Twenty-two old week's worries
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Zhou Xiaomo took Yuxiang back to her room and asked her to change into clean clothes. Until now, Yuxiang still blinked her two big eyes, looking at Zhou Xiaomo foolishly, as if she was in a dream.
The four walls of Yuxiang's room are all made of wood, and the decorations in the room are extremely simple, with a bed and a dressing table, and there is nothing else except that.
Zhou Xiaomo was speechless about the design of these rooms. The girls lived in such a room, and there was a dedicated and strong woman to take care of them. Even if they wanted to die, they could not find a way to die. If anyone could not think about it and hit the wooden wall, they would only suffer more. If he hadn't come here today, what would happen if Yuxiang had an unyielding heart? In the end, wasn't it still a path of no return in life under the coercion and temptation of the madam and the client?
It turned out that after Zhou Xiaomo ran out of the brothel and saw Youfu and Laicai, he asked the coachman to go back quickly to report to the master, and said that the master was ordered to beat him in his brothel, and asked the master to bring all the servants in the house.
Since he had just arrived in the Tang Dynasty and did not know the style of people in this century, Zhou Xiaomo was worried that the madam might not buy Lai Fu and Youcai accounts. Not only did he not recognize his identity as the young master, but he would instead instruct the great men to kill and silence him, which would be troublesome. Therefore, he did not act rashly for the time being, but just stayed far away from the brothel with the two.
According to Zhou Xiaomo's judgment, the madam would definitely let Yuxiang, who had been hungry for two days, eat a little bit, and then send it to bathe and change clothes. There will be some time left in it, and he can wait for his father to arrive here.
After more than ten minutes, seeing that most of the sunset had fallen into the west sky and dusk was coming quickly, Zhou Xiaomo began to worry again. If the madam sent Yuxiang to take a bath and then directly sent it to Liu Yin, then he would be waiting for reinforcements here to arrive, which would be like he would harm Yuxiang.
Zhou Xiaomo decided to take Youfu into the brothel first and ask Laicai to stay outside to wait for his father and the others to arrive. If he and Youfu had something to do inside, someone outside could take care of him.
Two gatekeepers knew Youfu. He used to come with the master. When he saw Zhou Xiaomo leaving in a mess, he came back with Youfu. He immediately understood that the boy had a background and did not dare to ask more questions and let the two go in.
Zhou Xiaomo and Youfu walked around the lobby and headed straight to the big house that taught the girls to sing and dance. By then Yuxiang had already left, leaving only two women holding whips to threaten a few girls to sit in the jar.
Youfu asked the two women where Yuxiang had gone. The two women recognized Youfu, so they told him that Mama took Yuxiang to the separate wooden house. Zhou Xiaomo asked a few girls to get off the tank and told the two women that they would pack up and get out of the house immediately, otherwise he would not blame him for being rude. After saying that, he and Youfu ran straight to the wooden house that the woman pointed to.
At the door of the wooden house, Zhou Xiaomo heard Yuxiang's pleading and Liu Yin's lewd laughter in the house. He secretly thanked that he had come in time. If he came later, he might have regretted his whole life, so he kicked open the wooden door.
After calming down for a while, Yuxiang told Zhou Xiaomo that she had just turned fourteen ten days ago and lived in Pinglu County, more than 40 miles away from Jiushi County. Her original name was Qiutian, and she was the eldest and had two younger brothers. Her eldest brother was twelve years old this year and her younger brother was just nine years old. Her mother has been in poor health since giving birth to her younger brother and lives by farming at home.
Just at the beginning of this year, Qiutian's father Qiu Jiagen fell off the roof during a house repair and broke his waist and was bedridden. From then on, the family affairs fell on her and her sick mother. In order to cure her father's illness, the family was already in debt and borrowed high interest debts. A month ago, her mother suddenly died of illness, and the land was lost. The family did not even have the money to buy a thin coffin for her mother. A local bully even gave a deadline to ask his family to pay back the money as soon as possible. If they don't pay the money at that time, they will have to pay the debt with her land and house.
