When it comes to mother, both children are a little sad.
The boy shook his head. "No, we have nowhere to go."
Zhong Shu ran asked, "where are your relatives? Don't they care about you? "
The boy still shook his head. He didn't know whether to say that they had no relatives or that they had relatives but were unwilling to take care of them.
Zhong shuran looked at their poor thin appearance, hesitated again and again, and still asked the question.
"Do you hate the village head?"
The boy hesitated and didn't answer.
Zhong Shu ran pointed to the empty food box next to him and said, "as long as you truthfully answer my question, I'll prepare another such food for you."
The boy immediately replied without hesitation, "hate!"
Zhong was stunned.
It took him a long time to ask, "why? Didn't he help you? If he hadn't come forward, you would have been sold now. "
The boy turned his mouth and said, "he doesn't really want to help us. He just wants to protect the reputation of the village and doesn't want to be stabbed by others. Besides, even if we were sold, would we be worse off than we are now? "
Zhong looked at their skinny bodies and couldn't answer.
The boy bowed his head and muttered, "it's not bad for us whether we're sold or not. Anyway, we can't live like a person anyway."
Zhong shuran was silent for a long time before he said, "I see."
The boy looked up at him and asked nervously, "you promised to prepare food for us, didn't you lie to us?"
In the past, people often teased their brothers and sisters with such things in the village. He was cheated many times, but he still couldn't resist the temptation, because he was too hungry. Even if there was only a little hope of filling his stomach, he didn't want to give up.
Zhong Shu ran smiled: "no, you go with me and prepare delicious food for you every day."
Hearing this, the boy thought he remembered something bad. He immediately pulled his sister back and stared at him warily: "so you are patting flowers!"
No wonder this man just gave him so many delicious food. It turned out that he was upset and kind-hearted and wanted to abduct and sell their brother and sister!
Zhong shuran couldn't laugh or cry. He didn't wear official clothes when he went out today. No one in the village had seen him and didn't know his identity.
He pointed to Lei Jing standing not far behind him and asked, "did you see that uncle? You should know who he is? "
Before, Lei Jing came to Pingshun village to catch people in person, but the boy saw him and remembered him deeply. He immediately nodded and replied, "yes, he's a constable in the county government."
"You see, the captains are here. How can I shoot flowers? If I were shooting flowers, wouldn't the constable have caught me long ago? "
The boy thought so and was soon persuaded.
Lei Jing's capture of the Hu family left a very deep impression on the boy. He even had a faint sense of worship for Lei Jing. He hoped that one day, like Lei Jing, he could bring all the bad guys to justice.
In the trust of Lei Jing, the boy finally put down his guard and went with them.
When he got to the county yamen, the boy knew that the big brother who gave himself food and always smiled was the county magistrate of Jiuqu County!
Zhong shuran gave the brother and sister to pumpkin to take care of.
Pumpkin asked them their names.
The boy said, "my name is Peng Mu and my sister's name is Peng Xue."
Peng Xue has been closely following her brother. She shrinks her thin body. She doesn't dare to look at it or talk. She seems very nervous.
Pumpkin let the factotum burn hot water and gave the two brothers and sisters a hot bath. Their hair was knotted because they hadn't been cleaned for a long time. They couldn't comb it open, so they had to cut it off a little with scissors.
After washing, the brother and sister looked much more energetic.
Pumpkin asked them how old they were this year?
Peng Mu is his brother. Although he is still nervous, he has calmed down at this time.
He knew that he had met a noble man. If the noble man wanted to help their brothers and sisters, he had to seize this precious opportunity.
Peng Mu answered honestly, "I'm eight years old and Xiaoxue is seven."
Pumpkin touched his chin and said, "eight years old, it's not very small. You can follow me to do errands in the future. As for your sister..."
Peng Xue immediately grabbed her brother's hand and whispered, "I'm with my brother."
This was the first time she spoke. Pumpkin couldn't help looking at her more. He saw that although the little girl was young, her facial features were very beautiful. If she could bear well, she would be a beauty in the future. Fortunately, she was brought back by the county magistrate. If she was allowed to wander outside with her brother, she might be bullied when she grew up in the future.
When you have the ability to protect yourself, beautiful appearance will be a powerful weapon, but when you don't have the ability to protect yourself, beauty will become a deadly poison.
Pumpkin answered, "OK, you can follow your brother for the time being. When you get familiar with here in the future, I'll give you the work of the faction."
The two little carrots nodded together.
The Peng brothers and sisters settled down in the county government.
Finally, Zhong shuran removed the post of village head of Pingshun village, fined corvee for ten years and could not be redeemed with money.
When she got the verdict, the village head's daughter-in-law cried and fainted at the door of the court.
The head of Pingshun village is in his forties this year. In ancient times, when the average life expectancy is only in his forties, he is already a long-lived person in his forties. If people at such an age want to serve corvee for ten years, can they live to go home in the future?!
However, Zhong did not take care of the noisy cries outside. After the sentence was pronounced, he got up and left directly.
……
Today, Wei Chen and Wei CI came to the health hall again. This time, they came to say goodbye and discuss something with Jiang Weiwei.
Mr. and Mrs. Wei CI may not come back once they go, so they take all the things they can take away. If they can't take them away, they can only sell them or give them away.
They have two shops in the town and 100 mu of land in the countryside. They want to sell it to Jiang Weiwei at a discount.
Jiang Weiwei said, "it's not necessary to sell. I can help you rent out the shops and fields. I'll send the rent to you. This is also your income. It's not easy to live in Bianjing. You have a lot of money to spend in the future. These industries can be sold or not. "
Wei CI thought about it and thought her idea was also good.
He said, "you can't help us in vain. You can take 30% of the rent collected and give the rest to my father. He lives alone in the countryside. As children, we can't honor him. We can only give him more money so that he can buy whatever he wants to eat and use. "
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