Tang Dynasty Little Godfather

Chapter 181 Offering oneself in return?

When the Nameless Academy took in Cui Gu'er and the others, it wasn't as troublesome as it is now.

After all, they knew Cui Gu'er and the others very well, and they were all close friends, so they could persuade them to stay on their side when it came to certain things.

But these women are not so easy to deal with.

The reason why Wang Xi's promotion of Taoism was so effective was largely due to the efforts of these women, who actively fueled the fire.

However, their purpose was different from that of Cui Gu'er and others. Cui Gu'er and his group were just playing around, but these women didn't necessarily enjoy studying at the Nameless Academy. They hoped that women could have more freedom.

The different objectives make control very difficult.

Because they certainly wouldn't submit to anyone, otherwise they wouldn't have wanted to come here.

However, while they are ruthless, calm, and shrewd, they are also impulsive and you don't know what they are thinking, which makes them very troublesome.

Wang Xi hadn't come up with a good solution yet, so for the time being, he could only delay until he found a way to let them enroll.

After discussing this matter, Wang Xi went to find Hongxiu, as he had an important gift to give her that day.

"Wang Xiaoque, you've come at the perfect time."

Upon seeing Wang Xi, Hongxiu hurriedly asked, "I heard that those noble ladies have already come here to register."

Wang Xi nodded: "They just left not long ago."

Hongxiu then asked, "What did the master say?"

Wang Xi sighed, "There's no way to change things now. No matter how demanding the requests are, those uncles and elders will agree to them."

Her red sleeves and delicate eyebrows furrowed slightly.

Wang Xi then said casually, "But don't worry, teacher, they won't be enrolling for the time being. You will think of a way to get them enrolled first, so as not to make things difficult for you."

Hongxiu smiled slightly and said, "It's not that I'm worried about myself, it's just..."

Wang Xi said, "Teacher, don't worry. The master has thought of all this and will not allow them to bully the junior sisters."

Hongxiu smiled and nodded.

She trusted her husband's methods quite a bit, after all, he had never disappointed her.

Wang Xi suddenly turned his eyes and chuckled, "Teacher, I have a gift for you."

Hongxiu was taken aback, thinking, "Here we go again." Without asking what it was, she shook her head and said, "The teacher won't accept your gift."

Wang Xi shook his head and said, "No, this gift must be given to the teacher."

Hongxiu smiled and said, "Teacher really won't want it. You should give it to Mi'er instead."

"no!"

Wang Xi said firmly, "This gift was custom-made by the student for the teacher."

Hongxiu shook her head, about to refuse, when suddenly her expression changed to one of surprise.

Suddenly, Wang Xi pulled out an imperial edict from his robes.

Hongxiu suddenly realized something, but she couldn't quite believe it, and her voice trembled slightly, "What...what is this?"

Wang Xi chuckled and said, "Didn't I say that His Majesty has already promised to exonerate your family?"

"Rehabilitate?" Hongxiu's body trembled slightly.

"Ah."

Wang Xi presented the imperial edict to Hongxiu.

Hongxiu raised her trembling hand and slowly extended it toward the imperial edict.

Wang Xi was an impatient person. He grabbed her hand with one hand and put the imperial edict in her hand with the other, thinking to himself, "These little hands are so smooth, they feel so comfortable to touch."

At this moment, Hongxiu couldn't care less about anything else. She looked up at Wang Xi, her bright eyes filled with gratitude.

Wang Xi laughed and said, "Take a quick look, is there anything wrong?"

"Nonsense. How could an imperial edict be wrong?"

Hongxiu rolled her eyes at him slightly, then pursed her lips, held her breath, and gently pulled open the imperial edict.

As I read through each word, and saw the words about saving face for my family, my eyes slowly welled up with tears.

Tick ​​tock!

A single tear eventually fell upon the imperial edict.

She hurriedly used her sleeve to wipe it.

Although Wang Xi had mentioned this to her a few days earlier, she still couldn't control her emotions when it actually happened.

For her, this imperial edict represented rebirth.

