It wasn't until the county government sent someone to ask Xiao Yixun if he wanted to pay the copper penalty for his slave that Lin Wanwan, the head of the Lin family, knew that someone in his family had been quietly arrested by the government yesterday.
When Lin Wanwan learned that the other party's crime was negligent injury, she suddenly understood where the money Xiao Yixun and Xiao Qingyu gave her came from!
She had previously found it strange how much money a bearded man living in a noble family could earn, but she didn't expect him to have such a deviant job with a part-time job.
Isn't this just a killer script for getting paid to do things? Although there is no killing on the spot, the nature is almost the same.
Naturally, Xiao Yixun couldn't afford the 600 kilograms of copper coins that would save him from being a slave and going to jail, so Lin Wanwan offered to lend her the money in exchange for the fact that she would help Lin Wanwan look after the accounts.
Xiao Yixun, who has a dominant personality, is extremely sensitive to numbers. Lin Wanwan never avoids others when teaching Lin Mengli the double-entry accounting method. Therefore, Xiao Yixun who is listening always learns faster than Lin Mengli. Lin Mengli uses the speed of abacus to calculate accounts.
They can't keep up with Xiao Yixun's mental arithmetic speed.
For Lin Wanwan, providing Xiao Yixun with free food and accommodation was a way of repaying the favor of rescuing her on the cliff. However, if the borrowed money is repaid, the account must be settled clearly.
Everything valuable in Xiao Yixun's body now was given by Lin Wanwan, and she definitely can't give it back to Lin Wanwan. So besides working for Lin Wanwan, she has nothing else to pledge.
In fact, Xiao Yixun had no intention of paying off the copper fine for his slaves. He just hit the board. If he was rough-skinned and thick-skinned, he had nothing to fear. If he went to jail, he would go to jail. Anyway, she didn't need to serve her loyally in the Lin Mansion.
A servant's life is not worth six hundred catties of copper coins. Xiao Chong simply went crazy thinking about money.
But since Lin Wanwan took the initiative to propose this exchange condition, Xiao Yixun agreed.
The main reason is that she can settle accounts for Lin Wanwan. In fact, she is quite happy. Lin Wanwan recognizes her calculation ability, which makes her a little happy.
Lin Wanwan ordered Sun Yaoyao to drive a carriage and carry six hundred kilograms of copper coins to the county government office, and exchanged them for Zhongyi, a man with a curly beard.
In fact, Lin Wanwan also felt that Xiao Chong did it on purpose. It was because they were short of money to dig up the Rihu Lake, so they should start harvesting wool! She had seen people fine them a few kilograms of copper, but she had never seen anyone fine them hundreds of kilograms of copper.
This is not so good in the Tang Dynasty. It is said that the country is governed by law and there are laws to follow. But in fact, the county magistrates have great freedom. Except for the death penalty, which must be reported for review, the county magistrates basically have the final say in other minor cases.
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After Zhongyi was exchanged for copper, he kowtowed to both Xiao Yixun and Lin Wanwan.
Lin Wanwan told him not to do illegal things and make ill-gotten gains in the future. She would not pay to save him next time.
Loyalty and perseverance are naturally full of praise.
When he originally heard in the third hall that Xiao Chong had sentenced him to fifty pounds plus three years in prison, and that he would be fined six hundred pounds of copper for the crime, he was already ready to dig rivers and serve - Luan County
Now it is an open secret that all reform-through-labor prisoners have to go to Taishanyan to work.
Six hundred catties of copper coins, how many slaves like him can you buy?
Not to mention that the young master has no money at all now, even when he was still living in the Xiao family, he would not have given out so many copper coins to redeem him. He still has this self-knowledge.
As a slave, in addition to loyalty, the most important thing is to understand your identity and status.
When he was young, he was not tolerated by his tribe because of his strange eyes. In the end, for the sake of his family's peace in the tribe, his family sold him to the Ya people at the age of eight for a price of a thousand dollars (about six kilograms).
If Xiao Yixun hadn't had different requirements for selecting servants than ordinary people, didn't mind people with disabilities like them, selected him as a guard in the mansion when he was twelve years old, and let the martial arts warriors teach them, he would have been there long ago.
He had already died in the quarry.
Now that the young master actually paid for such a large sum of copper coins to take the blame for him, how could he not shed tears of gratitude?
He almost cried when he saw the carriage full of copper coins passing by him. When did he have such value in the heart of his little master?
In order to repay his little master and Lord Le'an, Zhongyi's loyalty is unprecedentedly high.
Xiao Yixun naturally didn't know Zhongyi's thoughts, but even if she knew, she wouldn't care. To her, the slaves' thoughts are insignificant. Their life and death are closely related to their masters, and loyalty is just their duty.
In the Tang Dynasty, slaves and maids were treated like livestock, so it was impossible to expect the nobles to show mercy to their slaves.
If a slave makes a mistake, and the master asks the official to kill him, he is not guilty!
If a master kills an innocent slave without permission, the maximum punishment is only a hundred rods, and he can also be fined with a copper for the crime, which is equivalent to spending money for nothing - there is only one exception, that is, the master who kills the slave is offended.
Man, someone is going to mess with him.
How could Xiao Yixun, who grew up in such a value environment, care about the lives of his slaves?
Someone who cares about a slave like Lin Wanwan is definitely an anomaly. Xiao Yixun always observes her secretly with a curious and weird mood.
Lin Wanwan naturally noticed the curious and inquiring eyes that Xiao Yixun cast at her every time, but when she thought about the other person's mental state, she felt it didn't matter anymore.
For a girl like Xiao Yixun, who appears from time to time as a second personality and fights awkwardly with Xiao Qingyu for her favor and wants to be her daughter, Lin Wanwan will unconsciously be more tolerant and compassionate.
In fact, to be honest, Lin Wanwan is definitely a beauty control person, but she doesn't admit it herself. If Xiao Yixun were uglier, her tolerance for her would never be as high as it is now.
After all, Xiao Yixun's looks can rival Xiao Chong's. The Xiao family in Lanling are really the darlings of God. The stunning beauty Queen Xiao, who has been famous for thousands of years, is so beautiful that unofficial histories say she is fifty.
Even more, he was taken into the house by Li Shimin, who was in his early thirties.
The same goes for Xiao Yixun. Although his whole body is white and strange, he is absolutely beautiful. He is as beautiful as an elf. He is much more beautiful than ordinary albinos.
Xiao Yixun's white is a well-proportioned white with no flaws, so even if it is sickly white, it will not scare people, but has a soul-stirring charm.
That is to say, she is of noble birth. As long as she is a woman without power, even if she is a commoner but not a pariah, she will definitely not be able to live in peace. It would be strange if she were not treated as a captive by the nobles.
Aren't those beautiful Bodhisattva Man and Hu Ji all reduced to the playthings of the nobles because of their beauty? Talking about sincerity with the nobles is really only possible in TV series.
In fact, aristocratic men are very realistic. No matter how beautiful Bodhisattva Man and Orchid are, they are nothing more than their pets. They will inevitably have a miserable life after they grow old and lose their beauty.
What they really pursue are those high-status daughters of the five surnames and seven hopes. Even if the other party gets married for the second time, they will be a good match.
This hierarchical system is deeply rooted and cannot be broken even if the royal family wants to.