I opened a tea shop in Bianjing

Chapter 64
Mo Yunxiao used [-]% of her strength in these two legs, even two strong young men couldn't withstand the sudden blow.

"Girl!" Shan Shan rushed to meet her, almost crying out of fright.She tugged at her clothes and complained: "Girl, have you forgotten what the official said? He wants you to be cautious in your words and actions, and be careful in every step. It's just a turn of the face, how did you forget it?" ah!"

"I haven't forgotten!" Mo Yunxiao said, and then strode into the courtyard gate.Coral didn't dare to stop her, so she had to go in with her.

At this time, there were not many people in the yard.Everyone was doing errands outside, only some women in coarse clothes were washing clothes or watering the flowers and plants.

Mo Yunxiao glanced around, but didn't see Huan'er.But these women in front of them are also quite eye-catching.

It seems that they are different from other maids in the palace.The clothes they wore were very tattered, with large and small patches all over the place, not to mention washing and dressing up, and their eyes were dull, and they just looked up when strangers came in, and then went back to their own business.

Coral grabbed her arm and shook her head desperately.She saw some fear in Coral's eyes.She didn't understand what coral was afraid of, and these poor women aroused her curiosity even more.

So Mo Yunxiao pushed Shan Shan's hand away, walked over and asked a woman who was smearing clothes with saponins, "What's your name?"

The woman just raised her blank face and glanced at her, then lowered her head to wash her clothes again.

Mo Yunxiao's anger rose again, so she raised her voice and said, "I'm talking to you, can't you hear me?" The woman still looked up at her, then continued to work with her head down.

Coral hurriedly came to pull her, saying: "My good girl, my good ancestor, let's go now! It's too unreasonable to delay here."

Mo Yunxiao just pretended not to hear, and then grabbed the woman's right wrist.Her body has practiced martial arts since she was a child, and her hands that can draw a hard bow are extremely powerful.She just pinched it lightly, and the woman cried out "Ah!" in pain, and looked at Mo Yunxiao with sympathetic eyes.

Looking at her like this, Mo Yunxiao's heart instantly softened.She let go, the woman rubbed her wrist, and then continued to lower her head to wash clothes, just like a computer program, although it will be interrupted, it will never stop running.

Mo Yunxiao looked up and searched, and found that all the women here were the same, working with a blank expression, and no one even looked at her, as if they didn't exist.Thinking about it carefully, this scene is quite weird.

"Could it be that they are all bewitched?" Mo Yunxiao muttered, and then felt that her idea was ridiculous.How can a person with modern education believe in supernatural powers?
"Girl, let's go, I beg you as a child, don't stay here..." Shan Shan cried out anxiously, almost kneeling before Mo Yunxiao.

Mo Yunxiao supported her and said, "Okay, I'll go back with you. But you have to tell me, who are these girls and why are they so weird?"

Coral was just crying, and then shook her head desperately, saying: "The little one doesn't know, the little one doesn't know!"

"You lied! You must know!" Mo Yunxiao pressed her every step of the way, and said, "If you don't tell me again, I will cut off your tongue, and you will never be able to speak!"

"Ah! Girl's face! Little ones, don't be dumb, don't be like them!" Shan Shan panicked and realized it was wrong after she said it, but it was too late.

Mo Yunxiao raised her eyebrows and her eyes became sharp.She stopped asking about Coral, turned around and came to a woman who was cleaning the bark of an old tree, pinched her mouth open, and sure enough, her tongue disappeared.

She let go, and the woman continued to clean the bark, completely pretending that Mo Yunxiao didn't exist.Mo Yunxiao felt even more weird. After checking several women in a row, they were all dumb without tongues.

"Who did this?" Mo Yunxiao came to ask Shan Shan again, Shan Shan was already in tears and shook her head desperately, but did not answer her question.

Mo Yunxiao suppressed her anger, and said: "Okay, don't tell me, I'll talk to the king!" She was about to leave, but Shan Shan hurriedly pulled her back, begging: "Girl, don't go to the king, the king's My heart is already very painful."

Mo Yunxiao paused, looked at Shan Shan with fierce eyes, and said, "Then tell all you know! Don't hide anything!"

Coral closed her eyes and nodded, then took Mo Yunxiao's arm and said, "It's hard to talk here, let's go first."

