I opened a tea shop in Bianjing

Chapter 10 Questioning
Four firecrackers hung in front of the gate of the Minglou roared, and endless smoke rose amidst the crackling.The guests who came to express their condolences were also inexplicably surprised and unbelievable.

"Oh! There is such a miracle in the world! Let me go in and see my niece He Lu!" "You can slow down! My eldest girl is still weak and can't see outsiders."

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The noise, laughter, and firecrackers are intertwined with each other, which is a great joy.Even in this atrium with closed doors and windows, it can be faintly heard.

Unlike the bustling outside, there was a depressing and dull atmosphere in the central hall.Mo Yunxiao sat on the upper chair, and Zhang Yuner and Li Xian'e sat on either side of her.Mo Yunxiang, Mo Yunze and Mo Yunxi stood at the bottom with their personal maids and servants.

Zhang Yun'er had a serious face, holding a tea bowl in one hand and a spoon in the other.The spoon stirred slowly in the tea bowl.The tea bowl was steaming hot, exuding a strange and strong fragrance of roses.

Look at Li Xian'e on the other side.Tears welled up in her eyes, and she held Mo Yunxiao's hand tightly with one hand, looking extremely amiable.

Mo Yunxiao drummed in her heart: "Who are these two women? Is the relationship with me, or the relationship with the owner of this body, good or bad, close or distant. Seeing their different expressions, I'm afraid They both hide unspeakable thoughts. Of the two of them, whose surname is Jiang and who is surnamed Wang?"

Mo Yunxiao was thinking about it in her heart, only to hear a "boom", Zhang Yun'er dropped the tea bowl heavily on the tea table, and everyone was startled.

She put down the tea bowl, wiped the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief in her spare time, and said calmly: "Miss, there is no one else in this room, and it is fortunate that you were safe after falling into the water, so we can talk."

She glanced at the crowd and continued: "When you were unconscious, your maid, Huan'er, broke her mouth and said that it was Xiang'er who caused you to fall into the water. Now I will ask on behalf of Xiang'er, whether you made a mistake. Did you fall into the water or were you pushed down? If you were pushed down, have you ever seen who pushed you?"

At this moment, everyone's eyes were on Mo Yunxiao.She looked around timidly, then swallowed, and said, "I don't remember."

"Don't remember?" Zhang Yun'er stared, and smiled coldly: "Then when will the suspicion of me, Xiang'er, be cleared?"

"Well, let me tell you, let's call Huan'er here." Li Xian'e said, "Huan'er always follows the eldest girl, we can't leave her behind when we talk about the eldest girl's affairs."

"Hmph! That Huan'er has lost her mind." Zhang Yun'er was still indignant: "Call her here, and tell her to play tricks here again? I'm planning to find someone to sell her out."

Hearing this, Li Xian'e became excited and shouted: "It's absolutely impossible!" Everyone was surprised, and all looked at her strangely.

Zhang Yun'er felt even more puzzled, so she asked, "I'm selling rings, sister, why are you so anxious?"

Li Xian'e smiled awkwardly, and said: "I haven't figured out the matter yet, so I sold her out like this for no apparent reason. I'm afraid that if she goes out and makes irresponsible remarks, the Mo family's reputation will be bad."

Zhang Yun'er also nodded, and told the servant in front of her: "In this case, you go and bring her up. If she violates the rules by a little bit, immediately fork out and whip twenty lashes."

"Yes." The boy replied and retreated.

After a while, a woman was lifted up by two servants and placed on the ground in the middle hall.Mo Yunxiao stretched her neck to have a look, and saw that the woman's hands and feet were tied, and her mouth was stuffed with a rag.She lay on the ground and struggled constantly, screaming "uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu".

Zhang Yun'er took a look, then sneered again, squinted her eyes and scolded: "What a stubborn hoof, it's all tied up like this and I don't know how to restrain myself."

"Quickly take the thing out of her mouth." Li Xian'e ordered, and the first servant bent down to remove the cloth strip from Huan'er's mouth.

The moment the cloth was removed, Huan'er yelled loudly: "Second Mistress, you are a guilty conscience! You failed to assassinate my girl, and you want to kill me again? Do you still have Wang Fa in your eyes?"

Huan'er glared and roared like a torrent of mighty force.All the people present were awe-inspiring.

Only Zhang Yun'er turned blue with anger.She slapped the table heavily, and also snarled: "You are bold and talented, but you know that it is a felony to frame your elders! You...don't you want to live?"

Huan'er smiled foolishly, and said: "According to the laws of the Song Dynasty, you are a concubine and I am a maidservant. We are the same as the servants of the Mo family. How can we talk about framing or not?"

