"Yang Xu?" Emperor Mingzheng sneered, "Who did I think he was? He is just a small official of the Dali Temple. His servant dares to be so arrogant. I am really surprised."
A few servants never expected that the man in front of them would call out their master's name at once and did not look afraid at all. When the cold mountain wind blew, they couldn't help but feel uneasy. Could it be that the man in front of them had a higher official position than their master?
"We slaves are blind and fail to recognize a great man. We hope the master will forgive us." The leading slave almost died just now. Now that he realized the situation, he just wanted to go back and report the news.
Emperor Mingzheng crushed these people to death like crushing an ant. He did not take them seriously at all. After finding out that they were Yang Xu's servants, he did not condescend to waste words with them.
After receiving his signal, the secret guard shouted coldly, "Get lost!"
Five or six people quickly got up and ran away in a panic.
A secret guard stepped forward and made a gesture to Emperor Mingzheng to silence him. Emperor Mingzheng shook his head imperceptibly, walked towards Meishu, and lowered his voice, "Are you scared?"
"Luckily I'm here. Those people are so lawless that they dare to rob and kidnap people in broad daylight." Meishu said softly, and then said to the girl beside her, "They've left. Don't be afraid."
Upon hearing this, the little girl knelt on the ground with a thump, and kowtowed several times to Meishu and Emperor Mingzheng, "Thank you, sister and master, for saving me, but that dog has great power, so you two should get down the mountain quickly."
Meishu bent down to help her. "That man didn't dare to do anything to us. But you, I heard from the nun that your family members were killed. Do you have anywhere to go?"
The little girl's eyes turned red and she shook her head, "My parents were forced to death by that bastard Yang Xu. I will be caught sooner or later."
The little girl rolled up her sleeves, revealing her arms covered with scars. There were marks from whipping, pinching, and cuts from sharp blades. There was hardly a single piece of good flesh. It was horrible to look at. She cried, "Yang Xu's son is inhumane, but he still wants to torture women. If I am caught again, I am afraid I will die in his hands. I can only hate that my parents died tragically and I have no way to seek justice."
Mei Shu saw her scars and felt very sorry for her. She asked softly, "What grudge do your parents have with the Yang family? How could they be persecuted to this extent?"
The little girl burst into tears. Her voice choked when she mentioned her parents. She almost couldn't speak. "There is no grudge between my family and him. It's just that we have a hundred acres of fertile land from our ancestors, which is coveted by others. That day, a passerby's donkey died in front of my house. The man insisted on extorting 1,000 taels of silver. My father refused to give him the money, so he was sued to the Dali Temple. The case was tried by Yang Xu, the Shaoqing of the Dali Temple. My parents were arrested and taken to the Dali Temple that night and tortured! But in just five days, they both died in prison. Then someone went to my house, confiscated the land deeds, and occupied the property. There are no men in my family, only me, a daughter. Unfortunately, before I could collect the bodies of my parents, the house and land in my family had become someone else's. I was imprisoned and tortured by Yang Xu's son for half a year. I finally escaped a few days ago. The Yang family looked for me everywhere. I didn't dare to stay in the city. I had nowhere to go after leaving the city, so I was taken in by the nun of Lianxi Temple and lived in the temple."
The little girl looked up at Meishu with tears in her eyes, "Sister, can you give me some advice? Where can I go to seek justice? Who can punish the Dali Temple official who is in charge of the trial?"
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