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123. The defeated imperial envoy(1/2)

When Zheng Yi was trying to find Jiang Zhen to save the person from the water bandits to build momentum for Jiang Zhen, he did not let the woman from Qingfeng Tower go there because he was worried about affecting Qingfeng Tower's future business. Liu Qianqian and Zhao Lingxi stayed in Qingfeng Tower.

Something happened to Jiang Zhen. They were very worried and anxious. They kept asking people to go outside to find out the news. As a result, before the news was found out, Qingfeng Tower was surrounded!

"What the hell is going on? Why are we all around?" Liu Qianqian glanced at the frightened guest and asked a few servants who had greeted the guests at the door before.

The servant happened to meet Zhou Maohe a few days ago, and he almost cried: "Miss Liu, what should I do? A few days ago, our Qingfeng Tower made trouble, and the man who spoke rudely to you was actually the imperial envoy!"

"Imperial envoy?" Liu Qianqian was shocked and gasped.

Is that old scholar the imperial envoy? This...

Liu Qianqian immediately turned her head to look at Zhao Lingxi. The two of them looked at each other and found that each other's eyes were also full of anxiety.

The imperial envoy went to arrest Jiang Zhen before, because he was wronged in Qingfeng Tower? If this is true, then they would be too sorry for Jiang Zhen. And now, what should they do?

"A person like that, just cry with him." Liu Qianqian said, and as soon as she finished speaking, someone walked in from outside. It was Zhou Maohe.

Behind Zhou Maohe, there were many scholars, as well as Jiang Zhen and Zheng Yi.

Zheng Yi's identity is unusual, but Liu Qianqian and others are not familiar with him. At most, they breathed a sigh of relief when they saw him. But after seeing Jiang Zhen, they calmed down.

I don’t know why, but they always feel that as long as Jiang Zhen is there, they will be safe.

When Zhou Maohe saw Liu Qianqian and Zhao Lingxi, his face became ugly.

He is not an addicted woman, and he doesn't care much about the appearance of these two people, so he naturally is not fascinated by beauty. He just thinks that these two people are really shameless and don't stay at home and show up and betray their appearance.

However, those scholars who came with Zhou Mao and his team had already developed a favorable impression of the decoration of Qingfeng Tower, Liu Qianqian and others.

Everything here is very elegant. The few men's outfits, Shuang'er, whose hair is simply raised, looks even more unique.

"Didn't Mr. Zheng introduce me? What do these women do?" Zhou Maohe sneered: "I didn't expect that the eldest son of the Zheng family would actually open a brothel!"

"Sir, I am wronged. This Qingfeng Tower is just a restaurant!" Zheng Yi said immediately.

"How come there are women in the restaurant? Who knows what they do? Or maybe they were forced by you?" Zhou Maohe asked with a sneer.

"Sir." Jiang Zhen shouted: "If you think it's inappropriate, you can let them all come out and go there to ask clearly! But please don't frame others randomly!" As he said that, he also pointed to the box next to him.

"I will naturally ask, and there is no need to wait for them to go there and ask again!" Zhou Maohe immediately said, "Go to the private room? Is this Jiang Zhen trying to give him money privately?"

"Sir, please try asking here. I don't care what happened!" Jiang Zhen sneered.

Jiang Zhen didn't want Zhou Mao and Zhou to ask in public.

He rescued Liu Qianqian and Zhao Lingxi from the bandits, and the servants and guests in Qingfeng Tower were not aware of this matter. Asking in public was equivalent to lifting the scars of Liu Qianqian and others naked.

The women who moved to Hexi Village to live in Shuang'er, the people on the pier knew their situation, but it was nothing, but Liu Qianqian and others were different. If the people here knew that they had encountered such a thing, they would look down on them. Those guests who were originally good to them might also stay away from them.

After Jiang Zhen said this, Zhou Maohe remembered the scene of Old Mrs. Jiang crying while holding her legs and crying. She couldn't help but feel shocked.

