Chapter 461: Really understand

Chapter 461 Let’s die

“Selling good people serving as corvees?!” Zou Yuwan was shocked and rushed over to look at the letter in Zou Yuzhen’s hand. The letter was crumpled, but the words written on it were clear. After reading it, Zou Yuwan wished she could die on the spot.

“What on earth is Dad doing? Our family has a big business and is so rich, but we still need a few scraps from selling people?”

In good years, you can get at least five taels of silver from selling a strong laborer. If you sell a person to the mine, you can get at least eight taels of silver. Zou Xiancheng had many people selling them, and hundreds of them were sold for thousands of taels of silver. Such a sum of money twenty years ago would have been considered a lot of money to the Zou family.

"Third Master, what should we do now? We can't just sit here and wait for death." The boy already wanted to die. Originally, he wanted his uncle to transfer him to work elsewhere instead of following Zou Yuzhen, but Now the entire Zou Mansion can no longer stay.

"Ji Zi, Ji Zi, please come out quickly. Mom has something to do with you." Mrs. Gu Cao rushed directly into Zou Yuzhen's yard, stretched her neck and said to the boy's back.

Mr. Cao is the sister of Master Cao. After she heard that Master Cao and a group of guards were arrested, she was very anxious and wanted to run over to ask her son if he knew the news about his uncle and whether he could be released.

When Zou Yuzhen saw Gu Cao, he was so angry that he picked up the vase on the table and smashed it out of the house, directly at Gu Cao's feet.

There was a clang and the vase was smashed. Gu Cao was so frightened that he screamed: "Ah!"

Zou Yuzhen said angrily: "Ms. Gu Cao, do you still have any rules? Seeing your father being arrested, do you want to overthrow the world?"

He pointed at the young man and said: "Gu Fuji, I'm warning you, do your job well. If you dare to have any small thoughts, I won't wait until the Yamen comes to arrest you. I'll kill you with a stick first!"

The boy hurriedly knelt down and said tremblingly: "Third Master, please calm down. My mother was confused and forgot the rules. Don't worry, my mother and I don't dare to have two minds. Third Master wants me to Whatever the big family does, the small family will do.”

"Humph, remember your identities. I am a slave. As long as I am not dead, your life and death are all decided by me." After Zou Yuzhen beat the boy's mother and son, he got up and went back to the back room to write a letter and gave it to the boy. : "Send the letter out, the people in Willow Leaf Alley know how to do it."

The boy hurriedly took the letter and said, "Don't worry, Third Master, I will definitely finish the job."

After saying this, exit respectfully.

Mr. Gu Cao wanted to leave with her son, but Zou Yuzhen scolded her: "Stop."

Mr. Gu Cao immediately did not dare to move, bowed and said: "Third Master."

"Let all the stewards Zou Hai, Zou He, Zou Hu, and Nanny Zou come to see me." Zou Yuzhen ordered: "Send a message to your man and ask him to take twenty nurses to the old woman and Zou Chengcheng's yard. , show them to me, and whoever dares to release them will die."

 He had to keep the Zou family under control and not let the old woman break out of her room in the chaos.

"Yes, yes." Gu Cao ran away in a hurry, went to send a message to his men, then went to find Zou Hai and others, and brought them to see Zou Yuzhen.

"Third Master, what do you want from us?" Zou Hai took several other stewards and Nanny Zou into Zou Yuzhen's yard, and stood in the yard facing the main room.

Zou Yuzhen was very respectful to Zou Hai and stood up to greet him. However, he only welcomed Zou Hai into the house. The two of them closed the door and didn't know what they said. Finally, they invited several other stewards and Mother Zou in.

 …

This night in the county town is destined to be uneventful, with many people moving around under the cover of night.

Magistrate Xu and the others stayed up all night and worked hard until the next morning. Before they had time to take a breath, another village chief led villagers into the city to tell them that some villagers had died without corpses while doing corvee work. Magistrate Xu was going crazy because he met with the village chiefs of the entire Tianfu County.

Jiang County Lieutenant is even busier than County Magistrate Xu. Not only does he have to protect the county town to prevent the villagers from causing trouble when they get excited, but he also sends people to catch the scribes, village chiefs, and village chiefs who are working with Zou County Cheng to sell people. The county government came.

But it has been a long time. The first case that was sold occurred thirty years ago. At that time, most of the scribes, village chiefs, and village chiefs were dead. The remaining three were all octogenarians who were deaf and blind. Their legs and feet were still weak, so when they were being escorted, they didn't dare to drag them, for fear that if they made a big move, they would be able to pass by on the spot.

After the others arrived, Magistrate Xu interrogated them personally, but it took a lot of effort for the boss. The three old men refused to admit it. When asked anxiously, they even hit the pillar on the spot, which was very troublesome.

Xu County Magistrate was afraid of killing people, so he had to give up first and let the three old men live in the county government office under the supervision of the government officials. He did not dare to throw them into prison for fear that the prison would be difficult and they would die in prison.

Zou Xiancheng has been the county magistrate for decades and has many people in the county government. Those people have the handle in his hands and dare not be disobedient and secretly send him a lot of news.

Zou Xiancheng was very happy to learn that Magistrate Xu was in a state of distress. He sat on the straw mat in the cell with a smile on his face. He did not look decadent at all like a repeat offender.

 He even asked arrogantly to see Zou Jiang.

When Bantou Yang heard the message from the jailer, he laughed angrily: "Is Zou Youlian crazy? He wants to see Zou Jiang now. What does he want to do?"

However, he still told Zou Jiang the news.

 Unexpectedly, Zou Jiang agreed: "Since he wants to die clearly, I will go and see him, but..."

He raised his head and looked at Team Leader Yang and begged: "I don't want other people to hear what I said to him. I hope that Team Leader Yang can make it easier."

Jiang Xianwei specifically told Yang Bantou that as long as it was a request made by Zou Jiang, he must comply with it. Yang Bantou didn't understand why Jiang Xianwei told him this, but he still did it: "Sure."

 Team leader Yang asked two jailers to carry Zou Jiang to Zou County Cheng's cell and said, "Zou Jiang, you have a quarter of an hour. The jailers will come in in a quarter of an hour."

Having said that, he left with the jailer.

Zou Xiancheng looked at Zou Jiang lying on the wooden board through the cell door and said with a smile: "Haha, a slave is a slave. No matter how miserable I am, you, the slave, come to see me."

Zou Jiang sneered and did not answer Zou Xiancheng's words.

Zou Xiancheng saw that Zou Jiang dared to look at him and laugh contemptuously. He was furious. He pointed at Zou Jiang and said, "Do you think you can put me to death by forging false evidence?"

He lowered his voice and said in a voice that only two people could hear: "I have done those evil things, but I have already wiped out my tail. Your perjury cannot convict me. Wait until those perjury arrives in Fucheng People from the Yamen and Fucheng Yamen will definitely find the flaw. When the time comes, not only you, but also Xu Chongfeng and Jiang Dahu will be implicated. You, you are all dead, and I am the one who has the last laugh."

After Zou Jiang waited for Zou Xiancheng to finish speaking, he said to Zou Xiancheng: "I am different from you. I will not harm innocent people, and the evidence will not be sent to the Fucheng Yamen."

Zou Jiang also lowered his voice and said in a voice that could only be heard by each other: "You are really stupid. Until now, you haven't seen what I really want to do."

 (End of this chapter)