"Human traffickers?"
"Wait a moment, young lady, I'll go get our captain right away!"
Upon hearing that the group were human traffickers, Xiaobing immediately became excited. He greeted Lin Xue and ran back as fast as he could.
"Captain, Captain, someone has caught a human trafficker!"
The soldier rushed back and soon brought back a dark-faced captain.
Where are the human traffickers?
"Those damned human traffickers have been causing a lot of trouble in our county lately. Parents of missing children have been making a scene in front of our county government every day. We've finally caught them!"
The dark-faced captain walked towards Lin Xue while cursing.
Upon seeing the several burly men in black on the ground, he became even more enraged and immediately kicked one of them.
"Young lady, did you catch these people?"
Having vented his anger, he then looked up and carefully examined Lin Xue and her group.
Seeing the group's formation, the dark-faced captain knew who was in charge.
"Yes, they tried to kidnap my brother and me last night, but they didn't expect me to know martial arts, so they were caught by me!"
Lin Xue brandished the machete in her hand without any hesitation, proving that what she said was true.
"sharp!"
"Young lady, you are indeed a heroine among women. You are worthy of being a citizen of our Qingshan City. I admire you!"
The burly man with the dark face had no preference for sons over daughters. When he realized that these people were the ones captured by Lin Xue, he immediately gave her a thumbs up.
"You flatter me, sir. I was just doing what a citizen of Qingshan County should do!"
"Besides, they wanted to harm my younger siblings, how could I let them succeed?"
After exchanging pleasantries, the dark-faced captain ordered his men to arrest the burly men and then took Lin Xue and the others to the county government office.
"Sister-in-law, this man doesn't seem as scary as the villagers say."
Walking down the street, Zhou Xiaomei quietly tugged at Lin Xue's sleeve.
“I already told you, the villagers are just trying to scare you.”
“We are just ordinary people, doing the right thing, and we have nothing to fear from the officials!”
"They came here to protect us, so why would they do anything to harm us?"
Lin Xue patted Zhou Xiaomei's head, then pulled her to her side and made her walk alongside her.
“Your sister-in-law is right. We officials are here to protect the people. Don’t listen to those rumors that we officials oppress the people. Those are just rumors!”
"Our county magistrate is a good official who loves the people like his own children. Since taking office, he has resolved countless wrongful convictions and solved many problems for the people!"
"Have you seen whether Qingshan County has been robbed by bandits since we adults arrived?"
The dark-faced captain nodded in agreement upon hearing Lin Xue's words.
He also praised his father, implying that the magistrate of Qingshan County was a good person, otherwise these yamen runners wouldn't have spoken up for him like that.
"So, the village chief has been lying to us all along!"
“In the past, we never dared to mention reporting anything to the authorities when something happened in the village. Now it seems we were too ignorant!”
Zhou Xiaohai couldn't help but chime in, thinking that these uniformed officers were really cool!
Moreover, when they walk on the street, all pedestrians give way to them, and shop owners greet them with smiles.
"Once we make money, we'll move to Qingshan County."
"That way we won't have to worry about the village chief giving us a hard time. We'll hire a tutor for you all so you can learn some literacy and math. That way you can make a living by doing some small business in the future!"
As they chatted, they arrived in the county town, where the group of burly men in black were immediately sent to prison.
The dark-faced captain went in first to report, and came out shortly after to let them in.
"So you're the ones who caught the human traffickers? I never expected that you would catch the human traffickers who had been giving me a headache for two months!"
The county magistrate was a man in his thirties with a tuft of beard on his chin, and he looked very energetic and capable.
He carefully examined Lin Xue and the Zhou family children, and for a moment he could only marvel at them.
"Your Excellency, I have practiced martial arts since I was a child and know some basic fighting skills. Those men in black wanted to kidnap my younger brother and sister-in-law, how could I let them succeed? So I beat them all to the ground!"
Lin Xue bowed to the county magistrate in the hall, looking every bit the chivalrous woman of the martial world.
Logically, they should kneel before the magistrate, but Lin Xue didn't want to kneel, so she pretended not to know. The children behind her were even more clueless about these things, so they just stood motionless in the hall like their sister-in-law.
Fortunately, the county magistrate had seen many unruly villagers from the mountains and knew that these villagers who came from deep in the mountains had no idea about court etiquette.
They didn't blame them for not kneeling before officials, but instead inquired about the specific process of catching the kidnapper.
Lin Xue gestured and demonstrated to the magistrate, even describing exactly which part of the burly man in black she kicked.
"Young lady, you have quite the skills. Would you be interested in working for my county government?"
"Most of the people in my county office are men, and my wife is in dire need of a female bodyguard!"
Upon witnessing Lin Xue's skill, the county magistrate suddenly felt a fondness for her talent.
"this……"
Upon hearing the magistrate's words, Lin Xue hesitated noticeably.
"But what are your concerns? Tell me all of them and I, the magistrate, will resolve them for you!"
Seeing Lin Xue's troubled and hesitant appearance, the magistrate knew that she must have some unspeakable secret.
"That's right, Your Excellency!"
“My daughter’s husband tragically drowned some time ago, leaving behind five younger siblings. If I come to work at the county government, there will be no one to take care of my five younger siblings!”
“This is the only thing my husband left behind. His wish before he died was to raise his younger siblings. I can’t just abandon them!”
Although Lin Xue spoke pitifully, her main purpose was actually to get benefits.
I can do things for you, but you have to make the arrangements for me.
Putting everything else aside, you should at least arrange an apartment for us in the city, right?
Anyway, Lin Xue didn't plan to stay in that village for long; she would eventually bring her family out to make a living.
Being a bodyguard for the magistrate's wife is actually a pretty good job; at least in Qingshan County, no one dares to bully them anymore.
It makes it much easier to start a side hustle.
"You don't need to worry about that. There happens to be a vacant house behind my county government office. You can bring your younger brother and sister-in-law to live there together!"
"If my lady needs to go out, she will have a maid go and fetch you. All you need to do is protect my lady!"
"At other times, you can still take care of your younger siblings, and with the protection of this magistrate, no one will dare to do anything to your family!"
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