The Comeback of the Charming Farmer's Wife-Chapter 2154 - 2156: Aren’t You Meddling a Bit Too Much?

"Why are you so sleepy?" Seeing her yawning repeatedly, Ye Zi’an wrapped an arm around her shoulder, "You go ahead to bed, I’ll join you once I finish sorting these out."

"No, I’ll wait for you." Yang Chuxia rested her head on his shoulder, looking at the booklet in his hands with some confusion, "Is the Emperor conscripting soldiers?"

"Yes." Ye Zi’an nodded, "I’m just worried that if we go to war with Great Qi again, we won’t have enough manpower to support."

"And they need to write to you about this?" Yang Chuxia was speechless, "Aren’t you taking on too much?"

Silently annoyed, she wondered why Baili Yan was acting like a hands-off manager.

"This had been decided a while ago; the command has already been issued everywhere. The garrison in Zhejiang has already started, and since I’m here, he came over to see if it’s feasible. This booklet isn’t for me to make any decision, he’s done quite well, and the recruitment in Zhejiang was completed ahead of schedule, he just wants me to pass it up and maybe give him some praise."

"Tsk tsk." Yang Chuxia pursed her lips, "He’s really something. Poor Xiao’an has ended up as the messenger."

"Haha," Ye Zi’an chuckled, "I wouldn’t consider myself a messenger, more of a courier at most. It’s not likely I’ll speak for him; if I did, and one day the Emperor thinks I’m forming cliques for personal gain, I’d be done for. But I can help pass the booklet up. Of course, this is all based on him truly doing a good job, what’s concerning is if this is just surface-level, it needs to be investigated secretly."

"Truly cunning."

"You can’t blame me for this." Ye Zi’an snorted, "Who’s to blame when the booklet came with a few silver notes? Do you think he’s silly? I just punished a corrupt official, and he comes with a bribe. It makes me have to doubt him."

"..."

Yang Chuxia was also speechless, this man was indeed a bit foolish, investigations into corrupt officials hadn’t even targeted him, and at such a sensitive time, he’s not even being discreet, blatantly committing a crime.

"Did you give the stuff back to him?"

"Of course I returned it, I don’t need his few thousand taels of silver, is it worth taking it? But what this taught me is that from capital officials to those stationed outside, they all need checking. Passing a message or a memorandum surprisingly requires sending silver, and if he’s giving it to me, it means he’s done this more than once or twice. I’ll call him in for questioning tomorrow."

Yang Chuxia began to feel sorry for this garrison officer, he was just asking for trouble.

Now it’s good, from top to bottom, who knows how many people will be under scrutiny.

Ye Zi’an flipped through the booklet in his hand again, noticing some issues on the last two pages, in the age column, the last few hundred people were all over forty or fifty years old, they were all seniors, what’s the point of conscripting them?

Running a few dozen miles would probably leave them panting, can they still make it to the battlefield?

"Utter nonsense!" Angrily, he tossed the booklet onto the table.

"What’s wrong?" Yang Chuxia rubbed her eyes; she had fallen asleep just now.

"It’s nothing." Seeing her sleepy-eyed, Ye Zi’an didn’t bother with the booklet, he stood up and picked her up, "Did you fall asleep just now?" 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

"Mmm."

"Sorry for waking you." He continued, "Go back to bed."

"Okay."

Ye Zi’an settled her in bed, intending to get up, but was suddenly embraced tightly by Yang Chuxia, "Aren’t you going to sleep?"

"There’s just a little bit left, I’ll finish it and then sleep."

"Look at it tomorrow, it’s not urgent." Yang Chuxia wrapped her arms around his neck, "Look at you, you’ve been staying up late every night lately, the circles under your eyes have never looked normal."