The Third Lady's words were a little too explicit, and she said it in front of her father and uncle. This made the Master and his brother so angry that their necks were crooked. However, they did not dare to get angry easily and could only painfully hold it in.
The head of the family also had his own worries. He was very curious about when his daughter had become so bold and shameless. Did Li An promise her something? Was that why she became like this?
"Humph!"
Although he did not get angry, the Master snorted angrily to express his dissatisfaction.
"Third Lady, how can you talk to your father like that? Big Brother is just concerned about you and worried that you will be bullied. "
The Master's brother said.
"Worried that I will be bullied? I am always bullied at home. There are always people talking behind my back. Father, have you ever done anything about it?"
The Third Lady said disdainfully.
"They are all lowly servants. Third Lady, why do you have to lower yourself to their level?"
The Master's brother said.
"Well, this is not the place to talk. Let's go somewhere else to talk!"
The Master felt that he had to be careful. If only the three of them knew about this, it would not be a big deal. However, if the whole Grange knew about it, it would be a big scandal. Therefore, it was better to avoid being discovered by others as much as possible.
The three of them took a detour and came to the secret room of the Grange. Very few people knew about this secret room. It was built behind a hidden rockery in the back garden. It was not easy for ordinary people to find it. Even the servants who cleaned the backyard all day did not know about it. After all, the gap of the door on the rockery was seamless. There was no trace of it at all. Even if you looked at the rockery every day, you would not find that there was a secret room here. If it could be found so easily, it would not be called a secret room.
After the three of them entered the secret room, they closed the rockery outside first. Then, they felt relieved and began to talk about the Third Lady.
"Third Lady, how did you meet Assistant Minister Li? After all, Assistant Minister Li just came to the Grange. You couldn't have met him before!"
The Master asked doubtfully.
The Third Lady said with a smile, "It was a coincidence! Yesterday, when I was playing in the back garden, I suddenly felt that someone was following me. So, I casually shouted. Unexpectedly, someone was really following me. That person was him. "
"Yesterday night? How is that possible? Hasn't Assistant Minister Li been resting in the guest room since yesterday afternoon? When did he leave? Why didn't the servants report it?"
The Master said doubtfully.
The Master's brother said, "Big Brother, that's not right! I went to the guest room many times yesterday, and the doorman said that Assistant Minister Li had been resting all this time and hadn't woken up. How could he suddenly appear in the back garden? These damned servants, how dare they lie to me. "
Third Lady looked at her father and uncle's confused expressions and said, "Don't blame the servants. Assistant Minister Li didn't go through the front door. He quietly left through the window and didn't alert the servants at the door."
Third Lady had accidentally discovered this when she was following Li An back. She was also surprised to find that Li An didn't go through the front door, but went back to the guest room through the back window.
"What? Such a thing actually happened?"
"I really didn't expect it! Assistant Minister Li has such a hobby. "
The Master and his brother were quite surprised. Ang Lee's behavior seemed to have frightened them.
After the Third Lady's explanation, the Master and his brother were finally enlightened. They also had a new understanding of Ang Lee. They were quite shocked and couldn't believe it was true.
"Third Lady, you'll get married in the end. It's not appropriate to do this."
The Master tried to persuade her.
"Father, I've said many times that I won't get married in my life. Please don't think about it anymore. Just think of me as a man! In the future, I'm willing to help you with the business. I'll expand our business to the capital and open a store there. Yizhou City is too small. If we want our family to develop better, we'll have to go to the capital. "
The Third Lady said.
"What? You want to go to the capital?"
The Master didn't expect his daughter to be so ambitious. She wanted to be a man and open a store in the capital. This was too ambitious. It was far beyond his expectations.
The Third Lady said, "I can't go yet. I haven't learned how to do business yet. I hope you can teach me how to do business in one or two years. Then I can open a store in the capital."
