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Chapter 257: If you are not called Qingping, you can’t be happy (26)

The impeachment was not over yet. Seeing that Cao Danshu was determined to protect Lu Changqing and could not touch her, everyone started to make trouble for Bai Shiyuan.

If I can’t deal with you, can I deal with your father?

When Lu Changqing learned that Bai Shiyuan was dismissed from his post, investigated and escorted back to Beijing, he burst into laughter.

Lu Changqing went to the prison to meet Bai Shiyuan. The latter's eyes lit up when he saw Lu Changqing. He rushed to the cell door and stretched out his hand to grab Lu Changqing's sleeve, but she dodged him.

"Fuying, you're finally here! Go to the Queen Mother and plead for Dad. Dad is innocent. Dad didn't embezzle. All the money Dad took was used for the benefit of the people!"

Lu Changqing looked at Bai Shiyuan, who was looking haggard, with an embarrassed look on her face, and said, "Dad, it's not that I won't help you, but there is irrefutable evidence that you have embezzled and accepted bribes. The boxes of silver and money are clearly displayed here. How can you ask your daughter to beg for mercy?

And you also know that there are many people in the court who dislike me. They all hope that I will make a mistake. If I plead for you, I might also be implicated.

Dad, it has not been easy for my daughter to get to where she is now. For the sake of our family, please don’t make things difficult for me.”

Bai Shiyuan said excitedly: "Isn't Zhang Kang also greedy? I heard that it was you who rescued him! If you were willing to rescue him, why not me?"

Lu Changqing explained seriously: "Dad, Zhang Kang has recorded every income and expenditure clearly in the account book, and the money in the government storehouse can also be matched with the account book, but your several large boxes of money are really difficult to deal with!"

Bai Shiyuan slid down to the ground dejectedly, looking as if he had lost all desire to live.

"What should I do? I've endured for three years and finally got to move. How could this happen?"

Bai Shiyuan is extremely regretful now. If he had known this day would come, he would have definitely controlled his hands.

"Dad, now that the matter is settled, the court is in a turbulent time. The censors have been busy for so long and finally found your flaws. In order to set an example, they will definitely not let you go easily."

Bai Shiyuan looked at Lu Changqing in horror, "How could it be? Do they want to confiscate our property?"

Lu Changqing comforted him, "Dad, don't worry. With my daughter here, I will definitely not let them rob our house. But..."

"But what?"

"Dad, your career may be in jeopardy."

"What does it mean that your career cannot be saved? Weren't all the corrupt officials demoted when they were investigated?"

“It might be more serious this time.”

Hearing this, Bai Shiyuan's lips trembled, "Does the Empress Dowager want to dismiss me from my post?"

Lu Changqing nodded with difficulty, and his worried look didn't seem fake at all.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, people were rarely dismissed from office for corruption and bribery. Most of the time, they were sent to remote areas tens of thousands of miles away from the capital. So when the court officials learned that Lu Changqing's father had been dismissed from office, they were all shocked.

After becoming a commoner and returning to the Bai Mansion, Bai Shiyuan was depressed for several days. Even when Lu Changqing came home to visit his relatives, he curled up in bed and did not move.

Lu Changqing specifically requested for him to be demoted.

Don't you always want to be a high-ranking official? I won't let you be one.

It’s okay if you never had it, but it’s the most heartbreaking thing to have it and then lose it completely.

It was not until lunch time that Bai Shiyuan staggered out of his room.

"Fuying, you have made great contributions in defeating the Xia Kingdom and the Liao Kingdom. Why don't you ask the Queen Mother to help your brother get an official position in the name of 'special favor'?"

Lu Changqing lost his appetite in an instant, put down his chopsticks and looked at Bai Shiyuan who was sitting in the main seat, and said: "Dad, if my brother wants to be an official through favor, he has to wait until I die. I am still alive and well now, how can I ask the Queen Mother for this?"

"I'm talking about special favors, not posthumous favors. You've made such great military achievements, why can't you do that?"

"My military merits have earned me my current position, but nothing else."

After being rejected by Lu Changqing, Bai Shiyuan stopped talking, picked up the chopsticks on the table and started eating in silence.

Just when Lu Changqing thought that this man had calmed down, Bai Shiyuan suddenly went crazy and started throwing chopsticks on the table.

"No, that's not okay. What's the point of being a privy councilor? You can't keep my position, but you can't even help your brother?"

Everyone was frightened by Bai Shiyuan's action of throwing chopsticks. After he finished yelling, they all looked at Lu Changqing with horror as he took out a handkerchief and wiped the oil stains on his face expressionlessly.

"You don't want to eat properly, right?" Lu Changqing wiped his face and threw the handkerchief on the table. Then he picked up the dish in front of him and threw it directly at Bai Shiyuan, "Then don't eat it!"

Bai Shiyuan cursed and wiped the vegetables and oil off his face, then slammed the table in anger and stood up, "Are you trying to rebel?"