She dragged Mo Yunxiao to the rockery, but at this time there were already maids looking around, calling for Mo Yunxiao.So the two hid in a cave again.They sat opposite each other, hugged their legs with both hands, and curled up.

Shan Shan thought for a while before slowly saying: "The lives of these women are very hard. They are all children of poor families, who were either abducted or sold. Human teeth are cruel, and when they see women crying, they beat and scold them." The king couldn't bear it when he saw it, so he spent money to buy them all. The girls are all grateful. But they have never seen the rules in the prince's mansion. If they break the rules, they still have to be whipped."

Shan Shan paused, and continued: "Those wives hate these girls, but they just call a small mistake a big mistake, report it to the housekeeper, and the housekeeper doesn't report to the king, so they always increase the punishment. The king looks at it from above. I can't, I can't hear it. The girls are unaccompanied. They are so unresponsive every day and the earth is not working. Later, they all lose their minds and go crazy. If people are crazy, they start talking nonsense, saying How the king abused them and said how the people in the house bullied them. The housekeeper and those women got scared, so they got so ruthless that they cut off the tongues of these girls."

Mo Yunxiao punched her own leg, and asked again: "The people below are covering the sky with their hands, so the king didn't notice it at all?"

Shan Shan nodded and said: "I noticed it, but it was too late. The king was very sad. He said that he just wanted to save people, but in the end he killed people. According to the sister Mudan who served the king, that paragraph The king of life often talks in his sleep, saying that I will not kill Boren, but Boren died because of me. You guys don’t know who Boren is, and they must be suffering the same fate as these women.” At the end, Shanhu again Tears fell down.

What Shan Shan said made Mo Yunxiao feel mixed feelings.She not only sympathized with the tragic fate of these women, but also hated the viciousness of those cruel people, and at the same time, she felt deeply ashamed.

She was full of resentment towards Zhao Si, thinking that he was a complete playboy, but she didn't expect him to have such a kind side.

She remembered what she had said to him the night before: If you are a gentleman with noble conduct, why would I not want to be with you?Yes, it’s not terrible for people to have shortcomings. What’s terrible is that they can’t distinguish right from wrong and become confused.

Although Zhao Si has the common faults of children from rich families, it does not prevent him from being upright, compassionate and caring.

But even so, Mo Yunxiao still broods over how he made things difficult for her at the banquet.His kindness can't completely offset his arrogance and rudeness, let alone his hysterical anger at his servants for no reason.

"Then what happened later?" Mo Yunxiao continued to ask Shan Hu, "How did the king deal with it later?"

Shan Shan sobbed and said: "When the king knew the whole story, he became furious and beat the women to death with sticks, and the housekeeper was also beaten half to death, and asked his family to take them back with a peace cart. The king also felt right. These girls couldn’t bear it, so they were placed in this yard, and they only did some chores every day, and the days went by like this.”

Mo Yunxiao nodded and said, "Your Majesty's handling is considered appropriate."

Coral nodded and said, "Your Majesty is a benevolent gentleman. Unfortunately, we sold ourselves as slaves. It is our own fate, but it is a great luck to meet you."

"Yes, he is a benevolent gentleman." Mo Yunxiao's resentment and anger had dissipated, and what was left was only deep guilt towards Zhao Si and deep sorrow for the fate of those women.

"Let's go, let's go back." Mo Yunxiao took Shan Shan's hand and came out of the cave, and the two patted the dirt and dust on their bodies.Shan Shan wiped away tears and said: "Girl, what I told you today, don't spread it."

"I understand this." Mo Yunxiao smiled and said, "But thank you for telling me this, and letting me know another side of King Jian."

Shan Shan also laughed, and said: "Even if you don't talk about the small ones, after a long time together, you can always see through the king's behavior."

"Well, this is it." Mo Yunxiao nodded in agreement.

At this time, the two sharp-eyed maids had already spotted them, and hurried over, saying, "Miss Linglong, the king is worried if he doesn't see you, so he misses you here? If that's the case, just follow me and wait." Bar."

"Well, I'm going to see him too."

So Mo Yunxiao and Shan Shan followed the two maids to Zhao Si's room.This was the first time Mo Yunxiao entered his room.Contrary to her imagination, this room is not very luxurious, although the room is spacious, it is a big house with three entrances and three exits.But there are not many rare antiques in the house, not even a decent calligraphy and painting.As for the tables, chairs and screens, they are all simple.

