After Yu Jiayan and Mingyue had a rather hearty and warm dinner at Ming's house, Mingyue's slightly lifted heart finally returned to its original position without a trace.

After observing half an hour before the meal and during the entire dinner, she found that Qi Su'e really didn't have any bad emotions at all because of San Lang's failure.

Even San Lang, who was originally a little depressed, has come back to life at this time.

Then there is Goro, the eldest son of the third room who failed to pass the exam, he was originally very nervous and guilty, but Mingtang used his hearty laughter and open-minded words to help his son adjust his mood.

Mingyue was very pleased with this.

She is disgusted with parents who love to compare and hate their children to be the first in the world, but they don't pay attention to how much effort their children have put in.

They only ask for results, do not pay attention to the process, and never consider the child's mood, only blindly make requests, if the child can't do it, they will not help find the reason or comfort the child, encourage the child, but indiscriminately just throw their faces.

If Mingyue wants to say that they themselves are a coward, they don't work hard, and they haven't been able to achieve the grand goal of "Lao Tzu is the first in the world", so why should they ask their children to be outstanding?

As long as the child does not go down the wrong path and does not waste his time, then what does it matter if he is the first or second, or even the tenth or twentieth?

It is precisely because of this idea that Mingyue has never looked forward to her child Jinshi and the first and the glory of the ancestors, she just wants him to grow up healthy and upright.

As for making a fortune and improving her social status, Mingyue will only list these things in her own struggle plan, and then rely on her own efforts to achieve them, instead of shamelessly doing what she can't do and doesn't want to do, relying on the convenience of being a parent, and rightly dumping the blame on her children.

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"This is a thank you gift and tuyi from a merchant in northern Hebei, and I asked your sister-in-law to take some of everything to you." When Yu Jiayan and Mingyue left, Mingxu let his little servant take two gift boxes for them.

Along with the gift box, there are two small baskets with exquisite appearances, which contain some local products from the northern Hebei region.

Ming Xu asked the little maid to give the basket to Changping to carry, and Dong Solstice automatically and consciously took one of the gift boxes from Mingyue's hand.

"Didn't you go to catch the exam? Why are you still dealing with merchants in northern Hebei? Mingyue looked at Yu Jiayan and the Mingxu brothers with a curious expression.

Ming Xu touched his nose, "Isn't it a little boring when the list is released, a few of us took the second uncle and went to the street together." It was also a coincidence that when we passed through a small alley, a middle-aged woman in a hurry passed by us, holding a little boy in a brocade dress. ”

Mingyue frowned, "You've encountered human traffickers... Kidnapper? ”

Ming Xu nodded, "We didn't suspect her at first, it was Gorou who found that the little boy had bruises on his face and arms, he looked at the woman and the child a few more times, and asked the woman who she was." ”

"The woman said she was the mother of the child, and we became suspicious." Ming Xu sighed, "She is plainly dressed and has rough skin, and she looks like a low-level woman who has suffered hardships. And the child was born with fine skin and tender meat, white and fat, and he was wearing a smoky blue Shu brocade of a hundred taels of silver. ”

"I saw the Shu brocade once, I and the second uncle went to the silk shop to buy materials for the family, I heard the guy say that the Shu brocade is the new goods of the New Year, although it looks inconspicuous, but it costs a hundred taels of silver to buy a horse, we are so scared that we don't even dare to pay back the price, for fear that people will agree to sell us a few taels cheaper."

Moon:...... Her eldest brother is such a sincere person.

Mingxu didn't know that she was complaining about herself, he accompanied Mingyue and the others to the Yu family, and continued to talk to Mingyue about business, "Can you afford to wear such valuable materials, this kid doesn't know if he is the little master of a big family?" If the woman made up a nurse or something like that, we could still believe it, but if she said that she was the mother of the child, we would not doubt it. ”

"And you saved the kid?" At this point in the story, Mingyue can easily guess the follow-up.

Ming Xu bowed slightly, "Jia Yan interrogated the woman for a while, she spoke more and more loopholes, and finally planned to hold the child and leave directly, we had no choice but to tie her up and send her to the government for processing." ”

Mingyue was surprised, "You actually know people in the official face in Fucheng?" ”

Ming Xu hooked his lips and smiled lightly, "It was Master Gu who gave us a copy of his name post, and he happened to have a person who was in Fucheng Renzhi County in the same year." ”

"Ugh." Mingyue suddenly felt a little sympathetic to the one in Gu Zhi County.

During the Qing Dynasty in her previous life, there was a saying to describe the misfortune of officialdom called "Three lives are unfortunate, and the county is attached to Guo; Three lives do evil, attached to the provincial city of Guo; The evil is full of evil, attached to Guo Jingcheng".

Gu Zhi County's one in the same year obviously belongs to the kind of "three lives do evil, attached to Guo Provincial City".

She asked Yu Jiayan, "Then how did the government deal with this matter later?" Did that kidnapper commit the crime alone or in a gang? ”

"The gang committed the crime. We helped Master Li destroy three of their dens and rescued a total of thirteen children between the ages of four and ten. Don't you see how miserable those children are, they are starving almost every day, not to mention, and if they make a lot of trouble, they will be fisted and kicked by those kidnappers. The youngest child was already in a semi-coma when we found him, and if it weren't for Master Li asking the best doctor in Fucheng to treat him, it is impossible to say whether he would have survived. ”

Speaking of these, Ming Xu and Yu Jiayan were a little depressed, and Mingyue also felt that she was very depressed and uncomfortable.

She sighed, and forced herself to explain Ming Xu and Yu Jiayan, "They are already lucky, these kidnappers must have abducted and sold other children before, and what happened to those children is really miserable." ”

In these years, the kidnappers and children who have been abutted will basically be sold to the Qinlou Chu Pavilion, after all, this kind of "source" of unknown origin, the Ya Po who keeps to herself and does human trafficking will never take it over.

They will only buy those who are innocent and in good health and sold either for themselves or by the elders of the family.

This way they make less money, but at least they don't have to worry about getting in trouble.

Moreover, the money that abductors can make by selling their children to Ya Po is definitely not comparable to selling them to prostitution houses and small houses, so those abductors will basically not find legal human traffickers such as Ya Po.

In addition, they are afraid that parents who have lost their children will find clues, and they will sell these children far south of the Yangtze River every time.