After Wang Yong, Assistant Minister Wei of the Ministry of Rites also left with his son.
They didn't lower their voices on purpose, so the people in the restaurant could hear them clearly.
Ten thousand taels of silver! Just because the girl's clothes were stained with a few drops of wine, the Wei Family had to pay ten thousand taels of silver as compensation. This price was unimaginably high.
Of course, those who could sit here and eat were not ordinary people at the bottom of society. Compared with ordinary people, they naturally had a better sense of politics.
The officialdom had always been like a battlefield. The situation in the court changed every day, not to mention in five months. Everyone knew that County Marquis Li and the Qin Family had never been on good terms with King of Shu's faction. In fact, before he left the capital, King of Shu's faction had secretly made a lot of moves. Many people with a keen sense of smell had sensed it.
However, County Marquis Li left the capital at that time. Coincidentally, the son of the Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Works besieged and killed two girls on the street. Then, the Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Works was investigated. Overnight, he turned from a high-ranking official to a prisoner …
His Majesty was furious about this. During that time, King of Shu's faction didn't dare to do anything out of line for fear of provoking the Emperor again. However, as time went by, they began to move again.
His Majesty happened to be ill, so the morning court session was not held. Except for important matters, everything else was handed over to the Minister of Rites to make decisions. As a result, they became more and more unscrupulous.
However, County Marquis Li came back. Today's matter naturally couldn't be easily understood.
This was a response and a demonstration. It could also be said that it was a declaration to those who were hiding behind the scenes.
Thinking of all the things that happened five months ago, some people were secretly shocked.
It seemed that there would be a big storm in the capital again …
After the Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Rites, several powerful officials came one after another. Of course, they were the parents of the playboys upstairs.
This meal wasn't peaceful at all. Li Yi was a little regretful. The good atmosphere had been ruined by these ignorant fellows.
He knew some of these people, but he had never heard of some of their names. It seemed that a lot of things had happened in the capital in the past few months.
He didn't have the mood to greet the others. After all, except for Wei Junliang, most of them were sitting quietly. He didn't want to extort them again. Without a good reason, he couldn't ask them for compensation. He couldn't just say that he didn't like them, right?
This was too much.
After warming up a little, he felt much better. He didn't want to deal with those people anymore. Therefore, he left those nobles and officials to County Magistrate Liu.
Seeing that the two women stopped moving their chopsticks, Li Yi also put down his chopsticks and asked, "Are you full? If you are, let's go."
Wan Ruoqing and Zeng Zuimo looked at each other and nodded.
Li Yi looked back at County Magistrate Liu, "Mr. Liu, please take care of this …"
"It's no trouble, no trouble at all …"
County Magistrate Liu waved his hand again and again. If he was alone today, he naturally couldn't control such a situation. However, with County Marquis Li standing behind him, he didn't need to worry too much about the families of those people.
As the two of them spoke, a few more people walked in from outside.
Every time someone came in, a small commotion would erupt.
"Who is this?"
"I don't know him. Is there such a person in the circle of officials and nobles in the capital?"
"You don't even recognize him? Isn't he the Fifth Master of the Qin Clan?"
After being enlightened by one person, everyone suddenly understood.
The Qin Manor was prosperous. Prime Minister Qin had five sons, and three of them were officials in the court. When the Qin Clan was at its peak, the two of them held important positions in the Shangshu Province and directly participated in the affairs of the court. Although the Qin Clan's current power couldn't be compared to that time, it still couldn't be underestimated.
The Fourth Master of the Qin Clan was low-key. Although he didn't participate in court politics, he had a lot of influence in the business world.
Only the Fifth Master of the Qin Clan didn't have any talent, but in terms of fame, in the Qin Clan, he was probably second only to the biggest playboy in the capital, Young Duke Qin.
There was no other reason. Two years ago, a scandal broke out in the Qin Clan that shook the entire capital, and it happened to Fifth Master Qin.
Young Duke Qin, who had always had a special fetish for married women, had unexpectedly set his sights on his own uncle one day.
Taking advantage of his drunkenness, he forced himself on the concubine that Fifth Master Qin had taken in. After Fifth Master Qin bumped into him, he kicked him out of the room.
The concubine couldn't bear the humiliation and committed suicide on the spot. At the time, this matter was very big and caused a huge uproar in the entire capital. Later, for some reason, it was left unsettled. After that, Young Duke Qin was still Young Duke Qin, but Fifth Master Qin was no longer that Fifth Master Qin.
His identity had become his humiliation. Because of his identity as Fifth Master Qin, everyone fawned over him on the surface but secretly mocked and disdained him …
In the future, no matter how quickly the Qin Clan soared, Fifth Master Qin would never be able to raise his head again.
County Magistrate Liu went over to greet him. Li Yi's gaze briefly met with a brawny man behind the middle-aged man before quickly moving away. Zeng Zuimo and Wan Ruoqing stood up, but the latter's body swayed. If it weren't for Li Yi's timely support, she probably would have fallen to the ground.
"What's wrong?" Li Yi asked with concern.
Wan Ruoqing frowned slightly and said, "I think I bumped into something just now."
When she was avoiding that man just now, her calf bumped into a table and chair. At that time, she was nervous and didn't feel anything. Now that she was completely relaxed, there was a burst of pain …
Zeng Zuimo walked over to help Li Yi support her. Li Yi looked at her and asked, "Can you still walk?"
"It's fine."
Wan Ruoqing shook her head. With Zeng Zuimo's support, although it was a bit difficult to walk, she could still move slowly.
Qin Yu and Fifth Master Qin didn't have much communication. When they walked down the stairs, they didn't look at Li Yi and walked straight out of the restaurant.
When Li Yi and the two women walked out, they just happened to see Assistant Minister of Revenue Ceng Shichun rushing over. He looked at Zeng Zuimo with an extremely surprised expression. Zeng Zuimo lowered her head and didn't say anything.
On the street, seeing Wan Ruoqing frown with every step, Li Yi felt that the asking price for the clothes just now was still a bit too low. That Wei guy had gotten it too easy.
However, after all, he was a man of his word. It was hard to take back what he had said. It was not appropriate to raise the price now. If he could not deliver the money by tomorrow, it would be reasonable for him to double the compensation. Presumably, the other party would have nothing to say about it.
"Does it hurt a lot?"
The street was bustling with people, and carriages couldn't go through. Seeing Wan Ruoqing's tightly furrowed brows, Li Yi finally stopped and asked.
Wan Ruoqing shook her head and said with a smile, "It's fine."
Her brows didn't even relax, so this smile looked a bit forced. Li Yi walked in front of her and squatted down. "Come on up."
"Ah?"
Wan Ruoqing stilled slightly. When she understood what he meant, her pretty face blushed.
He was different from all the men she knew. Although she had tried her best to get used to the way the two of them interacted, she still felt that putting food on each other's plates was the limit of what she could do.
This was something she had only gotten used to after a long time because when he said these things, his eyes were always as clear as water, without a trace of lust.
Other than him, if it was anyone else, she would most likely think of them as a lecher and wouldn't give them any good looks.
But habit was habit. If she was carried by him through the crowded streets and watched by so many people …
Just thinking about it made her face a little hot.
Zeng Zuimo also looked at this scene in a daze. At this time, Li Yi had already begun to urge.
"It will be dark by the time we walk back like this," Li Yi looked back and said. "Let's hurry, it's not the first time anyway."
The first time he was talking about was naturally when she had fainted from a high fever when she came out of Ning Wang Fu in Qing An Fu.
Zeng Zuimo turned her head with some difficulty. "Not … first time?"
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