Chapter 737 Jumping out the window
County Magistrate Tang thought for a moment and said, "It'll probably only be a year or two. Once this matter cools down, they'll definitely get rid of me. I think I should go to the local area to gain some experience. Most of the cases in the Ministry of Justice are reported to us from the local area, so I still want to go there."
Yang Heshu nodded.
County Magistrate Tang asked with a smile, "What about you?"
Since leaving the capital, the two of them mostly communicated through letters. Even though their workplaces were not far away and could be reached in a day, they rarely met in person.
If it weren't for Chang Changshi's matter, Yang Heshu probably wouldn't have come to find him, so County Magistrate Tang took the opportunity to ask him.
"Me?" Yang Heshu said with a smile, "I'm not in a hurry to leave. I want to stay for another three years until the situation in Luojiang County improves. If I leave now, no one knows what the next county magistrate will be like."
County Magistrate Tang nodded.
Yang Heshu was different from him. He liked criminal law, so his target was the Ministry of Justice.
Yang Heshu obviously prefers civil affairs. The number of cases he investigates in a year is probably not as many as the number of cases he judges in a day, but the number of times he goes to the countryside in a month may be the total number he goes to in a whole year.
"If Luojiang County is upgraded from a lower-level county to a middle-level county in three years, you will have gained immeasurable merit."
Yang Heshu smiled and said, "Forget it. How could a county be transformed from a low-level county to a medium-level county in just six years? If it really changes, it will be the local government's financial fraud. Then Uncle Tang will come to me."
As they were talking, County Magistrate Tang, who was standing by the window, suddenly raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, "Let's go out and watch the fun."
Yang Heshu paused, then stood up and asked, "What are you looking at?"
As soon as they opened the door of their box, they saw a middle-aged scholar with a dignified look and a pale complexion coming upstairs with two men who looked like servants.
When he looked up and saw County Magistrate Tang's face, he paused for a moment. Remembering that the person who came to complain was County Magistrate Tang's servant, he twitched his lips and bowed.
County Magistrate Tang smiled and waved his hand: "Go on with the schoolmaster, no need to be so polite."
He Xueguan rushed to the next private room with two guards.
The waiter had just served them the food, and Manbao was about to put a piece of meat into his mouth when the door of the private room was kicked open by someone from outside.
Manbao was so frightened that his hands trembled. He turned his head and glared. When he saw the familiar He Xueguan standing at the door, the meat on the chopsticks fell to the ground with a plop.
Wei Ting, who was facing the door of the box, looked at He Xueguan face to face, and the chopsticks in his hand fell to the ground with a snap.
When the school official saw the sumptuous meal on the table, he immediately flew into a rage. He grabbed his waist and shouted, "How dare you skip school to eat and drink! Come on, arrest them all!"
Bai Shan was the first to react. He lowered his eyes and shouted softly, "Run!"
Wei Ting and the others reacted, kicked the stools away, jumped up and were about to run out, but found that the door was guarded by two guards from the government school.
Manbao glanced at Bai Shan and then began to instruct them, "Jump out the window, jump out the window, it's just the second floor, just bend your knees, it won't kill you."
Wei Ting hesitated. Wasn’t it just that he was caught skipping school?
No need to work so hard, right?
The worst that can happen is that you'll be caught and punished.
Just as he was hesitating, two guards came in and pointed at a few students who were covering their faces with their sleeves. They said, "What are you covering? Put them down and tell me your name and class..."
Wei Ting immediately calmed down. He was already being watched by the school officer and was not afraid at all. He then began to encourage the students next to him, "Run, we'll cover you."
When Student A heard this, he made up his mind and went to the window to look down. He saw a cart with straw piled high on it that had been parked downstairs, right in front of their window.
Student A was slightly stunned, then climbed up the window and started jumping down...
Before the others had time to look down the window, they couldn't help but scream when they saw him jumping down so boldly. They all rushed to the window and looked down with concern.
At first glance, they saw him sliding down from a pile of straw, then turning back and waving at them desperately.
Not far away, Bai Shan's most powerful servant was standing by the car with his arms folded, looking at them coldly.
Is there anything else you don’t understand?
This straw is the life-saving thing given to them by their own people.
When everyone came out, they either jumped down from the wall or jumped onto the straw pile. They were very familiar with this, so the students who squeezed to the window climbed up and jumped down one after another...
The school officer was terrified and rushed over to grab them. The two guards were also terrified and rushed over...
Don't be fooled by their loud shouting. If something bad happens to these people, they will have no chance of escaping.
But Wei Ting suddenly rushed forward and hugged the school official's thigh, crying, "Sir, I know I was wrong. I shouldn't have skipped school to eat. Please take me back."
"Let go, let go quickly, and stop jumping."
Bai Shan, Man Bao, and Bai Erlang had already formed a line in front of the two guards, holding out their hands and asking, "Are you going to arrest us too?"
Bai Shan said: "I'm not skipping school, I'm a non-resident student."
Manbao and Bai Erlang said, "We are not students of the prefectural school. We are just out to eat with our friends. You can't arrest us."
The two guards didn't dare to hurt them, so they could only shout, "We're not arresting you, get out of the way."
"That won't work. Who knows if you're trying to trick us? What if you catch all three of us if we separate?"
So if you go east, I go east too. If you go west, I jump to the west to stop you. The people by the window all ran away one after another.
Manbao was sweating from running, so he asked the two guards to run over.
The guards ran over to take a look, but they only had time to see their backs as they ran away. Seeing that they were very agile, they felt a little relieved.
Manbao wiped the sweat from his forehead and neck, pulled Bai Erlang, and was about to sneak out when he saw the He Xueguan slamming the table and shouting, "No one of you is allowed to leave!"
He was so angry that his nose was about to be crooked. He pointed at Wei Ting, but when he realized he couldn't afford to offend him, he pointed at Bai Shan and said, "Bai Shan, what were the names of those four people just now? Which class are they from?"
Bai Shan said: "I don't recognize them. They were the ones Wei Ting called over. These two are the ones I brought with me."
The school official stared at Manbao and Bai Erlang, but when he realized he didn't recognize them, he frowned and asked, "What are your names and which class are you from?"
Manbao immediately raised his hand and said, "Sir, we are not from the prefectural school. Isn't Bai Shan the youngest in your school? We are his friends outside."
Bai Erlang nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, we are not from the provincial school."
So you have no control over us.
The school official pointed at Bai Shan's nose and scolded him, "How can a scheming person like you not know who they are? Don't you know why you came to eat? Tell me, what are their names and which class are they from?"
The next update will be around 10pm
I originally wanted to update two chapters at once, but that chapter is still a little short, so I decided to update it first.
(End of this chapter)
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