Chapter 37: Imprisonment
The soldiers divided into two teams and entered the Mo family's inner house, and the big black dog who guarded the courtyard immediately stared at them with a pair of sharp eyes and shouted at ......them, but seeing that these soldiers were ringed and clanged, and they held bright blades in their hands, they did not dare to approach for a while.
With an exclamation, the housekeepers, maids, old mothers, two grandmothers and Yunxi in the inner house all hurriedly stood up, fortunately, Mo Yunze studied hard in Taixue for the big exam in the coming year, and only went home on the first and fifteenth days of the new year every month, so he escaped by luck.
Yunxi Yunyun's temples were scattered, and he didn't know what was going on for a while, and he was looking around blankly, but he saw that the person who came was wearing armor and his face was fierce, so he was startled and hurriedly hid behind Li Xianmo.
A soldier walked over to Li Xianmo's mother and daughter with a flirtatious face, and said with a smile: "Old man Mo is really a blessing, the Hun family is coquettish, and his daughter is also good. ”
As he spoke, he was about to reach out and touch Mo Yunxi's face. Mo Yunxi was taken aback, hurriedly shrunk his head to dodge, and shouted, "Mother! ”
Although Li Xian Mo was flustered, anger defeated timidity at this time. She stretched out her hand and grabbed the soldier's wrist, and asked: "The military master broke into the people's houses late at night and disturbed the people, so he had to give the old man an explanation!" ”
The soldier's complexion changed, and his backhand "snapped" into a slap, which hit Li Xianmo's face fiercely, causing her to stumble and fall to the ground.
"Mother!" Mo Yunxi cried, and also pounced on Li Xianmo's body, crying loudly. Zhang Yun'er watched from the sidelines, and couldn't help but close her eyes and cry, feeling very sad in her heart.
"Presumptuous!" Qiu Feng broke off drinking, and the soldier wanted to step forward to tease again, but suddenly heard the heavy drink, and hurriedly looked back.
Qiu Feng and Mo Yunxiao walked together, and Mo Yunxiang and Du Juan were timid and followed behind the two timidly.
Qiu Feng's face was grim, and he shouted: "This official has just given an order, not to be frivolous, not to insult, are your words as an official a deaf ear?" ”
The soldier hurriedly knelt down and apologized, saying, "Little one is guilty." ”
Qiu Feng sighed and ordered: "Drag it down and give you fifty lashes." ”
So the other two soldiers forked him out, and in a few moments he heard the crackling of the whip, accompanied by the shouts of the soldier.
Mo Yunxi slowly helped Li Xian Mo up, but when they were together, Zhao Pang's fan fell from Mo Yunxi's arms and fell to the ground.
She: "Ah! Di screamed and was about to pick it up, but Qiu Feng was quick and picked it up before her.
Qiu Feng is a rude military general, who has never seen a fan with such superb painting skills. He played for a long time, and when he looked up and saw Mo Yunxi with tears in his eyes, he laughed and asked her, "Zhao Pang?" Who is Zhao Pang? ”
Mo Yunxi just hid back, not daring to answer his words.
Qiu Feng was even more proud, and sneered and said, "Vassal and elegant sour Confucian!" Then he threw the fan away. Mo Yunxi hurriedly picked it up and stuffed it back into his pocket.
Qiu Feng looked around and asked his personal adjutant, "Are the people from Minglou here?" ”
"Yes." The adjutant replied, "Only Mo Yunze is still studying in Taixue. ”
"Hmm." Qiu Feng nodded, and walked straight into the lobby of the Mo Mansion, along with Li Xianmo's mother and daughter, Zhang Yun'er's mother and daughter, and Mo Yunxiao. It's just that Mo Yunxiao walked at the end, and there were two soldiers who wanted to step forward and push her, but when she looked back, the two of them were so frightened that they had to bow their heads and follow behind.
Qiu Feng sat in front of the lobby, and the adjutant took the account book of Minglou and showed it to him. Qiu Feng didn't understand business, and he couldn't see any reason after looking at it twice, so he threw away the account book and asked everyone in the hall: "Are you guilty?" ”
Everyone looked at each other, not knowing how to answer.
