Chapter 257： smart

Chapter 257 Pretending to be Smart

Patriarch Qi, who thought he had been targeted, did not dare to offend Mr. Pan openly, but he was unwilling to just swallow this useless gas. He bowed his hands slightly to Mr. Pan, "Master Pan, I have a question."

Master Pan nodded, "Excuse me."

"Can't I just redeem a certain person?"

Mr. Pan knew what this guy was up to when he heard it, but he didn't mean to be a hindrance. He nodded slightly at Patriarch Qi, "Of course."

Before Patriarch Qi could speak, Mrs. Qi couldn't wait to say, "Then we won't redeem these maids!"

The redemption of one thousand taels per person is enough for her to buy another twenty of her chosen ones. Twenty for one.

After she said this, Patriarch Qi was reminded of another question by her. He asked Mr. Pan, "Dare to ask Mr. Pan, why is the ransom of the cheap one three thousand taels?"

The price for half a year is five hundred taels, and the one year is one thousand taels. His wife, who has been sentenced for two years, needs to pay three thousand taels of redemption. Where did the extra thousand taels come from?

Mr. Pan glanced at his master who was in charge of paying the bill, and the master immediately held up the thick legal code in his hand, "Patriarch Qi didn't know that, according to the law, a woman pays a fine to redeem herself, and if she wants to The longer the redemption period, the more fine silver that needs to be handed over.”

He gave Patriarch Qi a chestnut, "For example, Mrs. Zun, for the two-year sentence she needs to redeem, she really only needs to pay a fine of one thousand taels of silver in the first year, but in the second year she needs to redeem, the fine is more than 1,000 taels." It doubled in the first year, so she needs to hand in a total of two thousand taels in the second year."

Patriarch Qi's face turned dark immediately. It was the first time he had heard that fine money can be doubled according to the number of years.

He really wanted to suspect that this group of foreign officials headed by Mr. Pan was trying to make things difficult for him, but the master on the other side was holding a copy of the law code, but their family also had a copy that was left in a remote corner of the study to eat ashes.

The most important thing is that the code was sent by Mr. Pan himself_(:з」∠)_

The other party knew that the Qi family also had this code, if they hadn't gone crazy collectively, they would definitely not have lied about their money at this juncture.

Thinking about it this way, patriarch Qi immediately cursed Ye Anlan, the "culprit" who formulated this strange law code.

But scolding can be scolding, after scolding is over, he still has to take out the money that should be paid obediently. After all, he can use one thousand taels out of sixteen thousand taels to buy twenty new servants, but he cannot use the three thousand taels to buy himself a new Mrs. Qi┓(`)┏

In addition to the three thousand taels, he also had someone take the one thousand five hundred taels added together by his daughter-in-law and daughter.

As for the maids who cried and begged their family to save themselves, Patriarch Qi's family didn't even look at them.

They are not Ye Anlan who insists that everyone is equal before the law. For them, servants are always servants.

"Although they paid the money, they are still not allowed to leave Jeju City during their respective sentences." The master in charge of collecting the money thought that they had not read the new law, so he smiled and reminded Mrs. Qi The four daughters of the sentence.

Mrs. Qi's face was even darker when he said that she had already paid, and these people actually restricted her range of activities! Then wouldn't she be imprisoned in a bigger place?

She wanted to have an attack, but then she thought that today she seemed to be in trouble, and she was constantly suffering and suffering. She still tried her best to suppress her anger.

At the same time, Patriarch Qi finally mentioned the issue of the punishment of all men, including himself.

Because they just followed the crowd and neither challenged nor acted, they were only sentenced to six months in prison just like Patriarch Qi’s daughter-in-law and daughter.

Men go to prison for half a year, of course, there is no such thing as a woman's reputation problem, and the government will not prohibit their family members from sending things or visiting the prison regularly for crimes like theirs, so they will not have a hard time in prison.

But this "not hard work" is compared to other prisoners. For Patriarch Qi and the sons of Patriarch Qi who are used to being pampered, the prison life for the past six months is obviously very tormented.

The food and clothes are not as good as before, and the body is confined in a small, simple, and dirty cell, surrounded by lowly prisoners who used to even bother to look at them. This kind of environment will definitely make them live like years.

But this is not the most unacceptable thing for them. The most unacceptable thing for them is the great damage to their reputation caused by being imprisoned for half a year.

After being imprisoned, they will not only be rejected and squeezed out in the gentry circles of Jeju, but will also be waiting for opportunities to seize power within the family.

People who originally gained both fame and wealth, now let them suddenly lose everything they once owned, so it's no wonder they can accept it.

Patriarch Qi didn't dare to go head-to-head with Mr. Pan on this matter. He knew he was in the wrong, and he didn't have the guts and courage to touch Ye Anlan with his pigeon egg, so he chose to discuss it with Mr. Pan. .

He hoped that the men of the Qi family could also use money to redeem the penalty. As long as Mr. Pan was willing, he was even willing to pay ten times the price of the female relatives.

However, to his despair, Mr. Pan rejected him.

In the words of Mr. Pan, Miss Ye of his family allows the woman to pay or contribute to redeem herself because she does not want those women who are not guilty of death to be forced to death by her new law and the old customs of this world. As for men, men do not exist. "Famous Festival" said.

Patriarch Qi really wanted to yell in Mr. Pan's ear—there is no such thing as a man's reputation, but men also want fame!

Unfortunately, however, he dared not.

Not only did he dare not, but neither did his two sons.

They could only hold back the resentment and unwillingness to be reconciled, and begged Qi Hongling to raise his hand.

Of course Qi Hongling would not be moved by their entreaties.

In her opinion, if a poisonous snake has already bit you several times, even if it accidentally gets into trouble and looks like it has lost the wind, you must not take it lightly or even show mercy to it.

Because your momentary soft-heartedness now will undoubtedly predetermine your death in the future.

Qi Hongling's indifference made Mrs. Qi angry, and she realized that her husband and son had not escaped from prison, and now she became the one who would become disorganized and only know how to play tricks when faced with adversity. stupid woman.

It was the patriarch Qi who stopped Mrs. Qi in time, so that she could not say more sensational things in front of Mr. Pan and others, and do things that would make their family even more guilty.

(end of this chapter)