Shen Zhiyi, please tell me quickly, what kind of trouble did that "Huang Dao Po" encounter?
Oh, the Minister of Works is really anxious.
[This "Huang Dao Po"'s mother is really not a good person. ]
[The mother of "Huang Dao Po" was a widow. Her husband died when she was young. She had two sons and a daughter to raise. People around her advised her to remarry, but this woman said she wanted to remain faithful to her deceased husband.]
Shen Zhiyi felt a chill and couldn’t help but complain.
[It's useless for you to remain faithful. The old emperor won't give you a chastity arch. Who are you keeping your chastity for?]
The old emperor nodded in agreement.
The chastity arch was originally awarded to women with pure and noble moral values, but later it somehow evolved into a way that one could get a chastity arch if he or she remained a widow for decades.
The old emperor scoffed at this. He thought that remarrying after the husband's death was no big deal.
The Minister of Works was a little anxious. Why did he see the chastity arch again? He hurried to see what kind of predicament his "Huang Dao Po" had encountered.
He just didn't believe that the situation couldn't be handled with the emperor around.
[This is too much.]
[She was unwilling to remarry and had no ability to make money, so once Huang Dao Po had her period, she began to have some ideas.]
[The old lady was a proud and arrogant person. She wanted to sell her daughter for a high price. However, due to long-term malnutrition, "Huang Dao Po" looked like a small bean sprout. No one wanted her, and those who wanted her were unwilling to pay too much for the bride price. So the marriage was delayed for several years.]
All the civil and military officials in the court fell into silence.
Especially the old emperor.
He couldn't help but think of his sisters, who were also sold.
The family couldn't afford to eat and was about to starve to death, so his eldest sister took the initiative to sell herself.
The old emperor still remembers that his eldest sister only exchanged for a small bag of rice.
But this little bag of rice was like opening the devil's box.
His parents started selling off their sisters like crazy.
When there is nothing left to sell, the oldest will starve to death first, then the youngest.
Rather than dying of starvation, it's more like...
The old emperor shook his head and came out of his memories.
[Soon the time came for the old lady's two sons to get married, and there were so many places that required money that the old lady even thought about selling her daughter to a brothel.]
[Damn! Old man! Are you still a human being?]
Shen Zhiyi was filled with indignation.
The ministers present were also angry, but the main reason for their anger was that this "Huang Dao Po" was useful to them.
If it doesn't work, they'll just get used to it.
This kind of selling of daughters is very common among the people.
[However, this "Huang Dao Po" was fortunately smart. She knew that there was a sickly wealthy businessman in the county who was anxious to find a man to marry him. So she gave all the money she had secretly saved to an old blind man, pretending to be a fortune teller, saying that she could marry the sickly wealthy businessman. In this way, "Huang Dao Po" was bought by the wealthy businessman.]
[The sickly rich businessman later went south for business, but died of illness on the way. After that, "Huang Dao Po" lived in Yazhou for ten years. Later, she felt that she should return to her roots, so she went back.]
Shen Zhiyi was confused and angry.
[It's not easy to find such a family. The old lady and her family moved to the capital with the money from selling you. Although they live in the dirtiest and messiest neighborhood, it's still a house in the capital.]
[Look, look, your mother is going to sell you out again! ]
"The dirtiest and most chaotic place?"
The Minister of Works quickly found out which place it was. He looked up at the old emperor with his eyes lighting up.
The old emperor nodded slightly.
So the Minister of Works found an excuse to escape.
He said he was running away to pee, but in fact he went straight to the old lady's house with the left and right assistant ministers and the deputy minister of the Ministry of Works.
But halfway through, the old emperor came over with Shen Zhiyi.
Minister of Industry: ???
The old emperor coughed and said, "I haven't been on a private visit in a long time. I came to take a look."
[Then why are you here, Yue, it stinks. ]
The old emperor glanced at the Minister of Works.
"Isn't there anyone cleaning up here?"
At this time, the Minister of Works said sullenly, "Your Majesty, the residents living here don't pay. Over time, the cleaners will run away. We can't always use the treasury to pay for them."
Old Emperor: That makes sense.
The Minister of Works took the opportunity to complain: "Your Majesty, the Minister of Revenue did not approve this part of the silver, so over time, no one came to clean up."
[I understand, I understand. This is because the owner does not pay the property management fee, and then the property management company does not clean up.]
The old emperor said: "We need to find a way to improve the hygiene here. The key is to find a way to make them pay for hygiene. It's so dirty and messy that people will get sick sooner or later."
"Your Majesty is right."
The old emperor nodded: "Let's go."
The group came to a yard with a closed gate and knee-high weeds growing outside.
The Minister of Works took a step back, and the two assistant ministers on his left and right, who were 1.8 meters tall, kicked the door of the courtyard one by one in tacit understanding.
The door opened.
[This, this, this, this is trespassing? ]
The Minister of Works was not happy to hear this.
What do you mean by trespassing? This is about saving people in distress... eh?
The people from the Ministry of Industry and the people inside looked at each other.
The Minister of Works was dumbfounded.
No, what's going on?
In the yard, an old lady was having her hair pulled hard by a woman with her hair tied up in a bun. She was screaming loudly.
There was a toothless child nearby who was crying and gasping for breath. For a moment, the scene was extremely chaotic.
The people from the Ministry of Works were still wearing official uniforms.
As soon as the old lady saw the official uniform, she started shouting without caring about anything else.
"Sir, help me, someone here wants to kill my mother."
"What a sin! I gave birth to a debt collector."
The people from the Ministry of Industry smiled awkwardly.
Did they seem to have come to the wrong place?
The official from the Ministry of Industry whispered, "I don't think so. This is the only family whose daughter has returned recently. There's no doubt about it."
[Hey, how come the old emperor and his men came to Huang Dao Po's house! ]
[Oh, yes, yes, I remember now. The Tongzhengshi received the memorial from Yazhou, and this "Huang Dao Po" had some connections with the wives of officials in Yazhou. Maybe the old emperor learned about it from the Tongzhengshi.]
The old emperor raised his lips in satisfaction, he knew that Shen Zhiyi would find a perfect reason for himself.
Shen Zhiyi confirmed that the woman in front of him was "Huang Dao Po", but...
"So what's going on?"
Aren’t they here to rescue that “Huang Dao Po”?
But it seems that it is not necessary.
The Minister of Works stepped forward and said to the woman with a bun, "Are you Liu?"
Liu looked at the Minister of Works in front of her with suspicion and vigilance.
"But you're from Yazhou?"
Liu started to run away!
It happened so suddenly that everyone was confused.
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