The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1302: silence
Chapter 1302: Silencing
Bai Qingyan still remembered that Wang Qiulu was very much in love with Princess Liu Ruofu of Nandu and was a devoted man.
This time, after the affairs between Yan State and Da Zhou were settled, Wang Qiulu returned to the capital city. Bai Qingyan planned to have someone tell Wang Qiulu the resting place of Liu Ruofu, which would be a way to give Wang Qiulu some comfort.
Bai Qingyan, who had originally planned to leave the court without any business, was just about to get up and leave when he saw Sima Ping’s father, Chief Censor Sima Yan, coming forward.
Sima Yan mixed up several crimes of several elders of the Bai family, one of which was the most serious… Sima Yan also reported the crime to the Minister of Justice, Lu Jin, saying that the Ministry of Justice was actually involved in privately releasing exiled prisoners and finding people to replace them. He also dragged the Ministry of Revenue into it, saying that the Ministry of Revenue even gave fake household registrations to the mortals who were replaced, and obtained evidence to present to His Majesty.
Sima Yan’s accusation came suddenly, and both Lu Jin and Wei Bugong were caught off guard. They looked at each other with puzzled expressions, and some looked at Sima Yan with great interest, as if they were not afraid of his own shadow.
The court officials were also worried. The Chief Censor was really silent and directly dragged one of their Ministers of Justice into the case, and also… the Ministry of Revenue. Although Wei Bugong was not named, as the Minister of Revenue, he could not escape the responsibility for the problems in the Ministry of Revenue.
Wei Zhong walked down the high steps in small steps, took the memorial from the Chief Censor Sima Yan, and quickly returned to Bai Qingyan.
Bai Qingyan took the letter, unfolded it and took a look.
This prisoner exchange and release of exiles even involved two elders and their grandsons from the Bai family.
One of those sentenced to exile was Bai Qingshi, the grandson of an elder of the Bai clan.
Bai Qingshi met a pair of servants in Dadu who had been freed from slavery a few years ago. They redeemed themselves and came to Dadu from Shuoyang a few years ago. After getting married, they set up a wonton stall in the downtown area to make a living.
The woman had been raped by Bai Qingshi several times. Later, Bai Qingshi’s mother beat her half to death and took her away to be sold by human traffickers on the grounds that she seduced her own son. It was the woman’s current husband who spent money to redeem her from the human traffickers, and used the silver he had difficulty in raising to beg for mercy to redeem himself, and then brought the woman to the capital city to make a living.
Originally they all thought they would never return to Shuoyang, but unexpectedly they would meet Bai Qingshi in the capital city a few years later.
Bai Qingshi relied on his status as a royal relative of the Bai family to forcibly take the woman away again. When her husband came home and saw the situation, he had a fight with Bai Qingshi. Two days later, the woman’s husband died of his injuries, so Bai Qingshi was sentenced to exile.
There is also the grandson of an elder of the Bai family, named Bai Qingfan. However, Bai Qingfan was somehow involved with Qin Lang’s sister, the eldest daughter of the Qin family. He exchanged the second daughter of the Qin family, who was sentenced to exile for obstructing the new policy at a kite competition under the instructions of the assassin who assassinated Bai Qingyan, with other prisoners. After the exchange, he also got a real identity for the second daughter of the Qin family in the Ministry of Households and settled her in Baiwo City.
The reason why this matter was discovered by the Chief Censor Sima Yan was because Sima Yan found out that the second daughter of the Qin family had returned to the capital city, so he asked someone to investigate. Only then did he know that the eldest daughter of the Qin family had already given herself to Bai Qingfan, but she was not Bai Qingfan’s wife or concubine. The two of them just hung out at fixed times.
Of course, Sima Yan did not write these in the memorial.
After reading it, Bai Qingyan looked up at Sima Yan, the Imperial Censor who was kneeling respectfully in the center of the hall. “Sima Zhongcheng is indeed loyal. If I remember correctly, this Miss Qin should be Sima Zhongcheng’s cousin. Sima Zhongcheng is willing to sacrifice his relatives for the sake of justice. I am… deeply relieved.”
Sima Yan kowtowed immediately: “It is my duty as a minister to be loyal to Your Majesty. If fulfilling my duties makes Your Majesty feel pleased, then it is my fault. I have not fulfilled my duties before…”
Bai Qingyan smiled and called out, “Lord Lu Jin…”
“Your humble servant is here!” Lu Jinliang hurriedly stepped forward and responded.
“You are the Minister of Justice, this case should have been handed over to you!” Bai Qing said softly, “However, since Sima Zhongcheng has also reported Lord Lu, in order to avoid suspicion… Lord Lu should rest at home for a few days. It just so happens that I have other things to trouble Lord Lu with. If there is anything in this case that requires Lord Lu’s cooperation, I hope Lord Lu will cooperate more!”
Bai Qingyan’s words made Sima Yan nervous. It was clear that Bai Qingyan believed in Lu Jin. He had the audacity to report Lu Jin, and he didn’t know whether the emperor would have any opinion of him, and whether Lu Jin would make trouble for him after he gained power.
In a flash, Sima Yan’s mind was already in a state of confusion.
“Yes!” Lu Jin responded.
“Central Minister Sima and Lord Lu, please stand up!” Bai Qingyan’s eyes fell on the Dali Temple, “Let the Dali Temple judge this matter!”
The Dali Temple Minister hurriedly stepped out and responded.
Looking at Sima Yan who was retreating, Bai Qingyan thought of Sima Rudan, the hero who helped break through Tianmen Pass.
“I heard that Lord Sima’s beloved daughter is going to marry our number one scholar soon?” Bai Qingyan said with a smile.
Sima Yan, who had just retreated, hurriedly stepped out again, knelt down and kowtowed, and after a slight hesitation, he said: “Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty. Xue Renyi and my… my adopted daughter have been engaged since childhood and were about to get married. Unexpectedly, Xue Renyi’s father fell ill, and Xue Renyi stayed by his father’s side. Later, he returned to study at the Imperial Academy. At that time, the two families had already decided that after the imperial examination, regardless of whether Xue Renyi made the list or not, they would get married on May 15th.”
Adopted daughter? Bai Qingyan just smiled and said nothing, stroking the armrest of the chair with his fingers.
Bai Qingyan watched Sima Yan speak at this moment, and he did not have the confident and clear voice like when he just got involved. He originally believed Sima Rudan’s words 70%, but now he believed them 100%.
“Then congratulations to Sir Sima on finding a good son-in-law!”
“Thank you, Your Majesty!”
Sima Yan felt a little guilty about what he said before, after all, this marriage was not for his concubine’s daughter. But now that the emperor had asked him, he could only bite the bullet and answer. In his heart, he once again felt that his mother’s behavior was completely nonsense.
When his mother learned that Xue Renyi was very outstanding in the Imperial College, she remembered that her adopted brother’s daughter Sima Ruodan was engaged to Xue Renyi. She was worried that Sima Ruodan would marry Xue Renyi in the future, and Xue Renyi would have a successful career. He would resent the Sima family for not saving his father and would harm the Sima family. So she took her adopted brother’s daughter back without Sima Yan’s knowledge, and asked Sima Yan’s concubine’s daughter to pretend to be Sima Ruodan to meet Xue Renyi, and returned the token to seal the relationship.
When Sima Yan wanted to restore order, he found out that his adopted brother’s wife had been forced to death by his mother, and Sima Rudan had been silenced by people sent by his mother.
The third update, good night, my little ancestors!