleeing family to this point."

"Yan Shao's mansion is polite, and the villain Cheng Wu is the manager of this Qingxu Bieye."

"Qingxu Bieye?"

"Yes, the head of the family is the Imperial Censor of the current dynasty. His surname is Pei, and he has a wide taboo. He was once praised by the sage himself as 'Debi Daiyunbu, his heart is as clear as Jinshui'. How can there be any reason to hide and escape?"

Xue Bai looked up, the countryside in front of him seemed like a paradise, and in the distance was a suburban mansion surrounded by trees.

The so-called Bieye means that there are fields, scenery, mountains, rivers and houses, and you can't see the end at a glance.

"Young Master Yan, let's come in and talk. Let's taste some country dishes. It's getting dark, how about staying overnight?"

Before speaking, Cheng Wu led the four of them forward, through the village, and into the mansion in the suburbs.

On the way, Xue Bai saw those peasants hiding in their houses and looking at them secretly. Gu Wende raised his finger at one of them and shouted: "Qu Ada, you have escaped from household for five years and owe six years of rent. How dare you go back to Chang'an to bring them back?" Someone fled?!"

After hearing this, Cheng Wu just shook his head lightly.

After entering an elegant small hall in the front yard of the mansion, and arranged for a handsome woman to make tea, Cheng Wu went to get a stack of deeds.

"Young Master Yan, please look, Qu Ada has voluntarily sold himself as a servant of the Pei family five years ago, and is no longer a good citizen..."

Gu Wende immediately became annoyed, but said: "It's false, the Dongshi Department has established a deed, but the Chang'an County Government has not canceled Qu'a Da's household registration..."

"That's the problem of the Chang'an county government." Cheng Wu stroked his long beard and said loudly, "What do you have to do with my Alang buying slaves?"

"The [-] mu of land in Qu'a Da has not been returned, how can the county government cancel the registration?"

"This chief official." Cheng Wu said with a smile: "This is still a matter of the county government. A villain is a servant, and he really has no right to intervene. Come, Yan Shaofu has tea, this young man's surname is Gao?"

"Xue Bai."

"Mr. Xue Xiaolang is having tea."

Xue Bai glanced at Yan Zhenqing and saw that he drank the tea calmly, so he took the teacup and drank it. The tea was full of foam in his mouth, but he praised "good tea".

"Dare to ask Guanshi Cheng, are there any problems with this deed?"

"You can check it out." Cheng Wu said frankly.

Xue Bai understood at a glance that the Pei family had nothing to worry about, which meant that the problem still came from the Chang'an County Government five years ago.

Dinner was an ordinary meal. After eating, Cheng Wu thoughtfully arranged a room for each of the four of them.

~~
"County lieutenant, why didn't you ask him a word?"

"What's the use of asking him?" Yan Zhenqing said: "The Pei family's slave contract is complete, and there is nothing to blame."

Gu Wende said urgently: "But the county lieutenant went out of the city to make this trip in person..."

Halfway through the conversation, he also knew that he was too impatient, so he kept silent.

After all, the four of them had no choice but to go back to the guest room and sleep.

In the night sky, the round moon has lost a piece, but it still hangs high there.

Xue Bai quickly fell asleep.

He didn't dream that night, but he felt that someone got into his bed and touched him.

In a daze, he thought it was Du Jin who came...

But the woman in the bed let out a feigned panting, and some rough palms slightly touched him.

He woke up suddenly, grabbed the spring shirt that was half removed, and pushed the woman to the bed.

"Hey."

The other party yelled softly, Xue Bai turned over and saw a white figure and a pile of clothes on the ground by the moonlight.

He picked up the woman's clothes, with a cold face, and mercilessly pushed her out the door, regardless of whether she would be frozen or not.

Afterwards, he turned around and walked towards Yan Zhenqing's guest room. As soon as he turned around the corridor, he saw Yan Zhenqing standing in the courtyard with his hands behind his back, with a displeased expression on his face.

"teacher."

Yan Zhenqing waved his hand, not letting him go to Gu Wende and Liu Jing's guest room.

"Go back to sleep and lock the door."

"it is good."

Yan Zhenqing sighed, but beckoned him again, saying: "Tomorrow, the old man will talk to Cheng Wu, you can ask those fleeing households whether they have sold the land or not granted it? If they have not been granted the land, why did they accept it in the first place?" Draw a bet?"

"Teacher, don't worry, the students must ask clearly."

Xue Bai agreed, and withdrew as a disciple.

Yan Zhenqing sighed, no longer in the mood to correct Xue Bai's address, since no one else was there anyway.

He knew very well in his heart that if he could ask about this matter, the result would not make much difference...

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