I opened a tea shop in Bianjing

Chapter 69 Visit
Mrs. Wei's words surprised Mo Yunxiao.She was stunned for a while, speechless.And Mrs. Wei showed melancholy, her brows were tightly knit together, and it didn't look like she was joking.

"Yuru, I..." Mo Yunxiao stood up, and before she could say anything, Mrs. Wei put her hand on her shoulder lightly, told her to sit down, and said, "Don't talk too much, you want to talk?" I understand what I'm saying, I understand everything."

"No, you don't understand." Mo Yunxiao's tone was extremely firm, but also extremely gentle.She was having a difficult debate with Mrs. Wei, like two swordsmen. At this time, the sword was out of its sheath, emitting a cold light, but the person holding the sword was merciless.

"Yuru, Zhao Si is not like what you said. I believe he will not harm me." Mo Yunxiao said: "People in the world have misunderstood him because of the rivalry between the royal family, not Zhao Si's original intention. .He can save his life only by self-defilement, which is already extremely painful, and I shouldn't doubt him anymore."

While she was talking, Mrs. Wei got up and poured a cup of hot water into Mo Yunxiao's hand.She listened quietly, with no expression on her face.It wasn't until Mo Yunxiao finished speaking that she sighed softly and asked, "You trust him so much?"

"Yes, I trust him." Mo Yunxiao said, "I told him that trusting him is like trusting myself."

"If that's the case, why are you looking for me?" Mrs. Wei asked again.

This question really made Mo Yunxiao speechless.That's right, she tossed and turned all night, why did she take the liberty to visit at dawn?
"You want to ask for an answer, an answer that I approve and is enough to make you feel at ease, right?" Mrs. Wei said.

Mo Yunxiao smiled reservedly, and said, "The one who knows me is Yuru."

Mrs. Wei shook her head, and said worriedly: "I believe what you say, and I also believe that he is self-defiled in order to save his life. At this moment, are you at ease?"

"You don't really believe it." Mo Yunxiao also frowned.

"Even if I really believe it, even if everyone in Prince Jian's mansion believes it, your heart still cannot be settled." Mrs. Wei said, "Because you don't believe him enough. The official's words have shaken you."

"No, I haven't wavered." Mo Yunxiao argued.

Mrs. Wei smiled and said: "I know I can't convince you. You are both civil and military. You are more courageous and courageous than me. You will always have new tricks to refute me. I will not argue with you. How about we Go visit and see if you're right or I'm right."

"Visiting? Visiting what?" Mo Yunxiao asked a little puzzled.

"Do you still remember the thirty singers?" Mrs. Wei showed a confident smile, and then said, "I have placed them in the homes of tenants outside the city. Let's go and hear what they have to say."

After thinking about it carefully, Mo Yunxiao agreed immediately.

Outside the city, there are clusters of cottages, a stream flowing, three or five boys running and frolicking around a big tree, and two white-haired old men sitting on a stone pier with crutches, chatting eloquently.Two maroon horses stopped at the side of the road, and immediately sat a woman wearing a bamboo hat.

Several old women greeted them, saluted with smiles, and said, "I met Mrs. Wei. It's not a good year. If you have any orders, just ask the housekeeper to come and let you know. Why bother to run away?"

Mrs. Wei smiled, got off the horse and said, "I don't have any invitation, I just came to see the girls from last time. Are they okay?"

"It's very good, and thanks to my wife's financial support, the girls are eating well, sleeping well, and their thin bodies are getting better. Come on, the old lady will take you to see me when you grow old." The old man As the woman spoke, she led Mrs. Wei and Mo Yunxiao to the depths of the village.

"Are they used to it?" Mrs. Wei asked.

"Yes, I wasn't used to it at first, but it got better as time went on." The old woman said, "They are also grateful for Madam's kindness. Alas, it is a great fortune to escape from that tiger and wolf den. What more can you ask for?"

Mrs. Wei and Mo Yunxiao looked at each other, and said: "It's so good. They have all suffered, and I am worried about how to deal with them. If there are idlers in the village who cannot get a wife, they can also find People talk and make peace."

"It's kind of daring." The old woman said, "They are all in the old yard at the west entrance of the village. Let's take a look first."

When they came to the entrance of the yard, they couldn't hear the slightest human voice. The three of them looked at each other and felt a little strange.The old lady was a little embarrassed, she clapped her hands and shouted: "Ladies and gentlemen, Mrs. Wei is here to see you, hurry up and greet her!" Still no sound was heard.

