The billionaire girl: Daddy and Mommy, love me again

After Cheng Dafu and Old Man Cheng heard her talk about the consequences of opium, they instantly imagined the scene in their minds and couldn't help but shudder with fear.

The opium that they regarded as a treasure just now has now become a guillotine hanging over their heads.

They also realized that the situation had become extremely urgent.

He immediately rushed out and threw away all the remaining opium in the pipes of those old smokers, and explained to them the harmful effects of opium.

After this happened, they naturally had to reconsider their return to Beijing.

Mo Junyi personally sent an urgent letter to Kyoto, asking for Emperor Mingde's opinion.

After receiving the letter, Emperor Mingde attached great importance to the opium issue.

He then ordered Mo Junyi and Cheng Xingwan to go to Qiannan to investigate the situation and resolutely block this poison from entering the country.

Cheng Zeli returned to Beijing to report as originally planned, as there was still a lot of things waiting for him to deal with in Beijing.

Due to Mo Junyi’s high-profile return, Cheng Zeli’s whereabouts have been exposed.

Ever since he took office as the Minister of Revenue, he has offended many people intentionally or unintentionally.

As a sharp knife in Emperor Mingde's hand, he almost put himself in a situation where he was surrounded by wolves.

He was worried that someone would ambush him on his way back to Beijing.

That night, Cheng Xingwan asked him to take advantage of the cover of darkness and ride on Gray Six to start his journey home first.

On the surface, he returned home with the escort team, but in fact, he appeared in front of Emperor Mingde within three days.

As they expected, the escort team encountered three waves of ambushes by assassins on their way back to Beijing.

Fortunately, they had foresight and used a tactic of repairing the plank road in the open while secretly attacking Chencang, which successfully made them empty-handed.

When the news reached Cheng Zeli, he quickly began to settle accounts with the masterminds who wanted to take his life.

The reason why those people were afraid of him returning to Beijing was because they had something to hide and could not stand up to investigation at all.

Soon, the evidence of their crimes was sent to Emperor Mingde, and none of them ended up well.

Recently, when the ministers attended the morning court, they sensitively noticed that Emperor Mingde was in a very bad mood.

Anyone who dared to show up and seek death at this time was basically dealt with.

Don’t blame Emperor Mingde. The rampant opium in Qiannan was like a time bomb.

It could explode at any time, and he is already extremely worried about it.

How could he remain calm when these people came to him for such trivial matters?

I thought that this year I could finally have a good reunion with the prince.

Now that this has happened, all plans have been disrupted.

He had just recovered and now he had to take risks and go into such a dangerous place. How could he not be upset?

Fortunately, Pingyang was with him, which finally made him feel a little relieved.

On this side, after Cheng Xingwan and Mo Junyi saw Cheng Zeli off, they also rushed to Qiannan without stopping.

It is six or seven hundred miles from Cangwu Town to Qiannan.

Before dawn, they had already arrived at a county town called Lairuo in Qiannan.

It was the middle of winter and you could see that the fields and hills, big and small, were all bare, with only some withered stubble from the harvest of poppy flowers, without a trace of life.

An evil aura of death seemed to permeate between heaven and earth.

The sky brightened until the sun slowly rose, and only then did sporadic figures appear in Lairuo County.

They were all women with sunken eye sockets and listless expressions.

They yawned all the time and lazily went to the street to buy vegetables with baskets on their shoulders.

After a night's rest, people who should be full of energy all have two huge dark circles under their eyes.

At the foot of the wall, a group of men, women, old and young were lying lazily on the ground, smoking and basking in the sun.

Mo Junyi and Cheng Xingwan stood on a high place overlooking the entire county. They were so shocked that they didn't know where to start for a moment.

You can't just appear in front of them rashly and spill all the opium in their hands.

When it comes to drug control, the only way is to issue a ban from above and then send it down to various places for local officials to implement it.

But to their disappointment, when they saw the magistrate of Leruo County, he was lying on the bed with his wife, smoking opium.

The two were helpless. They could not act rashly before the imperial edict from Emperor Mingde arrived.

You can only understand the situation first.

They hid in the space, found two sets of ordinary silk clothes, and found two simulated rubber human face masks.

This kind of mask is easy to wear, as thin as a cicada's wing, and can fit the face very well. After wearing it, there is no visible trace at all.

When the two reappeared, they had become a pair of ordinary-looking siblings who seemed to have some savings.

When they passed through the street, they found stalls selling opium everywhere on both sides of the street.

"Young Master and Young Lady, please try the opium from my shop. It is pure and affordable. I guarantee you will be satisfied."

A street vendor suddenly stopped the two of them and handed them a shiny, smooth pipe.

Mo Junyi blocked it with his hand, and pretended to pick up a little bit of tobacco and put it to his nose to smell it, saying: "No need, I have mysophobia and I am not used to sharing a pipe with others.

I think the quality of your products is really good. Are they all grown by you?"

Seeing that they were dressed elegantly, they must be the young master and young lady from a family in the neighboring county.

This kind of person is not short of money. If you serve him well, you might be able to make a fortune today.

"Yes, I grow them myself and brew them myself."

"I want a lot, how much do you have?"

"Sir, I have as much as you want. I have six stones of goods at home."

"You only have six stones, and you dare to speak so arrogantly! I'd better find a more powerful one."

After saying that, Mo Junyi turned around and was about to leave.

"Hey, sir, don't go. Six stones is not a small amount. If you think it's not enough, my grandparents' family, my father-in-law's family, and my uncle's family all have them. They are of the same quality as mine."

"Oh, from what you said, all your relatives grow opium?"

"It's not just my family, but the whole of Lairuo, no, the whole of Qiannan, every nook and cranny is planted with opium."

When the peddler talked about this, his gloomy face regained some vitality, and he seemed to think this was a very honorable thing.

"So many. How many years have you been growing them? Opium is expensive. I guess you must have made a lot of money over the years."

“I’ve been farming for four or five years, and I don’t make much, but it’s better than farming.

In the past, people got up early and went to bed late to farm, and after working hard for a year, they could only eat wild vegetables and thin porridge for every meal after paying taxes.

Now that I can sell the opium I grow, I can finally have enough to eat.”

"Is it just to fill your stomach? Your opium is not cheap. One stone must be sold for tens of thousands of taels of silver. Six stones must be at least 60,000 taels of silver."

"Hey, sir, I don't dare to accept your words.

Our opium is also divided into grades, and only the top-grade ones can be sold at the price you mentioned.

If you can give me five thousand taels for this stone of mine, I will be very satisfied.

Although the price of opium looks scary, the real big money does not fall into the hands of farmers like us.

Taxes on opioids can be as high as 90 percent.

After paying taxes, we only had a few thousand taels of silver left.

But because everyone is growing opium and no one is growing food, food and vegetables are especially expensive in our area.”