Zhou Da screamed in pain, Sun Si and Wang Yong were too scared to speak.
Yan Shi threw a bundle of rope towards Qu Liushang: "Tie the three of them up to me."
"Okay." Qu Liushang clapped his hands, took the rope, and tied the three of them together like chickens.
Zhou Da screamed from the pain in his hand, even if he shut his mouth, he could still hear the sound of humming from his mouth, it was really annoying.
Qu Liushang asked Yan Shi, "Shall I give him a medicine?"
Yan Shi agreed, and Zhou Da thought that Qu Liushang would give him some painkillers, so he immediately looked at him gratefully. With a smirk on his face, Qu Liushang took out a small medicine bottle from his sleeve, poured out a medicine, tore off the cloth gag in Zhou Da's mouth, and stuffed it into his mouth.
"Okay, it's quiet now." Qu Liushang was very satisfied, "It's poison dumb."
Qu Liushang can practice medicine, he can cure Gu, and is also good at using poison.
Zhou Da's eyes widened countless times, and he opened his mouth to curse, but no sound came out. Qu Liushang's medicine was really powerful, Sun Si and Wang Yong were so frightened that they immediately fell silent, they didn't even dare to breathe, for fear they would also be given dumb medicine.
"Brother, what shall we do next?" Hua Ling asked.
Yan Shi asked Qu Liushang: "Young Master Qu, I wonder how much poison you have in your hands?"
Qu Liushang naturally understood the meaning of his words: "It's not a problem to bring down the people in a village."
"Okay!" A little smile appeared on Yan Shi's face, "Let's take the baby to Liu Er's house, and invite the whole village to have a feast today."
Liu Er had just finished breakfast at home and was lying down to digest. Suddenly seeing Yan Shi and the others coming back with the child in their arms, they scrambled away and said, "My lord, I didn't tell you what happened yesterday."
"Go and inform the whole village and tell them to come to your house for a feast at noon." Yan Shi didn't say much to him, and said straight to the point, "Everyone in the village must come, and the women must come too. If one less one comes, I will Just cut off a piece of flesh from your body."
"Chixi?" Liu Er still didn't quite understand, but when he saw the child in Hualing's arms, he immediately understood the name of Chixi, "But I gave birth to a girl, and we have a full moon when the child is full moon here. Wine."
"Stop talking nonsense." Yan Shi looked at him with knife-like eyes, "If you want to survive, do as I tell you."
"However, there isn't even a piece of meat for the banquet," Liu Er looked distressed, "I'm going to the town to buy some."
Yan Shi said: "Xu Jieyuan has meat at home, where can you get it."
Liu Er didn't dare to ask any more, so he had no choice but to agree, and summoned his old mother to go call someone with him. Yan Shi winked at Qu Liushang, Qu Liushang understood, and stuffed the pills that had been prepared into the mouths of the two of them: "This is a deadly poison, if this is done well, I will give you the antidote. "
Liu's mother and son were terrified by Yan Shi as early as yesterday, so naturally they didn't dare to play any more tricks, they nodded obediently, and went out trembling in fright.
There was a family in Xiaxi Village who specially held wedding banquets for the villagers. Xiaxi Village has a small population and few happy events, so now Liu Er went to ask them to hold wedding banquets, and the family immediately agreed. However, I was also a little puzzled, and complained a few words: "Why didn't you say it in advance? It's too late now."
Liu Er couldn't tell because of the pain in his heart, so he could only say haha: "My mother said that if a boy is born there, they will hold a banquet the next day, saying that it will allow God to bless the child earlier. I am not just Are you happy to have a son? You also know that I finally had a son, so naturally I will do whatever is good for him."
After Liu Er finished speaking, the man didn't say anything, because there was money to be made, and the earlier the banquet, the earlier the money was made.
Liu Er and Mrs. Liu went door-to-door to notify them. Although the villagers were very surprised, they all expressed that they would be there on time, but they were a little uncomfortable when Liu Er said that the women would also go. Happy.
