Happy peasant girl

Chapter 384 Lawlessness (2)
Although the young man in front of her was dressed in a beggar's attire and her face looked yellow, but her hands were clearly flesh and bones, which showed that it was not the people of Huanglai County. The people of Huanglai County only had bones and skin on their hands, not flesh.

Lin Qingxi glanced at the arrogant yamen guard behind the crowd, and seemed to understand the meaning in Qing Bo's eyes, so he didn't ask any more questions or speak, and at the same time hinted to Xue Ying and Ye Hou not to act rashly.

An hour and a half later, the three of Linqingxi and Qing Bo were driven into Huanggu Mountain together, and at the only mountain road entrance, there was a yamen guard who set up a barrier, only allowed to enter, not allowed to exit.

Along the mountain road, Lin Qingxi followed Qing Bo to the outside of the cave he just mentioned, his eyes were already filled with shock and anger, the county magistrate of Huanglai County actually drove all the hungry people in the county to Huanggu Mountain for reunification Take care of them, and don't care about the life and death of these hungry people.

The cave in Huanggu Mountain mentioned by Qing Bo is actually a naturally formed large tunnel at the bottom of the mountain, and it is also the only road from the inside of the mountain to the outside of the mountain. All the hungry people stay in the caves and valleys.

From Linqingxi's point of view, Mount Huanggu is like a big cloth bag, and the officials of Huanglai County are the ropes on the bag. As long as they "tie it tight", the people will not be able to get out unless they go over the mountains. of.

Linqingxi followed Qingbo slowly through the crowd of hungry people. They stared blankly at the people in Linqingxi who passed by them with dull eyes, shrank their bodies, hugged their knees, leaned on On other people or on cold stone.

Qingbo led Linqingxi and the others into the cave, and then they walked into the sunlight of the deep valley, and then they perched in a dark corner of the valley like a helpless bird.

"Uncle Qing, can you tell me what's going on here?" Lin Qingxi felt that Uncle Qing took her so far on purpose, in order not to let the yamen guards overhear their conversation.

"You are definitely not from Huanglai County! Get out of here quickly. Cao Shiren, the magistrate of Huanglai County, is looking for foreigners these two days. If he knows that you are not from Huanglai County, he will kill you. Hurry up!" Climb the mountain from this side, and you will be safe there." Qing Bo kindly showed Linqingxi the way.

"Uncle Qing, why are we not the people of your Huanglai County who are going to be killed? Even the county magistrate can't just kill anyone, and I haven't done anything bad!" Lin Qingxi said deliberately ignorant .

"My little brother, Cao Shiren is the local emperor of Huanglai County. He said he can kill whoever he wants. Don't blame us for bringing you here. We also wanted to save you. Outlanders, they will kill you immediately. These murderous demons can do anything out of conscience, and I don’t know how many innocent people have fallen victim to them.” The person who helped Linqingxi just now The middle-aged man said indignantly and fearfully.

It turned out that these people took the risk to save the three of them, but Cao Shiren, the county magistrate of Huanglai County, was really lawless and killed innocent people so indiscriminately.

"Uncle, why did the county magistrate trap you all in this Huanggu Mountain?" This was the biggest question in Linqingxi's mind.

At this time, the faces of all the people who heard this sentence showed grief, indignation, and panic. A woman said harshly: "That beast is not for the purpose of occupying the people's land."

It turned out that Cao Shiren was the distant cousin of Cao Heng and Cao Yu in Bingzhou. He was a seventh-rank sesame official, and he was bought with money.Ever since Cao Shiren became the county magistrate of Huanglai County, he searched for people's fat and anointment all day long, and bullying men and women is even more common.

During the three-year drought, Bingzhou almost became a dead city. Many people fled with their wives and children. When they returned to their hometown, they found that their land and houses had been taken over by Cao Shiren.

Without fields and houses, how did the people settle down? When they fled, some people lost their title deeds. When they went to make up for it again, although the village head and patriarch testified, Cao Shiren refused to admit it, insisting that those lands had already been taken over Nationalized.

And those families with land deeds will eventually be left with nothing by Cao Shiren, so they have to use the land deeds to save their lives.

In the face of these homeless people, Cao Shiren did not let them go. In order to prevent someone from going to Beijing to file a complaint, he drove the original owners of the land he forcibly occupied to Huanggu Mountain, some of them were one or two families. , and some are even a village, whoever dares to resist or fight against him will end up with a decapitated end.

This Cao Shiren is not a county magistrate at all in Huanglai County, he is a bully and murderous devil who is not even as good as a local ruffian.

Moreover, a local official like him forcibly occupied the land on which the people depended for survival, but in Bingzhou there were two big "protector gods" protecting him, the city lord and the prefect, and he became even more ignorant.

"Yehou, go and find out what Cao Shiren has used to occupy the people's land and houses. Also, I want to know everything about this person." Lin Qingxi was furious.

She absolutely cannot tolerate a scum like Cao Shiren who jokes about human life and only knows how to satisfy his own selfish desires.

After Ye Hou quietly left Huanggu Mountain from one side, Lin Qingxi asked Qing Bo and his people what they did for a living here.

Qingbo didn't know the details, but someone told Linqingxi, he said, after Cao Shiren drove the people here, he ignored them and left them to fend for themselves. Now the wild animals in Huanggu Mountain have long since disappeared. The bark has also been eaten, and now everyone waits until the spring is warm and the flowers bloom, and the fruit trees on the mountain bear wild fruits to eat.

He also said that if there was not a waterfall flowing all year round in the mountain, the people would either starve to death or die of thirst.There are also people who don't want to be trapped to death in this mountain, so they want to escape from here, but they are either killed by the yamen servant who is working for the tiger, or they fall from the mountain, and they have no chance to go out again.

In the middle of the night, the night monkey came back, and Lin Qingxi, who couldn't sleep at all, took the night monkey and Snow Eagle to a relatively hidden corner in the valley.

The mountain wind at night made people's teeth chatter, looking at the people nestled in the lee, Lin Qingxi wished he could immediately kill the yamen servants outside and take the people out.

"My lord, I've found out everything. This Cao Shiren relied on the influence of the two brothers Cao Heng and Cao Yu to commit crimes in Huanglai County for many years. The land of the people in Huanglai County has become Cao Shiren's private property in various names. Even his fifteen concubines, each of them has more than a thousand acres of land, but the land deeds are all in the hands of that bastard Cao Shiren." Ye Hou's teeth were also chattering with hatred.

"Other than these?" Lin Qingxi asked again.

"The subordinates found out that there is a cellar in his mansion, in which are buried the gold and silver treasures that he has looted over the years. Those land deeds are all in that cellar. Only Cao Shiren knows this place, and he dug it himself. However, God has eyes, let me know where the cellar is." Ye Hou remembered that when he went to the county government office to find out the news, he happened to meet Cao Shiren sneakily putting money in the cellar, and was caught by him.

(End of this chapter)