Looking at her bedridden father and young brother, Qiu Tian, who was desperate, took his own initiative and put grass on her head and sold herself to a brothel. When she arrived at the brothel, she wanted to die, but she was worried about her father and brothers. In order to make money as soon as possible, Qiu Tian started to learn singing and dancing, and to make money by selling her skills. Unexpectedly, the madam said that she would do one thing and secretly sold her innocence to Master Liu.
All unfortunate people have different experiences, no matter which era they are.
After listening to Qiu Tian’s experience, Zhou Xiaomo told her that from now on, she would call her original name back.
Qiutian, what a nice name.
Zhou Xiaomo brought Qiu Tian to the lobby. The madam and Liu Yin were no longer in the future. Lian Biaosan and Dou Si disappeared. It must be that the madam knew that Zhou Xiaomo would not spare the two of them, so she simply took them to escape together.
Zhou Xiaomo had already asked someone to hang a big sign at the door of the brothel - business suspension.
Previously, there were eight men in black in brothels, specifically used to deal with those who wanted to eat for free or make trouble. Although the opening of such a tax-paying brothel was protected by the government, the government did not send a mansion to maintain order. Therefore, each brothel would have a group of thugs, which could not only shock those who wanted to eat a tycoon meal, but also scare the disobedient girls in their own building when needed.
Zhou Xiaomo asked Youfu to settle the accounts of the two big men at the door and let them leave immediately. Considering that there are so many girls in the brothel and they still need protection, Zhou Xiaomo temporarily asked the four servants to make a guest appearance here for a few days.
Zhou Xiaomo fired all those who saw those who had lunch, bad character, and helped the evildoers during the day, leaving only those who cleaned, cooked and did odd jobs, and the servants were also kept.
No matter which dynasty, the one who gave milk was the mother. All those who stayed were respectful to Zhou Xiaomo. Everyone knows that the ruler of this brothel will be the young master in the future.
Zhou Xiaomo arranged everything and told everyone before leaving that it was too late today, everyone should rest early, and we will sit down and have a good chat tomorrow.
Zhou Jiye returned home first, washed it and sat in the pavilion to enjoy the cool air. When the old lady saw him worried, she asked him what was going on. Zhou Jiye sighed and roughly told the story of Zhou Xiaomo driving away the madam and Master Liu just now.
After hearing this, the old lady would naturally protect her son. She first added fuel to the fire and said in detail that the madam was not good, so she should have driven her away long ago, and then scolded Lao Zhou for being stubborn and not knowing how to protect her son.
Old Zhou has always been afraid of his inner self. If he had been scolded by his wife in the past, he would not say anything more. He sighed again and asked his servants to step down before saying to his wife: "Xiao Mo drove away Mama and Master Liu today. Before tomorrow morning, people in the entire Jiushi County will know that this will cause great trouble to our family."
The old lady was unhappy: "What trouble can you have? How can Master Liu grow three heads and six arms? At worst, let's find another better brothel."
"What do you know? Women's opinion!" Old Zhou scolded his wife rarely, "It's a trivial matter to drive away Master Liu. If you have the chance in the future, I'll just give him some polite words to pay some money. The main reason is that Xiao Mo drove away the brothel, which will put our family's Yidu Chunfeng Tower in a bigger dilemma."
The old lady didn't say she was alive, but she had a stern face.
Zhou Jiye said: "The Song brothers in Dongcheng have long been ill-intentioned about my family's Spring Breeze Building. In another month, the lanterns will be held. While preparing for the lanterns, they are also secretly asking about the details of other brothels. Now Xiao Mo has driven away the brothels. The Song brothers and other brothels will definitely do everything possible to get our family's details clean from her. Our family's strength is weaker than other families. In this way, it will be even more difficult for our family to not be eliminated."
Although the old lady is extremely protective of her shortcomings, she thinks what Lao Zhou said makes sense.
Old Zhou shook his fan and continued, "My colleagues are enemies. I guess those close to our brothels will pay a lot of money to hire Mama. In addition, Mama is already full of resentment towards my family, so she will join forces with several other brothels to suppress our family. After all, as long as our family is eliminated this year, other brothels will be worry-free."
Chapter completed!