"Miss Mingyue, there is a 'Yunqi Inn' in Changle Fang, and the shopkeeper there is good. If the girl really has nowhere else to go, why don't I send you to the inn to live?" Xu Ke asked.

"Okay!" Mingyue nodded in agreement.

So, Mingyue followed Xu Ke, left the chaotic vegetable market street, and headed east.

At this time, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon!

Mingyue couldn't help but look back, and looked at the vegetable market behind her, and her heart was full of emotion!

If Xu Ke hadn't flown in time, she would have been like a dream, and she had been stripped of her clothes by the two ghost-like executioners, and her snow-white skin would have been cut off inch by inch! She didn't dare to imagine what kind of heart-wrenching pain it would be! What kind of terrible humiliation it would be!

She couldn't help but believe that this Lord Xu in front of her was really an extremely lucky person, and even, she had some vague suspicions in her heart, this Lord Xu might not be a mortal!

If he wasn't an extremely lucky man, if he hadn't had extraordinary abilities, why would he have survived even though he was in a desperate situation?

She has secretly made up her mind in her heart that in this life, even if she is broken, she will repay this Lord Xu!

However, she immediately rejected her idea, she thought to herself, this Lord Xu is so lucky and capable, but she is so humble and unlucky, even if she is broken, what can she repay him?

......

The two walked for about two quarters, and then came to the "Yunqi Inn" in Changle Fang.

Along the way, Xu Kejun was thinking, should he take this poor Mingyue girl back to his Xu Mansion?

However, he immediately rejected his own idea.

There is already a Hu Yiyi in the family, and a Yao Zibei, he is still an unmarried, and he is already a little unclear, and now, he has to bring back a top brand of the Qinglou, if this matter is spread out, how can he face the colleagues of Tsing Yiwei? and how to face Yan'er in Tianbao Pavilion?

When he thought of Yan'er, his heart tightened!

Only then did he remember that he hadn't seen Yan'er for more than ten days.

Even, since he left the God King Pavilion, unconsciously, a month has passed, and for a month in a row, he has not been able to go to the Tianbao Pavilion to see Yan'er!

There were no flood beasts in the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion, so why didn't he just refuse to go? Even if there were flood beasts there, with his current strength, why would he be afraid? However, why he just didn't want to step into the gate of the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion, he couldn't figure it out......

After arriving at the Yunqi Inn, Xu Ke asked for a good room for Mingyue. After he sent Mingyue into the guest room, seeing that Mingyue was penniless at this time, he handed over all the two silver tickets of one hundred taels on his body, along with two ingots of twenty taels of silver cakes, to Mingyue's hands.

The two of them sat in the guest room for a while. Xu Ke asked about Mingyue's father and brother, saying that he was willing to help inquire about their residence, but Mingyue just shook her head.

Xu Ke knew that Mingyue didn't want to live with her father, so he couldn't force it, so he asked her, now that she has regained her freedom, what are her plans next?

Mingyue thought about it for a while, and she didn't hide it from Xu Ke, she said, her godsister "Jiaojiao" had told her that after letting her leave Cuiyun Tower, she just waited in the inn, and when "Jiaojiao" was over, she would take her to Xiao Guo together.

Now that Xu Ke has settled her in the inn today, she can only wait for "Jiaojiao" to pick her up.

Xu Ke thought in his heart, that "Jiaojiao" is a cat demon! How can you stay with a demon?

Isn't there also two great demons in his own home who have cultivated for thousands of years? I've been with them for nearly half a year, isn't it okay?

Xu Ke smiled slightly, seeing that Mingyue was so resolute at this time, it was not easy to dissuade him again, so he got up to say goodbye, and Mingyue sent him to the door.

After going downstairs, Xu Ke found the shopkeeper of the inn again, and said that the girl in the upper room on the second floor was his godsister, and the shopkeeper must take care of him well, and there must be no slack! The shopkeeper was originally an honest person, and when he saw Xu Ke in a shiny official uniform, he gave up his hands again and again, and hurriedly "Nuonuo" agreed.

After Xu Ke left the Yunqi Inn, he went straight home, and along the way, he thought that he had another "god sister" at random, and he couldn't help but laugh dumbly!

After Xu Ke left, Mingyue sat in the guest room in a daze, looking at the direction of Xu Ke's departure, but her nose was sore, and tears had fallen into her beautiful eyes.

She was on the court just now, and she originally wanted to say:

"Mingyue is homeless, can you ...... Let Mingyue have the power and live in the adult's mansion? Mingyue is willing to be a slave who serves the adult's daily life, and this life is at the mercy of the adult!"

But when the words came to her lips, she couldn't speak.

After all, she is a Qinglou woman, even if she wants to be a maid in his Xu Mansion, will he also dislike herself, her body is not clean, and her reputation is not good?

