After learning the cause and effect, Miss Shen looked at the two tied up gangsters. In fact, there was no need to report this kind of thing to the official. As long as the person was captured, the local patriarchal law could be enforced and the person would be drowned directly in the pond.
It's just that Miss Shen knew very well that she shouldn't show her sharpness when she was out, so she didn't order the villagers to do anything. How to deal with the two of them was entirely up to the villagers themselves.
Later, Miss Shen went to the house next door to see the fragrant woman's body.
It was obvious that it had been dead for many days, and there was no sign of decay, as if it were still alive.
"Brother, do you know why this is?"
Miss Shen didn't understand the reason and looked at Ye Ming.
Since this person brought her here, there must be a reason.
Ye Ming smiled and said: "This is the wonderful fragrance of the wronged corpse. If the injustice cannot be washed away for a day, the fragrance will not dissipate."
"No escape... Aren't those two people already caught and about to be punished by the local patriarchal clan?"
Miss Shen asked curiously.
"Oh, is it so?"
Ye Ming said with a half-smile.
After hearing this, Miss Shen had a premonition that something was not going to happen. When she went out and took a look, she saw that the two scoundrels who were tied there had disappeared.
The old man guarding the two men was also knocked to the ground.
Seeing this, everyone hurried up to ask what was going on.
The old man told him that it was one of the naughty old ladies who attacked him and let them go.
It's just that those two people were nothing. After being let go, Guan didn't care what happened to his mother in the village and ran away.
When the villagers heard this, they were all angry.
Someone suggested that the naughty old woman should be drowned.
After thinking about it, the village chief decided to let her live.
After hearing that the rogue had escaped, Miss Shen looked at the fragrant corpse again and said to Ye Ming:
"Brother, must this matter be resolved?"
"There are no requirements. You can do whatever you want. If you want to leave, you can leave now."
Ye Ming said casually, as if he didn't care about it at all.
"Is what brother said true?"
"Naturally, otherwise, if we have to deal with countless grievances in the world, wouldn't it be exhausting?
If you want to leave, get in the car now and let's go. "
Ye Ming said, pointing to the buffalo pulling the cart.
After hearing this, Miss Shen took a look at the ox cart and said:
"If you don't see it, just ignore it. Since you have seen it and have already taken action, you must get things done."
After that, he asked people in the village who the two gangsters usually interacted with, hoping to find clues to trace them.
At this moment, I suddenly saw a group of soldiers coming from outside the village. The leader rode a horse and led his soldiers to the village.
The man on horseback did not wear armor, but wore official uniforms. Due to his tall stature, the official uniforms were fully stretched out, making him look extremely conspicuous.
Among this group of people, there were several soldiers escorting two people over.
The villagers took a closer look and saw that the two people being held were the two thugs who had escaped.
Miss Shen was also surprised, and she decided to pursue it. It was too much of a coincidence that these two people were caught.
He couldn't help but glance at Ye Ming, but he didn't react at all, and just looked at the visitor with interest.
The young official who came on horseback came to the village entrance and said loudly:
"My official, Yao Zijie of the Yao family of the Jin Yuan Dynasty, was ordered to take up the post of magistrate of Maifeng County. When he was passing here, he saw these two people who looked like evil men and fled in a hurry, so he captured them. Did these two people escape from your village?"
The village chief was very alarmed when he heard that the new magistrate was about to take office, and he was from a wealthy family in Jinyuan Prefecture. He led the villagers to kneel down to greet him.
It was also the first time for Miss Shen to see such a wealthy person, and she also saluted, but Ye Ming was lying next to the wall laughing crazily, as if I was a lunatic, don't mess with me.
After Yao Zijie briefly communicated with the village chief, he knew what happened. He knew that a woman had knocked down the two people. He felt strange and looked at Miss Shen who bowed her head in salute.
Yao Zijie was a little surprised to see this woman dressed in coarse linen clothes but with a temperament that was not comparable to that of an ordinary village woman.
