I took the imperial examination in the red building

Zhang Yuan forced himself to calm down: "What are the adults doing?"

The yamen servant lifted him up from the ground: "Stop talking nonsense, now the county yamen suspects that you have been involved in human trafficking for a long time, come with us!"

Zhang Yuan struggled: "I'm just a beggar, so what does human trafficking have anything to do with me? If I really went into human trafficking, would I still be in such a state of despair?"

His words are somewhat credible when paired with the barren and ruined temple he is in at the moment.

However, these yamen servants had experienced with Lin Fengqi for a year, so they didn't care what he said. As soon as they were shackled and shackles were put on, they dragged them back to the county yamen.

Lin Huan was really curious about how his father tried the case, so he found a small screen to block it. Anyway, he was short, so he couldn't see him sitting behind the screen.

The one who was brought up first was Tan Shi.

She originally reported the case with the slightest hope of finding her daughter, but she didn't expect the government to investigate so quickly.

She only had a faint premonition last night, and she will go to court today.

When the yamen servant went to pass her on just now, Wang Juren followed her, and Juren could see that the official did not kneel, so he stayed by Tan's side at the moment.

He looked around and saw that there were only a few yamen servants around, and asked in a low voice, "Why did you suddenly report the case?"

Tan glanced at him coldly: "What's wrong with me reporting the case? I haven't seen Meng'er for a long time. Back then you said you were afraid that the traffickers would harm Meng'er and refused to report the case. Now it has been two years, and Meng'er has never stopped. Will it still be in the hands of traffickers?"

As she spoke, she shed tears: "My poor daughter died before she lived a good life... Do you know how much my heart hurts when I saw that doll a while ago? I am afraid that she will have a bad life. And I'm afraid she's having a good time."

Lin Huan listened silently behind the screen, a little confused: "She seems to love her daughter very much, why are you afraid that she will live too well?"

[Sweetheart: I have been illiterate for a long time, and this time I can finally teach Huanbao.In ancient times, kidnappers abducted people, and they were basically transferred to others. This kind of kidnappers were basically sent to other people's homes to be maids. To be a maid, you have to do hard work. The low-level maids do rough work. It's not good, a close-fitting maid If it's okay to follow the ladies, those who follow the wives run the risk of being sent to the master's house as housemaids or aunts, which is not good. 】

[Sweetheart: There is another worse thing, that is, being sold to the Qin Lou Chu Pavilion by human traffickers. Although the life there is more nourishing, it is a nightmare for women. 】

Lin Huan snorted.

He wanted to ask Qin Lou what the Chu Pavilion was, but he felt that it was not a good thing to hear, so he didn't ask, and looked at Tan Shi very lovingly.

Wang Juren was choked up and speechless.

After they finished talking, Lin Fengqi sat down in the lobby.

Lin Huan curled up on the edge of the screen and took a look.

Normally, when his father returned to the backyard, he would have changed into casual clothes. This was the first time he had seen his father in that blue men's suit.

Hmm... so handsome.

The handsome father Lin Fengqi glanced at the people below: "Bring Zhang Yuan and Qin Yaren up."

The Qin Ya people are well-known in Gusu area, and many rich families have to buy their maids through her hands. Now they are not afraid to go to court, and salute respectfully.

Lin Fengqi took out the transaction form of the dental shop: "Two years ago, your dental shop accepted quite a few little girls, didn't you?"

Qin Yaren apologized with a smile: "My lord, you are joking. In what year did our tooth shop not accept many people?"

"Then do you still remember a little girl with two symmetrical moles on her neck?"

Qin Yaren shook his head.

The little girls in her hands, unless she was able to remember those little girls who were really beautiful or who became famous later, she would forget the rest, just the bills in the dental office. .

Lin Fengqi pointed to Zhang Yuan who was kneeling beside him: "Then do you remember this person?"

Qin Yaren turned his head to look, and at the first glance, he thought it was very strange, but when Lin Fengqi asked someone to bring up a basin of water to wash Zhang Yuan's face, she felt familiar again: "I recognize it, this is our fixed offering. Merchant."

These people don’t buy people by themselves, most of them are some poor people who can’t make a living and sell their sons and daughters. These are sold directly to dental shops, and some are bought from others. People, like people like Zhang Yuan.

They are often willing to go to those poor rural areas to collect people, usually at a lower price, and they will resell them to dental shops after taking people, and then transfer the price difference between them.

There are also people who are not bought at all, but abducted. It's just that the dental rules don't care about these, and they simply accept them with a blind eye.

This Zhang Yuan usually dressed like a man when he came to their dental shop, Qin Yaren suddenly saw that he looked like a beggar and was stunned for a moment.

Lin Fengqi asked Zhang Yuan again: "You said you were just a beggar when you were locked here, what do you say now?"

Zhang Yuan blushed.

He has always known the truth of not revealing his wealth, so he usually only pretends to be a merchant, and when he is not selling people, he still pretends to be a beggar.

Who would have known that magistrate Lin would bring him a basin of water to wash his face when he tried the case today.

Seeing that he confessed, Lin Feng took out a list of entering the city and the government's population registration two years ago: "Your household registration says that you did not marry a wife, but when you entered the city two years ago, you brought a child with you. Girl, say it's your own daughter, right?"