Madam Wei and Mo Yunxiao's eyes lit up at the same time, and they shouted in unison: "No!" Mo Yunxiao kicked the door open with a kick.The old woman was startled, her face turned ashen, and her facial features were distorted by fear.

Mo Yunxiao and Mrs. Wei walked in quickly, and the old woman followed behind.But as soon as they entered, they were shocked again. These women who had changed into ordinary clothes fell to the ground in a mess, bleeding from their mouths, and remained motionless.

Mo Yunxiao hurried up to check her breath, and found that they were all dead, and their bodies were stiff and cold, they must have been dead for a long time.

The old woman was so frightened when she suddenly saw so many corpses, she shouted: "This... how... how..."

Furious, Madam Wei grabbed the old woman and asked, "What's going on here?"

"The little one doesn't know... the little one doesn't know..." The old woman was flustered and lost.

Mrs. Wei was even more annoyed, she pushed her hard, and scolded: "You did a good job!" The old woman fell to the ground, knelt down and kowtowed hurriedly, and said, "Damn the little one... the little one should die..."

"Die, die! What's the use of you being dead!" Mrs. Wei blushed, and she really wanted to kill this careless woman with a single knife.

Mo Yunxiao hurriedly came to stop her, and persuaded: "Yu Ru, please be safe and don't be impatient, even if you kill her, it won't help." Then, she asked the woman: "When did you come last time? "

"Yesterday... last night." The old woman replied submissively: "The young ones have to deliver two meals a day, so I have to see them twice a day."

"When you came here last night, was there anything unusual?" Mo Yunxiao asked.

"No...no." The old woman hastily argued again: "If there is any abnormality, I must report to Madam."

Mo Yunxiao thought for a while, then asked, "How do you deliver the meals for 30 people?"

"The little one has a donkey cart, which can be pulled all at once," the old woman replied.

Mo Yunxiao bit her lip and thought and thought, trying to find a new flaw: "But the food for 30 people is too much, how can you do it alone?"

The old woman took a peek at Mrs. Wei, and replied: "The young one is afraid of neglecting the ladies, and the lady gave me money, so the young one went to the city to buy food and came back."

"You are always alone, and no one else intervenes?" Mo Yunxiao continued to ask.

"That's not true." The old woman said: "Zhang Agou from the village is an idler in the city, and he goes around to deliver meals. The little lady's meals are delivered by him."

Mo Yunxiao knows that "idle person" does not mean a person who is idle in modern people's sense, but specifically refers to a "delivery boy".When she was about to ask again, Mrs. Wei suddenly called out: "Who is it?"

Mo Yunxiao looked up, and sure enough, there was a person crawling on the edge of the fence and looking in surreptitiously, and Madam Wei quickly fell down after being drunk.

Mo Yunxiao raised her eyebrows and took three steps and took two steps before rushing to the door, just as the man was also falling off the wall.When he saw Mo Yunxiao, he panicked even more and ran away.At this time, there happened to be a group of children playing Cuju, and the felt ball was kicked high into the air by them.

"Stop going!" Mo Yunxiao kicked up and hit the falling felt ball.Her kick was strong and heavy, and the felt ball flew over like a sharp arrow, hitting the man on the back.He groaned and fell to the ground.

Seeing the man make a fool of himself, all the boys clapped their hands and laughed loudly, singing in unison: "Little lady, good feet, Rakshasa ghosts crawl all over the ground; Little lady, good feet, the ball rolls to the end of the world!" ..."

The man was yelling "Ouch" and couldn't get up for a long time.Mo Yunxiao and Mrs. Wei rushed over and arrested him. "Who are you?" Madam Wei asked.

The old woman ran out and yelled, "Ah! Isn't this Zhang Agou!"

There were two sharp lights in Madam Wei's eyes, and she asked more and more severely: "You sneaky, what are you doing here?"

Zhang Agou looked up at Mo Yunxiao and Mrs. Wei, sneered, and said, "I have been poisoning these women's meals for several days in a row, and I am going to see the effect today. Hehe, they are all dead as expected." .Good death! Good death!"

"Who ordered you to do it?" Mo Yunxiao asked.

"Hmph! I was caught by you today and I know there is no possibility of surviving. How could I betray my master!" Zhang Agou said very contemptuously.

