The Green Lotus Peasant Girl

"Who wants to live with you for a long time?" After Zhou's mother finished speaking, she turned to enter, but her heart was softer. In fact, she knew the most about these children. If you want to be reliable, you must be the fourth husband and wife. The most important thing is to know filial piety. Then Li Fu found a Qian family back earlier and took the Qian family’s daughter to feed her like her. She didn’t care about it. one's gift.

Even though she said that, she didn't say that she was going back.Yes, it's the same wherever you live in the slack farm now.

Moreover, she lives here to help with the children, and Li Qinghe can go up the mountain to chop wood with them, sometimes not to work, but to be with each other.

News soon came from the town, and the one who ran away was Zhao Tianfu.

It was really unexpected.

When the two got the news and rushed to town, Zhao Tianfu had already been arrested. Both people who had been arrested earlier identified him, and even if he called out injustice, the case was still pieced together.

Zhao Tianfu found the two and asked Liu Cheng to catch the fish, and Yang Lanhong led the way. The three of them had Liu Cheng's brother selling the fish.

I said it a long time ago and sold it in the town. Anyway, the fish look the same. Who can prove that it is a fish in Li Qinghe's pond?

Zhao Tianfu’s family used to be okay, but when he came to him, he didn’t work all year round, and the land was given to people, and half of the people who planted the land. In bad years, he didn’t have enough food and he liked to go shopping. Hualou and Huajiu, so it looks like Zhao’s family still has some old scenery outside, but the inside is actually not as good as before, and it is gradually no different from other houses in the village.

After the case was clarified, people who had nothing to do with the case were not allowed to enter, but there were a lot of people who went in. Both the Yang family and Yang Lanrou were there, and Liu Cheng’s brother-in-law and wife came from the Liu family, who sold fish. On Zhao Tianfu's side, a beautiful woman of about twenty years old was crying with a child in her arms.

"It's almost the case inside." The mayor finished reading and closed the record booklet.

"Yesterday you said that if you find the culprit, you are willing to let my son go." Father Yang took the lead and pulled Liu Yuan off and asked, "Right?"

Liu Yuan also said, "Yes, so we asked the mayor to find out so quickly."

The hidden meaning is that they have taken care of the mayor, and they have done their best.

Zhou Chengkang accepted, "I do say that I want the culprit to be punished. But they are wrong for stealing things and cannot be let go. The law stipulates that anyone who steals more than two hundred wen of property will only take two years. Those who instruct others to steal property For five years."

His voice fell, and everyone in the room didn't look pretty.

Father Yang closed his eyes and said, "They stole two buckets of fish from your family, and the three of us joined together to buy those two buckets of fish. Is this all right?"

Change the concept!Obviously stealing fish, said it was buying fish.

"It's not that our fish can't be sold." Li Qinghe sneered, "It sounds like we are relying on you to buy two buckets of fish on purpose. Not for sale!"

Father Yang also found out that the couple seemed to have a feast with him. They lived in the neighborhood and had never given him a good face.

"Then what do you want?" Liu Yuan sighed, "If possible, we are willing to give some compensation, as long as you let them go."

"And us." The beautiful woman over there hugged the child in her arms tightly and cried, "My child is less than half a year old. If his father is arrested like this, how can he live in the village from now on? And me, if I stay at home alone...I might as well die."

She held the child and knelt down to the mayor, "Mayor, please help..."

There was only her gentle cry in the room, which made people feel pity.At this moment, another person came in outside, it was Zhao Wanwan. She seemed to be running over, panting, and carrying Hu Yanxi.

Seeing Zhao Tianfu kneeling on the ground, she hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Father, I heard that you were arrested by the mayor. What happened?"

"Stealing fish." The mayor explained, "There are three people together. The two over there were caught face-to-face. They recognized him. However, Zhao Tianfu is the mastermind. One person sells fish, the other recognizes the way, and the three are equally divided."

Seeing his daughter and son-in-law came, Zhao Tianfu suddenly said, "I don't plead guilty. I slept well at home that night, and my wife can testify."

The beautiful woman stopped crying, and hurriedly agreed, "Yes, yes, he hasn't gone out in the past half month, and sleeps at home every day."

The mayor ignored their sophistry and said, "The problem now is that they all want to be private and are discussing."

Zhao Wanwan stepped forward, "Sister, my father would not do such a thing."

Speaking of it, it was the first time they met since they met in the hospital. For Zhao Wanwan, it was the first time they met after Hu Yanxi passed the exam.Li Qinghe looked at her, "You tell me it's useless, it's not me who identified your father as a thief, it's them."

Her expression was very plain, Zhao Wanwan met such a look, but she remembered that Li Qinghe had taken her to the town to help people cook when she returned home from injury, and the sister who helped her buy hairpins, this moment seemed to be far away from her.

She was in a daze for a while, and looked at Hu Yanxi for help.

Hu Yanxi stepped forward, "Sister and brother-in-law are all in the same family. Is this better than private?"

"The law is very strict in stealing, but they were caught on the spot. In other words, if they weren’t stolen, their sentence was reduced by half according to the law. Besides, if something like this happened in Luoyue Town, we would still make trouble in the county. Yuezhen’s reputation is also bad, mayor, right?"

