The officer released the two boys from the Shi family and the Niu family, and reached out to pat the boy from the Shi family on the shoulder, with a hint of intimidation and warning.
Hu Cao said with a smile: "Okay, these two people will be handed over to Mr. Zhang. Don't stay too long. Leave early. If you arrive at the relocation place late, it will be difficult to naturalize smoothly."
Zhang Dianli frowned again: "When the relocation order is issued, as long as it arrives within this year, isn't it okay?"
Hu Cao said: "However, those who arrive first can be allocated fields and can become farmers. It's hard to say for those who arrive later. There are too many people fleeing these days, and the court must deal with this matter strictly. In addition, I also want to remind you that
Don’t just take in people who don’t know their origins.”
After the bandit rebellion last time, some people got lost and found themselves again. Just like Wu Blacksmith and the others, they walked behind them, and Zhang Dianli also sent people there.
But everything is unpredictable on the road. No one knows how many people will make it there in the end and how many will be naturalized successfully.
Zhang Dianli saluted Hu Cao.
Hu Cao looked at Zhao Xueli again: "You seem to have quite a few brothers."
Zhao Xueli didn't know what Hu Cao meant, so he didn't speak.
Hu Cao showed a meaningful smile: "Usually when registering, brothers are not allowed to be registered in the same place. They have to be separated one by one."
Zhao Xueli stiffened. What did Hu Cao mean? He, his third brother, and his fourth brother couldn't be together?
Hu Cao didn't say any more and ordered the guards to lead the people who were tied up with ropes and move forward.
When the common people saw that the boy from the Shi family and the Niu family had been let go, they couldn't help but struggle even more fiercely. Some even rushed forward and knelt down in front of Zhang Dianli.
"Sir, please save us, too. We didn't run away, and we didn't grab food. This journey... it wasn't easy for us... we didn't even have food in our stomachs... how could we possibly grab..."
Before the man finished speaking, he was whipped to the ground by the guard. The remaining guards came up and beat him and kicked him. The man started wailing, but soon there was blood on his head, and he was dragged to death by the guard.
Taken away like a dog.
Everyone looked at this scene and felt chilled from the bottom of their hearts.
The five big and three thick guards were so vicious against a skinny commoner. If Zhang Dianli hadn't been there, not to mention the two boys from the Shi family and the Niu family, I don't know how many of them would have been taken away like this.
Hu Cao and others walked away, and everyone stood there without saying a word, and the surroundings were silent.
"What are you doing in a daze?" Old Mrs. Yang said first, "Pack your things quickly and pick up the food. If it's too late, it will be gone."
When Mrs. Yang said this, the women all came to their senses and immediately ran for food. Food was their life. No matter what happened next, they could not survive a day without food.
"How come these people are so bad," said Tian, Ding Maosheng's daughter-in-law. "We don't have much food, but they are causing trouble. When I look at it... I want to rush over."
Tian was timid and could only talk about it afterwards.
To put it bluntly, most of these people are honest farm men. Unless they are forced to a desperate situation, they will not resist. When the imperial court issued an eviction order, they had to leave their hometowns and abandon their property. Wouldn't everyone just tolerate it?
Old Mrs. Yang said: "It's only right that he didn't come out, otherwise he could have been sent away so quickly?"
"There is no comparison with those people like Ding Yacha," Tian said. "If it were Gao Xianwei and Ding Yacha, they would probably still give us food."
Tian picked up a water bag on the ground, and the water in the water bag dripped out. Unexpectedly, the officer stabbed it through.
Tian said: "Did you offend them by talking about the water bag?"
Ding Maosheng said: "Say less!"
"You're not allowed to say it yet?" Tian said, "They are just a bunch of black-hearted people."
And these evil-hearted people are actually officials from Taozhou. The thought of them going to Taozhou for naturalization makes everyone feel chilled.
The Niu family and the Shi family pulled the two boys to their side and took a closer look. Each of them had been whipped several times. Their clothes were torn and there was blood. Fortunately, the injuries were not serious.
"What's going on?" Niu Daochang asked the two children.
Shi Ping said: "I was going to look for water in front of me, but I didn't know that there were rich people resting in the woods not far ahead. I couldn't see clearly. It seemed that there were women in the house. I was about to leave, but I was tricked by those rich people.
People stopped me."
Upon hearing this, Shi Ping's mother immediately grabbed her son: "You...didn't you see anything you shouldn't have seen?"
Shi Ping's face suddenly turned red, but he said categorically: "No, Uncle Xue Li taught us that when we walk outside, we may encounter female relatives, so we should stay away from them. Why don't I know this truth? I even
Several of them didn't even see clearly."
Mrs. Yang glanced at Shi Pingniang: "Okay, let the baby speak for herself."
Shi Ping then continued: "I wanted to leave, but they refused to let me go, so I saw them take out a portrait, look at the portrait and then look at me, and said they looked similar, and then the guards came."
"The officers took me aside and asked me where I came from and which village I was from. I told them, but they didn't believe me and whipped me. Fortunately, the eldest brother of the Niu family came later and said that we had a pawnbroker.
Follow and the pawnbrokers will arrive soon, otherwise they will take me away directly."
Shi Ping's mother murmured: "Is it possible that I really recognized the wrong person? That's how portrait tracing works, and it's easy to make a mistake."
Although Shi Ping may have been mistakenly admitted, so were the people who were taken away.
After this incident, everyone felt uncertain, and everyone looked at Zhao Xueli.
Mrs. Yang also discovered at this moment that her little granddaughter was missing.
He was still here just a moment ago, but in the blink of an eye he disappeared without knowing where he was.
…
Ding Rong avoided the officer's questioning and was walking forward with his head bent. He had to find the eldest lady and the second master quickly so that he could tell the eldest master what happened here.
In order to catch the officials here, the master finally found the evidence and needs the help of the second master, so that those corrupt officials can be taken down.
Ding Rong thought about how the little household servant dared to torture the people like that, and he immediately became angry. No wonder his father chose to come to a place like Taozhou after the death of Prince Yu because he wanted to do more for the people.
.
When he found the second master, spread the news, and asked the second master to meet the people arranged by the second master, these people would laugh all the time.
But how can we manage to leave and see the second master?
In fact, Ding Rong is not sure what is going on now. Why so many people came to track him down as soon as he left Taozhou? Could it be that the elder's plot has been discovered? The elder may be here now.
There will be danger.
Ding Rong was thinking about it when he suddenly heard a woman's voice saying: "Don't go any further. There are people checking in front of you. Why don't you just follow us? There are many of us, so we can always take care of you."
Ding Rong's heart suddenly moved. It was the woman who had tripped up the resident just now. If it hadn't been for him, the police officer wouldn't have let him go so easily. He was grateful to that woman from the bottom of his heart.
Now this woman is here to help these relocated people. She is really a good person.