If Ao Ziliang had doubts about the ban on the homeless circle and the 50,000 slaves that Chen Huang had found out about what Ziban had just said, he returned to the big house and asked the housekeeper of the big house, "I heard that there was a big case outside today?"

"What the adults are talking about is the ban case of the homeless circle? I heard Miss Xue'er say, now it is rumored outside that it is a Zheng Guo businessman who is in my Chu circle. Hearing this, the housekeeper of the big house tightened his heart and bowed his head and replied.

"Do you know the specific situation? It is said that they have circled 50,000 people in my Chu country. Ruo Ao Ziliang groaned.

"This old slave doesn't know, or the old slave will ask someone to go out early tomorrow morning to inquire. The butler replied cautiously.

"Well, by the way, I will also call the eldest prince tomorrow morning, I have something to tell him. Ruo Ao Ziliang nodded.

It's best not to have anything to do with their Ruo Ao clan in this case, if everyone in the streets and alleys that has been in trouble is known, if they are not afraid of anything, but they are afraid that someone will use this case to add some bad luck to their Ruo Ao clan, so if you can reduce the impact, it is better to reduce the impact, and it is best not to pass it on to the ears of the king, no matter what, it is a family.

One is prosperous, and one is lost.

So we have to worry about each other.

The butler replied respectfully, "Yes, my lord, then my lord should rest early, I think these things should not affect our Ruo Ao clan." ”

"Don't take it lightly, although my Ao clan is in a stable position, I don't want to capsize in the gutter. ”

Ruo Ziliang emphasized in a rare tone, serious.

"Yes, it's still thoughtful, please rest assured, I'll send someone to the Criminal Prison Department early tomorrow morning to inquire carefully, and I won't let go of a trace of news. ”

The housekeeper nodded quickly, then took the door and retreated in a regular manner, walked to the porch by the maple grove and whispered to a small servant, "Go and tell the eldest prince, and say that the lord will see him tomorrow morning, and I am afraid that he will ask about the ban on the homeless circle." ”

"Yes, butler. ”

Taking advantage of the dark night, the little guy walked through the big room with a lantern and entered the Blue Wolf Pavilion, the old man guarding the door put him in, he knocked on the door gently, the Blue Wolf Pavilion, which had already been extinguished, opened the door because of this knocking sound, Xiao Jiang and the other two maids who were sleeping on the couch outside quickly put on their coats, lit an oil lamp, walked out, looked at the comer, and asked in a low voice, "Who? ”

"I'm the little guy next to the big housekeeper, and the big housekeeper asked me to pass on a message, saying that the eldest master is going to ask about the eldest son's case of banning the homeless people tomorrow morning. The person who came reported his identity and replied.

"Okay, you wait here, I'll go in and say to the eldest prince. ”

Xiao Jiang quickly walked to the edge of the back room with the lamp, and then quickly turned back and said to the messenger, "The eldest prince said he knew. ”

"Yes, the villain went back first, and the sisters rested early. ”

The visitor nodded, and turned to leave.

"Hmm. ”

The two maids who were with Xiao Jiang muttered in a low voice, "The eldest lord rarely sends a message to find the eldest prince in the middle of the night, why did he send someone to deliver the message so late today." ”

"I'm afraid it's something important, everyone will get up early tomorrow. Xiao Jiang didn't think much about it, only thought that he would get up early tomorrow and wait for the two of them to get up, and the three girls were about to close the door, but Ruo Ao Yuejiao had already put on a light summer shirt and walked out of the inner room silently.

"Uncle, didn't you sleep with your wife, why did you get up again?" asked Xiao Jiang.

"I'll go to the study to do some errands, don't make noise about Madame. Ruo Ao Yuejiao walked out in a black brocade robe.

"Yes!"

Xiao Jiang and the two maids nodded quickly, then put on a cloak for him, put on a lantern, and sent him out, along the way Xiao Jiang was paying attention to the changes in the expression on Ruo Ao Yuejiao's face, and always felt that Aunt Ye had a lot of things in his heart, but he just didn't tell Mrs.

The three of them walked through the main house of the Blue Wolf Pavilion, and suddenly a black shadow flashed in front of the door of the study, which startled Xiao Jiang and the three daughters.

"Shut up! Get out of here!"

"Yes, Childe!"

