Chapter 484 485. Come to the door
"No, isn't there still a place that hasn't been searched?" someone in the caravan shouted.
Everyone present knew where he was referring to.
"I don't think the official's wife would be interested in your stuff?" Some villagers immediately jumped out to defend him. The other party did not rely on his official status, which was already a gesture of goodwill to them, the common people.
"That's right. They have so many carriages that they almost equal half of your number. How dare you try to drag others down with you?"
The county magistrate immediately frowned, "Why, do you still want to search the official's house?"
The terms "officials, farmers, merchants and artisans" are no joke. These are just merchants, yet they dare to come up with such an idea.
"Your Excellency, what you said is wrong. If we want to treat everyone equally, then we should treat everyone the same." At this time, a businessman stood up under everyone's gaze.
The escort leader recognized this man at a glance as someone who had just been squeezed in before the departure, and his surname seemed to be Xu.
"Are you the victim?" Xian Jin looked at him thoughtfully.
The little guard beside Lin Dazhuang also left quietly at this time.
"Your Excellency, I did lose some things. It may not matter to some people, but it is as valuable as half of our lives for merchants like us. Please give us justice."
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When Jin Qianqian heard the report, she felt a strange feeling in her heart.
She asked someone to count her belongings again and had the guards check the house carefully.
She looked up at the back of the house, handed the two children to the wet nurse, and made the excuse that she felt a little bored and wanted to take a walk outside to get some fresh air, asking everyone else not to follow her.
Lichun and the others were still a little worried and only agreed to follow from a distance.
Jin Qianqian followed them and walked along the vegetable garden behind the house towards the foot of the mountain.
If this was really aimed at me, it would be impossible for me to sneak the stuff in under the noses of so many guards. The only possible place now is the back mountain.
This family is quite particular about hygiene. They picked up stones and paved a road in front of and behind the house, which is quite a unique sight.
The grass gradually grew lush near the back mountain, and the dew on the grass sparkled under the sunlight.
Jin Qianqian stood there looking around, then raised her foot and walked in one direction.
Lichun and the others behind them were all anxious, "Madam, let's go back! If you want to see the scenery, let's go to the village."
Jin Qianqian quickened her pace, and by the time Lichun and the others caught up with her, she had already turned around as if nothing had happened.
Li Qiu stared at the hem of her skirt and said worriedly, "The dew in early spring is a bit freezing, Madam, let's go back and change clothes first."
Jin Qianqian looked down and found that half of her skirt was wet. "I thought it was a hare running by, but I didn't expect it was my eyesight."
"Madam, do you want to ask someone in the village? There should be hunters near the mountain here." Li Qiu helped her walk back.
Jin Qianqian, "It would be better to ask someone to find out. We have all worked hard on the journey, and the road ahead may be even more desolate. Buy as much as you can."
They had just changed out of their clean skirt when someone came to the door of the courtyard where they lived.
Now they are stopped outside the door by the guards. Although these people dare not force their way in, they keep shouting for justice.
Lin Dapeng was standing outside the courtyard at the moment, "What are you doing? This is the prefect's family, how can you search them?"
“We’ve searched the entire village, but we haven’t found your place.
There is a conflict between the two sides. To make everyone more confident, you can send someone in to take a look. It won’t cause any loss.”
"You're not going to let us in to look for it. Are you feeling guilty?"
"I finally managed to scrape together this much money and bought a batch of goods, but now most of it has been stolen. This is simply killing me. Since you are officials, you should speak up for us common people."
"Me too, I've borrowed from all my relatives and friends, hoping to turn my life around with this little money. Madam, please have mercy on me and let someone in to take a look!"
"You guys are so unreasonable. From the sound of your tone, it seems as if we took the things?" Lin Dapeng held the knife in his hand. If these people dared to rush forward, he wouldn't mind seeing blood.
They had been behaving well-behaved throughout the journey, but they didn't expect that these people would take their kindness as bullying.
"Whatever? Let's go in and take a look."
"Could it be that you are feeling guilty?"
"I heard that many officials are not as glorious as they seem. Some of them have some special hobbies."
"No way?"
"Who knows that you can know a person's face but not his heart?"
The escort leader came over at this time, stood beside Lin Dapeng and whispered, "The people who are talking happily now are not the original members of our team. They are all people who suddenly joined before leaving.
Most of the goods this time were lost by these people.”
This statement was very telling. Lin Dapeng couldn't help but squint at the other person and asked, "You didn't see them at first?"
The escort leader shook his head. In their line of work, there were so many merchants traveling back and forth, it was impossible for them to have met them all.
Lin Dapeng was hesitating whether to go in and report, when Lichun ran out and whispered something in his ear.
"If anyone who just wanted to go in for the search, please stand up." Lin Dapeng glanced at the crowd and said loudly.
"What? Are you trying to use your power to oppress others?"
“No, since you want to investigate, you have to let us know whose idea it was.
If this matter has nothing to do with us, then we have been wronged for no reason, and naturally someone has to take responsibility.
What's the matter? You don't even dare to admit the consequences, yet you dare to make trouble here?"
The people who came to join in the fun began to retreat. To be honest, they didn't have much to lose, and some even just wanted to see how these people made trouble. They didn't want to get involved.
Seeing that some people wanted to turn around and leave, Xu Mutou could only stand up, pulling his clothes, and said, "I am the victim, and I have lost the most goods here. I naturally know that Madam would not look down on our things.
But now we have searched the whole village, this thing can't just fly out of thin air, maybe the villain is hiding somewhere? Now there is only this one place that we haven't checked, please help us, Madam, and let us look for it."
Lin Dapeng, "Oh, is this just your opinion? Do other people have the same idea?"
At this time, Xu Mutou had already felt that the people who were originally standing next to him were moving away.
He looked at the merchants who had lost their belongings like him, "Don't you want to get your things back?"
Someone immediately shook his head and said, "Forget it. My stuff isn't worth much anyway. Just consider it a loss."
"We were all wrong. Madam is of such a low status that how could she possibly take our things? Maybe the thief has already left with the things."
(End of this chapter)
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