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Everyone in the Qiu family felt a thump in their hearts, and they all understood that Gu Yuncheng was going to settle the score afterwards.Sister-in-law Qiu and her daughter lowered their eyebrows and had a good attitude of admitting their mistakes.

Zhang Jinxiu also lowered her head, hiding the guilty look on her face.

"Since you are ready to be a thief, you must have thought clearly about the consequences of being caught, right?" Gu Yuncheng turned to Gu's mother and said, "Mom, let's report it to the official and send these little thieves to jail."

Sister-in-law Qiu's face showed fear, and she knelt down to Mother Gu: "I know I was wrong, Auntie, please let me go this time. Tingting is still so young, she can't go to jail."

They were all mothers. Gu's mother was angry at her calculations, but also somewhat sympathized with her experience. She sighed and turned around and stopped talking.

"If you don't want to go to jail, you have to cooperate. First write a confession and explain clearly what you did and who came up with the idea, and then you can give me money."

"I just accompanied my sister-in-law here to borrow money. I didn't do anything else. I won't write this confession." Zhang Jinxiu said.

"Are you still adamant?" Gu Yuncheng said and found a money bag from Zhang Jinxiu's body, "You wouldn't say that my money bag grew legs and slipped into your sleeve, right?"

Zhang Jinxiu's face changed drastically. When did he notice it?
"How about it? Do you want to write it or not? If not, I will send it to the government directly."

Being caught in the act, what else could Zhang Jinxiu do?I could only write a confession and an IOU obediently.

Gu Yuncheng took the money back and collected the confessions from several people before allowing them to leave.

Zhang Jinxiu said angrily: "We have already written the IOU, which means we borrowed it. Why did you take the money back?"

Gu Yuncheng said unceremoniously: "When did I say I wanted to lend you money? This IOU is compensation for the trouble you caused in the Gu family!"

After walking out of the Gu family's door, several people looked at each other in shock. This time they really lost a lot of money and lost a lot of money!
Zhang Jinxiu was depressed. She couldn't understand why there was someone hiding in Gu Yuncheng's room. However, she would not tell Sister Qiu about this matter. She could discuss it with Qiu Lang when she got back. Could it be that the Gu family had offended someone?

The Zhang family has no way of knowing what happened that night, but they can clearly feel that the attitude of the Gu family has become negative, and the marriage has been pushed back again and again. Zhang Dalai, who originally planned to use the bride price as a ransom, failed, and had no choice but to They can only do corvee service.

Zhang Jinxiu's uncle, Zhang Bode, worked as a minor official in the government office and was very popular. At the request of his father, he invited his brothers to visit him.

Officials, you look at me, I look at you, and then go away half-heartedly.

The village chief went to the town and bought a pound of rice wine and a pound of fat meat. He also killed two old hens that laid eggs at home, cooked a table full of dishes for the officials to eat, and after the meal, each person stuffed ten copper coins. .

The officials and servants ate so much that they still had money to eat. It was a meal that the guests thoroughly enjoyed!

Before leaving, Zhang Bode told his family about the government's recent shortage of expenses and asked the family to make preparations in advance. The others turned around and pretended not to have heard.

Those who were going to do corvee service were waiting at the entrance of the village, and the officials were ready to set off after they had eaten and drank.

Not seeing Gu Yuncheng in the crowd, Zhang Dalai felt very uncomfortable. Gu Yuncheng exempted himself from the corvee, so why couldn't he give his would-be father-in-law ten taels of silver?

This year, it is the turn of the second eldest son of the village chief, Zhang Boyuan. The Qiu family is exempted from the corvee because of a talented scholar. It can be said that some families are happy and some are sad.

But such peaceful days did not last long.

In the evening, something was announced in the village-the food above was not enough, so they had to go and deliver food rations to their families in the following days.If you don't deliver, you will starve, but you still have to do things as they are done. If you do things while hungry, you can imagine the consequences!The villagers were muttering and complaining below, scolding the government for not being a good person, just asking people to do things without paying them, and now they don't even have a stutter. They want to kill people!

The villagers scolded him, but they still prepared the meals the next day and sent them to his family.There is no way, the people above do not regard the lives of the people as their own, but they cannot care less about their relatives.

"The stone was so big that it had to be carried by three or four people. The rope was so worn that the clothes were torn. Some people even fainted while doing it. The official didn't even look at it and just whipped him. Throw him over, punch and kick him to get him up and continue working." The person who spoke looked a bit unbearable and sighed.

Everyone knows that corvee labor is hard, but now that I have seen it with my own eyes, I feel that it is a miracle that I came back alive!

Although family members sent food, there was no good food in the countryside. It was just to fill the stomach. In addition, he had to do heavy work every day, and the first death soon appeared.

The first person to die was a man from Zhangjiacun named Zhang Yang.His parents died when he was very young, leaving him alone.The people in the village saw him as pitiful and gave him a mouthful of food. He grew up slowly and married a wife in the village, who gave him a son.

Now that Zhang Yang has gone, leaving behind orphans and widows, they don’t know what to do next.

Zhang Qing cried miserably when he heard the news. His son was still young and couldn't understand why his mother was crying so sadly. He kept saying "Mom, don't you cry" while wiping his mother's tears.

When everyone saw this scene, they couldn't bear it, and they all came forward to comfort him.

Zhang Jinxiu stood beside Li Zheng, looking at the scene below with a smile.Her uncle, who was working as an errand in the government office, mentioned the fact that the government was out of money when he came home a few days ago.

The previous county magistrate made too much money and his internal treasury was empty. Everyone in charge had heard about this, but the new county magistrate did not know about it.

At that time, she realized that this was something unusual. When she went back to talk to Qiu Lang, Qiu Lang quickly came up with a way to make money.

For this reason, she went to the government office several times in the past few days and contacted Master Zhao through her uncle's convenience.

Now it seems that time is almost up.

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Qingshan Town, government office.

Today is a holiday. Mr. Li did not go to the government office. He stayed at home with his wife and daughter. He was having fun with his daughter when the concierge came to report that Mr. Zhao was here.

Without thinking, Mr. Li asked the concierge to lead him to the living room.

"Sir, I am guilty!"

As soon as he entered the door, Master Zhao threw himself in front of Mr. Li and knelt on the ground.

"Get up first and tell me slowly, what are you doing kneeling on the ground?" Master Li sat down on the main seat and said to Master Zhao, "Sit down."

Master Zhao sat down and couldn't wait to speak: "I wonder if you know the former county magistrate of this town, Mr. Zhu Chunhui, Mr. Zhu?"

Magistrate Li nodded. He had heard about Zhu Chunhui. It was said that he was a local bully in Qingzhou. He worked with the merchants to squeeze a lot of money from the people, and then used the money to bribe people in the court. He stayed in the capital to work as a pawn some time ago. A seventh-grade official doctor.

Seeing Master Zhao's troubled face, County Magistrate Li's eyebrows jumped, "Why, does this matter have anything to do with Mr. Zhu?"