Chapter 103: gap

After everyone had gone, Zhou Chengkang went home. He said that the villagers didn't avoid him when they discussed with him, or that he meant to say these things in front of him on purpose.
In other words, the villagers told him almost plainly that they had no plans to pay back the money.
Mother Zhou sighed, "I always thought that I might not come back. Unless the Yang family can save money."
This is impossible. The Yang family is really exhausted. Either sell the house and sell the land, and still save a dozen taels of silver. Just save it, don’t forget that Xu’s mother still has 15 taels of IOUs.
This is not important. Li Qinghe remembered something and asked, "Did you see Yang Lanhong today?"
No!
After several people looked at each other and shook their heads, she asked, "If you can't catch the thief, does the Yang family still admit it?"
Zhou Chengkang frowned and said for a while, "I saw a scratch on Master Yang's neck."
Li Qinghe asked in surprise, "Does he want to help his son withstand the crime?"
Zhou Chengkang thought for a while, "It is possible. I will ask tomorrow."
The next morning, Zhou Chengkang set up a carriage again and went to the town. This time he took the whole family with him. The mayor’s house specially found a house and closed the Yang family.
When they arrived, Boss Zhou was already there, "So you can't find anyone who is a thief now?"
The mayor sighed, "Yes, he never let go of where Yang Lanhong went. We can't catch people, and naturally we can't find the few remaining people."
"No matter what I say, he never speaks."
Li Qinghe walked to the door of Father Yang's house, opened the door and saw him sitting in a chair. Perhaps the sunlight was too intense. He squinted and saw the people clearly. He was quite surprised, "Is it you?"
She walked to him and sat down, "It's me. I came to ask where your son has gone?"
Father Yang shook his head, "I don't know. He will not live at home a long time ago. You don't need to find him. I took the things at your elder brother's house, but I didn't beat the people. I didn't do it, I was only responsible for getting the money."
"Then tell me who the remaining people are."
"I don’t know them. Someone stuffed a note into my yard earlier. I opened it and told me to steal something. If I didn’t do it, I would pretend not to see it. I owed the villagers so much money. It’s difficult, so I touched the agreed place in the town at night. They all covered their faces and gave me a piece of cloth. I didn’t know that it was your elder brother’s house beforehand. Later, your elder brother found us and had no choice but to Tied someone up, beat him up, and asked his wife to get the money... Speaking of which, I helped. Some of them saw your sister-in-law looks good and wanted to ruin her. I stopped. If you don't believe me , You can ask your brother."
Li Qinghe was sitting across from him, listening to him saying that after going out, the few people directly divided the money and left, and then went home. It happened to be dark. He knew that the money could not be kept, and hurriedly asked his wife to find someone in the village to pay the debt. Those who want to pay back the money from the villagers, as soon as they have it..."
Li Qinghe was impatient to listen to this. Earlier, the Yang family owed so much money to drink spicy food. If you are really embarrassed, you should have paid off some debts. Interrupted him and asked, "So, except for you. After getting the silver, I don’t know who the other people are or how much money they have divided up. Even my sister-in-law’s jewelry doesn’t know who took it, right?"
Father Yang nodded.
After going out, she went into the next room. There was the mayor sitting on the front, and next to him was Boss Zhou with a bruised face. Underneath was the somewhat uncomfortable Mei, then Zhou Mu and Zhou Chengkang, and Zhou Lao San. The two, even Zhou Lao Er, also arrived.
The mayor was holding the tea cup, pondering for a while, and said, "He said so carefully, he just wanted to prove that he was the one who robbed the object." Looking at Boss Zhou, "Are you sure the injured person has white and tender skin?"
After several inquiries like this, Boss Zhou was not sure, and hesitated, "It should be. I lit a candle at night, and it looks really white, like a woman."
Li Qinghe thought for a while and said, "He said it so carefully. If it were him, but in fact, he had no reason to help others to conceal the crime of robbing seventy taels of silver. One person is completely different from four people, but if it were not him, he But I can say so carefully, and I can start paying off the debt so soon, I must have been to the Yang family, and there will still be time to talk to him in detail. Maybe now the man is in the Yang family!"
The mayor was taken aback, stood up and said, "Immediately find someone to visit Yang's house with me again."
The gate of the Yang family's yard was closed tightly. The mayor asked the woman to open the door. The yard was quiet. After looking around the houses, no one was found. He stood in the yard with his hands in his hands and looked at the wall of the Yang family in thought. He suddenly heard a scream from the backyard. A group of people rushed over and saw a ladder on the wall, and a painful cry came from outside the wall.
