Chapter 121 The Truth About Being Kidnapped
Chapter 121 The Truth About Being Kidnapped
It has to be said that Cheng Wenliu's words moved Lin Xiazhi a little. He didn't reject Cheng Wenliu, but he didn't think about marrying him now.
Among other things, just looking at Cheng Wenliu's face every day, Lin Xiazhi thought he wouldn't get bored. Good-looking people have privileges, and people don't easily hate them.
"I have to think about this matter. You can't tell others to know." Lin Xiazhi said this after thinking twice. After all, it is related to his whole life, and he can't just give it like this.
On the way back, Cheng Wenliu did not continue to chat with Lin Xiazhi. From what Lin Xiazhi said just now, it is not difficult to infer that Lin Xiazhi has no other sweethearts at present, and he has successfully become the object of his consideration. As for whether he can embrace the beauty in the end, Cheng Wenliu has no doubts about himself. Strength.
Logically speaking, it is inappropriate in this era for this kind of brother to pick a man himself, and Lin Xiazhi will be accused if he speaks out.
But when Cheng Wenliu's father proposed to marry Cheng Fulang, Cheng Fulang and his family members looked down on Cheng Fulang, a poor boy who hid his identity and background, so Cheng's road to marrying a husband was not smooth. The joke was told to the children, Cheng Wenliu grew up listening to such stories, and he didn't think there was anything wrong with his relationship with Brother Xia in this respect.
Not to mention Lin Xiazhi, if he doesn't meet someone he likes or is suitable, he will probably fight to the end with his family and never marry for the rest of his life.
The two of them had their own thoughts in the Cheng family's carriage, and they didn't say much, but they didn't feel embarrassed.
Lin Xiazhi looks very embarrassed now, if he is sent back to the Lin family directly like this, it will definitely make the family worry.
Cheng Wenliu thought about it, and asked him to go to Cheng's house to freshen up first, and then send someone to inform Lin Chengzu to pick up Lin Xiazhi at Cheng's house.
Speaking of which, the two families are also very familiar. Lin Xiazhi also came to Cheng Zhai twice, but each time he accompanied Li Xiu. Cheng Fulang was startled when he saw the appearance of Cheng Wenliu and Lin Xiazhi.
After making sure that the two children were not injured, they were relieved to let them wash.
It may be that the mentality is different. Lin Xiazhi couldn't help but feel a little guilty when he saw Cheng Fulang this time, and tried to show a better side of himself.
These subtle changes of Lin Xiazhi were very obvious in the eyes of Cheng Wenliu who had been paying attention to him, which made him feel much better.
Over the past year, Lin Xiazhi has eaten well and lived comfortably, and has grown a lot in stature, barely able to wear Cheng Wenliu's brother Cheng Diexi's clothes.
Although they are old clothes, they actually look new. They should have only been worn two or three times.
On weekdays, Lin Xiazhi himself likes to wear some plain and not-so-fancy clothes at home, but the dress Cheng Fulang found for him was a navy blue high-necked gown with a sky blue gauze on the outside, which complemented the He has a slender figure, and the decoration on his head has also changed. He used to tie it casually with a hairband. Today, Cheng Fulang picked out a jade hairpin for him to fix the shape, and inserted a small and elegant head flower decoration, which is noble and playful. It doesn't look feminine at all, just within Lin Xiazhi's acceptance range.
Lin Xiazhi, who had changed his clothes, made the Cheng family's eyes shine, especially Cheng Wenliu's eyes were almost glued to him when he saw Lin Xiazhi, and Lin Xiazhi was so angry that he gave him a secret glare.
Knowing the son is more like the father, Cheng Fulang can see the child's thoughts at the first time. The two have been awkward since entering the door. After he changed Xia Ge'er into a suit of clothes, Cheng Wenliu's eyes were even more open. The interaction between them is interesting.
Cheng Fulang saw through what Lin Chengzu and Cheng Wenliu wanted to cover up, but only Cheng Wenliu's younger brother Cheng Jingluan couldn't see it.
After changing his clothes, he told Cheng Fulang Xie Lin Xiazhi and hurried away. Lin Chengzu was still waiting for him to go back.
It has been more than a year since time travel, and Lin Xiazhi has regarded Lin Huzi and Li Xiu as relatives. It has been more than two hours since he disappeared. I don't know if Dad and Ah Mo have noticed the problem.
Before Lin Chengzu didn't tell his family that Lin Xiazhi was missing, he only said that he went out with Cheng Fulang and the others and came back at night.
Li Xiu and Lin Huzi would not go to the tofu shop on weekdays, and they didn't know that the workers in the tofu shop were called by Lin Chengzu to the county town to find Lin Xiazhi.
Regarding the change of clothes when he came back, Lin Xiazhi explained that his previous clothes were dirty, and Cheng Fulang asked him to change them, which rounded up what Lin Chengzu said before.
Li Xiu didn't pay attention after hearing this, and only told Lin Xiazhi to say hello to her family in advance when she went out to play.
Lin Xiazhi rarely hugged Li Xiu's arm and acted coquettishly: "Ah, I just met Cheng Ah and them on the way today. Of course I didn't know if I didn't make an appointment with them in advance. We have already agreed this time. Next time you plan to go out to play, please ask someone to bring us a message in advance, and the two of us will go together."
