Chapter 263: Luhua Town needs a strong deterrent
While grinding, Taozhi asked Cui Qingyi, "Village Master, you said you wanted to build a school, but it hasn't been built yet. Why do you want the children to study here tomorrow?"
Cui Qingyi flexed her wrists while answering questions from those who had many questions: "Because the adults all have to go up the mountain to work starting tomorrow, they won't have time to look after the children."
Taozhi...is that why?
As the old saying goes, live by the mountain, eat by the mountain; live by the water, eat by the water. Luhua Town is surrounded by mountains and there are not many fertile fields. If you want to make a living, you have to work hard in the mountains.
Eating food from the mountains is hard work. The people in Luhua Town are used to being lazy. Using tough measures blindly may make things worse. But no matter how bad or lazy a person is, he or she will definitely value children in his or her heart.
Cui Qingyi's approach is like giving a slap in the face and then giving a sweet date.
In addition to the situation in Luhua Town, Cui Qingyi was very worried that these children would learn bad things at a young age, so she took this opportunity to correct them.
Wang Xiaoqian received the letter yesterday and hurried to Luhua Town with his men today.
Before this, he had been wondering how Cui Qingyi would clean up the mess in Luhua Town. After all, he knew a lot about Luhua Town's past from the county government's records.
He thought that the phrase "fierce folk customs" was not enough to describe the people of Luhua Town. To be honest, if the people from the Qinghe County camp had not gone with them, Wang Xiaoqian would still be a little worried that Cui Qingyi, a woman, would suffer.
But he never expected that Cui Qingyi had notified him to go to the trial less than a day after he arrived.
Wang Xiaoqian arrived at the entrance of Luhua Town. Looking at the sentry post set up there, he sighed in his heart that the military was really good at doing things.
Waiting to be taken to Cui Qingyi's current residence, Wang Xiaoqian's eyes were not enough to see what was going on in the place where the soldiers set up camp.
Because of Huo Ying's ruthlessness, the men who were assigned to make clay bricks rolled up their sleeves and worked enthusiastically. Wang Xiaoqian sighed again, saying that he was worthy of being the village chief. He had only been in Luhua Town for one day, but the people's mental outlook had changed a lot. Look how hard they were working!
When Wang Xiaoqian was waiting to be told that the prisoners who needed to be tried today were those responsible for making clay bricks, he admired the Dongping Township Lord even more. The township Lord was even more cruel than those unscrupulous gentry.
Wang Xiaoqian was a coroner himself and had a certain foundation in case solving. In addition, he also learned a lot from Zhou Yanxiu, so trying a case was no longer a difficult task for him.
In addition, Lu Laoliu and others did not commit the crime very cleverly, and there was Lu Da as a strong witness. The only thing that made Wang Xiaoqian nervous was that Cui Qingyi demanded that the trial of Lu Laoliu and others be open, which meant that so many people in Luhua Town would be watching how he tried the case.
Wang Xiaoqian showed a bit of embarrassment on his face. Seeing that he was hesitant to speak, Cui Qingyi asked directly, "Master Wang, is there anything troubling you?"
Wang Xiaoqian: "Village Lord, please tell me the truth. What is the outcome you want from the people of Luhua Town? Is it mainly to appease the people, or what?"
Wang Xiaoqian didn't finish his words, but Cui Qingyi understood.
She stopped what she was doing and looked at Wang Xiaoqian. "Lord Zhou did a lot to appease the people during his tenure. Facts have proven that a conciliatory policy is ineffective. What Luhua Town needs now is a strong deterrent!"
After she said this, Wang Xiaoqian was completely relieved.
In order to resolve the instability in Luhua Town to the greatest extent possible, Wang Xiaoqian brought the entire team from the county government with him this time.
In the open space in the center of the inn, Captain Wu gave up his seat to Wang Xiaoqian, and two groups of yamen runners holding water and fire sticks shouted in unison, "Mighty!"
Wang Xiaoqian sat upright in his official uniform.
The people of Luhua Town had never seen such a scene before, and the scene fell silent again.
Even though she was well prepared, Cui Qingyi was still shocked as Wang Xiaoqian's interrogation progressed.
She really didn't expect that there would be a place like Luhua Town in Dongping County during the peaceful and prosperous times. She must have thought that if it were a few years later, this place would have been a famous hotbed of crime in the Jin Dynasty.
It was also this time that Cui Qingyi finally understood why Zhou Yanxiu promoted Wang Xiaoqian to be the county magistrate of Dongping County.
This man had a gloomy face, and the dark blue in his eyes was very intimidating. He was also very meticulous and could find loopholes in the prisoner's words almost instantly. He was also very skillful in asking questions.
He looks a bit like a negotiation expert in later generations.
He pressed the prisoner with questions, leaving him speechless. Then he threw a warrant and said coldly, "You are telling lies. I will torture you!"
When he heard the prisoner's cries of pain from being beaten with a stick, he would immediately bring up the next one and get the answer he wanted in a short while.
Inside the inn, several girls of varying ages, dressed in ragged linen clothes, crouched by the crack of the door, listening to the thumping of boards outside and whispering, "Can we really go home now?"
"Go home? I was very young when I came here and I can't even remember where home is."
Suddenly, a slight sobbing sound was heard in the house again. Everyone was regretting in their hearts. If only... What a pity. A person's destiny can easily change. There is no medicine for regret in this world.
But fortunately, there are people who are willing to help them choose a new way of life.
After spending a whole morning trying the man, Wang Xiaoqian briefly informed Cui Qingyi and then pronounced the verdict according to the laws of the Great Jin Dynasty.
When Lu Da heard that Lu Laoliu and the eldest and third sons of the Lu family were sentenced to death, his eyes blurred and he almost fell to the ground.
He subconsciously looked at Cui Qingyi, but saw that the other person's eyes were full of indifference, and even looked at the prisoners kneeling upright with an unconcealable disgust.
Of course, not only Lu Laoliu and his son were sentenced to immediate execution, but also the couple who ran the inn. This was a completely black shop.
These two people used this inn as a cover to select people for the brothel in the town.
Earth-shaking cries were heard at the scene. Most of those sentenced to death were also the heads of many families in Luhua Town. They had fathers, mothers, wives and children, but they were indifferent to the lives of others.
Aunt Lu held onto the fence and looked at her two panicked sons in the middle of the field. It was strange that although they were clearly a piece of her flesh that had fallen off, Aunt Lu felt a wonderful sense of relief in her heart when she looked at them. She felt as if her whole body was light, as if the huge rock that had trapped her all her life had been removed.
Lu Liu naturally saw his wife. His face twisted and his skinny face showed a fierce look: "If you and those two at home dare to run, I will break your legs when I get out."
As a result of years of beatings, Aunt Lu Liu felt a heart-wrenching pain in her ankle, but she endured it and did not fall.
Just as she was thinking about how to respond, a long whip flew through the air and landed accurately on Lu Laoliu. As she was whipped again and again, Lu Laoliu's eyes became much clearer.
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