[Caiyun Kingdom] The beginning of people

I said thank you, and took the letter from the little official.Why is there something urgent at this time?

The little official bowed and stepped back, and I opened the letter.There were two pieces of letter paper in the envelope, one was written in a handwriting I didn’t recognize, and the next one was written on the butterfly of Heng’e Tower; the other was written in Xin Zi’s, and she only talked a few words to get the point: Miss Pei was raped by He Yuzhi, the imperial court's sacrificial wine. Butterfly, the oiran of Heng'e Tower, tried to help Miss Pei but failed. The two sides are now confronting each other in Huajie.

I frowned.Xie Pei is the oiran of the Chazhou Fireworks Tower, why did she come to Guiyang?Butterfly is one of the ten leaders of the current gangsters in Xiajie, Guiyang. If she can't take Xie Pei back... I looked at Huang Yi, "Master Kui, do you know He Yuzhi, the Imperial Academy's sacrificial wine?" How could anyone dare to do this? horizontal?

"Over seventy years old, the only son of the He family, many wives and concubines but no family, middle-class nobles, knowledge and character are inversely proportional."

Just a self-important womanizer.I asked again: "I don't know from Master Kui's point of view, if I meet He Youzhi, can it be?"

"It's obvious." Huang Yi put his hands behind his back and glanced at me, "Don't provoke him if you have nothing to do."

Who's messing with who now?What Huang Yi meant was that he could only play yin.That’s right, Guozijian Jijiu is a high-ranking official, and even an old and educated nobleman. In the eyes of Shilin, prostitution is an elegant thing. It is impossible for me to confront him openly because of this, and it is even more impossible for Butterfly.But there is no reason to watch Xie Pei being humiliated in vain.

I blessed Huang Yi, "Thank you for reminding me, my lord, I will take my leave first."

"You know the way?" Huang Yi strode ahead of me, still leading me.

I pursed my lips, and let him walk quickly while looking down at Butterfly's pleading letter.I have never had any contact with Butterfly, but I also remember that Butterfly in "The Story of Caiyun Country" can be regarded as a heroine among women, and it is reasonable to help her.From the letter, it seems that she came to me after she learned that I knew Xie Pei.Xie Pei has a stubborn temper, and is also an oiran, and the person he doesn't like will not be with him even if he bids ten thousand gold.As far as the letter is concerned, Xie Pei clashed with He Youzhi, the Imperial Academy's sacrificial wine, in words, which made the other party forceful in a fit of anger.

"What's wrong?" Huang Yi asked suddenly.

It doesn't matter if you tell him about it.I stretched out my hand and handed the letter to him, he glanced at it briefly and then stuffed it back to me, but he didn't turn back when he walked to the palace gate, but got on his horse.He held out his hand to me, "I'm with you."

This... I paused for a while, then handed him my hand, and asked Huang Yi to pull me onto the horse.

There is no time to hesitate. If something happens at the scene, I have no time to play tricks. I have to stop it by Huang Yi, who is a higher official and specializes in managing officials. This is not the time for me to act on my will.

I told Xin Zi, who was waiting at the side, "Let people from Zhang's family rush to Huajie." See if I don't beat this old bastard to death.

Xinzi helped me fix the hem of the skirt, "All?"

"Yes."

"understood."

As soon as Huang Yi raised his whip, he rode the horse and led me towards Huajie.When I arrived, Huajie was already crowded, Huang Yi helped me off my horse and stood aside, while I walked forward.

"Stop! Who is it!" A boy who didn't know where he belonged blocked my way.

I smiled, "Blocking the road? Is this the road opened by your house?" I folded my sleeves and raised my voice, "Zhang Sanniang of the Quanshanglian is here to visit, who else please make way?"

"So it's Chairman Zhang." A woman who was a little more beautiful than Xie Pei came over, and with a wave of her hand, someone pushed the boy in the way away, and the rudeness of her subordinates didn't make her blink. "Isn't this an official showing off his power? As a concubine, I don't have the guts to block the president's way."

Come to think of it, she is the No.1 prostitute butterfly in the country.I nodded to her, "Thank you, Ms. Butterfly, for your kindness. I don't know what power this official is sending?"

Butterfly raised her rosy thin lips slightly, and sneered, "It's not uncommon, isn't it just a scene of kidnapping a woman from a good family."