He snorted coldly and said, "Take them out and go to the house over there!"

Without Zhou Mao and the people brought to do it, Liu Qianqian and others looked trembling and afraid, and then opened the table from inside and lined up from behind the table.

Jiang Zhen pointed out that the private room that came was not big, so Zhou Maohe asked the yamen runners to wait at the door and walked in with the scholars who came with them to listen to what Liu Qianqian and others said.

As a result, before he could ask, Liu Qianqian knelt on the ground: "Sir, please spare me... I didn't know the identity of my lord before. I have offended my lord, and I have no forgiven for my crimes..."

"Don't say this, why are you here? Are you coerced?" Zhou Maohe asked with a cold face.

"Sir, we are not coerced. We are all rescued by Mr. Jiang from the water bandits." Liu Qianqian said, and Li Hua cried in the rain: "Sir, my husband was killed by those water bandits, and I was captured by the water bandits and lost my reputation. I shouldn't have survived in the world..." She said this, and finally crashed into the wall next to her.

"Sir, I'm homeless and don't want to marry again, so I begged Mr. Jiang to find us an errand. I never thought that I would implicate Mr. Jiang, and I don't want to live anymore." Zhao Lingxi, like Liu Qianqian, also chose a wall and bumped her head into it.

Both of them were fine, but were stopped by several scholars, but they cried even harder: "Sir, you can speak one brothel at a time, this is not a way out!"

"Mr. Zhou, this is the case. These people are all in a miserable life. I hired them to work in Qingfeng Tower and give them two taels of silver a month... If the adults are dissatisfied, it doesn't matter if they drive them out." Zheng Yi said.

Zhou Mao and the scholars around him all looked at this scene with mercy. When they heard Zheng Yi's words, someone else said, "How can this be done? This must not be done! Isn't this going to force them to death?"

Zhou Maohe always felt that when a woman met a water bandit, she should have jumped into the river early to avoid gains and losses, but now that things have come to this, he can't force a group of women to die...

He doesn't care much about anything else, but he cares about reputation.

The crying sounded in the room, and Zhou Maohe's face became increasingly ugly. Finally, he shook his sleeves and left the place.

These women are fine, but this Qingfeng Tower may not be fine! Zhou Maohe and his men searched Qingfeng Tower, but the result...

"Sir, this is the signature dish in our store, fried chicken, and cake... These are all the most common things, and they have nothing to do with the palace! If you don't believe it, I will have someone make it on the spot for you to show it to the adults." In the kitchen, Zheng Yi swears, but several chefs tremble.

"Sir, this is the place where we take a bath here. It's really just a bath. If you don't believe it, you can try it yourself." Zheng Yi said again in the bathhouse, and several guests wrapped in bath towels were hiding next to the charcoal basin, as if Zhou Mao was trying to eat people and didn't dare to look up.

In the yard: "Sir, this is the place to play small games like throwing pots..."

By the pond; "Sir, this is a place for people to fish. I will let people put some fish in every day, but I will not feed them..."

In the study: "Sir, this is a place for people to read, write, read, write, and paint..."

...

"Sir, this is a place to eat, and there are people who will talk about business here." Zheng Yi finally took Zhou Maohe to the restaurant.

Here, there were originally some guests eating. The food on their table, the fried chicken, cakes and other things that Zheng Yi pointed out to them in the kitchen before. Although it looked sophisticated, judging from the situation they saw in the kitchen before... In fact, these are all made of extremely ordinary ingredients.

Zhou Maohe walked around from beginning to end, and didn't see anything in the palace. He just thought it was really not easy to be able to make so many tricks in such a small garden, and the scholars around him...

"These foods look good and smell good."

"There are a few wooden balls on that table, and I don't know how they play."

"The way of playing cards here is different from the ones that have been passed down from the capital..."

...

These scholars were curious about Qingfenglou and whispered, Zhou Maohe's face turned pale when he heard it.

These people... These people...

Zhou Maohe was dissatisfied, but he had to admit that there was really nothing in violation of the rules in Qingfeng Tower.

