Chapter 9 — An Luong Doesn't Choose a Female

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My father and mother ran to the path of enlightenment at night. Mother's body is only infected with wind and cold. Her face is rosy and she doesn't need anyone to help her walk. As soon as she entered the door, she hugged the elder sister.

"Thanh Nguyet was also deceived by the Tiet family!"

“He's never been involved in business since he was young, so how did he know that those people's hearts were so dark?”

"Minh Chau, I understand these things best. I'll explain to the Queen Mother on behalf of my sister, she just wants to open a female school."

The elder sister buried herself in her arms, crying until her whole body trembled. Father stared at the envelope on the table again.

“Entrust the affairs of the Tiet family to me.”

“That envelope was also left behind.”

I was applying medicine on my palm, when I heard that I raised my head.

“Does your father want to kill people to get rid of their mouths?”

“I want to protect the Tan family!”

He lowered his voice.

"The Tiet family has been doing business in the capital for decades, and their relatives are in-laws everywhere. If you bring matters into the palace, you may not be able to overthrow them in one go, but the Tan family will be destroyed first."

"Make peace with the Tiet family, let them pay their salary and take care of the boat. As for your sister's envelope, it's as if it never existed."

“What if the anchor rope is cut?”

“Isn't there no one dead?”

Happy Tam Nuong stood up. Father instinctively took a step back. I raised my hand to stop her.

“Father is right.”

“No one died because we were lucky.”

“So in your eyes, you still only made a small mistake.”

The mother cried and shook her head.

"Thanh Nguyet didn't know that the Tiet family wanted to cut the boat's ropes!"

“He just wants you to understand that morality cannot be maintained only by relying on aggression and victory.”

"I have already obtained the master seal, why do I have to destroy my sister?"

The eldest sister finally raised her face from her mother's lap.

"Tan Minh Chau, before I really thought that the Queen Mother would use the title of Princess to keep me."

"I have a reputation, am talented in learning, and am the eldest daughter of my maternal grandmother. It is easier for everyone to choose me than choosing me."

“But your highness keeps giving me the general seal.”

She wiped her tears, her eyes only remaining unwilling.

“If you know how to calculate and get along with the co-boat, so what?”

“You can also leave those things to the counter manager.”

“Only I have the power to make the noble ladies of the world willing to step out, giving women true dignity.”

“So you take their lives to exchange face?”

"I said I didn't know the Tiet family would harm you!"

“I didn't know that moldy rice would harm people, I didn't know that cutting the boat ropes would harm people, and I also didn't know that the Tiet family swallowing grain storage would harm people.”

"You don't know anything, yet you dare to take charge of all the women."

She was questioned until her face turned red and white. The angry father shouted:

“That's enough!”

"My sister admitted she was wrong. Do I have to force her to die?"

“I don't force you.”

I folded the envelope and put it in the evidence box.

"She opened the door herself."

My father rushed in to rob me. The royal guard raised his hand to block him. In anger, he raised his hand to hit me. Chuc Tam Nuong's oar stuck in front of his feet.

“Lord Qin, think carefully.”

“This is the general director of good manners, not the backyard where you close the door and beat your daughter.”

My father's hand stopped in midair. I picked up the evidence box.

“After dawn, I will enter the palace.”

“Moldy rice in Tay warehouse, poisoned porridge tent, theft of food in Nam warehouse and cutting boat ropes, this is not the same thing. lack."

The mother made a "thud" sound and knelt down.

“Minh Chau, mother prays for me.”

This is the first time she kneels before me. But it's still for the elder sister. I held her arm and pulled her up.

“Mother, don't kneel.”

“Even if you kneel, I will not take the salary of hundreds of refugee households and six human lives in exchange for a clean set of clothes for you.”

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The day of the interrogation before the palace, the Queen Mother also came. Tiet Van Son knelt in the middle of the palace, still biting that everything was done by the manager arbitrarily.

“The villagers only admired Miss Qin's kindness, so they donated their salary and boats.”

“As for the letter asking for the title of district lord, it was the servant's free will to speculate on his thoughts. The villagers are completely unaware.”

I sent someone to carry three things. Moldy rice from the West warehouse, old loan contracts of the Tiet family's boats and anchor ropes were severed. Shopkeeper Tran and the manager who brought in the moldy rice were also brought in. Initially, the two of them intended to bear the blame for the Tiet family. Until Kinh Trieu Palace took out the check their family had received. The checks all came from the same Tiet Ky bank account. Tiet Van Son's expression finally changed. Seeing that he couldn't deny it, he suddenly turned around and pointed at the elder sister.

“Your Highness the Queen Mother, if it wasn't for Miss Qin to find the Tiet family first, the common people wouldn't have had those thoughts!”

The elder sister suddenly raised her head.

“Shut up!”

