Hearing this, the two of them were both surprised and expected. These people themselves don't look like good people at first sight, and it's... normal for them to come out of prison.
Zhou Chengkang asked again, "What did you all do to get in? Or did you go in together?"
"No." When the man saw the stick in his hand, he hurriedly said, "Some of them are bandits who were suppressed, and they just stood aside to cheer. I just stole things in, and they happened to come out one day, and I heard from the third brother that There is a place to go, and there is a guarantee that there will be food, so I followed."
The third brother he was talking about should be the Sangou, "How did the Sangou know to come to our village?"
"I met the father and son of the Yang family, who happened to live next door, and they went to the county to pick us up."
Yang family father and son
Those who can be released should not be extremely vicious, such as Zhao Tianfu and others who were sentenced to more than ten years for breaking through the wall and entering the house. These people are quite young, and they should be petty theft. Li Qinghe frowned, "You guys are used to sneaking around, how could you be willing to honestly help their family with work?"
"That's not what I said before I came here. The third brother said that the Yang family and his son lied to him. He clearly agreed to take us here to take refuge, but I didn't expect the Xu family to lie. At first, he said that we would help with work to cover up our identities. I didn't expect it to be Really let us work, usually so stingy, eat and search. I haven’t seen meat for half a year. Just this makes us work. The third brother said he would take us away, but... after coming here, I can’t even want to leave, Xu The boy at home said that if we dare to leave, they will go to the town and sue us for stealing..." He took a few breaths, then poohed again, "We have all been in prison, anyone who says we steal, outsiders I will definitely believe it, Huang Niluo is not shit or shit, I can't tell. Anyway, he said that we will steal things, so we can't let them get wronged... "
So, I really came to steal things.
The Yang family likes to speculate the most, and they dare to do anything for some free labor.
Threatening these people is not afraid of being backlashed.
In fact, the last time I was at Li Qingsong's house, I could see that these people were very rude to the Xu family, but if there was a real dispute, the three dogs would still compromise, as if they were a little afraid.
"It's all right now, you really stole something. I don't want to send you to the mayor." Zhou Chengkang threw away the stick in his hand, "I'll take you there at dawn. By the way, how many people did you plan to steal last night?"
"There are not many people, just the Yu family behind." He was a little frustrated, "I usually heard that your two families are rich, but the wealth of the Yang family is only on the surface, it looks generous, but in fact it is the most stingy... After so long, a meal We didn't even let us eat the meat."
He gritted his teeth, "If I meet the Yang family and his son again, I will definitely not let him go. And Zhao Tianfu, his mother must have taken advantage of it. I testify that the Yang family is rich and benevolent, and it deceived us very badly."
Li Qinghe kindly reminded, "You guys are going back now, you will definitely run into each other." At that time, you will have to give him a good beating.
The sky outside was gradually getting brighter. Zhou Chengkang was a little worried when he heard that someone was going to Yu's house. He looked through the back door and saw two people tied up in Min Rui's yard.
Twirling them out of the village, the road to Yang's house was blocked, so they could only pass through the village. There were many people on the road. These people did go to the houses they were eyeing last night, so it was up to them He chose it by himself, and Sangou robbed the Yang family, and he got it. Not only did he get the money from Yang’s fish sale, but he also got the last jewelry left by Yang’s mother, and beat Xu Changjie and his brothers. , he himself ran away.
After such a big incident happened, the village chief came forward to search around the village, and found that the three of them were caught by the total, and the others ran away. The rest were stolen from three other families, whose money ranged from five taels to one tael. Wait, if you count it, there should be a few of the dozen or so people who didn't participate and ran away by themselves.
Anyway, there were five people who came to Li Qinghe's yard, and only one was caught, and the rest saw that the situation was not right, and ran away.
The people who were stolen in the village turned the three of them to the mayor's home, and brought people from the Yang family and the Xu family with them.
The Yang family's mother and daughter don't need to be taken by the villagers, and they have to go to the mayor's house to report the crime. Mother Yang's last bit of jewelry at the bottom of the box was gone, and she was going to seek justice for herself.
If such a big incident happened in the village, the mayor would not dare to deal with it as a general thief, especially according to the confession of the three people, among the dozen or so people, there were some who committed crimes and ran out to hide without being imprisoned. There are all records, just waiting to be caught and imprisoned. Wang Village is remote, and outsiders don't know about the arrival of people. They hide for a long time, but no one suspects it.
Xu and Yang's family deliberately harbored criminals, and the charges were not light.
The mayor sent all three of them and Xu Yang's family to the county seat.
Li Qinghe and the two had no losses, so they didn't follow.
It is a very bad thing to harbor more than a dozen criminals to murder the villagers, not to mention in the town, even in the county.
On the fifth day of the first lunar month, the yamen sent by the county to inquire arrived. Basically, they visited every family in the village and brought back a thick stack of testimonies. The Xu family condoned those people working in the village All the things about taking by force from time to time are all recorded.
The most talked about in the village these days is about these people, but there is something more important than that, which is spring plowing.
