Lin Kuo, the leader of the guard, brought back a middle-aged woman, five children, and six men with five big flowers.
The middle-aged woman was very embarrassed with blue nose, swollen eyes, disheveled clothes, and the five children had wounds on their faces and hands.
Qi You glanced at it, her expression a little cold, and asked, "What's the matter?" There was no way for him to commit crimes under the blue sky and white sun.
Lin Kuo pointed to the people who were tied into rice dumplings and said, "They said they were looking for debts from these people."
Qiyou said a little bit amused: "The bad gambling owes huge gambling debts, and there is no money to repay the wife and children." How many people have their families ruined because of bad gambling.
The middle-aged woman yelled, "No, my head does not gamble. It was they who set up a situation to harm my head and made him owe a huge sum of money."
Among the few people who were tied up, the thin-looking man with a shrewd face called Hou Liu said grimly: "Who designed him? It's obviously the old man Ma who is greedy to win my money, and he loses. I can't stop my eyes."
I don't know where the evil spirits came from, so one person knocked all six of them down and tied them up. Even if they reveal their identity threats, the other party will turn a deaf ear.
After spending so many years on the road, how can Hou Liu know that the identity of the person they met this time is not simple. I just don't know if the boss can save them this time.
The middle-aged woman said bitterly: "The most I am in charge is playing chess with people on the street, but the lottery never exceeds five cents." A lottery is also set when playing chess, but the streets are usually for a few cents. This can only be regarded as recreation, not gambling.
Qiyou didn't expect that he had guessed wrong, but he still asked: "Set up a situation to harm your husband? What is the purpose?" It must be a plan to set up a situation to harm people. Look at the clothes of this big family, it's not a wealthy family.
The middle-aged woman hesitated.
Qiyou sneered: "Don't tell me, forget it, I don't even bother to take care of it!"
At this time, the girl with a dark face in gray clothes said to Qiyou, "Their purpose is me."
When the girl spoke, Qiyou was a little surprised. The girl's voice is very nice, like a nightingale.
Qiyou looked at the girl and saw that her face was black and white like a cat. He immediately ordered: "Come here, bring her water." I didn't care about it just now, and now I can see that the girl has painted something dirty after a serious look.
The female guard quickly took the water over.
The girl washed her face and showed her true expression. He has an oval face, willow brows and apricot eyes, his skin is white, and his figure is very slim. He looks good, no wonder he will be admired if he has such a beautiful voice.
Qiyou smiled and said, "Girl, if you are willing to follow me, I can help you pay off your debts."
When Qi Xuan heard this, he looked at Qi You in wonder, and didn't know what was going on. Although this girl looks good, their family can grab a lot of them.
After the girl heard the translation from the entourage beside Qiyou, she paled in an instant.
It was the middle-aged woman who heard this, but hugged her tightly and said: "I can't promise, even if my mother is dead, I can't let you be a concubine."
The youngest of the children said directly to Qiyou: "Bad guy, big bad guy." He was still grateful that this person had saved them. Unexpectedly, these people also harbor bad intentions.
Qiyou asked his entourage: "What did he say?"
The follower interpreter said: "He said you are a big villain, master, take advantage of the danger."
Qiyou laughed blankly.
The girl cried bitterly while holding the woman in her arms, and said while crying: "Mother, my daughter and this old man, our family can find a way to survive. But if it falls into the hands of King Dai Yan, our family will all die. I don't feel sorry for my death. , But you can't implicate them." This disaster was brought to the family by her, so she resolved it.
It's also because Qiyou rescued them and the group, this girl felt that Qiyou was not bad at least. No matter what, it is better than being a concubine to Dai Yan.
The middle-aged woman cried loudly: "My son, my son!" This is simply digging her heart.
Yuxi heard the tearing cry and couldn't help opening the curtain and walking down.
Qiyou walked over to help her and said, "Mother, why are you down? It's windy here, so you should go back to the carriage!"
Yuxi groaned: "If I don't come down, you still have to scare people to death? I said that you don't need to make fun of them. People are in trouble now, and you are embarrassed to tease them."
Qiyou was actually trying to test the family to see if it was worthy of their help.
At this moment, the tallest teenager among the few children knelt in front of Yuxi: "Madam, please buy me! I am strong and can do a lot of work. Just beg you not to let my eldest sister be a concubine for him. "This concubine can trade and scold at will, so there is no life left for the eldest sister to be a concubine.
Seeing this, the three children below knelt down, vying to hope that Yuxi could buy them and let their eldest sister go.
