But after the sound faded, there was no response.
That person was nowhere to be seen long ago.
Tang Huan frowned deeply and winked at Li Daikui, "Bring him in first."
Li Daikui was ordered to carry the clay figure on his back. In an instant, he realized that the figure was very light. He said with some pity, "It's really pitiful. It's starving and looks like a ghost after fleeing the famine all the way. If it weren't for our people, it would probably be dead by now."
Tang Huan rolled her eyes at Li Daikui, who immediately fell silent.
Further away, a straw mat was spread on the ground, and the savage was lying on it.
Not long ago, Xue'e went to the clinic to fetch a doctor, leaving Tang Huan and Li Daikui to watch over the wild man.
"Sir, why don't you stay..."
After hesitating for a long time, Li Daikui finally spoke.
Tang Huan was instantly enraged, "You also think of me as a junk collector?"
"Sir, the entire Qihuai County knows that you are kind, generous, and compassionate. Are you really going to stand by and watch someone die?"
Li Daikui knew that the man was only outwardly angry, and that was not actually the case.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have let me carry people in.
"Stay, stay! You think it's that simple? Do you know how many people there are in Qihuai County now? It used to be a small town with only three thousand people, but now the population has increased twenty or thirty times. These people aren't people; they're knives hanging over my head!"
Li Daikui subconsciously scratched his head, knowing that the adult was telling the truth, but he didn't know what to say.
Tang Huan was furious. "Go and call those people who came back. I want to ask them what exactly happened."
A quarter of an hour later, the group of people they had encountered at the city gate earlier all arrived at the government office.
Everyone gathered in Tang Huan's study, each with an awkward smile on their face.
"Tell me, what's the deal with that savage?"
Thinking of the person being treated by the doctor right now, Tang Huan wanted to curse him out.
It's one thing to take in people from the surrounding areas of Qihuai County, but these people brought people from Kuizhou.
The leader was a young man under thirty years old. He said, "Sir, we all guessed that person was a disaster victim. We met him less than half a day after leaving Kuizhou. Old Zhao got out of the car to urinate, which startled him."
The man called Old Zhao gave an awkward smile.
Tang Huan glared at the man. If it weren't for Old Zhao urinating so carelessly, how could he have brought back such a troublemaker?
After being signaled to continue, Du Ruhai carefully recalled what he had said.
After hearing the story, Tang Huan frowned even more deeply.
According to Du Ruhai, with the help of others to fill in the gaps, Tang Huan learned the whole story.
Not long after leaving Kuizhou, they encountered this disaster victim. Having personally experienced such a tragedy, they couldn't bear to leave him behind and decided to take him in their car to help treat him.
The woman was very weak, and even had some minor knife wounds on her body. Everyone was worried that she wouldn't make it back alive.
But the other party ultimately persevered.
As Tang Huan was pondering, Du Ruhai smiled and said, "My lord, besides, that savage is actually a woman, and she seems to have a good figure. Why don't you keep her..."
Tang Huan was furious and immediately threw a book at Du Ruhai, who deftly dodged it.
Du Ruhai scurried back to pick up the book and put it on the table, looking at Tang Huan respectfully.
"Woman, you've got a great figure, haven't you? You didn't do anything to her, did you?"
The group was immediately shocked.
"Sir, how could we dare? We have always remembered your rules. We would never dare to misbehave even in other places. We still want to go back to Qihuai County."
Tang Huan glanced at the group, "But if none of you say anything, then no one will know, right?"
Du Ruhai scratched his beard and chuckled sheepishly, "Although this woman has a nice figure, she has a strange smell and isn't very good-looking..."
I don't know how many times he'd rolled in the mud, and then Old Zhao had pissed on him. It would be a miracle if he smelled good.
Add to that her disheveled appearance, and it's already quite remarkable that she's a woman. However, judging solely from her skin color, this woman is even inferior to most women in Qihuai County.
It is important to know that life in Qihuai County was extremely difficult for the first ten or twenty years. People couldn't even afford to eat their fill or stay warm, which led to stunted growth in the population.
Therefore, even though life has improved in recent years, most women in Qihuai County are still not considered beautiful.
As the county magistrate, Tang Huan was very clear about the situation in his county and could sense the disdain these people had for that savage.
He couldn't hold back any longer, jumped out from behind the desk and chased after Du Ruhai, punching him several times.
"Fine, you yourselves look down on her, but now you want this savage woman to be your woman, is that it?"
Du Ruhai took several punches but didn't feel any pain, knowing that the adults were just venting their anger.
He said, “We either already have wives, or we’re waiting to earn money to get a beautiful wife, unlike you, sir, who already has such a beautiful woman as Xue’e. Moreover, you have always treated everyone fairly and without any discrimination, so we feel that you wouldn’t care about her appearance…”
Tang Huan raised an eyebrow. "Dahai, I remember you're almost thirty and still unmarried, aren't you? How about we wait until the doctor has cured her, and I'll arrange for her to marry you?"
Upon hearing this, Du Ruhai immediately knelt on the ground, "Thank you for your concern for my marriage, sir, but I believe that matters of the heart cannot be forced. You have also said that free love is valued in Qihuai County, and forced marriage is absolutely unacceptable..."
Tang Huan impatiently waved his hand forcefully, shooing these people out.
They're the ones who taught them, and now they're using it to lecture me.
But looking at it from another perspective, at least I haven't had any problems educating the people of Qihuai County; their thinking is no longer so rigid.
In other places, if a county magistrate said such a thing, no matter how unwilling the other party was, they would not dare to refuse the marriage.
"Sir, should we keep him or not?" Li Daikui asked hesitantly.
Tang Huan sighed, "How would I know? Let's see first and wait for the doctor to cure him!"
After learning the whole story, Tang Huan brought Li Daikui over.
Just then, the doctor finished his work.
"Sir, that person is very weak and needs to rest for a while. The reasons for this are firstly the injuries on his body, and secondly, his poor mental state recently, coupled with the fatigue of travel, which has led to his continued unconsciousness..."
"Is he alright?" Tang Huan pressed.
The doctor shook his head. "His life is no longer in danger."
Tang Huan couldn't help but want to curse, "If you're fine, why are you shaking your head like that? You made me think that wild woman was going to die, and I was even a little worried."
After seeing the doctor off, Tang Huan went inside and found Xue'e carefully wiping the dirt and mud off the man's face with a towel soaked in hot water.
Because she was a patient, Xue'e moved very gently and acted very carefully.
The skin that had been wiped was a completely different white from the mud, even whiter than Xue'e, who had been enjoying a life of luxury in Qihuai County.
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