pastoral fragrance

Chapter 163 The Execution After Autumn
Qiuyue continued: "I only bit the woman's arm, and then the woman broke away quickly and ran out of the house. I got up in the dark and lit the lamp, but I didn't expect the three traffickers to enter the house! Then You will know everything about it.”

"But I still don't understand what this has to do with Sophora japonica?" Mei Xiang tilted her head and asked, there is a half-copper relationship between the two?
Qiulin also suddenly realized, patted his forehead, but said with a little concern: "I understand what Eldest Sister means. Since the thief ran out of the house last night, the traffickers entered the house immediately, and escaped." Only Sister Liu'er is the only person in the room, but there are two people missing in the room, which only means that the thief was also among us." The elder sister's words obviously pointed the finger at Sophora japonica, who did not show up. .

"Whether it's her or not, I'm not in a hurry to make a conclusion yet, because I bit the thief's arm, and the bone is deep enough. Even if it is healed, I'm afraid it will leave a mark." Qiuyue noticed Liu'er's arm just now Flexible, when she got into the car just now, she deliberately pinched her arm twice, her expression remained unchanged, thinking that the thief who appeared before the traffickers last night was undoubtedly Sophora japonica.

Mei Xiangniang heard the clue, and gritted her teeth angrily, "I didn't expect his Liu family to raise such a thing. It's a shame that her mother dared to ask you for a daughter. It's really disgusting!"

Mrs. Han frowned, "Qiuyue, it's not good for you to find out about this matter. It's not good if you wrong him." After all, it's from a fellow villager, so it's not good to expose people's shortcomings behind their backs.

"I didn't want to say it at first, but that Huaihua lady was aggressive, and I was still suppressing my anger, and I couldn't express my anger!" This matter was originally that her Huaihua did not behave properly, and her mother even accused her wake them up.She did not say these words in person to save face for her.If she bullies people too much, she will go all out!

A few girls in the carriage started to make a fuss, "That's right, that's right, Sophora and Liu'er were the only ones who weren't arrested at that time?"

Liu'er was startled, and quickly rolled up her sleeves, revealing her two pieces of lotus root, and said: "My father taught me that a gentleman loves money and obtains it in a proper way since I was a child. I dare not do such stealthy things." !"

Liu'er's family lived a decent life in Luoshui Village, so how could they be greedy for Qiuyue's family's money.Seeing Liu'er's two smooth arms, there is not a single scar on them, it is obvious that the thief is not her.From this, we can lock the Sophora japonica.

Along the way, everyone fell silent in thoughtful thought.

When we arrived in Qingcheng, the sun was already hanging above our heads.The first few big men in the village sent the human trafficker who was beaten like a pig's head directly to the Yamen.The rest stayed at Qiulin's shop.After everyone entered the room, Han didn't care to wipe the sweat from his forehead, and went into the room to boil water.Everyone hasn't had a sip of water or a sip of food since last night, and it seems that all the strength in their bodies has been drained, so they need to boil water and cook quickly.

The meal at noon was also very simple, too many people came, and there were not so many stools in the shop. Many people were standing or squatting, pouting at the noodles in their bowls.Everyone was so hungry that their eyes were dizzy, and they ate a bowl of clear water noodles with relish.

Before everyone finished their meal, the government sent two more officials over.Han quickly put down the bowl and went to the door, took out two ingots of silver from her pocket, and handed them to them.The two officials were unwilling to ask for it, and shook their heads, "Auntie, don't be like this, the master sent us here just to let you stay in the town for a few days. The interrogation of those traffickers will be held in the next few days, and I hope everyone will testify in court. "

Han nodded, "Naturally. We will definitely cooperate."

The two officials almost nodded and said, "These human traffickers are habitual criminals. We will further dig out their accomplices, and then we will catch them all and destroy their human traffickers' den!" They have also investigated this matter for a long time, but there has been no news, and now they can finally catch them all, and the two officials smiled with relief.

"Okay, we've brought our words, so we'll take our leave first." The two officials passed on the message, each got on their horses, and as soon as they lifted the reins, they galloped towards the Yamen.

In this way, Qiuyue and the others stayed in the town for another two days.The peasants in the village saw that there was nothing else to do with the cooking women. They had dinner that day and went back to the village.The big and small things at home are waiting to be busy, but it is not impossible to be without someone.It's just that because of what happened yesterday, everyone dared not leave a few girls in the shop anymore.Two peasants were left in the shop to give everyone courage.

In view of the thefts that occurred in this shop, the aunt who originally planned to rent the shop as a tailor shop retreated and never showed up.In the end, the shop was leased to a young couple, who said they were running a grocery store, selling oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, pots and pans, and bamboo utensils commonly used in the farm.Everyone agreed to rent the shop to them after the government settled the previous matter, and the rent was still two taels of silver.

The matter of human traffickers is full of evidence, and there is no room for those people to deny it.The people in the government are not vegetarians either, they followed the clues that these few human traffickers got out of under torture and tortured them, and took them to their lair.It turned out that they hadn't been able to find out before. After these traffickers captured the women, they directly traded with the proprietress of the flower building, without going through the middle hand. In addition, they were skillful and knew how to avoid people's eyes and ears. Naturally, it is not easy to find their traces on the crowded road.

Those human traffickers were heinous and unforgivable crimes, and the county magistrate was still righteous and clear, and sentenced them to be executed after autumn, and sent them directly to death row.Such a verdict is really gratifying. After the news spread in Qingcheng, everyone couldn't help cheering.

Qiuyue and the others captured those traffickers alive because of their meritorious service in eliminating harm.The government specially issued 20 taels of silver as a reward.On the day when everyone packed up their things and was about to head back to the village, Qiu Lin wrapped the 20 taels of silver that the government rewarded him with blue cloth, and went to Qingfenglou.

The young owner of Qingfeng Tower has saved everyone's lives, so no matter how you say it, I have to thank him.Moreover, those traffickers were caught by Murong Yunfan, so the 20 taels of silver should be what he deserved.

(End of this chapter)