Yuxi nodded slightly, this family is pretty good.
Walking to the mother and daughter, Yuxi said to the woman: "Don't take what he said just now, we won't make your girl a concubine."
The middle-aged woman showed ecstasy, and then asked in disbelief: "Really?"
Yuxi smiled and nodded, "I'm his mother, he dare not listen to me."
Qiyou couldn't help touching his nose, and then said: "I was joking just now, who knows you should take it seriously." It can be seen that this mother really loves the child. Of course, these children are also very good in character. What kind of people raise what kind of children. If this male host is really a gambler, the children will not be so simple and well-behaved.
Yuxi smiled and said, "He doesn't have a righteous way on weekdays, and his mouth doesn't shut the door. Don't mind. This wilderness is not a place to talk. Let's find a place to stay first."
Seeing a few people hesitate, Yuxi said, "Don't worry, no one dares to treat you with us."
Thinking that the man just picked six and beat the six adult men to the point of no return, the woman finally nodded. In fact, she had no choice other than following Yuxi and the others.
Yuxi asked the woman to take the child into the carriage with her, but the woman did not want to say that they could walk by themselves. Upon seeing this, Yuxi didn't force it.
Less than a quarter of an hour later, I saw a village. Qiyou and the guard leader entered the village and returned soon after: "Mother, a family in the village moved to the county seat not long ago, and the house happened to be vacant." The family who moved out was the younger brother of the head. Qiyou rented the house at a price that the chief executive could not refuse.
The house is a large brick house with six rooms in total. Twenty or so people can live in a squeeze.
Yuxi sat on the kang and asked the woman: "What's your name? What does the family do?"
I also bring an interpreter with me, otherwise it would be difficult to communicate with each other.
After some conversation, Yuxi knew that the woman's surname was Jane and had been married to her husband Ma Zhu for 18 years. Three daughters and five sons were born, two daughters and one son died, and one daughter and four sons remain.
Ma Zhu has 20 acres of fertile land in his hometown in the country, and he himself works as a clerk in a restaurant in the county seat. However, Jane's embroidery skills are good, so he does some embroidery and patching for household use. So although there are many children, life is okay.
The eldest daughter, Manniang, is sixteen years old this year, and she was married at the beginning of last year. It's strange to say that the Ma family looks very ordinary, but Manniang is slim and graceful. Both husband and wife love their children, and they never thought about trading their daughters for wealth. After careful selection, they promised their daughter to the second son of Liu Xiucai, a private school.
Because Manniang is good-looking, Jane doesn't dare to let her go out on weekdays. However, a month ago, Jane was unwell, and Manniang delivered the embroidery to the shop for her. Just once, I ran into King Dai Yan.
Seeing Manniang, King Dai's eyes beamed. After being reminded by the shopkeeper, Manniang ran away from the back door. If not, he would have been snatched back to the mansion by King Dai Yan. However, Wang Dai Yan still inquired about her identity, and then sent someone to the Ma's family to ask Naman's wife to be a concubine. How could the husband and wife be willing, except that Manniang had already married. Unexpectedly, on the second day, Liu's family would come to leave their relatives.
How could the Ma family be willing to let her daughter be a concubine, let alone a wicked person like Dai Yan as a concubine. His daughter really made him a concubine, so there is no way to survive. As a result, no one expected that this black heart would set up a bureau for Ma Zhu, causing Ma Zhu to owe a huge sum of five hundred taels of silver. They can't afford it even if they sell iron.
When Yuxi heard this, he asked: "Wang Dai Yan? Why did he take such a nickname?"
Jane wiped a tear and said, "Because this man is cruel and cruel, and his relatives did not recognize him. As for the gambling shop he opened, I don't know how many people have been killed in the past few years. Therefore, everyone secretly called him the Hades." The deadly Hades. .
Qiyou disdain. Such a hooligan is also worthy to be called Yan Wang. It really lowered the grade of Yan Wangye.
But Yuxi said with a cold face, "Where are the magistrates and the county magistrates of Gucheng County? Are they all furnishings?"
Jane smiled bitterly: "Dai Yan's sister is the wife of the county prime minister." No one dared to move him with the county prime minister's protection.
"What about the county magistrate? Why doesn't he care about it?" The county prime minister is generally a local person, so there is also a saying that the county prime minister's history is a local snake. But the county magistrate is not, because the imperial court has regulations that officials of the seventh rank and above cannot serve in their hometowns.
