Chapter 116

Chapter 116

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone around was shocked. Countless questions emerged in everyone's mind...

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone around was shocked.

Countless questions emerged in everyone's mind, and their eyes couldn't help but look at the woman in plain clothes at the gate of the courtyard.

What's going on?

mother? ?

When Su Xiaoxiao, Sun Wen and others rushed over, they heard these words and were also stunned.

However, they reacted faster than the customers who followed from the first floor to watch the fun, and immediately strode forward.

There was a lot of noise all around.

Xiao Yue was silent for a long time, with an expression of indescribable sarcasm. She pulled Lu Ran, who wanted to step forward, and spoke in a cold and indifferent tone.

"When you say cruel, do you mean that after my parents passed away, you took over the family property, forced me to work, stole my money and the restaurant deed, and finally tied me up with chains and tried to sell me to the old man in the Li family who had more than ten concubines to pay off the debt. Then I just tied you up and left... this kind of cruelty?"

The final question, which sounded like genuine doubt, made the air freeze.

The surroundings suddenly fell silent.

Fang Sanhong froze, her eyes turning between herself and the woman in disbelief, her eyes suddenly reddened.

She opened her mouth and found that her throat seemed to be stuck and she couldn't say anything.

Su Xiaoxiao and the others, who originally wanted to ask what happened, were stunned on the spot.

What?

What are these words?

Something that makes one's hair stand on end just by hearing about it actually happened?

Looking at Xiao Yue again, her expression was indifferent and had not changed at all, but at this moment everyone finally understood why she had looked at him coldly just now.

What a bad attitude!

If it were them, they would probably not be able to help but take action!

For a moment, anger grew in everyone's hearts, and they looked at Liu Mei with particularly unfriendly eyes.

"you……"

Liu Mei was dumbfounded. She never expected Xiao Yue to say all these things like this.

How could he not care so much about his reputation!

Liu Mei was a little speechless, but there was really nothing she could do now, so she could only continue crying and begging.

"Xiao Yue! That was because I was blind, that was because I was blinded by greed! I know I was wrong, I really know I was wrong, please forgive me! After you left, I realized how much pain I felt in my heart, I was not used to it at all, I really regret it! For the sake of me raising you to this age, please forgive me and save me!"

Once these words were spoken, it was equivalent to confirming that she had really done those things.

Xiao Yue listened to the condemnation of the people around him, stared at Liu Mei who was still pretending as before, and said: "You keep calling her mother, but my mother is already dead. If you want to die, don't die in front of me. I think it's unlucky."

She didn't expect that Liu Mei would dare to come to her house, and in front of so many people.

What does she want to do?

I thought Xiao Yue didn't dare to say those things in the past, such as the words that suppressed her, "You can't get married at such an old age."

Liu Mei felt that Xiao Yue would feel ashamed, so she covered up and obeyed her unknown purpose today?

It's so ridiculous!

Not only did Xiao Yue not feel ashamed, he also exposed all the bad things Liu Mei had done on the spot to let people know how bad she was.

"Xiao Yue..." Liu Mei was choked again, stammering and trying to say something but couldn't.

Xiao Yue just looked at her, and saw that she lowered her head as if she had made some decision, and bent her body down little by little.

"Bang."

With a sound neither loud nor soft, Liu Mei fell to her knees and burst into tears.

"Xiao Yue, please! Save me! I really can't live without you. Look at my legs, they are injured because of you. How can you bear to make your mother so sad!"

For a moment, half the street was filled with her voice, and passers-by all looked over.

Suddenly, Xiao Yue, who had been calm at first, became a little angry.

She didn't know what this vicious woman's purpose was, nor did she care what it was, but thinking back to the back figure a few days ago, it was clear that today's situation had been brewing for a long time.

Save her?

Oh.

Xiao Yue's eyes were irritable, and he asked coldly with his arms around his chest, "How do you want me to save you?"

Su Xiaoxiao was stunned by these words. She wanted to go forward anxiously, but Fang Sanhong and Lu Ran held her back and continued to watch with a frown on their brows.

