Chapter 350: Buying People's Hearts
A certain Sven man, whose clothes were torn in several places, said angrily, "Of course, these bandits are too blatant, in broad daylight, there are so many people, they dare to commit murder with weapons, it is simply undisciplined, we must ask for an explanation!" ”
"They are so hateful, look at what my face has been beaten!" The person had a blue nose and swollen face.
The man who was bleeding from his arm was also indignant, "They dare to commit murder and hurt people, we must sue them to prison..."
"Yes, it's not a thing, look at what beat me..."
"You must let the pavilion chief punish him severely..."
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All of a sudden, the people who surrounded the Cheng clan were filled with righteous indignation.
When the pavilion chief arrived, before Cheng Yuan and the others could speak, the people talked about what had happened.
As for this group of people, they naturally said that they were heinous bandits.
After all, they are all involved in the fight, if they don't say the other party badly, it will become a mutual fight, and what if they are each beaten fifty boards.
Of course, you have to say that these people are bad, and lean on the bandits, so that you are a good person to catch the robbers.
Even if someone knew the identity of the other party, they pretended not to know and decided that they were bandits who had come to rob with weapons.
Originally, these people hit them first, and they fought back in defense.
But how could the pavilion chief not recognize the Cheng family patriarch, and naturally knew what the truth was.
It's just that on the one hand, there are many people who occupy the reason, and on the other hand, there is a big family that is extremely united, and he can't offend either side.
But this matter can't be mediated, so just let people report it directly to the yamen and let the county magistrate handle it.
After all, it was a brawl involving hundreds of people, and one party was all arrested by the other party, and weapons were confiscated, and so many people were injured, it was no longer something that he could mediate with a pavilion chief.
Before the arrival of the county magistrate, he could only play haha in the middle and mediate.
Of course, the Cheng family was all tied up, and there were only a few old men left, how could they say anything about the hundreds of people, they just said a word by themselves, and they refuted dozens of words.
It is said that although the journey to the county government here is not too short, it will take half an hour, and it will take at least an hour to come and go this time, and the county master did not say that he could be invited immediately.
As they talked, it was time for lunch.
The people can't wait here, especially some who are just watching the excitement.
Cheng Yuan naturally couldn't let them leave early, otherwise, how could she take advantage of the situation?
Early in the morning, she shouted to the people.
"Fellow villagers, this incident happened outside our academy, we have to do our part no matter what we say, the county government is not close, and the county magistrate does not know when it will come, our mountain chief remembers the hard work of everyone and others, I am afraid that we will miss lunch time.
Therefore, the hospital has prepared white rice and meat porridge for everyone early, and when lunch time comes, it will be given out for everyone, so that everyone will not starve for no reason because of these gangsters..."
Meat, porridge? It's still white rice!
So many people?
How much does it cost?
"The mountain chief is really polite..."
"Cheng Shanchang is really kind-hearted..."
"Reading people are just different..."
"Look at the mountain elder, what a good person, he also distributed free food to us, but some people are so evil that they become bandits..."
As soon as I heard that there was free meat porridge to eat, some people who originally planned to leave did not leave, meat porridge, a bowl of several pennies, maybe I can eat a few more bowls.
Actually, it's not right, after hearing this, some people even slipped away quietly.
However, a number of people were brought back later.
When the subordinates of the academy began to distribute meat porridge, there were at least more than 100 people here, and the surrounding road was impassable.
This free porridge was eaten by the people, and they were really satisfied.
Of course, except for the Cheng family.
These clan elders of the Cheng family thought that they would not have to queue up like those ordinary people, but someone would bring them to eat.
It's like a pavilion man.
As a result, I never thought that no one paid attention to them at all, so that they watched others drink meat porridge with an empty stomach, and finally had to pull down their faces to queue up to receive porridge by themselves, but they were still refused.
The leading woman also scolded them, "Even you bandits want to drink our free porridge?" We can't take revenge, let's continue to be hungry, and when the county master has tried the case, we will have your prison food to eat. ”
The woman's tone made them angry, especially Patriarch Cheng, who was almost out of breath, how could he have suffered such humiliation.
However, no matter how angry he was, no one paid attention to him.
What is even more odious is that this woman provoked these ignorant people and led them to insult herself.
It's simply hateful.
But there are few people on his side, and he is outnumbered, so he can only leave in disgrace.
Thinking of going to rest and arguing with them after the county magistrate arrived, these hateful ignorant stupid men and stupid women even stopped themselves from leaving, saying that they were bandits, and they had to let themselves go back to the clansmen to stay.
A few of them, where can they afford to be hundreds of them, even if the pavilion chief comes forward to persuade them, he can't persuade them, and in the end he can only go back to stay with the clansmen.
And the tribesmen are even more miserable, they can still stand, but the tribesmen can only squat with their heads in their hands, and it takes more than an hour to squat, and many of them have suffered a lot of injuries, which is really pitiful.
Because of this, the elders of the Cheng family even held a grudge against the unfilial girl.
I secretly swore in my heart that when I got the property in her hands, I would not leave any of it for her, and drive out all the women in their group.
and remove her from the clan and make her an outcast.
No matter how angry these clan elders were, after everyone had eaten to their heart's content, it didn't take long for a majestic shout to be heard not far away.
"The prefectural commander has arrived! Quiet! The prefectural commander arrived..."
As soon as they heard that the county magistrate had arrived, the people immediately gave way.
When the county magistrate came to the center with majestic steps, looking at the hundreds of people around him, as well as the farm tools piled up into a hill, and even machetes and kitchen knives, his eyes widened angrily and shouted loudly, "What's going on, who dares to gather a crowd to fight here?" ”
"Great, sir..."
As soon as the patriarch of the Cheng family was about to complain, he found that someone was wicked and sued first.
"Your Excellency, you have to make decisions for us..."
"Lord Qingtian, this group of people has no royal law, innocently injured us..."
"It's disgusting that they are all armed and rushing at us for no reason, and they beat us like this..."
"My lord, look at my arm, the bleeding stopped for a long time before it stopped, and the gauze was dyed red..."
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I saw that dozens of people suddenly rushed to the county magistrate, kneeling and crying with him.
These people either have blue noses and swollen faces, or have wounds on their bodies, or their clothes are torn, and they look really pitiful.