Chapter 112 Exchange the title deed of Qinghua Building for your life
The crime of slandering the wife of the clan has always been serious. Last time, Hua Xian'er just said that Hua Jin had been raped by bandits without knowing Hua Jin's identity, so she was punished by Li Yunqing.
This time Hongxiu knowingly committed the crime, and Turtle Gong from Qinghua House was also involved, so the matter was not trivial.
After Hong Xiu was arrested, the Qinghua Building was quickly closed down, and a regular customer of the Qinghua Building was also placed under the supervision of the Shence Army.
On the surface, Tian Xiang, who was doing embroidery honestly in the Xin Embroidery Workshop, naturally did not escape suspicion. Regardless of whether she admitted it or not, she was also arrested and sent to the government prison.
The dignitaries in Beidi City who were still chatting and gossiping about Hua Jin behind their backs felt as if someone had clamped their throats, and they didn't dare to say anything anymore.
Within a few days, the old madam of Qinghualou, who was described as haggard, came to Hua Jin with a stack of gold tickets, and begged Hua Jin in tears to show her respect.
In Prince Li's Mansion, the Madam was kneeling on the ground, holding a handkerchief, sobbing.
"My dear, I don't know that I have raised such a unscrupulous slave. We are all hard-working women. My dear, it's hard to make money, and it's not easy for women to survive in this world."
, let us poor women go."
"Are you pitiful?"
Hua Jin casually flipped through the Qinghua Tower account book in her hand, glanced at it casually, and smiled.
"You, the Qinghua House, make more money than any shop in Beidi City, and it is almost the same as running a silver mine. How can you still be pitiful? Unless, mother, you have forced a good girl into prostitution."
"Ah, no, no, absolutely impossible..."
The madam was shocked and frightened, and she hurriedly kowtowed and denied. How many good people can there be in a brothel? The madam is not stupid, so this is something she cannot admit.
She could only cry in an even more pitiful manner:
"Your Majesty, please bring all the girls from the Blue and White House here for questioning. They wear silks and satins in the Blue and White House, eat delicacies from the mountains and seas, and spend money like water. If you say that they are being forced by villains, they are really heartless.
, Empress, Empress Mingjian.”
"Now that they have all become accustomed to living like this, they naturally won't say anything unfavorable to you."
Hua Jin sneered, closed the account books in her hands, sat in the flower hall of the palace, and fiddled with a double lily in the vase.
"Now that you have given me such a thick stack of gold tickets, what do you mean? Do you want to buy your life?"
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, this blue and white building is opened in Beidi City. It is supposed to pay taxes to the prince and your Majesty. However, we worshiped the wrong person in the past. From now on, the villain will never recognize the wrong person again. Every year
In addition to paying taxes on time... I, the villain, am willing to give you this amount of dividends."
The old bustard knelt on the ground and carefully extended two fingers to Hua Jin, meaning that he would give Hua Jin two cents of dividends every year.
To show filial piety.
Hua Jin couldn't help but laugh.
Behind her, Ergou Mei let out a "hum".
So Hua Jin looked back and asked:
"What do you think of Lian'er?"
Lian'er is Ergouzi's name. When Hua Jin asked her, Lian'er scoffed:
"It is said that Qinghua Tower will do whatever it takes to deal with beautiful girls. I wonder if this is true?"
Before the madam could say anything, Lian'er knelt down to Hua Jin again.
"Mother, Qinghualou has forced girls into prostitution and beaten them into prostitution in Beidicheng over the past few years. I don't know how many people have been in the world. As long as you can live an innocent life, who would be willing to be a prostitute with thousands of people sleeping on your back? Mom said that Qinghualou's
Women all do it voluntarily, but Lian'er doesn't believe it."
As she spoke, she told several examples around her, all of which were poor and good-looking women who were eventually sold into the Blue and White Mansion by their families. After all kinds of torture, the women's fierceness was tortured away.
In the end, these originally innocent women not only became physically corrupted, but also their thoughts became corrupted.
They live in a brothel and feel that there is nothing wrong with selling themselves to make money.
