Ye Zelin listened to Old Qiao's vivid description and felt it was too absurd. Who dared to pretend to be his wife and not be afraid of being exposed? He sneered:
"Beggars are not allowed to beg these days. How dare you pretend to be my wife? You are really a laughing stock. You didn't even ask before cheating me. I have never seen such a fool."
Someone outside the post station sneezed for no apparent reason and was mocked by someone: "You're such a bitch."
Someone rolled his eyes and went his own way.
Inside the post station, Lao Qiao said, "I think that woman is here to extort money."
Ye Zelin added, "Fortunately, no one believed it. If someone had believed it, they would have realized how ridiculous the world is."
Yu Chisu approached Old Qiao and said, "Uncle Qiao, tell my uncle about this later. He will surely laugh his teeth off.
Old Qiao thought this was a good idea, so he hurried to find Yu Xuanji and told her the joke.
Ye Zelin had nothing to do, so he went back to his room and took out "Guiguzi" to study. Yu Chisu also had nothing to do, so he was thinking about practicing with a knife.
Under a poplar tree outside the post station, Hua Fushu gulped down half a water bag and said to Sanqiao, who was already starving,
"Qiao'er, these people are really going too far. They don't even believe me, a young lady from the Ye Mansion, and they even beat me up."
Sanqiao measured her clothes and couldn't help but say, "Miss, I'm not saying anything bad about you, but have you ever seen a lady from a wealthy family who wasn't dressed in silk and satin, with hairpins and jewelry adorning her head? And look at what you're wearing, a coarse, patched-up old dress. You don't look like a peasant woman, you look like a beggar woman! Who would believe you if you said you were the young lady of the Ye Mansion? Anyone who believes you're the young lady of the General's Mansion must be a fool created by God. If it weren't for you, would we have been starving here for most of the day?"
She poured out her bitterness, but her stomach still growled. She took the water bag from Hua Fushu and drank a few mouthfuls to satisfy her hunger. Normally, she was afraid of getting fat and refused to eat sweets, but if she was given a shortbread now, she would definitely eat it without leaving a crumb.
Hua Fushu stood up and tightened the belt around her waist. In fact, not only Sanqiao was hungry, she was also so hungry that she didn't know which way was east, west or north. The silver she brought with her was used up as soon as she arrived in Yuezhou. So she wanted to find Ye Zelin, but the guards of the post station would not let her in and drove her away.
She looked up at the wall of the post station, her eyes rolling, and she immediately came up with an idea: "Qiao'er, come here."
Sanqiao didn't understand, but she walked over anyway. Hua Fushu pointed at the wall and said, "Qiao'er, squat down. Let me see if Ye Zelin is in there. We'll have something delicious later."
Sanqiao said, "Miss, don't you have kung fu skills?"
Hua Fushu measured the wall and roughly estimated that it was about ten feet high. "I'm hungry and have no strength."
Sanqiao glanced at her and squatted down. Hua Fushu stepped on her shoulders, stroked the wall, and slowly climbed up. He looked at the post station with half of his head exposed, but saw a girl dancing with a sword in the courtyard.
The girl was wearing black shorts, and her long black hair was tied up like a man. She was capable and neat, with delicate features and full of heroic spirit.
Hua Fushu was attracted by the girl dancing with the sword. She wielded the sword so smoothly and effortlessly that it was obvious that she was a master.
It's not like she hadn't seen people wielding swords before. This one was beautiful, and the one wielding the sword was even more beautiful. She couldn't help but admire it, but she felt bad for the maidservant at her feet: "Miss, being your maidservant is such a hard life. Not only do I have to go hungry, but I also have to have my shoulders stepped on."
Hua Fushu was watching intently: "What a coincidence! I'll watch for a while to see if I can find Ye Zelin."
Sanqiao said, "Girl, you have to go in to find Ye Zelin."
She couldn't help but move her shoulders, "Girl, please hurry up, I can't hold on any longer."
Hua Fushu grabbed the wall and looked again and again. Apart from the little beauty playing with the knife, he didn't see anyone else, let alone Ye Zelin's shadow.
She was also considerate of Sanqiao, so she simply pulled her foot up and away from Sanqiao's shoulder. Sanqiao immediately relaxed and stretched her shoulders. She looked at Hua Fushu and thought that climbing the wall was really not elegant. She reminded her, "Miss, be careful and keep steady."
Hua Fushu said quickly, "I know, I know."
His gaze could not be diverted, and turned from the pond back to the beautiful girl playing with the knife.
The little beauty was sweating all over. She saw a man in green shirt passing by and called him over. She said something to him, but the man in green shirt nodded and left. The little beauty continued to play with the knife.
Soon, the little beauty put away the knife, wiped the sweat off her face, and left the courtyard.
Hua Fushu looked around for a while, but still couldn't see Ye Zelin, so he lost interest and jumped down, but was surrounded by seven or eight strong young men wearing clothes similar to those of yamen constables.
They held Sanqiao hostage, covered her mouth, and held a shiny knife to her neck. Sanqiao looked at her with a pair of terrified eyes.
Hua Fushu was genuinely stunned. "You guys?"
It turned out that they had been discovered long ago.
She secretly regretted that she was so engrossed in watching that she was discovered without knowing it.
At this time, a beauty came over. Hua Fushu took a look and found that it was the little beauty who was playing with a knife in the yard just now.
Yu Chisu was shocked to see that Hua Fushu was wearing coarse cloth clothes, which really could not be described as simple. There were four or five patches on her shirt and two big patches on the hem of her skirt. Her long black hair was wrapped with gray cloth strips, which made her look a bit messy. She looked like a beggar.
She had not expected that the person she was peeping at would be a beggar, but it was not entirely true to say that she was a beggar. Her face was very pretty and clean, her skin was as white as snow, and her eyes were bright and lively, which was obviously different from that of ordinary beggars.
Yu Chisu smiled and said, "So he's a beggar."
Hua Fushu retorted: "You are the beggar."
Yu Chi Su suddenly thought that this woman might be a spy from somewhere to gather information, so she hurriedly had her taken away. Hua Fu Shu was worried that she had no way to enter the post station, so she surrendered obediently and let them take her into the post station.
She thought the knife-wielding beauty would take them to see someone, but unexpectedly, the beauty tied them up and locked them up in the woodshed.
Yu Chi Su locked the man in the woodshed, asked someone to guard the woodshed, and went to report to Yu Xuanji.
Sanqiao looked at Hua Fushu with resentment: "Miss, with your skills, it's not impossible to escape. Look, you were caught and brought in. You didn't even get to see your son-in-law, and you were locked up in the woodshed."
Hua Fushu said calmly, "Don't worry, someone will come to interrogate us soon, and we'll be able to see your uncle."
Sanqiao was puzzled, "Why are they interrogating us?"
Hua Fushu said, "They probably think we are thieves or spies from somewhere."
"Ah?" Sanqiao was stunned.
As Hua Fushu had said, the door to the woodshed was soon opened. The person who came in was none other than Yu Xuanji. Yu Chisu, who was standing beside him, pointed at the two of them and said, "Uncle, these are the two of them."
Two young men brought in a chair. Yu Xuanji sat down and leaned back, her hands casually resting on the armrests. She looked at Hua Fushu and the other man and asked calmly, "Are you spies?"
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