"Presumptuous! Presumptuous!" Zhang Yun'er jumped up, gritted her teeth and said, "Come on, drag this guy out and beat him! Beat him hard!"

Li Xian'e also stood up, squeezed a handkerchief and said, "Let's ask questions first. See if she is..."

"What else are you asking?" Zhang Yun'er turned her head abruptly and yelled at Li Xian'e.Her face was red and her ears were red, and the veins on her forehead were exposed, obviously she was extremely angry.

Mo Yunxiang and Mo Yunze rushed over to comfort him: "Mother, don't get angry, be careful of hurting yourself."

The two siblings poured tea one by one to appease the other, and Zhang Yuner took a sip of the tea soup her son handed over, before calming down her anger a little.

Zhang Yuner's hand holding the tea bowl was still shaking violently.She suppressed the anger in her heart, and said: "This servant girl is so rude, if you don't punish him severely, wouldn't it be a joke? How will my Mo family discipline the servants in the future? Come and beat him with a fork, and give him fifty lashes first. "

"Yes!" The two young men were about to fork the ring out, but Mo Yunxiao, who was silent for a while, stood up again and said, "Wait a minute!"

The two servants were taken aback for a moment, and their eyes were cast on Zhang Yun'er.Zhang Yun'er's blood surged, she turned her head to look at Mo Yunxiao, and asked, "What's the matter? The eldest girl wants to protect this maidservant?"

Mo Yunxiao rolled her eyes, then said with a smile: "No matter what you say, she is also my person. Even if she speaks rudely and asks for the family law, I will invite it. Second Mistress, if you do it for me, I'm afraid it will be inappropriate."

Zhang Yun'er was taken aback for a moment, and then asked: "Then what does Miss Yi mean?"

Mo Yunxiao looked at Zhang Yun'er, who was in a panic, and then at Li Xian'e, who was anxious. She had judged that the two sisters seemed to be in harmony, so she smiled and said, "Didn't you ask her to come and ask questions? If you want to kill or beat, You have to finish asking."

She sat down again.Seeing this, Zhang Yun'er and Li Xian'e had no choice but to sit down again.

"Big girl! So you really are not dead!" Huan'er's face showed joy, and then she shed tears: "Big girl, I don't believe that you fell into the water by your own mistakes. Someone must have hurt you, yes wrong?"

With a straight face, Mo Yunxiao said, "Tell me, who is the one who hurt me?"

Huan'er turned her attention to Mo Yunxiang behind Zhang Yun'er.Mo Yunxiang was anxious, stomped his feet angrily, and said, "You chew your tongue, I didn't hurt my brother!"

Mo Yunxiao turned her head slowly, and looked at Mo Yunxiang with awe-inspiring eyes.When Mo Yunxiang met her eyes, the hairs all over his body stood on end, he hurriedly lowered his head, and stopped talking.

"Big girl! The second girl said that she would throw you into the Jinming Pond to drown, that's what you and I heard." Huan'er said, "If something happens to the eldest girl and the second grandmother has another son, then we will There is a great chance to be promoted to the master mother. It is not surprising that the second girl will do so."

"Ridiculous!" Zhang Yun'er scolded angrily, "You are purely speculating, have you come up with any real evidence!"

"Hmph! There's no basis for killing people to silence the mouth and destroying the corpse." Huan'er shook her head in disdain and looked to the other side.

Zhang Yun'er laughed coldly, and said: "There is neither evidence nor witnesses, so you are just slandering! Let's go! Let's go to Kaifeng Mansion to reason!"

"Second Mistress, be safe and don't be impatient." Mo Yunxiao turned her body sideways, and lightly pressed her hand on Zhang Yun'er's.

She smiled and said to Zhang Yuner: "It is often said that Taoism should not be publicized when it is ugly. There is no need to go to Kaifeng Mansion. The person who hurt me is not Xiang'er, I already guessed who he is."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone in the audience was shocked. "What?" Everyone's eyes widened, and they shot at Mo Yunxiao like sharp arrows.

Zhang Yun'er and Mo Yunxiang couldn't help but look at each other, and then asked softly, "Who is the murderer?"

Mo Yunxiao looked around again, and said with a smile: "I know this person in my heart, but it's not appropriate to say it here. In short, I can take care of this matter myself, so you don't have to worry about it."

"Oh! That's not allowed!" Li Xian'e said with concern: "In this cold and windy month, pushing people into the lake has the intention of killing people, so you have to be careful. If you want to know who it is, He Lu, we Just go to the Kaifeng government to file a complaint, it will be safer if the government decides for us."