Don't be fooled by her comfortable life at the nameless academy; in ancient times, the difference between being a convicted criminal and being innocent was like heaven and earth.

For example, if she returned to her hometown as a convict, she might not be allowed to enter the village gate, and her parents' memorial tablets would not be able to enter the village ancestral hall. This was very important to people in ancient times.

She is pointed at and gossiped about wherever she goes; in fact, any ordinary person can point at her and gossip about her, and she can only endure it.

However, for Wang Xi, this was just a matter of a violin, so people should always strive for higher goals.

Of course, the reason it went so smoothly was indeed because her father hadn't done anything wrong; he was simply caught up in a political struggle and was convicted.

If someone is truly guilty, it won't be so easy for Li Longji to grant them a pardon.

Seeing that she seemed to have lost control and was frantically wiping the imperial edict, Wang Xi quickly said, "Teacher, it's alright, it's alright."

Hongxiu raised her face, and her delicate features were already streaked with tears, making her look so pitiful that Wang Xi was stunned by her beauty.

Seeing Wang Xi staring blankly at her, Hongxiu realized she had lost her composure, lowered her head, and whispered, "Thank you!"

Knowing the dog-headed vulture's personality, if he didn't take advantage of the situation now, people would see through his act. Sigh... who told me to end up with this body? Well, I'll try taking advantage of the situation then. Wang Xi scratched his chin and said, "Just a thank you?"

Hongxiu trembled slightly, glancing at Wang Xi out of the corner of her eye. Seeing the boy's cunning face and his shifty eyes, she said pitifully, "Actually, I...I already know your feelings for me. Now that you have exonerated my whole family, I can never repay this great kindness, even if I die. If you really...if you really want to, I am willing to offer myself to you and become your concubine."

Wang Xi exclaimed with delight, "Really?"

Hongxiu nodded slightly, but tears streamed down her face.

"Teacher, you should save your breath."

Wang Xi curled his lip and shook his head, saying, "You're not satisfied with just getting this imperial edict? You want to be my concubine too? You're just greedy for more than you can handle."

Hongxiu blushed instantly and said irritably, "You're deliberately trying to humiliate me like this."

Wang Xi snorted, "Did the student humiliate the teacher first, or did the teacher lie first? He said he was willing to be my concubine, but he cried like a baby. How unwilling must he be to cry like that? What was a good story of helping a teacher to return to goodness has been turned into the teacher crying and making it seem like he was forcing a good person into prostitution."

That's some really sharp tongue. Hongxiu decided to drop the pretense and said, "Anyway, the teacher has already thanked you. It's just that you didn't want to."

Wang Xi curled his lip and said, "Teacher, this way of thanking me isn't very sincere."

Hongxiu asked, "Then what do you suggest?"

Wang Xi's eyes flickered, and he said, "What I really want to know is your real name, teacher."

Hongxiu was taken aback. "You just want to know this?" Wang Xi nodded.

The imperial edict was very imprecise; it simply stated "Sun Shi," but nobody knows what Sun means.

Hongxiu hesitated for a moment before saying, "My father once named me Hanshang."

Wang Xi said, "Sun Hanshang."

She couldn't remember the last time someone had called her that, and it felt rather strange. Hongxiu nodded slightly.

Wang Xi shrugged and said, "This name is very ordinary and doesn't match my gift. If I had known this would happen, I would have preferred to let the teacher take advantage of me and stay at my house."

".?"

Hongxiu was furious and said, "Wang Xiaoque, I am your teacher after all. Can't you show me some respect?"

Wang Xi then said with a grin, "Well, now that I'm the teacher's benefactor, even if I'm a little disrespectful, the teacher won't blame me."

Hongxiu remained silent for a moment.

Just then, Li Jieman's voice suddenly came from outside, "You dog-headed vulture, your family is looking for you to make a fortune."

"That fat bastard."

Wang Xi cursed and replied, "Coming!"

Then he said to Hongxiu, "Teacher, I have something to attend to, so please excuse me."

Hongxiu quickly said, "Go quickly, go quickly."

"Wow, they really use it and then dump it! How heartless!"

Wang Xi snorted, turned around, and stormed out.

