Chapter 40 Don’t fucking say that!
People say that every failure makes you wiser.
Li Nuo suffered one setback after another.
I didn't expect that children in ancient times were so cunning. He, a highly educated college student, was repeatedly played around by a six-year-old girl.
Song Muer was well-behaved and sensible. She calmed down after a while and waved her hand and said, "Forget it. It's all Song Ning'er's fault for being too cunning. Let's change the code. Don't be fooled by her next time..."
For Li Nuo, there was nothing wrong with explaining the questions to Song Ning'er.
He is not a three-year-old child. How could he hold a grudge against Song Ning'er for not letting her play sepak takraw last time? He is not that petty. Besides, he doesn't remember that incident at all.
It’s just that Song Muer cares a lot about this matter. It’s just like what often happens between children. If one has a bad relationship with someone, then he or she doesn’t want his or her friends to have a good relationship with that person. It’s just that they are sisters.
After careful consideration, Li Nuo discovered a pattern.
Song Muer usually appears with Song Jiaren, and his wife obviously likes Muer more, which can be regarded as the wife following the husband's lead.
Song Ning'er came here with the maids from the Song Mansion, but she asked her personal maid to hide just now, and she also took the initiative to tell the secret code, otherwise Li Nuo would not have been without suspicion.
The two sisters had the same math teacher, and they were given the same homework. Song Muer came over and asked him the same question. Song Ninger took the lead and after understanding the question, she made a face at Song Muer and ran away. Li Nuo had to comfort her, "It's better to explain it to Song Ninger first, so that you won't make mistakes when you explain it to you..."
Song Muer was happy at this moment, and she looked up and asked, "Then Song Ning'er and I, is it better for Brother Li Nuo and me?"
Li Nuo didn't even need to think about this question. He said, "Of course. Song Ning'er is not as obedient as you, nor as polite as you. After I explained the problem to her, she didn't even say thank you..."
Song Muer was not angry at all. It didn't matter if Song Ning'er came over first. Brother Li Nuo was still better with her. Although he was a little stupid, he still knew what was good for him...
Li Nuo's words were not entirely out of comfort. While explaining to Song Ning'er, he was able to get a good idea of their math level. When he explained to Mu'er, she wouldn't have to ask why. Li Nuo would start from the most basic and Song Mu'er would exclaim from time to time.
“So that’s how it is!”
"The teacher never taught me that..."
"If you put it that way, sir, I would have understood it a long time ago..."
"If Brother Li Nuo taught mathematics, he would definitely be the best mathematics teacher!"
…
Song Jiaren stood aside and glanced at Li Nuo quietly. She agreed with Mu'er's words.
Her family had hired several mathematics teachers for her in the past, but she just couldn't understand mathematics. As a result, for more than ten years, she always felt that mathematics was the most difficult thing in the world.
But now, mathematics seems to her.
That's all...
Li Nuo smiled at Mu'er's flattery and didn't say anything. Her words were not exaggerated. After all, Li Nuo had systematically studied modern mathematics. The questions in Da Xia's "Mathematical Classics" were child's play for him. They were the kind of questions that would give him easy points in normal exams.
Song Muer's mathematics teacher may have already studied the "Arithmetic" thoroughly, but it is impossible for Li Nuo to teach it.
After all, he had only taught mathematics for a few decades at most. The teaching method used by Li Nuo was the crystallization of the wisdom of countless special mathematics teachers in later generations. It was more systematic and scientific, the derivation process was easy to understand, and more suitable for young children.
The one who is better than Song Muer’s mathematics teacher is not Li Nuo, but Newton, Gauss, Euler... and countless mathematical masters in another world.
Song Muer understood the problem, her bright eyes turned, and she said to Li Nuo: "You just made me angry, so I have to punish you to dress me up beautifully..."
Li Nuo didn't have this ability now. This skill would cost his life. He found an excuse and said, "No, I swore a few days ago that I can only dress up my wife from now on..."
"Is that so? All right then..."
Song Muer was still very sensible. Hearing this, she no longer forced Li Nuo and went to the yard to play by herself.
Li Nuo continued to study the "Daxia Law". Although he had judged many cases in the past few days, these cases were all the most common civil cases, involving only a few parts of the Daxia Law, such as the "Household and Marriage Law", "Theft Law", "Litigation Law", and "Judgment Law".
In addition to these, the Daxia Code also includes the "Weijin Law" on protecting the emperor's safety, safeguarding national sovereignty and border security; the "Zhizhi Law" on the establishment, selection, duties of state officials and the punishment of corrupt officials; and the "Shanxing Law" on the recruitment of soldiers, troop mobilization, the duties of generals, military supplies, and the control of labor collection.
Although these laws also belong to the Daxia Law, they are not within the jurisdiction of the Chang'an County Government, so Li Nuo has not come into contact with them in the past few days.
When Li Nuo saw a supplementary article after the "Employment System Law", he was stunned, and then a look of confusion appeared on his face.
