Chapter 860 Master and Servant
Before the old lady got the portrait, he already felt that the other party was in great danger. When the old lady brought the portrait to him, he was basically certain that they, like them, had been caught up.
It's just that they didn't see the body and didn't know the other person's name, so they still held on to a glimmer of hope.
Manbao stopped, looked back at him, pursed his lips and said, "I don't blame you."
Erji looked at her with his mouth open.
Manbao turned and left. Baishan nodded to Erji and went out with her.
Erji lowered his head and wiped the tears from his face. Boan pursed his lips, turned around and chased after him.
Daji frowned and was about to follow him out when he heard Boan chasing after him, calling out, "Young Master—"
Bai Shan stopped and looked back, and Man Bao also stopped and looked back at him.
Bo'an then looked at Manbao. He tapped his toes and said, "Master, Miss Man, if you had lifted your clothes a little higher, you would have seen that my second uncle still has three very deep knife wounds on his body. My family members said that they don't know how my second uncle survived. Those knife wounds, any one of them could be fatal to anyone else, but my second uncle survived. He's not a coward. I don't think he's a coward at all!"
Boan shouted the last sentence so loudly that Daji could not help but come out and lower his voice and scolded, "Boan, be quiet."
Only then did Boan lower his head.
Daji looked at him disapprovingly and said, "Why don't you apologize to the young master and Miss Man quickly? How can you be so loud and noisy like this?"
Boan lowered his head and said nothing.
Daji moved his hand to slap him, but Bai Shan called out "Daji". He shook his head at him and nodded to Bo An, "You're right, he's not a coward."
Bai Shan glanced at Man Bao, took out a jade pendant from his waist, put it in a purse and gave it to him, saying, "Tell Uncle Erji that this is something I gave him."
Boan took it blankly, not understanding what it meant.
Daji immediately knelt on one knee and said, "Thank you for the reward, Master."
Bai Shan placed the purse in Bo An's hand and took Man Bao to find County Magistrate Tang. "Sir Tang, do you have anything else to ask?"
Master Tang opened his slightly closed eyes, looked at them for a while, then shook his head and said, "Yes, but I don't know how to ask, so I'd better not ask for now. Let's wait until next time."
He'll come talk to Erji again after he finds out more.
He stood up and said with a smile, "Why don't I go with you?"
Dafu hesitated.
Manbao nodded and said, "Just drop us off at the street and we'll walk back."
Lord Tang nodded, asked the three people to get into his car in the yard, and then went out.
In order to make it easier to get here, Lord Tang chose a particularly ugly horse today. It was obviously a poor quality horse and ran very slowly, but fortunately it could still bear the weight.
It staggered out of the alley and onto the main road. County Magistrate Tang then looked at Daji and asked, "I think Erji is about thirty years old. How old was he twelve years ago?"
Daji lowered his eyes and said, "Seventeen."
Lord Tang nodded and said, "The personal servants of wealthy families are usually three or four years older than the young master. This way they are more sensible and can serve the master well. By then, County Magistrate Bai would have been an adult, right?"
Daji clenched his fists and said after a while, "I am the servant who grew up with the master. Erji was sent to the master after I left."
Lord Tang glanced at his sitting posture and palms, chuckled and said, "I wanted to ask you last year, are you a retainer of the Bai family, or have you ever served in the army?"
Bai Shan couldn't help it, and stood in front of Daji and said, "Master Tang, my Bai family is a good citizen and will not support soldiers."
"Well, is that a hired guard?"
Daji was silent for a moment before saying, "When I came of age, my master married me off, and then I left my military service to become an escort. Our escort leader was a former border guard, so we followed the military rules in how we sat and lay down."
Lord Tang raised his eyebrows slightly. "Your master is willing to deprive someone like you of your status. No wonder you stayed by Bai Shan's side for twelve years without moving. Your son wouldn't even recognize you, would he?"
Daji lowered his eyes and said nothing.
Bai Shan and Man Bao opened their mouths but were speechless.
Manbao felt that County Magistrate Tang was not cute at all at this moment, so he glared at him.
County Magistrate Tang glanced at her, snorted inwardly, and continued to ask, "Did County Magistrate Bai not contact you before the incident?"
"I did look for him, but I was out on a convoy at the time. I didn't see the letter in time. By the time I came back and saw it, I rushed home, but he was gone."
County Magistrate Tang stared at him and asked, "Where is the letter?"
Daji paused and said, "At home."
County Magistrate Tang smiled and said, "I want to see it."
Daji opened his mouth, but under his gaze, he could only say, "Yes, I will deliver the letter later."
Only then was County Magistrate Tang satisfied.
When they arrived at the busy street, the carriage blocked the entrance of an alley. Manbao and the others jumped off one by one, and then Mingli drove the carriage away.
Bai Shan watched the carriage disappear and couldn't help but look back at Daji and asked, "Why didn't you tell me?"
Daji didn't say anything, so Bai Shan asked, "Did your grandmother ask you not to say anything?"
"No," Daji glanced at the two of them, and finally couldn't help but said, "Master Tang is very powerful, can't the young master and Miss Man just watch from the side?"
They both said in unison: "No!"
Daji was helpless.
Bai Shan and Man Bao turned around and left, returning to the teahouse first and calming down in the private room.
Manbao thought of something he didn't understand and asked, "Why did Daji get so happy when you gave Erji a jade pendant?"
Bai Shan scratched his head and said, "My mother taught me that there are rules for rewarding people. If you go out to reward other people's servants, you have your own followers to do it. If you reward your own servants, if you are not close to them, you can give some copper coins. If you are slightly close, you can give some ingots. If you serve them personally, you can give fans, pendants, hairpins, beads, etc. Only if you are very close to them, if you trust them, you can give them jade. Jade is a gentleman's item."
Manbao pointed at Daji who was standing nearby and said, "Shouldn't that be given to Daji?"
Bai Shanlue thought for a moment and shook his head, "Daji shouldn't be rewarded by me. Even my mother never rewards him. His rewards all come from my grandmother."
Daji smiled at Manbao.
Manbao vaguely understood something, but still couldn't help but say, "It's so complicated."
Manbao had been using his brain a lot this afternoon and felt very hungry, so he shared the snacks on the table with Baishan and asked Daji curiously, "Daji, are you a good citizen now?"
Daji said: "Not again."
After he found Erji, he sold himself and entered the Bai family.
He paused and then said, "But Boan is."
Daji was silent for a moment and then said, "Thanks to the old lady's kindness, Bo'an is studying now."
This chapter was deleted and rewritten, so...
The next chapter will be around 8 p.m.
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