After Liu Er got home, he told Yan Shi what had happened: "My lord, I sat down as you said, but this woman may not
will come. You also know the situation in our village... "
Yan Shi had expected this a long time ago, but it doesn't matter if the women don't come, as long as the men come, presumably when the men come, they will make proper arrangements for these women and won't let them escape out of the house.
The next thing went much smoother. At noon, all the men from Xiaxi Village came, and occasionally a few women also came.
Xu Jing quietly said to Yan Shi: "All the men in the village came, except those guarding the mountain pass and the village entrance. Those women were also kidnapped or robbed at the beginning, and they refused to follow at the beginning. I was afraid or something. I actually helped the men of Xiaxi Village go outside to abduct other women. It is easier for a woman to abduct a woman than a man to abduct a woman."
Those women who didn't come, of course, have refused to submit until now, and their men will not let them escape when they come, and it doesn't matter.
The banquet starts at noon, and the people in Xiaxi Village are poor, so they may not eat meat a few times throughout the year. When I saw meat this time, my mouth was full of oil.
When the banquet started, Qu Liushang went out with a few bowls of meat, saying that it was for the people guarding the village entrance and the mountain pass.
Surprisingly, Hua Ling didn't eat this time, and just pretended to sit at the table with Yan Shi.
Some villagers asked Liu Er to carry his son out. Liu Er glanced at Yan Shi, and Yan Shi motioned him to do so. The baby was wrapped tightly in a quilt, and now it was winter, no one could lift the quilt to see if she was a boy or a girl. After reading it, Liu Er took the child back to the house after everyone said some compliments.
About two quarters of an hour later, the medicine of Qu Liushang took effect, and the men in the whole village fell on the dining table in a distorted state. Yan Shi and others tied them up effortlessly.
"This medicine is enough for them to sleep till night." Qu Liushang said.
Yan Shi nodded: "Young Master Qu, please go out and report to the officials."
"It's all on me." Qu Liushang patted his chest and promised.
In order to leave Xiaxi Village as soon as possible, Hua Ling generously lent her little donkey to Qu Liushang.
But just a quarter of an hour later, Qu Liushang came back leisurely on a donkey, followed by Zhao Chunhai, Cao Dejin and an official in official clothes, followed by a group of officers and soldiers.
"I saw them not far from the entrance of the village." Qu Liushang explained.
Everyone bowed their heads and kowtowed to Yan Shi, and Yan Shi nodded to signal them to get up.
Yan Shi ordered some officers and soldiers to take the men away in prison cars, and took some of them to rescue the poor women. These women were terrified of being beaten. When they first saw these officers and soldiers, they still couldn't believe that everything in front of them was real. Later, after confirming all this, I cried so much that I couldn't make a sound.
After making sure that nothing slipped through the net, Yan Shi returned to Xu Jing's house. Wen Man was still waiting for the news, when Xu Jing saw her tell the story, Wen Man was both surprised and happy, and fell to his knees and kowtowed repeatedly.
Then, she looked at Qu Liushang again and said, "Young Master Qu, you know how to practice medicine. I wonder if there is any medicine for abortion?"
Qu Liushang raised his eyebrows: "You want to kill the child in your stomach?"
Wenman didn't nod: "But I do. This child was conceived when I was forced to conceive. Although he is innocent, I don't know how I will treat him after he is born. "
Qu Liushang didn't say anything, borrowed Xu Jing's pen and ink, and prescribed two medicines for Wen Man. One is a miscarriage pill, and the other is for conditioning the body.
The whole village had become an empty village. Xu Jing packed up his burden and carried it on his back. Standing at the entrance of the village, he took a deep look at the village and threw out the torch in his hand. The whole village was immediately engulfed in a sea of flames, and there will be no Xiaxi Village in this world ever since.
Xu Jing turned around and walked slowly behind Yan Shi.
