Chapter 2904 Take
Bai Shan smiled and said, "You can choose five friends to bring with you, but I can't guarantee whether they can enter the county government office. County Lieutenant Dong has to take a look. But I think you are a good person. When you get to the county government office, you can stay with me."
Jia Dalang was overjoyed and immediately agreed.
He glanced at Jia Lichang, gave him a half-smile, bowed to Bai Shan, and retreated.
As early as when Bai Shan arrived in Xiaojing Village, he felt that his opportunity had come.
The salt field in Longchi was shut down. People said it was because the county magistrate was dissatisfied with the Song family's control of the county government affairs and started to confront the Song family. In anger, the Song family took away all the staff of the salt field.
Jia Dalang felt that the county magistrate should be in urgent need of people. In this case, if someone like him appeared, the county magistrate might recruit him.
Sure enough, as soon as he appeared, the other person's eyes lit up when he looked at him.
Bai Shan was of course beaming. He breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that the matter of bringing the person back was settled.
However, Jia Lichang felt dizzy and his heart was in his throat. Seeing that the yamen runners and guards were already packing their luggage, he made an excuse to go out, saying that he wanted to prepare some local specialties for Bai Shan.
What local specialties can be found in Dajing Village?
He asked his wife to buy more eggs and catch two chickens for Bai Shan to take away, and then he sneaked out to find Jia Dalang.
Jia Dalang was packing his luggage at home. He was very straightforward. He took out a few pieces of clothes from the cupboard, put them on a piece of cloth, tied them up and was ready to leave.
Jia Lichang came in and grabbed his sleeve, "Jia Dalang, what do you want to do?"
Jia Dalang shook his hand off, sneered at him and said, "What are you doing? Of course you're pursuing your career."
"You're asking for your life," Jia Lichang said in a low voice, "You did such a thing, not only did you avoid the officials, you even rushed to hand it over."
Jia Dalang sneered, "If you don't tell me, I don't tell you, and no one tells you, how will the officials know about this? You're trying to stop me because you're jealous of me stealing your sons' future."
"You!" Jia Lichang was furious. "What nonsense are you talking about? I didn't even mention them to the county magistrate. Jia Dalang, I won't stop you if you want to die, but you are not allowed to drag the villagers to die with you."
"Why did I drag the villagers to their deaths?" Jia Dalang lowered his head and stared at the head of the village, Jia, and said, "The people of Xiaoliu Village are trapped in the mountains and can't get out. If the head of the village had paid more attention and prevented them from going to the county government office, everything would have been fine."
He sneered and said, "But once I have established a firm foothold in the county government, even if you fail to stop them, I won't be afraid if I let them go. We brothers will be there to stop them."
He stared at the village head with wolf-like eyes and said, "Before, I was worried that they would go to the county government office to file a complaint at some point, and we would be too late to stop them if we received the news. But as long as I go to the county government office, do I still have to worry about them filing a complaint again?"
Jia Lichang looked at Jia Dalang with a chill all over his body.
Seeing him yield, Jia Dalang sneered, picked up his bundle, and took out a purse from the bedside cabinet. When he went out and saw his family standing outside the yard, he said, "Harvest the wheat at home. I'm going to follow the county magistrate to pursue my career."
Father Jia said with a stern face: "If you leave, don't come back. Just treat you as the son you don't have in the family."
Jia Dalang sneered at his father and said, "I want to come back anyway. I own half of the harvest from that field. Why shouldn't I come back?"
He glanced at his mother and said unhappily, "Dad, don't hit my mother. If you hit her, I'll give you back the same number of punches as you did when I come back."
Father Jia jumped up in anger, "Rebellious son!"
Jia Mu shrank aside timidly and said nothing. When Jia Fu turned around and saw this, he became even more furious. He picked up a sickle that was not far away and threw it at her...
Jia Erlang's face changed as he stood by. He reached out and grabbed his mother, and the sickle flew past her face and hit the wall.
When Jia Dalang saw this, he dropped his bag and rushed over to his father, clenching his fists and beating him up...
Father Jia was hit twice and was furious. He shouted, "Rebellious son, come and see, the rebellious son is beating his father——"
Jia Dalang hit him even harder, his fists pounding on flesh. The head of the Jia family was terrified by the sound, fearing someone might die. He stepped forward and said, "Stop it, stop it! Don't you still want to go to the county town with the adults? If this gets out of hand, do you think the adults will still take you with them?"
Only then did Jia Dalang stop and just grabbed a piece of rag and stuffed it into his father's mouth. Then he dragged the muddy-looking man into the house, tied him up with a rope, and waited until he could no longer make any sound before leaving with satisfaction.
He turned to his brothers and sisters standing outside and said, "Wait until I'm far away before untying him. Do you hear me?"
Jia Dalang's brothers and sisters nodded numbly.
Jia Dalang picked up the bag on the ground and turned away.
Jia Lichang looked at Jia Dalang who was walking away, then looked at the Jia family. Finally, he sighed, shook his head, and followed him away.
Zhou Man couldn't hide the commotion here after all, mainly because Koko found out and couldn't help but remind the host.
So Manbao spent some points out of curiosity to watch the live version of the father and son fighting each other and the husband and wife killing each other. She knew it, and Bai Shan also knew it.
Of course, Bai Shan listened to the descriptive version.
He just thought that his father-in-law saw it and told Manbao. When he heard that Father Jia swung a sickle at his wife, his face darkened slightly. When he heard that Jia Dalang was beating Father Jia without stopping, his face became even gloomier.
He said, "This shows the importance of education."
Manbao nodded repeatedly. As he was speaking, Jia Dalang and his five brothers came over with happy faces.
Seeing that the county magistrate and others had already prepared their luggage and were waiting, he said to Bai Shan embarrassedly, "Thank you for waiting, sir. My parents at home were worried, so it took me a while to settle them."
Bai Shan and Zhou Man: ...That is indeed very time-consuming.
Bai Shan smiled gently and said, "It's okay. Now that we've packed up, let's go."
Jia Lichang hurried back and wanted to give them the eggs and chickens he bought, but Bai Shan declined. They had a lot of luggage of their own, so how would it look like to carry two chickens?
Bai Shan asked the guards and yamen runners to carry one more person per horse and to slow down their horses as much as possible as they returned to the county government office. However, there was no other way because Jia Dalang and his men had no horses.
On the way, they met County Captain Dong who came to look for them. Bai Shan said nothing to Jia Dalang and the others. They camped on the road for a night and returned to the county town when the sun was about to set the next day.
Bai Shan led everyone straight to the county government office. As soon as he entered, Bai Shan went to the lobby, sat down first, and then looked out.
Many yamen runners gathered outside, and his face darkened. He banged the gavel and shouted, "Catch him!"
The yamen runners and guards pounced on Jia Dalang and others like tigers.
Jia Dalang was shocked and screamed: "Sir——"
Then they realized that what they had done must have been exposed, so they fled with all their might...
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(End of this chapter)
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