So he let them go. At worst, he could kidnap another group of refugees, as long as this group of refugees didn't tell anyone about this.
"Puchi——" a laugh rang out from the crowd.
"Hey, you old man are so shameless. I was wondering why there were no refugees in Qianyu City. It turns out you sold them all to work in illegal coal mines." Su Ming said.
Now the people who came to watch the fun were not happy. It turned out that some of their relatives who had been summoned before had been sold to work in the illegal coal mines by this black-hearted county magistrate.
Who could tolerate this? The crowd immediately surged and headed towards County Magistrate Zhang.
Magistrate Zhang was paralyzed by the spectacle. Who cared about official hats? Just being able to save his life was enough.
"Black-hearted county magistrate, give me back my relatives." Someone took the lead in shouting.
The people behind him started shouting, blocking Pig-headed Zhang on the mountain. He was so anxious that he jumped up and down on the spot.
"My immortal, you immortals have never cared about worldly affairs. What do these refugees have to do with you? Please forgive me. I will never dare to do it again. If I am caught by those untouchables, I will definitely have no way to survive." Seeing that Li Jingyu didn't say anything, Pig-headed Zhang thought he was thinking.
"That's right. I have magic stones and swords. I'll give them all to you. As long as you take me out." Pig-headed Zhang said again.
"Spirit stones and swords, I want them." Li Jingyu was really frugal with words he spoke to others.
Pighead Zhang thought he had convinced him and was no longer as panicked as before.
Suddenly, a white light flashed into his mind, and pain gradually spread from his brain to his ears, eyes, limbs... Especially in his head.
Seeing that Pighead Zhang refused to repent, Li Jingyu simply used soul-searching techniques to check where Pighead Zhang had hidden the treasures. Xiao Jin would probably love the treasures.
After finding the location of Zhutou Zhang's treasure, Li Jingyu released him and took him directly back to the government office. He needed his finger blood to open it.
The Pig-Headed Zhang, whose soul was being searched, was a bit sluggish. He did whatever Li Jingyu told him to do. Soon, Li Jingyu had taken all of Pig-Headed Zhang's treasures. Most of them were gold, silver, and cloth. He only had a little over a hundred spirit stones, not as much as Xiao Jin had given him.
He has over a dozen flying swords. It seems this Pig-Head Zhang has been embezzling money and doing shady things. He probably spent all his spirit stones on flying swords. He probably loves swords, otherwise he wouldn't have so many swords in his collection.
After Li Jingyu took the things, he went to the bank to exchange a lot of small change, and then used his spiritual power to distribute the silver to the people in the city door to door. Since it was all the people's blood and sweat, he should return it.
Of course, he also kept some of it and gave it to the clerk in the government office, asking him to distribute the silver to the refugees who had settled here before. If he was found to have embezzled the silver, he would suffer the same fate as Pighead Zhang.
If Pighead Zhang is stupid, he is very likely to be the next county magistrate of Qianyu City.
"Okay, okay. Immortal, please let me know if you have any instructions." The master said with a nod.
Li Jingyu left in a huff. When he emerged, it was already daybreak. The people of Shengdan Village were resting outside the city walls. There were few people on the streets.
He hadn't rested that night. It was common for cultivators in the Jindan stage to practice in seclusion for years without rest. Unlike ordinary people, who would feel sleepy and exhausted after a night without rest, he didn't.
Sang Jin, along with the five members of the Mu family, also arrived outside the city gate. It was Sang Yu who had brought her the news and recounted everything that had happened in Shengdan Village.
When she came back, she happened to meet Li Jinxu.
"Alright, 爅爅. You even dare to hit the county magistrate." Sang Jin asked the people of the Mu family to go down and rest.
"This is for you." Li Jingyu quickly gave her all the treasures he had found from Pighead Zhang. Although they were treasures, they were nothing but scrap metal to Sang Jin.
But I have a few rolls of fine brocade that would be nice. I can make Mother two beautiful dresses with them. And this sword, I can give it to her father to see if he can forge it into some magical weapon.
"It was a good harvest. What happened later? How did they deal with County Magistrate Zhang?" Sang Jin asked curiously.
"I used soul-searching magic on him, so he is a little stupid now. He originally had a lot of silver, so I distributed some change to every household in the city. The rest was distributed to the families of the refugees by my lawyer." Li Jingyu explained everything in detail.
"Well done."
Li Jingyu didn't know what she was saying, but it was definitely a compliment to him.
The villagers of Shengdan Village gathered together again, all of them intact. They rested for a day outside Qianyu City. Through this incident, Sang Jin realized something: no matter how harmonious and beautiful everyone was together, there should always be space between people.
Now the people of Shengdan Village seem to be gathered together on the surface, but ordinary villagers just want to live and work in peace.
After repairing, Shengdan Village began to move forward again. This time, there were five more people in their team.
"Village chief, there seem to be a lot of refugees ahead. They look like they are from the village next door to us." Zhou Moo came over and passed the message to Old Man Sang.
"It seems we have caught up with a large group of people fleeing famine. I saw people from several villages there," said Zhou Fugui.
He was the village chief before. Every year, the village chiefs from the surrounding villages would go to the county government office to pay grain and discuss matters. So many of the village chiefs knew each other.
Some of the village heads had a good relationship with each other. Going to Munan Prefecture was something that the village heads had agreed to.
"We can just keep up and keep company," said Father Sang. Anyone who could walk all the way to this village must have some strength and luck.
"Okay, we've finally caught up with the main force."
Seeing familiar faces on this journey away from home was a familiar feeling for Zhou Fugui. However, he didn't approach them to greet them. He simply followed the group at the end with his fellow villagers.
The people in their village were still wearing the clothes they wore when they fled. Except for the Sang and Mu families who had carriages parading through the city, everyone else looked no different from usual.
Suddenly, the team in front stopped, and there was a large lake blocking their way. The lake seemed to have no edge, but there was a stone tablet beside the lake with the words "Forbidden Lake" engraved on it.
There is a large natural lawn and water source here, so we just rested there and figured out how to get there. If that didn't work, we would just take a detour.
Seeing that the people in the team in front had stopped, the people in Shengdan Village also stopped to rest.
Sang Jin and Sang Yu sat together in Zi Shufen's carriage. Unless there was anything important, she would meditate and practice.
"Xiao Jin, come down quickly and have a rest. The brat from the Li family is here to bring you lunch." Sang Mu shouted outside the carriage.
"Let me see what delicious food we have today." After Sang Jin jumped off the carriage, Sang Mu helped Zi Shufen get off as well. Sang Yu walked last.
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