Hongxiu rubbed her forehead, her head throbbing. "This fellow is even more difficult to deal with than Li Zhongyun."

Suddenly, a chubby head popped out of the door and asked, "Teacher, did Wang Xiaoque bully you?"

Hongxiu was startled. She saw Li Jie looking at her with curiosity. She calmly asked, "If Wang Xiaoque bullies the teacher, what will you do?"

Li Jieman blinked, remained silent for a long time, and then slowly withdrew his head.

"Get rich! What brings you here?"

Upon arriving at the front yard, Wang Xi asked Wang Facai.

Wang Facai said, "The winery is all ready. Yixianjue plans to officially sell Beauty Wine, so they sent me over to ask you about it."

Wang Xi sighed, "Let them handle it themselves. I'll go and take a look when the time comes."

Wang Facai said, "Young master, aren't you going to go and take a look?"

"no need."

Wang Xi said, "This wine doesn't need any advertising. Just sell it casually, and people will scramble to buy it."

The winery has been preparing for the launch of its new wine recently, and Wang Xi should have gone to take a look. However, because of the Bai family's matter, Wang Xi is somewhat afraid.

According to the information he received, even if they raised enough money, the Cui family might not release the person.

He didn't know how to tell the Bai family, and he was also afraid that Bai Ningsu would be very disappointed if she couldn't welcome Cui back.

Wang Facai nodded: "I understand."

"correct!"

Wang Xi said, "This new wine is limited, so let them sell it carefully."

Luoyang.

Inside an inn, three middle-aged men dressed as scholars were seen lying on a table, snoring loudly and drooling.

With a creak, the courtyard gate opened, and a person entered the courtyard.

"who is it?"

One person inside the room suddenly woke up.

"I."

"The Envoy of Land Expansion. Wake up! The Envoy of Land Expansion is here."

The three men, their legs seemingly weak, staggered out of the house. Upon seeing Yuwen Rong, they quickly straightened their clothes.

Yuwen Rong looked at the three of them and said with a smile, "No need for formalities, gentlemen. Let's talk inside."

These three were none other than the three agricultural advisors under Yuwen Rong.

"Yes."

Upon entering the room, Yuwen Rong saw that the three of them still looked as if they couldn't open their eyes, so he said, "You three must have had a hard time."

One of them suddenly said, "Expansion Envoy, it's only right that we work a little harder; after all, it's our duty. But..."

Yuwen Rong asked, "But what?"

The man replied, "It's just that we work so hard every day, but we're not welcomed anywhere. They won't even let us stay in the government office, so we can only stay in the post station."

But the An Ye Bureau, by simply sitting there waiting for hidden clients to come to them, still commands their deep respect. How unfair!

Yuwen Rong said, "Everyone is just doing their own job."

Another person said, "We know that too, but the problem is that they get all the good things, while we're stuck with this thankless and arduous job."

"If the money was all donated by others, we would have nothing to say, but the imperial court took the lion's share of it."

"It would be better to leave it all to us; at least the people won't criticize us."

Hearing their complaints, Yuwen Rong couldn't help but frown.

Although the Anye Bureau helped Yuwen Rong a lot, at least causing many hidden households to turn themselves in, they focused on dealing with the big landowners and investigating their land holdings.

The problem is that the public only knows about the On Yip Department.

This caused dissatisfaction among those below.

Just then, someone slipped in. "Envoy of Expansion, you're here too! That's wonderful!"

Yuwen Rong asked, "What is it?"

The man exclaimed excitedly, "I just discovered an illegal piece of land in the northern suburbs. Does the land expansion officer know whose it is?"

Yuwen Rong asked, "Whose?"

The man said, "It belongs to Zhang Jiayou, the younger brother of Zhang Jiazhen, the Grand Secretary of the current court, and the Left General of the Golden Guard."

Yuwen Rong's eyes widened. "So what's the problem with this land?"

The man said, "It was the magistrate of Luoyang who secretly transferred land he had acquired from some temples to Zhang Jiayou's name in order to obtain the position of Prefect of Taiyuan."

(End of this chapter)