Chapter 286 What’s going on?
The fat steward wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve and trembled, "My dear, this won't work. I bought these children with real money and signed indentures. This is legal!"
Zhuifeng knew that most of these children were kidnapped or beggars on the streets. He stared at the fat steward with cold eyes.
"Go and show me all the indentures. I'll see which one is legal."
The fat steward's face turned pale. All the indentures were fake, only three or two were real. If they were to get to the bottom of it, they would be exposed.
He stole a glance at Zhuifeng and spoke cautiously, "I don't know where you come from, but I'm a legitimate pawnbroker licensed by the Anyang County Magistrate. I've never done anything illegal. I don't know how I've offended you two. Please tell me."
Zhuifeng raised his leg and kicked him. "Do you think a pawnbroker like you can find out our names? If you don't want to die, let us go immediately."
"This..." The fat steward hesitated, "Please spare my life, and let me release him, but you must at least let me know why!"
Zhuyue pulled out a token from his waist with an expressionless face and waved it in front of the fat steward, "Quickly release all those children, or I'll kill you!"
The fat steward was confused. When he saw the words "As if I were here in person" on the token, he was so frightened that his whole body trembled and his face turned pale.
I really offended someone I shouldn't have offended today. It seems I can't let these kids go.
To survive, he ignored the pain and kowtowed repeatedly, "Sir, please spare my life. I deserve to die. Please have mercy on me. Please don't kill me!"
Zhuifeng glanced at him calmly and said, "Stop talking nonsense. I told you to release those kids."
"Okay, okay, let them all go. I'll make sure not a single one is left alive."
The fat steward crawled to the room where the dozen or so children were imprisoned, and opened the door tremblingly.
"Everyone, come out, leave quickly, you are free."
The children were trembling with fear, their faces showing unconcealable terror. They looked at each other, not knowing what to do.
The fat steward waved at them, signaling them to leave quickly.
The children huddled together, hugging their legs, muttering, "Don't hit us, don't hit us, we won't run away again."
Looking at these poor children in front of him, Zhuyue's nose felt sore. He walked straight to them and said softly,
"Children, the bad guys have been subdued by my brother, you should go home quickly!"
"Brother, can we really leave?"
"Really, let's go!"
After Zhuyue finished speaking, he signaled the fat steward to take a dozen children to the front hall.
The incident happened suddenly, and everyone present was shocked by the scene just now.
Everyone was dumbfounded, as if they were dreaming.
Only the little fish understood what was going on.
Just when everyone was puzzled, the fat steward limped out from inside.
There were a dozen children following behind him.
Sun ran over and hugged Erbao tightly in her arms.
"My dear Erbao, you're making me so anxious."
"Dad, Mom, and Grandpa and Grandma don't want me anymore. They want to sell me." Erbao also started crying.
Seeing more than a dozen children scattering in a hurry, Grandma Sun was completely dumbfounded. What was going on? What was wrong with the person in charge? Why did he let all the children go? This was money!
She hurried over to the fat steward and asked, "Steward Qian, what's going on?"
"Shut up! I'll settle the score with you later." The fat steward glared at her fiercely.
Grandma Sun shuddered and dared not speak anymore.
The fat man came close to Chen Qingqing with a hunched body, smiling apologetically, "Please forgive me, young lady. It's all my fault for not recognizing a great man. Please don't be so mean to me. I have released these children, so please forgive me!"
These words left Chen Qingqing confused. What was going on? Why was this person so polite?
Have people of this era already advocated the concept of customer first?
That's impossible. These people just started attacking without any explanation.
That’s right, it must be those two people who just stepped forward to scare this person.
Thinking of this, she hurriedly clasped her fists towards Zhuifeng Zhuyue and said, "Thank you for your help, my dear. If there's a chance, I'll definitely treat you two to a drink."
Zhuifeng grinned and was about to agree when he was stopped by a look from Xiaoyu behind Chen Qingqing.
"Thank you for your kindness, young lady. We have important things to attend to. See you later." After Zhuyue said this, he pulled Zhuifeng up and quickly left.
Seeing this, Chen Qingqing couldn't help but shake her head and smile. These two people were really interesting. They came and went without a trace, and did good deeds without leaving a name. Could they be the legendary heroes who killed the rich and helped the poor?
When the fat steward saw that Chen Qingqing ignored him, he knelt down on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly.
"Miss, please spare me. What we are doing is all legal business. Please don't take it personally."
The dozens of big men struggled to get up from the ground. They had never been treated like this before and wanted to curse loudly to save face.
But when they saw the manager kowtow and bow to others, they were frightened and lowered their heads and retreated to the side.
Chen Qingqing subconsciously took two steps back. She knew she had to clarify something first.
If these people report to the authorities, the authorities will definitely arrest these two heroes.
If she is really regarded as an accomplice, even if she is not killed, she will be skinned alive. After all, such things happened frequently in the feudal era.
"Manager, please get up quickly. We are only here to find the child. We will not pursue other matters."
"Don't explain, young lady. I understand everything. As long as you promise not to pursue the matter, I will be very grateful."
"Don't worry, don't worry, we won't pursue the matter." Although Chen Qingqing was confused, Erbao was out of danger and knew that she couldn't stay here for long, so she hurriedly said to Chen Zhanliang and his wife,
"Uncle and aunt, hurry up and take Erbao with you. Let's go home."
"Okay, okay, let's go home." Chen Zhanliang picked up Erbao and walked with Chen Qingqing as he grew teeth.
Chen Zhancai, who was hiding outside the door, saw everything clearly. When he saw Chen Qingqing and others rescue Erbao, he hurried forward in a hypocritical manner.
"Erbao, what's going on? Didn't I ask you and grandpa and grandma to wait for me? Why are you here? Where are your grandpa and grandma?"
Erbao lay in Chen Zhanliang's arms, his eyes unfocused, as if he was stupid. "Dad, he's a bad guy, he's a bad guy."
Seeing Chen Zhancai being so hypocritical, Chen Zhanliang spat on the ground in hatred, "Stop pretending to be a good guy. Don't you know what's going on? Get out of here if you don't want to get beaten!"
"Look why you are so angry at me. What have I done to offend anyone?" Chen Zhancai was afraid of being beaten, so he quickly dodged to the side.
When the fat steward saw the man walking away, he wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said, "Oh my god, which ancestor did I offend? I almost lost my life."
He was furious and glared at Grandma Sun. "You're a spendthrift, you almost killed me."
Grandma Sun was completely confused. It was clearly him who let the person go, so why was he blaming her?
She slapped her hips and said, "Oh my money manager, you've got me confused. Tell me quickly, what's going on?"
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