When I walked outside, I saw Yang Lanhong, who was only wearing a shirt, lying on the ground, holding his leg and crying, there was indeed a road between the neck of a woman scratching out.
The mayor took the people back, and the whole family of Yang's family only lived in his house.
Yang Lanhong’s experience is what Yang’s father said. He didn’t know more about it, but the mayor told him to remember it over and over again. From morning to night, at midnight, he finally couldn’t stand it, "Although I didn’t watch it. It looks like a few of them, but one of them looks like Zhao Tianfu."
Zhao Tianfu has been at home for the past two days, and he even ran to watch the farce of the Yang family for a long time, and he couldn't see that he had a problem.
But since Yang Lanhong said so, Zhao Tianfu was also taken. Because of this, I even ran to invite both of the Liu family brothers for questioning, but they happened to go to the county town to get fish that night, and several people from the county town’s fish pond testified together. They were indeed released when they had no time. Went back.
Zhao Tianfu insisted on not admitting it, but it was soon discovered that he had paid back a sum of money owed to the gambling house in the past two days. The profit was exactly 18 taels, which happened to be the money he had allocated.
When they heard the news, the expressions on the faces of Zhou Boss and Mei's Li Qinghe couldn't bear to look at them. Their complexions were distorted and couldn't cry. The capital is miserable!
The two people spent their money, and they still had to come back. For the remaining two people, Boss Zhou was even more anxious. Fortunately, the mayor soon got the news. Someone ran to the only gold house in town. A pile of gold must be melted in the shop.
The gold was smashed into a gold cake, and there was no way to see its original face. It was an old woman who came to melt the gold and claimed that the gold was inherited from her ancestors.
The gold stamped on it was so fresh that it was said to be an ancestral, completely impossible. But it was really impossible to find the mark of Mei's stuff. Unless you can find someone who smashed gold.
Luoyue Town said that it is not big, and that it is not small. The mayor found this but couldn’t delay anymore. The other wealthy households in the town refused to allow him to continue the investigation. To put it bluntly, he did not trust his ability. . Or I'm afraid that he will take care of him and put people back.
Zhao Tianfu and Yang Lanhong were stealing fish earlier, but the mayor wanted to put them back.
He even said that the mayor's heavy compensation was to plant a hidden danger for today. If people don't have the money to repay their debts, they will naturally think badly. If they don't send it off this time, they will also go to the county town to file a lawsuit against the mayor for harboring the prisoner. Or it may deliberately let off the prisoner by accepting bribes.
The last one was a bit embarrassing, so the mayor sent the confession to the county town with the Yang family, Zhao Tianfu, and a few witnesses. Including the squashed gold nugget.
When the people were sent away, Li Qinghe and Li Qinghe were also safe. They don't have to run every day. In fact, it is not good not to run. It seems that the brothers are so unkind.
She even noticed that Boss Zhou and the two had a suspicion for their husband and wife. On the day they came back, Mei said: If you were cruel and didn't covet the dozens of taels of silver from them, we would not have today. The curse.
Is it unreasonable? Then the two of them want to sue. The mayor deliberately hides it from him. They can't go against the mayor, right?
Not to mention anything else, just planting medicinal materials. I still need people in the future. Besides, what if I need to buy land later? Besides, if people are willing to compensate, she doesn't need to waste her energy just to send people to the yamen, right? It takes five days to go back and forth between the county seat!
Again, this time the mastermind was not Zhao Tianfu, nor Yang Lanhong. The testimonies of the two were similar. Someone secretly stuffed a note into the yard. If it weren’t for Zhao Tianfu’s childhood studies, I’m afraid. Can't recognize the word yet. Since the mastermind has someone else, then there are no Zhao Tianfu and Yang Lanhong, there are still others coming at night!
At that time, Zhou Cheng was angry and was about to take his wife away.
Li Qinghe was not accustomed to her problems, so he said directly, "If it wasn't for my sister-in-law to wear twenty taels of silver on her body, no one would look at you." If you are a wealthy family in town, there are so many people in your family that they would not dare to come home. . They were lucky. Even though the couple still brought a thin child, they could wear gold brightly. Although Mei did not go out, many people in the town went to her house to buy tofu. The caring person sees it.
Then, the two returned to the village. No matter what happened to them, they heard that the family of three went to the county seat in a carriage and waited for the result.
After running for five or six days, after returning home, I slept well and took Xiyu with Zhou Mu. She went hunting in the mountains with Zhou Chengkang and cutting wood by the way.
I went to my forest this year.
Li Qinghe was happy as soon as he entered the forest. "Whoever is like us, buys the forest for hunting."
Zhou Chengkang took it seriously, and said proudly, "My wife spoils me!"