Chapter 1826 Two carriages enter the city
Qiao Rou is the girl who was with Jiang Kuanyu.
This decision surprised Shu Yu and the others. Lu Wu said somewhat embarrassedly, "Actually, back in the black market, Miss Qiao Rou helped me once."
Although they didn't have much contact afterward, Lu Wu kept it in mind.
After leaving the black market, they had more contact with each other, and their feelings for each other naturally deepened.
Lu Wu wants to marry Qiao Rou and live a peaceful life together, which is fine.
Tang Wenqian naturally agreed and immediately promised to give them a generous gift when they got married.
Lu Wu is now an inspector. During this incident, Lu Wu helped Xia Yi. Xia Yi saw through his leadership abilities, skills, and temperament very clearly.
Chenggu County now only has one patrol inspector, Yin; the other two patrol inspectors have committed crimes and have been sentenced to death.
The position of inspector was vacant, and there were even fewer capable people. Lu Wu was capable and competent, with a clean background. If traced further back, he was even a descendant of loyal and virtuous officials. So the emperor specially appointed him to take on this position of inspector.
Not only Lu Wu, but also those people in the black market who had acted alongside him without hindrance were recruited as his subordinates.
Of course, Tang Wenqian would also find ways to arrange work for those who were persecuted and had their hands and feet crippled.
With Lu Wu taking the lead, several other people followed suit, all of whom had taken a liking to the girl and requested the magistrate to make a decision.
Among them were laborers and Lu Wu's men; all were alone and capable of making their own decisions.
Tang Wenqian had no objection. As long as they were willing and had thought it through, they could get married.
However, this gave Xia Yi an idea.
These days, there are more men than women. In many families, people even drown their daughters in their quest to have a son, which has led to a gender imbalance.
Moreover, there are some wealthy men who take many concubines, leaving a large number of bachelors.
This situation is even more serious in the military.
Xia Yi thought it would be better to bring them together; if both parties were willing, it would be a win-win situation.
She asked the girls present for their opinions. In fact, most of them still wanted to find someone to marry and settle down with. Therefore, they were very interested in Xia Yi's suggestion and agreed after consideration.
Of course, some girls have a more relaxed view of this and don't want to get married. They just want to live their own lives independently.
Tang Wenqian and Xia Yi respected their choice and granted them separate households.
Ultimately, half of the girls chose to get married. Some stayed together for mutual support, planning to find work and make a living, or use the government compensation to start small businesses. The remaining girls wanted to leave Chenggu County and find a place where no one knew them.
Finally, three girls, having seen through the illusions of the world, prepared to become nuns.
Tang Wenqian told them to think it over carefully and make sure they wouldn't regret it before doing as they suggested.
In this way, the problems of forced labor and the resettlement of the girls were solved.
Shu Yu helped out for several days, and it wasn't until the eighth day of the first lunar month that things finally stopped.
Halfway through the New Year, Shu Yu and Meng Yunzheng planned to return to Dong'an Prefecture after the Lantern Festival, and she began to prepare to buy some local specialties to take back.
However, what Shu Yu didn't know was that on the ninth day of the first lunar month, two horse-drawn carriages clattered into Chenggu County.
(End of this chapter)
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