The girl was tall and graceful, with delicate features and a pair of peach blossom eyes. She was indeed a little beauty.
In a few years, she will surely be a stunning beauty that will captivate the whole country.
"Mother, please don't sell me. I can go out to work and go without food. Please don't sell me to a brothel." The girl's eyes were filled with tears. She cried heartbrokenly and begged her mother.
"Xiaoyue, mother doesn't want to sell you either. Look, all our rice fields have been destroyed by the water monster.
The county magistrate has a way to deal with the water monster, but he wants to charge fifty taels per household before he tells us. How can we afford fifty taels?
Your father and his men went to the county magistrate to seek justice, and now he is in jail. It costs one hundred taels to redeem him.
We don't have that much silver, so we have no choice but to sell you and use the silver to redeem your father.
"No one can afford a hundred taels to buy you. Only the madam of Yihongyuan is willing to buy you. Mother has no other choice." The villager also said sadly with tears streaming down his face.
"Fifth sister, that little girl is so pitiful, why don't we buy her?" Twelve-year-old Yang Qinghao said to Yang Youxue.
"Let's wait and see, maybe the little girl doesn't need to be sold." Yang Youxue said to Yang Qinghao. After that, she walked towards the village woman.
"Auntie, doesn't the whole of Jiangnan have a way to deal with the water monster now? The governor has already sent the solution and prescription, didn't you receive it?" Yang Youxue stopped the village woman from going to Yihongyuan and said doubtfully.
"Who are you?" the village woman asked Yang Youxue cautiously.
"Auntie, don't be afraid. I am a good person. The solution to deal with the water monster was my idea. I was just curious why the water monster hasn't been caught here yet." Yang Youxue revealed her identity.
"So it was you who solved the water monster. Miss, please save the people here?" the village woman said excitedly and pleadingly.
"Auntie, please get up first." Yang Youxue helped the village woman up.
"Miss, I am a village woman from Meijiazhuang. My husband was arrested by the lawyer two days ago and thrown into jail.
If you want to redeem someone, you must pay fifty taels.
But we have no money, so we can only sell our daughter and use the money to redeem the head of the household.” The village woman said to Yang Youxue.
"Master, what is the reason for arresting your man?" Yang Youxue asked.
"They gathered together to cause trouble and disrupt public order," said the village woman.
"Why did your man go to the county government office to cause trouble?" Yang Youxue asked in confusion.
"No, my man didn't mean to cause trouble. He and a dozen young men from our Meijiazhuang went to the county magistrate to seek justice. They were arrested because he didn't give us a way to deal with the water monster." The village woman explained hurriedly.
"So that's how it is. Why did they ask the county magistrate to judge the case? Didn't the county magistrate give you a way to deal with the water monster and a recipe for making the water monster?" Yang Youxue asked.
“No, our county magistrate Pei here wants us to pay fifty taels of silver before he can give us the solution and prescription.
We farmers, who work the land for a living, how could we possibly afford fifty taels? That's why my husband and the young men from the village went to the county magistrate to seek justice!" The village woman said this and began to cry sadly. Her daughter beside her began to comfort her.
"This is outrageous. County Magistrate Pei is truly a dog official, worse than pigs and dogs. He used my methods and prescriptions to make money. Who gave him the guts to do that?
When I offered you the method and recipe, I gave them to you unconditionally, and the Governor also instructed his subordinates not to charge any fees.
Auntie, are you sure they were arrested and thrown into jail because of this? " Yang Youxue was so angry when she heard that the county magistrate demanded money from the people here because of the prescription she gave, and she wanted to punish him.
"I'm sure. Miss, if you don't believe me, you can ask the people here if the county magistrate wants them to pay fifty taels of silver before giving you the solution and prescription to solve the water monster?" said the village woman.
"What are you arguing about? Anyone who talks about adults here is looking for death.
"A big shot is coming here today, you bitches are not allowed to gather in the streets, go back to your kennels!" Three constables came over and shouted arrogantly.
The people on the road fled in all directions and did not dare to come out of their homes.
The village woman was also anxious and worried and wanted to pull her daughter away. She couldn't afford to offend these constables, and she didn't want to be arrested as well. What would happen to the children and the elderly at home?
"Come here, take these untouchables who are gathering to cause trouble back to the jail," said the constable.
He should be the leader of the other two constables. After he finished speaking, the two constables walked towards the village woman and Yang Youxue.
The frightened village woman huddled together with her daughter, trembling as she pleaded with the constable.
"Sir, I didn't cause any trouble. Please forgive me, sir."
The two constables did not come closer and were beaten up by Bai Chen and Zhui Long. They fell to the ground and almost couldn't get up.
"Well! You unruly people actually dared to hit an official appointed by the imperial court. You are dead." The constable said angrily when he saw his men being knocked to the ground.
"Who are you, the imperial officials? You are nothing but some low-ranking reserve personnel. How dare you act so impertinently in front of me and even want to put me in jail?
Didn't you say someone important was coming today? It must be the Crown Prince, right?
"Go back and tell His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to bring the dog official here, or he'll be in trouble." Yang Youxue said to the constable with a sneer.
"Bai Chen, just keep a little breath left and crawl back to the county government office. You can handle the rest." Yang Youxue said to Bai Chen.
"Yes, miss!" Bai Chen said, and began to torture the constable in different ways.
The miserable cries of the constables could be heard on both sides of the street, and the people living nearby were even more afraid to open their doors.
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