Cultivation Simulator: Starting From The Empress' Palace-Chapter 184 - 183 treasures, raising the price of rice

"Hmph, oppressing women, what I hate most are people like this; take him to the Government Office for trial," Liu Dan snorted coldly and said.

Upon hearing this, Lu Wang’s face turned pale.

Government Office?

In the current situation, where is there a Government Office?

He’d surely be secretly dealt with on the way.

Lu Wang, having been a rogue for so many years, had naturally seen a lot of dirty deeds.

He desperately pleaded, "I didn’t force her; I truly like her, but Lu Tie was my brother, and now that Brother Lu Tie is dead, as his younger brother, it’s natural for me to take care of my sister-in-law?"

Though according to Song Law,

it is executable for taking in the spouses of elders, like sisters-in-law or younger brothers’ wives.

But the law is dead.

People are alive.

In the countryside, not everyone can afford to take wives.

If the brother dies and the sister-in-law is widowed while the younger brother has no money to marry, then what’s wrong with taking in the sister-in-law?

This is too common among the people.

It even happened among the royal families.

Although it violates the rites, it belongs to matters unrecorded and unpursued by officials.

But Lu Wang was not Lu Tie’s real brother.

Moreover, the Lu family also disagreed, and Lu Wang was forcing himself.

"You... you shameless person." The Lu family never expected Lu Wang to say such things.

How did he have the face to say that?

Even Gao Zheng frowned, "I have never seen such a shameless person; I think there’s no need to try such a person like you; just execute by hanging."

Upon hearing these words, Lu Wang’s face changed; realizing he had no chance of survival, he decided to go all out and said:

"Aren’t you all the same as me? Speaking nicely about Maidservants, hmph, you just have more people and hold power."

"Pa!" As the words finished, Liu Dan slapped Lu Wang across the face, saying, "If the lord hadn’t asked me to handle it according to the law, I would have chopped you off with a knife. Ask her if I forced her?"

Liu Dan’s gaze turned to the Lu family.

Seeing Liu Dan’s fierce appearance, the Lu family trembled slightly, stammering, "No... no, it was I... who agreed... myself."

"..."

Gao Zheng slapped Liu Dan on the back of his head, saying, "Why are you talking so much nonsense with him? Take him away!"

When dragged out of the courtyard, the fear of death suddenly filled Lu Wang’s mind, and he pleaded again, "I have a valuable treasure, a valuable treasure, please, General, spare me, I will never dare again."

"Valuable treasure?"

Gao Zheng and the others were taken aback, then asked, "What valuable treasure?"

"It’s a sword!"

...

Under Lu Wang’s guidance, Gao Zheng and his party came to another village.

This village was not as lucky as Lujiatun, having been directly affected by the Rebel Army, leaving the whole village ransacked.

Lu Wang led Gao Zheng and his group to the largest house in this village.

Although the house was dilapidated, judging from the surrounding environment, geographical location, and scale, the owner must have been a wealthy family in their lifetime.

Lu Wang pointed at a dry well in the backyard of the house and said, "The valuable treasure is in this well."

Gao Zheng didn’t go down immediately; he frowned and asked, "Tell me first, how did you discover it?"

"Don’t rich families like to hide their money in concealed places? And it’s just that this well is a dry well, making it very suitable for hiding money. So after this place was looted by rebels, I came to try my luck, and then I discovered that sword," Lu Wang explained nervously, not daring to hide anything.

"Then if you knew the sword was a valuable treasure, why didn’t you take it away?" Gao Zheng asked again.

"Isn’t it only rebels and Generals who have such weapons? If I took it and got seen... wouldn’t I be regarded as a rebel? That’s... that’s a capital offense, I... I wouldn’t dare," Lu Wang stammered in fear.

"Then why didn’t you say you were afraid when you wanted to forcibly take Miss Xu?" Liu Dan interjected.

The Lu family’s maiden name was Xu Miaozhen.

After marrying Lu Tie, she took her husband’s surname.

Lu Wang gave a wry smile and dared not answer.

Soon Gao Zheng ordered someone to go down the well.

After a while, they brought up the Longsword that Lu Wang spoke of.

This sword was pitch black, not of metal nor stone, unidentifiable in material, but it exuded a chilling aura, as if it were a massive weapon that had killed countless people.

According to Lu Wang, the sword was extremely sharp; even the phrase "sharp as mud" was an understatement.

Gao Zheng took the sword and slowly approached a stone platform. Under everyone’s watchful eyes, he lightly swung the sword against the stone, splitting the platform instantly in half.

Moreover, the cut was very smooth.

"Good sword..."

As a soldier, Gao Zheng naturally knew where this sword was good. On the battlefield, used for breaking armor, it was simply effortless.

"But what are these symbols on this?" Gao Zheng looked at the two rows of symbols on the hilt, showing a puzzled look, "Are these words? What country’s language is this?"

The people next to him also did not know.

Lu Wang immediately tried to claim credit, "General, now that the valuable treasure has been found, can you let me go?"

Upon hearing this, Gao Zheng frowned, "Valuable treasure? What valuable treasure? This is clearly stolen goods, needs to be turned over. Men, take him away."

Lu Wang was dumbfounded.

...

On the other side.

Chen Mo was having a private meeting with Fu Bi.

Because Fu Bi had self-recommended, saying that he had measures for disaster relief that could save thousands of people and restore reputation quickly.

Thus, Chen Mo saw Fu Bi.

When Chen Mo saw him yesterday, he was still a weak and pathetic figure, but now his eyes were full of spirit, and he held his head high, understanding the respect hierarchy, bowing deeply at 90 degrees when meeting Chen Mo.

Chen Mo raised his eyebrows, sat casually, and said, "What solution? Speak up. If it’s useful, I will surely put you in an important position, perhaps even recommend you to my superiors."

Upon hearing this, Fu Bi was overjoyed and immediately said, "In my humble opinion, Sir could persuade the subordinates’ populace to produce grain, add disaster relief grain from surrounding states and counties, and obtain more than 100,000 public and private shelters to arrange these disaster victims, providing them with firewood and water.

The officials who are former, vacant, or residing temporarily should be awarded salaries, allowing them to give grain to those old, sick, and frail among the populous, recording their contributions, and committing to requesting rewards for them in due time..."

Chen Mo listened with a frown and then said, "Nanyang’s people have experienced a drought first, and now a rebellion, even pulling up grass roots to eat; their food’s not enough, let alone giving grain to the disaster victims..."

"So, this is just a last-resort measure of the humble," Fu Bi said.

Chen Mo frowned, feeling that this guy was showing off in front of him.

He immediately stood up and kicked him in the hip, saying, "Fart quickly if you have something, don’t show off your knowledge here."

Maybe cautious after being kicked, Fu Bi cupped his hands and said, "Considering the current situation of Nanyang, Sir can issue a notice allowing households with rice to arbitrarily raise the price, even allowing rice merchants from other counties to come over, and lower their taxes."