The Master hesitated and said, "There are many men in our family. How can we let a girl like you show up in public? It's not appropriate. "
"There are many men in our family, but none of them can compare with me. After going to the capital, Assistant Minister Li has promised to take care of me. It's more convenient for me to go to the palace to see the Imperial Concubine. It'll be better for me to find more helpers. By the way, Assistant Minister Li told me that I look very similar to the Imperial Concubine."
The Third Lady said.
"Big Brother, I think it's okay."
The Master hadn't said anything yet, but his younger brother had. As long as it was for the good of the whole family, he had no reason to object.
Although it was not appropriate for a woman to be in charge of opening a business in the capital, there was no better candidate. Moreover, women did have advantages. It was very convenient for them to go to the palace to see the Imperial Concubine, and they wouldn't be gossiped about. If they could get the support of the Imperial Concubine, their branch could develop better.
Seeing that the Master was still hesitating, the Third Lady said, "Father, no matter what you decide, I'll learn to wear men's clothes starting tomorrow. In the future, I'll wear men's clothes whenever I feel like it. If I feel like it, I'll wear women's clothes whenever I feel like it."
After saying that, she left without looking back, looking very arrogant.
The Master was helpless about his daughter's unreasonable behavior. What his daughter said seemed to be reasonable. Although his family had developed a lot, there was still too little room for development in a place like Yizhou City. If he wanted the family to develop better, he had to go to the bigger capital. The Third Lady was undoubtedly the best candidate.
"Does the Imperial Concubine really look like our Third Lady?"
The head of the family said.
"Big Brother, I've never seen the Imperial Concubine, so I don't know what she looks like. However, they definitely don't look like each other. The Third Lady is too thin and weak, while the Imperial Concubine is said to be plump. The difference is a bit big!"
The Master's younger brother said.
The Master nodded and said, "You're right. They definitely don't look like each other. They probably look a bit like each other! After all, they are both members of the Yang Family! "
"Big Brother is right. The Imperial Concubine and the Third Lady are both members of the Yang Family. It's natural that they look a bit similar. If so, we'll definitely be able to gain the Imperial Concubine's trust after entering the palace."
The Master's younger brother said.
"Well, then it's settled. Starting tomorrow, you'll teach the Third Lady how to do business! I don't trust others to teach her. "
The Master suddenly seemed a little complacent. If the Third Lady could really start a business in the capital, it would be a great thing for his family. At that time, their family would no longer be the tyrant of Yizhou, but the tyrant of the entire Tang dynasty. If the business was successful, the strength of the family might increase by hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of times. For an old man, there was nothing more exciting than the success of a business.
Although relying on his daughter seemed a little unheroic, sometimes he couldn't care so much. The most important thing was to make the family stronger. Compared with that, other things seemed insignificant.
"Big Brother, don't worry. I'm absolutely reliable."
The Master's younger brother said.
After leaving the Yang Family Fields, Ang Lee directly returned to Yizhou City. At the city gate, he met dozens of bandits who were publicly displayed. These bandits were the ones captured by Yang Saburo last night. As for how to punish these guys, the Yizhou Provincial Governor and the Jiannan Provincial Governor had already discussed. They would first be publicly displayed at the city gate for three days and three nights. During this period, they would at most be fed some water and no food. Although it was cruel not to eat for three days, drinking water alone was enough to sustain them for more than three days. These bandits were as strong as bulls. Even if they were not fed for five or six days, they would not starve to death, let alone three days. As long as they were fed water on time every day, it would be enough.
Such a public display of punishment was also to warn the common people not to try to become bandits. Bandits would not have a good ending and would be severely punished. Furthermore, this punishment was very severe and would make the bandits pay a great price.
Showing the bandits to the public was not to let them stand comfortably outside the city gates. That would be no different from the surrounding commoners. The purpose of showing the bandits to the public was to punish and warn them. It was to dissuade the commoners from becoming bandits. As such, the bandits would naturally not be allowed to stand comfortably outside.
