Farmhouse Green Plum

Chapter 134 Wanted Order

Song Ying looked carefully and found that not only one portrait was familiar, but three of them were very familiar!

They were the same group of people who were drinking in the restaurant that day and later followed them.

And on this wooden board is a wanted poster!

She was shocked and read the three worn-out wanted posters from beginning to end. It said that these three people were in the southwestern frontier and had killed the entire family of the magistrate of Ping'e County!

Song Ying felt a chill on his back. Those three people actually dared to kill an official appointed by the imperial court! And they even wiped out the entire family!

There were many county magistrates whose families were ruined, but this was the first time she heard of a county magistrate whose entire family was wiped out!

As soon as he got home, Song Ying used the excuse of going to the toilet to relieve himself, climbed out of the window at the back of the toilet, and ran to find Luo Yanxing.

"What? Those three are wanted criminals?!" Luo Yanxing almost bit off his tongue, totally unable to believe what he heard. "Did you make a mistake? Those three were eating and drinking in the restaurant openly. Shouldn't wanted criminals hide?"

"I swear I didn't make a mistake. I recognize all the commonly used characters, and there are no rare characters on it, so I can't make a mistake!" Song Ying's teeth were trembling, "The man with a square face who looks like the eldest among them is named Wu Guangyao, and he is from Ping'e County;

The bearded man who followed us was called Ren Honggui, also from Ping'e County; and the man with a gentle look, like a scholar, was from Linping County, and his name was Tang Tingbin.

Well, Linping County and Ping'e County are adjacent to each other, and they should both belong to Mengding Prefecture. The wanted notice has the seal of Mengding Prefecture on it."

"Linping County? Why does the name of this county sound so familiar?" Luo Yanxing scratched his head, unable to remember where he had heard the name of this county.

"My fourth grandfather was stationed near Linping County, and my fourth grandmother was from Linping County."

"Oh, I was wondering why it sounds so familiar! It's very far away from here!" They heard that those who were conscripted from Xinghua Village went to Linping County. When they were young, they heard many elderly people in the village talk about the poverty and hardship there.

Grandpa Song Ying especially liked to talk about how long the journey was, and how he couldn't remember how many mountains he had climbed or how many rivers he had crossed. He only remembered that he wore out seven or eight pairs of straw sandals along the way, and that he walked from autumn to winter before finally arriving in Linping.

Song Ying thought for a moment and said, "Perhaps it is because we are so far away from Linping that those three thieves dare to drink and eat meat in the restaurant so brazenly.

Generally speaking, people think they are still in Southern Yunnan Province. Even if someone has seen the wanted poster, they would not think of it as being on the wanted poster. After all, who would have thought they would have fled to our Jinchuan Province!"

Moreover, ordinary people seldom go to Shenmingting when they have nothing to do. Most of those who are literate and often visit it live in East Street, and the restaurant they ate at that day is in Zhuangyuanfang, which is east of East Street and west of it.

Hey, wait, why did the gentle-looking Tang Tingbin go to the bookstore on East Street that day? Wasn’t he afraid of being recognized?

Luo Yanxing thought it made sense, and then he panicked: "What should we do now? Qingshui County is not very big, and they may live in West Street. What should we do if we run into them?"

In the past, they thought that the three men were either beggars who wanted to capture and sell them, or robbers who wanted to rob them of their money. Even if they encountered them, their lives would most likely not be in danger.

They were already very scared, but they didn't expect that the three people were actually murderers! And murderers who dared to kill the entire family of the imperial officials!

If I encounter this, I will pull out my knife and stab them to death!

"Oh my god, may our ancestors bless us. Fortunately, we are harvesting wheat during this period and no one has gone to the city. We must quickly tell Xiaoxiang and the others that they must not go to the city!"

Song Ying nodded in agreement: "I ran away secretly. Find a chance to tell Xiaoxiang and the others, especially Sister Xiaocui, that they must not go to the city unless necessary. If they must go, they must be very careful and must not be seen by those three people!

Meiyue and Nanxing sisters, I will see if I can find another opportunity tonight to go to the village chief’s house and tell them.”

The village chief's house is on the road not far from the entrance to the village, closer to the Song family. Most of the other girls' families are in the northeast of the village. Even if they are not there, there are girls' families nearby. It is more convenient and more secretive for them to tell each other.

Then, Song Ying hurried home, returned the same way, and climbed in through the window behind the toilet.

At night, she lay in bed, tossing and turning, unable to sleep. Even if they were willing to give up collecting herbs and selling them for money, it was impossible for them to never go to the city.

The west side of the city is so small, it’s easy to run into one, and that would be the end of you.

Besides, there is a saying that one can steal for a thousand days but never be on guard against thieves for a thousand days. We still have to report to the authorities. Only when the government arrests those three people can we have no worries!

But how do you report this to the authorities? Should you just go to the county government office and talk to someone?

No, no, no, what if I am convicted of disrupting the court and have to be beaten with a stick first?

No one in the village has experience in this area. When people have problems, they go to the village chief to solve them. If the village chief can't solve the problem, they ask the neighborhood chief to come.

But if we tell the village chief, how can we explain that the three of them went to the county town and had money to eat out?

Moreover, the magistrate Hu in the county government is so ridiculous that he even rewarded Aunt Liu San and her husband for selling their daughter for money. He is not trustworthy at first glance.

Suddenly, she thought of Wu Tixue. He was a high-ranking official of the fourth rank. County Magistrate Hu always accompanied him when he went to the countryside. If she told him, those three people would definitely be caught!

Well, Yuan Qing knows Wu Tixue very well, maybe he knows where he lives.

The next day, Song Ying got up early and saw that Yang had not gotten up yet, so he ran to the kitchen to boil water.

Yang was startled when she saw the kitchen, thinking that there was a thief in the house. When she saw that it was her, she was surprised: "Why are you up so early?"

Children are very sleepy, so Song Ying used to sleep until the middle of the morning.

"I had a nightmare and woke up. I couldn't fall asleep, so I got up." As he said this, Song Ying patted his chest. Those three people were much more terrifying than a nightmare.

Yang looked at her carefully and found that her eyes were blue, so she asked, "You woke up in the middle of the night? It was just a dream, you were so scared. Remember, dreams are the opposite of what they actually are."

As she spoke, she took out the key, opened the cupboard, took out the rice and poured it into the pot, then bent down and fished out the pickles from the jar.

When the meal was almost ready, Song Ying called Song Yuan to get up. Song Yuan never got enough sleep on school days, and today he got up a little earlier than usual, so he was even more reluctant to get up.

If it were usual, Song Ying would have let him go, but today she was in a hurry to go to Wutong Village, so she lifted his quilt without hesitation, pulled him up, and dragged him to eat without even opening his eyes.

When she arrived at the community school, she looked inside and found that Yuan Qing was not there, although he was always the first one to arrive at the community school.