I opened a tea shop in Bianjing

Chapter 37
The soldiers divided into two teams and entered the inner house of the Mo family. The big black dog guarding the house immediately stared at them sharply and yelled "Wow..." Holding a shining sharp blade, he didn't dare to approach it for a while.

With a sound of exclamation, the servants, maids, old lady, two grandmas and Yunxi in the inner house all hurriedly stood up. Fortunately, Mo Yunze studied hard at Taixue for the next year's big exam, only the first day of the month. He and Shiwu didn't go home, so they escaped by luck.

Yunxi's temples were scattered, and he didn't know what happened for a moment. He was looking around in a daze, but he was startled when he saw the man in armor with a fierce face, and hurriedly hid behind Li Xianye.

A soldier walked towards Li Xian'e and his daughter with a frivolous face, and said with a smile, "Old man Mo is really beautiful, his wife is very coquettish, and his daughter is also very good."

As he spoke, he was about to reach out to touch Mo Yunxi's face.Mo Yunxi was taken aback, quickly shrank her head to avoid it, and shouted: "Mother!"

Although Li Xian'e was flustered, her anger overcame her timidity at this time.She stretched out her hand and grabbed the soldier's wrist, and shouted: "The military master broke into the house late at night and disturbed the people, so I have to give this old man an explanation!"

The soldier's complexion changed, and he slapped Li Xianye's face with a backhand "slap", which made her stagger and fall to the ground.

"Mother!" Mo Yunxi howled, and threw herself on Li Xianye's body, crying loudly.Zhang Yun'er watched from the side, she couldn't help but closed her eyes and shed tears, feeling very sad in her heart.

"Presumptuous!" Qiu Feng stopped shouting, the soldier wanted to go forward to tease him again, but suddenly heard the violent shouting, he hurriedly turned his head to look.

Qiu Feng and Mo Yunxiao came together, while Mo Yunxiang and Du Juan were timid and timidly followed behind them.

Qiu Feng looked stern, and shouted: "I just issued an order not to be frivolous or insulting, did you hear what I said as an official?"

The soldier hurriedly knelt down to make amends, and said, "Young man is guilty."

Qiu Feng sighed, and ordered: "Drag it on, give me fifty lashes."

So, the other two soldiers forked him out, and after a while, the sound of "cracking" of the whip was heard, accompanied by the cry of that soldier.

Mo Yunxi slowly helped Li Xian'er up, but when they got up together, Zhao Pang's fan fell from Mo Yunxi's arms and fell to the ground.

She screamed "Ah!" and was about to pick it up, but Qiu Feng picked it up before her with quick eyesight and quick hands.

Qiu Feng was born as a rough military commander, he has never seen such a superb fan painting skills.He played with it for a while, and when he looked up and saw tears in Mo Yunxi's eyes, he laughed and asked her, "Zhao Pang? Who is Zhao Pang?"

Mo Yunxi just hid back, not daring to answer his words.

Qiu Feng was even more complacent, and said with a sneer, "Arty and sour scholar!" Then he threw the fan away.Mo Yunxi hurriedly picked it up and stuffed it back into his pocket.

Qiu Feng looked around and asked his personal adjutant: "Is everyone in the Minglou here?"

"Yes." The adjutant replied, "Only Mo Yunze is still studying in Taixue."

"En." Qiu Feng nodded, and walked straight into the lobby of Mo's residence. He was brought along with Li Xian'er, mother and daughter, Zhang Yuner, mother and daughter, and Mo Yunxiao.It's just that Mo Yunxiao was at the end, and there were two soldiers who wanted to push her, but when she looked back, the two of them became timid, so they had to bow their heads and follow behind.

Qiu Feng was sitting in front of the lobby, and the adjutant showed him the account book of Minglou.Qiu Feng didn't know much about business, and he couldn't see any reason after looking at it twice, so he threw away the account book and asked everyone in the hall: "Are you guilty?"

Everyone looked at each other, not knowing how to answer.

