Chapter 96: Xiu Jieting, You're Too Cruel
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"Mingyue Town, a steamed bun and three pennies from the street vendors, the same size, the same fine noodles, but two pennies in Huangzhou, the local consumption level in Mingyue Town is so high, do you dare to say that the government is not enough to pay taxes?"
Even if Xuzhou is supported, with the current situation of Mingyue Town, it is impossible to get to the point of tension.
With the words pouring into his ears, Wu Liang's eyes froze, and he had a bad premonition at the moment.
Originally, I looked at her harmless appearance, and I thought it was the maid who was waiting by Xiu Jieting's side, but now that she was forced to a dead end sentence by sentence, I suddenly realized that this is also a powerful master!
"This ...... I really ......."
"Someone, bring the accounts of the government to this king!"
Without waiting for Wu Liang to continue to decline, Xiu Jieting's eyes flashed coldly, and he ordered to the side.
It is said to be "take", but in fact it is searching!
"Yes!"
Traceless cold eyes glanced at Wu Liang, and took five or six people directly to the main hall of the mansion.
"King, Lord......"
Wu Liang's body trembled slightly, and he didn't dare to look at Xiu Jieting's eyes between his eyes, but he didn't notice that when his face changed, he had already been seen by Twilight Yunxi next to him.
Twilight Yunxi calmly leaned on the table, her slightly narrowed eyes wandered around Wu Liang, and then she looked in the study, looking like it was fresh, but after this circle, she had a rough look at this place.
Almost a stick of incense, he came in without a trace, with two notebooks.
"Master, the accounts of the past two years are here!"
As he spoke, Traceless handed the account to Xiu Jieting.
Xiu Jieting stretched out his hand to take it, his cold gaze lingered on the accounts, and the bottomless abyss between his eyes was like a bottomless abyss.
Twilight leaned over to look at the terms of the two books, a sneer on her lips.
"Half a year's tax silver, now there are only 560,000 taels left, and it is estimated that 400,000 taels will be spent on the repair of the city wall, it seems that Lord Wu's life is indeed tight!"
Raising his eyebrows and looking at Wu Liang, a hint of meaning flashed between Twilight Yunxi's eyes.
"Yes, yes......"
Wu Liang didn't hear the ridicule in Twilight Yunxi's voice, and nodded again and again, however, before his words could land, he heard her voice sink instantly.
"Step kill, go to Mrs. Sojin's room!"
Twilight Yunxi's cold drink frightened Wu Liang's body and almost fell to the ground, and at this moment he finally couldn't hold back and began to get nervous.
"What does this mean, girl! This is a matter of the government, why should it involve my inner house?"
Wu Liangqiang held his voice without trembling, but his pale face could no longer be hidden.
Da!
Xiu Jieting's fingers tapping on the table suddenly increased the force, and then stopped, turning his face to look at Twilight Yunxi, and there was a hint of appreciation in his eyes.
Twilight looked at him with serious appreciation, blinked, and turned to look at Wu Liang.
"When we came in, we heard two maids arguing, it was the maid in Mrs. Jin's house who scolded people, and the one who was scolded should be from the eldest lady's house, Mrs. Jin despised the main room, and naturally had a pivotal position in your eyes, I was right?"
Halfway through speaking, Twilight Cloud stopped and turned to look at Wu Liang, a smile between her eyebrows.
However, this harmless smile looked at Wu Liang seriously, but it was like a hammer that slammed hard into his heart.
The unscrupulous expression seemed to confirm Twilight's words, and she continued without waiting for him to answer.
"When Lord Wu came out, the clothes on the neckline were wrongly buttoned, and the direction you came out was exactly the direction in which Mrs. Jin's maid went back, if you didn't guess wrong, you should have had people prepare fake accounts last night and put them in Mrs. Jin's room! After all, an account that has been used for a year, the paper page can't be so new!"
As he spoke, Twilight Yunxi threw the account in front of Wu Liang.
The account fell to the ground and made a "pop" sound, which frightened Wu Liang's body to tremble, raised his head, and looked at Twilight Yunxi's eyes with a hint of horror.
It's just a quarrel between two maids, and she can find out the situation of the accounts from it, this child is simply terrible!
"I ......"
The corners of Wu Liang's mouth trembled, but he couldn't say a word, and at this time, there was a howl like killing a pig in the yard.
"What are you doing! It's in my room, you can't take it!"
It was a woman's voice, and with that howling voice, the step killer had already brought the person to the study.
"Master, they rushed in to search for things, these people ......"
Entering the house, the woman cried the moment she saw Wu Liang, but before she finished speaking, she was so frightened by Xiu Jieting's stare that she stopped her mouth, and the rest of the words were swallowed back into her stomach.
"Lord Wang, the account has been found!"
Bu Kill glanced at the woman coldly, and handed the account he found to Xiu Jieting.
This time it's an account book, but looking at the degree of wear and tear on the edges, it should be seen often, and this is the real account.
"Half a year, the tax silver inventory, 6.3 million taels, Lord Wu, don't you want to keep these tax silvers for yourself?"
Xiu Jieting swept towards Wu Liang with cold eyes, and saw that Wu Liang was full of excitement, and he couldn't hold it back and collapsed to the ground in an instant.
Mrs. Jin, who was still crying, saw Wu Liang like this, then closed her mouth, and looked at a few people next to her in a panic, leaving only convulsions.
"Lord, prince spare life, prince spare life!"
Stunned for a moment, Wu Liang hurriedly got up and knelt on the ground and kowtowed, trembling like chaff at the moment.