Xiao Jiang wanted to carry the lantern in front of the visitor, but the person turned his face sideways, and his body was hidden in the semi-dark corner, so that she could not shine on the blood and scars on his face, and then heard Ruo Ao Yuejiao's order and the other two maids to open the study for them, light the oil lamp, and saw them walk in one after another, and turned to leave the study.

The three girls who left couldn't help but look back at the study.

"Xiao Jiang, Xiao Ge, who did you say went in just now? There is a big smell of blood on his body...... And hiding, it felt like something bad had been done...... "A maid said with a hesitant frown.

"Liu'er, I look at my figure vaguely as if I am the commander of Lu. ”

Xiao Ge said with a scared face.

"Impossible!" Liu Er exclaimed.

"Okay, don't talk about you two little hooves, uncle's business, we are slaves and maids, as long as we know that our good days are all given by the eldest son!" Xiao Jiang Liu glared at the two little hooves with raised eyebrows, and the second daughter nodded again and again, "Mmmm, let's go back quickly!"

On the second day, in the big house of Ruo Ao Mansion, Ruo Ao Ziliang sent someone to pass Ruo Ao Yuejiao early in the morning.

Zhou Jinghua heard Xiao Jiang say that it was because of the homeless case, and looked at him worriedly, Ruo Ao Yuejiao signaled her to be calm, and then went straight to the main house.

In the main house, Ruo Ao Yuejiao strode forward and shouted, "Father!"

"Here, what have you been busy with lately? Yesterday, I heard Jinghua say that you have been quite busy lately, but the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division and the Tiger Ben Forbidden Army have no time to take care of both?" Ruo Ziliang sat on the upper seat and said with concern, while ordering someone to prepare breakfast for him.

"These days, because I have concurrently served as the Soldiers and Horses Division of the Five Cities, I have more things on my hands. "Ruo Ao Yuejiao thanked him.

"Don't be too lucky, there are some things that should be left to the people below to do, so leave them to the people below to do. Ruo Ziliang patted his son on the shoulder and asked him to sit down, "Have you eaten in the morning, and you are about to enter the palace again?"

Ruo Ao Yuejiao shook his head, glanced at the housekeeper who was standing on the side, and said softly, "Then it will bother the housekeeper." ”

"The eldest prince is polite, and the old slave will go down to make arrangements. ”

When the housekeeper heard this, he ordered someone to set up the dishes and chopsticks for the father and son, and bowed out of the flower hall after breakfast, leaving only the father and son to speak alone.

"By the way, prepare for my father to slowly retire after this year, what about your side...... Our big house will definitely rely on you to support us in the future, so my father wants to transfer you to my side, and I plan to hand it over to others to do things like the forbidden army's vigil. Ruo Ao Ziliang slowly said his plan.

"Father, do you want to transfer your son to Sima Mansion?"

Ruo Ao Yuejiao frowned when he heard this.

"Yes, now Sima Zuo is old, and as a father, I want you to familiarize yourself with the operation of our Sima Mansion as soon as possible, and my position will be left to you sooner or later. Ruo Ao Ziliang took a sip of porridge, nodded and said softly.

"But now that the child is under the grace of the king, if he leaves suddenly, I am afraid that the king will be inconvenienced. Ruo Ao Yuejiao excused himself, his lowered eyes flashed with a fierce light, and his big hand holding the chopsticks clenched.

What he always wanted was not the position of Sima at all, but the position of Ling Yin, which originally belonged to their big house.

Father, why don't you understand?

This made Yin Zhi's position supposed to be their big house, and it was snatched from them by the second room!

"You can give this to a proper deputy, just bring him up, as a father, I also want to enjoy the blessings as soon as possible, and you and Jinghua will also open up the branches and leaves for our big house as soon as possible, and you don't have to work so hard......" Ruo Ao Ziliang said with a smile, and then ordered him to eat some food.

"Yes, thank you for your concern. ”

Ruo Ao Yue thanked him, picked up the chopsticks and sandwiched two slices of beef, but he only meant two bites, and he didn't think about it at all.

"By the way, Jiao'er, my father forgot to ask you before......"

Ruo Ziliang suddenly changed his words, and was about to ask questions, when the housekeeper came in from outside, holding a roll of bamboo slips in his hand, so he turned his head to look at the housekeeper.