Lu Changqing slammed the plate in his hand onto the table, and the splashing soup scared Lin Wenqing and the others so much that they all stepped back.

"I think you are the one who is going to rebel! If you really don't want to live, you can just die right now, don't cause trouble for me!"

Bai Shiyuan was so angry that his face turned red and his neck became thick. He pointed his finger at Lu Changqing and cursed: "You evil son! How dare you curse your father to death? I will report you, this unfilial son, to the government!"

"Okay, if you sue me today, you'll have to beg on the street tomorrow. Do you believe it?"

"Stop scaremongering me here!"

"You're exaggerating? Do you know how many political enemies I have? I'm not afraid to tell you that the reason you're in this situation is because those ministers in the court couldn't bring me down, so they attacked you."

Bai Shiyuan's voice was shaking with anger, "You...you...you...hurt me!"

Lu Changqing sneered, "I harmed you? If I hadn't pleaded with the Queen Mother, do you think you would have had a chance to live back in the Bai Mansion?"

Bai Shiyuan was so angry that he cursed: "If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be here today!"

Lu Changqing raised his eyebrows and asked provocatively: "What's wrong with you today? You are now the father of the Privy Councilor. Tell me, what else are you dissatisfied with?"

Bai Shiyuan was so angry that he almost vomited blood. He was gasping for breath, his eyes were red, and he wished he could chew Lu Changqing in one bite.

"Haven't you always valued the reputation of our mansion? What's the point of you making such a fuss now? Don't you want the reputation of my Bai Mansion?"

Lu Changqing glared at Bai Shiyuan fiercely and continued to curse: "Your career has come to an end, and mine has just begun. If you can't stay in the capital, go back to your hometown in Yangzhou!"

In this family, he, Bai Shiyuan, is the only one who curses others, and no one dares to curse him, Bai Shiyuan!

Bai Shiyuan, who had never been disobeyed by his family before, was so angry after hearing what Lu Changqing said that he trembled like a sieve and covered his chest with his hands, looking like he was about to die from anger.

Du Hezhi saw this and feared that something might happen to him, so he rushed forward to support him, but was violently pushed away by Bai Shiyuan.

"I don't have a daughter like you, so get out of here! Get out of the house right now!" Bai Shiyuan pointed at the door and roared at Lu Changqing.

Lu Changqing roared back: "I saved this mansion, why should I leave? If anyone should leave, it should be you, the corrupt criminal who took bribes and ruined the family tradition!"

Lin Wenqing stood aside, anxiously looking at Lu Changqing and then at Bai Shiyuan. She didn't know who to persuade.

After much hesitation, he finally decided to persuade Lu Changqing.

If nothing else, if Lu Changqing really caused trouble for Bai Shiyuan, she would be scolded by the censors, which would definitely affect her official career.

"Son, don't quarrel with your father. He's been in a bad mood these days, just let him be."

Lu Changqing patted Lin Wenqing's hand and softened his voice, "Don't worry, mother. I know my limits. Nothing will happen."

Bai Shiyuan stared at Lu Changqing and became more and more angry. He suddenly rushed over and slapped her in the face.

Lu Changqing grabbed Bai Shiyuan's wrist and squeezed it hard, causing the other party to cry out in pain.

"Do you think that I have been sitting in the camp eating sunflower seeds and chatting with people in the past few years when I went to the north?"

Lu Changqing said as his men gradually increased their strength, "I have led troops to the battlefield and killed people. I advise you to be quiet and don't make me angry, otherwise you will be in trouble!"

If Bai Shiyuan hadn't died, she would have to observe three years of mourning, and Lu Changqing would never let him walk out of prison alive.

Bai Shiyuan's facial features wrinkled up in pain, and relying on the fact that Lu Changqing didn't dare to kill him, he shouted, "How are you going to make me look good? Are you going to kill me?"

Lu Changqing let go of Bai Shiyuan, glanced at him coldly, and said, "At most it's just a waste of three years. You can try and see if I can do anything to you!"

Bai Shiyuan looked at Lu Changqing's cold eyes and suddenly shuddered.

Lu Changqing was afraid that Bai Shiyuan, a man of incompetence and rage, would vent his anger on other women in the mansion, so he asked Cao Danshu for permission to return home and live for a while.

Cao Danshu thought that Lu Changqing was afraid that Bai Shiyuan, who was dismissed from office, would be depressed, so she wanted to go home to see her father, so she agreed to her request with a wave of her hand.

Lu Changqing did not explain. Confucianism is the dominant ideology, and a reputation for filial piety is sometimes more important than ability.

Lu Changqing was right to worry. When she was around, Bai Shiyuan didn't dare to do anything wrong. But after she went to the yamen, he started to make trouble for people at home.

Because of Lu Changqing, Bai Shiyuan didn't dare to trouble Lin Wenqing too much, but Du Hezhi and Bai Lingyi were not so lucky.

