If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 353 Black Dragon Claw
After a while, Aunt Liu said, "The court only followed the law and asked Zhu Yitao and the relevant officials and clerks to bear the compensation of 10,000 dan of grain.

If they couldn't come up with the money, their homes would be raided and their belongings sold to pay off the debt.

If the property is not enough to repay the debt, it will be sent to Jiaosifang and sold by the government. If it cannot be sold, it will be sent to Hongxiufang. "

Xiao Yu frowned and said, "In other words, Zhu Lingling and the others are not prostitutes?"

Aunt Liu said: "Before it was officially sold, it was not a slave.

Generally speaking, the relatives of the prisoners would try their best to raise money to help the prisoner repay the money he owed.

Once they are sold, they are sold to others as slaves. How can this not be considered as a lowly status?

If it cannot be sold and sent to Hongxiufang, it will be the lowest of the lowly. "

"How much money does Zhu Yitao owe the court?" Xiao Yu asked.

"You can do the math yourself. How much is one dan of grain? And how much are the 18,000 dan of autumn grain that were burned worth?" Aunt Liu said.

Xiao Yu pondered and said, "The market price of one dan of new rice is four qian of silver. Eighteen thousand dan, seven thousand two hundred taels?"

Aunt Liu nodded and said, "That's about right. Including the warehouse and surrounding buildings, the total is 8,800 taels.

Zhu Yitao is your lord, and bears the main responsibility, a total of 4,300 taels."

Xiao Yu was surprised and asked, "Zhu Yitao's house has been confiscated, and all his belongings are less than 4,300 taels?"

"Is four thousand three hundred taels too little? His annual salary is only eight hundred dan, which is more than three hundred taels of silver.

How much money can a family save in a year for food, clothing, and gifts to superiors during festivals?" Aunt Liu asked.

Xiao Yu sighed and said, "You old procuress, you really should go to the court and say these words to all the officials in the court."

Aunt Liu was angry and confused. "What's wrong with me as a brothel owner? What's wrong with what I said?"

Xiao Yu said: "It is precisely because there is no problem, forcing Zhu Yitai to death and humiliating his family is the big problem.

And even a brothel owner can explain this problem clearly, which makes the problem even bigger."

Aunt Liu was stunned for a long time before she realized that Xiao Fengxian was beating around the bush and praising Zhu Yitao as an honest official who only accepted salary and did not accept bribes.

"As a procuress, I can not only explain it clearly, but also see it clearly." She sneered and said, "The one who wants Zhu Yi's life is not the law of Western Shu, but the resentment of the nobles in Luodu.

If his family is confiscated for wealth that far exceeds what a county magistrate can accumulate with his salary, you can imagine how the officials in the court will torture him.

He didn’t even have the chance to die unjustly, because he didn’t feel wronged, and his death was not unjust.”

"Don't think of 'what ifs'. There is no 'what if'. The reality is right in front of us: an honest official was wrongly killed in a tragic way, his family was destroyed, and his wife and daughter were humiliated." Xiao Yu said.

Aunt Liu shook her head and said, "You little barbarian, you don't understand the great etiquette of China after all."

Xiao Yu smiled and said, "Then you, the old procuress, come and tell me, this little barbarian, what the great gift of China is."

Aunt Liu said: "The great etiquette of China is not a personal etiquette, but a court system!

The Li family was a royal family in Western Shu.

The ancestors of the Li family in the upper reaches of China are still royal family.

The officials in the imperial court, even if they were not royal family members, were from dukes' and marquises' families that had been passed down for thousands of years.

Outside of the Luodu court, the heads of counties and prefectures in Western Shu were mostly sons of dukes and marquises or aristocratic families.

This is the dynastic system of Western Shu, and also the dynastic system of the great nation of China.

The Rites of Zhou compiled by the medieval sage Duke of Zhou can be roughly summarized in one sentence: "kings, princes, generals and ministers all have their own kind."

To observe this order is a great courtesy; to follow this great courtesy will bring peace to the world.

But what is Zhu Yitai?
He was just a Confucian scholar from an ordinary family.

His unjust death had no impact on the Western Shu court.

The officials in the court and the common people all think it is natural, and only you are here to speak up for him."

Xiao Yu looked at her with surprise and said, "Aunt, I apologize to you. I can say such insightful words. Whether it is right or wrong, I shouldn't use the word "madam" to belittle you."

