Mo Lan screamed angrily: "What qualifications do you have to speak against me? You have no right to speak against me. You are now the eldest lady of the Duke of Jingguo, with a high status and respect. But you can see that you look the same in front of me, but you look the same in front of others.
I feel disgusted by your face. I don’t think anyone can pretend better than you."
Hua Lan was not angry either, and just said: "There is a conflict between us. In your eyes, I am this image, and I am not surprised. Since I already have this image, then I will just be a bad guy and do it to the end. Fourth sister, now
There are only two choices available to you."
"One is to beat you to death to save the Sheng family's face; the other is to keep you alive, but for the sake of the Sheng family's face, you become a monk and become a sister-in-law."
When Mo Lan heard this, he couldn't care about anything else. He stood up and shouted at Hua Lan: "You are dreaming. How dare you ask me to be your aunt? I am going to marry into the Duke's palace and be the wife of the prince. How dare you?"
Let me be your sister-in-law, and I will fight with you."
When she learned that she could not marry into the Duke's palace and become his wife, she couldn't bear it any longer and rushed towards Hua Lan like crazy.
"Fourth sister, eldest sister."
Hai Chaoyun didn't expect that Mo Lan would suddenly attack. He was startled and rushed over to stop Mo Lan.
But before she could stop her, Mo Lan fell to the ground on her own. She had been kneeling for so long and just stood up because she was so excited. But when she wanted to move, she found that her legs didn't obey orders at all and she couldn't even stand.
Unsteady, he fell to the ground.
Hua Lan was not frightened by Mo Lan's fierce look, and looked very calm. Looking at Mo Lan who fell to the ground, her face gradually became cold.
"Whether you want it or not, your fate is doomed from the moment you do that kind of thing, and you can't blame others."
"Next, you should reflect carefully here. What your outcome will be depends on what your father decides."
After saying that, she no longer cared about Mo Lan, turned around and left the ancestral hall.
Hai Chaoyun looked at Mo Lan who was lying on the ground and wanted to help her up, but Mo Lan pushed her away angrily.
"Go away, I don't need you to be hypocritical. In fact, you are laughing at me in your heart, right?"
"Fourth sister, you..."
Hai Chaoyun wanted to persuade, but when he saw Mo Lan's angry and hateful eyes, he could no longer say what he wanted to say. In the end, he could only sigh.
"Just take care of yourself."
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The atmosphere of today's court meeting is very wrong, mainly because the officials actually proposed to inspect the salt affairs. In fact, this is not a bad thing, but a good thing, because salt tax is a large part of the national treasury revenue, but in fact the salt collected
Compared with the real salt tax, the tax is more than half the difference.
It is a good thing to check the salt tax and increase the revenue of the state treasury, but the problem is that the officials now cannot even fully control the government bureau, so they have begun to plan to check the salt tax.
You must know that the embezzled salt tax went into the pockets of officials and gentry in various places. The involvement was so extensive that it is unimaginable. Even the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Government were probably involved in many people.
If we want to investigate the salt tax, it will undoubtedly touch the cake of many people. From top to bottom, they will be interfered with and targeted.
In the plot, when King Huan went to inspect the salt tax, he was assassinated many times. If it weren't for his good luck, he would have died long ago.
Zhou Chen could understand the thoughts of the officials. Since they wanted military power, they also wanted to control the government, and they also wanted to increase the national treasury.
Power, money, food...
He didn't want to let anyone go.
But doing so is really taking too big a step, and you might get yourself in trouble if you're not careful.
The plot does not explain in detail what happened during this salt tax inspection trip, but you can guess that the process was not smooth.
In Zhou Chen's view, the most correct choice for officials is to first stabilize their power, and then slowly investigate salt tax, corruption, etc.
It's not impossible to investigate by force now, but we need to use thunderous means, and it won't be a problem to have a lot of heads by then.
The officials wanted to ask someone to check the salt tax, but after shouting for a long time, no one came forward. Instead, they encountered opposition from many people. The angry officials became furious and roared in the court.
Finally, the officials forcibly issued an order and decided that King Huan, Shen Congxing, Sheng Changbai and others would inspect the salt affairs of the eight provinces together.
Zhou Chen frowned slightly when he saw that the arrangements had not changed from the plot. Among these people, the one he cared about most was naturally Sheng Changbai, who was his wife's biological brother after all.
In the next court, when Zhou Chen was about to go find Sheng Changbai, the British Duke suddenly came over.
"Shu Yuan."
"Old Duke."
The British Duke smiled and said: "Shu Yuan is free today. May I invite you to have dinner at Fanlou?"
"If the old man invites you, even if you don't have time, you must still make time."
"Haha, okay, let's go there now."
"Old Duke, please."
Zhou Chen came to the Fan Building with the British father-in-law, and then went straight to the private room. When he entered the room, he found that there was another person.
"Lingguo Gong."
"Jingguo Gong."
Zhou Chen was not surprised when he saw Ling Guogong. He knew that the British Duke would definitely not come to him for dinner for no reason, and there were not many people who could invite the British Duke, so on the way here, he had already guessed the most interesting person.
There are several possible people, and Ling Guogong is one of them.
The purpose of Ling Guogong looking for Zhou Chen was naturally for the matter of his youngest son and Mo Lan, but before he could say anything, Zhou Chen spoke first, saying that he didn't care about this matter, and Ling Guogong could do whatever he wanted.
, which made Ling Guogong not know what to say.
Fortunately, the British Duke came to make peace with him and made Duke Ling understand that what Zhou Chen said was the truth. Then he felt relieved and the three of them drank in harmony.
After returning home, Hua Lan saw that Zhou Chen smelled of alcohol again, so she asked Cui Chan to make sobering soup for Zhou Chen.
Although Zhou Chen was not drunk, he did not refuse, so he took it and drank it.
"Officer, I went to my parents' house again today, and my father still hasn't made a decision." Hua Lan didn't look good.
Zhou Chen said: "It doesn't matter. Your Majesty specially asked the British Duke to come to me today and invite me to have a drink in Fanlou."
When Hua Lan heard this, he immediately asked: "Did Duke invite you to drink? What did he say?"
"As I told your father, Duke Ling's intention is very clear. He does not want his son to marry your fourth sister as a wife, or at best a concubine."
"Then my father will definitely not agree."
"So I told Ling Guogong that I would not care about this matter. He would handle it how he should handle it."
Zhou Chen did not completely tell the truth. In fact, although Ling Guogong was unwilling, there was still room for negotiation in his words. He just listened to Ling Guogong's wishes. If he asked for mercy, he might agree, but he would definitely have to
Pay a certain price.
But how could Zhou Chen be willing? Mo Lan's affairs were none of his business. He had to pay the price and let Mo Lan marry into the Duke's palace. It was just a dream.
So he made his attitude clear on the spot that he didn't care about this matter. Although the Duke was a little disappointed, he understood what Zhou Chen meant and didn't bother any more.
My body has recovered more than half, and I will resume two updates tomorrow. I don’t know why, but since the sun passed, every cold and fever seems to be much more serious than before. In the past, I could recover after just two days of recovery, but now I still feel the same after five or six days.
I feel very uncomfortable and my head feels dizzy. The doctor said it is due to insufficient blood supply to the brain. It has happened three or four times and I feel uncomfortable.
Chapter completed!