Most of the people's hearts were scattered in an instant. Brother Zhu looked around, stomped his feet for the last time, and squatted on the ground.
Bai Shan smiled slightly when he saw it, and motioned back to the yamen servant to take the rope up.
So the yamen servant pulled out the rope around his waist and stepped forward, divided the people into several groups and stood there, and then tied their hands to a rope.
It wasn't until they were all tied up that the yamen servants breathed a sigh of relief, and the inspector Luo and the head catcher, who had been on guard on both sides, brought people over.
There was only one unconscious person on the ground who was not tied up.
After Bai Shan looked at it, he asked people to cut some branches and tie them into a stretcher to carry him out.
When Zhou Liwei woke up, he saw three strings of prisoners brought back by his uncle, and one was seriously injured. He couldn't help admiring him, "Uncle, you are too powerful."
Bai Shan said modestly: "General, general, it's your estimation."
He glanced at the injured man, and ordered: "I see that he is no longer bleeding from his head, but he has been in a coma. Take a car and send him to the hospital first."
As for the others, the sky was getting dark, and these prisoners would definitely not be able to reach the county town tonight if they walked, so they had to stay here for the night, and he would personally escort them back tomorrow.
Inspector Luo was very excited and asked, "My lord, why don't I escort you back with me?"
"No, you stay here to protect the salt field. I remember correctly, there are several salt fields in the past two days that have to be shoveled, right?"
"Yes," Zhou Liwei said, "There are three salt fields that can produce salt one after another. It only takes a day or two."
Bai Shan nodded in satisfaction, "June is coming soon, you must keep an eye on the salt farm and ensure the sales of the salt farm."
Zhou Liwei agreed, and Luo Xunjian could only stay regretfully.
He has been a patrol inspector for many years, and he hasn't personally caught a prisoner yet.
There's no way, it's not a group case, basically they don't need their garrison, and usually the county government officials can handle it.
Although Brother Zhu and others were captured, Bai Shan didn't let them approach the salt field, and didn't even live in Xiaowa Village. Instead, he took dry food and escorted them to the intersection, and the group directly stationed at the checkpoint.
After the sky darkened, Bai Shan sat by the fire, took out a medicine bag and put it on the fire to smoke and roast, a smell of medicine gradually became stronger, and kept flying away around their buzzing mosquitoes or vibrations, Or just hit the ground with a snap...
Bai Shan let out a breath, now that he was in the mood to interrogate people, he simply waved in Zhu's direction, and immediately a yamen servant untied the rope from Zhu's hand, and pulled him up.
Bai Shan motioned him to sit down, and handed him a piece of dry food.
Brother Zhu glanced at the dry food in his hand, but didn't move or speak.
Bai Shan smiled, "Why, dare not eat?"
"My lord, don't provoke me," said Brother Zhu, "I don't want to do that."
Bai Shan withdrew his hand, took a mouthful of dry food, chewed it slowly and drank a mouthful of water, and then asked: "Then which one do you eat?"
He asked bit by bit: "Incentives? Threats? Or are you directly responsible for all the crimes, and the county will punish you according to the law?"
Brother Zhu's face turned pale when he heard the back.
Bai Shandao: "This county only hears them call you Brother Zhu, but they don't know your name yet?"
Brother Zhu pursed his lips and said, "Zhu Qi."
Bai Shan raised his eyebrows, "It's a good name."
He looked him up and down, and asked curiously, "Are you a scholar?"
Zhu Qi: "I can only recognize a few words."
Bai Shan nodded, this is easy to understand, Brother Zhou and the others only know how to read, but this is also very rare.
"Since you don't want to mention the mastermind behind the scenes, then let's skip this issue and talk about something else," Bai Shan said, "This is not in court, let's chat casually, um, who else is in your family?"
Zhu Qi didn't want to tell him.
Bai Shan sighed and said, "You can find them in this county even if you don't mention it. You don't even need to go back to check. I'll call them separately and ask them. Could all of them be like you and not say a word?" ?”
Zhu Qi looked in the direction of his finger, it was a group of people who were crying today.
He raised his hand and rubbed his forehead, and said with a bad expression, "There are also parents, brothers and sisters."
Bai Shan was surprised, "It's very complete, then why do you want to be a gangster?"
Zhu Qi: "... I'm not a gangster."
"Then what are you?"
Zhu Qi stopped talking.
Zhu Qi is really not a gangster, he usually works at home, is quite hardworking, and has a good reputation.
As for why they heard that the Song family came here to inspect the saltworks, when the young men avoided Zhu Qi, they all started talking, "Brother Zhu is very capable, and has been working with Master Song."
"Didn't he say that he is a good citizen and has to work every day?"
"Yes, but when the farming is slack, we always have to go out to find some work. The production in our field is not very good, especially we need to do some other work to earn money." One person said: "Brother Zhu is the one in our area. The most capable ones, at the age of twelve or thirteen, were able to run after the Song family's steward, and later the Song family liked to call Brother Zhu for any work, and he could even take us to work with the Song family."
Bai Shan was thoughtful, isn't this the same as when villagers used to go to the uncle's house to find work
"Then what?"
"This time, it was the Song family who came to Brother Zhu first, and Brother Zhu came to us," Zhu Qi refused to speak, but the boys who followed him couldn't resist Bai Shan's questioning. Although Bai Shan looked gentle now, this is the county Ling, the county magistrate who has just suppressed bandits has captured more than 70 bandits in one go.
The boys were still terrified.
So when Bai Shan asked, they said everything like beans in a bamboo tube, "They said they wanted to see what's going on in the new salt field. As long as we find out, everyone can get a sling of money later."
It sounds like a lot, but this is a desperate deal.
"Don't you know that this area of the yamen is under martial law, and the soldiers who forcibly enter the yamen can shoot you?"
The young men cried out in fear, and wiped their tears and said: "But the Song family said that we just need to be careful not to be discovered. They all said that it's ready, and we didn't know it would be so dangerous."
Bai Shan felt that Mr. Song wouldn't be so stupid, he wouldn't be so impatient, and there was still a month left before he handed in the official salt of the governor's office;
And even if he couldn't hold his breath, he wouldn't make such a stupid move, right
However, Bai Shan remembered this, turned around and summoned a soldier and said, "Go back to Xiaowa Village and find Luo Inspector to send a message to thoroughly investigate the soldiers on duty at the first and second checkpoints last night to see who is there. Be the internal correspondent of the Song family."
He added: "The whole army will check it out. This county doesn't want this kind of thing to happen again."
The yamen servant responded and ran away quickly.
After he left, Bai Shan strolled over to Zhu Qi's side, sat beside him and said, "Did you hear that? If you don't say it, many people will explain it clearly for you."
Zhu Qi's face was pale, and her heart was filled with panic.