This law is about "Redemption of Punishment". Redemption of punishment means redeeming sins with money and replacing punishment with silver.
For every tael of silver, ten lashes of flogging could be exempted. So if there were a hundred lashes of flogging, only ten taels of silver could be paid to exempt them.
Caning is a bit more expensive. One tael of silver can only reduce one caning sentence. If a person is caned a hundred times, he can be exempted by paying one hundred taels of silver.
Imprisonment is even more expensive, one year's imprisonment costs one hundred taels of silver.
However, exile and death penalty cannot be exempted by paying silver.
Of course, not everyone can redeem their sins with silver. This decree only applies to officials and dignitaries and their relatives. It is used to maintain the privileges of the bureaucratic aristocracy.
What puzzled Li Nuo was that the Langzhong of the Ministry of Examination was a fifth-rank official, which was already a high position. His son was also within the scope of redemption of sentence. Facing a three-year prison sentence, he only had to pay three hundred taels of silver to be completely exempted from punishment.
Three hundred taels of silver are nothing to a fifth-rank official.
Although Li Nuo felt that this was unfair, the laws of Daxia did indeed stipulate this.
It's irrational, but legal.
But why doesn’t the Wang family use it?
Don’t you know?
Li Nuo thought that he had not studied the laws of Daxia thoroughly, and there might be some restrictions on redemption of sentence, so Wang Yue could not use it. As a rigorous legal person, he had to figure out this issue, so Li Nuo called Butler Wu.
Butler Wu trotted in from outside and asked, "What do you want, young master?"
"There is no order. I read the Daxia Law about redemption of punishment and found that Wang Yue's crime can be forgiven by paying silver, but the Wang family didn't use it. Is there any restriction on redemption of punishment? I don't know."
"Um, this..."
Butler Wu looked up at the sky, trying his best not to let the young master see his embarrassed expression.
Of course there are no restrictions on redeeming a sentence, the problem is that the Wang family doesn't dare to do it!
A few years ago, the son of an official committed a similar crime as Wang Yue. The official used silver to redeem his son and he did not spend a single day in jail.
The result was that one month later, the official was dismissed from office, his property was confiscated by the Dali Temple and put into the national treasury, all the male descendants were beheaded, and the collateral descendants were exiled, and the female relatives became official servants...
From then on, no one dared to use redemption in any case related to the Dali Temple.
If you don't redeem yourself, you will have to go to jail for a few years at most. If you redeem yourself, your whole family will be killed. The officials in Chang'an will still settle this account.
After a moment, Wu lowered his head and said, "Of course it can be used to redeem the sentence, but it may be that the Wang family is reluctant to pay the three hundred taels of silver, or it may be that the doctor of the Ministry of Examination has a change of heart and does not want to use the silver to redeem his son. If the young master really wants to know, how about this old servant go to the Wang family and ask?"
Li Nuo waved his hand and said, "Forget it..."
All he needs to know is that there is no limit to redemption.
My only son had just been beaten with a hundred sticks and sentenced to three years in prison. It would be a bit inappropriate for him to go to someone else's house and ask questions.
Of course, Li Nuo didn't know at this moment that the Wang family had left Chang'an early in the morning, and the house was empty. Only Wang Yue was left, wailing in the prison of the Chang'an County Government.
The next morning, after breakfast, Li Nuo went to work at the Chang'an County Government as usual.
The county government office is still bustling today.
But compared to yesterday's chaos, today's bustle is well organized.
Li Nuo got off the carriage and saw Pei Zhe waiting for him at the door. Unlike the previous two days, today there was a pot-bellied man in official uniform standing next to him.
Seeing Li Nuo, the man dragged his bloated body and ran forward quickly. He bowed and said with a flattering face: "I am Zhang Yue, the magistrate of Chang'an County. I am honored to meet you, young master..."
Li Nuo also clasped his fists in return and said with a smile, "It turns out to be County Magistrate Zhang. I have heard of you for a long time."
The words "I've heard of you for a long time" made County Magistrate Zhang feel uneasy. He thought that County Magistrate Pei must have said a lot of bad things about him to this young man while he was away, otherwise how would he know him?
Just as I was feeling nervous, a sedan chair stopped in front of the county government office. A man opened the curtain and walked out.
Seeing the chaos at the gate of the county government office, the man was slightly startled, then frowned, looked at Pei Zhe at the gate, and said: "Sir Pei, this official and County Magistrate Zhang have only been away from the county government office for a few days, and you have made the county government office a mess. You have turned this solemn and dignified government office into a vegetable market..."
Before the man finished speaking, County Magistrate Zhang immediately stepped forward and stopped him from saying anything. With cold sweat on his forehead, he said, "Lord Wang is ignorant. I will apologize to you and Lord Pei on his behalf..."
Wang Xianwei was stunned for a moment, his lips moved, and he wanted to say something, but his mouth was covered. Zhang Xiancheng glared at him fiercely and gritted his teeth in his ear: "Don't fucking say that..."
(End of this chapter)
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