But that's it, there was no love at first sight or lust for beauty.
After all, he comes from a big family and has seen many beauties of all kinds, so he has no reaction to Miss Shen's appearance.
In his opinion, Miss Shen is just a middle-aged girl.
However, as the incoming county magistrate, he still knew how to win people's hearts. He personally dismounted his horse, stretched out his hand to help Miss Shen up, and offered symbolic care and questions.
Facing his questions, Miss Shen was neither humble nor overbearing, calm and composed, and answered fluently.
Yao Zijie was a little surprised when he saw this. He knew that this was not an ordinary village woman, and asked Miss Shen about her origins.
Miss Shen did not hide anything and told the truth. She just introduced Ye Ming as her brother.
Seeing the crazy-looking Ye Ming greeting him with a smile, Yao Zijie didn't take it seriously and just communicated with Miss Shen, a normal person.
After some conversation, he found that Miss Shen's conversational skills were extraordinary, coupled with her decisiveness and bravery in dealing with rogues, Yao Zijie was somewhat impressed.
He said on the spot that he would try the case on the spot to bring justice to the deceased.
Therefore, the ancestral hall in the village was used as the government office, and all the soldiers served as government officials and opened the hall to hear cases.
The trial of the case went very smoothly this time. The two gangsters were not spineless, otherwise they would not have harmed themselves to avoid going to the battlefield.
I heard that the county magistrate was interrogating the case in person, and there were corpses emitting a strange smell lying aside.
The guilty and frightened two confessed their crimes very simply, and they confessed everything without being punished.
After confirming the crime of the two men, Yao Zijie sentenced them to be beheaded on the spot.
Originally, the criminal law for homicide took at least half a year to go through the process from sentencing to execution.
But in today's troubled times, county magistrates in various places are basically equivalent to the local emperors. As long as it is not a particularly serious case, they have the power to directly kill people.
After Yao Zijie gave the order, the two horrified and desperate gangsters were beheaded in the wild outside the village.
Afterwards, they were simply thrown into a mass grave and buried, and that was the end of the matter.
As the case came to light, the woman's body, which emitted a strange smell, lost its fragrance in front of everyone and decomposed on the spot.
Seeing this, Yao Zijie felt strange and sighed:
"There are countless injustices in the world. How many people can be punished like this after death?"
After hearing the case, Yao Zijie stopped staying and continued to Maifeng County with his soldiers.
The villagers all lamented that the new magistrate was a noble man, and he did not have the indifference of other people from aristocratic families who regarded human life as nothing, and they all greeted him in the street.
Thinking about the next few years, everyone will be under the control of this big boss, and I feel a lot more at ease.
After sending Yao Zijie away, Ye Ming got on the bullock cart at some point, walked to Miss Shen and said:
"It's time for us to continue on our way."
Miss Shen opened the car curtain, sat in, and suddenly asked:
"Just now when Magistrate Yao was interrogating the case, I saw my brother talking to the statue. I wonder what he was talking about?"
"Hey, I'm a lunatic. Isn't it normal to say crazy things?"
Ye Ming smiled, looking very crazy.
Miss Shen didn't pay attention to what he said and just continued to chat. The two of them just chatted all the way.
Nowadays, the security of the entire Guliang Mansion is pretty good, especially around Maifeng County. There are almost no bandits.
There is only one reason for this, and that is that there is no one left.
A few days ago, in order to expand the number of troops, the King of Jin recruited troops from various places.
Even the thieves in the mountains will not be spared, and the army will march directly to the door of your village.
Either become a soldier or die.
Given the choice between the two, naturally no one chooses to die.
As a result, under this unreasonable situation, the security of Guliang Mansion became much better. The people seen along the road were basically the old, weak, sick and disabled, as well as some women and children.
There are almost no healthy young people to see.
Nowadays, those responsible for manual labor such as farming are old, weak, women and children. Along the road, I saw several old men and women lying exhausted in the fields. Some of them were wearing thin clothes and had already died. It was not known whether they died of exhaustion. Or freeze to death, or starve to death...
