Chapter 123: The Peasant Girl’s Splendid Manor
Chapter 123: Robbing the Execution Ground (2)
Shopkeeper Xing hesitated for a moment, then opened his mouth to advise, "Miss, please don't mind my interference, but the fruit trees you mentioned are difficult to grow. In the past, the court made great efforts to bring back seedlings of apples, grapes, and other fruits from foreign lands, and some survived. However, after more than a decade, not a single fruit has been produced."
Mo Yan automatically ignored his words before and after, eagerly asking, "So you mean we can get these fruit trees from foreign lands?"
Upon hearing this, Shopkeeper Xing twitched his eyes and helplessly replied, "Indeed, it's possible. However, the journey from the capital to foreign lands is long, and even if we manage to get the seedlings, it's not certain they'll survive the journey back."
Mo Yan didn't take this to heart. Even if they died, as long as they were soaked in the Spirit Spring pool, they could come back to life.
Seeing that Mo Yan had made up her mind, Shopkeeper Xing couldn't persuade her any further. He could only suggest, "If Miss really wants to obtain fruit seedlings from foreign lands, it's best to find those merchants who frequently travel between the north and south, as they would be more familiar with these matters."
Mo Yan had already intended to do so and thanked him with a smile.
Before leaving, Xiao Zhu suddenly spoke up, "Miss Mo, do you want pear trees or peach trees?"
Mo Yan was taken aback and smiled, "Yes, of course. I plan to cultivate a large orchard, so the more varieties, the better."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Zhu happily revealed his two small front teeth, "My neighbor's family sells fruit seedlings, but they are only ordinary pear and peach trees, and they can't sell them at a high price. The family is very poor! If you want to buy, you can buy from them. Their fruit seedlings are better than others!"
"This kid, he can't even afford to marry a wife himself, but he's worrying about others." Shopkeeper Xing patted Xiao Zhu on the back and jokingly scolded him.
Mo Yan smiled, "Xiao Zhu is a kind-hearted person. He will definitely marry a gentle and virtuous wife."
Xiao Zhu smiled foolishly, scratching his head in embarrassment, his ears turning red, which made Mo Yan and the others laugh heartily.
With some clues about the fruit seedlings, Mo Yan was in a good mood. Just as she had sent Shopkeeper Xing away, Liu Tinglan arrived.
"Are you going to the execution ground?" Mo Yan's eye twitched and decisively refused, "No, I'm afraid of having nightmares when I sleep at night."
"Please, let's just go and take a look. When those human traffickers are about to be executed, we'll leave without watching." Liu Tinglan grabbed Mo Yan's arm and pleaded.
Mo Yan pulled her arm away and shook her head vigorously, "If you want to go, go by yourself. I'm not interested."
Clearly a delicate girl, yet she insisted on going to watch executions. Her taste was too heavy!
"Come on, just come with me! Think of it as accompanying me!" Liu Tinglan refused to give up. Those villains even wanted to sell her to such a dirty place. If she didn't see those bad people being punished with her own eyes, she wouldn't be able to sleep well.
Mo Yan felt helpless, her head aching from being pestered by her. She could only say, "Okay, but I'll only watch for a while. I don't want to see blood."
Liu Tinglan nodded vigorously, "Definitely, definitely, I don't dare to watch either."
Mo Yan rolled her eyes. Didn't dare to watch? Who would believe that!
Mo Yan was dragged onto the Liu family's carriage by Liu Tinglan. The coachman was an elderly man in his fifties. When he saw Mo Yan, he respectfully called her Miss Mo.
As soon as he heard that his young lady wanted to go to the execution ground, the coachman was so scared that he almost kneeled down to this little ancestor. But no matter how hard he persuaded, Liu Tinglan ignored him. Helpless, he could only drive the carriage to the vegetable market, secretly praying that the master and madam wouldn't blame him.
The Liu family was just a modestly wealthy household. The decoration in the carriage was not luxurious, but it was very comfortable and neat. Sitting in it was also very stable. Mo Yan tried it and found it much better than riding in a donkey or ox cart.
She had thought about buying a carriage before, but then things got busy and she forgot about it. It was just that the rented, she couldn't put it anywhere. It was better to wait until the new house was built and then buy a carriage. There would be a place to put it, and there were also twenty acres of land at home, so she would need to buy a plow ox as well.
Mo Yan calculated in her heart and soon arrived at the vegetable market.
The vegetable market was located in the north market, supposedly because it was the most chaotic place in the north market, where thieves and swindlers were concentrated. A few years ago, an execution ground was built here, and anyone sentenced to death would be executed here to deter those scoundrels.
After hearing Liu Tinglan explain the reasons behind it, Mo Yan found it very unbelievable.
In the same capital, the four markets in the east, west, south, and north divided people into three categories. The north market was like the slums of a developed country in her previous life, synonymous with backwardness, poverty, and filth. Deliberately building the execution ground here undoubtedly dealt a heavy blow to the residents of the north market.
People from the north market wouldn't admit it when they went to the other three markets, for fear of being stared at with strange eyes.
It was now half past noon, and the nineteen human traffickers had already been escorted to the execution ground. There were already many people gathered around the execution ground, some just to watch the excitement, and others because their children had been abducted.
Many people whose children had been abducted but hadn't been found also came, pointing at the human traffickers and crying and cursing. Several women even fainted in grief and anger, and were carried away by their family members.
With the help of the coachman, Liu Tinglan pulled Mo Yan to the front.
Looking at the human traffickers on the execution platform, covered in dirt and smelling of vegetables and rotten eggs, Liu Tinglan was extremely angry. "They are all scourges that will stink for thousands of years. They should be killed."
Mo Yan looked at the man kneeling in the center, nicknamed Fat boss, who was looking around anxiously, his face showing visible urgency and... anticipation!
Could it be that these human traffickers were not just twenty, but there were also others who had escaped the net, and now their accomplices were planning to rob the execution ground to rescue them?
Mo Yan's mind wandered, involuntarily recalling the plots she had seen in movies and TV dramas in her previous life...
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