Chapter 228 Why Not Find Another One
Upon seeing Ye Caiping, Magistrate Lu immediately stopped his horse.
Ye Caiping quickly greeted him: "Hello, sir."
Old Lady Ye and Mrs. Du had met County Magistrate Lu before, but Ye Caiping did not tell him the other party's identity at that time. They were all shocked to find out that the other party was actually the county magistrate.
He immediately knelt down and saluted, and the villagers beside him also knelt down.
"Please stand up. No need to be so polite." said Magistrate Lu. .
Only then did Old Lady Ye and the villagers stand up timidly.
Magistrate Lu got off his horse with the help of Master Luo, looked at the yard behind Ye Caiping, and said with a smile: "If I remember correctly, this is not Madam Ye's home, right?"
Ye Caiping stepped forward: "This is my eldest brother's house."
"That's what I said. Haha, let's go to your house and talk in detail."
"good."
Ye Caiping then led Magistrate Lu forward.
County Magistrate Lu was not at all arrogant and walked with Ye Caiping. Two rows of yamen runners followed behind him.
The villagers had never seen such a scene before. They were afraid but also wanted to see it. They followed from a distance and exclaimed in amazement: "Cai Ping has such a good relationship with the county magistrate?"
In the eyes of the villagers, the county magistrate is the parent official and the sky above their heads.
I was scared even to hear it, let alone to see it or get so close to it.
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Soon they arrived at Ye Caiping's house.
Only then did Ye Caiping realize that there was a carriage following behind her, and the county magistrate's wife got off the carriage with the help of an old maid.
Ye Caiping quickly led the county magistrate and his wife into the house and served them tea.
County Magistrate Lu said: "Gu Han has been caught."
Ye Caiping breathed a sigh of relief.
Magistrate Lu continued, "When I received your message, I immediately had the city gates closed. And since he was a cripple and couldn't walk fast, he was quickly captured. He has now been locked up in jail."
Ye Caiping asked, "How did he know about the yellow-heart cassava?"
"This is our yamen's fault. Last time, there were several yamen runners who were looking at yellow-heart cassava with me. When they were chatting, a man named Chen Shui overheard them."
"But Chen Shui loved to eat and drink. One night, he got drunk with Li Zhiyuan and told the truth. Gu Han heard it. Gu Han then went to steal cassava in an attempt to take credit for it."
Ye Caiping frowned: "Does Gu Han have anything else to say?"
Gu Han was originally the eldest son of the Ningguo Marquisate. I wonder if he would reveal his identity in order to get out of this situation.
"No," said Magistrate Lu. "I checked his household registration book and it says he is from Liuxi Town, Bozhou. He has no clan or family, and he doesn't even have a village. He doesn't look like a good person."
Ye Caiping nodded. Generally, people who were expelled from the family tree would be given a new household registration book without any clan information on it. It would be obvious at a glance that such people had made a big mistake and would be looked down upon.
Gu Han didn't dare to reveal his past life experience.
After all, the Ningguo Marquisate is now headed by my stepmother, and if I tell her about it, she's afraid she'll get hurt.
County Magistrate Lu said: "Yellow-heart cassava is the new ration for our entire Great Zhou. He stole the yellow-heart cassava, which is a serious crime. But we can't interrogate him in detail now. We can only detain him first and wait until the yellow-heart cassava is promoted before making a decision."
Ye Caiping said, "Excuse me, sir."
"No, it should be me who caused trouble for Madam Ye. It was all because of the carelessness of those yamen runners. I have already punished them. The two who let the secret slip were given ten lashes and fined three months' salary. Chen Shui, who drank, was given twenty lashes and was dismissed."
"By the way, I heard that your nephew passed the provincial examination, and I have prepared a gift for him."
Ye Caiping was startled: "Thank you for the reward, sir. But there is no need to give him a gift, for I am afraid that if he is praised by you, he will become proud."
County Magistrate Lu smiled and said, "Then Miss Ye, don't tell him that I gave it to him. Give it to his parents and say that it was given to him by his parents."
Ye Caiping couldn't refuse any more: "Thank you, sir."
"I want to go take a look at the sixty acres of cassava fields. Madam Ye, please accompany me!"
Ye Caiping nodded: "Okay, will the county magistrate's wife go?"
The county magistrate's wife smiled and said, "I won't go. You guys go!"
"Then I'll ask my father and eldest brother to go together."
Ye Caiping bowed, turned around and went out. After a while, she called Old Man Ye and Ye Daquan, and asked Mrs. Du to come in and greet the county magistrate's wife together with Old Lady Ye.
Only then did he go out with County Magistrate Lu and others.
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After Ye Caiping left, Old Lady Ye and Mrs. Du looked at the county magistrate's wife, their bodies tensed with nervousness, and they didn't know what to say for a moment.
The county magistrate's wife was very kind and not at all arrogant. She praised Ye Xuan for being so capable of passing the imperial examination at such a young age, and she also praised Jin'er and Huan'er for their beauties.
Both Old Mrs. Ye and Mrs. Du were smiling happily.
The county magistrate's wife said, "I think Madam Ye is quite young. She is about thirty, right?"
Old Mrs. Ye nodded quickly: "Yes, yes!"
"Why don't you find someone when you're still young?"
Old Lady Ye said, "Well, she decides on her own about this matter. We won't make the decision for her. As long as she is happy, that's all."
Mrs. Du said, "There were many people who proposed marriage in the past, but I don't know what kind of people they were. There was no good one, or they wanted to make the whole family rich. It's better not to marry them."
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