Spoiling my mistress and swallowing my dowry? After my rebirth, I changed my marriage to a powerful

Bei Chen secretly told Xie Zhaozhao about Zhou Shaoyu's arrangement.

With a smile on his face, Bei Chen completely surrendered to Emperor An.

"Did he ask Xu Li anything?"

"Emperor Chen asked Xu Li to question him, but I don't know what they talked about."

Xie Zhaozhao smiled and said, "Emperor Chen is concerned about people's livelihood, I just need to watch the fun from the sidelines."

She really took Xiao Heng'er with her, and took Yuanyuan, Manman, Beichen and Xiluo with her, and went out to understand the people's sentiments.

He went to the prefect and said, "Sir Guo, I know you are loyal, but I am worried that someone might harm me, so I put some fake people on the street. If that happens, my trip would be in vain."

You don't put in the effort in daily life, but just do superficial work? Are you sure you still want to continue?

Guo Rong was terrified and immediately knelt down and begged for mercy, "Your Majesty, please calm down. I am just worried that some people are blind and offend Your Majesty. I will restore my original appearance immediately."

Open the city gates and open the market.

Just send patrol officers to patrol the streets and make sure every area is covered.

People were not allowed to enter the city for several days. They were counting on selling New Year's goods before the New Year to make some money for the New Year, and they were almost going crazy with anxiety.

As soon as the roadblocks were removed and the city gates were opened, people rushed in, and the popularity on the streets became lively and high.

Xie Zhaozhao was walking on the street holding little Heng'er in her arms. She looked like a wealthy lady holding her young child, and going out shopping with her maids and servants.

Yuanyuan and Manman bought some small things, especially snacks. The two of them bought them, ate while walking, and chattered about them.

After being tired from shopping, they went to the restaurant to eat.

Just as they were about to enter the food court, they saw four or five men holding whips, beating a group of ragged women as they walked by: "Behave yourself."

The men were tied up with two long ropes and were not wearing shackles or shackles.

Xie Zhaozhao wondered if it was an exiled female prisoner?

Xie Zhaozhao only glanced at him coldly, then continued to walk towards the food court with Xiao Heng in her arms. She was the emperor, but the law was strict, and it was normal for crimes to be punished.

As those people passed by them, suddenly, a woman knelt down beside Mo Yan, hugged his legs, and begged, "Master, please, buy me. I will do anything you ask me to do."

Mo Yan frowned, struggled to free himself, and said, "I'm sorry, I don't need any help."

Xie Zhaozhao and others stopped and looked at the woman who was hugging Mo Yan's legs. She was wearing a cotton coat and trousers, had a relatively young face and looked good.

The woman kowtowed to Mo Yan desperately and begged again and again: "Sir, I am the eldest daughter of the Yu family. I am proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting. If you buy me, you can be my concubine, my maid, or my maid. Please, save me."

Even though she begged Mo Yan like this, the men leading the team remained silent and just looked at Mo Yan.

Bei Chen said: "These people are criminal slaves. Those who are escorting them are not officials, but thugs from the pawnbroker. They are going to take them to the pawnbroker and sell them."

The Yu family must have committed a crime, and the men were either killed or exiled, so the women were to be sold.

If someone buys her, she will become a concubine or a servant. If no one buys her, she will be sent to places like brothels.

So the woman begged Mo Yan desperately, because Xie Zhaozhao was a woman, and Mo Yan looked like a single man, dressed richly, so his identity must be extraordinary.

Mo Yan pushed her away: "I don't need anyone."

At this time, another woman came up and begged, "Sir, please keep her. If you don't buy her, she will have to be sent to the brothel. Please, have mercy on her. She was originally a beautiful girl from Lizhou who was to be sent to the capital to be selected as a concubine. She was delayed and her talent is too high to be accepted. It will definitely be worth it if you take her back!"

Just when Mo Yan was determined not to accept it and the woman and the girl were begging for it, Xiao Heng'er suddenly said, "I won't accept it."

Manman couldn't help but laugh, and said to Mo Yan: "The young master said that he won't accept it."

When she said this, the woman looked over angrily. Suddenly she saw Manman and her eyes widened as if she had seen a ghost: "You..."

Xie Zhaozhao was very sensitive and immediately said to Bei Chen: "Go and find out if these people are all members of the Yu family? If so, bring the older women into the private room. I... I have something to ask."

After saying that, Xie Zhaozhao and Yuanyuanman carried Xiaoheng'er into the restaurant, asked the waiter for the best private room, and sat down.

Yuanyuan held Xiaoheng'er in her arms and looked out the window.

Bei Chen walked up to the thugs and said, "Young men, are these criminal slaves all members of the Yu family?"

The broker thought he had met a rich man who wanted to buy them, so he immediately said flatteringly: "Not all of them are from the Yu family, but all the women of the Yu family are here. Do you want to buy them? We can discuss the price."

Bei Chen said, "Pick out a few older women from the Yu family. My master wants to meet them."

As he said this, he put a two-ounce silver coin in the hand of the broker. The broker was happy and told the criminal to wait by the roadside.

It's freezing cold now, and these people are shivering on the roadside, but they are willing to wait.

If a noble person wants to meet them, he might reward them with some food, or even buy them.

But the woman just now refused to let them go, and shouted: "They won't buy it. If they want to buy it, just buy it directly. Why call them in one by one to talk? They may be trying to dig up other secrets of the master."

Mo Yan laughed at the side: "Didn't you just ask this woman to go with me? Why don't you want to go?"

