When the woman heard this, she picked up the child and ran away without asking any questions.
Someone asked what happened to the child? Su Sijin smiled and did not answer.
Here, Xuan Yi brought the old man and the child over.
It turned out that the two were a grandfather and a grandson, and the grandson was about eight years old. All the formalities had been completed and they were about to be released when the old man's grandson accidentally stepped on the burly yamen runner.
This kick immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of the yamen runners, who started beating him with wooden sticks without saying a word.
The wooden stick was as thick as an adult man's arm. If it hit the boy, he would either die or be crippled. Therefore, the old man blocked it without thinking.
Su Sijin glanced at the old man and found that his right hand was fractured, but it was not serious. He only needed to fix it for three or four months and the bone would grow back.
Fortunately, it was just a fracture and not a break. If it was broken, it would be troublesome.
Xuan Yi found some branches and wooden boards, bandaged the old man simply, and gave him some precautions.
The eight-year-old boy acted like a little adult, shouting that he wanted to repay Su Sijin and others for saving his life.
The old man is a kind-hearted person, and his grandson is also a person who will repay kindness. Su Sijin thinks that the two of them are rare and interesting people.
The eight-year-old boy vowed to repay his gratitude, but Su Sijin didn't take it seriously. Tang Peng had already started negotiating with the government office.
The little boy was about to leave with the old man reluctantly, but was stopped by Su Sijin, "Wait a minute, old man, why don't you come with me into the city."
Because of the old man's kind reminder, Su Sijin felt that she could not let the grandfather and grandson leave like this.
The old man shook his head and declined politely, "Thank you very much. We have already offended the officials. If it is because of us that you cannot enter the city, then it will be the sin of our ancestors and grandchildren."
Su Sijin didn't expect the old man to be so thoughtful, but Su Sijin didn't think it couldn't be settled. Even if the yamen runners deliberately made things difficult, she could just pay a little more money.
She had so much money that all she had left was silver.
Su Sijin suggested, "Then I'll lend you some money, and you can pay me back when you have it!"
Both the grandmother and the granddaughter are people with strong self-esteem. They are unwilling to trouble others and are grateful. Since they are unwilling to accept her "little help", then giving them some money to help them solve their current difficulties should be acceptable to them!
Who would have thought? The boy replied, "My grandfather told me to do things within my capabilities and not take on anything beyond my ability. My sister doesn't seem to be well off, so my grandfather and I don't dare to bother her."
"We can't enter the city today. Let's go back and think of a way. We can go in another day. There's no rush today."
After the little boy finished speaking, he bowed deeply to Su Sijin, then helped the old man away and disappeared from everyone's sight.
Su Sijin was stunned by the little boy's behavior, but since he was unwilling to accept her support, she just let him be!
Maybe the little boy has another idea.
Because they needed to bring as many as 600 people into the city, it took Tang Peng a long time to negotiate with the burly yamen runner.
Su Sijin looked over from a distance and found that the yamen runner returned Tang Peng's documents and appointment letter. The yamen runner whispered to the people around him, quietly retreated, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Su Sijin and Lu Changgong looked at each other, and they came to Tang Peng, "Tang Jieren, what's going on?"
At this time, Lu Changgong was just dressed as an ordinary villager, and in the eyes of the yamen runners, he was just an ordinary refugee.
But the people above repeatedly ordered that they must keep an eye on the exiles and showed them portraits. If they found this man or woman, they must be captured, and those who resisted would be killed without mercy.
Not only that, there were portraits of a man and a woman posted in the city. The man and woman in the portraits were obviously outstanding people at first glance. Although the man and woman in front of him were also fugitives, they had nothing to do with the man and woman they were looking for.
Since the higher-ups have repeatedly emphasized that no matter whether the man or woman in front of us is one, we have to go through the motions to avoid being blamed by the higher-ups. It would be better to kill him if he loses the lucrative job of guarding the city gate.
You have to know that there are so many refugees entering the city every day. He can easily earn a hundred taels of silver. With so much profit, how could he lose it easily?
If he reported it to his superiors, then whether there were any mistakes or not would not be his responsibility and he could not be held accountable.
After a while, the yamen runner B who had just quietly left returned to his post, but he was followed by a tall and thin man with eyes of different sizes and shifty eyes. He had a mustache and his hands were behind his back.
The burly yamen runner then stepped forward and whispered something flatteringly, while casting his eyes on Su Sijin and Lu Changgong.
The man with shifty eyes took a look at the two of them and immediately scolded the yamen runner.
The yamen runners were so tamed that they could only nod and bow, not daring to show any expression. They even knelt on the ground to help the man with shifty eyes wipe the mud off his shoes when he was leaving.
Finally, she secretly stuffed a thick stack of banknotes into the man's sleeve.
The man left with a satisfied grin on his face.
As soon as the man left, the yamen runner immediately looked at Su Sijin and Lu Changgong with a gloomy face, wishing he could skin them alive.
Lu Changgong turned around, blocking the yamen runner's sight and looking at him coldly.
The yamen runner unconsciously avoided the cold gaze cast at him by Lu Changgong. When he realized that he was a fugitive and an official, he glared back at him in a pretentious manner.
But... he glared at the air, and Lu Changgong returned to being an ordinary man, without any imposing aura.
The bailiff thought he had seen it wrong, but he had to get back the money that had been looted from these people.
He immediately opened his mouth and said, "Because you are exiles, the new emperor is kind and righteous and has pardoned your crimes. But as the saying goes, since you don't have to be punished, then you should pay a higher head tax!"
"Two taels per person, as a token of gratitude for the new emperor's grace of amnesty."
The words of the yamen runner made everyone gasp in surprise. The yamen runner was truly shameless.
Shameless and greedy, one tael is already a sky-high price, yet he dares to ask for two taels.
But everyone only dared to curse in their hearts and did not dare to step forward, for fear that they would bear a grudge against them, and even if the lion opened its mouth wide, it would not be able to enter the city.
Xuan Yi couldn't stand it any longer, so he went forward to argue with her with a cold face, "Is there any relevant document or notice from above that each fugitive must pay two taels of silver? If not, you are falsely conveying the imperial decree."
"Do you know that if you forge an imperial decree, your entire clan will be implicated? Could it be that all nine of your clans have died, and you are the only one left?"
Xuan Yi put the accusation of falsely conveying the imperial edict on the runner, and the runner immediately knelt down and kowtowed three times.
After he kowtowed, he glared at Xuan Yi with a vicious look and waved his hand, "Come here! These fugitives are looking for trouble. Capture them and report to the prefect."
In the past, no one dared to act recklessly whenever the Ganzhou prefect was mentioned. I thought that this time it would work and scare off these reckless men.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he gave the order, the two sides were on the verge of a clash of swords.
He just wanted to scare them into handing over the money, and then send them to the poorest and coldest place in Ganzhou.
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