Be a small county magistrate in ancient times

Chapter 362 Selling in Advance

After a brief conversation, knowing that the younger one didn't want to get involved in this mess, he let him go.

Meng Changqing asked the man standing hunched in front of him, "How much money have you prepared to redeem the person?"

Zheng Jiasheng raised his head slightly and replied, "I will give as many as the government wants. If it's not enough, I will go home and find a way to get it together."

"Oh, you didn't understand what I said." Meng Changqing changed the question, "How much money do you have to redeem this person?"

Zheng Jiasheng hesitantly uttered two words, "Two taels." Then he added, "If it's not enough, I can go and borrow some."

Meng Changqing laughed when he heard this.

Bafang didn't know why she was laughing, and thought she found the person in front of her funny, so he sneered too.

Seeing this, Zheng Jiasheng thought that the money was much less, "My poor family is not rich, this is all I have, please let my brother go, Master, if it is not enough, I will find a way to borrow it."

He repeatedly mentioned that if you don't have enough money, you can borrow it.

Meng Changqing asked, "If you go to borrow, how much can you borrow?"

"...Can I borrow two taels? No, three taels."

"You are really rich." Meng Changqing said, "Unfortunately it is not enough. Money alone cannot do this.

I arrested them to make them work. The loss of one person is not something that can be solved with four or five taels of silver. If you want the government to release them, in addition to paying the ransom, you also need to replace them with someone else. How do you do that? "

Zheng Jiasheng was surprised, but he also saw hope, "Okay!"

"Ah?" Bafang looked at Zheng Jiasheng with disbelief on his face. This man was really crazy.

"Are you willing to go in?" Meng Changqing looked up and was about to call someone, "Zhou Xing, prepare the hemp rope."

"No, no, no." Zheng Jiasheng explained in a panic, "The master didn't say it had to be me. I have a daughter at home who is physically strong and can do the work."

Everyone was so angry that their nostrils enlarged. What a bastard!

"I know something about your family's situation." Meng Changqing said indifferently, "It's a pity that your daughter has already separated from you, and you have no right to make decisions for her."

Zheng Jiasheng said, "I am her biological father after all. Even if we split up the family, she still has to listen to me. Master, just send someone to arrest her."

"Zheng Jiasheng." Meng Changqing looked at him and said, "Although you have an honest face, your intentions are very vicious and you are very bold. You dare to bargain with me."

At this time, Zhou Xing had already stood aside with a hemp rope in his hand. Meng Changqing said, "Tie him up."

Zheng Jiasheng knelt down in panic and begged for mercy, but he didn't dare to evade and let Zhou Xing tie him up tightly. "Don't be afraid." Meng Changqing said, "Although I have a bad temper, I won't do anything to you just because of a few words.

Go home like this and ask Li Erfang to untie you in the village. Don't let anyone see you untying them halfway."

"Just let him go like this?" Ba Fang watched Zheng Jiasheng walk away, wishing he could catch up and kick him a few more times, "He's so annoying, are you just going to let him go like this?"

Meng Changqing asked back: "What if it's not the same?"

"Lock him up and send him with his brother."

"That's really a bargain for him." Meng Changqing found the scene funny in his mind, but he quickly got down to business, "Help me grind the paper, I want to draw a picture."

Bafang followed Meng Changqing and walked towards the study while muttering, "You are so easy to talk to, so easy to talk to! How can they be afraid from now on?"

Meng Changqing said, "As a county magistrate, no matter what I do in private, I have to do things in a way that is acceptable in public.

Why should I punish him? Because he said something irritating or because he had bad intentions? Neither of these two things is against the law.

If you feel unhappy, it means you haven't cultivated enough. Why should you be angry with him? Are his words so aggressive?

I don't think so. You just take his words too seriously. For someone like him, you only listen to the good things he says and ignore the bad things he says."

When Ba Fang heard her say this, the dark clouds in his heart instantly dissipated, "That makes sense, I'll just treat him as a barking dog."

"You should still speak politely!" Meng Changqing said, "From now on, you will be fined five cents for every dirty word you say."

Bafang immediately wailed.

You can howl a lot, but it won't delay the work at hand.

He quickly tidied up the desk, spread out the mat and drawing paper, "Master, why are you in such a good mood today? Why did you think of drawing?"

"With my painting skills, when have you ever seen me paint in a good mood?"

Bafang gathered around to watch, and when he saw Meng Changqing drawing many horizontal and vertical lines, he quickly realized, "You want to draw a house?"

"It's a new shop, I'll draw a few more and put them up."

"Post it? What for? Let people appreciate it in advance?"

Meng Changqing never kept secrets from the people around him. "If they sell it in advance, won't they be rich? Zheng Linsheng can even come up with five taels. In the entire Beishan County, the county government is the poorest."