The little girl of the landlord's house

Chapter 72

Qinglong Mountain is located at the junction of Jiangning and Moling counties. It is the place where the two county governments do not care. Within a radius of [-] to [-] miles, there are only a few tea farmers who make a living by growing tea.Boss Xiao and his party were originally refugees sent by the imperial court to Moling County, but because the local county magistrate was useless, the landlords in the county tried to shirk their excuses, so that the refugees from these dozens of families had nowhere to settle and could only live by begging.

Later, Boss Xiao built Qinglong Village in Qinglong Mountain and gathered these refugees together. At the beginning, they made a living by hunting. Later, hunting gradually became unable to support the old and young in the village, so he started to attack some landlords in the county. Most of them are also methods of robbery and door-to-door blackmail.Those landowners refused to take in the refugees at first, but now they can only consider themselves unlucky to be blackmailed by them.And the surrounding people were oppressed by these landlords. Seeing that Qinglongzhai only robbed the landlords but not the common people, they felt that they were good people who robbed the rich and helped the poor. Therefore, the county government did not take action against Qinglongzhai for a while.

The door creaked shut, Zhou Tianhao opened his eyes, glanced at the firewood room where he could hardly see his fingers, and sat up.

"Is that kid awake?"

"Haven't woken up yet, like a dead pig, I don't know if he's fainted or asleep, in my opinion, let's just kill him with one knife!" The thin man said disdainfully.

Boss Xiao snorted coldly, and said, "Third brother, we still have nothing if we kill him. Why don't we keep him and find out his identity?"

"Boss, you said he is a fat cow, why doesn't he have any valuables on him?" Zhao Laosi touched Zhou Tianhao's whole body, except for a Linghua mirror, there was nothing else.

It turned out that Zhou Tianhao went on a private tour in a micro-clothes, fearing that the pendants he usually wears would reveal his identity, so he didn't wear any of them on his body, and the only thing he carried was Xie Yujiao's rhombic mirror.

Boss Xiao picked up the mirror and took a look. It was an ordinary mirror, it seemed plain, but on the back, there seemed to be a small hole made by a hard object.Boss Xiao turned around, threw the mirror into the hands of the second Gao, and ordered: "Since you don't know the identity of that person, then send this mirror to Xie's house. I heard that Miss Xie doesn't give up her eyebrows, probably You wouldn't just ignore the death of your mother's savior, would you?"

Second Gao nodded innocently, and Boss Xiao ordered again: "If you are being stopped halfway this time, don't go back to the village, so as not to embarrass you."

Zhou Tianhao opened several bundles of firewood to block his sight with the top of his head, and saw several women in the yard carrying firewood.When he was brought in by those people just now, he saw chickens and ducks at the door. This place didn't look like a cottage, but like a paradise where people could live and work in peace.

Zhou Tianhao twisted his body, the rope around his wrist was tightly bound, and he couldn't break free for a while.There were a few footsteps coming from outside, and when they reached the door, they suddenly stopped.

"Ma'am, don't go in, people are locked up inside!" A woman said.

"Why did Brother Xiao arrest someone again? Didn't I say last time that he is not allowed to arrest someone again? Mama Wu, come in with me and let him go!" the woman only said.

"Oh, I don't dare to do that. Boss Xiao must have his reasons for arresting this person. If he is a bad person, wouldn't he let the tiger go back to the mountain? Madam, don't embarrass me." The woman said, holding only the basin, away from far away.

Zhou Tianhao heard the sound of footsteps again, so he hurriedly said: "Madam, I'm not a bad person. The Brother Xiao you mentioned wanted to arrest Mrs. Xie's family and ask for money from Xie's family. I rescued Mrs. Xie and was caught by him." Caught in."

Zhou Tianhao only heard an exclamation outside the door, the footsteps stopped again, and then he quickened his pace and left.

"Help...help...Yun Jing...help me..." Xu opened her eyes abruptly, and her goal was the blue curtain of Xie's family. Xie Yujiao hurriedly sat on the side of the bed, held Xie's hand and said: "Mother, don't be afraid...Mom, you are already home."

Xie Yujiao wiped off the sweat stains on Xu's face with a handkerchief, then turned around and ordered: "Hurry up and bring the tranquilizing medicine prescribed by the doctor, and let the wife drink it."

Mrs. Xu took a breath, then raised her eyes to look at Xie Yujiao who was sitting in front of her bed, took Xie Yujiao's hand and said, "Jiaojiao, is that you? I thought I would never see you again in this life." You are gone!"

Xie Yujiao saw that Xu Shi woke up, and her heart calmed down a little, she just said: "Mother, don't worry, auspicious people have their own appearance, isn't mother at home now?"

Xie Yujiao got up, put Xu Shi on a pillow, helped her to sit up a little bit, picked up the sedative medicine brought by the maid beside her, and while feeding Xu Shi, said: "I heard the report from Mama Zhang, so I hurried back to thank you. I didn’t expect to meet the little monk from the Dragon King Temple and said that you were in their temple, so I went to bring you back.”

