0p0 Chapter 170 Stay One More Night
Chapter 170 Stay One More Night
"You are such a rude person! I have checked all the boxes. Nothing is missing from any of them. The number of boxes matches. You are the main culprit. You dare to make false accusations without any remorse. Come on, block his mouth and tie his legs."
Su He secretly thought that it was a close call that he didn't save trouble by putting the boxes into the space. Otherwise, the number would not match.
"Sir, we just moved the boxes out of the cellar. We were planning to find someone to report to the police. I heard that the properties of these wealthy gentry are all registered, so we dare not touch them."
Master Wu looked at Su He approvingly, "You did a good job. You were indeed implicated innocently this time. Now we, the government, will take over. You should go back to your room first."
This means to avoid suspicion and leave the venue to their yamen runners.
Su He nodded obediently and took Liu Bai back to the house.
"Sir, this Su Hehua must have secretly given the banknotes to her family. Sir, search everyone in the room."
"Shut up, why haven't you gagged him yet? Come, tie him up again and lock him in the woodshed. If he dares to scream again, knock him out."
At this moment, Master Wu was extremely disgusted with Ling Da and ignored him completely.
The four yamen runners nearby dragged the man away. Both of Ling Da's shoes fell off during his struggle. Except for his mother, who had a trace of heartache in her eyes, no one paid any attention to him.
Except for Ling Da, the rest of the Ling family was temporarily locked up together. Ling Da's wife kept her head down and held her son in her arms, sitting farthest from Ling Da. Fortunately, Ling Da couldn't speak or move, so the two sides were at peace for the time being.
At this moment, everyone from the back mountain has returned.
The leader, Zhao Da, came first to report, "Master, the bodies of the landlord's family have all been found, and there are still thirteen people from the escort agency alive, but they are all injured, and three have fainted."
Zheng Da and his group came back carrying their injured brothers. Su He quickly asked Zhou to find the medicine bags they had stored and boil the medicine.
"Captain Zheng, we still have a few bottles of ointment here. You can use them on the injured first. I'll get them right away."
Su He quickly ran to the carriage to search for it, then ran back and handed it to Zheng Da.
"Lotus, thank you. I'll give you the silver later."
Zheng Dahong took the five bottles of ointment and asked his brothers to help apply the ointment.
Soon, the three bottles were empty and the fourth bottle was almost finished.
"We have some medicine for treating typhoid fever here. My aunt is already boiling it. Let your brothers in the escort agency drink it before returning to Su'an."
Zheng Da breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that his injured companions had all been given medicine, but then sadness filled his chest again.
"There are only 40 of us left out of 14 brothers. It was Zheng Li who first discovered something was wrong and didn't drink the drug Ling Da gave him. Then he ran back to report the case when no one was paying attention."
"Our chief escort is gone too."
Zheng Er and others around were wiping their tears. Almost all of them were brought out by the chief escort. A few days ago, they were smiling and seeing the chief escort off to Yunhe, and they agreed to drink together in Yunhe in the future.
In just seven days, everything has changed.
Su He's family also sighed in the house, "This tells us something. Even if we live in the village permanently, we still need to remain vigilant. People's hearts are hard to predict."
Master Wu outside was arranging people to deal with the corpses of the landlord's family, and Wang Laowu volunteered again.
"Haha, sir, if you need my help, just let me know. We are idle anyway."
Zhao Da was quite happy. Who would like to come into contact with the dead for no reason?
"Okay, I'll leave it to you. Burn the ashes and bury them here. We'll take the Ling family and leave first. The lightly injured people from the escort agency will follow. The seriously injured ones are not easy to move, so they can only wait for us to send a doctor back."
When Su He heard this, he knew they were asked to take care of the child, but they still had to hurry on their way.
"Captain Zhao, do we have to help take care of him for one night?"
"Yes, the three unconscious people from the escort agency can only stay here for now. Don't be afraid, this village is safe. The murderer is the village chief and his family, and no one else knows about it."
Su He was a little hesitant, not because she was unwilling, but because she was worried that the seriously injured ones would not be able to wait until tomorrow. What they had stockpiled were ordinary typhoid medicines.
"Captain Zhao, how about this? We'll send two carriages and take these seriously injured escorts back to the city to lie down and see a doctor as soon as possible. We'll help take care of the rest for one night."
Zhao Da didn't need to worry about these things. He was quite easy to talk to at the moment. "Okay, I'll tell the master later. I'll leave this to you."
Su He quickly agreed, "Yes, thank you, Captain Zhao."
Lawyer Wu arranged for people to pack up the landlord's property and bring it back to the yamen. The landlord's family was gone, so these things were confiscated by default.
Master Wu ordered his men to tie up the hands and feet of all the members of the Ling family and stuff them into the carriage. After the landlord's property was loaded onto the cart, he and his men could not wait to return to the city.
Zheng Er drove the carriage with the six most seriously injured following behind. They had to go back quickly to find a doctor.
As soon as the people from the yamen left, everyone felt relieved.
Zhou boiled a big pot of medicine and asked everyone who caught a cold to drink a bowl of it.
"Everyone eat first, then work. We'll stay here tonight."
The women in the family set up three large pots to cook lunch, which included steamed buns, rice porridge, and pickles bought by Su An. Everyone ate with relish.
After eating, they started to work. The original activity after lunch was to divide the money, but it was forced to be postponed because of Wang Laowu.
It was mentioned earlier that Wang Laowu volunteered to take care of the landlord's family's funeral, and Master Wu's request was to cremate the bones and bury the ashes.
Wang Laowu asked his brother, son and nephews to do this work together. They did not cut corners. However, before the cremation, Wang Laowu took people to search the landlord's family.
The search was really shocking. The landlord alone had 10,000 taels of silver. Add to that the silver from the concubines and their children, and the total was 21,200 taels of silver. Wang Laowu originally wanted to take the other person's clothes, but he was scolded by his grandfather and stopped.
After Wang Laowu and his family helped with the cremation of the landlord's family, they were arranged to wash their hands and take a bath with Xiang Yizi in the house.
The bodies of the constables were not cremated yet, and were all placed in a cave in the back mountain. Zheng Da led his men to provide protection, waiting for the families of the escorts to come and take them away tomorrow.
Everyone kept boiling water that day, and everyone washed the dishes carefully. Most of the firewood stored by the Ling family for the winter was used up. Su He directly gave one or two taels of silver to their next-door neighbors and asked them to fill up the firewood.
Ling Da is definitely destined to be beheaded, but the women of the Ling family might come back to live with him, and Su He doesn't want to take advantage of this.
Everyone was busy until after dinner, when they gathered together to divide the money.
First, Su He took out the three thousand taels of silver and two gold bars that she had kept.
This is a number that everyone knows. In addition, Su He took out eighteen gold bars and placed them in the middle, preparing to distribute them to everyone later.
This time everyone cooperated well, so all the silver they found was put together and divided equally.
Behind Su He was Wang Laowu, who proudly took out a stack of banknotes.
"Look, who among you has ever seen so much silver?"
Just as everyone was about to make a noise, a small hand slammed the table.
"I have it too!"
Miaomiao took out three thousand taels of silver.
Everyone was stunned.