One is his wife, the other is his daughter. In addition, he has always known that the mother and daughter do not get along with Bai Fuying. He thinks that Lu Changqing will not protect these two people, so he becomes unscrupulous in making trouble.

He doesn't hit people, he just scolds them and orders them around.

He couldn’t let his father become paralyzed and unable to get out of bed as soon as he returned home, so Lu Changqing endured it for half a month before letting him be a fellow patient with Bai Mingzhou.

In fact, it would be best if Bai Shiyuan died, so that everyone could feel relieved, but the damn Dingyou system is there, and if he "deprived his love", he would probably be criticized by the censors again.

After all, in the eyes of the court officials, Lu Changqing was not only not the indispensable one, but the redundant one.

Lu Changqing was not afraid of being scolded, she just didn't want Cao Danshu to be too embarrassed to be caught in the middle.

Lu Changqing called all the women in the mansion to a meeting. Now that Bai Shiyuan was paralyzed, it was impossible for the women in the mansion to stay with him all the time, so Lu Changqing asked them whether they should stay or leave.

If Du Hezhi doesn't leave, her children are still in the mansion, and Lu Changqing is successful now, she can benefit from it as the mistress.

Lin Wenqing didn't leave either. Her daughter had made progress and she had hope. It was good to have food and drink here and someone to serve her.

Everyone looked at the concubine Feng He who had entered the mansion a few years ago. She was still very young, about the same age as Bai Lingyi.

Feng He held her daughter in her arms and looked at Lu Changqing, and asked cautiously, "Can I consider it?"

Lu Changqing nodded and said yes, "When you have thought it through, you can tell the mistress that if you want to leave, the mansion will give you some money to live on."

Lu Changqing said as he looked at the little girl sitting quietly in her arms: "As for my little sister, if your living conditions away from home are better than ours, you can take the child back. If not, the child can stay in the home. If you want to see the child, you can come anytime."

Feng He said gratefully: "Thank you, Fourth Miss, thank you, Madam. I will consider it carefully."

The mess in the Bai Mansion has finally been resolved. As for Bai Fuying's younger brother, he is a timid and cowardly waste. He is suppressed by Lu Changqing and dares not say a word.

Living in the Bai Mansion was quite troublesome, especially on the day of the court meeting, one had to get up before dawn, so Lu Changqing moved back to the palace.

Lu Changqing is almost like a mascot in the Privy Council. Now the Song court's foreign war policy is to resist the southward advance of the Liao army in the north, to annex the Xia territory in the northwest, and to suppress the rebellion in the southwest.

She could do nothing in the capital except reading the memorials submitted to her every day.

So she began to revise the code, trying to improve the laws of this world, which were like a child's play, as much as possible.

The first is the issue of inheritance rights. During the reign of Emperor Liu E, the laws regarding women's inheritance were changed. Although the amount of property that women in the Northern Song Dynasty could inherit was not as much as that of men, it was still more than that of the previous dynasty.

But there is no law on women's inheritance rights in the current world, so Lu Changqing can only "create something out of nothing".

Considering the concepts of "main branch" and "sub-branch" engraved in DNA, if the main body of the family must be inherited by the "legitimate son", then the money and land must be divided equally among sisters and brothers.

To prevent Xu Huaide from committing the same act as Xu Huaide, who ate his cousin's family and wiped out the whole family, Lu Changqing added the system of only daughter inheritance. This does not refer to only daughters, but to the fact that if a husband has only daughters, no matter how many there are, these daughters will have the right to inherit the property.

There is also the divorce system that is unique to this world and requires money to be paid, as well as the dowry system in the real world that specifically exploits women.

In the real Northern Song Dynasty, when a woman's dowry was brought into her husband's house, it no longer belonged to her alone. From the moment she entered the house, the "husband" in the family had a higher right to use the dowry than the wife.

As for whether the man will touch the woman's dowry, it depends entirely on his conscience.

In this regard, the current society may be better than the real ancient society. If outsiders knew that the dowry was used to subsidize the family income, people would be scolded. But in the real Northern Song Dynasty, this was a very normal thing.

The new law stipulates that the husband and his family no longer have the power to deal with the wife's dowry; if the man engages in immoral and illegal behavior such as prostitution, gambling, promiscuity, domestic violence, theft, imprisonment, etc., the woman can go directly to the government to divorce without the man's consent.

Naturally, all the dowry must be taken away, and as for the children, the woman's choice will take priority.

Another thing is that you are not treating people as human beings. It is clearly an employment relationship, they are selling their labor, but you are asking for their life. Is this reasonable?

Lu Changqing wrote several pages about the issues of buying and selling concubines, the evil practice of pawning wives and having concubines.

She knew that she couldn't finish what she wrote in a short time, but she wrote it down first, because there would be a day when it would be useful.