In March, the willows dance their waists, the pink peach blossoms bloom all over the branches, and the whole earth is full of spring.

Brother You accompanied Yuxi to stand under the peach blossom tree, and said with a smile: "Mother, I heard that the Wu family has planted a lot of strange flowers and plants. Mother, I want to go and see it!"

"Do you want to see flowers, or do you want to see people?"

Brother You said happily: "The flowers also look at it, and the people also look at it." The second young master of the Wu family is married to the eldest sister, but I still don't know what he looks like!"

Yuxi didn't stop him, and said: "If you want to go, you can go, but you have to know the etiquette when you go to other houses." "Of the six children, the number of jujube rituals is the worst, and the best is Liu'er. As for the triplets, they are still passable on the whole.

Brother You smiled heartily: "Mother, don't worry, you won't lose face with your father." "When they go out, they represent the image of the palace, and they will do anything beyond the bounds.

The next day, the triplets went to Wu's house. Wu Kuo had already gone to Jiangnan at this time, and it was the Fang family who received the triplets.

After the Fang clan saluted, Brother Xuan said, "Mrs. Wu, we heard that the second young master is very good at planting flowers and has cultivated a lot of varieties, so we came here. Please forgive me if you may be disturbed. ”

When Fang Shi heard this, he understood the purpose of the triplets coming over, and said with a smile: "It is an honor for our Wu Mansion that the three young masters can come. ”

After a few polite sentences, Fang took the triplets to Wu Jinyu's yard. Looking at the potted plants in the yard, and these potted plants are growing quite well, Brother Xuan couldn't help but say: "I've always heard that my eldest brother-in-law will plant flowers and plants, but now it seems that the rumors are true!"

Brother You coughed twice and said, "Third brother, my mother said that Second Young Master Wu will plant flowers, how can there be a fake?" Under the influence of Qi Hao, before Zao Zao and Wu Jinyu got married, he was no longer called brother-in-law.

The smile on Fang's face paused for a moment, but it quickly recovered to its original state.

Wu Jinyu heard that a guest was coming, and hurriedly walked out of the house and left. Seeing that it was Brother Rui'er, he hurriedly saluted: "I've seen the second young master, the third young master, and the fourth young master." ”

Brother You looked at Wu Jinyu, and saw that Wu Jinyu fixed his hair with a peach wood hairpin, and was wearing a moon-white brocade embroidered with green bamboo patterns, looking as rumored, very beautiful.

Brother Rui asked curiously, "How do you know us?" They hadn't seen Wu Jinyu before.

Wu Jinyu said: "I have seen three young masters in the garden of the palace. However, he was with Yu Huajiang at the time and did not appear in front of the triplets.

"Oh, that's it!" he said, "He was so beautiful that he couldn't be impressed if he had seen it.

Wu Jinyu's relationship is relatively poor in this regard, and he only cares about talking to the triplets, but he doesn't know how to greet the three of them into the house for tea. It was still Fang Shi who opened his mouth and said: "Second Young Master, Third Young Master, Fourth Young Master, you must be tired after walking such a long way, you will have a cup of tea when you go into the house to rest!"

Brother Rui hurriedly said: "My mother said that we are still young now, and it is not suitable to drink tea, so you can prepare boiled water for us." "The triplets often drink juice on weekdays, and the sweet and sour juice is their favorite thing.

Fang smiled and ordered someone to bring the water up.

Entering the house, Brother Xuan'er's eyes fell on the pot of orchids on the rosewood trellis. After looking at it for a while, Brother Xuan asked, "I don't know why you chose this pot of flowers in the house?"

The petals of this pot of orchids are small, the leaves are thin and long, and the willow leaves are rows, and the veins are clearly visible, looking like a pile of grass, which is very simple.

Wu Jinyu said with a smile: "You see that this green leaf seems to poke out the water when you poke it, and the tender and weak can't help but wind." But they are positive and strong. "He loves the spirit.

Brother You'er felt very interesting when he heard this: "Listening to you say this, it seems that they are all alive?"

Wu Jinyu said without thinking about it: "They are originally alive. Wu Jinyu really thinks that these flowers and plants are alive, and treats them as friends, so when he is serving, he will be very dedicated.

Brother You'er is a very thoughtful person, and when he heard this, he tore off a few green leaves.

Wu Jinyu couldn't stop it, looking at the tender green leaves in Brother You'er's hand, his face changed.

Fang Shi saw that something was wrong, and hurriedly pulled Wu Jinyu and said with a smile: "If the fourth young master likes this potted plant, he will send it to the palace later." ”

Brother You looked at the few leaves in his hand and asked with a smile, "Didn't you just say that it has vitality? Do you think they will hurt?"