"Your father and husband were deserters, did you ever know?" Qiu Feng asked.

"Ah?" Mo Yunxi and Mo Yunxiang exclaimed at the same time, looking at their mother blankly.Li Xian'er and Zhang Yun'er also had different expressions.Zhang Yun'er was taken aback for a moment, then lowered her head in shame; while Li Xian'er still had a bewildered expression after a brief panic.

Qiu Feng looked at their words and saw their thoughts, so he sneered and said: "Don't pretend to be confused, if you confess now, I still have room to maneuver with Fu Yin. If you don't tell the truth, you will have to investigate later. If you come out, I'm afraid it will be difficult for the officials to protect you."

Zhang Yun'er's knees softened, and she knelt down on the ground immediately, and cried out: "Master, my Dalang used to serve in the Western Army, but he left the army. But I don't know that he is a deserter!"

"Hmph!" Qiu Feng slammed the table heavily, and shouted: "Still sophistry! You two wives have served him for many years, don't you know his origin? To tell you the truth, Mo Chenglin has already confessed in prison. If you hide it, you will only mistake yourself!"

Qiu Feng's words were a usual way to extort a confession, Zhang Yun'er was really fooled, so she had to bow her head again and again, crying: "Forgive me, my two sisters did not report the crime, and we deserved it, but our sons and daughters really didn't know about it, and I hope the superior will forgive me , forgive them!"

Qiu Feng squinted his eyes and said with a smile: "Whoever is lenient and who is not, that is not up to me. However, since you have confessed, I will not make things difficult. Please go to see your father and Husband."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone knew that it meant to be arrested and imprisoned.Mo Yunxi and Mo Yunxiang couldn't bear this fright, and they hugged their mother for a moment, crying loudly.

Li Xian'e couldn't stop stroking her daughter's back, and comforted her: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, what's so scary about us being together as a family?"

The adjutant asked Qiu Feng: "How will the servants outside deal with it?"

Qiu Feng thought for a while, and said: "According to the practice of our court, men are sold as slaves, and women... serve as Jiaofang Secretary."

Mo Yunxiao was startled when she heard the word "Jiaofangsi". She knew that this was a brothel run by the government in ancient times. The daughters of criminals usually served as Jiaofangsi, and they got a low status and could not get rid of it for life.

Mo Yunxiao thought of young women like Du Juan and Caiyi who were very congenial to him. It was already very pitiful for them to be sold as slaves, so wouldn't it be a disaster for them to be used as official prostitutes?There are also Danzhu and Luyu, although I don't like them very much, but they are still girls in their teens. At the time I lived, such girls were still studying in school, and they were still struggling with secret love and losing weight .Alas, the times are different, and the situation of people is really different.

Thinking of this, she blurted out: "No!"

Qiu Feng was stunned, and asked with a smile: "Madam, do you have something to say?"

Mo Yunxiao said coldly: "You can sell them, but not to Jiaofang Secretary."

"But this is my practice." Qiu Feng replied with a smile.

Mo Yunxiao also smiled coldly, and said: "Marquis Yu leads the troops here, and Marquis Yu will take care of everything here. How difficult is it to hide a few women?"

Qiu Feng laughed out loud, and immediately got up and walked towards Mo Yunxiao.The two pairs of mother and daughter looked at him eagerly, secretly blaming Mo Yunxiao for being meddlesome and only causing trouble for herself.

Qiu Feng came in front of Mo Yunxiao, and stretched out his hand to support her chin.Mo Yunxiao turned her head, took a step back, but managed to force a smile and said: "Chou Yuhou, now you are the knife and I am the fish. The life and death of our Mo family is not all a matter of your words." ? Why do you have to torture me in front of so many people?"

When Qiu Feng heard the words, his heart surged with enthusiasm, and he thought to himself: "I thought this 'female Yan Luo' was so strong, and there were times when she would give in. Well, that's right. Since she has given in, I can't act rashly here." Molesting, otherwise the soldiers will be dissatisfied."

