Chapter 321 Equality is the most important
"Mingzhu, it's me." The person behind her let go of her and spoke quickly.
It was Jiang Hongyu, he came back early.
Ye Mingzhu frowned and looked at him. The anger in her heart had been suppressed by the shock just now, and her tears suddenly flowed down.
Jiang Hongyu was startled and frantically wiped her tears: "Did I scare you just now? It's all my fault, it's all my fault."
Ye Mingzhu felt sad. She didn't want to cry, but she couldn't control her tears. Soon, her face was covered with tears. Jiang Hongyu couldn't wipe them away no matter how hard he tried. He hugged Ye Mingzhu in his arms: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, Mingzhu, don't be afraid. I'm here. Don't be afraid, don't be afraid."
After a cup of tea, Ye Mingzhu's grievances faded away, her tears stopped flowing, and she only sobbed occasionally.
Jiang Hongyu then wiped her tears with a handkerchief and asked in a low voice, "Are you feeling better? Did you feel wronged at your uncle's house? If you were wronged, we won't go there anymore."
Ye Mingzhu came to her senses and realized that she had been sitting in his arms. She got out of his arms embarrassedly and didn't hear what he said clearly.
Jiang Hongyu repeated it again, and Ye Mingzhu shook her head: "No, uncle is very good to us."
She stood up and looked outside, hesitated for a moment, and briefly recounted what happened on the ship.
"I don't know how big of an impact this will have. My uncle said he would contact me after things over there were resolved. I'm worried about this and how it will affect him." Ye Mingzhu was still very worried. "I was a little rash at the time."
"It's not your fault." Jiang Hongyu comforted him, "You mean well."
These words did not comfort Ye Mingzhu. She was really worried, not about herself, but about the trouble this matter would bring to Wang Dahu and the Jiang family.
Jiang Hongyu understood Ye Mingzhu's meaning after just a moment's thought, and he thought for a moment before speaking.
"I don't think my uncle will be in any trouble in this matter."
Ye Mingzhu suddenly looked up at him, wanting to hear what he had to say.
"According to what you said, my uncle is a minor steward and the future son-in-law of the great steward Da Jiang. Logically, such a person should know a lot of secrets. Of course, this also means that this person is very easy to use. Unless they have no other choice, the people above them will not give up easily."
"What you consider family privacy..."
Jiang Hongyu said this with a hint of sneer on his face: "What big family doesn't have some secrets? As long as they are not exposed to the public, they are still secrets."
"The only problem is that my uncle has been redeemed and is considered a free man, so it's difficult to control him."
"But the people above them never take the people below them seriously. Even if my uncle redeems himself, he's just an ordinary citizen, or even a merchant. As long as my uncle is not crazy, he won't want to offend the people above him, so it's not a big problem."
Ye Mingzhu listened to Jiang Hongyu's analysis and seemed to understand, but also seemed confused.
"You mean, uncle is okay?"
Jiang Hongyu shook his head. Who would dare to guarantee such a thing? He was not the kind of person who would talk nonsense.
"I don't think my uncle's life is in danger. As for whether he will be punished, it's hard to say."
Ye Mingzhu breathed a sigh of relief. As long as the person was fine, she would accept the punishment. The master's secret was not so easy to know.
Jiang Hongyu originally wanted to tell Ye Mingzhu about the methods by which the noble punished his servants, but seeing Ye Mingzhu's relaxed expression, he swallowed the words that were on the tip of his tongue.
Forget it, I'll ask someone to find out first. If my uncle is really punished, we'll talk about it then.
Although Ye Mingzhu was not completely relieved, she felt half relieved knowing that her uncle was not in danger of life.
As long as the person is fined or injured, the consequences will be alleviated over time.
Seeing Ye Mingzhu's expression relax, Jiang Hongyu said with a smile, "Why don't we prepare some more medicine for injuries? If my uncle gets punished and gets hurt somewhere, we can be prepared in advance."
Ye Mingzhu also thought it made sense, so she nodded: "Well, then I will find a pharmacy to buy some medicine tomorrow."
"You forgot that mother is a doctor. We have ready-made medicine at home. Why do you need to go out to buy it?" Jiang Hongyu shook his head: "Even Xiaowu said that the medicine mother makes is better than what they buy in Beijing."
When Ye Mingzhu heard Xiaowu's name, she turned her head away somewhat unnaturally, and Jiang Hongyu immediately noticed her abnormality.
"Is there anything else?"
"When I came back, I went to the farm and had a conflict with Xiaowu." Ye Mingzhu told everything that happened at the farm, and then smiled bitterly.
"Now that I think about it, Xiaowu was right. If the people in the capital wanted sweet potatoes, how could he not give them to them?"
At this point, she shook her head directly: "Of course not, I said too much. If Xiao Wu really wants to argue with me, I am afraid that I can't resist with my status."
After listening to Jiang Hongyu's analysis, she has come to her senses. She knows that what she did before was wrong and she was a little angry at Xiaowu.
"You're right," Jiang Hongyu said softly, "In many cases, class represents not only identity and status, but also human lives."
He seemed deeply moved by this. "It has been said since ancient times that a prince who breaks the law is guilty of the same crime as a commoner. And how many high-ranking officials have made mistakes, only to have the people below them bear the consequences?"
Ye Mingzhu heard resentment and helplessness in his voice, and guessed that he was thinking about the Jiang family's exile.
But Jiang Hongyu only sighed this and didn't say anything else.
"We, the County Magistrate, and the Legal Adviser are from two different worlds. Let's have as little contact as possible."
Jiang Hongyu said this nonchalantly, "Since we met, we haven't asked them for anything. If they're angry about this, just contact them less in the future."
From the first time they met, when Ye Mingzhu saved Yu Jiaming and Xiaowu, to now, when Ye Mingzhu offered sweet potatoes, it can be said that except for Yu Jiaming's help in solving the problem of the young master of the Yu family in Fucheng, they hardly ever asked each other for anything else.
Yu Jiaming insisted on recognizing Ye Mingzhu as his sister, perhaps because he felt that Ye Mingzhu had always been grateful to him.
The most important thing in friendship is equality.
If Yu Jiaming and Xiaowu continue to act superior, this friendship probably won't last.
Seeing that Jiang Hongyu did not blame him, Ye Mingzhu felt more relaxed and told him about taking in Lu Dou.
It was just one more person eating, a small matter, so Jiang Hongyu wouldn't take it seriously.
Ye Mingzhu's irritability was resolved by Jiang Hongyu in just a few words.
The next day, they bought a lot of food and drinks in the town, sent them back to the village, and asked Ye Lang to take them back to the island.
This time, Fu Chengyun volunteered to stay on the island, and Jiang Hongyu promised him that he would send him more food.
On New Year's Eve, several people from the Jiang family had a lively New Year's Eve dinner. Ye Yun'an and Luodou set off a lot of firecrackers and didn't go to bed until late at night.
On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, before the hour of Mao, there was a hurried knock on the Jiang family's door.
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