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Chapter 718
Yuan Chun pondered for a while, but worried: "If you tell the truth to the lord, then... will the lord know?"

Xue Hong said helplessly: "No one knows about this."

Yuan Chun sighed: "Anyway, you're right, the power of the Jia family is no longer what it was when Grandpa was alive. When something happened in the East Mansion before, how could it not be that the wall was overthrown by everyone? The mother's matter has become like this, I heard that all the common people who came to the mansion to file a complaint have joined their names. Let alone the lord, I am afraid that all the court officials on the ground in the capital know about such a big movement. I think I will go back to the mansion right away. See you Let me tell you the truth, maybe this is the only way out for us right now."

After Yuan Chun said that, seeing that Jia Wang had something to say, she didn't want to stay in this house for a second, so she stood up with a flick of her sleeves and said, "Baoyu, Brother Zhu is gone, you are the pillar of the second room. Please try to persuade my father. A family like ours will never have a scandal about divorce. Even if my father cares about my sister and my face, he must endure it. Right now, we should go to the old lady to discuss it. , what should I tell the prince after I go back."

According to Xue Hong's proposition, Jia Wang's affairs must be told to Yinzhen, but what to say, what kind of expression to use, and to what extent, all have certain skills.It is necessary to explain the matter clearly, but also to avoid the important ones and turn the main responsible person into someone else.

The whole family discussed it until sunset, and Fang came up with a rough explanation.

Yuan Chun returned to the palace exhausted physically and mentally, but the servants in the palace said that the prince had returned and was discussing matters with the disciples in the study.She didn't dare to disturb Yinzhen rashly, and she didn't dare to go near the study, she just sent someone to tell Yinzhen that she had something important to see him.

Yinzhen is still strange here, Yuanchun used to be the most worry-free person, and never sent someone to look for him when he was busy, what's the matter today?
Even though he had doubts in his heart, Yinzhen finished his own affairs first, went to accompany Fujin to have dinner before coming to her room.

Yuanchun bowed to Yinzhen as soon as he saw him and refused to get up no matter what.Yinzhen asked curiously: "What's wrong with you today? What kind of big event deserves this?"

Yuan Chun raised his head, his eyes were already red and swollen from crying, and his little face without makeup looked even more haggard, which made Yinzhen's heart skip a beat.

Yuan Chun said sadly: "My lord, I went back to my mother's house today and heard about a shameful incident. I really feel sorry for my lord and my trust in my concubine and Jia's family. Kneel down and say it, and it will save the concubine from having to kneel again when the concubine is released later."

In Yinzhen's mind, Jia Yuanchun has always been wise and rational, and today's appearance is really rare.From this, it can also be imagined that the things she wants to say are probably extraordinary, and thinking of those things in Jia's house in the past, the expression on Yinzhen's face also became serious. He sat at the round table and poured himself a cup of tea. A cup of fragrant tea, and said: "If you have anything to say, just say it, my king is listening."

Only then did Yuan Chun kowtow gratefully, and said eloquently: "My lord, what I want to talk about today is about the concubine's mother. She... made a big mistake. The monthly bills were paid out to others, but the slaves under him were bold enough to increase the interest layer by layer. The account that was originally a profit of one or two cents was turned into a profit of five or six cents by the subordinates, and the poor were not paid. Accounted for, quite a few lives were lost.”

After hearing this, Yin Zhen choked a mouthful of tea in his throat and almost choked him to death: "What did you say?!"

Seeing Yinzhen glaring at each other, Yuan Chun's heart was pounding, she hurriedly said: "My lord, you know that my concubine's family used to have a so-called duke's mansion, and there were not many people in the family who were officials. , No one eats the royal salary, but it still hinders face, and falsely complied with a set of rules for everyone's great cause. Although the ancestors left some old family business, it is not enough for the descendants to corrupt. If things go on like this, the family's family will gradually become empty.

Just at that time, the eldest son of the eldest wife died, and the mother couldn't bear the blow, and fell ill all of a sudden, and the power of housekeeping fell to my mother.But it's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice, and it's hard for a woman to change money in her hands, and there is only a lot of money in the family. In order to balance the accounts, my mother didn't know how much dowry she sent in, but it was still not enough. .

I don't know what kind of opportunity it was, but the wife of Hu Zhouming, the former six-rank blue-collar guard, came to my house as a guest, and told my mother about this usury trick.Mrs. Hu said that each of them had done this kind of thing when their money was not enough at home, but the interest money released was not as high as those usury charged, only one or two cents, and relieved many people who were in urgent need of money outside. In spite of the difficulties, I can also get some benefits at that time, so I started to lend money.

It's just that my mother is a woman after all, and she is also the wife of a big mansion, so it's not easy to go out to collect the bills by herself. Naturally, these things will fall into the hands of people my mother trusts.She has a chaperone named Zhou Rui, who is the most obedient person. He has been collecting accounts for my mother for a long time, and gradually mastered the tricks, and even made two sets of account books by himself.He went out to ask the common people for five or six cents of interest, but what he handed over to my mother was still one or two cents.

Only now that people were killed and others came to the door, my mother knew that the matter had failed. It turned out that the interest she released was the first-class usury on the ground in the capital, so she was dumbfounded.

My lord, I know that my mother should never do it, even if the family has no money to support her, she shouldn't think of giving interest money when she goes to the street to beg for food.It was she who started this, and gave her subordinate Haonu the opportunity to make a big mistake.But this culprit is my own mother. She is also a stupid woman who is illiterate and does not know the law. I really can't bear to see her being abandoned by my father and sent to the government at such an old age, so Only then did he shamelessly come to ask the prince for a lenient punishment.

No matter how the prince punishes, Jia Yuanchun is willing to take it on behalf of his mother. "

When Yuan Chun said this, she was already in tears, and before Yinzhen could respond, she knelt on the ground and kowtowed her head one after another.This is not a fake, every time Yuanchun hits, he knocks down viciously, and blood is seen on his forehead in a short while.The blood on the forehead of a person with very fair skin looks shocking at this moment, and Xu Zhen's heart skipped a beat when he saw it.

(End of this chapter)