Little wealth

Chapter 141 The Yamen's Rewards Are Here

The sun in the sky was rising higher and higher, and the sun was getting stronger and stronger, making people's backs start to heat up.

How happy he was when he bought the land, and how regretful Josh was when it came time to get the outer wall. If he had known this, they shouldn't have bought such a large land in the first place. Such a large land should be completely surrounded by bamboo. It is really enough for them to be busy.

Raising his head and wiping the sweat from his forehead, Josh shouted to the people who were still working: "Mum, let's not do this after finishing this, the sun is too hot now, let's go to rest and wait until the afternoon." Keep doing it."

"Alright, let's tie up this row first." Zhao Amu looked at the little grandson who was following them, her little face was flushed from the sun.

"It's okay, it's okay, if you are tired, go and have a rest, the two of us can come here." Chen Tuhu looked up, and felt that he was tired after not working for a long time, and he was working very fast. , with a rope in his hand, he was tying bamboo, and in the blink of an eye, a row was tied up.

And when they were busy building the fence, two government servants came towards their house on horseback.

"Woo--" The man on the horseback reined in the reins, the horse under his seat stopped, and the two of them rolled over from the horseback one after the other.

The little boy who happened to be standing at the door saw someone he didn't know coming on a horse, his eyes widened, and in the next second he threw away the small bamboo in his hand, turned around and walked with short legs. Run to the adults.

At this time, the adults who were working also heard the sound of horseshoes, and saw a government officer in official uniform coming to their house.

Josh hugged his son who ran back to him. Knowing that the child was frightened, he hugged the child, kissed the child's forehead, and comforted the child, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid."

Back in the familiar embrace, the little baby was not so nervous, and turned his head to look at the two strangers on horseback, with a little curiosity in his big eyes.

Seeing the appearance of their son, Josh knew that his son was not afraid anymore, he might just be a little nervous when he saw a stranger just now.

"What's going on here? Why is the official here?" Chen Tuhu asked in a low voice.

Zhao Amu naturally didn't know what was going on, the first reaction of these little people was whether something happened to the officials, they were afraid, how could they know why these officials came to their house.

Josh had some guesses in his heart, but he didn't know if it had something to do with the Qixi Festival.

Everyone who saw Qiao's family looked puzzled, so in fact, he didn't know what was going on in his heart.The two men from the Zhao family were still inside the house, and he was the only man outside. Chen Tuhu put down his things, went over to negotiate with the people from the yamen, and asked politely: "I don't know if the two officials are here. What's the matter?"

"Is this the Zhao family?" Chen Wu handed over the horse to the people following him, and stepped forward to ask.

"Yes, this is the Zhao family." Chen Tuhu replied.

"Everyone, don't be afraid, the county magistrate asked us to come here." Seeing the nervousness on everyone's faces, Chen Wu told them the purpose of his coming here, "My lord said that it was a little husband from your family that day We found out that the traffickers were abducting the children, and we sent people to notify our adults, so that we had the opportunity to catch the traffickers and retrieve the abducted children."

"I came here this time to send reward money to your family under the order of our adults." As he spoke, Chen Wu took out a purse from his arms, which contained a bag of silver, and said, "There are 100 coins in it." The two taels of silver are given by the family who found the child, and the other ten taels of silver are rewarded to you by our adults."

Chen Tuhu looked at the money in the other party's hand, not knowing whether to accept it or not, he couldn't make up his mind for a while.

When the other party said that they were sent by the magistrate, the nervousness and doubts in Josh's heart disappeared in an instant, and he went forward with the child in his arms, and asked with concern: "I wonder if all the abducted children have been found?" coming?"

"I was ordered by my lord to investigate and went all the way to Fucheng to catch that group of people. It's a pity that they sold a few of those children, and all the children I could find have been brought back." Chen Wu said. They were also very angry when they heard about this incident. What they hated the most in their lives were these human traffickers who abducted and trafficked other people's children.

At that time, he was ordered by their adults to arrest people with his men, and chased him all the way to Lucheng, the prefecture. Unfortunately, the magistrate of Lucheng was an ineffective and stupid official. He heard that they were going to arrest traffickers from Anyang, and they pushed back and forth. Ken sent someone to help them find someone, and finally he led his men to find the group of traffickers, arrested the group of traffickers, and recovered some of the abducted children.

It's a pity that they went too late. At that time, some children had already been sold. Those children who were sold didn't even know where the traffickers were taken, let alone where to find them.

