After picking up a lucky girl, all the beasts line up to come to your door

Inn, room.

Zheng Xingguang placed a visiting card on the table with a look of disgust on his face: "This is from the county magistrate, who said he would come to visit us tomorrow."

"He really has some free time. He's clearly busy with the affairs of the county magistrate and others."

Sang Ye picked up the visiting card and looked at it.

"Big brother, I want to see it, I want to see it." Baby Mu stretched his head, wanting to see the visiting card.

Sang Ye took the visiting card and looked at it with her.

Mu Baobao only knew a few Chinese characters and didn't recognize the rest. "This visiting card is so beautiful. It has sparkling flowers on it."

"This visiting card is very valuable." Sang Ye turned it over and looked at it, saying with a half-smile, "It would cost at least twenty or thirty taels to make a card like this."

Mu Baobao was stunned. "So expensive?! Just a visiting card?"

"I don't understand why a visiting card costs so much money."

Her little face was full of confusion. "With so much silver, why not use it to buy meat? Meat is so delicious."

Mu Pingping held his forehead with his hand.

Sang Ye, Hua Yun and Shangguan Quan were at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

The corners of Zheng Xingguang's mouth twitched.

Sang Ye suppressed her laughter and patiently explained, "Baby, this is called face."

"The county magistrate is the highest official in the area. If the things he sells are cheap or of poor quality, the locals will look down on him and despise him. Do you understand?"

Mu Baobao didn't understand much, but he knew about face. "There are people in our village who care about face very much, and they even beat their wives and children at home."

"It's bad."

Sang Ye said, "Baby, it's different."

"The county magistrate's good face is to show his financial strength and status. It is a symbol of status."

"But this also proves that the county magistrate has much more money than his salary."

"Yes." Hua Yun took the invitation and looked at it. "The county magistrate's monthly salary, including miscellaneous items, is over forty taels of silver."

"These forty-odd taels are to be used for various daily expenses."

He raised the visiting card in his hand and said, "A visiting card costs more than twenty taels. Even if the county magistrate has property, he is not that rich."

"Of course, those disciples sent out by large families are excluded."

"Obviously, this county magistrate is not a disciple of a large family."

Mu Baobao didn’t quite understand what was said. His mind was full of money, lots of money.

"Second Young Master Hua, why are the disciples sent out from big families excluded?" Mu Pingping asked.

Hua Yun threw the visiting card on the table and explained, "Big families don't lack money. Generally, every child has an inheritance, it's just a matter of more or less."

"Except for the unfavored disciples, the major families will provide them with sufficient money and property to support them in eating, drinking, and making friends while they are away."

Mu Pingping was surprised, "Will disciples from big families be sent out?"

It turns out that big families also prepare these for their disciples.

Hua Yun said, "Don't think that being sent out is a hard job."

"I tell you, ordinary people or those who are not favored by the emperor will not have the opportunity to be sent out."

"After being sent back, they will be at least officials of the fourth rank or above, and there will be opportunities to rise to the highest position in the government in the future."

"At least, they are all courtiers favored by the emperor."

Sang Ye said, "For example, the current Prime Minister and the Minister of Revenue are all officials who returned to the court after being exiled. They are also officials favored by the emperor."

Mu Pingping then realized that speaking out loud had such great benefits.

"Can you tell me everything?" Shangguan Quan said speechlessly, "Not all external releases are good. Some external releases are punishments."

"Silver, silver!" Mu Baobao was anxious, pointing at the visiting card with his fleshy hand, "Silver!"

Sang Ye and the others all laughed.

"Prince Zheng, do you want to see the county magistrate tomorrow?" Hua Yun asked.

Zheng Xingguang said impatiently, "No."

"I didn't deal with this kind of thing because I was thinking about the baby's safety."

If they were not out for fun, he would definitely not let the county magistrate have an easy time.

"It's okay if we don't meet the county magistrate," Hua Yun said. "Let's leave the county magistrate alone for a while and see what he does. Then we can decide what to do."

Zheng Xingguang folded his arms and snorted, "No matter what he does, I won't see him."

"After we leave, Uncle Emperor will take care of him."

Hua Yun thought to herself that he was really a child and wouldn't care so much about these things.

"Let's do it."

Anyway, the emperor is in charge of everything, so he doesn't have to worry about so many things.

……

Rongdu, the Ministry of Justice’s prison.

The Minister of Justice is interrogating a group of people.

This group of people were none other than the disaster victims that Mu Baobao and his group encountered and who tried to rob them.

This group of people were all covered in blood, and there was not a single piece of good meat on their bodies.

"You still refuse to tell the truth?" The Minister of Justice raised his eyelids and sneered.

"Or do you think that after entering the prison of my Ministry of Justice, you can get out safely?"

"What are you daydreaming about?"

The group of people lay on the ground trembling.

They didn't understand what had happened, they only knew that they were captured and brought here as soon as they entered Rongdu.

First, the jailer interrogated them, and then the Minister of Justice came to question them personally.

Ask them where they came from, what they did, and where the large amount of silver and banknotes in the bag came from.

They claimed to be the perpetrators and that they had fled from famine, but no one believed them and tortured them instead.

Severe punishment was used.

"Sir, we are really here to escape famine. There is no water in our hometown, and we can't stand it anymore, so we fled."

"Please let us go, sir. We haven't told a single lie."

The Minister of Justice scoffed, "How could someone fleeing famine have so much banknotes and silver, and be so delicate and tender?"

After a pause, he continued, "Since you refuse to confess honestly, then kill some of them and leave only two or three."

"As for which ones to kill, it's hard to say."

Several jailers walked over with knives in hand, looking at the group of people fiercely, as if they were choosing who to strike first.

"This is good." A jailer pulled out a slightly fat man and stabbed him in the stomach with a knife.

The slightly plump man vomited blood, his eyes widened in fear, and he wanted to say something but couldn't utter a word.

He didn't expect that when the Minister of Justice said he wanted to kill them, he really meant to kill them, not just threaten them.

Seeing this scene, the remaining people screamed.

"Ah! Don't kill me! Don't kill me! I'm willing to tell you, I'm willing to tell you everything, please don't kill me!"

"Help! Help! Who can save me?"

The Minister of Justice said, "Even if you shout until your throat is broken, it won't work."

"The Emperor has issued a secret order for a strict investigation into this matter."

Upon hearing this, the group of people were disheartened. They never imagined that the emperor had ordered a thorough investigation into this matter.

This was completely different from what they expected.

They thought that after coming to Rongdu, they could live a truly good life and no longer have to worry about money.

As a result, the reality is this.

The Minister of Justice expressed sarcasm, saying that people like this would not tell the truth unless they saw blood.