Sure enough, Xu Ke's answer still ruthlessly rejected her.

Her mood at the moment was both disappointed and sad, however, she still didn't blame Xu Ke at all.

Perhaps, this is her fate, right?

......

......

After Nangong returned to Tsing Yiwei without saying a word, he also hurried to the edict prison.

Sure enough, at this moment, the guards had set up a temporary execution table in the Imperial Prison, waiting to send all the more than 100 female prisoners to Huangquan.

In the C-number cell of the Imperial Prison, dozens of white silk threads hung high on the wooden beams. Because there were too many female prisoners to be executed, even Bai Aya was not enough, so the chief of the punishment ordered the more than 100 female prisoners to be divided into four groups.

At this time, the first batch of thirty girls in Cuiyun Tower stood in front of the execution table, facing the thirty white silk hanging high, or sobbing sadly, or trembling, or crying bitterly......

The rest of the eighty or so women, even though they were standing behind the first batch of girls, were in the same sad mood, and even more frightened in their hearts!

Although they were all dressed in new clothes and looked well-dressed, many of them were still too frightened, and their lower bodies were already wet.

According to the rules, the flag of the North Division had to wait for the arrival of the prison beheader to verify his identity one by one, and then the execution began. However, the chief Baihu Gu Xiang, who was in charge of managing the edict, had already told him that today was the time when the Son of Heaven was in the court, and if the son of heaven was in high spirits and talked too much, the prison officials might not be able to arrive in time. At that time, Gu Baihu ordered the flag to be held, as soon as it arrived at three o'clock in the afternoon, regardless of whether the prison officer was present or not, the execution would start immediately, and the time when the prisoner would go on the road must not be missed!

At that time, Gu Caixiang still had a plan in his heart, among the more than 100 female prisoners, most of them had been raped by the guards of the Nansi, and I heard that the head of today's prison beheading officer was still His Royal Highness the Eighth Prince of the Dynasty, if the prince of Jin was more serious and asked why these female prisoners were raped, he would not be able to explain it anyway, if he didn't get out of that huge silver ticket, the black gauze hat on his head would be lost. Therefore, in Gu Caixiang's heart, he wished that the King of Jin had better go to the vegetable market because of the early dynasty today, and he would not be able to go to the edict prison to imprison the sentence, so that the guards could calmly send those women on the road.

So, at two o'clock in the afternoon, the person who held the flag to see the prisoner was late, and saw that there were so many female prisoners waiting to be executed, and he was still worried about his "Ding meal" of the Tsing Yi Guard, so he waved his hand and ordered the guards to send the first batch of female prisoners to Bai Aya......

I heard a loud guard shout, "The hour has come, girls, please go on your way!" The thirty women suddenly howled again.

Several older women, seeing that there was no way out, had to slowly walk up to the wooden stool, put their necks into the white silk, and then reluctantly kicked the stool away, only to feel that the neck suddenly tightened, and they gradually lost consciousness......

The rest of the young girls, unwilling to go up to the stool, stood there sobbing incessantly, as if they were still unwilling to die innocently like this, and the guard next to them shouted impatiently:

"Hurry up! There are a lot of people behind! If you don't go up, I'm going to send you up!"

So, more people stopped crying, bravely walked up to the wooden bench, and sent their necks into the white silk one by one...... Goshoya

"Stop!"

At this time, Nangong Bu was silent and finally walked in quickly.

"Quick! put those people down!" Qianhu pointed to the woman hanging from the beam and ordered the flag.

"Lord Qianhu, this ......?" the banner was still a little puzzled, didn't the emperor give them all the hangings? Could it be that he temporarily changed his mind and wanted to drag them all to be beheaded?

"The Holy One has forgiven their sins, save them quickly!"

"Yes, yes, yes!"

Zhangqi didn't dare to delay any longer, so together with a dozen guards, he hurriedly stepped onto the bench and put down the women who were already hanging on the wooden beams one by one.

There were six of the oldest women, who had passed out by Bai Aya at this time, and the guards hurriedly fetched warm ginger soup, pinched people, and pressed their chests, and finally pulled them back from the Huangquan Road with difficulty.

Nangong was silent, facing the palm flag and reprimanded angrily:

"Before three o'clock in the afternoon, the prison officer is not there, why do you have to rush to execution?!"

Seeing that Lord Qianhu was angry, the banner bearer was so frightened that he quickly knelt on the ground, and said in fear:

"This ...... This ......" He wanted to defend himself, this was the order of Lord Baihu, but when the words came to his mouth, he still didn't dare to speak.

According to Nangong's silent temper, he was going to order someone to pull out the flag that was sloppy and disdainful of people's lives. However, he thought about it, this is most likely Gu Caixiang's orders, forget it, he is now the time to employ people, so give Gu Caixiang a face! So, Nangong Qianhu turned to reprimand:

"When the emperor came to court early today, he had pardoned all the sins committed by the people of Cuiyunlou! If this department came half a minute late today, dozens of people would die in vain because of you! You dog slave, today this department has the right to remember you, if you commit it again, you will not be spared!"

