Su Cheng and Yang Guotai led two hundred elite soldiers to Nail Lane to rescue the robbed women and take away their children. When it came to having children, they thought it would be extremely difficult; unexpectedly, they went smoothly even with three families. Su Cheng breathed a sigh of relief: "
I thought they would rebel."
Yang Guotai said: "The people are afraid of the officials, so they only dare to cry and dare not rebel. When the women and children who were robbed heard that they had enough to eat, they didn't care about anything else. The most powerful ones are the two beautiful maids of your Majesty, who can confuse
Keep the male captive so that he has no intention of resisting."
Su Cheng smiled brightly without realizing it: "My mother never shows her true face!"
So I found the fourth house based on Brother Xiaoque's list. When I got there, I saw that it was the sensible man. Su Cheng was surprised: "It's you! Brother, I thought you were a sensible person and wouldn't rob civilian girls."
of."
The man smiled bitterly and said: "So what if you understand, most people can't get a wife."
Su Cheng looked at his family for a few times, and found that it was no different from the previous ones and Xiaoque's family. It was very poor. Looking at the population of his family, his parents and children were all of normal figure, but the daughter-in-law was extremely thin. Then he blurted out:
"Is it possible that everyone in your family can have enough to eat, but only the woman who was robbed can't?"
The man sighed: "Why don't you want her to eat enough? My parents are old and my son is young, so we can't go hungry. I usually only eat half full, otherwise I wouldn't have the strength to work to support the family?"
Su Cheng twitched his lips: "Since you can't afford to support your wife, why do you want to snatch her away from her?"
The man said: "It is the destiny of your parents. When you get older, you must have a son to carry on your incense."
Su Cheng felt a chill all over his body: "So you went and snatched a pig to give birth to piglets." After a while, he said, "You are more hateful than them. They may be ignorant people, but you knowingly committed the crime." He looked at the woman again.
, "It's a shame that she gave birth to a son; if she gave birth to a daughter, would she also be hungry?"
The woman suddenly started crying: "My daughter drowned after she was born..."
Su Cheng took a step back and pointed at him: "You..."
The man said calmly: "I can't afford it."
Su Cheng took a few breaths and calmed down Huizi: "That's fine, from now on she will support herself, not you."
The man pleaded: "My son was raised by his grandmother. Without his grandson, I'm afraid my mother wouldn't be able to survive..."
Su Cheng interrupted: "He is not your son, he is the son of the woman you snatched, and it has nothing to do with you." He glanced at the crying woman, "Even if you want to marry him in the future, she may not be willing to marry him."
The man begged again: "I am the only one who made all the mistakes. How innocent my old mother is!" The old woman cried loudly.
Yang Guotai suddenly came from behind and stood in front of Su Cheng: "Isn't the son your mother gave birth to in front of her? As a woman, she should know how difficult it is to give birth to a child. She worked hard to conceive the child for ten months, so I borrowed it from your family.
Why did he become your family after he was born?"
Then the child shouted: "I won't leave! I won't leave even if I have enough to eat! I want to follow my grandmother, not that ugly woman!" What a shame. Yang Guotai ignored him, and Su Cheng took two more deep breaths.
The man looked at Su Cheng and said, "What Mr. Su wants is to stop the practice of snatching brides among the people. Missing my family is nothing. Please give me a favor, Mr. Zhang, and I will definitely return it in the future."
Su Cheng's face was as bright as gold, and he waved his hand and said: "No, I don't have anything to ask for your help. Even if I do encounter trouble, there are plenty of people to help me."
Seeing that she was out of luck, the man turned cold and said, "Master Su, aren't you afraid of inciting public dissatisfaction?"
Su Cheng shrugged: "How does what Magistrate Su did compare to the former Jiangxi Commander-in-Chief Xu Hong and the former Jiangxi Magistrate Xie Jing?" The man was dumbfounded. Su Cheng smiled and said, "It was the people's resentment earlier, but now the people's resentment is greater.
"Besides -" She looked back at the alley behind her, "Even if these people want to rebel, do they have any weapons? Now all the officers and soldiers have are firearms." She ordered the women and children to be taken away.
The soldiers swarmed up, and the old woman and the child were crying together. The woman shouted loudly: "My little son asked them to hide next door!"
The man was furious, raised his arm and hit the woman in the face. The woman refused to dodge and looked at him coldly. A soldier next to the woman kicked the man, but the man dodged to avoid it, so he did not hit the woman.
. He turned around on his toes to strike again, but saw four or five jet-black muskets pointed at him. He couldn't help but cursed: "What's the point of using firearms?"
Yang Guotai said funnyly: "I don't want to compete with you. Firearms can kill you, why not use them?" The man was angry and speechless.
Su Chengnai ordered two soldiers to accompany the woman to pick up the child next door. He turned around and said softly: "You used brute force to rob the woman, and we used firearms to suppress you. Isn't it the same?"
