The little sister is a troublemaker

“Ah...ah...lady, please spare my life..."

Qingyu whipped him again and again, and cries for help rang out in the yard. Thinking of what she had just seen, Qingyu whipped him even harder.

She originally went to check if there were any surviving villagers in the village, but she saw these men committing violence. More than a dozen young girls were naked and locked in a dilapidated house.

There were cries for help and constant crying. The appearance of Whisper shocked the men in the room at first, and then they all showed evil smiles. They didn't take this woman seriously. Although she looked like a martial artist, she was a woman after all, especially a beautiful woman.

The men became very lustful and looked at each other and then surrounded Qingyu.

"Where are you from, little girl? Are you lost? Come to me, brother..."

Before he could finish his dirty words, Qingyu whipped him with a few whips.

After listening to the whispered narration, Li Mulan's eyes flashed coldly, "Besides those girls, where are the others?"

"Except for a few women who committed suicide because they could not bear the humiliation, the others were injured but still alive. These people used some shady tricks and put drugs in the well to control the entire village. Now they are all imprisoned in the back mountain. I released everyone and found the village chief and asked him to settle down first. I think he will come here soon."

Under the pressure of Huo Yuanruo and Qingyu, these people confessed their origins. They were originally a bandit group called Black Wind Village. The imperial court sent troops to suppress their village, and these people escaped by chance.

The woman who was with them was originally the wife of the leader of the Black Wind Village. After escaping with a few people, in order to survive, she had no choice but to give herself to this leader and continue to do evil things with them.

Soon, the village chief came over with a dozen big men.

The village chief looked like a scholar. He saluted respectfully to the people and then knelt down. The dozen or so big men who followed him also knelt down. "Thank you all for saving my life. I have no way to repay you. I can only kowtow to you."

Li Mulan immediately helped the man up. She said, "I can't stand a man of this age kowtow to her. She is a modern soul. She can't accept the habit of kowtow at every turn. Her knees are very stiff."

"Don't be like this, Village Chief. We are just passing by. We naturally have to help when we meet you."

The village chief's eyes were filled with tears. "What an unexpected disaster! Our village is full of poor people. We didn't expect to encounter such a thing. My granddaughter also... wuwuwu..."

Li Mulan looked at Qingyu, who stepped forward and whispered in her ear, "The village chief's granddaughter was the first to be killed by these beasts. She crashed into the wall on the spot, and her body is still inside the house."

Li Mulan frowned and her hand unconsciously touched the dagger at her waist.

Chu Jie didn't say a word the whole time, but his eyes flashed when he saw Li Mulan's actions.

“Village Chief, I’m so sad. Fortunately, these beasts have been controlled. We were just passing by here. Look at these people…”

Li Mulan was not a saint, if she were, she would have just finished with it and thrown the body to the back hill to feed the wolves. But the village chief brought these big men here, and their intention was very obvious, they wanted to deal with these thieves themselves.

The village chief wiped the tears from his face and said, "I'm sorry to have embarrassed you all. I just wanted to discuss with you. Can you please let me deal with these thieves?"

Li Mulan nodded in understanding, "That's how it should be, but I don't know how the village chief will deal with it?"

The village chief said nothing, looking fiercely at the people in the yard, "I will make them pay with their lives."

Chu Jie frowned slightly, "Aren't you going to report it to the police?"

"Report to the police? Ha!" The village chief sneered and shook his head, "Young Master, we are in Mobei."

"What happened to Mobei?" Chu Jie couldn't help but ask.

The village chief's eyes were filled with desolation. "The imperial court has long since given up on us. How could anyone be willing to take care of us?"

Chu Jie's face was full of seriousness. "The Great Chu court will never abandon any of the people of Great Chu."

Li Mulan and the others were stunned. They exchanged glances with each other but said nothing.

The village chief took a look at Chu Jie and guessed that this person was not a simple person. He was probably the young master of an official family. "Young Master, we, the people of Mobei, also want to be protected by the court, but..."

The village chief shook his head helplessly, his eyes full of vicissitudes. He was a scholar. Once upon a time, he also wanted to pass the imperial examinations, wanted to serve the court, wanted to... Alas.

Chu Jie wanted to continue asking questions, but was stopped by Li Mulan, "Village Chief, I'll leave these people to you."

"Thank you, lady hero. On behalf of our village, I would like to thank the heroes for saving my life."

He was about to kneel down again, but Li Mulan stopped him quickly, "Village Chief, please don't be polite. However, the house we are staying in today... I don't know whose house it belongs to. Can you allow us to stay here for one night and leave tomorrow?"

The village chief waved his hand and said, "My dear benefactors, please don't be polite. This house is exactly my home. You can stay here with peace of mind."

"What about the village chief and his family?"

"It is totally fine for my family to stay at the homes of relatives or friends. I still have to settle other people, so I will definitely not be able to rest today. You can all stay here without worry."

Li Mulan bowed in gratitude, "Thank you for your help."

The village chief quickly took his people away, and the yard suddenly became quiet. Chu Jie looked at the backs of the group of people leaving, thoughtful.

Li Mulan rubbed his head, "What's wrong?"

Chu Jie pursed his lips and said, "It just feels like... these people seem to be very dissatisfied with the imperial court."

Li Mulan sighed, "I can't say I'm dissatisfied, I think it's disappointment, a feeling of not being able to count on you."

"Why is it so? The current Great Chu, under the governance of the Regent... and the Emperor, is not very prosperous, but it can live in stability. Why..." Chu Jie couldn't go on.

Li Mulan sighed, "The Regent is indeed a man of means and courage. It is not easy for him to govern the country so well in just eight or nine years. But Xiaojie, the world is too big. No matter how powerful the Regent is, he is still a human being. He is not a god who knows everything. It is inevitable that there are things that he and the court cannot take care of, just like Mobei."

"What's so special about Mobei?"

"Mobei, in the eyes of outsiders, is a place abandoned by the imperial court. Anyone who is convicted of a crime and exiled is sent to Mobei. To outsiders, this place is a place of sin."

"But not all people in Mobei are sinners."

"Yes, there are ordinary people in Mobei. Even those who are convicted, are they all guilty? Most of them are just implicated by their families. But outsiders don't think so much. What they see is that the court exiled so many guilty people to Mobei. Mobei is a place abandoned by the court. After a long time, they have forgotten that there are ordinary people here too."

Chu Jie still couldn't accept it. He knew that the imperial court had not given up on Mobei. "Are the officials of Mobei just going to sit back and do nothing? Are the people of Mobei going to have no place to appeal when they encounter injustice?"

"The officials in Mobei..." Li Mulan's eyes flickered, "Perhaps they are helpless. Even if they report it to higher authorities, who can guarantee that the regent or the emperor will know about it?"