"Yes, yes, yes! The little one will not dare to do it again next time!" The flag trembled with fright, and he almost wet his pants!

Next, Nangong ordered all the female prisoners to kneel without saying a word, and after he read the emperor's dictate aloud, he gently pacified them, and finally, Lord Qianhu also told those women and Yan:

"The Holy One has forgiven you from your sins, but has also set you free! Stay here for a little while, and after half an hour someone will send you some coils. When you have eaten, you have taken the silver taels, and then go to your own country."

Naturally, all the female prisoners knelt down to Nangong Qianhu and thanked them, as if it was not the emperor's will that saved them at this time, but all the credit of Nangong Qianhu.

Nangong gave a few more orders to Zhangqi, ordering him to take care of these women, and go to the room to get a lunch for each of them.

Nangong returned to his office without saying a word, and it was exactly three o'clock in the afternoon, and the guards brought a sumptuous "Tsing Yi Weijia Meal" for the Lord Qianhu, which was placed on the table of the Lord Qianhu.

Nangong was eating in the room, but the chief Baihu Gu Xiangxiang walked in in a daze.

Seeing Gu Caixiang standing solemnly opposite him, Nangong glanced at him coldly without saying a word, but waved him to sit down, and said, "Let's eat together!"

"Yes!"

Gu Caixiang immediately put on a smiling face, hurriedly bowed down and sat down on the side of the thousand households, and licked his face and ate lunch with the thousand households.

Gu Caixiang took out a wine jug from his arms, poured wine for Nangong Qianhu and himself, raised his wine glass, and took the initiative to apologize:

"My lord, the subordinates are not strict in discipline, so those female prisoners in the edict prison are almost innocent and vain, and the subordinates will punish themselves first!"

"How can one cup be enough?"

"Yes, yes, yes! The subordinates punished themselves with three cups!" Gu Caixiang drank three glasses of spirits in one go, and saw that Nangong Qianhu's face finally slowed down, and a hanging heart, so he put it down.

The two ate for a while, and Nangong asked:

"Are those female prisoners alright?"

Gu Caixiang hurriedly said: "It's all good! They know that they don't have to die, it's too late to be happy, at this time, they are all thanking the thousands of households!"

"How many coils did Wei Li send them?"

"Five taels of silver per man. ”

"Five taels of silver?" Nangong shook his head and said, "It's really a little less! Some girls are far away from home, how can this little silver be enough to go back?"

"There aren't many public and silver in Weili...... Gu Cai Xiang took a sip of wine and said: "Shen Dudu can give each of them five taels of silver, which is already interesting enough! In this way, it will add up to six hundred taels of silver! I guess, if it weren't for the emperor's speech, Shen Dudu would not be so generous!"

Gu Caixiang stretched out two fingers and said: "At most, giving them two taels of silver is already benevolent and righteous!"

Nangong looked at Gu Xiangxiang silently, and said meaningfully:

"Let's Beisi, and then subsidize five taels of each of them!"

"Ah, my lord, our Beisi has less public bank, and we will have to go out for six hundred taels at once?

"Who said it came out of the bank?"

"Don't you have to pay out of your own pocket again?"

"Hey, my Nangong only has eight hundred taels of silver a year, and I asked me to take out six hundred taels at once, and I and Wuhua will go to drink the northwest wind?"

"That'...... What do you mean?"

Nangong looked at the ancient material incense and smiled without saying a word.

"The humble duty understands! These six hundred taels of silver, the humble duty can find a way!"

Gu Caixiang took another sip of wine, sighed, and said in his heart that this "A meal" is really very expensive! Knowing this, I might as well go and eat my "B meal" honestly!

This matter, the two sides so "happily" settled.

......

An hour later, each of the 16 women in the edict received a plate fee of ten taels of silver, plus a new set of clothes, and a full meal, and each of them left Tsing Yi Wei happily and with a thousand thanks, and from then on they went back to their respective homes and worked their own livelihoods.

left the ancient incense, but sat alone in his office. He counted with his fingers, this errand, he took a lot of effort, although he took a thousand taels of silver tickets from Yang Wenyuan, but this time he bought new clothes for the girls, and held a banquet for Mingyue, and in the end, the Lord Qianhu also let him "bleed" six hundred taels of silver! In the end, he only had about fifty taels left.

However, for lunch today, in order to please thousands of households, he bought a pot of 30-year-old "Fenyang" in the East Market, which is fifty taels of silver!

Gu Caixiang never dreamed that the 1,000 taels of silver tickets he had just received yesterday would be almost penny left in the blink of an eye......