Chapter 56 Shepherd
County Magistrate Cheng Fa finally sent Lin Baihu away, thinking he could continue to embezzle money and make up for the lost 10,000 taels. However, someone from the imperial court came and put a pair of wooden shackles on him.
I'm done for now. I'm afraid I'll be beheaded.
Cheng Fa was put into a prison van and taken to the capital. When the prison van left Tong County, it was as lively as when he saw off Lin Qianqian.
What was different was that the people kept cursing, spitting and throwing rotten vegetable leaves on the prison van.
Some even threw stones at the prison van, hitting Cheng Fa's head and causing bleeding.
The officers and soldiers on the side did not stop them.
At this moment, Cheng Fa deeply regretted that he had committed the evil deeds of corruption and abuse of power.
I heard that corrupt officials will be sent to the eighteen levels of hell after their death.
The eighteen levels of hell, each level will make ghosts suffer excruciating pain.
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For the rest of the journey, Lin Qianqian’s main focus is shopping.
These girls will serve her in the future, so naturally they have to be taken good care of.
When girls needed clothes, she bought them.
If girls are short of daily necessities, just buy them.
There is meat at every meal.
These girls have all suffered a lot and are very hardworking. Every night they follow Hongdou to learn how to deploy troops until very late.
Lin Qianqian saw this and was very satisfied. She hoped that these girls would be able to protect themselves as soon as possible.
"When you get to the border and help me with things, I will give you monthly wages."
Cuihua seemed to have heard something incredible, "What? Food and accommodation are provided, and there is also a monthly salary?"
Qiaohong also said, "Master, you are so kind to take us in and provide us with food and shelter. We absolutely cannot accept your money."
Lin Qianqian: Am I an evil landlord who sucks people’s blood?
It seems that many people in the Great Yan Kingdom have become accustomed to slavery. They are already grateful for free food and accommodation, and are unwilling to even ask for wages.
"Labor must be paid..."
Lin Qianqian simply instilled in these people the theory that hard work should be rewarded, so that these girls could go to live in other places in the future and would not be enslaved to the point of being left with nothing.
A few days later, Lin Qianqian and her group arrived in Yecheng.
This place is less than a day's journey away from the war-torn Beiyue Pass.
Transporting food and fodder is slower than normal travel, so she caught up with Guan Junhou who was escorting the food and fodder here.
Two teams merged into one.
At noon, the weather was gloomy and there was no sunshine. It was about to snow.
But people on both teams were in a good mood.
Champion Hou Sixuan brought two thousand officers and soldiers to escort military supplies, and these two thousand officers and soldiers were all men.
When men and women work together, the work becomes less tiring.
When the men heard that the new carriage was full of girls, more than twenty of them, they no longer felt the fatigue of many days of hard work. They immediately became energetic and could not help taking a look at the carriage.
The girls in the carriage also lifted the curtains and boldly stuck their heads out to look at the men in the distance.
No one here knows them, and no one understands their humiliating past, so there is no need to be afraid.
Men and women, you look over here, I look over there, it's very interesting.
The girls in the carriage were more interested in Lin Qianqian and Si Xuan who were riding side by side on horses.
"Who is the man walking side by side with the Captain? He is so handsome, like a god, and he is a perfect match for our Captain."
Hongdou explained casually: "Oh, that's the girl's fiancé, the champion of the three armies." Since these girls followed the girl, they should know who her fiancé is.
"So this is the Champion Marquis. He is just as the rumors say, a cold and extremely handsome man."
Although Si Xuan was stupid for three years, his reputation was known to the people of the entire Yan Dynasty.
So the girls in the carriage all knew about it.
Cuihua had worked for a wealthy family before she was kidnapped by the bandits. She knew a few words and praised him: "There's a phrase called 玉树芷兰, 玉树临风. I used to think the phrase was beautiful but had no use for it. Today I finally know what kind of person it is used to describe."
Hongdou is literate, and read a verse that fits the occasion, "There is a gentleman who is as sharp as a knife, as polished as a stone..."
"Our future son-in-law is the true portrayal of a man as beautiful as jade and a young master unrivaled in the world."
The girls' chattering added some fun to the boring marching life.
When he stopped to cook at noon, Si Xuan brought three snow fox skins and handed them to Lin Qianqian.
"This is for you, to repay Miss Lin for saving my life."
Lin Qianqian smiled, thinking that saving Si Xuan was the wisest thing she had ever done, and it brought her endless rewards.
Perhaps this reward will come every day until death.
There are surprises every day.
Si Xuan: "Ms. Lin, has anyone ever told you that your smile can conquer everything?"
Lin Qianqian raised the snow fox fur in her hand and responded: "This thing conquered me. My favorite things in the world are money and valuable things."
She unfolded the snow fox skin and found that it was a complete piece of fur, snow-white without a single flaw.
This kind of top-quality snow fox fur is extremely rare and cannot be bought on the market, no matter how much money you have. But Si Sixuan gave me three of them at once.
Hongdou exclaimed, "This fur is so beautiful, as white as snow, girl, these three pieces together can make you a snow fox cloak."
"Hongdou, put these skins away first."
Hongdou took the snow fox fur from Lin Qianqian and put it carefully into the carriage.
Lin Qianqian brought a lot of food in the carriage, and successfully conquered the rough men who were escorting the grain. They had endured for many days and finally had a good meal.
There was no time to waste in getting food and fodder, so after dinner they set off immediately.
There are far fewer people passing through the border than in the interior.
But I still met a few people along the way.
When most of the people saw the soldiers, they lowered their heads in fear, dared not look directly at them, and hurried away.
But a woman on horseback boldly looked at Si Xuan, and she looked at him more than once.
The woman was very beautiful, with thick eyebrows and big eyes. Her hair was tied into at least dozens of small braids. She was wearing a dark red Hu costume and was driving a flock of sheep with a whip in her hand. She looked like a shepherd.
Lin Qianqian knew that if someone became interested in these military rations, they would definitely send someone to inquire about them first.
So today, she paid special attention to passers-by.
It is not difficult to find out whether this shepherdess is a spy.
Lin Qianqian rode her horse close to the shepherdess and started fighting directly.
Zhao Xiaoliu's eyes widened: "Is Miss Lin jealous?"
But Si Xuan knew that was not the case. When Miss Lin was with him, her eyes were very calm. She did not have the fanaticism or admiration of other girls, and it could even be said that she did not have the slightest interest at all.
I don't want his body or his family background.
She was a girl who had absolutely no intentions towards him.
The reason why Miss Lin came to the border had nothing to do with him, she came entirely for her maternal grandfather, the Jiang family.
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