So he smiled again and said: "Miss Mo is right. Come on, use a pen to mark the names of the maids of the Mo family. As long as they sell them to ordinary people, they don't need to be official prostitutes."

The adjutant responded with a "Yes!" and then withdrew.

After a while, there was a burst of crying from women in the courtyard.Mo Yunxiao closed her eyes, her heart seemed to twitch.

Qiu Feng said with a smile: "I did what I promised the girl, I don't know how the girl will repay me?"

Before Mo Yunxiao could answer, Zhang Yun'er, who was kneeling on the ground, yanked her dress and said worriedly, "He Lu! No!"

Mo Yunxiao glanced at her coldly, then stretched out her hand and pulled the dress from Zhang Yun'er's fingers.

She took two steps, and suddenly turned around and scolded: "Second grandma, third grandma. You are jealous that I am the daughter of the Mo family, so you do everything possible to kill me. Hmph! It's all over now. Not only have I been harmed by you, but even Mo The family has also suffered this great disaster! Now, you want to pretend to be a good person? Will I believe you? And the two of you..."

As she spoke, she pointed at Mo Yunxiang and Mo Yunxi, and she began to accuse in a stern voice: "One pushed me into the lake, almost killing me; the other pretended to be me to have a tryst with a man! Like a mother, like a daughter! Now The way of heaven is good, you will inevitably ransack your family and destroy your family, and I have a vengeance waiting for me, let's see who of us will have the last laugh!"

Zhang Yun'er was dumbfounded, and said in a trembling voice, "He Lu, what do you mean by that?"

"You know what you mean!" The more Mo Yunxiao said, the more angry she became, and she turned to Qiu Feng and said, "Chou Yuhou, no one here is a good person, can I ask you to help me take care of them?" ?”

Qiu Feng felt cold, and thought to himself: "I really didn't expect this Mo Yunxiao to be so ruthless and ungrateful. She will draw a line with her family so soon?" So he asked, "Miss Mo, how do you want me to take care of you?"

Mo Yunxiao turned his gaze, and suddenly whispered to him: "It's better to kill him."

Qiu Feng was startled, and hurriedly said: "No! The family members of the sinners have to be handed over to the government, how can they kill them at will?"

Mo Yunxiao looked at them coldly, and said: "Chou Yuhou showed mercy, why don't you thank me?"

Zhang Yuner and the others naturally had resentment on their faces, while Qiu Feng also felt shuddering. "This girl is so ungrateful and ungrateful, if I encounter trouble in the future, won't she make trouble even more?" With this thought, no matter how much tenderness and sweetness there is, it will be blown away by the wind.

"What a cruel heart!" Qiu Feng said, and then ordered one of his soldiers: "Take them all away."

The soldier asked, "Where's Miss Mo?"

"Take it away too!" Qiu Feng's eyes burst into flames, and he shouted angrily.

Hearing this, Mo Yunxi and Mo Yunxiang cried again.Mo Yunxiao was irritated and reprimanded softly: "Don't cry! The daughter of the Mo family will never shed tears in front of outsiders!"

After she said that, she turned around and opened the door to go out.The two pairs of mother and daughter also left with her with resentment in their hearts.

There was a rotten stench in the cell.The stench seemed to come from dead rats, or from the accumulation of feces. Looking around, it was dark all around, with a narrow passage in the middle, and locked cells on both sides.The ground and walls were filthy, and gray-brown filth covered the ground, like mud but not like mud.

The girls of the Mo family were spoiled and spoiled since they were young, and they never lived in such a dirty place.For a while, they all raised their sleeves to cover their mouths and noses, and stood still, very unwilling to step on the filth with their "wrong end" made of silk.

"What are you doing in a daze! Let's go!" The policeman shouted quickly, raising the whip in his hand as if he was about to hit Mo Yunxi. "Ah?" Mo Yunxi felt scared, so he could only walk forward.She stepped on the mud all over the ground, and immediately splashed muddy water, which stained her skirt.