"Damn!" said a big man, "A prostitute dares to talk nonsense to destroy the reputation of my family!"

Butterfly yelled angrily, "Go away! Not to mention that Xie Pei has been a good man, but this Guiyang Flower Street, there is no reason to force people to come here! I don't have such guests in Chang'e Building either!"

Xie Pei has become a good man?I suppressed the doubt in my heart, and asked another more important question first, "Miss Butterfly, where is Xie Pei now?"

Butterfly sighed, "It's been an hour since I was caught."

For an hour, I'm afraid Xie Pei has already been taken... I saw that the people from Zhang's family had arrived, and I saw that the people on the other side were guarding the door of the building, so I raised my hand and said, "Let me break in." Butterfly still has to think about the other prostitutes in Huajie , I can't do this step, but I'm not afraid.

"How dare you!" An old man with white beard and hair came out with staring eyes, and his servants also rushed up to surround him.

I lowered my smile and said lightly, "You are He Youzhi?"

"The old man's name is also yours?" He looked me up and down a few times, "Which wife are you? Flower Street and Willow Lane is not up to you, and it's out of your business here."

"But I don't care. In the next chapter, Sanniang, Miss Xie Pei is my friend, so I ask Mr. He to return my friend back."

"It turned out to be that Zhang Sanniang. How dare a mere folk woman challenge this old man? Do you know that this old man is the fourth-grade Guozijian sacrificial wine! How unreasonable! Is there any difference between top and bottom!"

"Then Mr. He acted like this, is there any reason? Or Mr. He thinks that it is a romantic affair to hang around the fireworks and rob women after the age of [-]." I stared at him and said word by word: "It's not that I don't know Shame?" He walked out, and it seemed that Xie Pei had really been captured.I tightened my grip on the sleeves.

He Youzhi was so angry that his face turned red, and he pointed at me with his index finger, "You cunning woman! This old man will punish you for disrespect!"

"People must insult themselves, and then others will insult them." I said to the servants of the Zhang family beside me, "Break in and save Miss Xie Pei."

"Zhang Sanniang, how dare you!"

I lowered my eyes and said softly: "My Zhang Sanniang is here, don't run away, if Mr. He wants to settle accounts after the fall, Zhang Sanniang will definitely accompany you to the end. If you break something today, I will pay for it; if you hurt someone today, I will pay you." I will bear it. Zhang Jiaerlang, give it to me," I raised my eyes and said heavily, "Come on."

"Yes!" These people followed me all over the world. They were not afraid of bandits or pirates, so I was not afraid of him, a servant of a civil servant.After listening to my words, they rushed forward one by one and beat me hard, clearing a way for me within a moment.

I turned to Butterfly, "Miss Butterfly, please go back first." At this point, don't bring anyone else into trouble.

Butterfly laughed it off and didn't leave, "President Zhang is not familiar with the road, so let Butterfly guide you."

Every time more dogs are slaughtered in righteousness, the chivalrous women in ancient times go out of business. The last sentence must be Xie Pei who works hard to clean up the tea house, and the butterfly who helps when he sees injustice.

Also good.

"Then there's Ms. Butterfly." I picked up the hem of the skirt a little, stepped over the threshold, and entered the building.

As soon as I entered the inner room, I saw the naked Xie Pei lying on the ground like a dead man, with blood on the corner of his mouth and many bruises on his body.I hurried forward, squatted down, and stretched out my hand to push her.

"Xie Pei? Peer? Peer?"

Xie Pei slowly opened his eyes, a pair of watery starry eyes just looked at me like this, tears streaming down his face, his lips moved slightly to say something, but he was speechless in the end.Butterfly brought clothes and put them on Xie Pei's body. I wiped her face, held Xie Pei's hand, and called for help.Sorry, I'm late.After we packed up Xie Pei, we wanted to take her to my place to recuperate temporarily, but I didn't expect that Guozijian Jijiu He Youzhi would not stop.

He Youzhi, with a bruise and a blush on his face, pointed at me and said, "Diaofu! Take her down, old man! Take her down!" His legs were still limping, and he couldn't even walk easily.When the two sides fought up just now, he was hiding at the side, but judging by his appearance, he was afraid that my servants would do something wrong, so he insisted on being punched twice.