The last sentence was asked by the mayor.Hu Yanxi is now a scholar, but the mayor is only a child. That's it. Although he didn't take the county test every time, he occasionally took the test.The two are considered to know each other.

Li Qinghe looked down, and it was true that scholars were different, and they were very good at catching loopholes.

In fact, she and Zhou Chengkang knew in their hearts that since the mayor wanted to find them and these people, he still wanted to be private, otherwise he would just send the people to the county seat, and he would have to do anything about it.

"You said something wrong." Zhou Chengkang looked at him, "We are not a family, not even relatives. Therefore, this matter should be handled by business."

Hu Yanxi looked unhappy, and since he was admitted as a talent, the whole Luoyue Town, whether they knew him or didn't know him, would give a bit of face.At least there was a smiling face. Zhou Chengkang's attitude of disregarding clearly didn't see him.

Zhou Chengkang didn't care what he thought, saying, "Since it's going to be private, I don't know how much money is appropriate. It should be less, they have not been punished. What if there is another time? I don't want to run every day and night. Come out and catch the thief."

"It's up to the mayor to decide."

Everyone's eyes fell on the mayor, and he frowned slightly, "He is also right, it's better than...you each give ten taels of silver, as for the mastermind of adding blessing, twenty taels."

I knew he had a private idea!

A few tens of taels of silver is enough for these people to suffer once, and it should be a pain that can be remembered for a lifetime.I shouldn't dare next time, the mayor has done something very measured, not only to cover up the thief in Luoyue Town, but also to let them know that the pain will not be committed again.

In fact, the three offenders here, except for Zhao Tianfu, should be able to get them.

"Twenty taels!" Zhao Wanwan exclaimed.

The faces of Father Yang and Liu Yuan were not good, "Mayor, will it be too many? This normal family has been producing for several years..."

"I'm not talking nonsense." The mayor said solemnly, "If you don't agree, I will send you directly to the county seat. The magistrate will decide."

The room was quiet, and if they were willing to go to the county seat and convicted by the magistrate, they would not come to pester for so long.

Zhao Wanwan whispered, "My father doesn't have so much talent."

Zhao Tianfu frowned, "Can you write an IOU?"

"Yes!" Father Yang woke up, "Can you write an IOU? I will write twelve taels and pay it off next year."

Who wants to entangle with them, Li Qinghe said directly, "If you give the money, let me go, IOU... What's the use of writing a hundred taels of money if I can't get the money? I don't need IOU!"

Zhou Chengkang said, "In just two days, within two days, if I didn't get the silver, it would be useless for anyone to intercede."

After finishing speaking, he took Li Qinghe and said goodbye to the mayor, "There is still something in our house. If we have all the money, please find someone to tell us."

The two went out and got on the carriage and went home!

Without stopping all the way, when the carriage left the yard, Zhao Wanwan hurriedly chased it out.

Not only that, she also chased her home, the Yang family next door, and Father Yang also came and knocked on the door. They didn't see anyone or even opened the door.

It was Liu Yuan, who paid the money in the afternoon that day and took the man back.

Then, in the past two days, I just heard that Father Yang was borrowing money from the village next door, and even Yu Yan at the back had borrowed them, all at 20% interest, which really let him borrow.

It was Zhao Tianfu who sold his old blue brick house for enough money.

Two days later, Li Qinghe and the two went to the mayor's house again and got forty taels of silver.

The mayor smiled, "Here is the silver, do you want to weigh it?"

"No, we trust you." Zhou Chengkang instead pushed the silver in front of him. "We won't take this silver back. We want to buy land, which is close to the mountain behind my house and measure it over there."

Hearing this, the mayor was a little surprised, "Buy all the money for land?"

"Buy it all." Zhou Chengkang said firmly.

Hearing what he said, the mayor finally reacted. The imperial court would be happy to change this barren mountain anytime. If it is done, it would be a great feat for him. The smile on his face bloomed, "The barren mountain is even more It’s cheap, because it’s a slope, so you can’t change the land. If you agree to one or two dollars per mu, I will write the deed now and let someone follow you to measure it.”

"Write!" Zhou Chengkang said immediately.

The pen, ink, paper and inkstone were all prepared. Originally, I had to draw the money to get the money. After Zhou Chengkang painted on the private contract, the mayor began to write the contract.

Seeing him put up a pen, Zhou Chengkang hurriedly said, "Write Li's Qinghe."

Not only the mayor was surprised, but Li Qinghe was also surprised. Zhou Chengkang smiled at her, "I said, everything in the house belongs to you, including me!"

Li Qinghe's eyebrows were full of smiles, and he reached out to touch his face, "Don't worry, I will treat you well."

The mayor only felt sore and envied. Thinking of his old wife, he would be better to her when he returned.

The two of them didn't get the money, and they took a copy of the deed which was still in the ink and left the mayor's home. It was too late today, and they agreed to take a measurement tomorrow morning.

The author has something to say: Tonight is late, no more, see you tomorrow afternoon.