The man stood and gritted his teeth, and after a while he said: "The magistrate's wife's family took women from the countryside by force in order to open a factory to find female workers..."
"Stop it!" Su Cheng was taught by Jia Cong since he was a child, and he is very good at talking. "Our Cixiang Village has not taken women from the countryside by force. They can choose not to go and go back to their parents' homes."
The man sneered: "Go back to your parents' home? Mrs. Su's village has food and clothing. Will they go back to their parents' home? Use food and clothing as bait..."
Su Cheng interrupted again: "You can also use food and clothing as bait to lure your wife back home."
The man said angrily: "It's obvious that he is using power for personal gain."
"Oh, you go to the capital to complain to King Yan." Su Cheng faked a smile, "If we sue Mr. Su, let's see who King Yan will send to take over this mess in Jiangxi." The man was speechless.
While she was talking, the woman had already returned with a baby boy who was about one year old in her arms. She stared at the man with hatred in her eyes for a few times and stopped looking at him. The man was disappointed, and after a long while he said, "You are so cruel to both of them." The woman said nothing.
Yang Guotai suddenly said: "I see your steps are not ordinary. Could it be that you are walking through the green forest?"
The man sighed: "I walked through it in my early years. Later I made a solemn oath in front of others that I would never enter the green forest again."
Yang Guotai said: "Even if you don't go into the green forest and are so poor that you don't have enough to eat, why don't you want to exchange the skills of the green forest for money?" The man was silent. Su Cheng sneered and led the four beautiful maids away in a hurry. The woman holding the child
Follow closely.
After leaving the courtyard, the woman began to sob. Su Cheng ordered a maid to go and say a few words of comfort. After a while, the maid came back and whispered to Su Cheng: "This sister-in-law said that the man once had a very beloved concubine. The concubine died.
I begged him to leave the green forest before he died. He didn’t want to be nice to other women, and he felt he couldn’t live up to his mistress.”
Su Cheng's maid Li Xia said from the side: "What does it have to do with my concubine? How can it be better to eat half full?"
Su Cheng waved his hand and said: "Anyway, it has nothing to do with him anymore, regardless of whether he has a concubine or not."
It's just that the eldest son was stubborn at the back and wanted his grandmother instead of his mother. Yang Guotai was annoyed and ordered someone to scare him twice. The soldier went over to scare him a few times and was really frightened. The maid then said: "He doesn't care about the child either."
Okay, I don’t think he’s my concubine’s child. He’s just being ordered by his father to renew his incense.”
Su Cheng gritted his teeth and ordered: "Go back and let people keep an eye on this family, so that he will never be able to marry a wife in his life! Let the soul of his mistress renew his incest."
On the first day, more than 20 women and a large group of children were rescued with great fanfare, and they were all sent to Cixiangzhuang in the evening. These people really had their first full meal in years. Not many of them had any friendship with their husbands and their in-laws.
; after one meal, the remaining bit of friendship disappeared.
The next day, Su Cheng and Yang Guotai led people out again and brought back more than thirty women and a group of children at noon. When they returned to Cixiang Village, the soldiers guarding the gate reported something. In the morning, a man came and said that he heard
Mr. Zhang, who saved the daughter of the people, lived here and came here to report: He knew that other families had also snatched their wives. The soldiers did not dare to let him go and were still waiting. Su Cheng smiled and said: "It's already noon, let them eat."
Let's talk after we have a full meal." Then he ordered the informer to be taken to dinner.
After dinner, Su Cheng went to see him in person. He saw that the man was the one who led the way to Liu Ermao in Nail Lane yesterday. The man ate so much that he touched his belly and smiled flatteringly: "Master Zhang is really rich."
"Don't dare, I'm just a helper." Su Cheng smiled and said, "Do you think you know of someone whose daughter-in-law was snatched away?"
"Yes!" the man said quickly, "at the other end of Zaohe Street, Chen Dagui's two wives were robbed..." He counted more than a dozen houses in one go.
Su Cheng nodded, ordered the maid next to him to take a piece of paper and write it down, and asked: "How many are there in total?"
The maid said: "Fifteen families."
Su Cheng said, "I'll check it out in the afternoon, and you'll come back in the evening. If everything is true, I'll reward you with seventy-five cents."
This person was overjoyed: "Seriously?!"
"Seriously." Su Cheng said, "If there are still more, after verification, each family will be given five cents. The more you work, the more you will get."
The man immediately stood up and said, "I'm going to inquire for you sir!" and ran away without even saying goodbye.
The maid glanced behind her and said, "Girl, this person is really rude."
Su Cheng said slowly: "It shows that they are dedicated. We hope that the more dedicated messengers, the better."
At dusk that day, this man came again and brought a brother. The two brothers went to each side to inquire and found out a lot of information. Su Cheng and Yang Guotai had checked the fifteen houses he reported to in the afternoon, and all of them were found.
It was true, so he gave him seventy-five cents and left the two brothers to have a hearty dinner. The two brothers reported fifty-two more. Su Cheng said: "Okay. After verification, it is two hundred and sixty cents."
