"Mrs. Li, please get up!"
The woman's voice in the main hall was clear, soft, and extremely kind.
The lives of husband, son, and son are all tied to this noble man!
Mrs. Li held Li Qing'er tightly with her hands in her sleeves, and said in a trembling voice: "I dare not make any mistakes in front of His Highness..."
"Li Shinong is very pragmatic. This strategy of rolling out new crops to keep warm and increase income is very suitable for me." Zhao Fujin saw Mrs. Li's nervousness and did not force it. She calmed her voice and said word by word: "It stands to reason. He said, "My servants have informed the county government and also given money to you mother and daughter, how can you still end up in this situation?"
Her window was set very high, and through the transparent glass she could see people coming into the courtyard. Mrs. Li and her daughter were in ragged clothes, and she could see them clearly through the window.
"The husband and brother are still in prison. The wife and daughter got the money, and I just hope that they can live a better life, so-" Mrs. Li explained carefully.
Zhao Fujin sighed in his heart and asked again: "I heard that the Li family is also a wealthy family. Why are you all so forced to do this before Li Shinong has been convicted?"
"Di Ji doesn't know something~~" Li Qing'er suddenly threw away Mrs. Li's hand and said with a choked voice: "After my father and brother were imprisoned, the family members became like thieves. In just half a day, the entire house was destroyed. The house was robbed, and even the cotton-padded clothes on my mother and I were not spared."
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Zhao Fujin's breath was stagnant. Although she had seen thousands of people in the book, she was still shocked by this incident.
Clan relatives, clan relatives, no matter how far away they are, they have shared ancestors within a hundred years, how can they be so cruel, bullying weak mothers and young daughters, robbing family property for money, not even leaving behind cotton-padded clothes in the dead of winter? One piece?
How is this different from a robber?
"Tell me, what are your demands?" Zhao Fujin asked softly, stroking the books presented by Li Shinong with his hand.
"Your Highness, please help me and spare my father!"
"Your Highness, the husband of my wife's family was wronged!"
Mrs. Li and Li Qing'er spoke almost at the same time, one begging for mercy and the other begging for redress of grievances.
"I know that Li Shinong was unjustly accused." Zhao Fujin sighed: "Qiong Ye, find Mrs. Shen and arrange a place for these two people to live."
"Your Highness!" Mrs. Li was stunned, and she begged in a pleading voice: "My husband, in order to increase the yield of food, has been climbing to the ridge of the fields for decades to observe and study, and he has long since contracted a cold..."
At this point, she was so choked up that she couldn't even speak clearly.
I don't know whether it was the alternating attack of hot and cold, or the force of hunger and cold, but she was talking vaguely, but she fell down.
Li Qing'er, who was standing next to her, was looking around with lowered eyes when Mrs. Li came over.
She didn't react for a moment, and she couldn't catch her in time, but let Mrs. Li fall straight down.
Li Qing'er was startled. She quickly glanced at Zhao Fujin in the palace, and with a "thump", she also fell down.
Mother and daughter traveled all the way, suffered from hunger and cold, and fell ill just like that.
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In addition to Ninghe Hall, there is also a Qunyu Hall on the east side of Yanfu Palace.
This palace is located on an extremely high ground, with a platform of more than a hundred steps.
Zhao Fujin was wrapped in a thick fur cloak and was supported up the steps by Qiongyu Qiongxiang.
Behind them followed a group of attendants, carrying two boxes, stepped over the steps, and went straight into the Jade Hall.
Chunlan, the waiter in the palace, saw Zhao Fujin coming and hurriedly saluted, then enthusiastically stepped forward to help him, muttering: "If the government hadn't set up a hot pot, this servant would not have dared to send a message for you to come over!"
The food in the palace is full of aroma.
The attendant who was carrying the box behind Zhao Fujin went straight into the side hall, where several servants had already been guarding, and they were received diligently.
Zhao Fujin took Qiongyu Qiongxiang into the palace, but was stopped by Chunlan's warm voice: "The two sisters beside His Highness will go to the side hall to get some food. We are here to serve you, so don't worry."
As soon as she finished speaking, two palace maids came forward affectionately and invited Qiongyu and Qiongxiang to another palace room.
Without squinting, Zhao Fujin entered the side room at the second entrance to the palace. The aroma inside was even stronger, which only made her hungry.
Before she could enter, Zhao Ji came over with a smile: "Fu'er, is it freezing? Come on, come on, come in and sit down! Lian has already put down all your favorite food."
"Thank you, dad!" Zhao Fujin was dragged in by Zhao Ji before he even had time to give him a gift.
The father and daughter sat around the fireplace, putting ingredients into the iron pot, and all they talked about was eating.
For this meal, Zhao Ji killed a deer that had been kept in captivity for a long time, sliced the meat into thin slices, and mixed the soup with salt, sauce, vinegar, and sugar. The father and daughter actually ate half of the deer leg. , a tender lamb chop and three black fish fillets.
After eating, the father and daughter passed through the door of the inner hall, passed through two halls, and entered a sealed side hall.
The side hall is filled with about a dozen ebony boxes.
Some of them contained gold and silver, and some contained jewelry. There is a card placed on each box, which records the source and specific number of the items in the box, as well as the wish list these items have fulfilled for their owner.
Zhao Fujin pointed to the two latest boxes brought in and said: "Dad, look, there are 300,000 taels of silver in these two boxes. They are descendants of the Wang family who come from a prominent family. They also have some talents. I want to find a good person." I am hanging around in my spare time."
"Three hundred thousand taels, you need a casual job?" Zhao Ji was shocked: "According to your rules, Fu'er, we can also give you three hundred thousand taels and a fourth-grade real job."
"This man is extremely lazy. Because he cannot participate in the morning meeting, he settles for the next best thing. He wants to get a sinecure. Not only does he not need a salary, but he will also give 20,000 taels of silver as a filial piety at the end of each year."
"These people live easier than me!" Zhao Ji was a little unbalanced and said angrily: "Fu'er, tell me, why is it that Liang Shicheng, a big eunuch, usually just pours water for me to wash my feet? , why should I be richer than a widower?"
Liang Shicheng got wind of the news before Zhao Ji ordered Zhao Fujin to move to Ninghe Palace, so he sent 100,000 taels of silver to Qionghua Pavilion that day, just in the hope that the Xu family's case could be settled as soon as possible and that the officials would not be involved. Keep pursuing it.
Zhao Ji was dumbfounded when he saw that the first sum of money calculated by the father and daughter was one hundred thousand taels!
Master Liang became the internal supervisor of his subordinates, and he could earn one hundred thousand taels at a time!
If the family hadn't been rich enough to have hundreds or tens of millions of taels, how could it be so easy to just give away hundreds of thousands of taels of white money?
Although, the eunuch didn't have any good intentions. He gave away the money, and then cried to Zhao Ji that it was Zhao Fuji who took the money by force, so that he sold his private house in Beijing, became homeless, and so on.
If Zhao Ji hadn't watched from beginning to end, I would have believed him!
Every time the father and daughter entered the small treasury to count money, Zhao Ji would look at the innermost box, then complain angrily and curse a few times before calling it a day.
After the two counted the money and added the amount to the ledger, they returned to the main hall together, walking around the stove and discussing what position would be suitable for the former owner of the newly received money.
As Zhao Fujin sent more and more money to the small treasury, the official positions in the court were almost running out!