"Your father and husband were deserters, do you know?" Qiu Feng asked.
"Huh?" Mo Yunxi and Mo Yunxiang exclaimed at the same time, looking at their mother blankly. Li Xianmoth and Zhang Yuner's expressions are also different. Zhang Yun'er was stunned for a moment, and then lowered her head in shame; And Li Xianmoth still had an ignorant expression after a short period of panic.
Qiu Feng observed the words and looked at them, and had insight into their thoughts, so he smiled coldly and said, "Don't pretend to be confused, if you confess now, this official still has room for maneuver in the Mansion Yin." If you don't tell the truth, you will find out in the future, I'm afraid that even if the official family comes forward, it will be difficult to protect you. ”
Zhang Yun'er's knees weakened, and she immediately knelt on the ground, crying: "Shangcha Mingjian, my eldest man used to serve in the Western Army, and later left the army. But the slave family didn't know that he was a deserter! ”
"Humph!" Qiu Feng slapped the table heavily and shouted, "You still have to quibble!" You two ladies have been waiting for him for many years, don't you know where he came from? To tell you honestly, Mo Chenglin has confessed in prison, and if you want to hide it again, you will only mistake yourself! ”
Qiu Feng's words were a habitual method of coercing confessions, Zhang Yun'er was really fooled, so she had to buckle her head again and again, crying: "Forgive the sins of the superiors, my two sisters concealed it and did not report it, and they deserved it, but our children really didn't know about it, and I hope that the superiors will be gracious and forgive them!" ”
Qiu Feng squinted his eyes and said with a smile: "Whoever is lenient or not forgiving, it is not the official who has the final say." However, since you have confessed, this official will not be embarrassed. Please come with you to your father and husband. ”
As soon as these words came out, everyone knew that this meant to be arrested and imprisoned. Mo Yunxi and Mo Yunxiang couldn't stand this fright, and they hugged their mother for a while, crying and crying.
Li Xianmoth couldn't help stroking her daughter's back and comforted: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, our family is together, what's so scary?" ”
The adjutant asked Qiu Feng: "What to do with the people outside?" ”
Qiu Feng thought for a while and said, "According to the practice of our dynasty, men are sold into slavery, and women are ...... Charge the Workshop Division. ”
Mo Yunxiao was stunned when she heard the words "Jiaofang Division", she knew that this was an ancient government-run Qinglou, and the daughter of a criminal would generally be assigned to the Jiaofang Division, and she would get a cheap status and never get rid of it.
Mo Yunxiao thought that these young women such as cuckoo and Caiyi were very similar to herself, and they were already very pitiful when they were sold as slaves and maids, and wouldn't it be a disaster to be used as official prostitutes? There are also Danzhu and Green Jade, although I don't like them very much, but they are also teenage girls, in the era in which I lived, such girls were still in school, and they were still struggling with crush and weight loss. Alas, the times are different, and the situation of people is really worlds apart.
Thinking of this, she rushed out: "No! ”
Qiu Feng was stunned for a moment, and asked with a smile: "Does the eldest girl have anything to say?" ”
Mo Yunxiao said coldly: "You can sell them, but you are not allowed to sell them to the Teaching Division." ”
"But that's what I'm going to do." Qiu Feng replied with a smile.
Mo Yunxiao also smiled coldly and said, "Yu Hou came with troops, everything here has its own Yu to deal with." What's so difficult about hiding a few women? ”
Qiu Feng laughed, and immediately got up and walked towards Mo Yunxiao. The two pairs of mother and daughter looked at him with blank eyes, secretly blaming Mo Yunxiao in their hearts for being troubled and only causing trouble for themselves.
Qiu Feng came to Mo Yunxiao and reached out to support her jaw. Mo Yunxiao turned his head and took a step back, but he barely squeezed out a smile and said, "Qiu Yuhou, now you are the sword, and I am the fish." Isn't the life and death of our Mo family all a matter of your words? Why should you afflict me in the presence of so many? ”
Qiu Feng's heart swelled with blood when he heard this, and he secretly thought: "I thought that this 'female Yama' was so strong, it turned out that there were times when she was soft. Well, that's right. Now that she has yielded, I cannot take the liberty of flirting here, or the soldiers will not be convinced. ”
So he smiled again and said, "Miss Mo is right. Come on, use a pen to tick the names of the maids of the Mo family, as long as they are sold to ordinary people, they don't have to be official prostitutes. ”
The adjutant replied, "Yes!" Then he withdrew.