Miss Shen opened the car curtain and looked outside, and suddenly said:
"Brother, why don't you let me sit outside too."
Hearing this, Ye Ming moved away a little and said with a smile:
"As long as you don't mind."
Miss Shen and Ye Ming each took half of the ox cart, looked around at the surrounding scene, and sighed:
“In the past, at home, I only heard people saying that life was difficult, and I only read about people’s sufferings in books.
I have tried to think about what the situation was like, but after seeing what I have seen now, I realize that the words and books contain only pale meaning. "
“When I first saw these, I couldn’t help but think more about them, and I got used to them after seeing them more.
No matter in troubled times or prosperous times, everyone lives like this.
The prosperous age is just about starving to death. "
Ye Ming leaned against the car door, crying and laughing.
Seeing this, Miss Shen said again:
"Others are struggling to survive on the thin line between life and death, but I, a blessed person, am still not satisfied and want to find a right man. Now that I think about it, it's really ridiculous."
Hearing this, Ye Ming glanced at her sideways:
"You don't have any strange ideas, do you?"
"Brother, you are worrying too much, and you are just saying a few words of emotion.
What many talented and powerful emperors have been unable to do for thousands of years, what can I, a mere little girl, do?
Nowadays, it is nothing but touching and sentimental.
In this world, if you can really find someone who can help each other and support you together, you will be really lucky. "
Ye Ming smiled and said: "God doesn't care about these things, I have to do it."
"Brother is talking crazy again."
“Hey, even though I’m a lunatic, I’m telling the truth.
Normal people, on the other hand, often tell lies. "
Seeing Ye Ming shaking his head and saying this, Miss Shen wanted to laugh, but looking at the surrounding scene, she couldn't laugh, so she just fell silent.
Seeing that she didn't speak, Ye Ming didn't speak anymore.
The buffalo pulled the cart very steadily, with almost no stops along the way. By evening, we had arrived in Maifeng County.
Entering the county town, the situation you see is much better than outside.
There are still many young people in the city.
People in the city were relatively wealthy and could pay the "soldier tax" in lieu of conscription, without having to go to the battlefield.
Of course, this can only be done when the war ahead has not reached its peak.
Once the situation gets out of control, as long as you are a man, you have to go to the battlefield.
As soon as they arrived at the city gate, they were stopped.
It's not that they committed any crime, but that the officials were expropriating cattle and needed to manage them uniformly.
Ye Ming's buffalo is almost ready for cultivation. It has a very strong physique. It looks like a "peerless cow" at first glance, so it will naturally be claimed by the guards.
Seeing that some of the guards had a vicious attitude, they only wanted cattle and did not mention the money to buy it. Some of them were dirty and wanted to take advantage of Miss Shen. Ye Ming suddenly smiled and said:
"We are relatives of the new county magistrate, how dare you embarrass us?"
When all the officers heard this, they were all shocked.
Seeing that Ye Ming casually mentioned the name of the new county magistrate and looked very proud of himself, everyone immediately believed what he said.
The leader's face immediately made a 180-degree turn, and he bowed his head and asked Ye Ming to drive into the city without daring to stop him, let alone taking away the buffalo.
After leaving the city gate, Miss Shen said:
"We are not related to Yao Zhixian. Is it inappropriate for my brother to pretend to be a relative like this?"
"Hey, I'm a madman. What madmen say is all nonsense. They are naive and choose to believe it. Who can blame them?"
As Ye Ming spoke, he suddenly changed the topic and looked at Miss Shen and said,
"Besides, if it doesn't work out, I'll marry you to the county magistrate. Won't you be related by then?"
"Brother is talking nonsense again. I'm afraid County Magistrate Yao can't bear my situation."
"Others can't bear it, but he has a hard life and can bear it!"
"Brother, please don't joke."
"This is the truth."
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