Huo Minzhi has been sleeping with Li Yuanyuan for the past few days. The girl's injured face was healed the next day. Minzhi coaxed her to look in the mirror. Looking at her face, which was even whiter and more translucent than before, Yuanyuan couldn't help but chuckle.
Huo Xiaolong knew that Da Ni'er had smeared someone's neck and made their head buzz.
"You spared his life; it's a good opportunity to make an example of him."
"I can't help it. You know, Long'er, I never let a grudge linger overnight."
That's not the point. The point is that Yuanyuan's fiancé, servant, and family, knowing she couldn't be found, reported it to the authorities.
Huo Xiaolong didn't get involved this time, mainly because he wanted to see if the Ministry of Justice and the Prefect of the Capital could find out what happened at the scene after the sisters had dealt with it.
As they expected, only Qingman entered the palace.
"Your Majesty, has that person already disappeared?"
Huo Xiaolong nodded as he looked at Xiao Lanhua's aunt who had been standing next to her.
During the palace coup, Qingman witnessed how her sisters disposed of the remains—it was a true way of making people disappear.
Qingman nodded and said:
"In that case, let the Ministry of Justice report it as missing."
"Aren't you going to question me? Why did you make him disappear?" Long'er asked, raising an eyebrow.
Qingman, now a coroner in the Ministry of Justice, smiled and replied:
“I am loyal to the Great Yan and seek justice for its people. I am even more loyal to the Emperor. If the Emperor made him disappear, he must have made a mistake. You are a wise ruler. What is right is right, and what is wrong is also right.”
"His Majesty would never do anything wrong."
Qingman kept chattering away. Although Huo Xiaolong nodded in approval on the surface, pretending to be all that, he was actually speechless inside.
Sister, are you really brainwashing yourself?
Hard wash, please?
The way you're talking is just too much.
Back to the present, Li Yuanyuan and Huo Minzhi stood before Lord Shen. The man looked at the two young women and asked:
"What insight do we, the third and second place scholars, have on this kind of case?"
Huo Minzhi spoke first:
“Those women did nothing wrong. As officials of the Ministry of Personnel, we cannot allow the victims to be imprisoned. If I think about it, the reason why those family members are making a fuss or throwing a tantrum is simply because those women are their daughters-in-law. They treat their daughters-in-law as their private property.”
"In that case, Your Excellency shall issue a new law, and make everything clear in it."
“How are beating one’s wife punished? The severity of the beating leads to imprisonment, whipping, caning, and in the most serious cases, forced labor.”
"If someone dies, a life must be paid for with a life!"
Lord Shen raised his eyes, looked at the somewhat cunning young girl, and asked:
"What about the child? If the husband really beat his wife to death, and the husband pays with his life, who will take care of the child?"
Li Yuanyuan chuckled and said:
"Do adults think that men who beat their wives can take good care of the children? Won't they beat the children too?"
The man straightened up and sighed softly.
Women who come out with the current emperor are different; they can decisively resolve issues that ordinary women would have to ponder.
"You two complete this new law and give it to me in two days."
"Yes, sir."
—Inside the palace
Huo Panli felt it would be better to go home with Shen Qinghe. Even if it wasn't about the pregnancy, he still had to go see his parents since they were coming back.
This is a matter of etiquette.
Otherwise, everyone would say that Shen Qinghe is henpecked, to the point that he doesn't even care about his own parents anymore.
"Let's go back today to see my father and mother. Don't worry, Physician Hou said that I'm in good health and the baby is healthy."
Shen Qinghe knew perfectly well that his family was afraid of swords.
He really does have a dog; it was raised by his mother to relieve her childhood boredom.
When her mother came back, she said to herself:
“Son, it’s not that I don’t want your wife to come back. You know, she’s already irritable because she’s pregnant. What if she thinks we’re talking badly about the Emperor if Pipi calls her name a couple of times? That would be terrible.”
Thinking of this, the man wanted to offer some more advice, but was interrupted by the order from Li Jian to prepare a gift.
Huo Qitian swayed to the sword, grabbed the man's leg, and said in a coquettish voice:
"Sir, where are you going tomorrow? Qi Tian would like to go too."
“Princess Mingzhu, Mr. Mingri is going home to visit his master’s family tomorrow, so he can’t take you with him,” Li Jian explained gently to the child.
Qi Tian hummed twice, then tugged at the woman's skirt and acted coquettishly:
"Sir, call me Princess Qitian. I want to go, I want to go! Please take me! I promise I won't cause trouble in class the day after tomorrow, please!"
This little guy, a miniature version of Huo Xiaolong, couldn't even last a single round before he nodded with his sword.
But the two of them agreed that once they arrived at the Shen residence, others could only call her Princess Mingzhu.
Upon returning home, Huo Qitian solemnly announced to his parents that he would be going on a family visit with his teacher the next day, and neither Lan Tingche nor Huo Xiaolong objected.
It's good that they're gone; they'll have peace and quiet now.
"I want to wear my godmother's clothes..."
"no!"
This child is being raised is really a headache.
Long'er immediately rejected it.
"I haven't finished speaking yet, Mother."
"Then you tell me."
"I'm talking about the kind of clothes that Xiangxiang's godmother's mother made for her."
Lady Hou has good taste, and Huo Xiaolong and Lan Tingche breathed a sigh of relief.
"What? You're so happy going out with your husband?" Huo Xiaolong asked while changing the child's clothes.
“I’m happy because my master said that his father is the Minister of Personnel, one of the top legal experts in the Great Yan. I… I want to meet him in advance so that he can serve me in the future.”
Upon hearing this, Huo Xiaolong paused in changing the child's clothes, and Lan Tingche naturally took them from him.
Long'er wasn't thinking about anything else; she was just wondering how old Lord Shen would be when Qi Tian ascended the throne.
Are you still letting people go to work?
Is it appropriate?
"Qi Tian, Lord Shen was old at that time. How could you let your grandfather do things for you?"
Lan Tingche knew what Huo Xiaolong was thinking, so he offered his advice.
“My mother even made my great-grandfather her head steward! My great-grandfather is over ninety years old, and he guards the door for her every day. She has no shame. I am her daughter. What have I done wrong?”
That little mouth of hers is so smooth.
His confident and assertive manner left Lan Tingche and Huo Xiaolong speechless.
"And I've discovered that the older the officials in Mother's court, the more prominent and powerful they are."
"When I become emperor, apart from the military generals, all the civil officials will be old men and women, from beginning to end. Then I will definitely be more powerful than my mother."
"..."
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