Chapter 817 Different Ideals 4 (Happy Birthday and Full Moon to Mo Yan and Her Little Princess)
Bai Shan asked curiously, "Why are we an exception?"
County Magistrate Tang smiled and said, "Perhaps it's because you and I look a lot like when we were young."
Bai Shan couldn't help but show a little disgust towards Man Bao.
County Magistrate Tang laughed and said, "Why, are you still dissatisfied? Do you really only like people like Changbo?"
Manbao couldn't help himself at this moment and said, "County Magistrate Yang is much better than you. He is generous and kind."
"Then did you know that Yang Heshu has thoroughly researched your family background?" County Magistrate Tang looked at Manbao, "Especially you."
Manbao was stunned and asked, "Why are you checking me?"
Seeing that her eyes were filled with confusion and no anger, County Magistrate Tang smiled again and asked, "Are you not angry?"
Manbao scratched his head and said, "I'm not too angry now, but I will be angry when I grow up."
County Magistrate Tang asked curiously, "Why?"
"Because the older I get, the more secrets I have. I don't have any secrets yet."
Koko stayed quietly in Manbao's mind, flashing to remind her of its existence.
Manbao didn't care about Keke. She thought that no one would see or discover Keke, so there was no need to care.
County Magistrate Tang burst into laughter and said approvingly, "You're right. The older you get, the more secrets you have. But I can tell everyone everything. I'm not afraid of being investigated, but some people are different."
They both looked at him curiously.
Seeing the pure look in their eyes, County Magistrate Tang knew they didn't care much about this. He felt more relieved and spoke more frankly, "When Changbo was young, he met someone..."
Manbao interrupted him and said, "Sir Tang, County Magistrate Yang is still very young now, so how old was he when he was young?"
County Magistrate Tang thought for a moment and said, "I was twelve at the time, and he was a little younger than me, maybe ten or nine."
Twelve-year-old Manbao turned to thirteen-year-old Bai Shan and said, "Nine years old, still a child."
County Magistrate Tang looked at her in silence for a long moment before he said, "He was nine years old. His intelligence then was much greater than yours now."
County Magistrate Tang paused and said, "His new friend is older than all of us, maybe fourteen. Although he's several years older, we're very compatible. We really get along in every way. Whether it's studying, calligraphy, or dealing with people, he's exactly like us. He's especially compatible with Changbo, so Changbo has taken him in as a close friend."
Bai Shan said, "Isn't it the same as us?"
County Magistrate Tang glanced at the two of them and said, "It's different."
Bai Shan: "What's different?"
"You are a man and a woman, and they are two men," County Magistrate Tang said, displeased with their constant interruptions. "Do you still want to listen?"
They both nodded and asked curiously, "And then?"
"Then, when I was twelve, I began accompanying my father on his tours of the country. By the time I returned to the capital, it was almost New Year's Eve, and they were already inseparable," County Magistrate Tang said. "So much so that even I, the son of a close friend, had to back off."
"But that year, a murder occurred in the capital," County Magistrate Tang sighed. "That was the first case I led the investigation into."
Manbao and Baishan exclaimed, "Wow!" and asked, "You can investigate cases at the age of twelve? Has the court appointed you as an official?"
"No, it was all for nothing. It benefited the court." County Magistrate Tang's newly rising sadness was dispelled by their exclamations. "My father is the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice. He took on the case, and I joined in the investigation."
"A farmer became impoverished due to illness, so he sold his daughter into a three-year contract. Eventually, she was hired as a maid by a wealthy family. However, when the three-year contract was up, the farmer went to pick her up, only to discover that his daughter, whom he had seen just the previous month, had died. He was told she had died of illness, but he refused to give her her remains."
"The farmer felt something was wrong, so he filed a complaint with the government. Yamen officers from Chang'an County went and found the farmer's daughter's body. They discovered numerous injuries and filed a case. Ultimately, Chang'an County sentenced the master of the household for servant abuse."
Bai Shan said, "If the sentence for abusing a servant is not severe, the farmer will definitely not accept it."
County Magistrate Tang nodded approvingly. "Yes, he wasn't convinced. Most importantly, he discovered his daughter wasn't tortured to death by anyone in the master's household, but rather by someone outside the household. Unconvinced, he filed a complaint with the Ministry of Justice. My father had just returned from an inspection tour and happened upon the case, so he took it."
County Magistrate Tang said, "The investigation led us to our friend. The further we investigated, the more murders we uncovered, and the more other things we uncovered. He had two faces. To others, he was a humble, courteous, and talented nobleman, but behind their backs, he was a tyrannical and calculating man. Changbo was deeply affected by this."
Bai Shan asked, "Is he targeting County Magistrate Yang?"
Manbao was curious, "What is he plotting against County Magistrate Yang?"
County Magistrate Tang coughed lightly and said, "Whatever his plan was, Changbo is deeply hurt. It's like you two, if one day you suddenly discovered that the other person approached you with a purpose, and everything they did to you before was just a pretense, wouldn't you be hurt?"
Manbao and Baishan looked at each other and nodded vigorously.
"So Changbo developed a bad habit. He's very particular about cleanliness, and this cleanliness is reflected not only in his daily life but also in his friendships." County Magistrate Tang said, "With ordinary people, he'd just meet them whenever he saw them. But if he wants to be close friends, he can't help but check that person's past to make sure it's clean enough and that they're not trying to get close to him. Only then will he open up to them."
Therefore, when Yang Heshu wrote to him to ask him to take better care of Manbao and Baishan Bai Erlang, County Magistrate Tang knew that these three were friends he recognized, and he must have checked their ancestors for eight generations.
So when he was in Yizhou City, he didn't ask too many questions about the two people and just asked someone to look after them. Occasionally, he would go to the small courtyard to drink tea and have a meal with Mr. Zhuang, and tell the people in Yizhou City that the people in the small courtyard were under his protection.
After hearing all that County Magistrate Tang had to say, Bai Shan realized belatedly, "Oh~~ You're saying this because you're afraid we'll get mad at County Magistrate Yang and stop being friends with him, right? But if you don't tell us, we won't know either."
Manbao said, "It must be because we might find out about it when we investigate the case next, right?"
County Magistrate Tang coughed lightly and said, "So it's not good for young people to be too smart. They can easily become unhappy. Look at Yang Heshu. He's been studying better than us since he was young, and his mind is more mature than ours, so he's always unhappy."
Manbao: "Nonsense, the County Magistrate Yang we met was obviously very happy every day."
Bai Shan also nodded. They could still tell whether someone was truly happy or just pretending to be happy.
County Magistrate Tang smiled and said, "He's naturally happy doing what he loves. You haven't seen what he looks like in the capital..."
Seeing that both of them were looking at him curiously, County Magistrate Tang shook his head and smiled, saying, "Forget it, let's not talk about it anymore. Let's talk about our ideals. What do you want to do in the future?"
Manbao said, "County Magistrate Tang, your change of subject is too abrupt."
I wish Mo Yan will be younger and younger every year and happy every day
I wish the little princess of Mo Yan's family grows up healthily
And, good night, hahahahahaha
(End of this chapter)
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
