Cui Xie heard that something was wrong, and hurriedly threw the shopkeeper Ji on the bed, then pushed and held the inkstone: "Go and call in your father, the guy and the guy on the counter, and follow me to the yard."
He hurriedly ran downstairs and saw the back door of the store, so he greeted the store, "There's an accident behind, come here quickly", tiptoed off the town house sword on the wall, and went into the yard regardless of whether it was opened or not. The back door on the first floor of the store was closed, and there was some sound insulation. Unexpectedly, he suddenly ran down and walked towards the backyard, so frightened that the two guys hurried up to stop him, but they were still a step behind.
Cui Xie grabbed the sword and ran in, only to see that the hanging flower gate in the courtyard was blocked, and another passage opened next to it.
He walked along the aisle for a while before entering the main courtyard, only to see tattered satin clothes piled up under his feet, smashed and smashed porcelain pieces, blood-red rouge, and snow-white lead powder, all over the place. There were a few servants with red nose and blue eyes by the courtyard, standing either left or right, surrounded by two unkempt, disheveled young women, facing each other.
He couldn't see who was calling for help for a while, grabbed the scabbard and asked, "What happened, I'm reporting to the officer!"
A pink-shirted woman standing in the middle shouted: "Good news, the official! What's the matter! Wang Xiangzhen, you have no conscience, I also have eyes for eyes and nose for nose, usually a beautiful wife, and my parents also escort me. I got a dowry of thousands of taels and married me into your house. You are good. You took my money and raised the house! I'm about to meet you!"
Another person wearing a green embroidered jacket also said: "Okay, let's go to see the official, what am I afraid of! I also ask the eldest master to see, there are evil wives like you who beat and scold men in the world. crime!"
Cui Xie was confused. He raised his sword and pointed at the group of people: "Who can call the shots here? Who wants to report to the officials, and who just said that they were kidnapped and raped?"
A hoarse but arrogant voice came from the crowd: "Whoever wants to report to the official, who dares to report to the official! This is the family business of my Wang family, I see who dares to meddle in their own business!"
The guy and the shopkeeper were coming out of the shop at this time, and they almost fainted when they saw the wolves in the yard, and shouted at the group of people: "What are you making a fuss about, this is our young master's house, the imperial court official. My son, don't hurt him! Wang Guanren, look at the trouble in this yard, you didn't tell us that!"
The group of servants all looked at them with gloomy expressions. The two of them spoke loudly, but their bodies were not straight, and their calves were twisted. They wished they could kneel down immediately.
Cui Xie blocked them from behind, squinted and asked, "You are imprisoning women from a good family in my yard, I can't care? I am a loyal and righteous person appointed by the emperor, and the memorial archway has been built, how can I do this evil deed of you? Leave it alone!"
The master hiding behind the crowd called out hesitantly: "You, you are that Cui, Cui..."
"Yes, I am Cui Xie! Do you know why I was enjoined as a righteous citizen?" He clenched his scabbard tightly, stretched out his arms to block Cui Yuan, who had just run over, and shouted sharply to the group of people who were about to move in front of him: "Don't move, be careful that my sword doesn't recognize people! I was the head of the white lotus sect with Jin Yiwei in the bloody battle, and I was the leader of the white lotus sect. Can you try your own head harder than that monster?"
He pulled back the collar, revealing the long and ferocious scar on his shoulders, so that handsome and somewhat too delicate face was also set off with murderous aura and majesty.
The unsheathed long sword in his hand also seemed to be shining brightly, and the servants of that family could not help shrinking into a ball. The arrogant-voiced male host appeared from behind, but his eyes were dark blue, his face was covered in blood, and a long bloody hole was drawn from the corner of his mouth to his neck. He looked like he just couldn't help swallowing when he met his gaze.
The guy trembled even more, his knees softened, he fell to the ground and couldn't get up again, clinging to his thigh and begging bitterly: "Forgive me, my father and son are just confused for a while! It's just that last year's study was washed away by water, and the previous payment was made. The goods we ordered were not delivered in time, and we owed a lot of money. The Cui family didn’t care about us. Everyone was hungry, and they were cornered by debt collectors, so they dared to rent the yard to us. This Wang Daguan's son."
Cui Xie squinted at him and said nothing.
Cui Yuan pulled him away, kicked him to the ground and cursed, "How dare you rent the master's house privately!" He pulled Cui Xie's collar and covered the scar, telling him to be careful not to be slapped by the wind. pain.
The lady in pink called to them, "I'll give you the yard, and we don't want the rent. You can just call this prostitute out!"
The male host was furious and scolded: "You evil wife, you will turn against the sky in front of your man!"
Madam went up to tear his mouth, but the woman dressed in green instead protected him and scuffled with Madam. Cui Xie felt that this scene didn't really look like a woman abducting and selling her, so he dragged the guy by the collar and asked the hostess, "Did you steal the woman or did you sneak it with your wife? Why did she say you plundered her just now?"
The backyard door banged with a bang. Holding the inkstone and leading a few tall and strong men, they ran in full of big men and shouted sharply: "Everyone step back, don't offend my young master!" After taking a breath, he turned to Cui again. Xie said, "Brother, these are the deputy and Lizheng of the township on the street, as well as a few neighbors who are willing to help. I'm afraid that it will be slow to go to the yali, so I will ask them to help first."
