Chapter 184 The Third Prince: I used to live a life of mediocrity
Shen Yun raised his eyes and saw his daughter coming in from outside. He smiled and said, "Why don't you stay a little longer and come back again?"
Shen Yuan took some fish food and went to feed the fish in the house. "I am Painter Shen now. It is not appropriate for me to stay with Shaoqing. We must distinguish between public and private matters."
"Well, public and private affairs should be clearly distinguished. If it's not good to stay with Shao Qing, why not stay with Si Qing?"
Shen Yuan chuckled, "Who called you my dad?"
Shen Yun's eyebrows jumped when he saw her feeding the fish. He quickly stood up and snatched the fish food from her, "Are you feeding the fish or the chickens? Don't kill my fish."
"It's not that easy to kill them. They taste delicious, don't they? Dad, did you buy the fish yourself? I don't think Master Xie has any."
It was time for lunch. Shen Yun turned around to clean up the things on the table. Hearing his daughter's words, he replied, "This is what the senior temple minister left behind. If you can't take it away, please let me continue to feed it. Let's go. It's time to eat."
Shen Yuan followed Shen Yun with brisk steps. When he passed by Xie Hui's duty room, he went up and knocked on the door. Xie Hui knew that it was Shen Yuan.
The three of them walked all the way to the kitchen in the backyard and met many adults. Shen Yuan followed her father, calling people as she walked, and received another basket of compliments.
The Third Prince had been reading the case files diligently for the whole morning. When he arrived at the dining hall, he did not see his good brother Xie Hui. "Master Wei, is there another case? Why are Master Shen and Master Xie not here?"
"Your Highness, don't you know? Lord Shen and Lord Xie went to the back to light the stove. Lord Shen's daughter is here."
The Third Prince stood up upon hearing this, "You can actually open a stove?! I want to go and see."
Wei Wenyuan quickly reached out and grabbed him, "Your Highness, we shouldn't make trouble at this time. My colleagues, don't you think this is the truth?"
Although the Third Prince was not as honest and straightforward as the First Prince, he was not the kind of person who was proud of his status. He did not regard himself as a nobleman when he came to the Dali Temple, so he got along well with everyone not long after his arrival.
As for the officials in the Dali Temple, they did not react much to the arrival of a prince in the Dali Temple. They just let him come, anyway, the Third Prince could not promote them.
Lord Bai took over the conversation and said, "Lord Wei is right. Your Highness, we have some candied pork elbows today, which we only make once a month. If you miss this village, you will have to wait another month."
“Candied pork elbow?” After hearing this, the third prince sat down again. He had never eaten this before, but it sounded delicious!
Each person can get a whole red, greasy pork elbow, which can be placed on the rice. The glossy sauce soaks into the rice, which is so tempting.
The Third Prince ate half of the pork elbow before speaking, "It's so delicious! Why doesn't the palace make this dish?"
"Hehe, this is the secret recipe of our Dali Temple kitchen. No other government office has it."
It's even more so in the palace. When the chefs cook, most of them don't seek to get credit, but only to avoid mistakes. They have to be careful not to make their delicate masters sick. Naturally, there are not many things with such thick oil and red sauce.
Besides, the kitchen wouldn't dare to serve such a big elbow to the nobles. They would have to slice it into pieces and carve it into patterns. What's the point? Isn't that how elbows should be eaten?
The small kitchen at the back didn't make pork elbow today, but they did have Shen Yuan's favorite fish.
This was the first time Xie Hui had dinner with the father and daughter.
When Shen Yuan looked up while eating, she saw her father and Xie Hui, both of them were watching her eat. She looked puzzled, "Why aren't you two eating? Why are you looking at me? Aren't you hungry after a whole morning?"
"Dad, you seem to be enjoying your meal. Is the rice enough? Do you want another bowl?"
"No need, just eat until you are full, any more will be enough." Shen Yuan was about 70% full, slowed down, and started talking to the two of them, "Dad, has Shi Jiarui been sentenced?"
"Well, although the evidence was enough to convict him, when he heard that the historian had fallen, he confessed his guilt without hesitation and was sentenced to execution."
If it weren't for the murder of Yuyu and the investigation of Shi Jiarui, the emperor probably wouldn't have found a reason to attack the Shi family for a while.
After the fall of the Shi family, several aristocratic families began to live in fear, fearing that they would be the ones to be confiscated the next moment.
"This way, at least we can comfort Miss Qianqian's soul in heaven. Miss Ziyan in Yihonglou should also feel better."
Many of the prostitutes were forced into this world against their will, but many people look down on them for engaging in the sex trade and are ashamed to even mention their names. Even until now, some people think that the death of a prostitute is not a big deal.
Many people secretly said that it was not worth it for the historian to fall because of a prostitute, but human life is human life, there is no such thing as worth it or not. Besides, if they were not forced to do so, how many girls would be willing to be a prostitute?
Shen Yun told her daughter, "The madam of Yihonglou gave false testimony to Shi Jiarui. When we were investigating, we also found out that there were many things going on in her building. Now Yihonglou has been closed."
"Where are the people upstairs?"
Shen Yun gestured to Xie to come back and talk about this matter.
"The resettlement of those people in the building has been taken over by Jingzhao Prefecture. I asked Zhou Zhongan, and they have arranged for them to be questioned one by one. Many of them were sold by their parents and transferred here. These people were given new citizenship and stayed in the capital to find jobs. Some were originally kidnapped or deceived, and the government helped them find their families."
Xie Hui had no idea what happened next. After all, those girls were already quite old, and the government could not always take care of them and decide what to do in the future. They still had to rely on themselves for their future lives.
"Compared to the previous dynasties written in history books, our Dazhao is already very good. At least the weather has been good and the harvests have been good in recent years. I didn't expect that even so, there are still so many people who sell their daughters."
Shen Yuan knew that this kind of thing was not limited to the Da Zhao Dynasty, but had been going on for thousands of years. It was not something she could change, but she was also a woman, so it was still a little sad to talk about it.
Shen Yun sighed: "We can have abundant resources, but our thoughts cannot be changed overnight. If we want to change, we have to do it slowly."
"Yes, Manman. I heard from my father that the emperor summoned the Grand Tutor and several Hanlin Academy scholars to discuss matters. I don't know what they discussed in detail, but I heard that they praised the policy paper written by your brother. When the people see that women can also serve as officials, perhaps their ideas will gradually change."
Change never happens overnight, but gradually.
On June 28th, a small delicatessen opened in the northwest corner of the capital. It was said that the food was very good, and even the detectives from the Dali Temple would go there every few days to show their support.