"This is called brainwashing."
Hua Jin shook her fan and looked at the madam,
"You guys who force girls into prostitution all have some tricks up their sleeves. As for me, I see that you are also a talent. Let's do this. I don't like your two dividends. If you want to live, then take the land deed of Qinghua Building in exchange for it."
Your life."
When saying this, Hua Jin smiled.
But the madam was trembling all over, her face turned white and red, then red and blue, and she kowtowed again.
"This, this is really true. It's not that I won't give it to you, my dearest lady. It's just that this Blue and White Building is my property in name. In fact, the person behind it is..."
"Who is it?"
"This is His Royal Highness King Qi."
The madam couldn't care less at this time and could only tell the truth about the boss behind the scenes.
On the first seat, Hua Jin pondered for a long time, just when everyone thought she was weighing whether it was worth offending King Qi for a blue and white building.
she smiled,
"Who do I think it is? It turns out to be Uncle Qi Wang. It's true that Uncle Qi Wang has a land as big as Guqi Prefecture and is so rich that he's reaching out to a poor place like ours in the North. Oh my!
.”
"Uncle King Qi, didn't he give two beautiful maids to our prince a few days ago? What are you doing with such a thick gift? It's too polite. Come on, return the gift to King Qi, and we will just receive the title deed to the Blue and White Building."
, maids and so on are really too expensive.”
Lian'er and Su Niang both looked at Hua Jin in surprise.
Is it their illusion? I always feel like the empress is stealing.
Su Niang asked:
"Your Highness, Hongxiu and Tianxiang are the murderers of you. Have you really given them back to His Highness, Prince Qi?"
This is not the crux of the issue. The key is, is King Qi willing to take it?
The dignitaries kept the singers and dancers as gifts and sent them here and there. The red sleeves and incense had already been given away, let alone whether the King of Qi wanted to take them back.
It's just that Hongxiu has now... As the top leader of Qinghua House, she can no longer stand the temptation of money and has begun to sell herself.
For such a prostitute, the King of Qi is willing to trade a blue and white building?
The issues that Lian Er and Su Niang were considering were not what Hua Jin was considering. She just executed them.
"The people have retreated, and the Blue Flower Building has been taken over. That's the decision. Mom, go get the land deed and tell Uncle Qi not to be polite. His nephew wants to live in a brothel. He is not so stingy.
"
The implication is that if you don't give it, King Qi is stingy! He is an uncle and still cares about his nephew. It's too much.
Princess Xiao Li's intention of robbery is already quite obvious.
In the Fuya Prison, Hongxiu and Tianxiang were imprisoned in two adjacent prisons.
Because Hongxiu is now the money-spinner of Qinghua House, Hua Jin ordered her not to be tortured.
She cursed in the dark cell,
"Let me out, Hua Jin, why are you locking me up? Let me out, let me go quickly!"
Zhai Yi's figure appeared outside the prison, and a yamen servant beside him scolded Hongxiu in a bad tone,
"You scream the most cheerfully in the whole prison. Why don't you save some energy and go back to Qinghua Building before you scream."
Hongxiu inside felt that she had been humiliated. She looked at Zhai Yi's official robe and cursed angrily,
"Zhai Yi, it's a shame that His Highness Prince Qi talked about you to me before I came to Beidicheng. How could I know that you have now become the dog of Prince Li's Mansion, Zhai Yi! His Highness the Crown Prince will not let you go if you act like this!
"
Zhai Yi, who was dressed in a thin body, shook his body after hearing the words. Just as he was about to speak, a palace guard behind him said coldly,
"Miss Hongxiu, you should take care of yourself first. This is Beidi City, not Guqi Prefecture."
Without waiting for Zhai Yi to speak, another guard spoke,
"The imperial envoy Master Zhai ordered that Miss Tianxiang be interrogated."
Throughout the whole process, Zhai Yi was like a tool, just standing there, and the guards of the palace spoke for him.
If he resisted even a little bit, the guard would secretly stretch out a dagger and put it on Zhai Yi's lower back.