After a while, there was a cry of women in the courtyard. Mo Yunxiao closed her eyes, and her heart seemed to twitch.
Qiu Feng smiled: "I promised the girl what I did, I don't know how the girl will repay me?" ”
Before Mo Yunxiao could answer, Zhang Yun'er, who was kneeling on the ground, tugged at her skirt and said worriedly: "Helu! Cannot! ”
Mo Yunxiao glanced at her coldly, and then also reached out and pulled the dress off between Zhang Yun'er's fingers.
She paced two steps, and suddenly turned around and reprimanded, "Second grandmother, third grandmother." You are jealous that I am the daughter of the Mo family, so you do everything possible to harm me. Hum! Now it's okay, not only have I been harmed by you, but even the Mo family has suffered this great disaster! Now, but to be a good person? Will I believe you? And the two of you......"
As she spoke, she pointed to Mo Yunxiang and Mo Yunxi, and accused me in a fierce voice: "One pushed me into the lake and almost killed me; A man pretending to be me to have a tryst with a man! If there is a mother, there must be a daughter! If you are good today, you will inevitably raid your house and destroy the door, and I have a grudge waiting for me, but let's see which of us can have the last laugh! ”
Zhang Yun'er was dumbfounded, and said in a trembling voice: "Helu, what do you mean by this?" ”
"You know what you mean!" The more Mo Yunxiao spoke, the more angry she became, and she turned her head to Qiu Feng and said, "Qiu Yuhou, none of the people here are good people, can I ask you to help me take care of them?" ”
Qiu Feng didn't feel cold, and secretly thought: "I really didn't expect this Mo Yunxiao to be so ruthless and unrighteous. Trying to draw a line with your family so soon? So he asked, "How does Miss Mo want me to cook?" ”
Mo Yunxiao's eyes turned, and suddenly whispered to him: "It's better to kill it cleanly." ”
Qiu Feng was taken aback and hurriedly said, "No!" If the family members of sinners want to be handed over to the government for distribution, how can they be killed at will? ”
Mo Yunxiao looked at them coldly, and said, "Qiu Yuhou has shown mercy, and he still doesn't thank you?" ”
Zhang Yun'er and the others naturally had a look of resentment, and Qiu Feng also had a chilling feeling. "This woman is so unkind, if he suffers to me one day, won't she fall into the well?" Together, there is more tenderness and sweetness with the wind.
"What a ruthless heart!" Qiu Feng said a word, and then ordered one of his personal soldiers: "Take them all away." ”
The soldier asked, "What about Miss Mo?" ”
"Take it too!" Qiu Feng's eyes exploded and he shouted angrily.
Hearing this, Mo Yunxi and Mo Yunxiang cried again. Mo Yunxiao listened to the irritability, and reprimanded softly: "Don't cry! The daughter of the Mo family will never shed tears in front of outsiders! ”
With that, she turned and pushed the door open. The two mothers and daughters also left with her with their own resentment.
The cell was filled with the stench of decay. The stench was like that of a dead rat or a pile of feces, and it was dark as far as the eye could see, with a narrow passage in the middle, and locked cells on both sides. The ground and walls were filthy, and gray-brown filth covered the ground, like sludge but not sludge.
Several girls from the Mo family have been pampered since childhood, where have they ever been in such a dirty place. For a while, they all raised their sleeves to cover their mouths and noses, and they froze, very reluctant to step on this filth with their silk weaving "in the end".
"What are you doing! Walk! "Catch quickly, shout, raise the whip in your hand and make a gesture to hit Mo Yunxi." Yes? Mo Yunxi was scared in his heart, so he had to step forward. She stepped on the mud and splashed the mud on the hem of her skirt.