Deputy Xiang Zhengyue saw that the whole courtyard was smashed into powder, and he said with a bitter face: "What's wrong with Wang Daguan, who has smashed the courtyard in the clear sky and day, and still wants to beat people?"
Wang Xiangzhen looked at the person he knew in the courtyard, and lost even that bit of arrogance, and said with shy eyebrows: "In this peaceful world, in a courtyard that's a few steps away from the county government, who would dare to plunder the people's daughters. This wife is too fierce, I didn't like it at first glance, and told her to come and smash things... I bought everything in the yard, but I didn't smash anything in the main house. "
The guy said to Cui Xie with tears in his eyes, "Our shop was flooded with water, and the craftsman's family suffered a disaster. We also owed debts to several paper mills and buyers, and the owner's family refused to pay a penny. We almost went down the street to beg for food... This Wang Daguan paid the money for us, and he didn't want us to sell the yard to him. He just said that he was renting for a few years.
Seeing Cui Xie's tightly pursed mouth and the upside-down sword in his hand, Wang Xiangzhen shouted confidently, "I gave one hundred taels of silver to rent the yard, you can't drive people away!"
Cui Xie didn't look at the house that rented the yard at first, and bowed his hands to the deputy, Li Zheng, and neighbors of the township and said, "This yard is the shopkeeper of the family, and the guy rented someone else behind my back. Today is also the first time I step into it. Come, their family affairs have nothing to do with my Cui family, please help me to be a witness."
The guy jumped up and hugged his leg and cried: "This is all the villain's own opinion. The villain's father is old and can't stand the punishment. I beg the son to deal with the villain and let my father go..."
Cui Yuan pulled him away and threw him aside for punishment. The few villagers and promises couldn't bear to look at them, but Cui Xie no longer looked there, but pointed to the courtyard and said, "I can't see clearly about his family's affairs. You have lived here for a long time, and you should know this. He married the woman... He took it or robbed it, if it was really robbed, just tell me, and I'll report it to the magistrate."
Those people pulled him aside and whispered: "This woman is really not kidnapped. Wang Daguan is the commander-in-chief of our Xingzhou Youtunwei commander, Wang Daguan, who married a powerful wife and ruled over him. He didn't dare to take a concubine, so he bought one from outside while traveling with friends, but he didn't dare to take it home, so he rented a yard behind your store to keep it..."
Cui Xie was suspicious and looked at the woman dressed in green. Instead, the woman gave him a tender smile. The nail prints, rouge, and white powder on her face were still unknowingly formed into a ball. It really didn't look like she was kidnapped.
He let out a long breath, shoved the sword into Peng Yan's hand, and turned to ask the guy, "How long have you been renting this house?"
The buddy lowered his head and said, "No, it won't be long..."
Cui Xie asked again, "Why haven't the rent been recorded?"
The guy was silent, Cui Xie sneered: "Because the account book is fake, right? Where is the real account book?" , I should really take a look at the account at that time!
"In... in my room..." The shopkeeper Ji ran over from behind, panting, and said bitterly, "We really didn't dare to embezzle the young master's money! It's just that the Cui family was in a disaster and asked the Cui family to make money. They said they wanted to give the money, but when we went to the accountant to pay the money, they not only refused to give it, but also said that we had already taken the money first, and then came to defraud the Cui family of money, almost tying us to the officials, and our father and son could not do anything. I just rented out the yard!"
This thing... It seems that the Cui family can really do it. Cui Xie was noncommittal and asked him again, "Where's the guy in the store?"
The shopkeeper Ji murmured: "The business in the store is not good, and we can't support them... So, the little old man made his own decisions and told them to go outside and live on their own."
Cui Xie nodded, looked at him and asked, "How many guys and engravers in total, can you still call them back?"
"Our people here are all signed when they were good. There is an old accountant, two big guys, five engravers, two printers, and four handymen. But they also have a family to support. If you do it, there will be no rice to cook..." The more the shopkeeper Ji said, the lower his voice became, and he and Ji's father and son looked at Cui Xie nervously.
He was always neither happy nor angry, his face was flat and indifferent, and it seemed that people's hearts became more and more uncertain. Even the two women didn't dare to fight and scold him, and peeked at him from behind.
Wang Xiangzhen couldn't stand the atmosphere. Seeing that Cui Xie no longer had a sword in his hand, he didn't look like he could kill, so he approached boldly and whispered, "Would you like me to lend you another yard? It's a very quiet courtyard, but your bookstore is really good, it's more convenient than me going elsewhere, and Sister Yue is used to living here..."
He looked back and saw his pet's face was covered in blood, and his wife was staring at him, and suddenly felt a little guilty about what he said.
Cui Xie didn't even look at him, and said calmly, "It doesn't have anything to do with the young master. Since you gave the house money, you can naturally continue to live there. Today, while Yuezheng, Yuefu, Lizheng and the neighbors are all here, I will stay. Let’s be a witness. Buddy, go and find all the employees in the shop and ask who is willing to do it with me. From now on, I will provide them with food, lodging, and pay monthly wages. They signed a new contract."