12dz Chapter 281 Young Master Ye's Face
Chapter 281 Young Master Ye's Face
Chapter 281 Young Master Ye's Face
The officer was very cooperative: "This girl is quite reasonable."
"How come she is right?" The concubine was anxious. "Look at how she beat me. My eyes are almost swollen and I can't see. Why don't you arrest her? Is it just because she is Miss Ye Si's maid?"
The official nodded, "Yes, because she is the maid of Miss Ye Si. Listen carefully, we can't interfere with Miss Ye Si's affairs, and we can't interfere with the girl who beat you, her surname is Ji. We are not here to deal with your family's trivial matters today. We are mainly here to deliver the household registration to Madam Hai." After saying that, he jumped over the crowd and looked at Hai's side, then pushed away the concubine who was holding him and walked over quickly. "Madam Hai, Miss Xuanji, this is your household registration. Our prefect asked me to come and deliver it."
Madam Hai took the household registration paper in her hand, and the official continued, "You sent someone to the government office to talk about this matter before, saying that you and your daughter's household registration should be returned to the Hai family. But the Hai family is in another province, and it can't be done in Lin'an. If you go back and forth like this, I'm afraid you two will not be able to break away from the Yu family for a while. So the prefect thought of another way, and set up a separate household for you, madam, and then put Miss Xuanji's name under your household registration. It's also common for a daughter to live with her mother."
Mrs. Hai frowned when she heard this, "Where is the household registration?"
The officer replied: "Inner city of Lin'an."
"Inner city?" Mrs. Hai was even more surprised. It was no small matter to set up a new household registration, especially in the inner city of Lin'an. The reason why this place was envied and yearned for was not because it was the capital, but because the living welfare of the residents in the inner city of Lin'an was so good.
The court distributed food every four seasons, rice and oil every month, and regular silver for each person. No matter whether your family was in need or not, the court would give it to show its care for the people in the inner city. Of course, in addition to the families of officials, the inner city also supported many families of soldiers who died on the battlefield, and the welfare for these people was doubled. They could even live a good life in the inner city without doing anything.
But Mrs. Hai knew that she was no longer an official family member, nor had any relationship with the soldiers at the border. The Yu family was about to be driven out of the inner city. How could she, a woman who had divorced from the Yu family and had a child, be removed from the household registration and allowed to stay in the inner city?
This meant that the court had to give them money and things every month to ensure that they had enough food and clothing. If they didn't have a house to live in, the court had to provide one for free. Was Lin'an Prefecture crazy?
She asked the official, "I am only the wife of a sixth-rank official. We live in Wuqian Lane, which is almost the lowest level in the inner city. Moreover, I have divorced my ex-husband and have no relationship with the official residence. I have never met the prefect, and we have no friendship. Why did the prefect do me such a big favor?"
The official laughed, "Madam, you are naturally not on good terms with the prefect. To be frank, the prefect cannot possibly reach you, so this matter has nothing to do with you. It was done by the eldest young master of the Ye family."
Madam Hai was stunned for a moment, and suddenly she didn't know what to do with the household registration in her hand. Seeing her stunned, the official thought she was just happy and said cheerfully: "Master Ye is loyal and righteous. The two families have been engaged for three years, so there is naturally affection. Madam, don't think too much, just stay in the inner city, and I will take you to see your new residence later."
At this point, the official's expression became serious and his voice became a little higher. He asked Mrs. Hai: "Excuse me, madam and miss, did you two come out of the Yu family empty-handed, or did you bring anything with you?"
The two didn't know why she asked that. Mrs. Hai was looking at the household registration, and Yu Xuanji answered, "I originally brought two bundles with a few changes of clothes. But before I left the yard, the two bundles were confiscated by my father. So we didn't bring anything except the clothes we were wearing, not even a piece of jewelry."
The officer nodded. "That's good. What happens next has nothing to do with you two. Madam and Miss, please step back and just stand farther away and watch the fun."
No one knew what the official meant. He just waved his hand and suddenly shouted, "Seize all the things of the Yu family! Take them back to Lin'an Prefecture and wait for punishment!"
The Yu family was so anxious that they didn't care about the dog-eat-dog fight. They all stared at the official with disbelief on their faces.
Yu Changwen asked loudly: "What do you mean? What are you going to do?"
The concubine also cried and said, "It's fine if you don't rule our family, but why do you want to confiscate our things? The Ministry of Justice doesn't care about us, so why do you, Lin'an Prefecture, confiscate our things? What law have we violated?"
The officer snorted coldly, "Which law you have violated will be told to you in court. As for whether the Ministry of Justice is in charge of you, Lin'an Prefecture has no control over this matter. The Ministry of Justice is the Ministry of Justice, and perhaps they have some affection for you after working together for many years, and they want to save some face for you. But Lin'an Prefecture has no affection for you at all, so it is naturally impossible to give you this face. So we have to check, how did a mere sixth-rank official get so much property? Is the source of your money legitimate?"
