Chapter 1488: How can one bear it?

Ding Hongxing wiped her tears and left the side room, coming to the office to kowtow to Chen Guanlou to thank him for his kindness.

"Saw your father, what's the situation?" Chen Guanlou asked casually, guessing that with Magistrate Ding's mouth, he couldn't say anything nice.

"Thank you for your kindness, My Lord, for letting me have the opportunity to send my father on his final journey. My father, although he has reluctance, finally accepted his fate. I plan to prepare a coffin for my father, and hire people to handle the white affairs. It's just that I'm not familiar with this, and haven't handled it before..."

Ding Hongxing looked at Chen Guanlou with some difficulty.

Chen Guanlou laughed lightly. "This matter is simple. You just need to pay the silver, state your requirements clearly, and I have people here who will run errands and handle your father's funeral properly. How about that?"

Ding Hongxing was overjoyed and gave a curtsy. "Thank you, My Lord. Without you, I really wouldn't know what to do. My Lord is like my rebirth parents..."

"These words must not be said again." Chen Guanlou interrupted the other party with a smile, his expression mocking.

Ding Hongxing also reacted, her cheeks blushing, hanging her head in shame and annoyance.

Chen Guanlou waved his hand. "You go back first. I'll go see you later."

"Yes! I will follow My Lord's instructions." Ding Hongxing fled as if escaping.

Magistrate Ding was locked in the prisoner carriage, with tear stains still on his face, clearly having cried hard.

Chen Guanlou muttered, "The criminal officials of this era are really good at crying!"

"Magistrate Ding is afraid of death, it's understandable to cry a bit harder." Chen Quan explained in a low voice.

Chen Guanlou laughed, mocking: "He wasn't afraid when he was corrupt and perverting the law, but now that he's going to the execution ground, he finally knows fear. Order it down, Ding Hongxing wants to clean up for Magistrate Ding, give enough silver, let the people handling the white affairs handle it properly, take how much money, do how much work. Don't fool around!"

"Yes! The little one will personally watch over the people handling the white affairs, and won't allow them to fool around."

"That's not necessary. Your duty is in the Heavenly Prison, how can you have time to watch over it. Arrange one or two prison guards to watch over it. Also, seeing that the weather is getting hot, remember to prevent epidemics! Reminded every year, and every year people die."

Human life is really worthless.

At least in the Great Gan Dynasty, human life is very cheap!

Chen Quan agreed repeatedly.

The Jia-grade prison is still okay, the conditions are the best among the three prisons. Even so, every year because of weather and epidemics, various non-human causes lead to prisoner deaths, and quite a few.

The Bing-grade prison is the most miserable, the conditions are the worst, and the most people die. Because too many people died, Xu Fugui and Huang Ye have been punished many times. Especially Xu Fugui, responsible for hitting money, heavy-handed, deaths exceeding the quota, punished every time, yet repeatedly failing to change.

Magistrate Ding went to the execution ground and died.

Ding Hongxing cried hard and decided to wear hot filial piety for a hundred days.

She said to Chen Guanlou: "I am a married-out daughter, I don't need to observe three years of filial piety. After the hot filial piety is over, I will serve you, My Lord!"

"No rush. You fulfill your filial piety. I have already instructed Steward Bao to find a small courtyard in the city for you, and put it in your name. When you have time, go take a look, how to arrange it, you tell Steward Bao."

"Is My Lord trying to drive me away?" Ding Hongxing's eyes were like a little deer, innocent, helpless, aggrieved, her eyes red, yet she didn't dare let the tears fall.

Chen Guanlou laughed mockingly, his words as cold as ice in the twelfth lunar month, stabbing into her heart, causing pain.

Ding Hongxing lowered her head, hiding the grief and disappointment in her eyes; she leaned obediently into Chen Guanlou's arms.

"But I want to stay by your side and serve you, even as a maid."

"You are greedy!" Chen Guanlou always had a smile on his face, but the words that came out were cold as ice, stabbing into her heart, causing pain.

Ding Hongxing bit her lip and smiled, smiling until tears fell.

"Why cry? Instead of crying, why not think about what skills you have, so that you can have a foundation to stand on in the future. Even if you don't have any, it's not too late to learn now. Young, brainy, learn everything fast. I believe in you."

"Is My Lord asking me to show my face and make a living on my own?"

Chen Guanlou sneered. "Are you looking down on women who show their faces and make a living? You are too narrow-minded. Relying on your own ability to eat is not only not shameful, but very worthy of everyone's respect."

As he spoke, he poked the other party's head again. "Throw away the inappropriate things in your brain! Those princesses and countesses, who have everything, still fight and grab. You, on the other hand, have nothing, yet look down on people who eat by their own ability."

Ding Hongxing was aggrieved, defending herself, "I also have ability!" A playful smile flashed on her face, "My ability is to serve you, My Lord!"

Chen Guanlou laughed out loud. If he were just an ordinary dissolute son, he would definitely be satisfied with the other party's sensibility.

"Color fades and love fades! Lady Ding, are you determined that you won't live to be thirty?"

"Boring!" Ding Hongxing was aggrieved, a complaint in her mouth, revealing this embarrassing scene.

Only until this moment did she truly realize that Jiang Jiang Yucheng Chen was different from all the men she had known before. Different from her father, different from her brothers, different from her ex-husband...

His thoughts and ideas were vastly different from the world.

This difference, while making her panic, also gave her a sense of peace.

It seems... perhaps, she really could stand on her own in the capital. After all, the most difficult step, setting up a household, had already been handled. Next, she would have her own house. Even if Jiang Jiang Yucheng Chen didn't fancy her in the future, if she encountered difficulties and begged before him, he would likely not stand idly by.

Household, house, backing, all had them.

She suddenly gained courage, believing she could definitely live her own life well.

"My Lord, thank you!" she said sincerely.

"Thank me for what?"

Chen Guanlou asked with a smile.

Ding Hongxing was slightly shy, burying herself in his arms, "The slave wants to serve you, My Lord!"

"Not observing filial piety?"

"Observing!"

Chen Guanlou asked himself if he was a good person, but he was definitely a generous one.

Treating Ding Hongxing, he gave money and a house.

Medical Official Mu teased him, why not take a concubine. This treatment, ordinary concubines didn't even have.

Chen Guanlou shook his head, firmly refusing to take a concubine.

Taking a concubine means the personal relationship from then on is attached to him.

In the future, at seventy or eighty, he would still have the appearance of a young man, while the other party would be old, with chicken skin and crane hair.

Ask, how can one bear it?

Pure Yang Zhenren of Yuquan Palace learned that he was raising a mistress with a large sum of money, and began to be sarcastic. "Having money to raise women, but no money to pay debts, too excessive."

Chen Guanlou had to remind the other party, "Old Daoist, the debt between us was written off long ago. Don't mention this matter every time you see me."

"In this Daoist's place, eight thousand taels have always been hanging on the account book."

"Forget it, forget it, I'll buy your pills, that's fine."

"That's more like it!" Pure Yang Zhenren laughed with satisfaction.

"Fine, fine, I'll buy your pills, okay?"

"That's more like it!" Pure Yang Zhenren smiled with satisfaction.