Several people left happily, but Su Yu shook his head at the fool's look.
The prefect glanced at the people who left and said nothing. Instead, he looked at Yin Lang, who was beaten and paralyzed, and asked, "How do you deal with this prince?"
"Lock him up and do whatever needs to be done. As for the money he got from my farm, he should return it to me." Su Yu said calmly.
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He doesn't need this little money, but that doesn't mean he has to give it to others for free.
After hearing this, the prefect felt that Su Yu was too kind-hearted.
"Your Highness, aren't you being too kind?" The prefect looked at Su Yu disapprovingly and asked.
"That's enough."
He didn't like to kill people. Yin Lang did help him for a few years and he had a lot of money in those years. He would leave it to his family.
Seeing Su Yu insisted, the prefect didn't say much and asked someone to take his men away.
After leaving, he took the yamen runners to Yin Lang's house.
Yin Lang's wife was startled when she saw the official coming over: "My Lords, what are you doing here?"
"In the past two years, Yin Lang has secretly sold the vegetables and fruits from the prince's farm to pay off his debts. He didn't give a penny of the money to the prince, but pocketed it all. These are the money he earned from stealing the prince's vegetables and fruits over the years. The amounts are all here." The prefect opened the account book and handed it to Yin Lang's wife.
Yin Lang's wife was completely stunned when she heard the prefect's words.
Didn't my husband say that this would not be known to others? How did it turn out like this
"Is there any misunderstanding in this matter, sir?"
"There is no misunderstanding, these are all facts." The prefect said coldly.
"The prince is kind-hearted. He only wants to recover the money and won't touch anything else." The prefect looked at the woman and could tell at a glance that she must have known about this.
It's ridiculous that you would dare to do such a thing knowing this.
"You dare to steal the prince's things even though you know they belong to him. Do you really think you will not care about anything until he comes back? The prince is just accompanying the princess to Fu'an County to breed, it's not like he won't come back. You are so bold." The prince went to fight in the war last year.
How could this happen otherwise
Hearing this, Yin Lang's wife subconsciously lowered her head, feeling inexplicably guilty.
"My Lord..."
"Hurry up and take out all the money. You should compensate the prince in full."
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Hearing this, Yin Lang's wife was dumbfounded: "This... Your Excellency, this is too much."
"Why didn't you think this amount of money was too much when you embezzled the prince's property? I'm afraid not only did you not think it was too much, but you even felt that you had embezzled too little?" The prefect looked at her with disdain and said.
The woman laughed dryly and said nothing more because it was all true.
But when she thought about having to pay back so much money, she felt a little unwilling.
Then she thought of something and looked at the prefect with a bitter face: "Sir, my husband is the only one who earns money in my family. Now my husband can't come back. How are we, an orphan and a widow, and two elderly people going to live in the future? The prince doesn't need this little money, can you ask the prince not to take it back?"
The prefect looked at the woman in disbelief. Did she know what she was saying? How could she say such a thing
"You are so shameless. How your family lives is your own business. What does it have to do with the prince? If you had known what would happen, why did you go to steal things from the prince's farm? You have occupied the prince's things and now the prince is looking for trouble with you. That is your own business. What does it have to do with us?" The prefect said dissatisfiedly.
"My time is limited, please hurry up and don't let me use force."
The woman felt unwilling to see that she had said so much and the prefect was still so aggressive even after she begged for mercy, but she did not dare to confront them head-on.
He could only frustratingly go and take the silver note of 100,000 taels and hand it to the prefect, still with a smile on his face, but in fact he felt extremely painful inside.
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This is one hundred thousand taels, not a small amount of silver.
Fortunately, after my husband became rich in recent years, he bought a few shops. Even without the money, their family can still make ends meet.
Seeing that there were obviously fewer banknotes, the prefect frowned, but he also knew that if he continued to ask, the woman would definitely not give him any money.
"Take care of yourself."
The woman looked at the direction the prefect left. She really wanted to cause some trouble for Su Yu, but she also knew in her heart how much respect the people of the capital had for Prince Yu and his wife.
None of those officials dared to offend Su Yu, yet he was still a favorite of the emperor.
She is just an ordinary woman. What can she use to fight against others
No matter how dissatisfied she was, she had to swallow her anger.
The prefect took the money and went to Su Yu: "Your Highness, this is the money given by Yin Lang's wife. It's 20,000 taels short. I thought she wouldn't give it more, so I took it back directly."
Su Yu looked at the money in the prefect's hand, smiled and nodded, then glanced at Yuanbao beside him. Yuanbao took out a basket with a few packets of scented tea, seven or eight apples, a few dragon fruits, and a bundle of vegetables in it.
The prefect's eyes turned green when he saw these things. He looked at Su Yu and asked silently, "Is this really for me?"
Yuanbao walked over and handed the basket to the prefect: "Sir, this is what the young master asked you to prepare."
Hearing Yuanbao say that, the prefect's eyes lit up: "Are you really giving it to me?"
"No? In that case, Yuanbao and other things..."
"Yes, of course I wouldn't want to. Your Highness, I just can't believe this. My mother likes to eat the dragon fruit from your house, but I haven't been able to buy any of it several times." It makes me sad just thinking about it.
Now that the prince has given him so many, he is very happy.
"How about I replace all your apples with dragon fruits?" Yuanbao asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Exchange two. My wife and children like to eat apples." The prefect thought about it and decided to exchange them for two dragon fruits since there were more apples.
"Yuanbao, go get two more dragon fruits for the prefect."
"Yes." Yuanbao came back soon after leaving, with three more dragon fruits in his hand.
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The prefect was somewhat flattered: "Your Majesty..."
"Keep it, you're a good person. As long as you remain loyal to the emperor and work hard for him, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future." Su Yu still had a good impression of the prefect.
He was born into a poor family, and his parents and wife together supported him. After he became an official, he treated his parents and his wife very well, and never thought of taking a concubine.
The prefect usually had children when he was twenty-five or twenty-six years old. This was because his wife worked very hard to support his studies when she was young. After he was transferred to the capital to take up the post, he found an imperial physician to nurse his wife for a long time before they had a child.
Now the eldest son is seven years old and the youngest daughter is only four years old.
The family lived in harmony. Considering his attitude towards his parents and wife, Su Yu didn't mind giving him another chance.
"I understand. Thank you, Your Majesty."