Chapter 5 Mulberry Rouge
No way?
Xiao Qingyan and Nie Yao glanced at each other in unison...... No way?
"The woman who climbed onto the young master's bed last night was your sister?" Nie Yao lost his voice.
Xiao Qingyan glared at him, could he speak?
Xiao Qingyan asked, "The woman who climbed on my bed last night was your sister?" ”
Nie Yao pouted secretly, what's the difference?
Qi Ji looked embarrassed: "Little sister, she is not the kind of woman who knows no shame. ”
Xiao Qingyan can't remember the woman's appearance now, she only remembers that the woman has a slender figure, and the flesh grows where it should be, and it is difficult for a man to hold it, and because of this, she subconsciously thought that the woman was assigned by Cao Lin last night.
Now it seems that it doesn't even be?
"Nie Yao, what about people?" Xiao Qingyan asked.
Nie Yaojian frowned slightly: "I was taken away by Cao Lin's people last night." ”
At this time, Qi Ji hurriedly said: "The little sister was locked in the barn by the lame horse, and said that she would wait for the young master to leave before dealing with it, Cao Lin had already set his eyes on the little sister, that beast would not let the little sister go, begging the young master to save my sister, she would do this kind of foolish thing for me." ”
Nie Yao didn't wait for Xiao Qingyan to speak, so he took the initiative to ask: "Young master, I'm going to ask for someone." ”
Xiao Qingyan glanced him up and down, unconcealing his disdain: "You can't do it, wait for Zhou Shu to come back, let him go." ”
"Why?" Nie Yao was not convinced.
"Because if you go, you will rob people directly, and Cao Lin will know that I have the heart to protect their brothers and sisters, and Zhou Shu will go...... Eighty percent would say I need a woman. ”
The young master has a problem with his brain, and Steward Zhou has ruined his reputation so much, and he still thinks that Steward Zhou is good.
Xiao Qingyan didn't have the noble and elegant image of the son of a family in front of people, and rolled his eyes: "Are you an elm head?" ”
Nie Yao's eyes rolled, and suddenly he was blessed to his heart, realized the Great Dao, and comprehended the essence: "Oh, my subordinates understand!" Please let your subordinates try it next, and your subordinates will ensure that they will do it no worse than Steward Zhou! ”
Xiao Qingyan frowned, but he really couldn't stand Nie Yao's expectant eyes, so he had to nod reluctantly.
Looking at Nie Yao's figure rushing away, she was very worried about her reputation.
"The villain's sister Sang Rou thanked the young master for saving her life!" Qi Ji prostrated to the ground.
"Your sister's name is Sang Rou?"
"Yes!"
Xiao Qingyan remembered a poem: Yun Bi Sangrou, his next marquis, picking his Liu, and the people here. Don't worry about it, Brother Cang fills up. Zhuo Bi Haotian, would you rather be discreet? (The Book of Songs, Daya, Sangrou)
The dense and tender green mulberry was a good place for the people to enjoy the shade, but the people in power exploited it excessively, resulting in the mulberry leaves being harvested, the branches were bare, and the people had nowhere to shelter, and it was difficult to survive.
Sang Rou is a good name, but the world is a little cruel.
"Your sister, like your grandfather, wants to sacrifice herself for another chance to speak, right?"
Qi Ji didn't expect that this young master, who was not very old, would understand their plight so well.
"Yes!" With tears in his eyes, he nodded heavily.
Xiao Qingyan listened to him tell him what happened to his family, and the land rent that Cao Lin demanded was more than several times more than the actual rent reported to the master's family, and the rent could not be paid, so he began to collect profits, and the profits rolled back year after year, like a snowball, which was enough to crush the peasants to death.
The Xiao family only thought that these farmers were just renting the Xiao family's land, but in fact, they were already Cao Lin's private slaves and signed a deed of sale.
If Cao Lin wants to deceive the master's family, he must let these peasants continue to work in the Xiao family's fields and pay rent, but in addition, the peasants also have to take care of Cao Lin's private land outside, and give him slaves for free, allowing him to be whipped, bullied, and humiliated, and his life is not as good as that of the cultivated animals.
Qi Ji's parents died of exhaustion after being forced into slavery.
Qi Ji just married a wife at the beginning of the year, named Hui Niang, and he was a childhood sweetheart, and soon after marriage, she became pregnant, but Cao Lin's steward Hu Wenhai fell in love with Hui Niang, a few days ago, despite Hui Niang's pregnancy, he robbed people by force, and he still doesn't know whether he is alive or dead.
"We heard that the young master of the Xiao family took over the grange, so we thought that we would tell the young master all the evil things that Cao Lin and his lackeys had done, and maybe the young master would drive these silverfish away in a fit of anger, and Hui Niang would be able to come back."
Their thoughts are very simple, they are nothing more than thinking about the three fires of the new officials, hoping that this fire can relieve their current suffering, whether they succeed or not, and what the result will be, they have not thought about it, and they dare not think about it.
"We've been forced to do just that."
Qi Ji covered his face, tears flowed from between his fingers, and he choked in the palm of his hand.
"I discussed with Ah Weng last night, if I just explained the situation to the young master, maybe the young master wouldn't care about our life or death, so ......"
"So you want to assassinate me, lying that it was Cao Lin who instructed you to do this, endangering yourself, naturally I will no longer stand by and punish Cao Lin in anger."
Qi Ji didn't deny it, his voice was sad: "I said that I would do it, Ah Weng obviously agreed, but he didn't ......"
In order to coax Qi Ji, Uncle Qi pretended to agree to let him act, but on this day, the old man himself rushed out first, because no matter whether Cao Lin could be brought down in the end, they had to bear the charge of assassinating the young master.
Rather than let his only grandson take the risk, the old man would rather risk his own life.
Xiao Qingyan was sad in her heart, compared with these poor people, she was really lucky to be dressed as she is now.
"What about your sister Sang Rou? Could it be that she overheard your plans, so she chose to sacrifice herself and come to me? ”
As for how to sacrifice, Xiao Qingyan had already seen it last night.
"It should be, I got the news late last night, and the lame man didn't allow me to see Sang Rou." Qi Ji said.
Xiao Qingyan sighed.
If she is really a young man with strong blood, Sang Rou may have succeeded last night, that girl is probably thinking about being a young master's woman, and wanting to save her family is just a sentence from the young master.
If she hadn't been cornered, a young girl wouldn't have chosen this kind of stupid trick of sacrificing her reputation.
But her desperate gamble ran into Xiao Qingyan, a fake who didn't understand the amorous feelings.
Xiao Qingyan then asked Qi Ji some things, what happened to Qi Ji's family was by no means an exception, she wanted to know more.
She listened to Qi Ji's account of the tragic experiences that had happened to the peasants as she looked out of the house.
I don't know if Nie Yao is coming......
What Xiao Qingyan didn't know was that Nie Yao, the chief of the guards she was thinking about, was leading a group of his subordinates to rob the people's girls viciously in the grange...... The threat was robbed for his young and strong-blooded young master.