Shocked! After planting, a sickly and charming first assistant will grow up.

"You don't need to pay for framed and false accusations. Compensation is your obligation."

Don't make him look like giving alms, Luo Xi thought for a while, "Just pay two thousand taels!"

Misheng narrowed his eyes and smiled angrily: "Two thousand taels, is it worth selling you?"

He mentioned compensation casually, just to save some face. In fact, he didn't want to pay any compensation at all. It was just a show in front of the court.

"Whether I am worth it or not, the head of the Mi family doesn't know very well."

"You are willing to pay two thousand taels just to buy my formula, and now you have saved another life. This number is not excessive."

She held up two fingers and shook them.

The bright smile made Misheng want to strangle him to death.

"The person involved is now suing the Mi family for seeking wealth and murder. Mi Sheng, do you have anything to say." Bai Tingyun interrupted at the right time.

It means: If you don't comfort her, today's incident will continue, and your Mi family will suffer even greater losses.

Mi Sheng obviously understood. He gritted his teeth and took out two large banknotes. From the corner of his eye, he saw a few menacing gangsters outside the hall and said with some meaning:

"Little brother, please keep your banknotes. Don't let the gangsters take them away."

I thought to myself: After I get out, I will have someone snatch the banknotes back.

"Thank you, Master Mi, for reminding me." Luo Xi showed a look of realization and said respectfully to Bai Tingyun:

"Please ask someone to give me a lift later. I'm afraid that the head of the Mi family will take action and snatch the banknote back."

These unabashed words made Mi Sheng's hands tremble with anger.

He found that this kid was really sharp-tongued and carefree. In his half-life, he had never seen such a straight-shooting person.

Bai Tingyun coughed lightly: "Yes."

How could Misheng not see Bai Tingyun's partiality?

The person who should be thrown away has been thrown away, and he doesn't want to continue to pester him, so he snorts and leads the person away.

"Retire!"

"..."

In an alley outside the government office, Lu Yunjin was sitting in a carriage, raising a corner of the curtain and handing out two taels of broken silver to the skinny little beggar below.

In a gentle voice: "Do you remember what I said?"

The little beggar took the broken silver with great gratitude and nodded repeatedly: "Remember, remember!"

"In order to obtain the formula, the Mi family did not hesitate to kill my aunt regardless of human life. I promise to spread this news throughout the streets. Please do it."

Lu Yunjin hummed softly and put down the curtain, indicating that Gu Fei could pick up Luo Xi.

"..."

"Grandma Lu, don't you really want to stay one more day?" Luo Xi walked out of the county office. Ma said goodbye to her and said she would leave immediately.

Mrs. Lu snorted softly, "Isn't it enough to offend the Mi family for you?" She pointedly said: "What about what you promised?"

"Don't worry." Luo Xi smiled and lowered her voice:

"You can also write to me when you go to the capital. If there is anything you don't understand and can't solve, you can write to me and ask me."

"Grandma Lu! Have a nice trip."

After receiving Luo Xi's assurance, the old lady was completely relieved and shouted, setting off for Beijing.

On the way here, she wanted some benefits before she would help testify. Luo Xi said that if she encountered any trouble in the capital, she could help solve it.

The two happily struck a deal.

Watching the carriage go away, Luo Xi withdrew her gaze and detoured to the back gate of the county government office.

Jin held his sword and was already waiting here, "My lord, I know you will fight back, come with me."

Jin took her into a side hall, and the sound of banging tables and objects could be heard in the main hall next to the door.

"What do you mean by the surname Bai?"

"After receiving so much gold from me, and even if I didn't force that kid to hand over the formula, the court still wouldn't speak up for my Mi family."

"Are you trying to break the rules?"

Mi Sheng slapped his big palm on the table and spoke in an angry voice.

Bai Tingyun took a sip of tea slowly, and the teacup clattered, and he left it on the table:

"You and I both know the cause of your aunt's death. I've already helped you deal with it in court, what else do you want?"

Misheng stopped talking.

Today alone, he spent four thousand taels of silver, which was enough for his family's expenses for a whole year.

Didn't it mean that Bai Tingyun was an honest official?

He was not lenient at all when accepting his filial piety. If the matter was not handled satisfactorily, it would be difficult to get a refund.

deficit! What a big loss!

"Jin! See you off." Bai Tingyun raised his voice, Jin nodded to Luo Xi, hurriedly walked to the door, and made a gesture of invitation to Mi Sheng.

After the person disappeared from sight, Bai Tingyun walked to Luo Xi and asked straight to the point with a smile: "Are you dissatisfied with the verdict?"

Luo Xi raised her eyelids, "What do you think?"

Bai Tingyun didn't mind her neither salty nor cool attitude, and sat down opposite: "When I first took office, I met an old lady who was setting up a stall."

"Knowing that I was the county magistrate, my mother-in-law trembled and took out all the copper plates wrapped in handkerchiefs and forced them on me."

"Of course I don't want it, guess what happens next?"

Luo Xi shook her head, indicating that she didn't want to guess.

Bai Tingyun suddenly smiled, "The moment I refused, my mother-in-law picked up a branch from the ground and swung it on the back of her five-year-old grandson."

While beating and crying, "I asked her if her grandson was causing trouble, if he was disobedient, if he wanted to force her to death."

"The more I stopped her, the harder my mother-in-law beat her."

"It wasn't until I was so blessed that I accepted five coins from my mother-in-law that she would stop and smile again."

"Afterwards, I realized that not accepting filial piety meant that the grandfather and grandson did not agree to continue setting up a stall."

"I don't understand where this rule comes from, but if you want to change it, you don't have to fight head-on. It needs to be gradual."

"Another thing you may not know is that don't talk about hanging yourself. Even if the deceased is really killed by Mi Sheng, he is not guilty according to the law."

"It is not guilty for a mother to kill her son! It is not guilty for a husband to kill his concubine."

"..."

"What's wrong? You've been depressed since you got in the car. Let's have some snacks."

Sitting on the carriage on the way back, Lu Yunjin picked up a piece of Luo Xi's favorite crabapple cake and put it in her mouth.

Luo Xi took a bite, her cheeks bulging and she couldn't speak clearly: "It's nothing, I just think the women here are too difficult."

Lu Yunjin nodded clearly, "During the former emperor's time, the emperor was suspicious and deliberately suppressed the generals, and the court was full of chaos."

"If the enemy invades, our country will have no generals available."

"The eldest princess of the royal family, who was only fifteen years old at the time, went into battle wearing armor. With her literary and military skills, she annihilated the enemy army in one fell swoop. She conquered five cities in a row and drove the enemy back to their home base."

"The eldest princess could have conquered the enemy country in one fell swoop, but she was recalled to the capital by multiple edicts issued by the late emperor."

"When the merits were discussed and rewards were given, the eldest princess, who had made the greatest contribution, was jointly petitioned by the ministers to take back the military power under certain conditions such as women's husband and children."

"Luo Xi, you said that women are good at studying and doing politics, and they are good at riding horses and killing enemies. If you want to have children, you can find any man to have them."

"What if you don't restrain yourself with rules and regulations, and one day the pressure falls on men?"

"You see, it's not that women can't live without men, but that without women, men will have no descendants."

"For selfish reasons, to carry on the family lineage, and to prevent the regime from being overthrown, women must always be restrained in the backyard, and countless ethical and religious creeds are shackles."