This Jane's is not clear, after all, she is just an ordinary peasant woman and doesn't pay much attention to these things. It is also because Dai Yan Wang is famous, and everyone has a few comments in private meetings, so I know a little bit.
In fact, there is no need to ask, Yuxi also knows that the county magistrate must have colluded with the county prime minister: "Where is your husband?"
Speaking of her husband Ma Zhu, Jane couldn't help crying again: "My master let us escape from the back door. He went to the front to block him, and now I don't know whether he is alive or dead."
Seeing that she was about to collapse, Yuxi hurriedly asked Bingmei to take her down to rest.
Qiyou said to Yuxi: "Mother, let's send someone to the county seat to find out what's going on in the county seat." He was just a ruffian, and he could twist it to death with a gentle twist. Therefore, Qiyou didn't pay attention to the other party at all.
Yuxi didn't object.
After Qiyou went out, Yuxi said to Bingxue, "Grinding."
Handing the written letter to Yu Zhi, Yuxi said, "Go and reply quickly."
In the evening, Qiyou didn't see Yu Zhi. No need to ask, I know that his mother must have sent Yu Zhi to the county seat: "Mother, don't worry about this, I can handle it."
Yuxi didn't answer this, but only said: "The day after tomorrow is Mid-Autumn Festival, we will make moon cakes tomorrow." During the Mid-Autumn Festival, how can we miss moon cakes!
"Mother, do you know how to make moon cakes?" Since childhood, he has never seen Yuxi make moon cakes.
Yuxi smiled and said, "No. But you can learn from Master Yu!" Master Yu is the imperial chef who followed them out.
Qiyou smiled and said: "Mother is happy." Even if it tastes unpleasant, he will have to eat some face later.
That night, the guard who went to inquire about the news in Gucheng County returned.
Lin Kuo said: "The empress dowager, the prince, this Ma Zhu was killed by Dai Yan's men. The neighbors were afraid of offending Dai Yan, and no one dared to collect his body."
After a pause, Lin Kuo said: "The empress dowager, this king Dai Yan has taken over the concubines in the eighteenth room. Most of these concubine rooms were taken by him. These were still alive, and he didn't want to be a concubine for him. There were only three people who inquired about it." The crimes committed by King Dai Yan are exhausted.
Yuxi's face was frosty, and said, "Where is the county magistrate of Gucheng County? Just because of such a thing that robs the people of the female grassroots, is it rampant to the county and harm the people?"
Lin Kuo whispered: "This county magistrate's surname is Lin, and he consciously misses his talents. He chants poems and paints all day, no matter what matters. Gucheng County's official duties are entrusted to the county prime minister. The county prime minister is particularly afraid of his wife, so this king Dai Yan is in the valley. The cities and counties do whatever they want and no one dares to control."
Yuxi hasn't been angry for a long time, but this time he made an exception: "Where is the prefect of Xiangyang? Are they all dead?" Gucheng County is not far from the prefecture, a three-day journey. She didn't believe it, and there was no sound of wind from the state government.
Lin Kuo shook his head and said, "This subordinate doesn't know."
Qiyou said: "Mother, in this way, the prefect of Xiangyang has either benefited from the common defilement, or just like the magistrate of Gucheng County." The former is more likely. After all, not any official can be like the county of Gucheng County. make.
Yuxi said with a cold face, "How did such a person become an official?" Although the magistrate is not big, he is also a parent official. If the county magistrate does not act, the people of a county will suffer. Now Gucheng County is the best example.
No one can answer this question.
Qiyou was also very angry. This king Dai Yan was really bold: "Mother, we will go to the county town tomorrow to bring this bastard to justice."
Yuxi shook his head. There is a saying that the strong dragon can't control the local snake, and is not ready to enter the county rashly, perhaps at a loss. This old bone of her can't stand the toss: "Everyone is tired from the road so far. It won't be too late to enter the county after resting for two days and get enough energy."
Qiyou didn't object either. Anyway, this group of people can't escape, and it won't be too late to clean up two days later.
On the second day, Yuxi got up and punched.
Jane wanted to step forward, but was stopped by the guards: "If you have anything, wait until my old lady finishes punching."
Taking advantage of Yuxi's time to wipe his sweat, Jane said: "Old lady, I want to go back to the county and find my head."
Yuxi saw that her eyes were bloodshot, and she knew that she hadn't slept all night: "Ma Zhu is gone. My guard bought him a thin coffin to condense the body, and asked your neighbor to help find a place to settle it. "Of course, the other party didn't help in vain, and the guard gave fifty taels of silver.
Jane fainted after hearing this.
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