It was evening on the street and the heat had subsided.
There were more and more people gathering at the corners of the alley.
Zheng Xueyi has never been interested in Xu Qingyi.
In her eyes, Chu Zhiyao, who caused her village to suffer from the disaster of expropriation, was the one who deserved the most attention.
So after coming out, she didn't ask Xu Qingyi's opinion.
"When we had that incident at the door, Madam Ning in the other room must have heard it, but even so, she didn't send anyone out to check it out."
Thinking about Madam Ning's attitude towards herself in the room, Zheng Xueyi felt a little doubtful.
"I don't quite understand, Princess."
"Her thoughts are probably the most difficult for Jin Chu to guess."
It was normal for Zheng Xueyi not to understand, just like herself in her previous life, who never figured out what this woman was thinking until her death.
After living a new life, Gu Qingsheng thought more clearly. She actually didn't need to care what Madam Ning thought.
"As long as we cater to her needs, it's none of our business what she thinks."
"If we become allies, do you think we still need to guess what she's thinking?"
Zheng Xueyi's frown did not relax
"That's what I don't understand."
Gu Qingsheng just smiled and turned away without answering.
There was a bustling crowd in front of them, and they thought there was some magic trick going on among the crowd. When they got closer, they heard scolding coming from inside.
"Are you blind? Standing in the middle of the road, if you disturb the nobles inside, even if you had ten heads, it wouldn't be enough to compensate you!"
The man who said this had a fierce voice and used poor Jin and Chu dialect, which was a bit funny.
Gu Qingsheng and Zheng Xueyi, who were outside the crowd, frowned slightly when they heard this.
Gu Qingsheng didn't want to get involved in such trivial matters and was about to turn around and leave, but he heard the sobbing of several children in the crowd.
Those voices were childish and even carried a hint of fear. She was stunned for a moment, then turned her head to look at the crowd.
"Xueyi."
The voice was a little chilly.
"Let's go in and take a look."
Zheng Xueyi immediately obeyed the order, walked up to the strong man standing in front of her, patted him and handed him a silver ingot.
The sturdy man originally had a ferocious body and a ferocious face, but the moment he saw the silver, his eyes lit up and he hurriedly took the silver and moved aside.
Using this method, a passage was quickly cleared in the crowd. Gu Qingsheng could see the scene inside clearly. His pupils suddenly shrank and a chill began to run from the soles of his feet.
They were two ragged children, one was about ten years old and the other was only six or seven years old.
The older child held the younger one in his arms, kneeling on the ground, gritting his teeth to suppress the sobs that were about to come out.
Several bloody whip marks were clearly visible on his back. He knelt on the ground, trembling all over. The child in his arms had his eyes tightly closed, his small hands constantly covering his mouth as he cried intermittently.
Behind the two people was a foreign man with a long beard. His facial features were clear but his eyes were small, which gave him a sly look. The girl behind him was very elegant.
The whip in his hand was still stained with blood. He held the whip high and glared at the two children.
People around were pointing and talking, but no one wanted to step forward to stop it.
There was a sound of wind, and the whip fell from high above, cutting through the air. The two children hugged each other tightly in an instant, trembling with fear.
"Xue Yi!"
Gu Qingsheng yelled, the man's whip didn't fall, but he couldn't use his strength. He opened his eyes angrily, looked at the red-dressed woman in front of him and cursed
"Who are you?"
The man pulled the whip in his hand and found that the woman was surprisingly strong. He pulled a few times but couldn't move it at all.
Zheng Xueyi pulled the whip forward a little, watching the man raise his head
"How dare you beat two children like this in broad daylight? Are you really taking advantage of us, Jin and Chu, because we have no one left?"
Zheng Xueyi pulled hard, and the whip in the man's hand was whipped away, causing his body to stagger a few steps.
There seemed to be some movement in Jiaozi, and a strange fragrance wafted over.
Gu Qingsheng walked out of the crowd and helped the two children up.
In her previous life, Chu Zhiyao made her drink red soup, and she would never have children until the end.
So when I saw these two suffering children again, the pain in my heart was so intense.
Probably because they didn't expect that someone would come to save them, both children were a little dazed. The older one was extremely weak and couldn't even stand steadily.
This made Gu Qingsheng even more indignant. She glanced at the man calmly, but just this one glance made the man's scalp tingle.
"Fourteen lashes in total."
Gu Qingsheng's cold voice rang out in the air, and the man suddenly shuddered.
"Xue Yi, beat him! No matter what kind of person he is! He who beats up my people from Jin Chu will be retaliated!"
This time, his tone was unusually strong, and Zheng Xueyi immediately whipped the whip.
"yes!"
“Bang!”
A loud bang was heard from the man who had not yet reacted. He shuddered, suddenly screamed and collapsed to the ground.
The pain penetrated his skin, and the man crawled towards Jiaozi, uttering syllables one by one in a trembling voice.
"Master... Master... Master, save me..."
"Xue Yi! Hit!"
“Bang!”
"beat!"
“Bang!”
“Bang!”
“Bang!”
“…”
There was no sound from the sedan chair. The wind blew from somewhere and blew open a corner of the curtain, revealing the gold-plated cloud boots inside.
She just watched the man being beaten quietly in the sedan chair until his voice gradually turned into sobs and he kept twitching from being beaten.
There were only fourteen lashes, but Zheng Xueyi whipped him twenty-eight times.
The man's clothes were soaked with blood. He collapsed to the ground, gasping for breath.
It was not until Zheng Xueyi stopped that Gu Qingsheng slowly walked over.
"A child can bear fourteen lashes, and you are a man of twenty-eight years old. It is not inappropriate for you to bear twenty-eight lashes."
"That's right."
A very magnetic voice came from the sedan chair, and the person inside finally took action.
He opened the curtain, revealing his white fingers that had never seen the light in years. His deep eyes looked at Gu Qingsheng deeply.
The man was extremely handsome and well-proportioned, with deep features and deep blue eyes that sparkled like the water in the most beautiful amber lake filled with stars.
Although he was from a foreign country, the man's skin was not as wheat-colored as others. He looked at Gu Qingsheng, but his lake-blue eyes were not as calm as they appeared.
"This... young lady from Jinchu is quite interesting, and what she said makes a lot of sense."
He smiled, his eyes curved, and stepped over the man on the ground who was unable to get up to reach Gu Qingsheng's side.
Under Gu Qingsheng's vigilant gaze, he gently pinched a strand of hair on the side of her temple.
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