Chapter 119 Recognition of the Master
Luo Qinghan didn't want to see this little girl who could raise pigs at all.
He said coldly: "It was Xiao Xi who bought you, and you will follow her from now on."
Xing'er remembered the name Xiao Xi in her heart. She kowtowed to Xiao Xi respectfully, formally acknowledging her mastership.
At this time, Xiao Nan stepped forward and said respectfully, "Master, when I accompanied Xing'er to her cousin's house today, I ran into a group of yamen runners. Those yamen runners came to arrest Xing'er, but I beat them away."
Luo Qinghan didn't care about this matter at all and didn't even raise his eyelids.
Xiao Nan continued, "Afterwards, I asked Xing'er and learned from her why the bailiffs wanted to arrest her. This matter was related to County Magistrate Yang."
Luo Qinghan finally became interested: "What's the matter?"
Xiao Nan looked at Xing'er and motioned for her to speak herself.
Xing'er was actually a little afraid of the cold and aloof young master in front of her. When the young master looked at her, she instinctively wanted to shrink back.
She mustered up her courage and spoke in a trembling voice, "I was knocked unconscious by my cousin and aunt and sold to the county government office. When I woke up, I was already locked up in the county government office's dungeon. In that dungeon, besides me, there were a dozen other girls, all of whom were about my age."
Luo Qinghan: "Were they also sold to the county government?"
"No, only a small number of them were sold in, most of them were abducted."
Luo Qinghan immediately remembered the recent disappearance of a large number of children in the city.
He asked, "How many half-grown children like you are imprisoned in the county government?"
Xing Er thought about it carefully and said, "I only know that there are fifteen or sixteen people in my cell, but I don't know about the other cells."
Luo Qinghan: "How did you escape yesterday?"
"The guards selected four girls from our cell and told us to serve a distinguished guest, who was an old Taoist priest."
"Old Taoist priest?"
Xing Er continued to narrate as she recalled, "The old Taoist priest was a distinguished guest invited by County Magistrate Yang. It was said that he was to help the prince hold a rain-making ceremony. County Magistrate Yang highly praised the old Taoist priest and kept asking us to pour wine and serve him food. The old Taoist priest said he wanted to feel my bones and started to touch me all over. I was frightened and pushed him. The maid next to me immediately slapped me in the face and cursed me with a lot of ugly words. They thought I was being tactless and asked the yamen runners to send me back to the prison. On the way, I ran out when the yamen runners were not paying attention. When I left the county yamen, I happened to run into Master Nie. Fortunately, Master Nie saved me, otherwise I would have been caught by them."
She told him everything she could remember, including those experiences that embarrassed her.
Luo Qinghan asked: "Do you know the origin of that old Taoist priest?"
Xing Er shook her head: "I don't know."
She paused, as if she remembered something, and added, "I heard them mention Xuanmen. The old Taoist priest seemed to be from Xuanmen."
Xuanmen?
Luo Qinghan subconsciously lowered his head to look at the woman beside him.
At this time, Xiao Xixi was still sleeping soundly, with no intention of waking up.
Just as Luo Qinghan was concentrating on thinking about why Xuanmen wanted to intervene in this matter, he heard a noise coming from downstairs.
Xiao Nan immediately went out to check the situation.
After a while he returned to the house, looking unhappy.
"Master, many constables and bailiffs have come downstairs. I have seen some of them before. They were the ones who tried to snatch Xing Er this morning but were beaten away by my subordinates."
(End of this chapter)
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