As he spoke, he directed his officers, "What are you still standing there for? Send everyone back to the government office and wait for investigation. Shop owners, come with me, take the evidence of the Yu family's debts, and file a lawsuit against the Yu family at the government office." He then looked at the young man from the outer city, "If you want to get back the money that the Yu family cheated you of, you also have to come with me. Everyone, listen carefully, no one is allowed to enter or leave this government office without the government's order to withdraw. Execute!"
The Lin'an government officials were very capable of executing the orders. They quickly stuffed all the Yu family members back into the government office, closed the main gate, and put a seal on the door. One team of officials stayed at the main gate to guard, while another team went around to the side gate and the back gate to guard. After the division, they felt that there were not enough people, so they sent someone back to the government office to call for another team of people to come to support. The onlookers said, "This is no different from a house search. If they find out that there is something wrong with the source of their family's money, what will happen? Will they be beheaded?"
The officer said: "It depends on what the problem is. If the problem is serious, the death penalty is certain."
Yu Xiaodie, who was peeping out through the crack in the door, heard this clearly and fainted out of fear. Unfortunately, no one called a doctor for her, and no one cared about the people in the mansion crying. The officials just pulled the carriages loaded by the Yu family back to the government office, and the onlookers dispersed one after another. When they left, they said that the Yu family was simply loaded with carriages for the government, so there was no need to enter the house to search.
The leading officer asked Mrs. Hai when they passed by her: "Madam, do you want to add insult to injury?"
Madam Hai shook her head. "No. My mother and I only want to have nothing to do with the Yu family anymore. Whether they are alive or dead, rich or poor, they don't want to have anything to do with us anymore."
The officer nodded, "Then Madam is free! Keep your household registration. You will live in the north of the inner city. Someone will take you there to see the house. Congratulations, Madam, congratulations to Miss Xuanji. You will have a new life from now on."
In the carriage, Jiang Wanting felt a little uncomfortable. She kept pulling Ye Wenyan's sleeves with both hands, and all she could think about was the officer's words, "It was Young Master Ye who did it."
The man she liked was indeed loyal and righteous, which was a good thing. It was a pity that neither the love nor the righteousness fell on her, but were given to someone else.
"Will Brother Feiyu come to pick them up to their new residence?" she asked Ye Wenyan, "What did that official mean just now? Who will come to take them to see the house?"
Ye Wenyan shook his head and said, "How should I know?" Then he pointed outside, pointing at the official.
The official came towards their carriage, and when he got close, he knelt down and saluted, paying his respects to Miss Ye Si. Then he raised his hand and handed a piece of paper to Chi Feifei, and when Chi Feifei took it, he stood up and said goodbye and left.
Chi Feifei didn't even look at what was written on the paper. She just put the thing in Jiang Wanting's hand and said, "The person you are talking about is not Brother Feiyu, but you. Go! This is the address of the house, which was allocated by Lin'an Prefecture. It is in the north of the inner city, in a very quiet alley. You are from the Ministry of Justice. Since you said that you represented the Ministry of Justice on the night when the Yu family made trouble, then you should also represent the Ministry of Justice to end this matter today. We can also say that this is a good ending. If you make this trip, the two of them will be grateful to you."
Jiang Wanting was reluctant. "I don't need their gratitude, and I don't want to have anything to do with them. I'm not the kind of girl who can't let go. I know that marriage is a matter of parents' orders and matchmakers' words, and these are not something I can decide. Brother Feiyu and I have a childhood sweetheart relationship, and I am already very satisfied. I don't want to appear in front of her and don't want to lose too badly."
Chi Feifei glanced at Ye Wenyan, meaning to let Ye Wenyan make a decision.
Ye Wenyan thought for a while and said to Jiang Wanting, "It doesn't matter who is grateful to whom. Feifei is right. You represented the Ministry of Justice that night, so you should come forward again to settle the matter. As for whether you lose or not, if you can really let it go, you won't think about winning or losing. Just go there openly, laugh when you should laugh, say when you should say, and handle business as usual. After you're done, you'll feel that it's not that difficult."
Jiang Wanting held the paper in her hand, looked at what was written on it, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, "Yes, we will meet sooner or later. I am so close to you, I can't just stop having any contact with the Ye family's eldest branch forever. When she marries into the Ye Mansion, we will still meet. Instead of being embarrassed then, it's better to resolve the embarrassment now. After all, I'm really not a person who drags things out."
As she spoke, she jumped off the carriage, looked at the Hai mother and daughter, and simply pulled everyone out of the carriage.
"Okay, you guys try to find another car. This one belongs to me. The north is a bit far, so it's not convenient for us to walk there."
Jiang Wanting walked towards the mother and daughter of the Hai family, spoke to them, and got on the carriage. It was not until the carriage had gone far that Chi Feifei asked Ye Wenyan in a low voice, "Do you think Brother Feiyu will marry Miss Xuanji in the end?" Ye Wenyan shook his head, "No..."