Aunt Liu smiled complacently, then said a little awkwardly: "How can I say such a thing? I have never read the Zhou Li, and I don't even understand the Shangbang system."

Xiao Yu asked: "Who told you that?"

"That's what the Confucian scholars from Luodu said."

Aunt Liu explained: "After Lord Dongfang Shuo left Xishu with the 'Great Qin Demon Suppression Army', many of the Confucian scholars who had been staying in Luodu, both local and foreign Confucian scholars, have recently left Luodu.

The day before yesterday, a few great scholars were discussing Zhu Yitao's affairs in Hongxiufang. They said a lot of extremely treasonous words. "

"I thought that today's Confucian scholars were just like Confucius, and were extremely superstitious about Zhou Gong's 'ritual'. It seems that my understanding of Confucianism is still too shallow. Alas, if I have the chance, I would also like to participate in those Confucian events."

Xiao Yu shook her head, put aside her distracting thoughts, and said, "Aunt Liu, if you continue to talk about Zhu Yiyi, I won't feel sorry for him anymore. Just tell me how to get his daughter out of her status as a prostitute."

Aunt Liu sighed, "If Miss Zhu had been obedient and left with me earlier, and if Hao Ruhai and his gang of bastards hadn't made trouble,

You only need to pay two thousand taels of silver to take Zhu Lingling away, as well as Zhu Yitai's concubine and the Zhu family's maids and servants."

"Only two thousand taels of silver? How was this calculated?" Xiao Yu asked puzzledly.

"Zhu Yitao owed the court 4,300 taels of silver. The confiscation of his property paid more than 2,000 taels. If another 2,000 taels is paid, Zhu Yitao's family can be taken away.

In other words, because Zhu Yitao still owed the court two thousand taels of silver, the court took his family members to the Jiaosifang official to sell them to make up for the loss.

I am the aunt who manages the Jiaosifang, and my main responsibility is to make up for the shortfall of two thousand taels of silver.

In other words, as long as I am willing, give me two thousand taels of silver and I can take Zhu Lingling and the others away."

"It's so simple. I thought it was too complicated before." Xiaoyu breathed a sigh of relief.

Aunt Liu glanced at her and said, "It's not simple, it's very complicated. You saw it before, many people are trying to win Zhu Lingling.

Although Zhu Lingling was born into an official family and her appearance could be considered beautiful, she was not considered outstanding among the Hongxiufang.

The daughter of a criminal in the Jiaosifang was rarely from a parent with a lower rank than a county magistrate.

The pampered daughter of an official family would have good looks and temperament. Zhu Lingling is special because her father is Zhu Yitai.

Zhu Yitao has offended too many people, and many people are willing to spend a fortune to humiliate her daughter."

Xiao Yu said: "Now I have bought the person."

Aunt Liu said, "Can you come up with 2,500 taels of gold? If there is no bidding at the city gate, you give me 2,000 taels of silver and I will let you take the person away.

Now two thousand five hundred taels of gold have been recorded in the account book.

The hole is too big for me to fill. If I want to take Zhu Lingling away, I must leave gold behind. "

Xiao Yu nodded and said, "Two thousand five hundred gold, no problem, I never thought of asking you to fill the hole."

Aunt Liu was surprised and asked, "Do you really have 2,500 gold?"

"Didn't you see it before?" Xiaoyu patted the jade bone bell on her waist.

Aunt Liu glanced at Lingling and said, "Hao Ruhai was frightened by you, but I know who you are.

If you could really come up with 2,500 taels of gold, you would definitely pile it up into a small mountain and let everyone marvel at you, instead of just putting out a dozen or so ingots and immediately putting them away again."

Xiao Yu was a little surprised. "You really do understand me. That's right, I only have two hundred taels of gold ingots.

Apart from the gold ingots, there were only some miscellaneous gold and jade jewelry left in the bell.

If I take out the jewelry, people will definitely guess that I am financially exhausted."

Of course, her entire fortune is more than just this little gold.

The gold ingots that the King of Shu gave her alone weighed eight hundred taels.

The gold ingots and jewelry now stored in Goubao’s blessed land are all gifts from her ghost son to her.

The ghost son asked Sha Xin, the deputy inspector of Western Shu, to bring her a cloth bag containing a bag of gold ingots and jewelry.

At that time, she and Wen Zhiruo were both paying attention to other gifts and didn't care much about gold, silver and jewelry.