The weather in the first month of this year is good, and every family is busy digging the land, and Li Qinghe's side is no exception.
Before the verdict from the county seat came down, the village chief had already issued a statement that such people of unknown origin were not allowed to live in the village for a long time. Even Yu Ermo and his wife were driven back by the village chief to find their own village chief to write a document to prove their origins, otherwise, the village would not be able to keep them.
Every family in the village here is busy with spring plowing, getting up early and working late at night, and gradually no one mentions that group of people. However, no one planted the land of the Yang family and the desolate forest they bought, and it looked extremely desolate in the midst of the spring. It was the blue brick and tile house of the Yang family that looked bright, but because of the good rain in spring, no one lived in it for two months, and grass grew in the yard, and it looked a little depressed.
Li Qinghe still hired people this year, but not all of the newly opened ten acres of land were planted with food, and some medicinal materials were reserved. If the seeds were kept, it would be very fast, but the seeds left in a year, if she wanted, could already fill the ground.
Just start now, slowly try to grow.
While the families in the village were busy farming, Hu Yanxi from the town came back. Last year he took part in the township examination, but failed. He had to wait three years before going back.
A county test is not easy to pass, so how can the township test be so easy
It is also normal to fail. You know, if you are on the list in the township examination, you are the master of Juren. If you have money, you can directly find a good position and become an official, but you are an official.
Not long after Hu Yanxi came back, Zhao Wanwan was kicked out by his mother because she was not in good health, and there was no good news for several years.
The three most unfilial acts are having no offspring. She had nothing to do for three years. Hu Yanxi divorced her for this reason.
The talented lady of Wang Village was dismissed and sent home.
Zhao Wanwan went back to the village and went directly to live with Mrs. Qian. She still raised Zhao Tianfu's child there, and now she has changed her surname to Qian. Zhao Tianfu's land was also taken back by her. Recently, she is worried that she can't find someone to plow in spring.
If she wants to hire someone, she has no money. Grow it yourself... she won't!
It's not that you can't do it at all, you have to be led by someone. However, she has a bad reputation now. Although she is old, she is indeed beautiful, and no woman is worried about letting her man lead her to farm. Coupled with the fact that she couldn't pay her wages, no one really wanted to help.
Li Qinghe would know this, and I still heard from Lanhua, she is holding a belly now, and she will give birth in May or June, Zhao Dashan didn't let her work, she came to talk to her sister when she was bored.
For this younger sister, Li Qinghe still likes her quite a lot, she can talk and is diligent in her hands, she often makes clothes for Xi Yu. The money used by the clothes maker to buy fabrics was all "wages" given to her by Li Qinghe. They really didn't mean to take advantage of her, they really did help when they said they were helping, and they didn't keep any wages, maybe they even put some in.
There are many people working on the back mountain. The two sisters were talking in the yard when they heard someone knocking on the door outside. They were quite anxious. Lan Hua helped her stomach to open it, and Zhou's mother stood at the door with an anxious expression, "What happened to the boss?" gone."
"What's the matter?" Li Qinghe asked curiously.
Zhou's mother was very anxious, "Plum Blossom got into a fight with him for some reason, and it was yesterday that they said they wanted to make up."
She was anxious, Li Qinghe's expression was flat, "Mother, do you want to see it? I'll ask Chengkang to take you there."
It's okay to send her to the town, it's like sending your mother to the town, but the couple will never interfere.
Mother Zhou didn't care about her indifferent attitude. After Zhou Chengkang came back, she took her and Zhou Laosan there in a carriage. In fact, now is the busiest time in the village, but this is the time to make noise, and I don't know why.
In the afternoon of the same day, the mayor came to the village in person, and it turned out that there was a result from the county seat.
Many people stood beside the big tree at the entrance of the village. The village head and the mayor stood on a high place and said: "Most of the people who ran away were arrested and returned, and all of them were sentenced according to the law. The one who entered Li Qinghe's house was sentenced for ten years.
And the money lost by the other three families in the village was also recovered. To be precise, it was not recovered, but after they were arrested, the family members gathered it together to let them come out as soon as possible.
Generally speaking, apart from being frightened, the village suffered no actual loss.
But even so, the Yang family and the Xu family have to pay the price for their actions.
Xu Changjie, who personally went to the county to pick up the prisoner, deliberately harbored the prisoner and was sentenced to eight years in prison. The Xu family did not report the incident, and the whole family was imprisoned. Each was sentenced to three years in prison. As for the mother and daughter of the Yang family who didn't know, they were released.
Yang Lanrou doesn't know
Li Qinghe couldn't believe it, those two were so nice, her father was the mastermind of taking these people to work, she didn't know
It should be that everyone thought she didn't know, and those who knew the inside story, such as Xu Changjie, directly concealed the matter.
Anyway, the mother and daughter have returned.
After the matter was finished, the mayor left. The village head also wanted to leave, but was stopped by the villagers.
A bold person directly suggested, "Village Chief, the Yang family originally moved in from outside. After they came here, they stole things and harbored criminals. Can we not let them live?"