Lili asked politely, "Uncle Clerk, where is the County Magistrate?"
As expected, they had come to see the county magistrate. Master Huang hurriedly said, "He's in the study. Shall I take Miss Lili there?"
"Okay." Lili nodded.
Master Huang led Lili to the study and knocked on the door: "My lord."
"Enter."
Master Huang pushed open the door and went in. Lili pulled Qi Zheng in with her and even smiled at him to put his mind at ease.
"It's alright, the magistrate is a very kind man. You have to behave well, your future depends on this!"
Qi Zheng: "..."
Who is the three-year-old really?
Furthermore, what does his future prospects mean, and what is the nature of this matter?
How come everyone knows Lili?
If she knew Mr. Liu because her father was Mr. Liu's student, then what was her relationship with the county magistrate?
Judging from the way this advisor looks, he's quite respectful to Lili.
When Lili entered the county magistrate's office, the guards didn't stop her at all!
Qi Zheng's heart was in turmoil.
"Why are you back again?"
Magistrate Qin buried himself in his books and asked a question.
Master Huang said, "Sir, Miss Lili has arrived."
Upon hearing this, Qin Renjie stopped reading the book in his hand and quickly looked up. Sure enough, he saw the little dumpling he had just seen that morning grinning at him with its big teeth showing.
He was also holding the hand of a rather familiar-looking little boy.
Qin Renjie didn't remember, but Master Huang reminded him with his mouth: "Qi family."
Oh, isn't this the young master of the Qi family?
Qin Renjie had the same question in his mind as Master Huang.
Lili wants to destroy the Qi family, but is there any need to be in such a hurry?
This is like directly kidnapping the young master of the Qi family and sending him to their door to coerce and entice the old master Qi.
"Lili, what brings you here?"
Lili didn't beat around the bush with him, as if she wasn't talking about the man's biological father: "Oh, let me ask the county magistrate, has the courtyard of the woman that old man from the Qi family forcibly took found? Lili wants to take Brother Qi Zheng to see it!"
Qin Renjie: "?"
Master Huang: "?"
Qi Zheng: "?"
Wait, what is this?
Are you going to take someone's seven-year-old son to see the place where he keeps his mistress?
Or was it a concubine forcibly taken?
Even though Qin Renjie and Master Huang already knew that Lili was destined for great things and that she did things in unconventional ways, they were still stunned for a long time.
Qi Zheng's CPU burned out.
What, what is that?
That old man from the Qi family... who is he talking about? Could it be his father?
Abducting women?
His father?
His father forcibly abducted a woman!?
Qi Zheng's first reaction was disbelief.
The Qi family was a merchant family, essentially still merchants, with the only additional connection being the land they rented to farmers, which added the identity of landlords to their name.
There are no officials in the Qi family. If his father could really do such a thing, shouldn't he have been arrested and brought to justice by the government long ago?
Qi Zheng had never heard of this matter before, not even a whisper of it. It was precisely because Master Qi had eighteen concubines that he thought that even if his philandering father wanted to keep concubines, he would bring them home as concubines, not do such a thing!
Judging from his expression, Lili knew she was right.
Even though Master Qi didn't seem to value this son very much, and could even be considered to dislike Madam Qi, his legal wife, Qi Zheng still favored family ties in his heart.
Qin Renjie, however, had already found the address of that courtyard: "I sent spies to investigate all his private properties, and sure enough, they found something unusual in one of the most heavily guarded courtyards. There were many guards inside, and quite a few girls as well. The guards were all stationed at the various exits, so they probably weren't allowing the girls to leave."
Lili showed an expression of expectation and took the address: "Sigh, it's a threat. Letting them out would just give them the opportunity to report to the authorities."
If it were a different magistrate, perhaps Master Qi wouldn't have had to go through so much trouble.
After all, as Lili had said before, these girls were daughters of farmers who rented land from Qijia. Although they were from respectable families, they were just ordinary working people from the lowest rungs of society.
If it were a different magistrate, Master Qi would only need to bribe a little money to keep a few beauties in his household, and since no one had died, the higher-ups would probably turn a blind eye.
But unfortunately, the magistrate of Liucheng was Qin Renjie.
Qin Renjie refused to associate with them. Since Qin Renjie took office, the wealthy merchants of Liucheng had tried several times to cultivate good relations with the government, but to no avail.
Master Qi had no other choice.
He used to be bolder, but now he has to restrain himself and can only target the daughters of the farmers under his command.
If those people do not comply, he can cut off their path to survival.
They were prevented from farming and surviving in the village, and also from leaving the village.
He was trapped and died in the Qi family's manor his entire life.
These beauties who caught his eye could only stay in that courtyard from the moment they were chosen by him.
After Qin Renjie sent someone to verify the matter today, he felt even more angry and remorseful.
Therefore, he couldn't care less about anything else and immediately sent people to investigate the deeper affairs of the Qi family in this direction.
After looking at the address, Lili saw that there was a simple drawing of the yard next to it.
Not content with just reading it herself, Lili also showed it to Qi Zheng: "Here, take a look too."
Qi Zheng took the light paper, but felt it was incredibly heavy.
If this story is false, the place beneath our feet is indeed the county magistrate's residence, and the person before us is indeed the county magistrate.
Even the address was somewhat familiar to him; it was indeed the Qi family's private property.
But didn't his father say that this courtyard was used to store calligraphy, paintings, and writing implements?
His mother once suggested going to see it, but Master Qi flatly refused, keeping the key himself and saying that there were important calligraphic works inside.
Madam Qi was aware of Master Qi's philandering and promiscuity, but she was powerless to do anything about it. Otherwise, why would she have allowed him to take eighteen concubines?
That's why Madam Qi thought that Master Qi loved scholars, and that's why she wanted Qi Zheng to achieve something in his studies so that Master Qi would pay more attention to them, mother and son.
Qi Zheng looked at Lili blankly, not knowing what to say.
What should I say?
Does that mean his father couldn't possibly have done these things?
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