The whole family travels through time: escape from famine! No cheat codes yet!

Chapter 382 Evil comes with evil consequences

The magistrate of An County ran over here, waving his hands: "Don't do anything, don't do anything."

He really trotted all the way from the horse to Tang Yanli, his face full of anxiety: "Master Tang, what are you doing?"

Tang Yanli smiled and pointed at the bruises on Jun's face and said, "This man oppressed the people, beat up the officials appointed by the court, and even claimed that he was the God of An County. Mr. Chen, is this man a yamen runner in your county?"

An County Magistrate Chen: "This, this..."

He didn't know how to respond for a long time, and the An County lawyer who came with him was so scared that his legs went weak and he fell to the ground.

At this moment, the little yamen runner who said that Tang Yanli looked familiar suddenly exclaimed: "Ah, I remember, he had a drink with our master, and I went with him."

Well, Shen Zhiqiu couldn't help wanting to laugh now.

Shen Youyou also complained in her heart: "Isn't it a little late for you to remember it?"

The other yamen runners also glared at the young runner with gritted teeth, and it was obvious that they wanted to beat this hindsighter up.

The next thing was easy to handle. The magistrate of An County was already in the wrong, especially since Zhao Dezhu had repeatedly made outrageous remarks in public and even attacked an official appointed by the imperial court.

So many people at the scene witnessed with their own eyes that he and his uncle, the legal advisor, were escorted back by the magistrate of An County. Shen Zhiqiu also brought the eldest son of the Meng family and followed Tang Yanli to the yamen to open the letter.

In fact, the Meng family has a lot of things, and since Zhao Dezhu probably won’t be able to move around this time, the house of Mr. Meng and his family in Shili Village can also be sold.

However, the other two families who had settled in Shili Village before both wanted to buy it. After all, the blue brick house in Shili Village was the best at that time, and the house they had temporarily purchased had been in disrepair for many years.

The two families bought the courtyard with two entrances together, and Mr. Meng did not charge more for it. He sold it for the same price he paid for it.

Through this incident, the relationship between Shen Zhiqiu and Tang Yanli became much more solid.

Although he gave credit to Tang Yanli for asking someone to do something for him, he was a sixth-rank official after all, so there was no need for him to follow them around all the time.

Even after returning to Fang County, people personally took me to the Fang County government office to confirm my household registration.

From now on, Mr. Meng and his family became members of Tangjia Village.

The house they bought was the courtyard where Shen Zhiqiu and his family had lived before. After all, the Jiu clan had renovated that courtyard before, and it was much better than the other two courtyards.

Shen Zhiqiu also asked Shen Youyou to bring two sets of headwear to Tang Yanli, both of which she sold for thirty-five taels a set. It would probably be more expensive if they were bought at a silver shop.

It can be said that this time things went so smoothly. Shen Zhiqiu, Shen Youyou, and the people from the nine clans were of no use at all and just became members who watched the fun. It was really all thanks to others.

If Tang Yanli hadn't gone with them, a lot of time might have been wasted.

As for how Tang Yanli would coax his wife with his headgear, Shen Zhiqiu and his gang had no idea.

But two days later, Tang Lizheng's eldest daughter-in-law, Xiao Xueqing, who had not been home many times since her marriage, came back.

The grand ceremony when entering the village really attracted a lot of people to watch the fun.

When getting off the carriage, Xiao Xueqing was wearing gorgeous clothes, which was very out of place with their small village.

The second daughter-in-law of the village head was surprised: "Sister-in-law, how come you have time to come back? Brother didn't accompany you?"

The other villagers were also talking about it as if they were seeing something strange.

"This is the daughter of a wealthy family. She is so rich. Just look at the carriage and the clothes she wears. They are rare even in the county."

"The eldest daughter-in-law of our village head, the legendary young lady from the Earl's house, the one with a title."

Indeed, many villagers in Tangjia Village had never seen this young lady from the uncle's family. At most, they had seen her once or twice from a distance.

Xiao Xueqing was quite polite to her second brother's wife this time. She said, "My husband is busy with official duties. He came back this time to see the group of people who make jewelry."

Maybe he was in a good mood because he was happy. This time when he came back, his attitude towards Tang Lizheng and his wife, as well as the Tang brothers, was much better.

It was at this time that the people in Tangjia Village realized that Shen Zhiqiu and his friends' hairpins were selling very well in the capital, and were much more expensive than the price they were paid.

Of course, this is just a small episode these days. What really shocked everyone is that

Tang Yanli quickly began to investigate the cases of villages in some surrounding counties oppressing newly settled refugees, and wrote a memorial to the emperor.

Legend has it that the Prince of Yan was furious and ordered the Crown Prince to conduct a thorough investigation.

During the next month, pieces of news popped up like mushrooms after rain.

There are many who would take a fancy to the newly settled girls and rob them by force, or even force them to death.

Tang Yanli also reported back to the village that, didn’t they say before that if they had nothing to eat or drink, they could go and repair the river and build roads?

Many local officials were so bold that the food distributed by the court to these refugees was replaced by moldy coarse grains. What was even worse was that they were not even able to eat enough of these coarse grains.

Some people even mix sand into the porridge.

But after you have registered, it is difficult to leave even if you want to. Those officials also have political tasks. In order to save appearances, you have to do it as long as you have registered.

Their situation is not much worse than that of those who fled from famine. Fortunately, they were discovered early, otherwise it would have caused resentment among the people.

Because the Prince of Yan acted quickly, the news never leaked out and many parasites were caught.

The people of the capital have recently seen vehicles escorting these criminal officials.

According to the news brought back by Old Lady Hua and her friends who went to set up stalls, "In the market town of Shuntian Prefecture, the ground is covered in blood, which cannot be washed away even with water. Officials are executed every day."

I guess many people can't imagine that this was caused by the nephew of a junior master who raped a woman.

Of course, no matter how many corrupt officials die, in the eyes of the people they deserve it.

Even many people spontaneously sang praises to the Prince of Yan and his son.

But most of the people just listen to some gossip and make some comments.

Their main focus is still on the autumn harvest.

Take Tangjia Village for example. After harvesting corn and rice, people don’t have much energy to pay attention to other things.

Shen Zhiqiu and Meng Yuanwai, who had already settled down in Tangjia Village, also began to cooperate. He passed on the methods of making corn starch and sweet potato starch, as well as the method of making vermicelli, to Meng Yuanwai in the form of shares.

He had a way. Mr. Meng was rich, so the two of them could split the profit 40% to 60%; Shen Zhiqiu 40% and Mr. Meng 60%. After all, the future management would depend on them.

While Mr. Meng spent money to build a new house for his family, he also bought a building site in the village to open a starch and vermicelli workshop.

The people to be hired will be recruited from the villagers of Tangjia Village. Shen Zhiqiu only gave some suggestions and asked Meng Yuanwai to discuss it with the head of the village himself.

Mr. Meng was capable and directly gave the head of the village 10% of the profits and asked him to help with management.

In fact, I mainly wanted to thank Tang Yanli for his previous help.