The person who reacted the fastest immediately knelt down and shouted, "This humble subject pays respects to Madam An!"
Upon hearing this, the others knelt down sparsely, saying the same thing: "This humble subject pays respects to Madam An!"
Jiang Ling has some stubbornness. She has never liked this sense of class and did not intend to reveal her status as a lady so soon. However, revealing it now may not be a bad thing. At least those with ulterior motives will restrain themselves.
Thinking of this, Jiang Ling accepted their kneeling and worship with a clear conscience.
After everything was over, Zhao Liu drove the carriage and left Lujia Village with Magistrate Duan.
Sitting in the carriage, Magistrate Duan grew angrier the more he thought about it. Finally, he lifted the curtain and said to Zhao Liu, "Liu Zi, find a secluded place to stop the carriage!"
Although Zhao Liu found it strange, he dared not disobey the magistrate's order and quickly found a secluded place to stop the carriage.
"Take him inside!" Magistrate Duan lifted the curtain and pointed to Wang Tieshuan, who was tied up behind him, and said to Zhao Liu.
Zhao Liu had followed Magistrate Duan for many years and immediately understood what Magistrate Duan meant. He quickly led Wang Tieshuan into the bushes.
"I'll beat you to death! You heartless bastard! Where's all that sharp tongue you had just been talking about!" Magistrate Duan started kicking Wang Tieshuan repeatedly.
Wang Ruishuan could only whimper because his mouth was stuffed with rags. Magistrate Duan didn't care about that and, seeing that no one was around, kicked Wang Ruishuan even harder.
Before long, Wang Tieshuan was covered in bruises from being kicked.
Zhao Liu was worried that if things continued like this, Magistrate Duan would beat Wang Tieshuan to death, so he quickly stepped in front of Magistrate Duan and said, "Sir, sir, be careful. If we kill someone, we won't be able to explain it to the prefect!"
Reminded by Zhao Liu, Magistrate Duan quickly withdrew his foot, but still kicked Wang Tieshuan's buttocks several times, and said fiercely to Zhao Liu, "Tie him up!"
Zhao Liu was startled by the appearance of Magistrate Duan, so he quickly tied Wang Tieshuan to the back of the carriage again.
An angry-looking magistrate, a bewildered Zhao Liu, and a tearful Wang Tieshuan returned to the yamen together.
"Take him away! Find a few people to keep an eye on him. If he gets lost, you're all fired!" After leaving these words, Magistrate Duan angrily returned to his bedroom.
After the remaining constables looked at each other and confirmed that Magistrate Duan would not come out, they all swarmed around Zhao Liu and asked him what had just happened.
"I'm furious! How dare you speak of the Jiang family like that! I'll make sure the Prefect punishes you severely!" Magistrate Duan was still furious whenever he recalled what had just happened, and he almost stomped his feet in anger!
Looking at the writing brush, ink, paper, and inkstone on the desk, Magistrate Duan finally picked up the brush and began to exaggerate Wang Tieshuan's crimes.
On the other side is Lujia Village.
Jiang Ling was discussing the food for these refugees with the village chief. In the end, Jiang Ling gave the village chief some money out of her own pocket, since she would need these people to work in her factory in the future, so she should do a good deed.
The village chief consulted several honest villagers about purchasing supplies, and the meals for the refugees were finally settled: two meals a day. In the morning, they would have a bowl of wild vegetable porridge with a buckwheat bun and some cold wild vegetables. In the afternoon, they would have mixed grain rice and some stir-fried wild vegetables and vegetables. Once a week, they would have a meat dish and meat soup.
These things may look a bit meager, but for these people who have been starving for a long time, they are an unimaginable delicacy!
Especially when the first meal was served, even the men had tears in their eyes.
They all swore to the heavens that they would protect everyone in Lujia Village from now on, and that if anyone had any disloyalty to Lujia Village, they would be struck dead.
Three days later, Jiang Suihe's winter exam results came out. Jiang Suihe was successfully admitted to Linghui Academy with the highest score in the winter exam. The admission date was set for the 20th day of the first lunar month.
The news spread quickly to every corner of Lujia Village, and almost everyone was happy, after all, Jiang Suihe was the first person from Lujia Village to be admitted to Linghui Academy after so many years.
Jiang Suihe's story further inspired the adults in the village, who all hoped that their children could be admitted to the town's academy.
During this period, Jiang Ling secretly went to the refugees' location every day to observe them. After more than a month, Jiang Ling confirmed that the refugees were all relatively well-behaved and none of them had any disloyal intentions. Jiang Ling then approached the village chief and suggested that the refugees' activity area could be expanded.
The next morning, Jiang Ling and the village chief came to the refugees and said to them, "You have behaved very well for the past month or so. Now you can move freely in this area! However, you still cannot go beyond this area!"
As he spoke, the village chief pointed to a large tree not far away.
The refugees were overjoyed; this seemingly inhumane rule was actually quite merciful to them!
Under Jiang Ling's care, Hu Yue'er's health improved a lot, but Jiang Ling knew that physical injuries heal easily, but emotional wounds could only be healed by herself.
At the same time, Magistrate Duan also received a notice from the Prefect that Wang Tieshuan, due to his heinous crimes, would be escorted by the yamen officials to Shengjing to be personally tried by the Emperor!
Winter arrived in the blink of an eye, and the temperature grew colder and colder. Fortunately, Jiang Ling was prepared and harvested all the cotton, carefully drying it and saving the seeds.
The ducks that had been raised before had gradually grown up. Recently, Jiang Ling and the children had been plucking the ducks' feathers quite a bit, causing the ducks to quack and run away whenever they saw Jiang Ling!
With the double filling of cotton and duck down, Jiang Ling's cotton-padded clothes are lighter and warmer than everyone else's in the village.
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