"The law of Xuanling Kingdom, the local prefect's treasury must not exceed three million taels, a good official praised by the people like Lord Wu, naturally he will not be corrupt, it seems that these three million three hundred thousand taels are ready to be handed over to the imperial court, and it just so happens that this king is also going to the imperial capital, these factors will help you bring them over by the way!
As he spoke, Xiu Jieting's gloomy eyes looked at Wu Liang.
Originally, Wu Liang had prepared words of defense, but now looking at Xiu Jieting's eyes, the words that came to his mouth were blocked back, the corners of his mouth trembled, and he couldn't say a word, only a bitter look remained.
Xiu Jieting's hand knocked on the table for a while, and then as if he remembered something, he raised his eyebrows and continued.
"Three million taels of silver, this shouldn't be too difficult for Lord Wu, right?"
Wu Liang's mouth was suffocated, but the words hung above his head, he didn't dare to say no, grinning, it was even more ugly than crying.
"It seems that Lord Wu has no problem!"
Xiu Jieting glanced at him sideways, and then turned to Xin Yuan next to him: "Xin Yuan, you stay in Mingyue Town, wait for this king to come back, these children must not have any problems!"
"Yes!"
Xin Yuan took a step forward and clenched his fists with a snap.
Leaving Xin Yuan behind is to supervise Wu Liang, and he doesn't dare to move if he is careful.
Seeing that most of the silver was taken away from the silver treasury by Wuxian and others, Wu Liang's legs were trembling, but he was a small prefect, and he couldn't stop it at all.
On the way back, Twilight Yunxi and Xiu Jieting went back in the carriage sent by Wu Liang.
"I think there must be only one account book under this Wu Liang, why don't you check it?"
Twilight squinted at him, a hint of confusion in her clear eyes.
Xiu Jieting was closing his eyes at the moment, and when he heard Twilight Yunxi's words, he opened his eyes slowly, his eyes were frozen for a moment, and he spoke.
"Because, I want the extra three million taels too!"
He spoke calmly, but hearing it in Twilight's ears made her look change suddenly.
He also wants?
"Are you going to ......?"
Twilight's eyes widened, and the words on his lips were not finished, but looking at the corners of his lips, the two of them were already tacitly at the moment.
Indeed, the account in Wu Liang's hand is not just that one, Xiu Jieting also knows it, but he deliberately let Wuji leave him a part, it is precisely because of this part that Wu Liang does not dare to reconcile with the imperial court, he does not dare to say, no one will know where the silver taken away by Xiu Jieting goes.
I'll go!
I thought that it was cruel enough to sit on the ground and raise the price, but I didn't expect this person to pit up the silver and lose his conscience even more!
"Xiu Jieting, I just found out now, it turns out that you are the most ruthless!"
The corners of Twilight's mouth twitched violently.
Xiu Jieting still closed his eyes, listening to her words, his lips slightly hooked up with a touch of pride, these words should be regarded as praise!
After returning from the mansion, Du Yunxi did not rush back, but followed Xin Yuan to the deserted courtyard to see the children.
At this moment, Xin Yuan had already brought food and clothes, and when the children were full, they shrank in their respective rooms, still staring at this strange environment with a defensive face.
Ding Dang was lying on the windowsill looking outside, and when he saw Twilight Yunxi coming in, he hurriedly went out: "Don't leave us!"
Ding Dang wanted to take Twilight's hand, but after a moment's hesitation, he finally retracted it.
"Don't leave us behind", as if the voice in a dream flickered, Twilight Yunxi's eyes froze, and a heat surged between her eye sockets.
"I won't leave you behind!"
Twilight reached out and touched Ding Dang's head, and at this moment the children from the other rooms also came out, they didn't rush out, they just stood in the door and watched Twilight.
Seeing the nervousness in the children's eyes, Twilight sighed helplessly.
If it comes to curing diseases and saving people, everyone calls her a miracle doctor, and she is never humble, but at this moment the children regard her as a savior.
The first time I felt this way, I don't seem to be very used to it.
"You live here with peace of mind first, and when we come back after a while, we will take you away, and before that, you have to obey Vice General Xin Yuan in everything, you know?"
As she spoke, Twilight looked at Xin Yuan.
The children looked at Xin Yuan with Twilight Yunxi's words, Xin Yuan took them all the way, and Xin Yuan gave them food and clothes, and at this moment, the children's wariness of Xin Yuan was also weakened a lot.
Ding Dang was older than these children, and he knew that Twilight Yunxi couldn't take so many people with him, so he didn't speak.
Next, Twilight asks Xin Yuan to place the injured child in a separate room.
It's summer, and even the smallest wounds can cause infections, and the complications of infection can lead to infectious diseases that cannot be ignored.
Fortunately, although nearly half of the injured children were injured, most of them were just cleaning their wounds, and the remaining dozen or so seriously injured were treated by Twilight Yunxi one by one.
In addition to Du Yunxi, Xiu Jieting also brought three doctors to help diagnose and treat the children, and the herbs used were also from Wu Liang's side, which was very easy to use.
Xiu Jieting was reading letters in the courtyard next to him, and occasionally looked up to see that Twilight Yunxi was still busy working, and his serious face looked like a beautiful one that shook people's hearts.
By the time I was almost done, it was already midnight.
"How's it going?" said Xiu Jieting, walking slowly.
Twilight turned around when she heard the voice, and was now reaching out to wipe her sweat, and she couldn't help but smile brightly when she saw him.
"It's over......"
Before she could finish speaking, Twilight felt a sudden darkness in front of her, and then the sky spun around, and her body was planted uncontrollably on the ground.