Wu Jinyu didn't think about it, so he said, "Don't you see that the whole orchid is trembling? Brother You'er pulled the leaves, and the potted plant shook naturally. But in Wu Jinyu's eyes, it was a flower trembling in pain.

Brother Rui was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth.

Brother You laughed: "You are really a nymphomaniac!" The leaves in his hand were still on the ground, and then he beckoned Brother Rui and Brother Xuan to go home.

Wu Jinyu was reluctant to send triplets, but squatted on the ground to pick up a few green leaves, and then buried them in a potted plant.

Out of Wu's house, Brother Xuan said, "Ayou, your behavior just now was too rude. ”

Brother You smiled and said, "It's just that it's rude to pull a few leaves?" You are also making too much of a fuss?" After speaking, Brother You asked with interest: "Don't you think he is very interesting? "It's all crazy.

Brother Rui agreed with Brother You'er's words: "I don't know what the eldest sister likes about him? ”

Brother You said directly: "The eldest sister wants to marry because of the beauty of the family." But speaking of which, this Wu Jinyu is really good-looking. "That face is quite pleasing to the eye.

Brother Xuan said unhappily: "Ayou, it's too insulting for you to say this, how can you say that he is also our eldest brother-in-law." "The eldest sister has already married Wu Jinyu, this is an unchangeable fact.

Brother You said innocently, "Am I wrong? He doesn't look good?"

Brother Rui said: "Don't talk about this. I've heard that Fu Chi Restaurant has launched a few new dishes, so let's try them later. "Every time they come out, they will go to Fu Ji Restaurant to eat, and eating at Fu Ji Restaurant only needs to keep accounts and do not need to pay.

After eating and drinking, the triplets returned home. Hearing that Yuxi was still handling things in the front yard, the three of them went back to their own yard.

Yuxi received an excerpt from Liang Songbai half an hour ago, and now he is discussing Niu Jingyi's corruption case with Tan Tuo, Tang Chengye, Cao Boting and others.

Tan Tuo said: "Princess, 30,000 taels of silver will behead Niu Jing in one place, is the sentence too heavy?" In the past, there was a folk saying that there was a saying that the Qing prefect would have 100,000 snowflakes of silver in three years. This means that even if the incorruptible prefect is not corrupt and perverts the law, after serving for three years, he will only have 100,000 taels of silver in the income of various bad rules. Niu Jing served as the prefect of Jinling for a few years and only got 30,000 taels of silver, which is really not much.

Tang Chengye, the secretary of the Criminal Department, was in favor of severe punishment, because if he didn't kill Niu Jingyi, he couldn't deter others.

According to Cao Boyan, the procurator, he also believes that it must be severely punished: "30,000 taels of silver is a huge amount of money, and embezzling so much money is not severely punished, once this unhealthy trend is formed, the impact will be very bad." "So, Niu Jingyi must die.

Yuxi didn't plan to let Niu Jingyi go lightly, since he dared to be corrupt, he had to be ready to die. She summoned everyone this time to revise the law: "I think the punishment for corruption and bribery in the existing law is too light, and the punishment must be increased. ”

Changing the law is not a matter of the upper lip touching the lower lip, it has to go through a complicated process. But Yuxi made a decision, no matter how complicated it was, it had to be done.

Dragging his tired body, Yuxi returned to the backyard. When the triplets saw her like this, they didn't say anything about Wu Jinyu.

After dinner, Yuxi took the initiative to ask, "How do you feel when you meet your eldest brother-in-law?"

Brother You said with a smile: "The eldest brother-in-law is very good-looking, mother, I will also find a beautiful daughter-in-law in the future." "The family matter has been decided, and it is still his eldest sister's favorite, if he doesn't say it well, it will have no other effect except to block his mother. So what happened to the Wu family, he wasn't going to talk about it.

Yuxi said with a smile: "This daughter-in-law can't only look at her appearance, but also look at her character, temper and upbringing." ”

Brother Xuan interjected: "Marriage matters, the orders of parents, and the words of matchmakers." Our marriage, naturally, is the decision between my mother and my father. ”

Brother You said, "Mother, we're going to go back to do our homework." Mother, when you're tired, just rest, don't do anything. If you are tired of your body, the gains outweigh the losses. "It's really distressing to see his mother like this. It's a pity that he is too young to help his mother.

has not stopped for a moment since he was busy in the morning, and Yuxi is indeed tired: "Mother will go to sleep after bathing." ”

Yuxi had a good night's sleep and went to the front yard the next day in good spirits. The front foot entered the study, and Yu Zhi came over with the back foot to do something.

