Two guards escorted the Xie family's scholar into the courtyard.
The book boy was the same age as Xie Jingyu, but his weather-beaten face looked much older than Xie Jingyu, as if he was thirty or forty years old.
Yun Chu sat on the chair and looked at him coldly: "Raise your head."
The book boy trembled all over, looked up and saw Yun Chu's face, and immediately fell to the ground again in fright: "Madam, it has nothing to do with me... It was the adults who forced me to do such a thing, I have no choice but to obey... Please, Madam Forgive me!"
Yun Chu looked at him indifferently: "Why did you leave the Xie family?"
The book boy stammered: "Yes... the adults want to kill me and silence me. In order to save my life, I have no choice but to run away!"
"So, you are innocent." Yun Chu smiled sarcastically, "Please tell me more about what happened that night."
She could guess why the book boy left. He must have threatened Xie Jingyu with what happened that night. Xie Jingyu wanted to kill someone and silence him, so the book boy ran away.
Neither master nor servant is good.
The book boy lay on the ground and said: "Your Majesty ordered me to buy medicine and put it in the wine, which stunned all the maids and women in the yard. I also added medicine to the Henan wine. After the lady was unconscious, it was me and you." Together, we carried the lady onto the sedan chair of the Xuanwu Hou Mansion..."
Chu Yi, who was lying on the couch, had a cold look in his eyes.
His cold eyes fell on the book boy's hand. If his eyes could turn into reality, the book boy's hand would have been chopped off.
The book boy shook for a moment and continued: "The people in charge of the Xuanwuhou Mansion are Xuanwuhou and a maid, but there is no one else."
Just as he was talking, a gagged woman was thrown next to the book boy.
Yunchu took a sip of tea and said calmly: "Do you two know each other?"
The two looked at each other for a while, then nodded.
Since they match up, it means that the person is not wrong.
Yun Chu looked at Chu Yi: "What does the prince think should be done?"
Chu Yi used the coldest tone and said the cruelest words: "There is no need to keep this book boy."
Yun Chu nodded, she also had this intention.
"Madam, please spare your life, Your Majesty, please spare your life!" The book boy was frightened. "I will keep this in my stomach and won't tell anyone. Please Madam, Your Majesty, please spare my life..."
The two guards blocked his mouth and dragged him down.
The maid next to her was so frightened that her face turned pale when she witnessed all this, and her whole body shrank into a ball and trembled.
Although the maid was described as embarrassed, Yun Chu could still see some beauty in her.
This is the woman that Marquis Xuanwu prepared for King Pingxi.
Trying to make this woman the mother of two children.
For all this, this woman spent five years dormant in a village thirty miles outside Beijing.
"She will keep it for now." Chu Yi's low and cold voice sounded, "Let her die like this. It's too easy for her."
Manager Cheng waved his hand, and the two guards pulled the woman down. The woman's whimpering and begging for mercy gradually faded away.
Yunchu didn't stay long, got up and returned to his yard.
As soon as she left, Manager Cheng came to report that Concubine Yin was here, and immediately ordered several pots of broad-leaf green plants to be placed above the doorway. The long broad leaves hung down, and the green leaves spread. Several pots of chrysanthemums were placed on the ground to add to the beauty. The door opening was blocked tightly.
Concubine Yin walked into the courtyard with a worried look on her face and sat beside Chu Yi's bed.
She forcibly took a look at Chu Yi's wound, and her tears suddenly fell: "How dare you go to suppress the bandits alone with the program? If you die in the bandits' den, how will you let the mother and concubine live... What can the mother and concubine count on? It’s just you, can you think about your mother and concubine before making any decisions in the future..."
Concubine Yin cried so hard that her heart broke.
Chu Yi only felt a headache.
When she had finished crying, Concubine Yin stopped and babbled: "Fortunately, your injury was not in vain. This time you captured the bandit king alive, almost at the cost of your life. Your father knew that he had withdrawn your suppression." The elite bandits are totally wrong, no, let me bring the sword back to you."
This is the sword that the emperor gave Chu Yi when he was fifteen years old. He has always cherished it, and now it is back in his hands.
Concubine Yin sighed: "Although you are ridiculous and don't want to be granted a title or land for a woman, your father still feels sorry for you and is reluctant to let you be his son. I have discussed it with your father and agreed to let you That sweetheart is a concubine, and a peasant girl of unknown origin can be on the royal jade plate, which has already broken the rules of our ancestors, Yi'er, don't be willful anymore."
Chu Yi closed his eyes: "Mother, please come back."
"You, you are so incompetent!" Concubine Yin exploded again, "Since I gave you the steps and you can't get down, then that's it, you just have to live in this shabby yard for the rest of your life!"
She threw down a basketful of angry words and walked away, waving her sleeves.
When leaving, she deliberately led people through several courtyards, but she didn't see the shadow of her so-called sweetheart.
She couldn't help but feel angry. Her son protected that peasant girl too well.
Yunchu returned to the yard and was looking at the Yun family's account books.
After so many years of accumulation of family business, it is not an exaggeration to say that the Yun family is big. Although the revenue is large, it cannot support the prosperous population of the main branches of the Yun family. Just maintaining daily expenses is not a small sum, so There is not much money in the public account.
For example, the Yun family school teaches children to read and write, there are also martial arts schools, and there are also nvhong schools specifically for girls. The money for hiring a master, plus the money for various pens, inks, paper, inkstones, needles and threads, and weapons, can cost almost 100,000 yuan a year. Wan Liang.
Another major expenditure is the support from the ancestral temple, the year-round offerings and incense, the monthly clan gatherings... and the like are all money.
There are also widows and widowers in the clan, who also spend the money.
The source of the money is the property accumulated by the Yun family over the years. It was previously managed by her mother and then given to her sister-in-law, but now it is in her hands.
Yun Chu went through the ledgers briefly and found that the business was not particularly good, but not bad either. It continued like this and fully maintained the daily expenses of the Zhongding family.
"Miss, the fourth lady is here." Tingxue walked in and reported softly.
Yunchu put down the account book: "Let the fourth aunt come in."
The fourth aunt of the Yun family walked into the flower hall with a smile on her face, her eyes scanning the account books: "Hey, Chu'er is looking at the accounts. Are you exhausted from so many account books?"
Yunchu asked someone to serve her tea and said with a smile, "I'm not tired."
"It must be tiring." Fourth Aunt Yun looked distressed, "The Xie family is a poor family, and everything combined inside and outside is not one-tenth as good as the Yun family. The Xie family is used to handling simple general affairs, and let's look at these things about the Yun family. , there must be something you can't handle. Your mother is busy and your sister-in-law is pregnant, so you must be embarrassed to ask. No, the fourth aunt came here specially to see if there is anything she can do to help. "
Yun Chu said: "Fourth Aunt also has her own things to be busy with. Isn't it too troublesome?"
"It's not troublesome, why bother." Fourth Aunt Yun sighed, "Now that something happened to the Yun family, many people deliberately stepped on the Yun family's head. The Yun family's business will definitely be affected. You, a young girl, are so shameless. Bo, there are some things that are difficult to deal with, and those people don’t dare to mess with an older woman like me.”
"That's what the fourth aunt said." Yunchu looked at Tingxue, "Go and tell the clan that any woman who is about the same age as the fourth aunt and has nothing to do can come to my place to find something to do."
Tingxue took the order and left.
Fourth Aunt Yun's face turned green.
She deliberately came to the door before everyone could react, just to get an advantage.
After calling all those people here, what benefits can she get?
