Chapter 904 Don’t Want to Be Beaten
"But what does Lord Wei want us to do?" asked Bai Erlang.
Bai Shan said: "Rather, we should say what the emperor wants us to do." It's obvious that the places in the Imperial College are requested from the emperor. Would Wei Zhi give them all the places he has?
The three of them couldn't guess it together, but they felt it must be related to the King of Yizhou.
The three of them couldn't guess, so they decided to go back and ask their grandmother. It turned out that Mrs. Liu was not feeling well and had gone back to her room to rest.
Bai Shan didn't even go into the house. He stood outside the yard and thought for a while before saying, "Grandma must be moved. My father also worked very hard to get into the Imperial College, and he was admitted to the four majors of the Imperial College. Forget it, let's not ask, so as not to make Grandma sad again."
Manbao: "Then go ask Lord Yang."
County Magistrate Yang was leading Lord Wei on a stroll through the village. The three of them found a relatively high spot to squat on, staring at the distance as County Magistrate Yang led Lord Wei around the fields. Manbao tilted his head and asked, "Do you think Lord Wei is a good official or a bad official?"
Bai Shan said, "Who knows? I think you can't judge a person by appearances. Sometimes, even if you look at what he does or says, it's not enough to judge whether he is a good person or an official. Adults are very complicated."
Manbao thought about it for a moment, then nodded and said, "What you said makes sense."
Bai Erlang was about to get overwhelmed. "I don't know if adults are complicated, but I know you are very complicated now."
Manbao and Baishan sighed together, "It has to be complicated. They haven't mentioned the King of Yizhou since we entered the house. It's obvious that the case is still not solved. They are even urging us to go to the capital. Alas, the adults' minds are even more complicated. We can express whatever we think in our hearts, but they can't express it without understanding."
Bai Shan said thoughtfully, "Next time we will hide our feelings from them."
The two friends nodded in unison, then continued squatting to watch the two adults below. Feeling their legs getting tired, they simply sat down on the grass. "When will they finish talking?"
"I don't know. Let's wait a little longer." Bai Shan casually pulled a piece of grass and played with it. "It won't be long anyway. It's almost time for dinner. If we don't eat at home, the people in the village will have to eat too. They can't have dinner at someone else's house."
Manbao and Bai Erlang thought it made sense, so they continued to wait. Who knew that Wei Zhi actually turned around and went to a villager's house to eat.
The three friends sitting on the high slope were all stunned. Daji reminded them, "Master, Master Tang, Miss Man, we should go back for dinner."
Manbao jumped up and stood on tiptoe to look carefully. After distinguishing it, he said, "It seems to be going to my house. Let's go to my house for dinner."
Manbao took the lead and rushed down the hillside, followed by Baishan and Bai Erlang, and ran to Lao Zhou's house behind Manbao.
San Ya was about to go out to find her aunt to come back for dinner, but she bumped into her aunt at the door. "Aunt, the official has come to our house. My aunt is about to kill a chicken, and my grandfather is talking to the official in the main room."
Man Bao agreed and was about to go into the house to take a look when County Magistrate Yang came out from the main room. He stood at the door, glanced at the three people, nodded slightly to them, and then walked out.
Manbao glanced at Lord Wei's entourage standing at the door, then looked at County Magistrate Yang who was strolling around, and then walked into their courtyard.
Manbao rushed into the kitchen and said to Qian, who was chopping a chicken, "Sister-in-law, Shanbao and Bai Erlang are also having dinner here."
Xiao Qian smiled and said, "Okay, just now County Magistrate Yang and his high officials came over and we cooked another pot. It will definitely be enough for us to eat."
Manbao finally left the kitchen. Bai Shan and Bai Erlang had already greeted Lord Wei and Old Zhou in the main hall. The three of them naturally slid into the courtyard. County Magistrate Yang was standing by a tree in the courtyard with his hands behind his back. Hearing the voices, he turned around and looked at them with a smile. "I remember there were no peach trees here when I came here last year. When were these planted?"
"My fourth brother bought it and planted it this year. He said that there are too many boys in the family and he wants a daughter, so he planted a peach tree to attract a daughter."
County Magistrate Yang was confused, "Why do you have to plant peach trees when you want to recruit a daughter?"
Manbao said with a heavy face: "Because my fourth brother feels that there are too many boys in the family, planting peach blossoms, even if it doesn't attract a daughter, it's good to attract a wife."
County Magistrate Yang: ...
Bai Shan brought the topic back to where they had strayed, "Master Yang, why is Master Wei here?"
Magistrate Yang glanced outside and then said, "Didn't you ask Old Madam Liu?"
"Grandma is not feeling well, we can't disturb her."
County Magistrate Yang could naturally guess why Old Madam Liu was unwell. Perhaps it was not her body that was unwell, but her mood.
He glanced at the three young men and women who were still looking at him innocently, thought for a moment and said, "Lord Wei is here to investigate the matter of the King of Yizhou. If he gets any evidence..."
Seeing the three men's eyes light up, County Magistrate Yang paused before saying, "Now that we have evidence that the King of Yizhou is still harboring evil intentions, the Emperor will certainly hold him accountable."
The three of them said in unison: "Then ask."
County Magistrate Yang couldn't help but flick Bai Shan's head. "Of course I should ask if I can, but I'm afraid that once the ministers submit their memorials, the people in the palace will know about it before it's even shown in the court."
The three of them couldn't understand what this meant. The purpose of submitting a memorial was to let everyone in the world know.
"The Empress Dowager is still here, and Lord Dou is also in the Secretariat. I'm afraid the memorial will be intercepted before it can even be brought to the court. Therefore, if we want to expose this case, we have to make it a big splash. And we can't just spread it from the top down, we have to spread it from the bottom up, and spread it throughout the court before those in the palace know about it. That way, even if the Emperor doesn't want to, he will have to act, and even if the court doesn't want to, he will have to act."
Manbao and the other two were stunned and asked, "Is this the Emperor's intention, or is it the intention of Lord Wei and his group?"
Yang Heshu glanced at them approvingly. They had grasped the key point very well. He said, "I originally thought it was Lord Wei and Old Lord Tang's intention, but now it seems it was His Majesty's intention."
Manbao and the other two understood, "So they want us to file a complaint with the emperor as a prelude?"
Yang Heshu nodded.
This would then become Manbao and Baishan's business, because they were the ones who suffered, and Bai Erlang was just a collateral damage. He looked at the two of them and said, "That sounds really impressive and impressive."
Bai Shan and Man Bao glanced at him and said, "Then you go?"
Bai Shan said, "If you want to file a complaint with the emperor, you have to be beaten with a stick first. Will you beat me or Manbao?"
Manbao nodded and said, "The sticks they use aren't the rattan sticks we usually use to punish people. They're big wooden sticks as thick as legs. They don't draw blood when they hit us, but they can shatter our internal organs."
Thinking of their small bodies, the two people who were controlled by the wooden sticks shuddered together, and Bai Erlang couldn't help but tremble.
Yang Heshu: "...I won't actually let you go through the pain of death, but it's good that you realize this. The dangers of the capital don't just lie here."
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