Chapter Eighty-Seven: Your Helper Is On His Way
Qiao Wan didn't expect that her good life had only passed long ago, and she had slipped away from her hands.
When the officials rushed into the courtyard of the newly renamed palace family courtyard and took them away with a very tough attitude, Qiao Wan and the others simply felt that the sky had fallen.
On the way back to the Yamen, they heard that the magistrate took them away because Gongshi Gongzi was not qualified to contain these girls, and asked Gongshi Gongzi to ransom them back for a price of one hundred taels and one people.
All twenty-eight girls felt hopeless.
They know best what the virtues of those officials in the yamen are, when Xiaofu died so tragically at the yamen, and the people in the county yamen did not want to come out to help Xiaofu collect the body.
Even when they were shivering and hiding at the door of the yamen, their hearts were panicked, when those officials passed by them, they would look at them with disgusting eyes, and even scolded Xiaofu's corpse for "bad luck". Words and deeds do not hide the slightest malice towards them.
It is said that there is something good at the top, but it will be very bad at the bottom.
The officials under his hands are this virtuous, what kind of good person can the county magistrate be?
How much they disliked their sisters at the beginning, how much they wanted to throw their hot yams out, the girls are not stupid, they all know it in their hearts.
Finally, they met a good person like Gongshi Gongzi, and seeing that the flower workshop was about to be built, the good days in the future were almost at hand.
However, the magistrate's order shattered all their illusions.
Qiao Wan closed her eyes, and she hugged Yaoyao into her arms again, but this time there was no apprehension in her heart, only endless despair for the future.
Wang Zheng's disgust for this group of girls doesn't need to be said, and bringing them back is just to threaten Su Hengyu, so naturally he won't give them much good treatment.
More than 20 people can only nest in a small firewood room, but fortunately, the temperature is suitable at the moment, neither cold nor hot. Otherwise, if a group of girls who are not yet fully injured are stuffed into such a room, it is difficult to say whether they will get sick.
Because the host's family doesn't care about the girls, the subordinates of the county government naturally won't treat them well. I was brought back for half a day, and I only gave them some water, and I didn't remember to bring them food or anything.
Fortunately, before being taken away by the officials, the mothers-in-law of the palace family quietly stuffed them with a lot of food, and they could survive for two or three days by relying on these girls.
Su Hengyu is planning to rescue them in these two or three days, not to mention anything else, her optimistic steward Qiao Wan is still inside.
Besides, Su Hengyu eats soft and not hard, Wang Zheng calculates her like this, of course she will not make the other party feel better.
So, Wang Zheng took the girls away with the front foot, and it was rumored in the streets and alleys of Kuncheng on the back foot that Wang Zheng ordered someone to ask for bribes from the little prince of Gongshi, so he forcibly took away the girls hired by the little boy, and asked the little boy to redeem them with two thousand eight hundred taels of silver.
As soon as the news came out, the people immediately made an uproar.
Not to mention, how this group of girls were disliked by the county government before, the people of Kuncheng still remember. The dead Xiaofu girl was in front of the yamen, and in the end, it was the palace boy who paid to bring people to the burial.
Now that this group of poor girls is about to live a good life, the county magistrate suddenly came to this hand, wouldn't it ruin the future of this group of girls?
And there were wise people among the people, and when they counted the amount of money that Wang Zheng demanded, they knew that it was demanded according to a hundred taels per person.
Hearing this, someone was about to say: "One hundred taels per person, this price is more expensive than buying people with teeth!" The first-class maid who came out of the Gaomen compound was only sold for more than 20 taels, and the county master was doing people's work! ”
"Don't talk nonsense! The asking price of human teeth is not so high, and those girls are all good women, even if they have a bad experience, they have not fallen into slavery. People don't dare to sell a good girl! ”
Just like that, you said it, and I passed it on word by word, and soon most of the people in Kuncheng knew about Wang Zheng's greed and viciousness.
Wang Zheng was very annoyed when he learned of this, and wanted the official to come forward to suppress these voices.
But the people know how to pursue advantages and avoid disadvantages, and as soon as the officials come forward, they will immediately disperse like birds and beasts, and do not say a word.
When the officials asked who had spread the rumor, they all shook their heads and said they didn't know.
Even if Wang Zheng is the magistrate of Kuncheng, after all, the law does not hold the public accountable, and he has no way to put everyone in a prison cell.
After thinking about it, Wang Zheng simply made a decision and locked up Su Hengyu on the charge of slandering the court officials.
This crime naturally exists in the laws of the Great Wei, but it is naturally not so easy to judge, let alone let Wang Zheng open his mouth and talk about it.
But now in Kuncheng, Wang Zheng can be said to cover the sky with one hand, and naturally what he says is what.
So, on this side, Su Hengyu was still waiting to greet the dart masters who rushed back after finishing their work, and on the other side, the officials broke into the inn directly, and couldn't help but arrest Su Hengyu.
Before leaving, Su Hengyu gave Yan Shen and the others a look, and did not allow them to do anything with the officials.
It's one thing for the people under Wang Zheng's hands to misbehave, but if these white bodies and officials make a move, the situation will be different.
Su Hengyu, an innocent sufferer, will immediately be labeled as a big hat for attacking officials and disobeying the imperial court. When the time comes, when the decree comes, it will become okay for you to be fine.
Yan Shen was picked up by Su Hengyu, so he naturally listened to Su Hengyu's words the most.
These guards endured the anger in their hearts, and waited until Su Hengyu was completely taken away, and then under Ziyun's suggestion, they found a few fast horses, and hurriedly went out of Kuncheng to find the angels sent by the capital.
At this time, "angel" naturally did not have any Western meaning, but was just the abbreviation of "messenger of the Son of Heaven", and it was generally the eunuchs in the palace who could have this title.
This time, because Emperor Wei remembered that Su Hengyu was also in the city, he ordered a eunuch who knew Su Hengyu's identity to go over to announce the decree, and it was also the idea of urging Su Hengyu to return to Beijing sooner.
Although the glass workshop in the capital was also producing all kinds of glass products in an orderly manner after she left, Emperor Wei always felt that Su Hengyu was still in charge of him, which made him feel more at ease.
And Yan Shen and the others were lucky, they acted quickly, and without waiting for Wang Zheng to send someone to intercept them, they had already left Kuncheng, and met the angel team in the suburbs not far from Kuncheng.
As soon as the two parties met, Yan Shen relied on Xie An's mention and recognized that it was the team of the imperial court, so he boldly showed Su Hengyu's waist card and talked about the things in Kuncheng.
Xie An, who was more flexible, took the opportunity to sue Wang Zheng for a lot of black cases, including the two white and silver tickets that Su Hengyu had given out earlier.
The eunuch Xuanzhi is one of the few people who knows the importance of Su Hengyu, and he knows how much the eldest princess values her now.
Now when I heard that a small magistrate couldn't ask for bribes, he actually threw the daughter of the Hou Mansion into prison so easily, and his face immediately changed.
They didn't care to say much, for fear that if they delayed any longer, something would happen to Su Hengyu, so they hurriedly rushed in the direction of Kuncheng.
As for Su Hengyu, who was being worried by everyone, he was arguing with the Zhao family's mother and son in the prison cell of the county government at the moment.