Forced to be a concubine, I went to my husband's place to become a wealthy merchant

Chapter 409

More than one thousand people were arrested this time, and they identified as many as 30,000 people involved in the case.

There was a heated discussion in the court about how to deal with this group of people.

Some people advocate that all of them should be sentenced to death to serve as a warning to others, some people think that killing so many people will affect public sentiment, and it is not ruled out that some of them were deceived.

Finally, the suggestion of the new Grand Tutor was adopted and the main participants were sentenced to death, numbering about 800 people.

The rest of those involved in the case were all branded, reduced to slaves, and assigned to various fortification bases for labor.

This would not only serve as a punishment, but also avoid the trouble of conscripting labor again, allowing young and middle-aged people who should have been conscripted to engage in agricultural production.

While Ye Xi was recovering from his injuries, he felt very complicated when he heard that the murderer was actually the third prince's orphan.

If she hadn't known that the orphan was Siyu and that Siyu was by her side, she would have thought that something had happened to Siyu.

But she was also very sad. Although those who were instigated were not innocent, they were pitiful. They were used by people with ulterior motives in the name of orphans and eventually ended up in a dead end.

She couldn't understand the train of thought of those people. How could the Third Prince, who was not the legitimate and orthodox one, make those people so loyal to him that their death was not a pity?

When Wei Jue came to see Ye Xi, she was still recovering from her injuries. As the saying goes, it takes a hundred days to heal a broken bone.

The bones that Ye Xi broke when she fell off a horse were not easy to heal, and because she was getting older, it would take a long time.

"Thin."

Ye Xi looked at Wei Jue and said, Wei Jue did not come alone, he was accompanied by Wei Ye.

Although she said this to Wei Jue, she couldn't help but glance at Wei Ye. She hadn't seen him for a long time.

After returning to Beijing, no one knew what he was busy with. He would not come unless Wei Jue came.

"I have lost some weight due to the many things I do. Ye'er has passed the imperial examination and I am not in good health. I am afraid I will not be able to wait until he passes the imperial examination before I can serve as an official in the court.

My Lord asked His Majesty to grant the Wei family a title of patronage, and now Ye'er is the Secretary of the Privy Council."

Wei Jue did not ignore her concerned look towards Wei Ye and gave some explanation, implying that Wei Ye might be very busy in the future.

What he didn't say was that he could have asked for a higher official position for Ye'er, but now he was the commander-in-chief of the army, and if his son got a position that was too high, he would inevitably be criticized.

He didn't want to deal with the gossip, so he lowered his official position to a ninth rank.

Ye Xi was shocked. A thirteen-year-old child became an official?

Although she didn't know how high the official's rank was, it was still somewhat unbelievable for a child to be an official. Thirteen years old is still considered a half-grown child in modern times.

"Are you used to what Ye'er is doing?" She didn't know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing for her child to enter officialdom so early.

"Aunt, Ye'er will get used to it slowly."

Wei Ye answered respectfully, but he was not as casual in front of his father as he was when he was talking to Ye Xi alone.

That means I’m not used to it now, Ye Xi sighed.

Ye Xi was half leaning on the bed while talking to them.

Seeing that they were chatting, Wei Jue sat down directly beside the couch. He took Ye Xi's hand and rubbed the back of her hand with his fingertips.

This scene was too intimate, and it was played out in front of Wei Ye without any concealment. Ye Xi felt a little embarrassed and wanted to pull her hand back, but was held tightly by Wei Jue.

Wei Ye saw this scene and he looked away embarrassedly. He didn't expect that his father could be so intimate with his aunt in front of others.

He had never seen his father and mother like this and thought his father was just a cold-hearted person.

He saw his aunt trying to pull her hand away, and also saw his father trying to stop her.