As soon as Qin Yao got up, Liu Ji handed her the poem with a smile as if he was presenting a treasure.
"Look, my lady. This is a new poem that the teacher wrote while taking a bath yesterday. Every word is a gem and the artistic conception is excellent!"
Qin Yao had just gotten up and her brain was still inactive. She yawned and drank half a cup of herbal tea brought by Awang to wake her up. Then she raised her eyelids and looked at the poem handed to her by Liu Ji.
The poem is a good one, as it describes everything that happened last night when the master and the disciple bathed, drank and had fun.
Liu Ji, this fool, must have been really drunk last night and his mind was not clear, so he exposed the thing that he had tried so hard to hide last night.
Qin Yao returned the poem to him and looked at Liu Ji again. Seeing that he was looking at her with sparkling eyes and a look of complete trust, she couldn't help but raise her hand to support her forehead and said magically, "I find that you have become much more pleasing to the eye recently."
Isn't this an obvious compliment?
Liu Ji scratched his head in embarrassment, "It's all because of my wife's good training."
Qin Yao raised her chin towards him and said, "Put it on the notice board at the entrance of the village, so that those scholars who are waiting for your teacher can also get a taste of his talent."
By the way, increase the fame of Liujia Village and promote its tourism development!
This was what Liu Ji meant. When he saw Qin Yao's smiling face, he knew that his flattery was successful this time. He quickly agreed and without even eating breakfast, he happily walked towards the village entrance with the freshly-written poem in his hand.
As soon as Liu Ji appeared, the scholars who were waiting at the entrance of the village immediately surrounded him enthusiastically.
When the scholars heard Liu Ji say that he wanted to share the great scholar's new work with everyone, they danced with excitement.
Some people with more outgoing personalities wanted to hug Liu Ji and give him a kiss.
Liu Ji quickly waved his hands and stepped back: "No! This is not allowed!"
Finally, Liu Ji vividly recreated the opportunity of writing poetry last night. The scholars were so grateful that they burst into tears and said that they would die without regrets if they could see such a masterpiece today!
Liu Ji's mouth twitched slightly, and he thought to himself, "Then you'd better not die in my Liujia Village."
With a polite yet distant smile on his face, he successfully completed the publicity work and went home happily to ask his wife for praise.
Qin Yao was not stingy either. If you want the horse to run, you have to feed it with grass. She personally served Liu Ji a bowl of rice and asked him to pick up some leftovers to eat.
It was his fault that he ran away without even eating. She was in a good mood today and had a good appetite. She ate to her heart's content in one go, and when she looked down, she found that there were only a few dishes left.
However, the look of disgust and grievance that she expected did not appear on Liu Ji's handsome face.
He sat at the dining table, holding the rice with crusts that she had scraped from the bottom of the pot in his hands, and looking at the leftovers on the table with a moving glow in his eyes.
The lips, which were neither too thick nor too thin, and had a rosy sheen, trembled as she spoke: "My dear, you actually remembered to save some food for me."
In the past, how could he have the chance to eat her leftovers?
They all lick the plate!
"This is the food you specially left for me, my lady." Liu Ji looked up at Qin Yao and said with real reluctance, "My lady, I really can't bear to eat it."
Qin Yao glanced at him strangely, trying to see if he had a brain burn.
But those peach blossom eyes were purer than a dog's.
"Ahem!" Qin Yao resisted the urge to dig her toes into the ground, coughed awkwardly twice, reached out and patted his head gently, "Eat, there's leftovers for dinner."
"Yeah!" Liu Ji nodded heavily, then picked up the chopsticks and wolfed down the food.
He was almost starving after not eating anything all morning!
While eating, an excited voice came from outside the door: "Third sister-in-law!"
It was Liu Fei's voice.
Liu Ji muttered while holding his rice: "The academy is closed today? What is he doing here?"
And she calls me "third sister-in-law" so warmly and flatteringly!
As he was talking, a grain of rice in his mouth accidentally fell onto the table. Liu Ji quickly picked it up and stuffed it back into his mouth, chewing it. This was specially served by his wife.
The corner of Qin Yao's mouth twitched fiercely. As she went out to greet him, she wondered whether she should ask a fortune teller to come back and see if Liu Ji had been cast under a spell and was so possessed.
"Third sister-in-law!"
Liu Fei rushed in in a hurry, carrying a bag of laundry hanging from his body that he was going to take home.
Liu Fei no longer works at the stationery factory. He quit his job after the New Year. Under the guidance of Liu Ji, he went to the county academy to register and was successfully enrolled.
Young people now have clear plans for the future. They will first go to academy to study and learn some skills, and then find a job as a shopkeeper to continuously improve their abilities.
And because it was Qin Yao who encouraged him, Liu Fei had another idea in his mind. He thought that if his third sister-in-law still needed him in the future, as long as she asked, he would come back to help immediately.
A few days ago, Liu Fei received a message from his second brother Liu Zhong in the county town. His third sister-in-law asked him to pay more attention to the movements of the government offices, gambling houses, and brothels in the city, and come back to inform her if anything happened.
Just recently, after the gambling house suddenly closed down the day before yesterday, another big incident happened yesterday evening.
The brothel was closed down by the government!
This matter went on in the city all night and was not settled until this morning.
Unfortunately, the city gates were closed yesterday evening and Liu Fei did not have time to leave the city. He was able to leave the city only after the city gates were opened this morning, so he arrived a little late.
"Third sister-in-law, this time the government is finally doing something serious. You don't know that last night, more than a dozen abducted women were found in the cellar of the brothel. The youngest was only seven or eight years old. Even widows were not spared. I heard that they specifically found handsome men to trick and sell them in. They are simply not human beings!"
Hearing this, Liu Ji, who was self-conscious about his handsome appearance, slowly raised his head from his rice bowl and asked, "Are you as handsome as me, your third brother?"
Liu Fei choked him and said, "Eat your meal!"
"Do you know what happened to the man who set up the trap? He was beaten with a stick fifty times, his buttocks were bleeding, and he was also forced to shave his head, tattoo himself, and be exiled three thousand miles away!"
Liu Ji hissed, "Is County Magistrate Song serious?"
"Of course it's true. How could such a thing be false?" Liu Fei asked in confusion.
Liu Ji nodded slightly. Of course there were fake ones, which were performed in previous years. He had seen several of them when he was wandering in the city.
Earlier, Song Zhang went home and talked with Qin Yao for a long time, and it seemed that they had reached some deal.
Thinking of this, Liu Ji secretly glanced at Qin Yao.
Qin Yao poured a cup of tea for Liu Fei, as if everything was as expected, and there was nothing unusual, so she asked calmly:
"Under what pretext did the government close down the brothel? Where is the madam, Lady Pan, now?"
Liu Fei drank a cup of tea to moisten his throat, and answered vaguely:
"I heard that the madam ran away, and the reason for the closure seems to be that someone reported the brothel for abducting women and forcing them into prostitution."
In the Sheng Kingdom, forcing women of good character into prostitution was a serious crime. Those with less serious cases would be exiled, while those with serious cases would be beheaded directly.
As long as there are witnesses and evidence, the case can be settled quickly.
But this crime may not necessarily be pinned on Lady Pan. Now that she has escaped, there is room for maneuver. The situation Song Zhang has to face is still very complicated. (End of this chapter)
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