It’s just... such a small thing actually charges so much money. Zheng Yi is really a big profiteer!

"Sir, it's getting late? Do you want to have a meal at Qingfeng Tower?" Zheng Yi asked with a smile.

How could Zhou Maohe be willing to stay here? He immediately walked out, but the scholars who came with him were reluctant to leave at this moment.

"You should have to stay in Hecheng County for a while, right? If you have time, you can come here to play." Zheng Yi smiled and said, "In the future, I will build a Qingfeng Building in the Fucheng City, and you are welcome to enjoy the scenery." Anyway, Zhou Maohe has been in trouble with him, so there is no need to postpone the construction of the Qingfeng Building in the Fucheng City.

"It must be..." Zheng Yi is a person who is easy to make people like him, and those scholars nodded and agreed.

Zhou Maohe: “…”

"There are also the experiences of those miserable people... I hope you can keep them confidential." Zheng Yi said again.

"We must keep it secret!" Those scholars nodded when they thought of Liu Qianqian and others who were crying poorly. Although they also felt that women wanted to keep their chastity, they couldn't help but feel sympathy when they saw a group of weak women crying.

Zhou Maohe: "Hmph!"

Zhou Maohe and others finally left and went to the residence arranged by the county magistrate of Hecheng County. Seeing this, Zheng Yi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Jiang Zhen, you haven't eaten yet, are you? Let's go to eat?" Zheng Yi looked at Jiang Zhen standing next to him. Jiang Zhen was arrested early today, and he probably hasn't eaten yet.

"No, I'm going back, I'll ask the kitchen to get some food for me, and I'll take it back on the way back." Jiang Zhen said.

After all this trouble, it was already dark and Jiang Zhen was eager to go home.

Zheng Yi knew Jiang Zhen’s thoughts, nodded and agreed, and asked someone to pretend to be a meal for Jiang Zhen to take it.

There is a small river outside Qingfeng Tower, and there is a boat arranged by Qingfeng Tower in the river to take guests home. Jiang Zhen got on the boat with lunch boxes and said directly: "Go to Hexi Village."

At the same time, Zheng Yi ordered his subordinates: "You go and check it carefully, check what's going on!"

Why can Zhou Maohe appear quietly in Hecheng County? There is definitely something wrong here!

After Zheng Yi ordered the matter, he returned to Zheng Mansion. At this time, Jiang Zhen was on the boat and quickly solved the food in the food box.

After he had almost finished his meal, He Xicun also arrived.

It was already dark now. In the past, Hexi Village was definitely pitch black. But today, basically every household was lit with lights, and there were several fires on the pier.

Seeing the starry lights and dazzling fires, Jiang Zhen felt relieved, and a certain thought became stronger and stronger.

He must keep his home well.

"Mr. Jiang, we are here." The boater gasped, and he was rowing his boat all the time.

"Yes." Jiang Zhen gave a string of copper coins as a reward, nodded and got off the boat. As soon as he got off the boat, he saw someone waiting on the shore, and none of the Zhao family left behind.

Before the ship could stop, Brother Zhao Jin ran over and said, "Jiang Zhen, are you okay?"

"I'm fine, I'm fine." Jiang Zhen said.

"It's fine..." Brother Zhao Jin breathed a sigh of relief and suddenly reached out to hug Jiang Zhen.

Brother Zhao Jin was rarely so bold... Jiang Zhen hugged him back, feeling that everything around him had become quiet.

"Wow..." At this moment, Zhao Mingzhu's harsh crying pierced the night sky.

Let go of Brother Zhao Jin, Jiang Zhen hurriedly went to hug his daughter.

Zhao Mingzhu was hugged by Jiang Zhen and finally stopped crying. After Jiang Zhen coaxed her for a while, she still laughed "giggled".

Seeing this, Zhao Liu immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "Mingzhu cried for a long time during the day. When we came back, we cried so hard that we burped, but now we finally laughed."
To be continued...
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