"Miss." Xin Zi trotted forward, her little face was blushing, it was clear that she had ended up fighting.

I looked at the officers and officers surrounding me, turned my head, and whispered to Xin Zi: "Idiot, the so-called black boxing is not only about the meanness of the timing of the punching, but also the position of the strike, that is the key point. No It doesn’t matter if you hit it, if you want to hit it, you will get an internal injury, or a position where others can’t see it, that’s called a real black fist.”

Xin Zi took a step forward to protect me, not letting the officers and soldiers touch me, and whispered back: "Tsk! You are too dark, okay? I'm still a little girl, don't teach bad people."

"..."Girl, it's obviously you who did the trick just now.

There was such a big commotion in Huajie, and it was expected that the government would come.I asked Xin Zi to take him to Feixiang's mansion to rest first, and then go to investigate He Youzhi's family background, waiting to reveal the affairs of his family one by one.At that time, I will find some familiar censors, and I will guarantee that he will be hacked until he loses his official position.As for the others... let's wait until the clothes are untied.

It was Zhang Zechi, the fifth cousin of my second uncle's family, who led the government servants.At first He Youzhi wanted to stop Xie Pei from leaving, but Zhang Zechi persuaded him by pretending to be a good guy.Zhang Zechi gave me a wink, and I nodded in response, expressing my understanding.If he can't face it head-on, I will at least go with him to the prison and plan later.

"Come on!" Zhang Zechi raised his eyebrows and shouted angrily, "Take Zhang Sanniang down!"

"Slow down!" Kui Huangyi, who had been standing aside since coming, came out at this time.

Zhang Zechi blinked at me, then turned around and took the lead to salute Huang Yi, "I have seen Lord Kui." All the officers and soldiers around knelt down with their arms crossed.

He put his hands behind his back and looked around, "What's going on?" He also pretended.

He Youzhi said angrily: "Mr. Kui, this cunning woman gathered a crowd to cause trouble and beat up the court officials. This old man is planning to write to the Ministry of Punishments and Dali Temple to punish her severely, so that the truth can be heard!"

Huang Yi glanced at him, and then said: "Zhang Zechi."

"The officer is here."

"You lead someone to put He Youzhi under house arrest first, and Yushitai will take over later."

"Yes!"

"You!" He Yuzhi's eyes widened, "Kui family boy, how dare you treat this old man like this?"

Huang Yi said with a cold face: "Do you want me to talk about the servants committing murder, robbing women, raping and provoking troubles, gathering crowds to make trouble, and beating the common people?" go up.

Now, not only did I not have to go to jail, but I also changed from a defendant to a plaintiff, and I was even spared the trouble of black hands.After they were all gone, I saluted Huang Yi and said, "Master Kui, you can ignore this matter." I can still handle this level.

"I just don't want to make this trip in vain." When I was about to say something more, Huang Yi strode away, got on the horse, and said behind my back: "Don't get it, don't be cheap and act like a good boy, idiot, thank you honestly Just go back and do your business." After saying that, he rode away.

I touched my nose.He was obviously very polite to me in the palace before, why did he turn around and scold me casually?Forget it, it's not a year or two, let's talk about him later.I looked up at the waiting carriage and Xie Pei who was carried into the carriage, and sighed.

But how can I help her?In the end, I still can't do anything.

A few days later, Chai Lin invited me to visit the mansion because of the counterfeit money, salt and iron.She hoped that she could call up relevant information, so I took it with me, but after thinking about it, I still asked, "Master Hong Xiuli asked you?" The request from the imperial court cannot be accepted by the All Chambers of Commerce for the time being, but if It's Chai Lin, who has connections with the government, and Hong Xiuli, who is the eldest lady of the Hong family. They exchange information, as long as they don't get too high-profile, it doesn't matter.The result is the same, but the method used is very particular.

"Yes," Chai Lin nodded and admitted, "Master Xiuli has been relegated to a redundant official since the plague in Chazhou, and she is idle at home," she laughed, "but she hasn't given up on caring for the people. Yes Whether it’s making money, it’s…” She didn’t say the word treason, which we all know well, “In the end, it’s the common people whose livelihoods are affected. People at the top have plans, and big businessmen can withstand these fluctuations, but The people of the lower class still have to live. This is what Master Xiuli values.”