Furthermore, after leaving the boundary of Anyang Town, it is not under the jurisdiction of their adults. It is very troublesome for them to go to other places to investigate the case. The prefects and county magistrates in other places will also think that they are from Anyang. If people stretch their hands too far, they may not be happy. The things inside are very complicated.

So in the end, he could only bring the man and the child he found back first, and report this matter to their adults. The rest of the matter can only be left to their adults to get through the relationship, and ask the adults in other places to help find someone , I just hope that those children who were sold away can be found and brought back in the end.

During this period of time, people were guarding the gate of their yamen every day. Those children who were found had been taken back by their families, but there were still some children who were not found, and they came to guard the gate of their yamen every day. I want them to help get the child back.

But once the child is lost, it is not easy to find it, and Chen Wu is also very helpless about this.

Seeing the angry look on the other side's face, Josh knew that the road to find someone must not be so easy. Not all local officials are as responsible as their magistrate of Anyang County.Without the protection of local officials, how could the human trafficking business go so smoothly? The combination of local officials and evil forces must be indispensable here.

"Thank you, my lords." Josh also hated those human traffickers very much, but he had done his best, and there was no way to help where he couldn't help.

He looked at the money bag in the other party's hand, but he didn't reach out to take it, and said: "I just did what I should do that day, and this reward is not worthy of me, so I ask the official to help us return it to the county. Your Excellency, just say that I have received it, and there is no need to give us the money."

"But..." Chen Wu came to give the bounty, but the other party refused to take the bounty and asked him to return it, which made him hesitate, not knowing what to do.

In fact, the 100 taels here were brought by the biggest rich man in the town, Mr. Zhu, to bring someone to their yamen. On that day, the golden grandson of Mr. Zhu's family was also abducted by traffickers. I got it back.

Later, the master Zhu personally brought a lot of things to their yamen with his slaves, but their adults refused to accept them. Finally, they saw the master Zhu crying with tears and snot. Their adults were kind, so they had to Tell Master Zhu that there is another person who helped them find their grandson, their government just did what the government should do, so they didn't accept the last gifts.

As for the news of the kind-hearted person, their adults did not disclose it to anyone.

Seeing that their adults refused to accept the gift, the master Zhu had no choice but to take someone back. The next day, someone sent a 100 tael silver ticket over, saying that it was for the kind person who found the trafficker, and asked them to help deliver it .

So now let him take the silver back and give it back to that master Zhu?He thought of the scene where Mr. Zhu came to their yamen to cry, and the scene where their adults wanted to run but couldn't.Chen Wu looked embarrassed, and casually told the Zhao family about Master Zhu, and discussed with the little husband who was holding the child in front of him: "Why don't you accept the money, little husband?"

"Hehe, it's still not possible." Josh still shook his head, thinking that such a headache should be handed over to the county magistrate.After making people stand outside for so long, he remembered to invite someone inside to drink a cup of tea, "I don't know what the adults call it, why don't you sit down in the humble house and have a glass of water?"

"Don't call us adults. I'm a policeman in the Yamen. My surname is Chen Mingwu. The man who follows me is A Bin. Everyone calls me A Wu, and you can call me that too." Seeing the other party is really uncomfortable Willing to accept the money, Chen Wu had no choice but to put the money bag in his arms, and said: "We have to go back to the yamen to report orders, so we won't go in and sit in the house."

At this time, Zhao Amu went into the house to call her two sons. Zhao He and Zhao Hu came out of the house in a hurry. They heard that the arrester named Chen Wu was about to leave, so they had no choice but to go see him off. .

The two officials came and went quickly, Zhao Amu still didn't understand what was going on, "What kind of trafficker?" And the official came to their house to give money to them, it was just like It's like a dream, could it be that he didn't wake up today?

Josh touched his nose with his hand, so he had to tell them what happened that day, Eh Mu. As for the fact that he spent two taels of silver to buy the hawker's candied haws and asked the peddler to help inform the people in the yamen, he didn't say anything. , "So things are probably like this. When the two officials came just now, it should be the county magistrate who asked them to come over to give rewards. Thank you for our help that day."

"Hey, you guys, you are really too brave to do such a thing." Only then did Zhao Amu remember that the children ran away one by one that day, most likely to help the government catch traffickers up?In case something happened to this, he was afraid just thinking about it.

Knowing that his daughter-in-law and his son have done good things, he can't blame these children.