Such a simple princely bedroom added a bit of Zhao Xi's favor in her heart.

Zhao Sizheng was sitting on a chair, closing his eyes and thinking hard.Until the maid called out: "Your Majesty, Miss Linglong is here."

Zhao Si hurriedly opened his eyes, and sure enough, he saw Mo Yunxiao and Shan Shan standing in front of him.And the two maids also withdrew.Coral saluted politely, and Mo Yunxiao just responded with a reserved smile.

Zhao Xixian said to Shan Hu: "I did something wrong today and punished Cheng Yu. He may be taking care of him alone at the moment, you might as well take me to see him."

"What... what?" Shan Shan panicked at once, hurriedly responded, made simple eye contact with Mo Yunxiao, and left quickly.

Mo Yunxiao turned her head and looked at the back of her walking away, feeling very puzzled, so she asked Zhao Si, "Why did you let Shanhu visit Cheng Yu?"

Zhao Si smiled bitterly, got up and walked towards Mo Yunxiao, saying, "I just want to push her away." He opened his arms, wanting to hug her into his arms.

But Mo Yunxiao took a step back, avoided his embrace, lowered his head and said: "Your Majesty is someone who has read sage books, so he should know the truth about whether men and women should be married. If a man and a widow are in the same room, even if you Don't think about Cheng Yu, you should also think about the reputation of your daughter's family."

Zhao Si was taken aback for a moment, then smiled again, and said, "Do you still want to avoid suspicion between them?"

Mo Yunxiao raised her head and said seriously, "They are neither husband and wife, nor brothers and sisters, so naturally we want to avoid suspicion."

"Then you and I are neither husband and wife nor brother and sister, how can we not avoid suspicion?" Zhao Si said to her with a smile.

Mo Yunxiao blushed and turned around to leave, but Zhao Si grabbed her hand tightly. "He Lu, I was joking with you, I hope you don't blame me." Zhao Si said this very lightly and gently, but it was the word that caught Mo Yunxiao's ears the most this day.

"I'm telling you serious things, but you always make fun of me." Mo Yunxiao glanced at him sideways, and said, "If you continue to do this, I will really ignore you from now on."

Zhao seemed to know that Mo Yunxiao had calmed down, and he became happy in his heart.He tried to hug her again, but this time she didn't dodge, letting herself fall into his tender arms.

"He Lu, I know I was wrong. From now on, I will never lose your face in front of outsiders." Zhao Si hugged her, feeling her warmth.Today he finally learned how powerful Mo Yunxiao is. "'It's better to touch Kaifeng Mansion than Mo Yunxiao; I'd rather eat three buckets of vinegar than meet Mo Helu'. It turns out that this statement is not false at all."

"Yes, in the entire Tokyo city, only you will be angry with me." Mo Yunxiao punched him lightly on the chest as if acting coquettishly.

Zhao Si's blood was boiling, and he felt that his tantrum at the banquet was so naive and reckless, and Zhao Ji's harm to him was so insignificant and not worth mentioning.So he gently held Mo Yunxiao's face, and placed a deep kiss on her lips.

Her lips were dry, but they were nourished by this kiss.She closed her eyes and gently wrapped her arms around his neck.Zhao Si's kiss was eager and affectionate, and all the unhappiness seemed to disappear with the arrival of this kiss.

"He Lu, next month, let's choose an auspicious date and get married." Zhao Si said to her, "I must give you a title."

Mo Yunxiao was a little caught off guard, she didn't want to get married so soon.She and Zhao Si have known each other for no more than ten days, and it would be too hasty to make a lifelong decision in such a short period of time.

So she thought about it and said, "It's good. But I have to go home and ask the two mothers at home."

Zhao Si let her go, helped her with the flowers on her head, and said: "Well, it should be. When the time comes, you need to bring all your family members, and I will take good care of them. "

Mo Yunxiao chuckled, and said: "My two younger sisters are very arrogant, I'm afraid they will be even more lawless when they come to the palace."

"Just pick them up, as high as their vision is, I will be as high as my lintel." Zhao Si said like this.

Mo Yunxiao's heart warmed, and she didn't know what to say.Although Zhao Si's words still reveal infinite pride, it is enough to make her slightly moved.

(End of this chapter)