Tiet Van Son pulled out a long tea bill from his sleeve. The second day after the general seal was given to me, the elder sister met him at Vong Nguyet Lau. The first question she asked was not who changed the moldy rice from Tay warehouse. It's up to the Queen Mother to revoke her general seal and make her a district princess.

“The eldest lady said that Tan Minh Chau only understands rough things and sooner or later will cause trouble in the moral world.”

“She told the Tiet family to cut the boat first, then raise the price. As long as the resentment in the city is loud enough, the Queen Mother will naturally regret choosing the wrong person."

“I didn't tell you to raise the price!”

The elder sister shouted and interrupted.

“I'm just saying that your sister has a strong character, you have to endure some disadvantages before you can turn around.”

As soon as the words came out, she herself stiffened. What she wants to erase is just the word "price increase". As for cutting off the boat route and forcing me to lose my seal, she has never denied it. The Queen Mother closed her eyes for a moment.

“Continue interrogation.”

May Tam Nuong lead three boatmen to testify. They did not understand court etiquette. When they knelt, their knees banged loudly.

“The people only know one thing.”

"Miss Qin opened the door and let people in. Tiet's men used knives to cut the boat's ropes."

"If the person holding the seal doesn't stay and return to the Tan family, last night will sink to nothing but a few sacks of wages."

The Queen Mother looked at her elder sister.

“Tan Thanh Nguyet, do you accept it?”

The elder sister knelt next to her mother, her eyes swollen from tears.

“The goddess has opened the door.”

“But I really don't know who the Tiet family will hurt.”

“The goddess wants the title of district lord just to open a female school.”

“Women have no identity, no matter how much they say, no one will listen.”

“If you know that power is useful, why did you refuse the general seal before?”

The Queen Mother's voice is not high. But the eldest sister seemed to have had her last layer of cover stripped away in front of everyone.

“The total seal is just a spear seal.”

“Having to deal with traders, porters and boat owners every day, what can change?”

The palace suddenly became silent. Cheers Tam Nuong bowed her head and looked at her chapped hands. The Queen Mother also saw it.

“Porter you look down on for carrying food into a natural disaster area.”

“The captain you underestimate risked his life to save more than three hundred people.”

“The seal you underestimate can cause twelve warehouses to open at the same time.”

"Tan Thanh Nguyet, you don't want to compete for a woman's position."

“You just want the women of the world to be your footstool, to lift you up to a position where you don't need to get stuck in the mud.”

The elder sister completely sat down on the ground. She was still unwilling and suddenly pointed at me.

"But Tan Minh Chau opened a warehouse to sell salaries and also took money from refugees!"

“It only sells cheaper than the Tiet family, on what basis is it considered benevolent?”

The Queen Mother did not answer. The old woman picked up rice from the warehouse yesterday and was helped into the palace by Bach Ma Ma. She took out her used salary slip from her chest.

“The villagers paid sixty dong to buy a bag of rice.”

"If we don't get it, we won't be able to compete with the talented people of the Tiet family."

“Your Majesty holds the seal of collecting the salaries of those who have money, so that people like us who have no money can still receive rice.”

She cannot speak great principles. Just clutch the blank pay slip. The emperor finished looking at the payroll books of the three warehouses and closed it.

“Opening the warehouse the night before Thanh Ha dike broke, wage prices in the city were not chaotic.”

“After the refugees arrived in the capital, no one died of hunger due to lack of food.”

“This is exactly what the general seal should do.”

The Tiet family uses moldy rice to harm people, hoards to raise prices, steals food and destroys boats, many other crimes. Tiet Van Son was escorted right to the palace. Eighteen boats and six food stores that the Tiet family mortgaged to the religion were all used to compensate people. I present a list again. Twenty-three people were poisoned in the porridge tent, six boat crew members were injured in Nam Kho, and forty-one boat owners who were owed money by the Tiet family were all named above.

“The Tiet family's silver must first be compensated for them.”

The Household Ministry official frowned.

"The assets of the crime must be deposited into the national treasury, and the court will handle it themselves. Folk debts can be slowly paid off later."

The wound on Chuc Tam Nuong's hand is still wrapped in cloth. The so-called gradual payment may very well mean permanent non-payment. We put the total seal next to the list.

“Eighteen boats and six salaried stores were all supported by the salaries of the martyrs.”

“If even those who shed blood for the sake of morality must be ranked last, who will be willing to sell their lives for this seal in the future?”

The emperor took a look at Chuc Tam Nuong, then looked at the list.

“Compensate people first, then restock.”

If the four words fall, the Household Ministry official can only receive the order. Wishing Tam Nuong who doesn't know how to say beautiful thanks. She nodded her head loudly.

“Your Majesty, please rest assured, after the boat is repaired, the people will still receive food as usual.”