Return of the Swallow

"Perhaps as you said, the beggars are all in places like the Earth Temple." Qin Yining nodded slightly. Although he said this, he still said, "It will be later, let Jingzhe and the others go and look around. I always thought it was unusual."

Ji Yun didn't quite understand why Qin Yining felt like this, but she believed in Qin Yining's judgment and immediately said seriously: "Yes, I will go talk to Jingzhe later."

The four people from Jingzhe were chatting with the people of Danford County at this time.

This time Qin Yining was close and heard their conversation clearly. Sure enough, as soon as Jingzhe mentioned the words "repair the emperor's mausoleum", the middle-aged woman who was looking at Rouge immediately darkened her face, pursed her lips, and turned away. .

This situation happened several times a day. Jingzhe and the others tried their best to observe the words and expressions, specifically looking for those kind-faced women or elderly people to ask - such people have soft and kind hearts, and it is easiest to ask the truth. , but in the end they still didn’t get any inside information.

The more no one spoke, the more certain Qin Yining was that there was indeed a problem in this county. If the civilians are late in arriving, there must be something behind the scenes.

At dusk, the orange-red setting sun dyed the sky with gorgeous sunset glow.

Qin Yining and his party, three carriages, drove slowly down the road. In order to find out the news, they did not rest all day long. At this time, each of them sat on the carriage and ate dry biscuits and snacks from the water bladder to satisfy their hunger.

Qin Yining tore off a piece of bread and put it in his mouth. After taking two bites, he saw the skinny beggar he had seen when he came here.

He was walking with difficulty along the roadside, holding a bamboo stick as thick as an egg. When he started to move, he realized that his right arm and leg were actually disabled! As he limped forward with difficulty, his sleeves hung weakly and his right hand was swinging around. It was obvious that his right arm was folded in the sleeve.

Qin Yining couldn't see such a pitiful man, so he couldn't help but lift the curtains when the carriage passed by the man, and said softly: "Wait a minute."

But the man seemed not to hear it and kept walking forward.

Qin Yining had no choice but to tell Ji Yun, "Go and deliver this cake to that little brother. Give him the water bag as well. There are also these scattered pieces of silver."

Ji Yun smiled and said: "I know, I know Madam is kind-hearted. I have some scraps of silver here."

Ji Yun picked up what Qin Yining told him, jumped off the carriage and hurried after him, then walked away and said, "Hey, little brother, wait a minute!"

But the beggar still didn't stop.

But his legs and feet are not good,

As if he hadn't eaten enough for a long time and didn't have much strength, Ji Yun quickly stopped in front of the man.

"Hey, why are you so disobedient?"

The other party seemed to be frightened by the person who suddenly appeared in front of him, and lowered his head numbly.

Ji Yun handed over some cakes and water bags wrapped in oil paper, "This is what our wife gave you. Eat it quickly. There is also this piece of silver. You don't look good. Take this to the hospital for a checkup." Get hurt."

The oil paper bag exuded the unique aroma of pancakes, and Ji Yun heard an obvious "gurgling" sound in the beggar's belly.

He looked up at Ji Yun and opened his mouth, but no sound came out of his throat. He hugged the bamboo stick and slowly raised his left hand to take the oil paper bag.

Upon seeing this, Ji Yun knew that not only was this person's right arm and leg disabled, but he probably wasn't ignoring her on purpose just now, but was unable to hear or speak.

Ji Yun couldn't help but feel soft, and gave him some more broken silver, "Take this and go see a doctor. This is what our wife gave you."

Knowing that this person could not hear or speak, Ji Yun pointed at Qin Yining's carriage with gestures.

The man understood what Ji Yun meant and turned to look at the carriage.

Qin Yining was lifting the curtains of the carriage, because she was not wearing a curtain hat in the carriage, half of her fair and delicate face was slightly exposed, and her big, clear eyes were looking full of goodwill.

The man held the oil paper bag and lowered his head with difficulty to take a bite of the dough.

Ji Yun sighed softly and walked around him towards the carriage.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, two young men suddenly rushed over from the opposite side and knocked the oil paper bag and water bag in the beggar's hands to the ground.

"You motherfucker! Who asked you to eat! Who do you think you are!"

"You only deserve to eat dog food and pig food!"

Another young man grabbed the beggar by the collar and pushed him hard, then slapped him with his hands.

Jiyun has never seen such a bully! As soon as she gave the beggar food, someone knocked over the food. Not only did he knock over the food she gave him, but he also beat him!

Ji Yun turned around and blocked the man's hand, "What are you doing! Bullying a poor person, who are you?"

"Little lady, I advise you to mind your own business!"

"My aunt will take care of this noisy business! If you bully a poor disabled person, you won't be afraid of thunder!"

"Hey! Get away, bitch, I'll beat you up too!"

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Seeing Ji Yun and the two scoundrels arguing, Qin Yining quickly got out of the carriage when he saw that something was not going well.

