Chapter 68 People's Livelihood Suffering (2)(1/2)
"What?"
Mo Yun and Rong'er were both stunned.
"How did you die?" Mo Yun was shocked and asked hurriedly.
"I heard that when I went out to buy things... I didn't know very well. The butler was dealing with it." Yingying whispered, a trace of sadness flashing in her eyes, but she was not surprised.
Although she is still young, she has seen too many deaths.
Too many to the point of being used to.
It's so much that I can face it with a wry smile.
"Get a little bit apart."
Mo Yun put down the little girl, pushed the crowd away, and walked closer to the center.
Seeing the simple white brocade clothes Mo Yun was wearing and the long red tassel on his waist, he recognized his identity. The onlookers retreated one after another, revealing the four people in the middle.
To be precise, it was three people, plus one corpse.
Feng Lin's face was pale and bloodless. A bloody hole was broken on his forehead. His clothes were a little scarlet and his pants were covered with dust. He lay quietly on the ground, without a stretcher or a piece of cloth.
His eyelids were closed and his mouth was tightly closed.
The armor on his body had been taken off and the sword was gone.
The energetic guard captain in the morning had turned into a breathless corpse.
Next to the body, a mother and daughter were kneeling beside her, making waves of howling.
Next to the mother and daughter, a middle-aged man in a green robe stood frown. When he saw Mo Yun walking in, his face stern, he immediately bowed and said:
"Young Master."
"How did he die?" Mo Yun asked.
"Don't you know?" An inexplicable expression was squeezed out on the middle-aged man's face.
"How could I know?"
"I heard that he offended the young master in the morning..." the middle-aged man said slowly.
"Do you think I did it?"
Mo Yun narrowed his eyes.
"Of course not the young master." Mo Tai, the butler of the Mo family, observed Mo Yun's expression change, and shook his head at the same time, "The young master has been resting in the yard at noon, and has never come out at all, nor has he seen any outsiders. Moreover, there is no need to be such trouble for him to deal with a mere guard captain, that is, a young master, just a word from him."
"Are you monitoring me?"
"I dare not, I just found some situations with my servants." Motai said calmly.
"Tell me about the specific situation."
A sharp gaze flashed in Mo Yun's pupils.
He also fought with me in the morning, and was very lively, but he died in the afternoon. If he were the housekeeper, he would also doubt whether there was any problem with him, the eldest son.
Judging from the motivation, he must be the first suspect.
Mo Yun thought of more at the same time, and thought of the "crisis" mentioned in the task prompts.
"After handing over the shift in the morning, Feng Lin changed into regular clothes, went out to buy vegetables, and bought winter clothes for his family." Mo Tai said slowly, "But, when he was walking in the middle of the road, he fell into a dirt pit on the side of the road, and he happened to hit a sharp stone on his head, and died on the spot."
"What?"
Mo Yun suspected that he had heard it wrong.
A guard captain who is skilled in swordsmanship and exercises every day will fall down halfway, and even hit a stone, and then just hit him to death?
This is like a fantasy!
"I also think it's very strange."
Mo Tai said in a deep voice, "However, I asked someone to inquire about the situation. On the way back from Feng Lin bought something, he went to Zuichun Tower to drink a pot of wine. According to the waiter, he was a little drunk at that time and was a little shaky when he walked." He added: "Some vendors from roadside stalls have proved this."
“Are there no witnesses at that time?”
"The pit was relatively remote, and it was noon again, and no one saw it. When someone passed by in the afternoon, he found his body."
"So he fell into the dirt pit on the side of the road because he was drunk and didn't notice for a moment?"
"It seems that this is the only possibility now." Motai nodded and shook his head again. "What a pity, I heard that the drunk person had been killed in the pit before, but because the land belongs to a public area, no one has been willing to pay for repairs."
"Have the body been examined?"
"After checking, there was only one fatal injury on the head. There were also traces of blood in the pit."
Mo Yun frowned, looked at Feng Lin on the ground, and then at the mother and daughter lying next to the corpse.
The girl is about her early twenties, and the little girl looks only four or five years old. She probably doesn't understand what death is. She just starts to cry when she sees her mother crying.
"Where are them?"
"I'm sorry, Feng Lin still owed a sum of money before." Mo Tai said, "If he was still alive, he could continue to owe the money because he was the guard of our Mo Mansion. But now he is dead, and the creditor has sent a notice to ask them to pay back the money within today, otherwise they must sell themselves to pay off the debt."
"What are you going to do?" Mo Yun asked.
"According to the rules, after Feng Lin died, he was not qualified to continue living in our Mo Mansion. The two of them had to be driven out." Mo Tai said with no expression. "Also, he died not to protect the Mo Mansion, but was drunk and died accidentally. According to the principle, he had to compensate us for a sum of money. However, they could not even afford to buy a coffin now, so I don't have to pay for this sum of money."
"Sir, please don't drive us out..."
Feng Lin's wife crawled over, hugged the butler's legs, begging:
"After being driven out, we mother and I really have no way to live..."
Her face was covered with tears and her body was trembling.
"Get out." Motai kicked her away with disgust, without any mercy. "Your husband is also a waste, and it is useless except to cause trouble for us. You still want to be more tempted now? Do you know how many people outside our Mo Mansion's residence are thrust into their heads and want to live in? Even if we are slaves, we will choose the best one. And you two...huhhhhh."
"Sir, please..."
"Shut up!" Motai shouted sternly.
The mother and daughter immediately closed their mouths and looked at Motai in horror.
"Young Master is here, you must understand the rules."
Mo Tai sneered twice, then turned to Mo Yun again, his face changed instantly, and he asked respectfully:
"What do you think about this matter?"
"Who are their creditors?"
Mo Yun did not rush to express his opinion, but asked this.
"It's a little rich man from outside the city."
Motel said, "Although it's not as good as us, it's still a bit of financial resources."
“How much money do you owe?”
"About five taels."
"Five liang..." Mo Yun turned his head and looked at Rong'er.
"How much money do you have?"
"Uh..." Rong'er was stunned, "about five hundred taels..."
Mo Yun was stunned for a moment, and a sudden feeling of sorrow suddenly appeared in his heart.
Although he doesn't know much about the purchasing power of silver in this world, he can roughly infer some from the current situation.
The mother and daughter just owed five taels of silver and were forced to lose their money and bury their father.
And his usual pocket money is one hundred times the five taels of silver!
"Young Master, what do you mean?" Motai asked calmly.
"Give me my money and help them pay it back, and buy Feng Lin a coffin and bury it well." Mo Yun said, "As for them, let's continue to live. Do more things in daily life and you can pay it back slowly."
"Are you sure?"
"Confirm." Mo Yun nodded.
"Did you hear it?" Motai turned his head and looked at the mother and daughter kneeling on the ground calmly, "You should be glad that you met the young master today."
"Thank you, thank you."
The young woman kept buckled her head and her forehead was red and swollen.
The little girl next to her also kowtowed.
"You are mourning." Mo Yun stopped them and whispered.
"You can handle the next thing."
Mo Yun didn't want to see this miserable situation again, frowned, gave Mo Tai a few instructions, turned around and left.
"Yes, young master."
Looking at Mo Yun's back as he slowly left, a trace of surprise flashed in Mo Tai's eyes.
To be continued...