Huang Shiren knew he was powerless this time, so he offered no resistance to the yamen runners' arrest. Of course, even if he wanted to escape, he had to stand up first.
But when the bailiff was about to take Huang Shiren back to the county jail, Xier ran out from somewhere with a hairpin in her hand, trying to use it to end Huang Shiren's life and avenge her sister's tragic death.
At the critical moment, Li Mengyue grabbed Xier in time and prevented her from going down the path of no return.
Seeing that it was the girl who saved her, Xier reached out and grabbed her. Tears flowed again. While crying, she said to Li Mengyue: "Girl, I want to kill him with my own hands and avenge my sister."
"Huang Shiren has harmed so many people. The law will punish him, and he won't have a good ending. This kind of beast is not worthy of you dirtying your hands."
Seeing her enemy being led away, Xier squatted down and burst into tears, as if she wanted to cry out all the grievances she had suffered during this period of time.
But no matter what, her sister would never come back.
"What should I do? My sister is gone. I don't know what's the point of living anymore."
Li Mengyue could kill people, but comforting people was not her strong point. Just as she was racking her brains to think of how to tell Xier, County Magistrate Yang came over.
"You can go to the Fushan Hall in the county first. There are many homeless people there. Go there and help take care of the younger children. I believe you will find the answer there."
After deciding where Xier was going, Li Mengyue thought of the poor women in the quiet courtyard.
"Master Yang, there are still more than a dozen women living in the Jingyuan of the Huang Mansion. Can you temporarily arrange for them to stay in the Fushan Hall you mentioned?"
Ever since County Magistrate Yang heard about the fake daughter from the capital, combined with what he had heard about the real and fake daughters in the Prime Minister's Mansion when he left the capital, he vaguely guessed the girl's identity.
If his guess was correct, the girl who helped him solve the case was Yun Mengyue, the fake daughter of the prime minister's family who ran away with a beggar.
Interesting, interesting.
He originally thought that choosing to be the county magistrate in Wuning County would be boring, but now it seems that he would gain unexpected benefits.
Li Mengyue didn't know that County Magistrate Yang was so active in his mind. She went to the quiet courtyard and prepared to bring out all the women living there.
The reason why she went there in person was because the young man who had led him there before had already been there.
Seeing that there was no one behind him, she knew that the women who had been hurt by Huang Shiren no longer trusted men and were unwilling to follow him.
But she couldn't take all these women to Xingying Village. The best place for them at the moment was the Fushan Hall in the county, which could provide them with temporary shelter.
Li Mengyue went to Jingyuan again, and saw that these women were either crazy or stupid, and she still couldn't accept it calmly.
The woman sitting under the eaves felt relieved when she saw the little girl she had met before returned safe and sound, and a sweet smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.
"If you have a chance to leave, why not come back?"
"Huang Shiren will not have a good ending if he is arrested. You can leave now."
Hearing Li Mengyue say this, the sound of a woman crying was suddenly heard in the yard. Even the crazy woman, seeing others crying, started to cry loudly.
It seems that every woman here hates Huang Shiren, but they are outnumbered and powerless to take revenge.
They could only watch their enemy wantonly harming innocent women. Now that the enemy has finally been brought to justice, how can they not be happy?
After a quarter of an hour, the crying gradually subsided.
Seeing everyone's emotions gradually calm down, Li Mengyue said, "You now have two choices: you can go home, or you can go to the Fushan Hall in the county."
As soon as he finished speaking, someone whispered, "I don't want to go home. My parents sold me for ten taels of silver. The moment they sold me, I lost my parents."
"I don't want to go home either. A woman like me who has been abused by others, if I return to the village, if I'm lucky, I'll be forced to marry a widower and become someone's stepmother. If I'm unlucky, I'll be drowned in sugar."
Then another woman said, "Although I was deceived into coming here, my parents love me very much, but I really can't accept myself now. If I go back, my parents will be criticized by others, and my two younger brothers' marriages will also be affected."
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Except for those who were crazy and stupid, Li Mengyue sought opinions from everyone who was still conscious.
I found more than a dozen people, and no one wanted to go home.
It seems that this era is really harsh on women. These women have already suffered a lot after being hurt.
But if I go back home, I will suffer even greater psychological torture.
She saved these poor women so that they could live better after suffering the injustice of fate, instead of returning home and continuing to live a hard life.
Therefore, she respected the opinions of the women in Jingyuan and took them to see County Magistrate Yang.
County Magistrate Yang also promised to make good arrangements for these women, and only then did Li Mengyue return to Xingying Village with peace of mind.
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