Chapter 69: Expelled from the capital
The couple also obviously felt guilty.
Nowadays, you can buy a little maid with a few taels of silver, and some craftsmen with dozens of taels of silver. Even the courtesans that rich young men compete for in brothels can be redeemed with only a few hundred or a thousand taels of silver.
But they want to use one person to exchange for nearly 20,000 taels of silver. Isn't that just wishful thinking?
The two of them were so trembling that they couldn't say anything else.
It seemed that they finally understood that in front of these real dignitaries, let alone extorting money, if they wanted to deal with them, it would only take a word for them to do so.
At this moment, the guard who had just been sent out by Ye Qiongying came back, whispered in Ye Qiongying's ear for a while, and told her everything they had investigated.
These two people are indeed An Yu's family.
The man was the head of the An family. He was once very wealthy, but he became addicted to gambling. Not only did he lose all his family fortune, he even had to send his wife away to pay off his debts.
The poor wife was An Yu's biological mother. She was pushed into the abyss of despair by her husband. Unwilling to be bullied, she hanged herself on the door beam of the An family. It is said that she was discovered by An Yu's son.
Mr. An was probably also frightened by that scene and finally quit his drug addiction.
Without a wife, his son was still young and sickly, so he couldn't sell his property at any price. He had no choice but to sell the ancestral home and land. After paying off his debts, he had some savings left, so he married a new wife.
This one is different from the previous one. She is extremely aggressive and domineering. She eats and takes things with her family members. She uses An's family's things to subsidize her family members openly. An's father dares not say a word.
After all, when he first started complaining, the new wife brought her family to beat him up. After this happened a few times, he became numb.
An's father started a business again and saved some money.
The family moved from other places to the capital, planning to settle down there.
Unexpectedly, just a few days after arriving in Beijing, they met a scammer who cheated them of all their money.
Now, let alone settling down in the capital, I can’t even afford the travel expenses to return home.
Father An had no capital and could not do business, but he still had his wife's family to support.
With no other options, the two men turned their attention to their grown-up son An Yu.
Although this boy is physically weak, he is handsome. Even men can stare at him with their eyes wide open.
Soon, they found a buyer, who was the wealthy businessman who was scared away by the 20,000 taels of silver. He sold An Yu for 100 taels.
The money was received, but before the person was sent out, An Yu disappeared.
Just then they heard that the government office was looking for the family of a man named An Yu, so they hurried over with the buyer.
That's the gist of it.
In addition, there are many cases where An Yu was bullied and abused since childhood.
He was a selfish father who mortgaged his wife for gambling. Naturally, he didn't care about the sickly son left by his deceased wife, especially when his wife later gave birth to two healthy sons.
The stepmother was not an easy person to get along with, and she was even more sarcastic and mean to An Yu. It was she who proposed that An Yu sell her body, and even she and her brother went out to find the buyer.
This information was easy to get. The couple did not bother to cover up their abuse of their son, and all the neighbors heard it.
Moreover, when they came to the capital, they still had some money, so naturally they brought a few servants with them.
Now the An family has no money to pay monthly wages, and their usual behavior makes people hate them. The guards only cost a few taels of silver, but those servants have emptied the An family's savings and are eager to tell them all about the sex life between An's father and his stepmother.
Ye Qiongying was furious when she heard this, but when she thought of An Yu sitting in the carriage, she calmed down and decided to hurry up and drive these people away, lest An Yu see them and be reminded of the painful and dark past.
Thinking about it this way, An Yu’s amnesia is not a bad thing. At least it means she has a new future.
"Settling down in Jinliu Lane, right?" After hearing this, Ye Qiongying looked at those people.
Father An and others were stunned, and then started shaking again.
In such a short time, we have even found out their hometown addresses. If we want to kill them...
"Looking at your condition, it seems that you are indeed out of money," Ye Qiongying snorted, "My Ye family is not the kind of villains who would force people to death. Just consider it my bad luck! Your son who caused trouble cannot be taken away. From now on, he will stay in the mansion to do some rough work and use the monthly salary to pay off the debt. As for you... I will give you one day to leave the capital and don't let me see your family again. Otherwise..."
Her cold eyes swept over these people.
"Understood! Understood!" Father An and the stepmother agreed repeatedly, fearing that Ye Qiongying would go back on her word. They hurriedly left the government office with their men and soon disappeared.
Originally they were still worried about the travel expenses back home, but didn’t the rich businessman give them one hundred taels of silver?
It can be used as expenses for going back home.
As soon as they left, the onlookers couldn't help but say:
"Miss Ye, you are just too kind! People like this should be punished severely. There is so much money, how can you let yourself suffer the loss?"
"That's right! They claim to be rich, so they should pay the money."
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No one thought that there was anything wrong with Ye Qiongying's practice of detaining someone else's son to pay off the debt, and some even thought that it was a good deed.
Judging from the behavior of that couple, their son might be sold to someone else and might be bullied at home.
But the Ye family has always been kind, and the treatment in the mansion, even if you are a servant, is more comfortable than the life of many ordinary people. Isn't it saving people from dire straits?
Ye Qiongying smiled, bowed to everyone, and said:
"I want to thank you all for speaking up for me. Now let's just let the An family's matter pass. Please go to the teahouse next door and have a few cups of herbal tea, some snacks, and listen to some storytelling. The expenses will be charged to my Ye Mansion's account. Please don't mind."
After watching the fun, you can also enjoy refreshments!
The group of people felt embarrassed and wanted to refuse, but when they saw Ye Qiongying's sincere invitation, they finally agreed. They had a better impression of the Ye family and praised them to their neighbors after returning home. They were the ones who were invited to have tea by the eldest daughter of the Ye family!
The people went to the teahouse and the place became quiet.
Ye Qiongying nodded, and Uncle Ye had already prepared a few purses and stuffed them directly into the hands of the yamen runners who had been surrounded by the An family before.
"You are all in trouble today. This is because of my entrustment. Please accept these hard work fees. Otherwise, we in the Ye family will be embarrassed to come to the government office to do things in the future."
The yamen runners didn't think it was a big deal at first. They just got an extra income for nothing, and were thanked so much by Ye Qiongying, a member of the Ye family. Their faces turned red and they quickly said:
"You are too polite, young lady. Next time you need anything, just tell us and we will do our best to help you get it done!"
After doing all this, Ye Qiongying turned and walked towards the carriage.
As he walked, he instructed the guard beside him:
"I remember that An Yu's so-called 'selling money' is still in the hands of the An family, right? Now An Yu is a member of our Ye Mansion, so this money naturally does not belong to the An family.
You take a few people with you and take back all the silver. After you get it, divide it among your brothers!"