She had no choice but to lift her skirt and walk forward cautiously.Following her was Mo Yunxiang who was also holding up her skirt, followed by Li Xianye and Zhang Yuner.Mo Yunxiao didn't mention her skirt.Even though she saw the scene in front of her, she felt nauseated.But at this moment, she cared more about her own dignity, so she walked up it generously.

"Go! Dally! Beg for a beating!" The policeman yelled loudly, and Mo Yunxi hurriedly shouted: "Don't be beating!" Suddenly his foot slipped, and he fell into the muddy beach with a "plop". It hit her nose, almost suffocating her. Looking at her body again, she saw that a beautiful green gauze skirt and wool cloak were also stained with muddy water. The wool was stirred by the muddy water and immediately twisted together.

Mo Yunxi glanced at himself, then looked back at the catcher, and began to cry again.But the catcher didn't have the slightest feeling of pity and tenderness, so he raised his whip and hit Mo Yunxi heavily with a "slap".

She yelled "Ah!", shrunk into a ball, Li Xian'er loved her daughter eagerly, rushed over to protect her, and begged: "Don't hit her, don't hit her, we'll leave now."

Mo Yunxi and Li Xian'e stood up, and were about to cry again, but Li Xian'e hurriedly covered her mouth and said, "Do you still want to eat the whip?"

Mo Yunxi shook his head hastily, and continued walking forward.

At the end they came to a single cell.The catcher quickly opened the locked door and said coldly: "Go in." Then everyone filed in.

The last one to walk in was Mo Yunxiao.She walked to the door and said to the policeman, "Do you know that the most painful way to beat someone with a whip?"

The policeman was taken aback for a moment, and asked back, "What?"

Mo Yunxiao smiled faintly and said, "It's nothing, I'll teach you." After she finished speaking, she reached out and snatched the whip from the catcher's hand.The arrester froze, and was about to stop drinking when Mo Yunxiao lashed his fingers with a whip.

The policeman yelled "Ouch", and saw that his fingers were red and swollen.The catcher was furious, and shouted: "It's unreasonable, what kind of cunning woman!"

As he spoke, he punched him, Mo Yunxiao took a step forward, grabbed his back joint with his backhand, and just twisted it lightly, such a strong man actually yelled "Ouch" and frowned. , looking very sad.

Mo Yunxiao said: "Although we are criminals, we should not deceive each other too much. Do you know that you Qiu Yuhou and I are good friends"

The policeman heard the words and felt the hairs all over his body stand on end.He knew that Qiu Feng was extremely lustful, how could he not be tempted by such a beautiful woman.If one day, this Mo Yunxiao was taken over by him and then sued himself, how could he bear it?
So he repeatedly begged for forgiveness: "You little one has eyes but can't recognize a real person, please raise your hand high, Ms. Mo."

Only then did Mo Yunxiao let go, helped him up, and said, "I will take good care of you in the future."

The policeman blushed and showed embarrassment, so he nodded and said, "It's easy to say..." Then he hurriedly backed out.

Mo Yunxi knew that the elder sister was venting her anger on her behalf, but she didn't know that her attitude towards him was so different.

But Zhang Yun'er mocked: "He Lu, don't you want to climb a high branch? Why did you fall down again?"

Only then did Mo Yunxiao turn around and said, "Second Grandma, Third Grandma, Yunxiang, Yunxi, if I want to protect myself, I have to do this. Here, I will make amends to everyone." She said Then he bowed deeply to the four of them.

The two pairs of mother and daughter understood after careful consideration, and were speechless for a while.Only Mo Yunxi asked: "Brother girl, this move of yours is extremely dangerous. What if Qiu Feng really listened to you?"

Mo Yunxi shook his head, knelt down and said to her: "Cruel officials have never come to a good end since ancient times. Qiu Feng has done many bad things, so he must have a guilty conscience. If a ruthless person like me is placed by his side, wouldn't it be Make him restless? He won't be so stupid."

The four looked at each other, all admiring Mo Yunxiao's quick wit.

(End of this chapter)