Chapter 115 Chapter 115 Update.
It is said that Ji Xu and his group reported the news in Qi County, Qingzhou. The emperor received a memorial from the Qingzhou governor and ordered the officials to conduct a thorough investigation. The Chief Justice, one of the Nine Ministers, was the presiding judge of the case and was escorted to the State of Yan by the Cavalry Officer Mu Pinghou.
Ji Xu and Erye also returned to Youzhou with the soldiers. Before that, Marquis Mu Ping had set an ambush on the way and arrested the grandson of King Xiao of Qi and the son of King Ai of Zhongshan. The two were temporarily secretly detained in Qingzhou prison, awaiting the court's decision.
When they arrived outside the city of Zhuojun in Youzhou, they pretended to be the troops of the grandson of King Xiao of Qi. They spread the word outside the city that the assassination was successful and tricked the city gates into opening.
Marquis Muping led his men to detain the soldiers at the city gate. The Chief Justice brought out the imperial edict and read it out. They surrounded the county magistrate's mansion, broke in, and searched the entire mansion, causing chaos.
Just as Manager Zou had knocked the boy down and was about to scold him, he saw a group of aggressive armored soldiers rushing in from the corner gate. Without saying a word, they rushed up and twisted their arms. Manager Zou turned his body and shouted:
"Who are you! Who are you? How dare you trespass into the county magistrate's residence!"
"I have been ordered by the Emperor to search and confiscate the County Magistrate's Mansion. Not a single one can escape!"
Feng, Zhu and the others had just escaped from the dog hole. When they heard that Manager Zou was not going to let them go, they were about to run for their lives, but they were frightened by the flames and the earth-shaking sound of boots, and they ran around under the wall like mice.
The armored soldiers came to stop them with their spears and halberds,
"Three little slaves came out of the dog hole!"
“Where are you running to!”
"Caught!"
"stop."
At the command, Ji Feng felt the sharp swords and guns around her being put away. She glanced in the direction of the voice and saw a man in armor holding the reins on the back of a tall horse. His face was as sharp as a knife, and he looked strong and brave.
Following him, my attention was soon attracted by the figure in Hu clothing riding on the horse next to them. It was a thin girl. When she saw them, she was very excited and dismounted to recognize them.
"Sister!"
"Feng Mei! Xiao Zhu!"
The three sisters hugged each other and cried for a while.
Here, the Chief Justice and Marquis Mu Ping and his troops entered the mansion to search and confiscate the property. The guards outside the courtyard wall were tightly guarded. Any slaves who packed their bags and tried to escape were driven back by the soldiers and could neither enter nor leave.
Later, when they wanted to search the alchemy building and the underground private mine, Erye, who knew the truth, was invited in, while Ji Xu and the others waited outside from a distance.
One after another, batches of slaves with their hands tied were brought out. Manager Zou was among them. Perhaps because he was not obedient, his body was covered with mud marks and he no longer had the momentum of showing off his power.
When he saw Ji Xu, his eyes widened as if he had seen a ghost, and he said to the armored soldier:
"Catch them! The four of them also work for the County Magistrate's Office!"
The soldier ignored her and took her away by force.
These people are temporarily detained in jail. After interrogation, it will be determined whether they are involved in the conspiracy of the county magistrate's office. If so, they will be sentenced. If not, they will be taken away and sold to the next buyer.
When the county magistrate was taken to the prison, he was not even wearing his coat, as if he was captured in his sleep. Boxes of land deeds, gold, silver and jewelry were carried out behind him.
When the county magistrate's mansion was emptied of its money and property, the sky was already getting light. The people on the roadside who were watching the excitement were pointing and talking. The place was crowded with people.
"It's said that the county magistrate is hiding miners and illegally mining and smelting iron!"
"Look, those are brand new swords!"
The Alchemy Building also gradually copied out things, first the weapons and iron ore, and then the dark and skinny mining slaves, who squinted their eyes and walked in a huddled manner like light-afraid animals.
The common people stretched their necks to look and sighed. The county government had no room for so many miners, so they could only temporarily place them in the Sikong Temple outside the city.
"It's mother!"
Feng and Zhu both recognized that the one wearing tattered clothes and with a dirty face was Tian.
Tian was about to come over to their place to acknowledge her husband, but the soldier, noticing that she was calling Ji Xu "daughter," withdrew his hand and said to Ji Xu:
"The lady will first take the man away for a talk, and then send him to Sikong Temple for questioning and answer."
Here, Tian was temporarily released and cried out to the sky while holding her three daughters.
"I've grown up and become a lot whiter."
He said as he touched Feng and Zhu whom he had just met.
"It's been so short a while since we last met, and you've lost a lot of weight." This was referring to Ji Xu. She had traveled with the army to Zhuo County, and her face was covered in dust. She was worried about them, and she couldn't eat well, and had lost a lot of weight.
Ji Xu tucked his eyes in and agreed with his mother that there was nothing.
Tian was being affectionate with her daughters when she noticed a little maidservant nearby staring at her with round eyes. She asked whose child that was.
"Ji Zhu said: "She is the youngest."
When they said goodbye by the river in the afternoon, Jizhu combed Xiaoyao's hair and asked her: Where are you from?
Xiaoyao opened his hands wide and pressed them down. Jizhu said: Is it Chang'an?
Xiaoyao nodded, completely unaware that they were planning to leave, and still gestured that he would come here to play with them tomorrow.
Ji Feng was worried that if they left, Xiaoyao would be bullied here alone, so she gritted her teeth and decided to take her with her as well.
Now Ji Xu asked, "Xiaoyao, are you willing to come with us?"
Xiaoyao nodded.
So the mother and daughter became affectionate, and they accompanied Tian to Sikong Temple outside the city. The place was crowded with miners from private mines, and there was an interrogation room set up in the wing. They went in according to their numbers and answered questions in front of the officials.
Tian confessed that she had colluded with insiders and outsiders to secretly sell iron ore for profit. The soldiers found the profit distribution account book at Mrs. Lai's residence, which matched the amount that Tian had voluntarily confessed. In total, she had received five taels of silver.
Considering the pitiful fate of the miners, the chief judge in charge of the case ordered his subordinates to give them lenient sentences and give seven coins a day as compensation to those civilians who were forced into slavery. The money was paid from the treasury confiscated from the county magistrate's office.
Because Tian was trapped here for two years, the compensation money just offset the amount of profit she made, so she did not get the money. Fortunately, she was not held accountable for her fault and her civil status was restored.
But since other people could get the money, Tian was very jealous.
"If I can get out safely, why worry about not having the time to make money? It's great that my civilian status has been restored." Ji Xu said. All she wanted originally was for her family to be reunited safely, and now she feels at ease.
The slave who had been mutilated was the one who had been a runaway slave and was recovered. He received one and a half taels of silver.
Because he had no nose, Ji Xu looked at him twice more and asked:
"Your surname is Wang? You're the third child, and you live near Guangyang Road in Handan. Do you have three or four acres of wheat fields in front of your house?"
She was talking about an old couple who stayed overnight on their way to Youzhou. Dalang of the family died in the battlefield and Erlang was eaten by wolves. She promised the old woman that if she saw Sanlang, she would tell him that his old father and mother at home missed him very much.
Wang Ye's face was somewhat moved. "How did you know?"
After hearing what Ji Xu said, tears rolled down his eyes, wetting the silver coins in his hands.
"Auntie, have you finished your questions?"
You Lu dismounted from Sikong Guan and asked, he had become much more stable since he followed Zhuang Gaiyi out of Kuaiji and all the way to Xijing.
"If you have finished your inquiry, then follow me to the city and be settled there."
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