After dealing with the other gifts, Xiaoyu was surprised to find that the gold ingots and jewelry in the bag were all "treasures from the underworld" - they were filled with very yin energy, like burial objects in a tomb.

Then Xiao Yu had a flash of inspiration and came up with an idea: since the Goubao Paradise is a black mountain, Xiaoqiang can enter, the ghost soldiers can enter, and the armor on the ghost soldiers can enter, so can the treasures, which are also "things from the underworld", be put in?
The experimental process is very simple, and Xiaoqiang easily brings the treasure into the "dog treasure paradise".

Not only that bag of treasures, but all the gifts Chi Miao gave her could be stuffed into the Goubao Blessed Land.

Xiaoyu has a feeling that now the Goubao blessed land is of low level and very barren. It is just a "portable underworld" to store underworld objects. If one day it can grow to the level of the Human Emperor's blessed land. The Human Emperor's blessed land can grow flowers and plants from the mortal world, and can even cultivate spiritual herbs and fairy flowers.

At that time, wasn’t her Goubao paradise the “portable fairy palace”?
"There are only two hundred taels of gold. It's not enough. The hole is too big." Aunt Liu shook her head.

"Don't worry, I have money." Xiao Yu smiled strangely, pulled out a stack of "paper bills" from his sleeve, and shook them a few times, saying lightly: "The promissory note issued by the Huitong Bank by the Prince of Qinghe County is bearer and unnumbered. It will be paid immediately upon seeing the bill."

Aunt Liu rubbed her eyes, it was not an illusion.

She took the paper and examined it carefully.

It turned out to be the promissory note of Huitong Money House.

Be careful and gentle, one hundred taels of gold per piece, exactly twenty-five pieces.

"This is not your money, this is Hao Ruhai's!" Aunt Liu asked in surprise, "How did you steal it? I remember you didn't even get close to it, didn't touch it, and were at least two meters away."

Xiao Yu asked curiously, "Why are you so sure that the bank's promissory note is from Hao Ruhai? Is there any mark on it?"

Aunt Liu nodded, handed her a paper ticket, and said, "Look at it towards the sun and see the red seal."

Xiao Yu did as he was told and saw the two seal characters "Huitong" printed in red, covering up a line of small characters written "inside the paper" - in a certain year and month, Tianmen will meet Hao Ruhai and the 12th.

The words are very, very small and they are not written on paper.

"It turned out to be three pieces of paper glued together to form a paper ticket."

The red seal on the paper ticket deliberately covers the "watermark" in the interlayer.

It would be difficult for outsiders to notice the abnormality unless someone knowledgeable about it reminds them.

Aunt Liu asked again: "What evil method did you use? Hao Ruhai has mastered the art of poison, and his whole body is full of poison.

He was really not bragging before, no thief had ever dared to steal from him.

If you touch something you shouldn't touch, you'll be poisoned and die immediately."

Xiao Yu nodded and said, "His clothes are indeed poisonous, but the gold notes are clean."

A single gold note is worth only one hundred taels of gold and needs to be used frequently.

Of course Hao Ruhai could apply the poison, but it would be very complicated to clean up after applying the poison.

"In fact, it doesn't matter if the gold note is poisonous. Its poison can only poison people and 'qi', but not 'soul'." Xiao Yu said again.

"What god?" Aunt Liu asked puzzledly.

Xiao Yu said, "Haven't you experienced it yourself? The Thousand-Handed Thief Saint."

Aunt Liu was shocked and asked, "Have you mastered the Thousand-Handed Thief Saint's 'Great Transport Escape Technique'?"

Xiaoyu gave her a strange smile, "Do you feel like something is missing from you?"

Aunt Liu was stunned for a moment, she lowered her head and felt her pockets and sleeve pockets, and found that the things were there.

"Don't bluff me."

"Do I need to scare you?" Xiaoyu pointed to the small coffee table in the car, "Look."

Aunt Liu's eyes blurred and a pearl appeared out of thin air on the small coffee table.

"This..." She picked up the pearl and looked at it carefully.

After a while, her pupils shrank, and she quickly reached into her arms, fumbling around in her bellyband for a moment, her expression turned into shock and fear, "You, you stole the pearls from my bellyband and sewed them on it! You really have mastered the art of transporting and escaping."

Xiao Yu shook his head and said, "This move is called 'Black Dragon Claw', and it is far inferior to the Great Transport Escape Technique."

(End of this chapter)