At this time, the beggar had been pushed to the ground by the young man, but the beggar seemed to be indifferent to the pain, grabbing the mud-stained dough and gnawing on it.

As if irritated by his action of eating pancakes, the two ruffians became angrier and yelled loudly. They bypassed Ji Yun and punched and kicked the beggar.

"Stop." Qin Yining put on his curtain hat, led Jingzhe and others to stop in front of the two rogues, and said kindly: "You two heroes, please calm down."

The two young men saw that the person speaking opposite was a slender woman wearing a curtain hat. Looking at her manners and listening to her voice, they knew she was a beauty. They couldn't help but feel some emotions specific to good-looking people and shouted. His voice became weaker, but his attitude was still bad.

"Foreigners! I advise you to mind your own business!"

The arguments and shouting here have attracted many people's minds. Qin Yining's caravan did a lot of business today. Seeing that something happened to the merchants here, men, women, old and young all gathered here.

An elder who was over sixty years old walked out of the crowd and stood in front of Qin Yining with a stern face.

"Madam, you are coming from out of town to do business on our territory in Danford County. Are we going to cause trouble to you?"

Qin Yining smiled and saluted, and said warmly: "This old man, Danfu County has outstanding people, simple folk customs, and harmonious fellow villagers. When we come to do business from outside, the brothers and sisters in Guibao take good care of me. I am really grateful."

The elder frowned and scolded in a deep voice: "Since we in Danford County have done nothing to offend you, why are you meddling in our affairs again!"

Qin Yining took a step forward and a calm voice came from the curtain: "Old man, we didn't want to interfere in your county's affairs. We just saw this little brother in a mess, so we gave him some food. How could this offend your county?" Woolen cloth?"

"Tell you what." The old man took a step forward, kicked the pancake out of the beggar's hand, and crushed him several times.

"Four years ago, this man came here as a wanderer and fainted from hunger on the street. He was brought home by Wang Dashan. He entertained him with good food and a good place to live. He didn't think he was deaf or mute and even arranged things for him. .Who would have thought that he had just lived in Wang Dashan’s house for two days and killed Wang Dashan’s wife! If he hadn’t felt that it was too cheap to directly sue the officials and chop off his head, would he still be able to survive to this day? He can do it If you are worse than a pig or a dog, then you are not worthy of eating human food, you are only worthy of eating pig food and dog food!"

As he spoke, the old man became furious and kicked the beggar hard again, this time on his broken right arm.

His arm was already tilted at an abnormal angle, but now it looked even more weirdly bent, and the look of him curled up in a ball and enduring pain became even more miserable.

Qin Yining frowned.

She came here to get some information, and didn't want to be too conspicuous to attract attention. But when something like this happened, it was hard for her to ignore it.

"According to your wishes. Did this person kill someone?"

"Exactly!"

"In this case, why didn't you report it to the government four years ago and have a clear trial in court? If there is sufficient evidence, the state will deal with this person. Since he killed someone, the master Qingtian also made the decision to chop off his head. How could someone torture and humiliate him like this! According to you, he has been a deaf-mute for the past four years, his hands and feet have been broken and he has been left begging on the street. Depending on what you mean, you have never given him alms, only given him He eats pig food and dog food, and torturing a person like this is much more noble than killing someone?"

"That's right!" Ji Yun was filled with indignation after hearing this, and said fiercely with his hands on his hips, "Then Wang Dashan, whose wife was killed, could still resist not reporting it to the government. Isn't there something fishy about this? Well, even if his wife was really killed. No one can say anything about what this man killed, but he tortured people in this way, refusing to let him live a good life, and not giving him a good death. He trampled on a life like this, and did what he did. How can a person like this be called a 'good person'? Stop laughing so hard!"

"You!" The old man puffed his beard and glared in anger, "You foreigners, you know you are not good-hearted! You should not have been allowed to come in to do business in the first place!"

"Lu Yin belongs to the imperial court, and the imperial court doesn't stop us from doing business. How can you, an old man, have such a loud tone?" Ji Yun yelled back.

At this time, many people had gathered around, and many of them were angry and accused Ji Yun and Qin Yining.

"You people are so ignorant!"

"That is, we can deal with the prisoners how we want to deal with them. What do you say about the laws of the country? Are you just like those scoundrels in the court who are bringing harm to the people?!"

In their eyes, it was natural to deal with a prisoner who had killed someone in such a private way. They had never been accused like this before, and everyone was very angry.

Seeing that something was wrong, Jingzhe and the others hurriedly protected Qin Yining.

Qin Yining didn't expect that things would turn out like this. Fang Jingzhe said that the three big families in Danfu County together accounted for 80% of the county's population. She still didn't believe it, but now these people are so united, even if they are firmly one No one raised any objections to his foolish approach. He still believed in the judgment of his elders without questioning. He was also hostile to the court and completely violated the laws of the court.

Qin Yining frowned and made a decision in an instant.