The protagonist chased the villain, and Tiandao screamed in anger

One of them knocked his pipe against the wall, expressing his pity for the concubines who had been implicated.

"Ah, who says it's not true? But human life is like floating duckweed, who cares? But we are far away from Kyoto, so the conditions here are not so harsh. In fact, if we want to find a way out, there is a way out. Hey, I heard someone say..."

The man lowered his voice, and the sound that came through was much weaker. Yue Niang couldn't hear it clearly through the wall, so she quickly leaned on the high window to try to hear clearly.

"Is this possible?" another one exclaimed in amazement.

"Keep your voice down! This is not a legitimate way. As long as you have money, you can do anything. But if you want to escape, you need to find someone to replace you..."

The two smokers changed the topic and left, talking and laughing.

Yue Niang's expression was wavering. She maintained the posture of climbing up the window for a long time, until her arms became sore and numb. Then she came to her senses and slowly got down from the chair.

The two men who were talking divided the change and walked out of the street in the drizzle. At a corner, they stopped a little boy who was eating candied haws and joked, "Little Six, do you recognize the man who gave the money? Next time something good like this happens, don't forget your two brothers!"

"If I have candy, I'll find you!" The little boy rolled his round eyes and ran away with the candied haws.

I crossed a main street, went out from under an umbrella stall, and came to another sweets street, where I accurately found the person holding a light green oil-paper umbrella.

Xiao Liuzi tugged at the corner of the man's clothes, looked up and called him brother. Although he was small, his words were clear and his logic was very clear.

"Brother, they've done it! Pretty brother, Liuzi wants some candy!"

The paper umbrella tilted upwards, revealing half of the child's face. He reached out and rubbed the child's head, bent down and held the umbrella over him to protect him from the rain, then took out a bag of nougat from his sleeve and handed it over.

"It's raining heavily, go home quickly"

Xiao Liuzi rubbed the other person's hand like a cat, and got the benefit, with a big smile on his chubby face.

"Thank you brother!"

After thanking him, he ran away like a firecracker without even taking the umbrella that was handed to him.

[Where is my candy? Isn't that for me?] Tiandao was a little unbalanced. He thought that the bag of nougat was bought for him. What? For a little brat!

[Of course, yours can't be left out. This pack has peanuts and walnuts, twice as much as that pack.] You Mu was very good at coaxing people. He took out another pack and gave it to Tiandao to transform and eat.

[Hehe, this is more like this.] Tiandao was overjoyed as he held the bag of candy that had been transformed into a non-physical form that could be tasted.

Everything that added fuel to the fire had been done, Yue Niang had been dealt with, and all that remained was to wait for Xue He to return.

You Mu stood up holding an umbrella, pinched a candy ball and put it in his mouth, then walked to the end of the long street.

In the continuous rain, the mist made the house look particularly cold and quiet.

Aunt Xue handed the steamed egg custard to Xiao Cui and asked her to take it to the young master, but after a while, Xiao Cui brought it back intact.

"Young master is still locking himself in his room and refusing to see anyone? He has been refusing to eat. What should I do?" Aunt Xue was worried. She wanted to go find Madam You to talk to her, but she felt that her status was not appropriate. She rubbed her hands and sighed secretly.

Now that her son had left, she naturally felt ashamed to stay and wanted to move out, but Madam You persuaded her, saying that the young master liked the food she cooked and if she left, he would have even less appetite. She increased her monthly allowance and only asked her to stay until the end of the year.

In fact, no matter what the reason was, Aunt Xue knew that Madam You was kind-hearted and felt guilty about forcing her son to leave, so she didn't want her to leave the house no matter what.

But now, the young master doesn’t even eat the food she cooks.

"Xiao Cui, take this egg custard to Madam, and tell her to persuade her." Her current status is awkward, and she faces many inconveniences in the yard. Now the job of delivering food and passing messages falls on Xiao Cui.

"Don't worry, Auntie. The young master actually knows everything. Maybe he's just not hungry right now, and he'll eat later."

Fortunately, Xiao Cui didn't mind, and she knew that there had been some unrest in the house during these days. So while she tried her best to do her duty, she also pretended to be an adult and said a few words of comfort.

"Well, I left a bowl for you, go quickly and come back soon." Aunt Xue pointed at the steamer, signaling Xiao Cui to come back and eat after delivering it.

"it is good!"

With food hanging in the air, Xiao Cui immediately ran to find Mrs. You with the bowl in her hand.

After Mrs. You found out, she wanted to go see her son, but she happened to meet Mr. You, who looked gloomy.

"What's the matter?" Seeing that the other party looked unhappy and obviously had encountered something, Mrs. You stopped and walked over to ask.

Master You shook his head and sighed, dismissed Xiao Cui, and took Madam You into the inner room, then whispered: "A few days ago, I went back to the mansion to take care of affairs, and went shopping for food and clothing with the steward, but I found that the shops of that merchant were all closed... In the past, they were the most bustling places..."

"Because of the impact on County Magistrate Yao's affairs, closing the store is inevitable." Mrs. You listened carefully and felt that it was understandable.

"If they really just closed the store, it would be fine. Their sign was removed. I looked through the crack in the door and it was very empty inside." We are all business people. How could we give up the profits of the store so easily? Even if the store was affected and closed, it would be impossible for them to clear out the things so quickly!

"That's strange..." There are not many wealthy businessmen in the county, but there are seven or eight who are notable. All of them are experienced people. How could they give up their shops so easily?

Mrs. You raised her eyes and saw that Mr. You had not finished speaking, so she gestured for him to continue.

“…Madam, I’ve been thinking that we might as well hand in the land deed.” Mr. You hesitated for a long time before finally speaking. This matter was too big and he couldn’t make up his mind alone, so he wanted to ask Madam You’s opinion first.

"Land deed?"

"I felt something was wrong, so I spent some money to get information. I learned that the merchants who held the land deeds had stopped collecting rent from the tenants. After careful questioning, I found out that it was the imperial envoy who took away their land deeds and shops!" Those merchants were short of money at the time, so they asked him for a lot of silver before he told them the truth.

Mrs. You was shocked: "Imperial envoy...the imperial court? This means..." The imperial envoy represents the emperor!

Mr. You reached out and held Madam You's hand, interrupting what Madam You was about to say:

"Madam, perhaps, things are going to change."

"Madam, something bad has happened! The government officials are here!" Madam You wanted to confirm something more, then she heard Xiao Cui's voice outside the door speaking loudly.

The two people in the room looked at each other and saw the worry in each other's eyes.

Could it be that it has already affected them?

The couple went out hand in hand and asked Xiao Cui, but could not get any answer, so they hurried to the front yard to meet the government officials.

"Is this Madam You? Someone has turned himself in to the authorities, saying that someone stole your gold hairpin that you lost two years ago. We are here to ask you to confirm whether it is the original one."

The officer explained it clearly, which made the two frightened people feel relieved.

“…So that’s what happened? The gold hairpin has been lost for a long time, and I thought it had never been found!” Mrs. You breathed a sigh of relief and suppressed her heart that was beating rapidly in her throat.

"I'll go with you right away!" After calming down, Mrs. You agreed and immediately set out to go with the two officials. She also told Xiao Cui:

"Xiao Cui, tell Aunt Xue to guard the yard and look after the young master. Don't indulge Mu'er too much when we're not around."

"Don't worry, ma'am. I've got it all!" Xiao Cui nodded, remembering what the ma'am said.

"I'll accompany my wife." It was just right, so I could go back home to sort out some things later.

Mr. You took Mrs. You's hand and they walked side by side.