Mrs. Xu lowered her head and took a sip of the medicine. The bitter taste entered her throat. She suddenly remembered something, and said, "What about the young man? Has he come back yet?"

Xie Yujiao was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Are you talking about the young man who brought Mama Zhang back? I have already ordered the servant girl to take him down to rest."

Mrs. Xu just shook her head and said: "It's not him, it's their young master, the one who saved me? Has he come back?"

Xie Yujiao was also a little confused at this time, she just shook her head and said: "I didn't see it, I heard from that young man that he went to the county government to report to Mr. Kang."

When Mrs. Xu heard this, she was startled and said, "He didn't report to the county government office. He came out on the way, stopped those robbers, and saved me!"

The two of them were talking, when Ziyan came in from outside and said: "Miss, someone from outside has brought in something, saying that she wants to see it for herself."

Xie Yujiao originally saw that Mrs. Xu was safe and sound, and thought that this matter was almost over, but she didn't expect that there were other things involved behind it, so she said, "Go and bring the things in."

Ziyan only took the order to go out, and after a while came in with two things, only to hear her muttering: "Isn't this the rhombic mirror that the girl lost last year? How could it be in the hands of those robbers?"

Xie Yujiao took it over and took a look, and saw that the mirror was indeed the one she lost last year, but she remembered that the back of the mirror was originally smooth and flat, but now there was a small hole, as if it had been knocked by a hard object As if at once.

Xie Yujiao put down the mirror, opened the letter in her hand, glanced at it briefly, only a sneer flashed on the corner of her mouth and said: "Arbitrarily arresting someone and asking me for 10 taels of silver from my Xie family is really a joke!"

When Mrs. Xu heard this, she sat up anxiously from the bed and said, "Jiaojiao, has that young man really been arrested? Jiaojiao, you must save him. He was taken away to save me." .”

Xie Yujiao knew that Mrs. Xu had always been kind-hearted, and today she was so frightened, her son was afraid that everything she said would be incoherent, so she said, "Don't worry, mother, I will definitely save the person who should be saved. I have to figure it out before, why my mirror is on that person, it's strange."

Seeing what Xie Yujiao said, Mrs. Xu finally felt relieved, and only frowned and said, "Saving people is the most important thing. You can ask about other things slowly!"

Mrs. Xu drank the sedative, and fell asleep after a while. Xie Yujiao helped Mrs. Xu fall asleep, and ordered the servant girl to invite the young man who had brought Mama Zhang back to the study, while she passed by herself, and Shen Shihu was there. side waiting for her.

"Brother Shen, you don't actually have to come back this year. If you lose the dragon boat race because of this, the common people will blame you."

Shen Shihu lowered his head and did not speak. Before Xie Yujiao could ask, he opened his mouth and said: "The group of people who kidnapped my wife should be from Moling Qinglong Village. Those people were originally refugees from the north and were sent to Moling County. The gentry and landlords on the side didn’t take them in, so that group of people formed a village in Qinglong Mountain, and it has been more than half a year.”

"You know this group of people?"

"The last time I went to the tea farmers in Moling with Steward Tao to watch tea, I heard from the tea farmers there that even though this group of people formed a village, they were not evildoers who just picked up those landlords and bullies. They did not harm the common people, so I thought...the servants had neglected their duties!" After Shen Shihu finished speaking, he just stood up and knelt down in front of Xie Yujiao, with an attitude of accepting guilt.

"In this way, our Xie family is also a landlord and bully in the eyes of those people?" Xie Yujiao just sneered, raised her eyes and said, "Get up, it's not your fault, it's just that there is still one person who was raped by those people." Hold on, go and help me find out how many people there are in Qinglongzhai, and how many of them are Lianjiazi. If you know any friends on the road, just invite them first, and I will pay the money. I'll just rob it."

"Miss, don't you plan to report to the government?" Shen Shihu only raised his head and asked.

"Is it useful to report to the official? Mr. Kang is a first-class expert in alms and naming, but this job of recruiting security is probably not suitable for him. Besides, Mrs. Kang has just passed away. I'm afraid he doesn't have the heart to do these things now. You go and check their details first, the clearer the better."

Shen Shihu nodded in agreement, turned and left, the little maid outside just stood outside the door and replied: "Girl, the person who brought Mama Zhang back has arrived."

Xie Yujiao asked the maid to lead him in, and saw that he was seventeen or eighteen years old, fair and clean, and he didn't look like an ordinary servant, and when he saw Xie Yujiao, he just bowed respectfully.

Xie Yujiao smiled at him, and only motioned him to sit down and drink tea. How could Yun Song dare to sit down, his eyes were rolling furtively, thinking that this Miss Xie was really just as Mr. Kang said, both beautiful and flamboyant, Like a mandala flower, it is obviously poisonous, but it blooms wantonly.

Yun Song was stunned for a moment, only to hear Xie Yujiao say: "Let me ask you, why is this thing on your young master?"

After Xie Yujiao finished speaking, she stretched out her finger to the Linghua mirror on the table, and raised her head to look at Yunsong.

(End of this chapter)