"My lord, I just ordered Lord Yin to intercept a copy of the official letter that the prison secretary is going to play to the king today, please take a look!" the housekeeper glanced down at Yue Jiao, and then presented the bamboo slip with both hands.

"Hmm!"

If Ao Ziliang took the note and looked at it, his originally pleasant face suddenly changed, and his face was angry.

The butler who came in didn't seem to be surprised, he kept his head buried and bowed down, and didn't say anything again, only swept to Ruo Ao Ziliang, who was sitting in the upper seat, with his residual light.

In his ears, a loud sound of "popping" suddenly sounded with the bamboo slips slamming shut, only to hear a raised voice resounding through the flower hall, "Jiao'er, the Sima Mansion for my father has never dealt with a large number of ordinary people, but why did the Criminal Prison Division impeach you related to the 50,000 people who were banned from the circle of the exiles, and the old Situ also told me early in the morning that his Situ Mansion has never had such a large number of slaves registered, and I ask you where did the 50,000 slaves you gave to the king last time come from?"

If Ao Ziliang has always been amiable and temperamental, even ordinary slaves rarely make it difficult to be accountable, and he is known for his good temper, such loud questioning is rare in several sons.

The housekeeper frowned when he heard this, and then saw that the eldest prince had already pulled out the chair, knelt down straight with a "plop", and then looked up at Ruo Ao Ziliang on the seat, and said: "Father, this case is indeed related to the child, if the father wants to punish him, punish me." ”

"Do you know what you did?"

Ruo Ziliang angrily slapped the case, angrily held Song Jian's big hand and trembled again and again, pointing at him.

"What is this Chen Huang writing on it?!If it weren't for your second uncle to stop you, you would have a hundred reasons today, and you wouldn't be able to argue with a hundred words!" If Ao Zi turned around with a good anger and scolded, he threw out the bamboo slip in his hand with a "touch" and smashed it straight into his face, "You tell me, what do you want to do with 50,000 homeless people?"

"Rebellion failed?!"

Second uncle?

Ling Yin Zi would be so kind?

Ruo Ao Yuejiao sneered in his heart, the bamboo slip wearing twine smashed on his head but did not dodge, the twine was broken into two sections with blood, and all the bamboo pieces were scattered on the ground.

And he nodded and said, "The child does not want to rebel, but in the past, each family did not buy the homeless slaves privately?

"Are you reasonable?"

If the remnant son saw that Yue Jiao refused to admit his mistake, he was even more angry, and the housekeeper hurriedly stepped forward and persuaded, "My lord, I'm angry!"

"It's all you minions who usually maintain it, you see, how bold is he now?ah!" Ruo Ao Zi kicked the butler in the chest with a good kick.

The butler fell to the ground with an "oops".

When the rest of the servants saw this, they all wanted to step forward, but they didn't dare to step forward, and the rest wanted to report to the masters of each room but were stopped by Ruo Ao Ziliang, "No one is allowed to go out of the door of the big house today, and all the words I heard are rotten in my stomach, otherwise I will sell all of you!"

All that I wanted to report was on hold.

Look at each other.

"Arrest them all!"

Ruo Ao Ziliang said to the housekeeper.

"Yes, sir!"

The butler wisely got up from the ground, hurried everyone out of the house, and then ordered the guards to lock up all the little maids who had heard these words today into the firewood room.

Seeing everyone leaving, Ruo Ziliang lowered his head and looked at the eldest son kneeling on the ground, as if he had never known each other, and spoke again, "You say, why did you trap so many homeless people, if it was for Jinghua's atonement, don't tell your father! ”

"Father, it's just that people outside say that if I am the second room of the Ao family, my son is unwilling to lose our big house to the second room, so he uses this method to increase the manpower of my big house. If Ao Yuejiao "touched" and kowtowed, please sin.

"When did our big house lose to the second room? When did we lack people? Why didn't I, the head of the house, hear about it?" Ruo Ao Zi accused angrily, "What's more, who is strong and who is weak in my Ruo Ao clan, aren't they all Ruo Ao's people?"

"The son knows...... Therefore, although my son took in this group of homeless homeless people, he did not want to rebel, but just sent them to work on the farm under my Ruo Ao family's big house to increase the income of food, so over the years, the income of my big house has increased day by day......"

