Prison

Author: Sigui Beihong

Prison

The soldiers divided into two teams and entered the Mo family's inner house. The big black dog guarding the house immediately stared at them with a pair of sharp eyes and shouted "barking..." at them. However, they saw these soldiers wearing jingles on their bodies and holding jingles on their hands.

He held a bright sharp blade and did not dare to approach it for a moment.

With exclamations one after another, the servants, maids, old ladies, two grandmothers and Yun Xi in the inner house all hurriedly stood up. Fortunately, Mo Yunze studied hard at Taixue in order to take the exam next year, and only had the first day of every month.

He went home with Shi Shi, so he had a chance to escape.

Yunxi's hair was in disarray, and he didn't know what was happening for a moment. He was looking around blankly, but he saw the man wearing armor with a ferocious face. He was frightened and hurriedly hid behind Li Xianmo.

A soldier walked up to Li Xianmo and his daughter with a frivolous expression, and said with a smile: "Old man Mo is really very handsome, his wife is very coquettish, and so is my daughter."

As he spoke, he reached out to touch Mo Yunxi's face. Mo Yunxi was startled, quickly shrank his head to avoid it, and shouted: "Mother!"

Although Li Xianmo was panicked, her anger defeated her timidity at this time. She reached out and grabbed the soldier's wrist and shouted: "The military master broke into the house late at night and disturbed the people. I must give you an explanation!"

The soldier's expression changed, and he slapped Li Xianmo hard on the face with his backhand, causing her to stagger and fall to the ground.

"Mother!" Mo Yunxi cried, and threw herself on Li Xianmo's body, crying loudly. Zhang Yun'er looked on and couldn't help but close her eyes and weep, feeling very sad in her heart.

"How outrageous!" Qiu Feng shouted. The soldier was about to step forward to tease him again, but suddenly heard the violent shouting and hurriedly turned around to look.

Qiu Feng and Mo Yunxiao walked together. Mo Yunxiang and Du Juan were timid and followed them timidly.

Qiu Feng looked stern and shouted: "I just gave you an order not to be frivolous or insulting. Are you listening to my words?"

The soldier hurriedly knelt down and apologized, saying, "Young man, I admit my guilt."

Qiu Feng sighed and ordered: "Drag him down and give him fifty lashes."

So, the other two soldiers took him out, and soon they heard the "crack" of the whip, followed by the cry of the soldier.

Mo Yunxi slowly helped Li Xianmo up, but when they got up together, Zhao Pang's fan fell from Mo Yunxi's arms and fell to the ground.

She screamed "Ah!" and was about to pick it up, but Qiu Feng had quick eyesight and picked it up before her.

Qiu Feng was a rude military commander, and he had never seen such a superb fan. He played with it for a long time, and when he looked up and saw Mo Yunxi with tears in her eyes, he laughed and asked her: "Zhao Pang? Who is Zhao Pang?"

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Mo Yunxi just hid behind, not daring to answer his words.

Qiu Feng was even more proud. He sneered and said, "You arty and sour scholar!" Then he threw the fan away. Mo Yunxi hurriedly picked it up and stuffed it into his pocket again.

Qiu Feng looked around and asked his personal aide: "Are all the people in Minglou here?"

"Yes." The adjutant replied: "Only Mo Yunze is still studying at Taixue."

"Yeah." Qiu Feng nodded and walked straight into the lobby of Mo's house. Also brought along were Li Xianmo and his daughter, Zhang Yun'er and his daughter, and Mo Yunxiao. It was just that Mo Yunxiao walked at the end. There were two

A soldier wanted to push her, but when she looked back, they became timid and had no choice but to lower their heads and follow behind.

Qiu Feng was sitting in front of the lobby. The adjutant took Minglou's account book and showed it to him. Qiu Feng didn't understand business, so he couldn't see any reason after looking at it twice, so he threw the account book away and asked everyone in the hall: "

Do you know your sin?"

Everyone looked at each other, not knowing how to answer.

"Did you ever know that your father and husband were deserters?" Qiu Feng asked.

"Ah?" Mo Yunxi and Mo Yunxiang exclaimed at the same time, looking at their mothers with blank expressions. Li Xianchu and Zhang Yun'er also had different expressions. Zhang Yun'er was stunned for a moment, and then lowered his head in shame.

; And Li Xianmo still had a confused expression after the brief panic.

Qiu Feng observed their words and had an insight into their thoughts, so he smiled coldly and said: "Don't pretend to be confused. If you confess now, I still have room for maneuver with Mr. Fu Yin. If you don't tell the truth, we will investigate again in the future."

Come out, even if the officials come forward, they won't be able to protect you."

Zhang Yun'er's knees went weak, and she immediately knelt down on the ground, crying: "Sir Mingjian, my eldest son used to serve in the Western Army, but later left the military. But the Nu family doesn't know that he is a deserter!"

"Hmph!" Qiu Feng slammed the table and shouted: "You still want to quibble! You two ladies have served him for many years, don't you know his origins? To tell you the truth, Mo Chenglin has confessed in prison, you want more

If you hide it, you will only mislead yourself!"

Qiu Feng's words were a common method of extorting confessions. Zhang Yun'er was indeed fooled, so she had to pay off her hair again and again, crying: "My superior, please forgive me. My two sisters concealed it and refused to retaliate. They deserved it. However, our children did not know about it, so we still hope that our superior will be merciful."

, please forgive them!"

Qiu Feng glanced sideways and said with a smile: "It is not up to me to decide who will be forgiven or not. However, since you have confessed, I will not make things difficult for you. I will ask you all to go see your fathers and fathers together."

Husband."

As soon as these words came out, everyone knew that they were going to be arrested and imprisoned. Mo Yunxi and Mo Yunxiang could not bear the fright. They hugged their mothers and cried loudly.

