Magistrate Ji was making crazy calculations in his mind. A tea mountain would require at least thirty people to take care of it! When picking tea and making tea, more people would be needed.
One tea mountain, thirty, ten tea mountains means three hundred, one hundred tea mountains... They don't have so many tea mountains in Jiangzhou, and the Ning family doesn't have that much money.
He had to think of a way to buy more tea mountains so that the Ning family could put together a sum that they could afford.
"Just sixty thousand taels!"
Magistrate Ji said.
Sixty thousand taels of silver can buy a dozen tea mountains.
Six hundred thousand taels becomes sixty thousand, directly reduced by ten times.
Just sixty thousand taels?
Mrs. Ning rolled her eyes. This amount can only be obtained by selling off all the Ning family's property! "My Ning family really can't afford so much money!"
Mr. Ning looked at Magistrate Ji and said, with a look of pleading on his face.
Someone ridiculed: "Isn't the Ning family rich and powerful?
Why can’t you even get out sixty thousand taels of silver?”
"that is."
"Husband..." Mrs. Ning tugged on Mr. Ning's sleeve and whispered: "It's really unnecessary to pay the entire Ning family for something like this that will ruin the Ning family. Think about it,
Think about our son again..." Both of them are going to take the imperial examination. It costs a lot of money to take the imperial examination. If they lose the entire Ning family just for such a wasteful thing, they will lose it in the future.
How to take the imperial examination?
How to pursue an official career?
This man! He always puts himself first, and Mr. Ning is no exception.
He knew that his mother wanted this younger brother to return safely, and he also wanted to be a filial son and satisfy his mother, but he could not ignore his and his son's future just for the sake of this prodigal brother and to satisfy his mother's wishes.
Mrs. Ning Er heard Mrs. Ning's words, but she didn't say anything.
She is a man who enjoys everything from food, drink, prostitution and gambling, but doesn't care about family affairs at all. She doesn't even know how old her children are.
What is a man like this doing?
Even if we take him back, he may continue to lose the family. It is better to let the Ning family keep some property so that when the children grow up, they can share some of it.
Ning Zheng didn't know that even his wife had given up on him.
Mr. Ning said that if he chooses the first method of judgment, the Ning family will not pay any compensation and let Ning Zheng be exiled.
The people who were watching all accused Mr. Ning of being ruthless, even risking the life of his biological brother just because of 60,000 taels of silver.
Ning Zheng even scolded Ning Qing directly in court for not being a human being, scolding him for not saving him just to swallow up all the Ning family's property. Ning Qing was so angry that he almost fainted.
Mrs. Ning protected her husband domineeringly and scolded Ning Zheng for being a prodigal. In just a few decades, he almost completely destroyed the Ning family's ancestral business. She also deceived the family and said that he was unworthy of the Ning family's ancestors.
Ning Zheng was cursing and cursing more and more harshly. Finally, he was silenced by the yamen servant and he became quiet.
Although the Ning family chose to exile Ning Zheng, Magistrate Ji changed the sentence. The man had to be exiled, and the tea trees, the workshop, and the money of the injured people also had to be compensated.
The Ning family had lost all face today and did not dare to say anything anymore. They obediently accompanied Yinzi and left Ning Zheng in despair.
The common people were filled with regrets and hoped that the Ning family would lose their money so that the Shen family could buy more tea trees and they could also work in the Shen family's tea plants!
Who knew that the eldest man of the Ning family would rather have money than the life of the second master Ning.
On the way home, Master Ning talked to Mrs. Ning and Mrs. Ning. After letting them go back, he told the old lady that it was the prefect who had sentenced them to exile, and he also told his servants not to do anything in front of the old lady.
Nonsense.
After returning home, the three of them told Mrs. Ning the results. When the old lady heard this, she rolled her eyes and passed away, which lasted all day and night.