Chu Yu had finished reading all the paperwork, and Mei Xiaoren's minutes were only half written.

Mei Xiaoren wanted Chu Yu to go back first, but Chu Yu silently walked to her side and stood up, as if to see how well she wrote.

She didn't hear him all the time, and she didn't dare to look up, because the people of Wenhua Hall dealt with all kinds of documents every day, and their vision was naturally high, how could he be satisfied with what she wrote.

"Get up."

When Mei Xiaoren heard Chu Yu's words, he immediately stood up, moved a step to the side in an orderly manner, and gave up his seat to Lord Chu.

Chu Yu sat down, put aside the half of the minutes she had written, and took another piece of rice paper.

"You help me write," Mei Xiaoren was surprised.

"You're leaving all the books you read"

He was saying that she wrote poorly, Mei Xiaoren was helpless, squeezed out a smile and said, "No, it's just that it's been too long, and it's all returned to Mr." ”

When Chu Yu was talking to her, three lines of pen and ink had already fallen, and the words were like a dragon, and they were not abrupt in one go.

Mei Xiaoren took a closer look, and he seemed to have a bamboo in his chest, his words were fine, and his writing was extraordinarily clean.

In the end, after writing only a third of the whole paper, he stopped writing, gave up his seat to her, and told her to transcribe it in her own handwriting.

"That's all" Mei Xiaoren looked at the concise and capable sentences on it, a little uneasy.

He wrote very well, but the number of words was a little small, and he didn't highlight what Lao Li explained about the tragedy, she was afraid that Lao Li would think that she was perfunctory.

Chu Yu seemed to see her worries, and said, "If Li Daoyuan talks about you, you will say that Scholar Wei already knows the ins and outs of this matter, and there is no need for him to bother to report it." ”

If that's the case, then it doesn't matter how much or how little you write about this summary. Mei Xiaoren nodded.

She copied very quickly, and it was not enough time for her to finish everything, which was also thanks to Lord Chu's timely arrival, otherwise she would only be afraid that she would have to take charge of the yamen tonight.

When they came out of the yamen, it was the dead of night, and the streets were closed.

Mei Xiaoren did not take a sedan chair, and Chu Yu did not take a carriage, they each sent their retinues and walked along the small river in the city together.

"You want to erase the death penalty for Xiao Lin," Chu Yu suddenly asked.

Mei Xiaoren shook her head, and didn't say whether she didn't want to or didn't know, because she was afraid that Chu Yu would ask, and she didn't know how to answer.

"What about his crimes?"

Mei Xiaoren took out a folded stack of paper from his sleeve.

This is Xiao Lin's crime, she has been carrying it with her recently, and she has not let others see it, and she has not made up her mind whether to report it or not.

Chu Yu took the accusation, and did not plan to develop the purpose, but slowly tore it into pieces with both hands.

"Huh"

As soon as Mei Xiaoren was surprised, Chu Yu had already let go of his hand.

The fragments fell into the river like fluttering butterflies, floating on the water, and in a few moments, the handwriting on them was blurred by the water.

"Why is this" Mei Xiaoren frowned, really not understanding Chu Yu's actions.

"Now that he is planted in your hands, it is easy for you to let him die, but if you waver in the slightest, you cannot kill him." Chu Yu turned his eyes to look at her, and said, "People can't be resurrected after death, and if he dies, it's useless for you to regret it; But if you spare his life, and one day regret it, you can kill him again. ”

Mei Xiaoren couldn't help laughing, she found that people were really different, and the Xiao family took their lives

Neither coercion nor affection with relatives made her make up her mind, but she was persuaded by Chu Yu's three or two sentences, this is the cleverness of Lord Chu.

As she walked, she asked, "Why don't you ask me why I want to keep him alive"

"The reason is useless to me, it doesn't matter if you don't say it, I'm just trying to get you an idea."

Xiao Lin's own crime no longer exists, Mei Xiaoren spent half a day personally writing an article for him, removing his crime of attempting to murder the court officials, and adding a few sentences of "voluntary confession" after other crimes, Xiao Lin's death penalty can be avoided.

But she didn't rush to take it to Xiao Lin, but took this paper and saw Xiao Ru first.

In the pavilion, Xiao Ru took this indictment and looked at it over and over, frowning, as if she was still not at ease.

Seeing her like this, Mei Xiaoren said lightly: "You should know how heavy his original sins are, so don't expect me to help him erase everything, the death penalty can be avoided, and the living crime cannot be escaped, all I can do is to save his life." He also said, "After the prefect has been tried, he will be escorted to Beijing and handed over to the Criminal Department for final trial, whether he will be exiled or imprisoned depends on how the Criminal Department sentences, and I have no ability to manage the Criminal Department." ”

"It's good to have a life, it's good to have a life, everything is there" Xiao Ru nodded again and again, a smile appeared on her lips, "Now my brother is saved." ”

Mei Xiaoren took back the charge from Xiao Ru's hand, and said while folding it up: "This is just what I drafted, and it is up to me to decide whether it is this copy that is handed over in the end." ”

"Xiaomei, aren't you willing to let go of your cousin, just write it like this, you don't need to change it"

"Yes, the person I plan to let go of is my cousin, so you have to treat my father as a family." Mei Xiaoren put away the guilt and said coldly, "You go back and tell the old lady that the debt she owes for more than ten years is also a debt, and it is not a mistake that can be wiped clean, what she owed my father back then, now she has to take it out to me one by one."

"Then what do you want us to give?"

"Half of the family business." Mei Xiaoren's expression was indifferent, and he said in a non-negotiable tone, "Divide half of your shops and fields in Xuanzhou and put them in my father's name, as for the house."

"Xiaomei, the shop is easy to say, but the house" Xiao Ru was embarrassed, "In addition to the ancestral house and my brother's house, there is only one villa left." ”

"Xiao Lin's mansion will be confiscated, and my father doesn't want to go back to Xuanzhou, it's useless to come to the ancestral house, what I want is that villa."

Three days later, the sun was setting.

Mei Xiaoren and Chu Yu walked around the courtyard, and then climbed a pavilion with him, looking at the eastward flow of the river by the railing. Across the river is the tea shop where they drank tea that day.

"How, are you still satisfied with this reward?" asked Mei Xiaoren with a smile.

Chu Yu stood beside her, looking into the distance, the corners of his lips raised, "You still send people under the fence, but give me the mansion you have gotten, it's appropriate to do this."

"How is it not appropriate, everyone in Xuanzhou knows that this villa used to belong to the Xiao family, and now it is suddenly mine, and I happen to be helping Xiao Lin alleviate his sins, then the prefect must not suspect that I am filling my pockets" Mei Xiaoren patted him on the shoulder, "Just do me a favor and accept it." ”

Chu Yu was not polite to her and accepted the agreed reward.

Mei Xiaoren said again: "Since the other garden has been obtained, then I will present Xiao Lin's crime to the prefect tomorrow." ”

"You've got to figure out how you're going to explain it to him."

"Good explanation, Xiao Lin is going to kill me, whether to sue him for deliberately killing or not, it all depends on my wishes, the prefect will not say anything, as for colluding with the mountain bandits" Mei Xiaoren smiled again, "Don't you also say it, that case made the Xuanzhou Mansion take a credit for nothing, presumably the prefect will not hold on to it." ”