Hearing two years ago, Tan suddenly raised his head.

Lin Fengqi said: "You brought a little girl in from outside the city, because she was abducted, you sold her to the dental shop in a hurry on the same day, and it happened to be the month of the dental shop." The girl was sold the next day, and you got a total of two taels of silver, didn't you?"

Zhang Yuan lowered his head: "Yes."

The yamen servant then handed over a ledger: "My lord, this was found in Zhang Yuan's courtyard."

Zhang Yuan has a habit. Every time he sells a person, he will keep an account in his hand. How much the buyer spent and how much the seller spent is clearly written in the account book.

Two taels of silver should have been recorded in the bill two years ago, but he only wrote one tael.

[Cabbage Tofu Brain: I don't understand it. 】

[Sweetheart: Daddy Lin handles the case carefully?I feel that it should be Zhang Yuan who was pulled out from the entry and exit records, and then found out about the dental store, but I didn't understand why he wrote one tael when he clearly sold it for two taels of silver. 】

Wang Juren was on the verge of falling.

Others don't know, but he does.

Sure enough, Lin Fengqi turned to Wang Juren in the next second: "Two years ago was when you went to the government school to take the scientific examination, didn't it?"

Wang Juren's face was pale and he couldn't speak.

But Mrs. Tan already understood. She fell to the ground and said with tears in her eyes, "Yes, my husband was going to take the imperial examination that year, but my family didn't have enough money, so I couldn't do anything after thinking about it for a few months. turnover of silver."

At that time her daughter hadn't been abducted yet, Wang Juren borrowed money, went to the government school to take the exam, and she won the exam. It was a few months after he won the exam that her daughter was abducted, so Tan never doubted over him.

Only then did Zhang Yuan know why he was arrested in the county government office.

He didn't read many books, but after staying in the business of human traffickers for a long time, he naturally knew that he should avoid the government office. He even bought other houses in the name of others, and he was always a beggar. Who knew that it would fall on the same threshold two years ago?

Human traffickers have always said that they are people who have been recruited from the countryside. In fact, if there is no shortage or waterlogging, how can there be so many people selling their sons and daughters?They all took the initiative to abduct people, so they naturally knew that it was against the law.

But Zhang Yuan had an idea, and called Qu: "My lord, this case has nothing to do with me! Wang Juren found me himself and said that he wanted to sell his daughter for money, and I didn't take the initiative to abduct her! He took a tael of silver from me at the beginning. She gave up her daughter to me!"

Wang Juren could no longer stand.

What he didn't expect was that Mrs. Tan stood up with a "huh" and slapped him backhanded.

Wang Juren's face was in burning pain. Yesterday, Zhang Yuan kicked him to the ground and broke two teeth. He didn't dare to go to the doctor's office. He slept all night, and his cheeks were swollen like steamed buns. Tan'er was slapped again, and the two cracked and crumbling teeth fell out and were slapped to the ground.

He looked at Tan Shi in disbelief.

this woman...

He is the head of the house when he is at home on weekdays, and Mrs. Tan never dared to speak loudly with him!

Tan Shi met his gaze, she was a little timid at first, but when she thought of her sold daughter by him, she became angry again, and slapped her again.

[Sweetheart: Damn, it's so cool!This kind of man should slap him to death! 】

[Speechless: It's disgusting, even selling my own daughter! 】

[Panzi: Mrs. Tan has stood up!These two slaps really made me feel refreshed!Stupid man, hurry up and leave him! 】

[A word disagreement: I laughed so hard, did you see the yamen servants on the two sides? One of them walked up to them, but he didn't stop Tan Shi and let her slap her hard on the back! 】

【Hee hee: Yamen servants probably look down on this kind of man. It’s not that they are particularly short of money and sell their daughter, and they also use the child’s abduction to deceive their wife and prevent her from reporting the crime. 】

The Yamen really looked down on him.

Lin Huan also looked down on Wang Juren.

When he memorized the "Three Character Classics", he once recited, "Filial piety is the first, and knowledge is the second." The book requires people to know filial piety, but it does not teach people how to be parents.

A pedantic idiot like Wang Juren, who is obsessed with books, guesses in his heart that all goodness and filial piety are the first, and he is right in everything he does. Even if he sells his daughter to a human trafficker, her daughter has to be grateful to him?

Mrs. Tan is a truly poor person.

She knelt down above the lobby and prostrated herself on the ground, tears streaming down her face like rain curtains: "My lord, since your lord has found out the case, you must know where my Meng'er was sold. Please, my lord!" Tell me, even if I give up everything, I still want to redeem her!"

After she finished speaking, she began to kowtow, her forehead was broken and she kept kowtow, her face was covered with blood, which was washed away by tears.

Everyone turned their heads away and couldn't bear to look at her anymore.

Lin Fengqi said: "Are you sure you want to redeem her? What if your husband sells her if you redeem her? If he sells her once, he can sell her a second time."

Tan was taken aback for a moment, and gritted his teeth for a while: "Then I'll get married and leave!"

wrong.

She stood up suddenly: "Not together! I want to divorce!"