She had to lift her skirt and walk forward cautiously. Behind her was Mo Yunxiang, who was also carrying a skirt, and then Li Xianmoth and Zhang Yun'er. Mo Yunxiao didn't mention her skirt. Even when she saw the scene in front of her, she was also sick to her stomach. But at this time, she was more concerned about her dignity, so she walked up generously.
"Let's go! Grinding! Begging! Catching up and shouting loudly, Mo Yunxi hurriedly shouted: "Don't fight!" Suddenly, her feet slipped, and she fell into the muddy beach with a "poof", and a stench rushed to the end of her nose, almost suffocating her, and then looked at her body, a beautiful green gauze skirt and wool were also stained with muddy water, and the wool was stirred by this muddy water, and it was screwed together when she landed, and she couldn't wear it anymore.
Mo Yunxi glanced at his body, looked back at the catcher, and cried again. And this catch is fast, but there is no pity for the jade, he raised the leather whip and beat it, and "snapped" a whip on Mo Yunxi's body.
She: "Ah! The ground screamed, his body shrunk into a ball, Li Xianmoth loved her daughter earnestly, hurriedly rushed over, protected her daughter, and begged: "Don't fight, don't fight, let's go." ”
Mo Yunxi and Li Xian Mo stood up and were about to cry again, but Li Xian Mo hurriedly covered her mouth and said, "Do you still want to eat whips?" ”
Mo Yunxi shook his head hurriedly and continued to walk forward.
At the end of their journey, there was a solitary cell. He quickly opened the lock door and coldly ordered, "Go in." And so everyone rushed in.
The last one to walk in was Mo Yunxiao. She walked to the door and said to the catcher, "Do you know how the whip hurts the most?" ”
Caught up for a moment, and asked, "What?" ”
Mo Yunxiao smiled faintly and said, "It's nothing, I'll teach you." With that, she reached out and snatched the whip from the catcher's hand. He was stunned for a moment, and was about to stop drinking, when Mo Yunxiao whipped his fingers with a whip with his backhand.
Catch quickly "oops", and then see that his fingers are red and swollen. Caught up in a rage and shouted: "How can this be reasonable, where is the Diao woman! ”
As he spoke, he swung his fist to fight, Mo Yunxiao took a step forward, grabbed his backhand and grabbed his anti-joint, just twisting slightly, such a strong man actually screamed "oops, oops", his brows furrowed, and he looked unusually sad.
Mo Yunxiao said: "Although we are criminals, we must not deceive each other too much. Do you know that you are good friends with me?"
Hearing this, the hairs stood on end. He knew that Qiu Feng was extremely lustful, how could he not be tempted by such a beautiful woman. If one day, this Mo Yunxiao was accepted by him, and then sued himself, how could he stand it?
So he told again and again: "The little one has eyes and doesn't know the real person, please Miss Mo raise your noble hand." ”
Only then did Mo Yunxiao let go, helped him up, and said, "I will be taken care of by you in the future." ”
Catching Kuai's face turned red, showing an embarrassed look, so he had to nod and say, "It's easy to say...... and then he hurriedly retreated.
Mo Yunxi knew that the eldest brother was angry for herself, but she didn't know that her attitude towards herself was so different.
Zhang Yun'er sneered: "Helu, don't you want to climb the high branches?" Why did it fall off again? ”
Only then did Mo Yunxiao turn around and say, "Second grandmother, third grandmother, Yunxiang, Yunxi, if I want to protect myself, I can't help but make this decision." Here, I make amends to you. As she spoke, she bowed deeply to the four of them.
The two mothers and daughters pondered carefully before they understood, and they were speechless for a while. Only Mo Yunxi asked, "Big girl, your move is extremely dangerous." What if Qiu Feng really listened to you? ”
Mo Yunxi shook his head, squatted down and said to her, "Since ancient times, cool officials have not ended well. Qiu Feng has done a lot of bad things, and he must be weak-hearted. If you put a heartless and unrighteous person like me by his side, won't it make it even more difficult for him to sleep? He wouldn't be so stupid. ”
The four of them looked at each other, and they all admired Mo Yunxiao's eagerness.