The two were so happy that they jumped away.
One of these fifty-two families had a serious wife. The next day, the two brothers only got 255 cents, and they were still smiling from ear to ear. The next day, two more people came.
The news was reported - the man's younger brother was not honest and told the story about the reward money they received for helping the government investigate and rob his wife. With these people reporting the news, Su Cheng and Yang Guotai saved a lot of effort.
Two days later, an old man came to Cixiang Village and said that his daughter went out to buy thread four years ago and never came back, and he suspected that she had been snatched away. Su Cheng knew that this might be the case, so he left his maid Bai Lu to preside over the village.
When Bai Lu heard about it, she came outside and asked the old man his name, where he lived, what his daughter's nickname was, how old she was, where she bought the thread, etc. The old man's surname was Jiang, and his daughter's nickname was Yuwa.
He was twenty-three years old. After asking, he took the sign and went inside to ask the woman. After saying a few words, a woman burst into tears. She said she was Jiang Yuwa, and everything she said was correct.
. She was indeed robbed. And because she had been caught countless times when she tried to run away, her husband's family watched her very closely and could not even leave the house. Now she has given birth to a son - and two daughters before her.
She also drowned at birth. After hearing this, Bai Lu led her out to see Old Man Jiang. The two held their heads and cried.
Bai Lu stayed by her side and shed tears for a long time, and persuaded: "Okay, now that father and daughter are reunited, it can be considered that the emperor has eyes."
Old man Jiang said fiercely: "I'm going to kill that beast!"
Bai Lu hurriedly said: "Don't go by yourself! I'm afraid you'll beat me. Why don't you ask some strong men from the upper clan to help." Then she looked at Jiang Yuwa and said, "Our factory will start work next month. How much is the salary?
It's very real. This Sister Jiang is very handy at first glance. She will definitely make a lot of money in time. Sister Jiang, you can advance a few months' salary from the shopkeeper and use it to buy meat and wine for the brothers in the clan.
, ask them to help beat up the person who harmed you!"
Old man Jiang immediately said: "No need to buy meat and drink wine! Your brothers and brothers still miss you! In the past four years, when I go out and see people of similar age, I have to look twice. The third brother even had someone beat him."
Jiang Yuwa's eyes were filled with anger: "If the shopkeeper is willing to advance my salary, I will make a good living! I will never let the shopkeeper suffer." Then she said to her father, "Since brothers are helping me vent my anger, a meal of wine and meat is indispensable. Dad,
If my daughter knows how to do things, she will definitely be able to earn back the money for wine and food."
After hearing this, Old Man Jiang asked Bai Lu: "Do you still accept workers in this workshop?"
Bai Lu said sadly: "Old man, you have also seen that there are so many women who have been robbed. It has been five days since our adults and General Yang went to rescue them. You are the first one to come to find your daughter. Other families...Xu
They don’t know yet, and most of them know, don’t want to recognize them, or their families can’t afford to support them. They still have to raise children. Therefore, our factory gives priority to them. If we expand in the future, we will not recruit more workers.”
Old man Jiang frowned: "Why do you still raise children for their family?"
Jiang Yuwa hurriedly said: "It's not their family, it's our family! Dad, Mr. Su makes the decision. My child is mine! The surname is Jiang!"
Old man Jiang said happily: "Seriously?!"
"Seriously!" Jiang Yuwa nodded vigorously, "She is already seven months old now. I asked someone to hold her for me."
Bai Lu joked: "Since he is only seven months old, he must not have a name yet. How about giving it to my grandfather?"
Old Jiang was stunned for a moment, then pointed to his nose for a long time, not believing it yet: "Grandpa...is it me?"
Bai Lu smiled and said: "The child's surname is Jiang, is the old man's surname Jiang? Of course it is you. Our boss will ask for a teacher for the children. In the future, there is no doubt that this child will be able to study and become an official, and bring glory to the Jiang family."
Old Jiang couldn't help being happy, rubbed his hands and said, "My son hasn't even taken a wife yet! He actually has a grandson first."
Jiang Yuwa hurriedly asked: "Miss Bai, didn't you say there are factories where men work?" Old man Jiang's eyes lit up.
"Yes, yes!" Bai Lu looked at them and said, "The match factory, cement factory and spinning factory are all opening. Uncle Jiang, your son will be admitted first."
Old man Jiang and Jiang Yuwa were surprised at the same time: "Seriously!" Jiang Yuwa said again, "Miss Bai, don't try to coax me!"
"Seriously." Bai Lu said sternly, "Sister Jiang, you have been missing for four years, and Uncle Jiang and your brother are still looking for you. Do you know there is love? I don't know how many poor people have robbed their relatives, but your family didn't. Uncle Jiang's three sons are all
We haven't gotten married yet, so we know that we are righteous. Why don't we hire such a loving and righteous person first and wait for others to snatch her away?"