The sun is scorching in June, and it’s only the middle of the month, and it’s the winter wheat harvest season in Broken Gold Town.
Golden wheat covered the land outside the town, and the busy summer harvest diluted the capture of the Dilu bandits from the mountains a few days ago.
The Song family does not grow wheat. Song Zhenping has now made friends with several households in the town who grow grain, and goes to help other people's households. Xiao An is not at home pasting paper boxes, and follows Tian Tianxia to pick up wheat ears in a basket.
Suijin Town was harvesting wheat, and other places were also harvesting wheat. The Song family had already announced that they wanted to buy wheat straw, and firewood from all over the country and eight villages, which was originally only used to make fires, was sent.
There are carts and carts of wheat stalks everywhere in Ruijin Town. From the river to the outside of the town, there are ox carts waiting to unload.
Song Liyun, "injured", stayed at the carton factory every day, helping shopkeeper Mu with the accounting.
Seeing that the carton factory was too busy, Hu Qing and the others simply freed up manpower from the acorn mill to focus on this end first.
Just at this busy time, the trial of the Qili County case happened to begin, and Song Liyun was asked to appear in court to testify.
It was Song Liyun's first time in two lifetimes to hold a court trial, so he couldn't help but feel a little panicked.
Fortunately, she did not go alone. She was accompanied by Xue Zhuang, Han Ming, and Mr. Zhang.
Afraid of the sun, a few people set out from Suijin Town at dawn. It was only then that they entered Qili County, and there was still an hour before the opening of the church.
When we arrived at Yaqian Street, there were already people gathered in twos and threes, probably here to watch the trial.
There were many breakfast stalls on Yaqian Street. Song Liyun asked everyone to find a stall that was a little further away selling steamed buns and dry biscuits. Everyone got a bowl of mung bean porridge, two large meat buns, and a few plates of side dishes, ready to eat.
Drink enough to go to court.
Besides them, there were other people eating at the morning stall, all of them looking excited and whispering, as if they were waiting for something big to happen.
Song Liyun and the others have traveled dozens of miles, and it is still early to go to class, so they are not in a hurry to leave and will take a break during the meal.
Han Ming and Xue Zhuang ate a lot. After finishing the meat buns, they asked the stall owner to get the cakes, while Mr. Zhang slowly drank mung bean porridge.
While the stall owner was doing business, he kept looking in the direction of the Yamen and almost knocked over the stove several times.
The stall owners on Yaqian Street are all people who are familiar with the world. It is rare to be in such a panic as today.
Seeing him like this, Xue Zhuang wanted to inquire in advance and said loudly: "Hey! Brother stall owner, what case is there to be tried today? Why are these people standing around watching?"
His voice was loud, and the stall owner seemed to have heard something terrible. He turned around and gestured to Xue Zhuang to ask him to keep quiet: "Guest, please keep your voice down. Didn't you see those gangsters in front of the Yamen?"
Are you looking for someone?"
"Looking for someone? Who are you looking for?" Xue Zhuang pretended to be surprised.
Seeing that the stall owner had almost sold out, he couldn't contain his gossip, so he simply pulled a stool and sat aside and whispered: "I heard that these scraps are waiting for the military households in Ruijin Town to come over."
"Why?"
Mr. Zhang also looked over. He was wearing a green and gray coarse cloth shirt. Although he was simple, he had lost his previous lifeless look. He looked like an old man from the countryside with a prosperous family background.
The stall owner blinked his eyes and said: "I heard that the military households in Suijin Town are very powerful. They overthrew the shopkeeper Tianxiang Loumi, and now they have captured the Dilu bandits. Now that the market has opened in Suijin Town, they want to follow suit."
Those military households are asking for a living."
Xue Zhuang was dumbfounded: "Why do you want to earn a living as a soldier? You also want to work as a guard in a guard station?"
He had just heard someone praising Jinzhen's military household, and he was a little proud, but he hadn't reacted yet.
When the stall owner heard that he was on duty at the guard station, he immediately smiled and shook his head: "How is that possible? These young men are very impatient. I'm afraid I can't afford to hire them as errands."
"Why is that?"
Han Ming also became curious. He wanted to make a living as a military household but was unwilling to go to the health center to naturalize. What was he trying to do?
The stall owner looked like "you don't know anything" and said: "Now Ruijin Town is a military town, and military households are in charge, and there is a market. They, the helpers, want to go to the town to collect fees and so on. Of course, they must have a good relationship with the military households.
"As long as you pay your respects to the court, there will be no one in the town right now, which is when they are trying to gain territory."
Xue Zhuang's face suddenly stiffened: Are you going to charge?
I haven't seen any profit yet, but someone is thinking about those three melons and two dates in Broken Gold Town.
"cough!"
Song Liyun almost choked on a mouthful of water and looked at Xue Zhuang.
It would be no exaggeration to say that he and Xue Zhuang fought hard to defeat Broken Silver Town today.
Xue Zhuang has rolled on the edge of a knife several times.
Now Xue Zhuang is in charge of public security, and that is what he deserves.
Those people also want to collect protection money, so they are trying to steal their jobs from him.
Before Song Liyun could laugh, the stall owner's next sentence made her blush.
"They also heard that the Rouge Tiger who captured Mickey in Broken Gold Town was also coming, so they wanted to see if it was the rumored dominatrix with a face like the bottom of a pot, big arms and a round waist, and a big beard."
"cough!"
"cough!"
"cough!"
All the people at the table started coughing.
The story that Song Liyun grabbed Yang Kaiquan with a knife in the Broken Gold Guild Hall spread quickly after tax collector Sun Wuming and two government officials returned to the county government office.
Most people would be surprised when they hear these words, say a few words about how brave this woman is, and then forget about it.
But these idle men who stay outside the county government office every day and make a living by selling information are interested and want to see the true face of this woman.
At the end of the morning, the eight-character Yamen opened wide, and all the Yamen servants lined up in different shifts. At this time, the Yaqian Street was already crowded with people watching the excitement.
In the past few days, the trials were all about little people, but this time we have to deal with the case where Mickey from Tianxianglou pretended to be an official and went to Ruijin Town to cause trouble, and all ten people had their legs broken.
In addition to Mickey, who has been in jail for more than two months, those who arrived on the case were also Hong Jingtian, who had just been brought to justice.
Mickey and others had their legs broken for two months. Maybe the family had used some money to help with the injuries, but they had been cured even in prison.
But it wasn't well cared for, and now its legs are strangely crossed, and it needs to be supported by hands when walking.
Hong Jingtian has been having a hard time these days. He is guilty of colluding with Di Lu.
Once he put on the eighty-pound wooden shackle, he couldn't even lift his head. He could only hold the wooden shackle on the ground and half-bend and kneel.
Jiang Feng, the acting magistrate, sat in the hall. First, the clerk read out the beginning and end of the case.
Tianxianglou has done a lot of things secretly, and now they have been dug out, and the long book has been read for an hour.
Even the scribes had to go through three rounds of reading before they were finished. There were hundreds of cases, including bullying of men and women, expropriating money and killing people, and minor cases such as substituting the best and underestimating food. It would be an exaggeration to say that it is too numerous to mention.
Mr. Jiang has found all of this in the past two months. I don’t know how many of them are true, how many of them are false, and how many of them are just adding insult to injury.
Finally, we talked about the case where Mickey and others were ordered by Hong Jingtian to rob people in Ruijin Town.
Song Liyun and his party had already entered the second room next to the court from the side and were waiting. At this time, they were called to the lobby by the Yamen servant.