Leaving Fourth Aunt there to comfort everyone, Hua Zhi personally sent her grandmother back. But before that, she had to send off Nanny Li who came in the same car.
In gratitude for Nanny Li's kindness, Hua Zhi answered questions with the best attitude along the way, and even got out of the car to help the person when they got home.
Nanny Li accepted the gesture with a smile. She and the empress dowager had been master and servant for many years, and the Hua family was under the protection of the empress dowager. In this respect, they had some relationship.
The carriage slowly set off again. Without outsiders around, Hua Zhi no longer acted politely and leaned on her grandmother's shoulder with her shoulders slumped.
Old Madam Zhu patted her arm distressedly, held her hand and sighed, "Are your father and the others all right?"
"It's good. He's a teacher there now. After all, he hasn't suffered too much."
"That's good, that's good." Zhu Jia was satisfied with this son-in-law. His daughter had such a personality. If it weren't for her husband's good protection, how could she still be ignorant at such an old age? "You seemed to be showing mercy when dealing with Hua Yan today."
"I can't be too heartless. You can't write two Hua characters with one stroke. I can make my attitude clear, but if I force her to death, the reputation of the Hua family will also be damaged. If I do this, people will have nothing to say. Besides, can Hua Yan really live a good life with what I call sincerity after marrying into the Feng family? Feng Changyu's original wife must not tolerate her. When wives and concubines fight, how many concubines have the last laugh? Even if Feng Changyu is a bastard, he knows that the original wife cannot be touched. I don't believe he can really favor Hua Yan, not to mention that the Hua family and the Feng family have never gotten along. With such a person delivered to the door, why don't you try to rub her?"
Madam Zhu understood this principle, but she didn't expect her granddaughter to take all this into account. "So you should just cut off Hua Yan's escape route and not get involved in her mess."
"Everything I have to do is more important than hers." Hua Zhi didn't want to say more, she raised her head and said, "Is today a day off? I can't even count how long I've been away."
"It's supposed to be a holiday, but there has been severe flooding in the south recently, and the court is preparing for disaster relief. Your grandfather, as the Minister of Revenue, has been very busy these days, so how can he take a holiday?"
"Grandfather got promoted?" Hua Zhi suddenly realized. Yes, Zeng Xian's case involved the Minister of Revenue Fang Hongzhi. Now that Zeng Xian wants to overturn the verdict, it is not surprising that Fang Hongzhi falls.
"Yes, he was promoted not long ago." When talking about this, Mrs. Zhu's eyes were full of smiles. From the second rank to the first rank, some people cannot make it in their entire life. Her master can be considered to have a successful career.
Hua Zhi felt that it was not a good thing to not be promoted now. The old emperor was getting more suspicious, and it was not easy to be a close minister to the emperor. The Ministry of Revenue, which managed the purse of the Daqing Dynasty, and the Ministry of Personnel, which managed the official hats, had always been the two ministries that changed the Shangshu most frequently, and now was the critical moment of disaster relief...
Hua Zhi felt that she had to go to Yan Xi to find out what the emperor thought. She couldn't let her grandfather get involved in this matter no matter what. She was really scared. The Hua family was such a big family and it could fall at any time. The Zhu family was even worse than the Hua family. If they really fell, they would have no place to appeal.
She was not afraid of anything else. Her grandfather had been an official for many years and knew more about officialdom than she did. She was just afraid that the princes would interfere again. The emperor was kind to his own sons but cruel to officials.
"Zhi'er, what are you thinking about?"
"Nothing, I won't come to your house today after I send you back. I'm afraid I'll fall asleep while talking to you."
Madam Zhu touched her face. She had just run so far yesterday, so how could she not know how hard it was? "Take a good rest, don't get exhausted, so many people are counting on you!"
"yes."
It was past dinner time when they got home. Hua Zhi had no appetite, so she ate a little and said, "Madame Su, pick some of the fresh mushrooms that were delivered today and go to Madame Li's house to thank her for her help today."
Nanny Su agreed and did it immediately.
Yingchun was about to speak, but Huazhi raised her hand to stop her, "I'll wait a moment. There's no rush for the business."
"Yes." Yingchun hurriedly helped the person back to the house. She hoped that the young lady could put all those things aside and have a good rest before doing anything else.
Hua Zhi slept so soundly that she didn't even notice Shaoyao coming and taking her pulse. She was relieved to know that she was just tired from taking care of the whole family. The eldest girl had never fallen asleep during the day before, so they couldn't help but worry.
It was already dark when she woke up. Hua Zhi opened her eyes and was a little confused about what day it was until a voice came, "Are you awake?"
Hua Zhi looked in the direction of the voice and saw who else was sitting at the table but Yan Xi. She was in the inner courtyard, right? How did he get in
"I avoided people." Gu Yanxi stood up and walked to the edge of the bed and sat down.
"Will my maid agree?" Hua Zhi propped herself up and sat up, leaning against the bed and looking at the man, "Why are you in such a bad mood? Have you been so busy since you came back?"
"Peony led them away." Avoiding the question, Gu Yanxi just said, "You have become famous again today."
"What about Hua Yan? Everyone is quite free and only cares about this little thing in my family."
Gu Yanxi smiled. It was not that everyone was idle. It was obvious that she had done a great job. In a blink of an eye, she turned the disadvantage around and vindicated the Hua family. The Feng family had to accept this concubine even if they had to hold their noses. Although family interests were the most important thing in aristocratic families and there was no room for affection, no one wanted to be exposed and be labeled as ruthless. Ah Zhi had found their pulse.
Hua Zhi sat up a little, "I just wanted to ask you something, what is the emperor's plan for the Nanlao incident?"
Gu Yanxi immediately understood what she was worried about. "This matter does not involve the officials. The Ministry of Revenue only needs to be responsible for paying the money. The people in charge are selected by the Seventh Division. The emperor does not allow anyone to touch this money, so I also let the Seventh Division follow up."
"That's good. If the people are exploited layer by layer as in the past, I don't know how much will be left. It's okay in normal times, but it's different this year. The disaster area is so wide. Once the people are dissatisfied, my grandfather will definitely not be able to extricate himself from it."
"You don't have to worry. Lord Zhu is not that easy to bully."
Hua Zhi looked at him with a half-smile, "Is my grandfather easy to bully? He is still in Yinshan Pass and can't come back!"
Gu Yanxi coughed lightly. He couldn't reveal the emperor's taboo against the Hua family.
Fortunately, Hua Zhi was reluctant to embarrass him and immediately changed the subject, "Are you going to overturn Zeng Xian's case?"
Gu Yanxi's eyes warmed up, and she replied carefully, "Well, I wanted to ask someone to write a petition for Zeng Han, but he disagreed. He just asked someone to write it and copied a copy to submit to the Ministry of Justice. The Seventh Division then submitted the evidence. It won't take long to clear Zeng Xian's name, and then everything in the Zeng family will be returned to Zeng Han's name."
"If Zeng Han doesn't need to show up anymore, send him to me right away. If he wasn't the only one left in the Zeng family, I wouldn't want him to get involved in those things. I've seen it over time. Zeng Han... doesn't have a sense of right and wrong, good and bad. He seems to be lacking in this aspect."
"Got it. I'll urge them."