Farmhouse Green Plum

Chapter 272 Thank You

County Magistrate Chen was overjoyed, "Come here, take her down to have her portrait painted!"

Song Ying stood up and left with a yamen runner.

County Magistrate Chen asked Luo Erzhu again: "Did you see what the human traffickers look like?"

Luo Erzhu shook his head and stammered, "I-I-I didn't see him reaching out..."

"When talking to the county magistrate, you should call yourself a commoner." A bailiff corrected in a stern voice.

Luo Erzhu shuddered and stuttered even more, "Common people, common people, common people..."

County Magistrate Chen glared at the yamen runner who corrected Luo Erzhu and said gently, "It doesn't matter. You can call yourself whatever you want."

Luo Erzhu didn't expect the county magistrate to be so kind. He was completely different from the previous county magistrate Hu, and he was less frightened.

He swallowed and replied, "We, the common people, wanted to squeeze to the side of the street and stand against the wall, but then someone grabbed my waist and dragged me back!"

Speaking of this, Luo Erzhu recalled the thrilling situation at that time and his body couldn't help shaking.

"Luckily, Song Tian saw my cousin and the others, so he shouted and then the pair of hands retreated. I didn't dare to look back, for I was afraid he would kill me to silence me."

County Magistrate Chen nodded and said, "Go and tell that little girl to describe the face of the person behind this guy."

After giving the order, County Magistrate Chen continued to ask Luo Erzhu, "Why didn't you tell the people upstairs when you found the human traffickers?"

As he spoke, County Magistrate Chen pointed at Luo Yanxing and said, "Isn't she your cousin? Your sister is commanding majestically upstairs, why don't you ask for help?"

Luo Erzhu felt aggrieved. "I wanted to speak, but my cousin wouldn't let me. If I didn't obey, she would hit me. Her hitting hurts."

County Magistrate Chen: “…”

Luo Yanxing: “…”

What if I want to beat him up now?

"I don't let you talk because I'm worried that the traffickers will be desperate and kill you."

"You didn't tell your companions?" County Magistrate Chen asked again.

Luo Erzhu nodded, "My cousin won't let me speak."

The corners of County Magistrate Chen's mouth twitched. He was really obedient.

He looked at Song Tian and Tian Hu again, "What about you two? You were right next to him. Didn't you notice anything unusual?"

Song Tian and Tian Hu nodded. Song Tian was even more courageous: "Erzhu has always been timid. I thought he was scared when he heard about human traffickers. That's why he grabbed me and hurt me, but I didn't knock his hand away."

"It was the human traffickers who were dragging me back." Luo Erzhu felt even more aggrieved.

County Magistrate Chen was speechless after hearing this, and asked again without much hope: "Think about it carefully, was there really nothing special going on at that time?"

"Yes!" Tian Hu suddenly said, "When Erzhu grabbed me, I wanted to knock his hand away. When I raised my hand, it hit the hand of a person next to me. That person raised his hand as if he wanted to hit me, but when he heard Sister Yanxing talking, he took his hand back."

County Magistrate Chen: Are you sure that they want to beat you up and not kidnap you?

"Did you see that man's face? Where was he standing? How were you standing?"

Tian Hu answered one by one: "Yes, he has a scar on his face, which is very scary. He was standing next to me. Song Tian and I were standing side by side, and Erzhu was standing a little behind us."

County Magistrate Chen frowned. Since Luo Erzhu was the one who grabbed the two people, he should be standing behind them between the two of them.

The hand that stretched out from behind him definitely could not have belonged to the person standing beside Tian Hu. There was more than one human trafficker around them at that time!

Not only did County Magistrate Chen think of this, but Yuan Qing also figured it out and broke out in a cold sweat. If Song Tian hadn't spoken out, if they hadn't looked over, the three of them would most likely have been abducted by human traffickers today!

Seeing that he could not get any more information out of them, County Magistrate Chen asked Tian Hu to find a painter to paint the portrait, while Yuan Qing and others waited outside the main hall.

After Song Ying and Tian Hu described the portrait to the painter, they had nothing else to do and, led by the yamen runners, left the county government office.

As soon as the bailiff left, before anyone could say anything, a young man jumped in front of them and said, "Finally you guys are out!"

He appeared so suddenly that everyone was startled.

"Who are you?" Luo Yanxing asked.

"Who am I?" The young man laughed angrily, lifting up his hair to reveal a wound covered with ointment, "I am the one you hit with your stick!"

Seeing the triangular wound, Luo Yanxing's scalp went numb. "I didn't mean to do that. I was..."

"You don't have to say anything," the young man interrupted her, "I'm here to thank you."

Everyone: "..."

Who thanks someone in a provocative tone?

The young man took out a purse and threw it to Luo Yanxing, "Here, this is a thank-you gift for you."

Luo Yanxing immediately touched something in the shape of a gold ingot, realizing it was a silver ingot. He immediately said, "This is too much. Our main purpose is..."

"It's just 100 taels. My life is very precious. 100 taels is nothing."

"100 taels!" everyone exclaimed.

Luo Yanxing widened her eyes, she thought it was a 5 tael silver ingot, two 10 tael ingots were already a lot!

Yuan Shan couldn't help but choked: "Since your life is not worth 100 taels, why don't you give me more?"

The young man was stuck and an embarrassed look appeared on his face.

"Xiao Shan." Yuan Qing gently stopped him, and then bowed to the young man, "My sister is young and does not know etiquette. Please forgive me if I have offended you."

The young man cleared his throat and waved his hand, "It's okay, thanks to you for stopping it in time today."

He looked up at the sky and said, "It's getting late. You haven't eaten yet, right? How about I treat you to a meal?"

Song Tian's eyes lit up, and he immediately wanted to nod, but unfortunately the young man did not include him in the list of people he was thanking, so he could not make a decision.

Song Ying shook his head: "I have to go back to the clinic and can't go. You guys can do whatever you want."

"Medical clinic?" The young man looked at Song Ying. "Could it be that you are the new doctor Song who came to Huichun Hall?"

"You know me?" Song Ying was a little surprised. Huichuntang was located on West Street, and naturally most of the patients were poor people. Therefore, most of the people who knew of her existence were merchants and residents on West Street.

This young man obviously came from a wealthy family, so how did he know her?

The young man grinned, and suddenly took out a folding fan and waved it, "My last name is Chen. Most of the shops on the three streets of West Street are rented out by my family. Well, your Huichuntang shop is an exception."

Song Ying thought for a moment and asked, "Is your family the gambling house that bought most of the Qin family's assets?"

She had heard from Lin Wenxuan before that decades ago, all the clinics in Qingshui County were run by a wealthy businessman named Qin.

The wealthy businessman was so rich that even the county magistrate had to curry favor with him.

Later, his son became addicted to gambling and squandered all the family fortune. His uncle bought Huichuntang, where he practiced medicine, and most of the Qin family's other shops were taken away by gambling houses.