Yu Zhi handed a letter to Yuxi and said, "Princess, this was sent by Yang Duoming, and I only received it in the middle of the night last night. "Because it wasn't an urgent letter, I didn't reply immediately.

Yuxi took the letter and opened it, and after reading it, his expression was a little ugly. After a long time, Yuxi spoke: "It's hard to paint skin and flesh, it's hard to paint bones, pretending is pretending, and your nature can't be changed." ”

Yu Zhi heard a little strange and asked, "Is the princess talking about Niu Jingyi?" Niu Jingyi's case has a great impact, and now it has spread outside.

Yuxi handed Yang Duoming's letter to Yu Zhi and said, "Take a look for yourself!"

After reading the letter, Yu Zhi was shocked: "I thought Niu Jingyi was wronged." ”

Niu Jingyi was the prefect of Jizhou before, and during his tenure, Niu Jingyi was very honest and fair, and was loved by the local people. Later, because he was unwilling to join other officials, he was dismissed and returned to his hometown in Jinling. When he returned to his hometown, he cut back on food and clothing to support poor students, and did his best to help the poor people who had nothing to rely on. It is also because of his behavior that he is quite famous in Jinling.

Yunqing captured Jinling, and after hearing about this person, he sent someone to inquire and confirmed that the rumors were true before appointing him as the prefect of Jinling.

Yuxi said with a smile: "There is a difference between the outside and the inside, and it is people like Niu Jingyi." "Yang Duoming got Yuxi's order to conduct an in-depth investigation, only to find out that everything that is fair and honest is all a lie. He was no less greedy for money than other officials. It's just that he is very secretive and better at disguise, so he deceived everyone. And when he returned to Jinling, he took out some of the money to earn himself a good name. Unfortunately, the greed in our nature does not fade away with time.

Yu Zhi asked, "Princess, such officials are not only Niu Jingyi. ”

Yuxi hummed and said, "That's why I want to revise the law, only by increasing the intensity of punishment will they have scruples and dare not stretch out their hands." ”

Yu Zhi said: "This time, according to the prosecutor's office, it was found that Niu Jingyi had embezzled and accepted bribes of more than 30,000 taels of silver, but Yang Duoming turned out Niu Jingyi's bottom. Princess, I feel that another oversight body must be established. "Obviously, Yang Duoming is much more powerful than the people who press the judges.

Yuxi nodded and said, "I'm also thinking about this." "There's a lot going on to set up another oversight body, and she doesn't have the energy to do that right now.

The evidence is conclusive, Niu Jingyi was sentenced to beheading, his family property was confiscated, and his family members were reduced to official slaves and sold by the government. None of the other officials who were in the same league were spared.

At the same time, Ling Ruoyuan embezzled and accepted bribes of more than 7,000 taels of silver, and in addition to being dismissed from office, his family property was confiscated, and he also had to be imprisoned for six years.

Ling Ruoyun fainted after listening to what Xu Wu said. When he woke up, Ling Ruoyun took Xu Wu's hand and cried and asked, "Master, I'm just such a younger brother, please save him!"

Xu Wu said: "This incident made the princess angry, and it took me a lot of effort to save his life. He couldn't avoid the six-year prison sentence. ”

Ling Ruoyun cried uncontrollably: "He not only ruined himself, but also destroyed several children. "It is stipulated in the law that three generations after the sin shall not be allowed to enter the office.

Xu Wu said: "Although I have to suffer a lot, at least my life is saved." Don't think too much about it, it's already like this, it's useless for you to be sad and sad. By the way, the Zhao family is on their way back to Ho City with a few children, and all their property has been confiscated, so you can find a good place for them to live first. "In a situation like Ling Ruoyuan, even if his wife and children are not arrested and put in prison, they will live on the streets. Xu Wu entrusted Fang Xing to take care of it, otherwise, let alone Ho City, whether it can be safe is a big problem.

Ling Ruoyun heard this and said cautiously: "Orphans and widows who live outside will inevitably be bullied. Master, there is still a vacant courtyard in the mansion, so let the younger siblings live in the mansion with a few children!"

Xu Wu didn't agree, and said: "You buy a small house, and give some money, and when they settle down, don't worry about it anymore." ”

Ling Ruoyun's tears came suddenly: "Master, let my younger siblings live outside with a few children, how can I rest assured? Master, I beg you, let my younger siblings live in the house with a few children!"

Xu Wu said with a cold face: "Don't say it again, I will never let the Zhao family live in the mansion." After saying that, he got up and left, and went back to the palace.