It would be a great sin to say that such a large number of slaves were soldiers bought from other countries, so if they were tenant farmers, it would be relatively light.

"But in any case, you shouldn't have imprisoned the homeless. It's also a big sin!"

Ruo Ziliang still scolded when he heard this.

"My son later knew that this was wrong, and under Jinghua's persuasion, I sacrificed all these exiles to the king, wanting to atone for my sins......" If Ao Yuejiao knelt on the ground, he wanted to kowtow again, but the blood on his head did not stop, "so the son gave all these slaves to the king during the last martial arts lecture in the western suburbs, in order to show his loyalty, and these kings also knew." ”

"So no matter what, please don't get angry with your son's stupidity and recklessness......"

Ruo Ao Yuejiao didn't say anything more, just kept kowtowing and repeating, "My son now knows that he was wrong, so I ask my father to punish him...... My son has no complaints......"

For a long time, I don't know how many sins I have pleased, how many heads I have kowtowed, the original broad and clean forehead is covered with blood, and even the bamboo slag is stained with blood, if Ao Ziyan wants to scold, he suddenly scolded, and suddenly found that he threw out the bamboo slip by mistake, and smashed the head of the eldest son to break the blood, his eyes flashed slightly A trace of unbearable, and then looked at the eldest son who made him proud since he was a child, and kept kowtowing to admit his mistakes.

For a moment, it seemed that there were a thousand words that could not be spoken.

If Ao Ziliang finally couldn't bear it, he raised his big hand, "That's it, get up......!

Thinking that his son has been obedient since he was a child, he is also very competitive, and he will never be able to do such a bold thing, there must be some bold slave behind him who instigated the ghost to be confused for a while, so he thought about it and said, "But this matter will eventually cause trouble, and someone must come out, otherwise it will inevitably affect your career." I think such a big idea must not be something you came up with alone, you just said that someone told you that my big house is weak, it must be some wolf ambition who instigated you to do such a thing, if I can't keep such a person, sooner or later he will cause a big disaster!"

Yue Jiao's big hands clenched on the ground when he heard this, and even his father thought that this was called "wolf ambition......"? It's just that if this matter is really because of my son, it really affects my Ruo Ao clan, and I will directly push my son out to ask for guilt, but I beg not to affect others!"

At the end of the words, his voice even had two sobs and weakness, his lips were white, his forehead was full of blood, and it was just a pair of wolf-like eyes reflected on the blue bricks, cold and cold, a little crazy.

If Ao Ziliang had ever seen such an eldest son, his face changed slightly, and he couldn't care about being angry again, so he quickly picked up his eldest son and hurriedly shouted outside, "Come on, quickly pass on the doctor and the imperial doctor at home!"

"Yes, yes, call the doctor and the imperial doctor. ”

The steward ordered someone to come in on a stretcher.

Afterwards, Ruo Ziliang thought about it again and again, and said to the housekeeper, "There is a Lu Yi by the side of the eldest prince, I am afraid that he has done these bold and reckless things and brought the master badly, even if it is not him, he is guilty of not reporting it." Someone came to kill Lu Yi for me, as an example! All the people around Gongzi have been replaced and sold!"

"Yes, sir!"

In the Blue Wolf Pavilion, there was a sudden panic, Xiao Ge and Liu Er looked at the killed Lu Yi and said in fear, "Commander Lu, I only came back last night, and I was killed by the master today, I'm afraid that I really did something bad outside." ”

Xiao Jiang frowned and said, "Don't talk about it!"

When Ling Yin Zi heard the news of the return from the people in the big house, he just sneered, "Big brother, I still have too good a heart, I know such a lie, I can believe it, but it's just a scapegoat casually pushed out......"

"Then Lord Lingyin, this matter is settled?"

The housekeeper of the second room asked cautiously while dressing him in the official uniform of the five-tailed phoenix, tying the waist seal, putting on the official boots of the five-tailed phoenix, and finally tidying up the hem of the clothes.

"The situation over there, you keep an eye on it, it seems that there are some things that I still have to deal with in person in the end. Ling Yin Ziyan picked up the jade wat board on the tray held by the maid and walked out and said, "Let's go, arrange for the carriage and horses to prepare for the court." ”

"Yes, sir. ”

The butler bowed down and stepped back first, arranging for the carriage and horses.