"This...this is mine."
"You swear to God." Meng Changqing gave him a chance, "If you stole it, I would be hacked to death by bandits tomorrow. If you dare to swear, I will believe it."
Of course Ma Lishan didn't dare. He was not so bold as not to believe in heaven's punishment, so he had to give the basket in his hand to Meng Changqing.
Meng Changqing carried the basket and walked towards the direction where the girl was crying.
Jiang Chan patted Luo Yun on the back twice and said, "Don't cry, it makes me upset."
Luo Yun felt wronged and scared, so he could only sob silently.
"The beans are gone, and the basket is gone. How much is that basket worth?" Jiang Chan said irritably, "I shouldn't believe you."
"Sister-in-law Jiang Chan." Meng Changqing called her from the field ridge.
Jiang Chanshun looked over at the sound and saw that it was the county master coming with two guards. The county master was still carrying her basket in his hand. He thought that this official came in time, but then he thought again, could it be that the county master saw that person? The basket is strange. Did you take it to look at it for a while?
"How can you blame the child when someone intentionally steals?"
Luo Yun wiped away his tears and saw the basket in Meng Changqing's hand, and immediately ran towards Meng Changqing.
When the child arrived, Meng Changqing knelt down and handed the basket to her, "See if there is anything missing inside?"
Luo Yun reached in and touched it, "It's no less. It should be no less."
"Thank you, Mr. County." Jiang Chan couldn't think of anything nice to say, and she blamed Luo Sanmu, a eloquent person, for not being by her side.
She stepped forward quickly and pushed Luo Yun, who was holding the basket and refused to let go, "Why don't you thank the county master quickly."
Luo Yun repeated Jiang Chan's words, "Thank you, Mr. County."
"You're welcome." Meng Changqing said, "It's the government's duty to recover stolen things. After learning this lesson, you must remember to protect your own things in the future. But there is another point. No matter how precious your things are, they are not as valuable as your family. , there is nothing wrong with you abandoning this basket of beans to chase your brother."
Meng Changqing asked Jiang Chan again about her family's harvest, "Is the grain harvest almost done? Is the grain storage sufficient this year?"
Jiang Chan always felt that when talking to officials, her heart and lungs felt as if a hole had been poked in her heart and lungs, and she had to bend down and arch her back to plug the hole.
Before, when she saw the magistrate of Weishan County, she only dared to take a look at him from a distance. Now that he is probably younger and has a better temper, she can still manage to reply a few words.
But I can only reply: Yes, yes, enough, enough, good, good, good.
"Get busy." Meng Changqing patted Luo Yun's shoulder and walked away.
Not long after walking, I saw a teenage girl, bending over and desperately pulling out soybeans.
That's the daughter-in-law Wang Lamei brought back from her family, with a bunch of flowers.
No matter how hard she worked, she could never stop her mother-in-law from scolding her.
From her perspective, it's probably hard to tell where is the world and where is hell.
"Wang Lamei." Meng Changqing said when he saw it, "I heard you are so angry, why are you sitting on the ridge to rest? Let's work together, time waits for no one, others have finished harvesting and start to go up the mountain to chop wood, but yours Didn't catch up.
It's hard to live without firewood in winter. "
Wang Lamei made a poor excuse for herself, "My ankle sprained and it hurt so much that I sat here to rest for a while."
Meng Changqing laughed twice, lukewarmly, "Young man, please keep your voice down and don't attract people to watch the show."
"Hey, yes, please keep your voice down."
Meng Changqing walked around the field and saw quarrels and one-sided scoldings, but also heard laughter.
Houses in one place are obviously not far apart, but they are constantly changing the world.
As the weather gets colder day by day, enough food in the fields has been returned to various warehouses.
The next step is to stock up on firewood for the winter.
Every day when Luo Sanmu went to the mountain to cut firewood, he had to go to the yamen and tell someone. Someone from the yamen would come out and follow them to the foot of the mountain to collect firewood.
"It's early winter here." Meng Changqing withdrew his hand to feel the pulse and said to Wen Shi, "We still have to burn the kang at night."
"How's it going?" Liang tweeted and asked Meng Changqing, "Is it okay, madam?"
"It's nothing serious. I just caught a cold at night." Meng Changqing stood up. "There is some medicine in the house. I'll grab it and drink it for a few days. Then I'll be fine if I keep warm."
"Go quickly." Liang Jiujiu waited for Meng Changqing to get out of the way, and immediately covered Wen's body with the quilt to ensure that there was no air leakage.
"Last year it was so cold that I only slept in a hole in the ground. You didn't even catch a cold. It seems that I still have to sleep with you." Liang tweeted, "I can keep an eye on you at night."
"No need." Wen said, "I'm not that old yet and I can take care of myself."
"If you had taken good care of me, I wouldn't be lying here now."
There were times when Wen had nothing to say.
"I'll move here tonight."
"What if my disease is passed on to you?" Wen Shi said, "If you want to come over, wait until I recover."
"No, I'm not worried." Liang Jiujiu insisted, and Wen had no choice.
Meng Changqing was boiling medicine in the kitchen of the back office. She planned to cook it herself and bring the medicine to Wen, but she didn't expect someone to come to her halfway.
"Master, a message came from the front office. They asked you to go over to the camp. They said they will be released today, and Mr. Wei is also here."
"Whose person came to deliver the message?" Meng Changqing asked Bafang.
"The people around Yu Hujun."
"Okay." Meng Changqing stood up and put aside the fan that lit the stove. "Prepare the horse and call Lai Cai over and let him look at the small stove."
Two-quarters of an hour later, Meng Changqing and others arrived in front of the military camp. The camp was heavily guarded today. There were people standing at a distance both inside and outside the camp.
"Master Meng, please come this way."
Meng Changqing followed the leader to Yu Tai's camp.
Sitting on the main seat inside was Wei Fangyun. In addition, there were two county magistrates from Yangmen County and Weishan County.
"Changqing, you are the closest to here, but you are the slowest to come."
When Meng Changqing heard what Wei Fangyun said, she immediately apologized verbally, "I don't know what happened. I've just been dawdling in doing things recently. Maybe it's because it's cold and I don't like to move." She didn't mention at all that she was the last to learn about this incident.
"Master Meng, don't talk about yourself like that." Cao Hongxing said, "You built a city wall in two months. It hasn't been that long. If you count your work as slow, those who have been doing the same thing for several years don't know how long it will take." What did you say about yourself?"
Wei Fangyun looked at the two people quietly, "It's rare that Mr. Cao is willing to speak for others. It's rare."
"I'm not speaking for anyone." Mr. Cao defended himself half a sentence.
"Okay, now that everyone is here, let's get down to business." Wei Fangyun said, "When people come out later, be on guard. No one can let down their guard. If something happens to the savage at this juncture, None of us can escape the relationship.
I don’t know if he will believe it about the medicine. In short, you must do a complete show and don’t make any mistakes. "
