New Return of the Pearl: A Different Qing Er

On the street, Xiaoyanzi has Ziwei in her left hand and Qing'er in her right hand, and she is surrounded by girls on both sides.

At this time, Emin came over and told the emperor what he had learned: the county magistrate here was called Duan Kui, and he had a bad reputation. Before Emin could finish his words, he was interrupted by a loud noise.

I saw a group of yamen runners holding wooden sticks and beating the people.

Seeing this, Xiaoyanzi stepped forward to stop them and said, "Which government office are you from? Why are you chasing after ordinary people and beating them up?"

When the bailiff saw that Xiaoyanzi was meddling in other people's business, he went up to her and threatened her, telling her to get out.

Before Xiaoyanzi could speak, the emperor asked, "The government you are talking about is Duan Kui's government office?"

The yamen runner was also very bullying, and he directly retorted, "You can't call our county magistrate by his name!"

Can the emperor tolerate this? Of course not, so he ordered the four guards to teach these yamen runners a lesson. As they beat them, they found that the buttocks of these yamen runners seemed to be the most vulnerable, so they specifically attacked their buttocks.

If any of the four guards were beaten, Xiaoyanzi would kick their buttocks. For a time, these yamen runners were really miserable.

Here, Song Qing and Ziwei looked at the old man who had just been beaten. After asking, they learned that these yamen runners came to collect taxes, but they were beaten because they did not pay.

The battle over there was also over. Fulun asked, "Can't you just collect taxes properly? Do you have to use sticks to beat the people?"

"We have no choice. We have to close the case today. If we don't, we yamen runners will lose our lives. Yesterday, we were caned by the county magistrate. Each of us was given twenty lashes!" The yamen runners did have their own difficulties. They didn't want this to happen, but if they couldn't complete their mission, they would get hurt.

"What? Each of you was beaten with twenty boards!" Xiaoyanzi asked hurriedly when she heard this. She had just attacked their buttocks, which only aggravated their injuries.

Erkang stepped forward and pulled down the pants of a yamen runner, wanting to check his injuries.

At the moment when she pulled down her pants, a hand appeared in front of Song Qing's eyes, blocking her sight. She knew who it was without thinking. It must be Ertai, the jealous man. He was jealous enough when he asked about Benjamin's situation in the morning. Now it was someone else's butt, and he would never let Song Qing see it!

After a while, the hand was lowered. Everyone witnessed the truth: these yamen runners were indeed tortured.

The emperor immediately decided to visit Duan Kui.

In the government office, Duan Kui was drinking tea. Seeing the people barging in, he quickly asked, "Who are you? Why are you trespassing in? Someone, arrest these troublemakers."

Duan Kui acted quite arrogantly, but Ertai and Erkang didn't give him any face. They arrested him and brought him before the emperor.

Even so, he still spoke wildly! Fu Heng stepped forward and took out the gold medal. "The emperor is here, you are not allowed to speak nonsense."

Duan Kui was so frightened that he quickly knelt down and begged for mercy, but it was too late. "Did you force these yamen runners to go to the market to forcibly collect taxes?"

Duan Kui nodded in agreement, mainly because he did not dare to lie, otherwise it would be a serious crime of deceiving the emperor. However, he still made an excuse for himself, saying that he was doing things according to the court regulations and that he had to resort to this desperate measure because the people had been in arrears for too long.

When the common people heard this, they begged the emperor to make the decision, saying, "Your Majesty, we ordinary people run small businesses and make very little money a day. Now you are collecting taxes everywhere and extorting us. This is really unreasonable! We ordinary people can hardly make ends meet. How can we afford to pay taxes?"

Every word this commoner said was heart-wrenching and it really put a lot of pressure on them.

After hearing this, the emperor also felt that what the common people said made sense. The layers of taxation were indeed contrary to his original intention of nourishing and benefiting the people.

"I will issue an edict now to abolish the land tax below the village level, and also to prohibit local officials from making up excuses and collecting taxes repeatedly." The emperor handed the matter over to Fulun.

It happened that Shi Mingfu came, and the emperor immediately ordered him to take off Duan Kui's official hat and put him in prison.

The truth came out, and Xiaoyanzi quickly asked the people and the yamen runners to stand up, and said to the yamen runners, "You followed the wrong master, and I beat the wrong person. If I had known that you were injured, I would not have fought you. Xiaoyanzi apologizes to you here."

To be honest, Song Qing really agreed with Xiaoyanzi's courage and responsibility. If she did something wrong, she should apologize.

Song Qing had just finished praising Xiaoyanzi when she heard Xiaoyanzi say to Benjamin, "Banjiu, where is your plum blossom tongue pill?"

Good man, isn't this a bit too extravagant? Sure enough, Benjamin also thought it was too exaggerated, and quickly said, "Plum Blossom Tongue Pills? Do you know how expensive that is? I had to cheat and deceive Doctor Chang to get these."

Benjamin was really speechless. He had obtained the expensive medicine with great difficulty for emergency use, and now he had to use it up. What if someone got hurt in the future?

Unfortunately, no one understood his idea. Yongqi even cooperated with Xiaoyanzi and said, "Benjamin, no matter how precious they are, give them to them. Give each of them a few more. Their butts are as noble as ours."

Although Yongqi's words were not wrong, and even in Song Qing's opinion, the concept of equality for all was correct, but if they were spanked with a stick, they could be given other medicines to cure their illnesses, and there was no need to use such a precious medicine as Plum Blossom Tongue Pills.

Perhaps this is what the young master is like! He doesn't know how to use precious things wisely.

Looking at Benjamin's lonely eyes, Song Qing felt that he should wake up. He did so much just for Xiaoyanzi, but in the end, it was not as fast as Yongqi in making Xiaoyanzi happy.

At night, Song Qing heard a knock on the door. She quickly got up and opened it. It was Xiaoyanzi and Ziwei. "Why are you here so late at night?"

"We want to come and chat with you." Ziwei said.

"I also have a lot of things in my heart that I want to tell you two." Xiaoyanzi said very distressedly.

When Song Qing heard this, she was shocked! This little swallow actually had a troubled day. She didn't know what made her want to talk.

"Come on, Xiaoyanzi, Ziwei, the bed here is big, let's have a good chat together tonight." Song Qing took the two of them to sit on the bed.

"Xiaoyanzi, your troubles are Yongqi and Benjamin, right?" Song Qing looked at Xiaoyanzi teasingly. Even Ziwei looked straight at Xiaoyanzi. Sure enough, women's gossiping minds are the same.

"How do you know?" Xiaoyanzi was really surprised when she heard it. How could they guess who she was thinking about? "Hey, I don't know what's wrong with this Banjiu recently. Every time I talk to him, he is weak. And Yongqi is also very strange. He often stares at me in a daze. What's wrong with these guys? They are too weird."