These bandits were first tied up with hemp ropes and then hung in the air. Most of the bandits weren't hung very high, only a foot in the air. However, the bandit leaders were in a much more miserable state. They were hung as high as two people, and they were hung horizontally. It wasn't even possible for them to drink water, and it was extremely painful.
Seeing these bandits being tortured, the common people who were watching clapped and cheered, especially the merchants who had been robbed by the bandits. They were so happy that they jumped up and down. They were just short of buying some firecrackers to celebrate.
"Look! This is the consequence of being a bandit. "
A captain flaunted his prowess and whipped one of the bandits from time to time. Then, he loudly warned the common people to intimidate them.
The common people who were watching didn't have any intention of becoming bandits. Therefore, no matter how the captain threatened them, they weren't nervous. After all, this threat had nothing to do with them. They just needed to live an honest life. As long as they didn't become bandits, they would never be hung up and whipped.
"See? This is the consequence of being a bandit. "
"I heard that they will be publicly displayed for three days. If they aren't given a bite to eat, won't they starve to death?"
"They are all bandits who deserve to be killed. Isn't it better if they starve to death? It will save us from wasting food."
"After three days, even if they don't starve to death, they will definitely be beheaded. That's for sure."
"How can you be so sure? This isn't something that us common people can decide. It's the commander-in-chief and the provincial governor who have the final say."
"No matter what, these bandits will at least be locked up in prison. I'm afraid they won't be able to do evil for eight to ten years."
"Look at these bastards. Of all the things they could do, they just had to be bandits. Great, now they've been caught!"
"They deserve it! These guys all deserve it. Let's see how they can rob in the future. "
"We've been robbed by bandits for so many years. I really hope that the imperial court can wipe out all these bandits as soon as possible. Not a single one of them will be left alive."
"That's right. Wipe out all the bandits. Not a single one of them will be left alive."
The crowd was excited. None of them exonerated the bandits. None of the common people said that the bandits should be forgiven.
This was enough to show that the common people of the Tang dynasty abhorred evil. There was no brainless Virgin Mary or fake Guanyin. This was the cornerstone of the Tang Empire's strength.
There were too many saints in the later generations, and because there were too many brainless saints, it led to a lot of things losing their sense of right and wrong. When a bandit went to rob and murder a passerby, not only did the saint not say that the bandit was wrong, she even asked the imperial court to reflect on why there were bandits in the empire under the imperial court's management, why there were commoners living a good life, and why they went to the mountains to become bandits. Was it because the imperial court didn't do a good job and forced the commoners to become bandits? All of this was the imperial court's fault. She also said that this person was bullied since he was young, so he became mentally ill and went to the mountains to become a bandit. It was the people around him who bullied him and forced him to become a bandit.
In short, there were thousands of reasons to exonerate the bandits and exonerate the guilty. It was simply unreasonable and illogical.
For example, some people were poor, so they became prostitutes. Then they gave the reason that their family was too poor to live, so they had to take up such a job. But people who were also very poor went to the construction site to carry bricks. They could choose to support themselves with their physical strength, so why did they sell their bodies? It was hard to understand how they could be so shameless and self-righteous.
Seeing how normal the common people of the Tang dynasty were, Ang Lee was very satisfied. With such common people, the Tang dynasty's strength was guaranteed.
"Assistant Minister Li, all the bandits who were captured last night are here."
Yang Saburo said.
"What's your plan, Commander? Kill them or put them in prison?"
Ang Lee asked.
Yang Saburo said, "Commander only said to show them to the public for three days. He didn't say how to deal with them after that."
"The older you get, the more cunning you are. You don't even want me to know. After three days, I will be a hundred miles away."
Ang Lee said with a smile.
Old Man Xianyu was a cunning person. Ang Lee had known this for a long time. Generally, few people who did business were not cunning. All businessmen in the world were cunning. If they were too honest, it would be difficult to do business well. If Old Man Xianyu was not cunning, how could he see that the Yang family was going to prosper? Then, he quickly built a good relationship with the Yang family and got the position of provincial governor.
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