The woman said nothing and pulled the woman who was hugging Mo Yan's legs back to the team.

But the woman refused to leave and kept begging Mo Yan: "Please, take me away. Your kindness, sir, will never be forgotten in my lifetime."

While they were talking, the thug pointed at the six women and said, "You guys, come out."

Untie the ropes that tied them and bring them into the food hall.

Xie Zhaozhao did not ask them to come in together, but asked them to wait outside and came in one by one to question them.

The first person to come in was an elderly woman who looked to be in her sixties.

She was dressed fairly neatly, probably because her family hadn't been in trouble for long, and she was still a little uncomfortable with her current status. Her tone, consciously or unconsciously, carried the sense of superiority of an old lady from a large family.

"Hello, madam. May I ask what you want to talk to me about?" She looked at Xie Zhaozhao who was sitting at the top seat and asked calmly.

Xie Zhaozhao was also very happy. He called Manman to his side and asked her, "Look carefully. Have you seen her?"

It was lunch time. Although it was winter, the light was not dim. Old Madam Yu looked at him for a while and asked in confusion, "Who are you?"

Manman smiled and said, "Old man, my name is Manman. Have you seen me?"

Old Madam Yu's eyes flashed with surprise: "You look a bit like my eldest daughter-in-law when she was young. Is your last name Tang?"

Seeing that Xie Zhaozhao had a strong aura and was intimidating without even getting angry, she guessed that he must be an extremely wealthy person. If he was a relative of the Yu family, it would be great if he could buy all the women of the Yu family and let them go.

Manman didn't answer, so Xie Zhaozhao asked, "Are you sure she is a relative of the Yu family?"

"I can't really explain this, but she just looks more like my eldest daughter-in-law."

"Is your eldest daughter-in-law in the team outside?"

"She, she is no longer a member of the Yu family."

"Oh, your eldest daughter-in-law has never given birth to a daughter, such as lost a daughter?"

"Well, she gave birth to a daughter, but she fell into the river when she was one year old and died."

The old lady clearly remembered that the second wife, Cai Ping'er, was crying so hard that she said that her eldest granddaughter was carried by a servant to watch the lanterns. She was squeezed by the crowd and accidentally slipped, and the child fell into the Jing River and was washed away.

The servant was beaten to death and the eldest granddaughter was also gone.

From that day on, the eldest daughter-in-law gave the housekeeping power to the second wife and went to the temple to practice. How many years have passed? I don't know if she is still alive.

Thinking of this, the old lady shook her head again: "Gone, dead."

Xie Zhaozhao asked her to go out first, but he went out through a different door.

Another woman was called in. She looked at Xie Zhaozhao with her eyes wide open and thought, this man can obviously be from a well-off family. Just look at the child and you'll know. Others don't know, but the child is not wearing an ordinary cotton robe, but a priceless colorful brocade, which is extremely soft and silky.

The woman begged Xie Zhaozhao to buy her.

"Madam, please buy me and my daughter. I can do everything. I can embroider, make clothes, cook, play the piano, sing and dance... Please buy me, Madam?"

Xie Zhaozhao asked: "Who are you to the Yu family?"

"I am the servant of the fourth young master of the Yu family, but my husband is a bastard and cannot be considered the master in the Yu family, so I can do anything."

"Look at her?" Xie Zhaozhao pointed at Manman, "Have you seen her?"

The woman looked at her for a long while and said in surprise, "She seems to look a bit like the Madam, but the Madam hasn't been back home for many years, so I don't remember her very clearly..."

After the fourth lady left, a concubine from the first room came in. She said that when she came in, the first lady had gone to the temple to practice, and she had never seen her.

Xie Zhaozhao asked her where the temple was where the eldest lady practiced.

It is said that she is not in Lizhou yet, but is practicing in the nunnery on Jianmen Mountain in Jianzhou.

Jianmen Mountain in Jianzhou is four or five hundred miles away from here.

After questioning all the women and sending them out, Xie Zhaozhao asked Manman: "Do you want to find your family?"

Slowly shook her head: "It's too difficult. I don't have any impression of it at all."

"If you have a chance to find them, will you look for them?"

"If possible, I would like to know who they are. I want to know where my roots are."

Xie Zhaozhao smiled softly and pointed at the slaves outside the window: "What if it's them?"

"Yu family members?" Manman only realized at this time that her master had been interrogating those women for a long time to help her find her family!

She was in a complicated mood: "Master, don't admit it..."

As far as she could remember, she and Yuanyuan had been with Xie Zhaozhao. As for her family, she knew nothing about them. She only remembered that she followed a kidnapper, was not well fed or clothed, and was later sold to Xie's house.

She never thought about having a family.

What if the Yu family is her relatives, will His Majesty Emperor An let them go or not?

She will never cause trouble to Your Majesty.

"Master, I don't want to look for my family. Twenty years have passed. They should just think that I've died a long time ago!"

Xie Zhaozhao said: "Don't worry, I will look for people and follow the law. I will not bend the law for personal gain."

He said to Hao Yonggan, the chief steward of Lizhou who had been following him in a low profile, "Master Hao, send someone to the nunnery in Jianmen Mountain to find this lady... Manman, you also go with Master Hao."

Full of gratitude, he knelt down and kowtowed to Xie Zhaozhao: "Thank you, Master, for your grace."

"Don't reveal your identity when you get there. Just wait and see how she responds."

"Yes, master, don't worry." You must never recognize relatives carelessly!