Liu Mei didn't realize it at all, her eyes lit up, and she choked up and said, "Xiao Yue, mother... I only want one thousand taels, one thousand taels of silver!"

"One thousand taels?"

Xiao Yue bent down and smiled at Liu Mei, then changed the subject when seeing the other party's hopeful expression.

"If you like kneeling, then kneel for a while longer. I haven't gotten back at all the pain I've suffered in the past. I can bear it."

Of course, the dead "she" can bear just a kneeling.

After Xiao Yue finished speaking, he stood up and walked back.

Everyone made way for him wherever he passed, and looked at him with sympathy, but no one disagreed.

Fang Sanhong pursed her lips and was about to say something when she heard the sound of horse hooves at high speed coming from Yanting Bridge.

“Oh—”

Fu Xunzhou's voice rang out, and he stopped his horse and turned over.

"Xiao Yue!"

Xiao Yue paused and turned back hesitantly. She had rarely heard such an anxious voice from this person.

When I turned around, it was indeed him.

The man, dressed in white, strode past everyone and came to her. He stretched out his hand as if he wanted to do something, but finally stopped and only touched her shoulder.

"I heard that someone was causing trouble, so I rushed over." Fu Xunzhou said in a low voice: "Are you okay?"

Xiao Yue shook his head.

Fu Xunzhou relaxed a little, turned his gaze to Liu Mei who was kneeling at the door, and walked over.

Little did he know that after the slight force on Xiao Yue's shoulder left, she looked at his back in a daze, and then looked at the horse led by Lu Ran outside the door.

At this moment, Liu Mei was completely at a loss.

She wanted to ask Xiao Yue to come back, but the people around her looked at her unfriendlyly and did not feel any sympathy for her. She wanted to stand up, but her leg ached and she could not muster any strength.

It's like being nailed to a pillar of shame!

Not to mention that a tall and imposing man walked over, his cold face looked intimidating without even being angry.

"Liu Mei."

Fu Xunzhou took out a few pieces of paper with densely written words on them. As the papers fell lightly to the ground, he slowly spoke.

"Two months ago, you worked for the Li family because you couldn't pay off your gambling debts. During that time, you behaved in a sneaky and indecent manner and were punished by the Li family's wife. You held a grudge and wanted to poison her to disfigure her, but the Li family was sealed off by the government. You were lucky enough to escape the disaster. Since then, you have exchanged the gold hairpins you stole from the Li family for silver and indulged in gambling to pay off your previous debts."

Xiao Yue heard Fu Xunzhou pause and his tone became ambiguous.

"But you probably don't know that this was a trap set by your creditors. After that, you never won again, so you had to borrow money from them again. In the end, the amount was so large that you couldn't repay it before, so they broke one of your legs and gave you ten days to pay it back..."

At that time, Liu Mei was as anxious as a headless fly, and because she was addicted to gambling, she later realized that Yueting Buffet was the former store of the Xiao family.

She then had a bad idea and came over to check the situation in advance, intending to find Xiao Yue and ask for money by pretending to be pitiful when there were many people around.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Yue didn't buy it at all and pulled off Liu Mei's fig leaf on the spot!

Fu Xunzhou glared at her: "Xiao Yue has nothing to do with you. It's you who broke the law knowingly before and now you are disturbing the streets, which is an even greater crime."

After he finished speaking, the expressions of the people around him were not only angry, but also seemed to want to see through Liu Mei's body to see how dark her heart was.

"You actually have the nerve to come here!"

"Not only was he so rude to Madam Xiao, he even poisoned others!"

"What a vicious woman!"

A discussion broke out and became more and more intense.

Xiao Yue came back to his senses and moved his gaze to Liu Mei, who was like a puddle of mud and unable to speak, and the anger in his heart gradually dissipated.

She saw Fu Xunzhou looking back at her, with an indescribable emotion in his dark brown eyes.