Mrs. Wei suppressed the anger in her heart, and said gently: "I know you are not the culprit, as long as you confess, the three justices will have a joint trial in the future, Privy Councilor Zeng and I can save your life."

"Hahaha..." Zhang Agou suddenly laughed loudly, and said, "Do you think I'm a crawler? I can tell you honestly, even if these women don't die, they are just walking corpses. They scream every day. You little ones, it's really annoying. I sent them back to the West to fulfill them!"

Mo Yunxiao was stunned, and quickly asked: "What do you mean by that?" Just as she was distracted, Zhang Agou suddenly threw his arm and pushed her down, Madam Wei was also startled, and hurriedly yelled : "Helu!"

Zhang Agou also took advantage of the opportunity to shake off Mrs. Wei's hand, and then hurried out, bumping his head against the wall of the yard, with a muffled sound, and blood spattered everywhere.Where had the old woman seen such a bloody scene, she couldn't help screaming.

But Mrs. Wei and Mo Yunxiao didn't bother to comfort her, but rushed up to check on Zhang Agou's injuries.The two of them saw that Zhang Agou had only breathed out but not breathed in. Although he was not dead yet, he could no longer speak.

"Forget it, I can't live anymore." Mrs. Wei threw him away annoyed, and said to herself: "I used loyalty in the wrong place, and I just missed myself."

Mo Yunxiao also stood up blankly, looking very depressed and lonely.Mrs. Wei looked at her and asked, "He Lu, what's wrong with you?"

Mo Yunxiao shook his head, suddenly felt dizzy, and hurriedly supported the wall.Mrs. Wei hurriedly stepped forward to support her, and asked, "He Lu, are you sick?"

Mo Yunxiao closed her eyes and shook her head, murmuring: "This is not true, this is not true..."

"What? What's not true?" Mrs. Wei asked with concern.

Mo Yunxiao took a few breaths before explaining: "The officials once told me that Zhao seems to have poisoned his wine glass, but the poison needs to be eaten twice before it will take effect. But the dog just said , he has been poisoning these girls' meals for several days..."

"Do you suspect that the two are the same poison?" Mrs. Wei continued her words.But Mo Yunxiao did not answer, but continued: "The officials also said that Zhao Xi was frivolous and lustful, and forced many women into the mansion, humiliating them wantonly, causing people to go crazy..."

She slowly raised her head to look at Mrs. Wei, and said: "In the palace, there are indeed many crazy women."

Mrs. Wei frowned, and said: "Zhang Agou also said that these girls are like walking corpses, shouting all day, aren't they crazy?"

"But...but..." Mo Yunxiao said roughly, "This can't be true...it can't be true..."

Mrs. Wei sighed, put her hands on her shoulders lightly, and said: "I thought King Jian was just a lustful person, but I didn't expect him to be so vicious. It's really unbelievable. But... "

"Yuru!" Mo Yunxiao suddenly interrupted her, and then squeezed her hand tightly, saying: "The official said that he once sent someone to be the housekeeper of Jian Wangfu. King Jian silenced him. He may have a family."

Mrs. Wei sighed, and said, "Forget it, let's look for this person, so that you can see King Jian's face clearly."

That person was not a tenant of Zeng Bu's family, so it took a lot of effort to find out.Fortunately, some gossip and gossip are unavoidable among the villages, and anyone who has some news can spread it everywhere in a few days.

So they went all the way to inquire, and finally found this family in a remote village.A woman with an indifferent face was sitting at the door of her house, holding a clay pot in one hand and broken rice in the other to feed a group of chirping chickens.

Mo Yunxiao greeted her first and asked, "Sister-in-law, is this the home of Brother Liu? He used to be a housekeeper in Prince Jian's Mansion?"

The woman raised an angry face and said, "Are you going to kill them all?"

"No, sister-in-law, you have misunderstood. We are not from King Jian." Mrs. Wei said quickly, "King Jian killed Brother Liu. We are here to collect evidence and avenge him."

"Revenge? Hehe, let's avoid it." The woman smiled bitterly and said, "King Jian is a member of the royal family, and we can't afford to suffer. My man died, and later a rich brother also came to see me and gave me money. A lot of money, tell me to move out."

Mo Yunxiao hurriedly asked, "Can he leave his name?"

"He said his name was Zhao Pang." The woman was still feeding the chicken indifferently, and said, "He told me to go because he was afraid that King Jian would kill him all. But I am not afraid. I want to stay here and guard my man's grave."

(End of this chapter)