The villagers of Xiaxi Village woke up faintly after being locked in a big prison, but it was too late. Then, the local county magistrate quickly made a verdict that all the men in the village, the women who had participated in the trafficking, and the children whose mothers were unfilial, were all exiled to a place of bitter cold and would not be released for life.
those poor women
They, the imperial court will pay them a large sum of money. Those who have a home will go home, and those who have no home will be resettled by the court. Such a horrific thing happened within the jurisdiction of the local county magistrate, and the local officials naturally couldn't escape the responsibility, and those who should be held accountable should be held accountable.
Everything calmed down, Wen Man bid farewell to Yan Shi and others and went home. Xu Jing planned to look for the young master, but before he left, he heard from the county government that someone was looking for him.
Xu Jing went out to see that it was the young master who had been away for three years. It turned out that although Xu Jing and the young master had been together for nine years, they never told the young master where he came from. At that time, maybe I thought that there would be no day of separation, maybe it was because of my young age, in short, the young master didn't know where his home was.
Xu Jing returned to the village in a hurry. He thought he would come back soon, but he really didn't want to be trapped in the village as soon as he went back. The two lost contact because of this. In the past few years, the young master searched everywhere for Xu Jing's whereabouts, and finally came to him in a hurry.
When the two met, they missed each other very much.
The affairs in Xiaxi Village were finally over, and Yan Shi rested in the county town for another day before continuing on in the carriage.
Sitting in the carriage, Yan Shi suddenly remembered something, he opened the curtains and asked Zhao Chunhai outside, "Why did you come by such a coincidence?"
Zhao Chunhai replied: "Returning to the prince, didn't you send someone a message saying that you were in danger in Xiaxi Village?"
Yan Shi didn't ask any more questions, but he had some calculations in his heart. Could it be that the people from Shifangmen helped him secretly
Hua Ling also felt a little strange, leaned over and asked, "Brother, you didn't send anyone, what's going on?"
Yan Shi comforted him and said, "It's okay, don't think too much, maybe someone else found out about Xiaxi Village, and he went to report to the officials, it's just a coincidence."
Hua Ling hugged her snack box and said nothing.
Then, Hua Ling found a chance to talk to Qu Liushang alone: "You passed the news to Zhao Chunhai in advance?"
Qu Liushang said: "Without you, how dare I make my own decisions?"
Hua Ling rubbed her chin, this was a bit strange, who could have helped them
Three days later, the carriage drove into a bustling town. The town is not very big, but its prosperity is no less than that of some county towns.
It happened to be noon when we arrived, so Yan Shi found a nice looking restaurant and walked in.
It was also a coincidence that a young man walked in before them, and Xiao Er looked at the few people with some embarrassment: "Guest officer, the seats are full, why don't you change to another one?"
When the man in front heard what Xiaoer said, he turned around and said to Yan Shi, "I'm alone, if you guys don't mind, why don't we sit at the same table?"
Yan Shi agreed, and to express his gratitude, he said that he had invited the meal. The man was also hearty, and smiled: "So, I still took advantage of a few brothers."
After he was seated, the man said first, "My name is Yan Jiahe, and my accent doesn't sound like a local. I don't know your name?"
Yan Shi and the others reported their names one by one, and then took out the usual rhetoric, and asked Yan Jiahe where the local Xie Yuan Jia Kaiming's home was.
Yan Jiahe pointed the way to them, and continued: "Brother Yan, let me say something more. Jia Jieyuan is not so easy to see, and this person usually doesn't bother to talk about poetry with us. I'm afraid that Yan Shi will be gone if he goes away." How about this, although I am not Jie Yuan, but I am also a Juren, if Brother Yan doesn’t mind, you can live in my house first, I will help you make arrangements first, and then visit Jia Jieyuan, I don’t know what you think ?”
Yan Shi clasped his fists together: "In this way, there will be brother Lao Yan."