Chapter 114: The Peasant Girl’s Splendid Manor
Chapter 114: Outcome (1)
The vegetable business was managed very well by Lin Da and the others. After observing for a while, Mo Yan completely handed it over to them. She stayed at home, either researching new dishes or making spring clothes for her family, living a leisurely life.
However, it would be even better if she could get rid of this greedy and foolish fellow, Xiao Hua.
Unfortunately, despite several attempts by Xiao Ruiyuan's men to take it away, they couldn't do it. One soldier tried to forcibly pull it away, but instead, it bit his wrist. If Mo Yan hadn't intervened in time, this fellow would have bitten the soldier's hand off.
After this incident, Mo Yan realized that no matter how foolish this fellow was, it was also an extremely dangerous wolf.
Fortunately, besides not letting anyone except Mo Yan touch it, it didn't randomly bite people. Most of the time, it lazily lay under the eaves sunbathing during the day and frolicked with Mo Yan in the space at night. It had already regarded the Mo family as its own home, showing no sense of being an "outsider".
Xiao Ruiyuan was very helpless about this. Taking advantage of a break, he personally came over once. Xiao Hua was borrowed from him, so how could it stay here indefinitely?
However, Xiao Hua lived well in Mo's house, with good food, good living conditions, and spirit spring water to drink. It simply refused to leave. Knowing that he was no match for Xiao Ruiyuan, it directly hid under the bed when it saw him coming and refused to come out no matter how he threatened or tempted it.
Mo Yan felt both angry and amused watching this. This fellow was crafty, bullying the weak and fearing the strong!
"Lord Xiao, why don't you let its owner come? It won't refuse to recognize its own master, will it?"
Xiao Ruiyuan thought of the troublesome owner of this fellow and twitched his lips, vaguely saying, "He's busy."
He had sent people to ask, but Yan Junyu had replied with only one sentence: "Won't come back? That's good, saves me from fighting with it for the bed every day!"
Although Mo Yan wanted to get rid of this troublemaker, it seemed impossible now. She also didn't want to embarrass her lifesaver, so she said, "Then let it stay at my house for a while. We will take good care of it."
Glancing at the bed, Xiao Ruiyuan could only give up, "Then I'll trouble Miss Mo."
At noon, after being repeatedly persuaded by Mo Yan's family, Xiao Ruiyuan stayed for lunch. He liked the warmth of the Mo family, free from conspiracies and calculations. However, such a simple life might be something he could never have in his entire life.
After lunch, Mo Qingze took out the best tea from home and brewed a cup for him and Xiao Ruiyuan. While enjoying the tea, Xiao Ruiyuan briefly mentioned the handling of the twenty human traffickers by the government.
These human traffickers had been trafficking people for many years, and they themselves couldn't remember how many women and children they had kidnapped. Since they kidnapped children from decent families, and combined with the severe punishment for human traffickers under the laws of Da Chu, nineteen out of twenty of them were sentenced to death by beheading.
The one who wasn't sentenced to death was the skinny one. Because he pleaded guilty and confessed all the details about their backers, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Although he was spared from death, he would spend his entire life in prison without stepping out for a single step. For him, it was better to die than live.
This result was within Mo Yan's expectations. When Mo Yongshou cheated and was exiled three thousand miles away for ten thousand taels, these human traffickers had committed much worse crimes, destroying hundreds or even thousands of families. Death was barely enough to compensate for the loss suffered by those who lost their loved ones.
Thinking of Mo Yongshou, Mo Yan remembered that he should be on his way to exile in the desolate north at this time. She looked at Xiao Ruiyuan. After all, it was a family matter, so she suppressed her thoughts and decided to ask Xin'er and the others after he left.
"Lord Xiao, those human traffickers had backers. Won't there be any changes among them now?"
Xiao Ruiyuan, knowing what she was worried about, simply said, "The 'backers' have also been imprisoned."
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