Diverting Li Xiu's attention, Lin Xiazhi hurried back to the house and changed into the clothes he usually wears. It's not that the clothes he's wearing today are not good-looking, the main reason is that the clothes with wide sleeves and long skirts are inconvenient to wear, and you have to pay attention to them at any time. Own posture, tired and flustered.
The Lin family was fooling around, but Cheng Wenliu would not let those refugees go so easily. He asked the guards of his caravan to turn the group of people before the county government, and personally interrogate them why they arrested Lin Xiazhi.
If it is just a thief who wants to steal some money, there is no need to take Lin Xiazhi to a corner and tie him up. Obviously, they picked their target and acted with preparation, but they don't know who is behind the scenes. Whether the person has enmity with the Lin family or other unknown reasons.
Cheng Wenliu likes to choke out hidden dangers at the beginning of his work so as not to waste time dealing with them in the future. Since Lin Xiazhi is already his husband, of course he can't let dangerous elements be around him.
Interrogating all the refugees separately, the leader of the refugees was indeed not an ordinary refugee. Everyone called him Baoye. He was a former bandit who was driven down the mountain after being defeated by other bandits.
These refugees began to think that Lord Bao was also an ordinary person. After arriving in Jiangning County, Lord Bao began to gradually extend his claws, get acquainted with local ruffians, and threatened these refugees to do things for him.
Everyone was fleeing. After being threatened, ordinary farmers did not have the guts to disobey Lord Bao, and could only do things according to his orders.When they found out that they could eat enough after doing Lord Bao's work, gradually a large group of refugees who wanted to get something for nothing gathered around Lord Bao.
In fact, when refugees began to appear in Jiangning County, the county magistrate made arrangements for those big households and businesses to recruit refugees to work.
It's just that the identities of these refugees cannot be guaranteed. They can only do the hardest and most tiring work, and the wages they get are less than others.
It’s just that it’s not easy for the refugees to have the opportunity to work. Some of them are willing to work honestly, and some are unwilling to do it.
The county magistrate has nothing to do about this situation. He can't use the money from the treasury to support these refugees. The court has not yet issued a document on how to deal with the disaster relief. He can only increase the patrols in the county and try his best to ensure law and order.
It would be fine to just find out that Master Bao is not an ordinary refugee, just turn him over to the government, but Cheng Wenliu actually found out that Lord Bao had contact with Lin Xiazhi's uncle.
It was Lin Xiazhi's uncle who told Lord Bao that the Lin family was very rich and had a recipe for tofu. If he kidnapped Lin Xiazhi, he would ask the Lin family to redeem him with the money and the recipe.Or just take Lin Xiazhi forcibly, are you afraid that if you have someone, you will have no money and no prescription?
I have to say that this idea is too poisonous, no matter what that Leopard Master does, Lin Xiazhi and the Lin family will not feel better.
Cheng Wenliu had checked Lin Xiazhi's uncle before, and he only knew that he was an idler, drinking and chatting with those local ruffians when he had nothing to do, but he didn't have the guts to do anything bad, and the Lin family had separated long ago. Xia Zhi's family had nothing to do with Uncle Lin, so he didn't pay attention to them any more.
It is not difficult to deduce that Uncle Lin did this because he must have seen that the life of the Lin family is going well, so he came up with such a bad idea out of jealousy.
Cheng Wenliu asked the guards to send the offenders to the government after interrogating them clearly.
The youngest son of the county magistrate married the eldest son of the Cheng family, and took care of Cheng Wenliu as a junior. Everyone in the county government knew him.
Since the prisoner was sent by Cheng Wenliu, the people below will naturally interrogate him.
When sending them over, they explained what happened to Xiren and why they were sent here. The case is not complicated, and the victim is clear. It's just that because of the brother's reputation, this case was not tried publicly.
After the refugees put their fingerprints on the indictment, the county magistrate sentenced the accomplice to three years of corvee service according to each person's crime, the principal offender, Lord Bao, was beaten with [-] slaps and served ten years of corvee service, and Uncle Lin instigated the crime and was sentenced to He was beaten with [-] boards and imprisoned for two months.
Uncle Lin was taken away by the yamen while he was taking a nap at home. The people in the main house didn’t know what happened, so they only had the punishment document from the county magistrate. He fell to the ground with two eyes and didn't know whether he was alive or dead.
Liu Chunhua was also frightened. Normally, Uncle Lin would tell him anything he did when he came back, but this time he didn’t hear anything from Uncle Lin. Then why was Uncle Lin taken away by the government and why he was beaten and imprisoned by the [-]th board? Two months, this will make him how to behave in the village in the future, and Dabao will be stained in the imperial examinations in the future!
The youngest Lin fainted. Old man Lin ordered Liu Chunhua to invite Hu Langzhong, and he went back to the house to dig through the money box. Now they don't even know what happened to Uncle Lin, so they took some money to find out if there is a way out Get Uncle Lin out.
Old man Lin opened the silver box, and suddenly found that the amount of silver in it was wrong. After repaying Lin Dabao's gambling debts years ago, there should be 460 taels of silver in the family, why is there only 300 taels left now?Looking down, the number of land deeds is also wrong. How come there are only four acres of paddy fields in ten acres?Is there a thief in the house?
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