Chapter 255 She wanted to be compassionate
He also never thought that Cui Qingyi would mock him in the letter, saying that he had a good reputation as an official but was actually just for show, and that everything he did was just superficial prosperity. He turned a blind eye to the suffering of the real people at the bottom, and that he was unworthy of being an official who was the father of the region.
Zhou Yanxiu had not expected Cui Qingyi to be so aggressive.
He looked at Zhou Wen beside him, threw the densely written letter on the table, and said unhappily: "Go and ask Wang Xiaoqian who provoked her?"
Seeing his master's gloomy face, Zhou Wen remained silent, but inwardly he was secretly worried: "Who provoked her? Don't you know it yourself? You've been an official for years and still haven't been able to get Luhua Town settled. I don't know why you insisted on giving that place to the village chief as a fiefdom. Now you're being scolded, you deserve it!"
On the surface: "Yes, sir, I will write a letter to ask."
Turning around, Zhou Wen caught a glimpse of the exquisite handwriting on the letter paper, and said, "Master Zhou is nothing but a hypocritical gentleman..."
Zhou Wen felt extremely excited. His father had grown up without being called a hypocrite. The village chief was truly a brave man.
Perhaps Cui Qingyi's curses in the letter were too harsh, or perhaps one of the sentences in the letter touched Zhou Yanxiu's heart. That night, Zhou Yanxiu got angry frequently, making all the servants in the Zhou Mansion tremble with fear.
Until late at night, Zhou Yanxiu was still in the study and had not returned to his room. His newly married wife came to find him with a lantern.
Seeing the person coming, Zhou Yanxiu calmed down a little. He was not the kind of person who would get angry with his female relatives.
Han Jingyi handed the lantern to the servant, motioning him to leave. She looked at Zhou Yanxiu with a smile, "My dear husband, why haven't you gone to bed yet at this hour? Are you busy with court affairs?"
Hearing Han Jingyi's gentle voice, Zhou Yanxiu felt the anger in his heart ease a little. For some reason, he pointed to the letter casually thrown on the table and said, "Take a look."
Han Jingyi was a little surprised. Since she married Zhou Yanxiu, she had been to this study several times, but every time Zhou Yanxiu didn't like her curiosity about everything in the study.
But after being married for so long, this was the first time she saw Zhou Yanxiu so angry. She was a little curious for a moment, so she picked up the scattered letter paper on the table and read it carefully. When she read the first sentence, Han Jingyi almost couldn't hold back her expression. After reading the whole letter, Han Jingyi didn't feel anything about her husband being scolded, but became extremely curious about the person who wrote the letter.
His eyes fell on the signature: Cui Qingyi, Princess of Dongping County.
Zhou Yanxiu rubbed his swollen temples and asked, "What do you think?"
Han Jingyi...what did she think? She thought the scolding was pretty good.
"Well, the village chief's words were indeed a bit harsh, but I guess there must be a reason for it."
Before the two got married, the Han family sent people to investigate Zhou Yanxiu's affairs in Dongping County. Naturally, they knew that Zhou Yanxiu and the Dongping Township Lord had no inappropriate feelings for each other, so at this moment, all Han Jingyi's attention was focused on why Zhou Yanxiu was scolded.
Perhaps it was because the night was too dark, or perhaps it was because this matter was related to that person, Zhou Yanxiu was in a rare mood to talk. "Before the village head was enthroned, people from the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Revenue came to ask me which piece of land to choose for her fiefdom.
I was distracted at the time and pointed to Luhua Town."
Han Jingyi: "But what's wrong with Luhua Town?" Han Jingyi immediately found something wrong here.
Zhou Yanxiu: "Luhua Town is the poorest of the dozen or so towns in Dongping County. I thought she was good at business and her brains were beyond ordinary women, so I thought she would have a solution."
Han Jingyi was silent for a moment, but she couldn't help herself. "My dear husband, I have helped you a lot, and you deliberately gave her a fiefdom in a place with no future. Isn't this repaying kindness with enmity?"
Han Jingyi has always been gentle and quiet since she married him, and she never speaks loudly. Today was the first time she said such bold words to him, and she was still speaking up for a woman she had never met. Zhou Yanxiu was a little confused.
But before he could continue, his wife, who always seemed to regard her husband as her heaven, suddenly stood up quickly, shook her sleeves, and left with her people.
Zhou Yanxiu actually saw contempt in her neat skirt. Even as he walked away, a few words drifted to her: "He can't even handle the problem himself, but he has the malice to push it onto a woman. No wonder Daddy said he's as cunning as a sieve."
Zhou Yanxiu.....he is not deaf!
Dongping County
Taozhi watched her mistress write furiously, finishing a letter with great fanfare. She even borrowed a snowball from her son-in-law to send it to the capital. Taozhi was a little worried: "Master, aren't you afraid of angering Lord Zhou?"
Cui Qingyi was in a depressed mood. Her hands were shaking from the excitement she had felt while writing the letter. Upon hearing this, she snorted coldly, "What are you afraid of? He hasn't even become the prime minister of the Jin Dynasty yet. It's him I'm scolding!"
After three or four days, the person Zhou Wen sent finally delivered a reply.
"The village chief went to Luhua Town incognito and discovered a brothel in the town..."
This sentence alone made Zhou Yanxiu angry and embarrassed.
What made him angry was that these unruly people in Luhua Town refused to change their bad habits and kept committing the same mistakes despite repeated warnings. What made him embarrassed was that he actually thought Cui Qingyi was not wrong to scold him.
After receiving the reply, Zhou Yanxiu was sitting in the study sulking. Han Jingyi came into the study again quietly. This time, without Zhou Yanxiu's consent, she picked up the letter on the table and started reading.
Zhou Yanxiu was waiting to see what the woman would say, but she gave him an ambiguous look, turned around and left. This made Zhou Yanxiu very angry again.
Cui Qingyi controlled her temper and waited quietly in the mansion for seven or eight days.
During this time, Lu Da once again brought people to the door, this time asking about tax exemption. "Village Master, I wonder if you have finalized your last promise to discuss with the county magistrate about exempting Luhua Town from taxes for two years?"
Cui Qingyi sat upright at the top. When she looked at the old man with a sad face, she could no longer feel any compassion in her heart.
Because she still couldn't be sure whether the old man in front of her was a human or a ghost.
Lu Da just felt that the way the village chief looked at him today was a little strange, but he couldn't tell what was strange about it.
“Tax exemption is imperative, but given the situation in Luhua Town, tax exemption alone may not be of much use.
In this way, Lu Lizheng went back to compile a list of the people in Luhua Town for the village chief. Since they are the people in the village chief's fiefdom, I can't just watch them starve.
I will prepare rice and grain according to the list provided by the village head to help everyone get through the difficulties.
Therefore, this list must be as detailed as possible, Lu Lizheng, do you understand?"
Lu Da felt strange, but it seemed reasonable. He nodded and said, "Old man, I thank the village chief on behalf of the people of Luhua Town. The village chief is merciful."
Cui Qingyi placed a piece on the white jade chessboard. Before heading to Luhua Town, she really wanted to be merciful.
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