Li Xianmo couldn't help stroking her daughter's back and comforting her: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. We are a family together, so what's there to be afraid of?"

The adjutant asked Qiu Feng: "What should we do with the servants outside?"

Qiu Feng thought for a while and said: "According to our dynasty's practice, men are sold as slaves, and women... serve as the priests."

Mo Yunxiao was startled when she heard the word "Jiaofangsi". She knew that this was a government-run brothel in ancient times. The daughters of criminals usually served as Jiaofangsi, and they got a lowly status and could not get rid of it for life.

Mo Yunxiao thought of young women like Du Juan and Caiyi who were very similar to her. It was already very pitiful for them to be sold as slaves. 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, they are still teenagers after all. In the era I lived in, such girls were still studying in school and were still worried about secret love and weight loss. Alas, times are different, and people's

The situation is really different.

Thinking of this, she blurted out: "No!"

Qiu Feng was stunned and asked with a smile: "Miss, do you have anything to say?"

Mo Yunxiao said coldly: "You can sell them, but they are not allowed to be sold to the Jiaofang Division."

"But this is our custom." Qiu Feng replied with a smile.

Mo Yunxiao also smiled coldly and said, "Marquis Yu is here with his troops. Everything here will be handled by Marquis Yu. What's the difficulty in hiding a few women?"

Qiu Feng laughed loudly and immediately stood up and walked towards Mo Yunxiao. The two pairs of mother and daughter looked at him eagerly, secretly blaming Mo Yunxiao for being so meddlesome and only bringing trouble to himself.

Qiu Feng came to Mo Yunxiao and stretched out his hand to support her chin. Mo Yunxiao turned his head, took a step back, but managed to squeeze out a smile and said: "Qiu Yuhou, now you are Daozu, I

For fish and meat. Isn’t the life and death of our Mo family all a matter of your words? Why bother to humiliate me in front of so many people?"

Qiu Feng's heart surged with passion when he heard this, and he thought to himself: "I thought this 'female Yama' was so strong, but it turned out that there were times when she would give in. Well, that's right. Since she has given in, I can't act rashly here either.

Make fun of him, otherwise the soldiers will definitely be dissatisfied."

So he smiled again and said, "What Miss Mo said makes sense. Come on, use a pen to tick off the names of the Mo family's maids. As long as they are sold to ordinary people, they don't have to be official prostitutes."

The adjutant responded "Yes!" and then exited.

After a while, a burst of women's cries came from the courtyard. Mo Yunxiao closed her eyes, and her heart seemed to twitch.

Qiu Feng smiled and said: "I have fulfilled my promise to the girl. I wonder how the girl will repay me?"

Before Mo Yunxiao could answer, Zhang Yun'er, who was kneeling on the ground, yanked her dress and said worriedly: "He Lu! No!"

Mo Yunxiao glanced at her coldly, then reached out and pulled the dress away from Zhang Yun'er's fingers.

She took two steps, then suddenly turned around and scolded: "Second Grandma, Third Grandma. You are jealous that I am the legitimate daughter of the Mo family, so you are trying every possible means to harm me. Huh! It's better now. Not only was I harmed by you, but even Mo was harmed by you."

The family has also suffered such a huge disaster! Now, you want to pretend to be a good person? Will I believe you? And you two..."

As she spoke, she pointed at Mo Yunxiang and Mo Yunxi, and started to accuse fiercely: "One pushed me into the lake and almost killed me; the other pretended to be me to have a tryst with a man! It's true that like mother, like daughter! Now!

God's way, you will inevitably confiscate your home and destroy your family, but I have enemies waiting for you, so let's see which one of us has the last laugh!"

Zhang Yun'er was stunned and said in a trembling voice: "He Lu, what do you mean by this?"

"You know what I mean!" Mo Yunxiao became angrier as he spoke. He turned to Qiu Feng and said, "Qiu Yuhou, no one here is a good person. Can I ask you to help me take care of them?"

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Qiu Feng felt his teeth grow cold and thought to himself: "I never expected that this Mo Yunxiao would be so ruthless and unrighteous. Will he have to draw a clear line with his family so soon?" So he asked: "How does Miss Mo want me to cook?"

Mo Yunxiao turned her eyes and suddenly whispered to him: "It's better to kill him cleanly."

Qiu Feng was startled and said hurriedly: "No! The criminal's family must be handed over to the government for punishment. How can we kill him at will?"

Mo Yunxiao looked at them coldly and said, "Qiu Yuhou showed mercy, why don't you thank me?"

Zhang Yun'er and the others naturally had resentful expressions on their faces, while Qiu Feng also had a shuddering feeling. "This woman is so heartless and unjust. If something happens to me in the future, won't she just add insult to injury?" With this thought, no matter how many thoughts there are,

The tenderness and sweetness also disappeared with the wind.

"What a cruel heart!" Qiu Feng said, and then ordered one of his soldiers: "Take them all away."

The soldier asked: "Where is Miss Mo?"

"Take them away too!" Qiu Feng's eyes burst into flames and he shouted angrily.

Hearing this, Mo Yunxi and Mo Yunxiang burst into tears again. Mo Yunxiao felt irritated and scolded softly: "Stop crying! The daughter of the Mo family will never shed tears in front of outsiders!"

After she said that, she turned around and opened the door and went out. The two mother and daughter pairs also left with her with resentment.

The cell was filled with bursts of rotting stench. The stench seemed to be emanating from dead rats, or from accumulation of feces. Looking around, it was dark, with a narrow passage in the middle, and both sides were locked.

The cell, the floor, and the walls were filthy, and grey-brown filth covered the ground, looking like mud but not quite like mud.
To be continued...