If I have to say it...it's that I feel heartbroken.

Xiao Yue stared at him for a few seconds and just opened his mouth to say something when another round of horse hoof sounds rang out at Yanting Bridge.

"Master Fu!"

It was Duan Lin and the other two officers who came a step later. When they dismounted their horses and saw the situation around them, they breathed a sigh of relief.

"Well, thanks to Master Fu for informing me in advance, I will take Liu Mei away first."

"Um."

Fu Xunzhou nodded, and there was a hint of murderous intent in his eyes for a moment, but he hid it well and lowered his eyes after a moment.

…

After Yueting Self-service Shop closed, the huge store became unusually quiet.

Su Xiaoxiao was tidying up on the second floor. She frequently looked towards the front yard, looking listless.

"It's okay." Fang Sanhong, who was standing by, hadn't yet digested the situation, but she comforted them instead: "It's all over. Xiaoyue is doing well now."

Su Xiaoxiao nodded: "Well, I just don't know what Brother Fu wants to do with Sister Xiao..."

Under the tree in the front yard.

Perhaps because there are more people living in the yard, this ordinary tree has become much more lush than before.

Xiao Yue caught a fallen leaf and felt a little weird about this atmosphere of solitude.

"Sorry." Fu Xunzhou looked at her and whispered, "I'm late."

Xiao Yue didn't expect him to say that. He gently held the leaves and said, "It's okay. It's all over. How did you know..."

Those things?

"I asked someone to check it out a few days ago." Fu Xunzhou said this, looking at her intently.

He actually hoped that Xiao Yue would ask further questions, such as how he checked it. After all, this was something that most people could not do.

Xiao Yue nodded and looked away: "It's quite troublesome. Thank you for your hard work. Anyway, I don't care about those things anymore. I just said it directly to expose her. If you hadn't come, I would have let her kneel there."

If you all love to kneel so much, then you’d better not get up forever.

Fu Xunzhou was stunned because he arrived a step late. He didn't expect her to tell him everything that happened in the past, which was like poking his own wound.

The corner was quiet for a moment.

Xiao Yue didn't look at Fu Xunzhou. When he was about to leave after he finished speaking, he heard -

"Can I hug you for a minute?"

Xiao Yue was stunned and looked up at him suddenly.

Fu Xunzhou looked serious, and the heartache he had felt before seemed to overflow at this moment, but he was more gentle towards her for now having walked out of the haze.

She doesn't care about the past, and he won't dwell on the idea of ​​why they didn't meet earlier. He only cares about the present.

Xiao Yue's heart skipped a beat for no apparent reason. Seeing Fu Xunzhou approaching, she immediately said, "What's so good about this..."

The warm body approached, and Fu Xunzhou held her in his arms without saying anything.

He interrupted Xiao Yue and caused the leaves in her hand to fall.

The breeze that had stopped at some point started to blow around me, tangling my hair and causing the leaf on the ground to fly away.

Fu Xunzhou lightly touched his chin on Xiao Yue's forehead and quietly closed his eyes for a while.

When he opened his eyes again, he felt the brush of Xiao Yue's hair with the hand on her back.

Fu Xunzhou lowered his eyes and noticed that some strands of hair were of different lengths from the others, as if they had been through something and were ruthlessly cut off.

He knew that was the place where the fire had accidentally drifted a few days ago.

Half of Xiao Yue's body was stiff. He suddenly felt the warmth, smelled a faint fragrance, and had an inexplicable difficulty breathing.

She remained motionless, trying to relax.

Just at this moment, Fu Xunzhou sighed.

Xiao Yue didn't know what he was thinking, but if she got any closer he would explode.

"Okay, I..."

"Sister Xiao, why are you here...ah!?"

Xiao Lian's voice suddenly sounded, and she went from being confused to screaming when she saw the scene behind the tree, and then she covered her eyes.

"sorry!!"

Fu Xunzhou: “…”

Xiao Yue: “…”

Why are you covering your eyes?

What are you feeling sorry for?

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