Compared with Chai Lin and Hong Xiuli, I was so ashamed that I only thought about calculating the upper class and my own position in the past few days, so I could only comfort myself, "Don't worry too much, I have already paid some damages to those small businesses that were damaged. , making a living is not a problem. As for the common people,” I said with a sigh, “there’s no choice but to subsidize the price of salt and iron.”

Chai Lin froze suddenly.

"cold?"

"...San Niang, did you pay for the subsidy yourself?"

"I just took office. It is inconvenient to involve the Chamber of Commerce for the time being. I can't use the funds of the Chamber of Commerce. It's just that my personal power is limited. What I can give is not even half of the money lost in the market." The amount I know It’s big enough, and other things I don’t know about… In this case of counterfeit salt and iron coins, the person who took the money was the real villain. .”

"No, you are indeed a descendant of the Zhang family, and you have a good way of making money."

…Sometimes it’s actually not a human problem. I was born with a family business to inherit, so I won at the starting line.It's easier to get rich if you look for money, as long as I'm not too stupid than others, ah ha ha ha ha...

I coughed lightly in embarrassment, "I only have some use for this money, so don't laugh at me anymore." I changed the subject, "I know Lord Hong is a good official, but the court has already taken action on this matter, Yu Shitai I'm also looking into it. It's not appropriate for Master Hong to intervene casually. Besides, even if I can help," I stretched out my hand to press the account book information, and looked outside the door where there was a sudden sound of chaotic footsteps, "it was still taken advantage of by others. "

"But that's Miss Xiuli," Chai Lin stood up, "It's okay to be taken advantage of again and again, as long as I can help you, this is that excellent adult."

The door of the room was suddenly opened forcefully, and a group of soldiers walked in. The leader cupped his hands, "Madam Zheng, I am here by order of Yushitai, and I am here to ask Madam to hand over the information on the Yantie Account Book."

Chai Lin's face turned cold, "Last time, I just came to snatch the booklet of Yinghua, and Yushitai led troops to surround Shangshuling's mansion every three days, what's going on?"

The soldiers were unmoved, "Please also cooperate with Madam."

I remember it was Lu Qingya who bullied Hong Xiuli again and again.I put down the teacup in my hand, took out the handkerchief and pursed my lips before standing up.Is this Lu Qingya's personal action, or... Huang Yi's instruction?I smiled and said, "My military lord, if you don't give it, what will you do?"

The soldier was about to reply when a handsome young man with sky-blue hair walked in. Chai Lin beside me frowned and whispered in my ear that he had once been to Shang Shuling's mansion as Hong Xiuli's friend.The young man stopped the soldier's words and bowed his hands to us, "The supervisory censor Lu Qingya has seen Mrs. Zheng," he turned to me, "This is Zhang Sanniang from the Quanshang Federation?"

"I've met Mr. Lu." I saluted him.These days, the bad guys in Caiyun Kingdom really look better than each other, the good guys look like Xiao Shou, the bad guys look like Qiang Gong, poof.No, Huang Yi and Yan Shu, it's still uncertain who will attack and who will suffer.cough!

"Chairman Zhang, please." He pointed to the account book in my hand.

I smiled and raised my hand, and pushed the candle down on the account book.Lu Qingya wanted to come to rescue her, but Chai Lin was vigilant and poured the oil used for research in her room onto the book, and the book was reduced to ashes in an instant.

Lu Qingya froze for a moment, then withdrew her hand and snorted, "Are the two of you going to help the criminal hide the evidence?"

Chai Lin clapped his hands and said, "Chairman Zhang accidentally knocked down the candlestick for a while, and I was so anxious that I didn't notice it for a while, and used the oil as water to put out the fire. It was an accident."

I interjected: "Besides, this is just a short story book and not an account book. I'm afraid Mr. Lu may have misunderstood it."

Lu Qingya looked at us for a while, then she cupped her hands and retreated neatly. Chai Lin and I looked at each other and smiled.As for this evidence, I will copy another copy and let Hong Lishen find a chance to pass it on to Hong Xiuli. As for Yushitai, there is no need.If you want to cooperate, you have to cooperate in a serious manner. You can grab one by force, but you can't do it again. This small fire is my warning to Lu Qingya.Even if it will slow down the speed of solving the case, and more civilians will be victimized, I will also...

I lower my eyes.

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