"Not right!" It was Mo Yunze who spoke.He came out from behind Zhang Yun'er, walked in front of the three of them, bowed to Li Xian'e and Mo Yunxiao respectively, and said, "Since it is inconvenient for my daughter to reveal the identity of the murderer, I must have no conclusive evidence. No wonder, it was Shangyuan yesterday. , Jinmingchi is overcrowded. Even if my sister is sure about the thief, we can sue the Kaifeng mansion, and he still has room for excuses. At worst, it’s just that there are too many people, and there will never be a death sentence.”

Huan'er nodded again and again after hearing this, and hurriedly added: "Master Yunze is right. It seems that this matter needs to be investigated secretly. 'I would rather touch Kaifeng mansion than Mo Yunxiao'. Our girl's way of dealing with people There are too many, there is no need for Kaifeng Mansion to make extra troubles."

Zhang Yun'er gave Huan'er a hard look, and reprimanded: "You unruly pickle, how can you talk!"

Li Xian'e was a little resentful, and took the conversation: "However, this is a human life lawsuit after all. Although our eldest girl is blessed by God, she survived. However, it is not appropriate for us to hide such a big matter like this. .”

"Someone outside asked me, so I said that I stumbled and fell into the lake, which makes sense." Mo Yunxiao answered Li Xian'e's doubts, then turned her head to look at Zhang Yun'er, and said with a smile: "Second Mistress, Huan'er, this servant girl If you don't know the rules, and bump into you several times, it's because I'm not strict in discipline. I will reprimand her when I go back this time, and don't allow her to make trouble again. So, I'd better ask Second Mistress to let her go."

"Let her go? How could it be so easy!" Zhang Yun'er said angrily, "Our Mo family is also an upright family, how could we have such a vicious and disrespectful female envoy? If we don't punish severely today, others will follow suit in the future. How to restrain!"

Mo Yunxiao smiled faintly, and said, "Huan'er has been with me for many years. If she is punished for her slip of the tongue, I'm afraid it won't be convincing."

Zhang Yun'er stared, and asked, "Why don't you accept it?"

"She insisted that it was the second girl who harmed me. Regardless of whether it is true or not, if she is punished for this, it will inevitably make people think that the second mistress is showing favoritism." Mo Yunxiao said unhurriedly: "Now the second mistress let her go. , but seems to be open-minded, not afraid of people chewing their tongues. Hehe, the so-called "Zhou Gong vomits and feeds, and the world returns to one's heart". I also hope that the second grandma will sell me a thin favor."

Zhang Yun'er was stunned for a moment, then smiled wryly, and said: "I have never read a book, so I don't know what'Zhou Gong vomits'. Huan'er is right, I am a concubine and she is a maidservant. To put it bluntly, we are all from the Mo family. Slave and maidservant, and Miss, you are the master, so if I don’t sell this favor, I have to sell it.”

"Second Mistress's words are serious." Mo Yunxiao nodded slightly to show respect as she spoke, and continued: "It's just that Huan'er has been with me for a long time, and I'm just recovering from a serious illness, so I need someone who can help me. If not, I will hand over Huan'er to Second Mistress."

"Haha!" Zhang Yun'er looked up to the sky and laughed, and said, "Beating a dog depends on the owner. I understand."

Having said that, her complexion darkened, and when she was about to refute, the door of the central hall was knocked open by a young man with a "bang".

The little servant tripped over the threshold, yelled "Ouch", and fell heavily on the ground.Seeing his embarrassment, some maidservants in the hall couldn't help laughing twice.

Zhang Yun'er blushed and scolded sharply: "Where is the grandson of a turtle, so disrespectful!"

The little servant hurriedly got up from the ground, still looking panicked and embarrassed: "The little one just got a letter. The official family... the official family has collapsed."

"What?" Everyone was taken aback.Li Xian'e covered her mouth with a handkerchief, her face full of panic; Zhang Yun'er was also on the spot, her eyes staring straight.

Mo Yunxiao couldn't help standing up from the chair, and asked, "Which official family is it?"

Mo Yunxiang glanced at her, and said to himself: "I still have a few officials in the Song Dynasty, so they are naturally the emperor of Yuanfu."

"Yuanfu?" Mo Yunxiao thought to himself, "Emperor Yuanfu? Ah! Isn't that Song Zhezong? The next one to ascend the throne will be Song Huizong Zhao Ji, who is famous in history books!"

Thinking of this, the handkerchief in her hand also slipped from between her fingers, and slowly fell to the ground.

(End of this chapter)