bookcurios Chapter 193 The Swindler Pays Back the Money
Chapter 193 The Swindler Pays Back the Money
The next day, Yongkang County welcomed the first batch of medicinal materials, and Meng Yun quickly sent people to deliver them to the Donghu Village resettlement area.
The people of Yongkang County had been cooped up in their homes for three days, and some were getting restless. Most of them were out of food. But food in the city was ridiculously expensive and simply unaffordable.
Meng Yun thought the county government should have no shortage of grain and was about to open the granary to release the grain. However, the yamen runners came back to report that there was not a single grain of rice in the granary!
Meng Yun was furious. What was going on? He hadn't even planned to investigate this County Magistrate Yu, but this guy had already exposed himself.
The Black Armored Army was immediately ordered to search the government office and the inner house, where Magistrate Yu lived. Unexpectedly, the inner house was empty, save for a few changes of clothes and official uniforms. There wasn't even a maid or servant in the courtyard, only a cook.
When the Black Armored Army came back to report to Meng Yun, Meng Yun almost thought there was something wrong with his ears.
Upon inquiry, I learned that County Magistrate Yu's hometown was in Anyang. He was a truly poor student. His parents were both in Anyang, he had two older brothers, both married, and a large group of nieces and nephews. The whole family relied on just a dozen acres of land.
Before taking office, County Magistrate Yu was still in the capital. Because he had no money, he did not return to his hometown in Anyang, but came directly to Yongkang County to take up his post. Therefore, his wife did not come with him and remained in Anyang.
At this time, another Black Armored Army came to report that three thousand taels of silver notes were found in the study of the county government office.
Meng Yun sneered: "It seems that he is not yet warm. You continue to investigate. I want to see who his accomplices are."
At this time, County Magistrate Yu was driven out of Yongkang County, and several people became homeless vagrants.
I couldn’t go back to Yongkang County, Daxing Town was sealed off, I couldn’t enter Daxi Village, and the neighboring Chunshui Town was in chaos.
He couldn't go anywhere now. The only place he could go was Donghu Village, but as the county magistrate there, how could he live in the resettlement area with the disaster victims?
County Magistrate Yu was in regret all the time. What he regretted most was that he did not bring the three thousand taels of silver notes with him. If he had the money, he would not have fallen into such a state.
Finally, the lawyers and their companions were so cold and hungry that they suggested to County Magistrate Yu that they should stay in Dahe Village, which was the closest to Daxi Village, for a few days. Dahe Village was the closest to Daxi Village, so they would be the first to know if anything happened.
County Magistrate Yu had no choice but to go to Dahe Village. When the village chief heard that the county magistrate was coming to stay, he was flattered and quickly offered him a warm welcome.
County Magistrate Yu finally found the long-lost dignity in Dahe Village.
The village chief's family wasn't well off, and they didn't have any spare rooms. The wealthiest family in the village was the Sun family, a renowned cattle breeder with over twenty cows.
The Sun family lives in a large blue brick and tile house with three courtyards. People live in the front and there is a large yard in the back for raising cattle.
County Magistrate Yu temporarily stayed at the Sun family's house, and the Sun family treated him as a distinguished guest. They treated him to delicious food and drinks, and even rented out two guest rooms for him to stay in.
Unexpectedly, the conditions of the Sun family were not worse than his own residence in the county government office. County Magistrate Yu happily settled in. He never expected that his secret sale of grain had been exposed.
County Magistrate Yu was still thinking complacently that he didn't have to do anything and could go back to being the county magistrate after the epidemic was over.
The news that Yongkang County was out of food couldn't be spread, otherwise there would be chaos. But where could we get food now?
This made Meng Yun very worried, and he had no choice but to go to Yun Qing again.
The Mu Mansion in Zhulin has been very lively recently, and Yun Qing is about to come out of seclusion.
Mu Qingcheng was very particular about the sense of ceremony, so she had to celebrate. This was Yun Qing's rebirth. The entire shogunate was decorated with lights and colors, and everyone had a happy smile on their face.
Mo Yu takes care of Yun Qing every day, so Feng Zhishang is not needed these days. Feng Zhishang is busy with tendon splicing surgery day and night. He practices on rabbits first, and eats meat if he can't cure it.
Mrs. Chen kept trying different ways to eat rabbit, and everyone was almost sick. So Feng Zhishang switched to lamb, and Mrs. Chen used her signature dish, "Eighteen Lamb Dishes," but it still couldn't cure everyone's anorexia.
However, with Feng Zhishang's unremitting efforts, he actually found the possibility of tendon surgery. Feng Zhishang came to Mu Qingcheng with great interest and told her his experience.
Mu Qingcheng asked him to open his mind. Tendon connection surgery was just the beginning, and surgery was an inevitable result of medicine.
She gave an example. For example, if a pregnant woman is having a difficult delivery and is about to die, is it possible to cut open her belly, take out the baby, and then sew the belly back together?
Feng Zhishang felt his scalp tingle just by hearing this. This girl was definitely not an ordinary person. She could even think of such a horrifying thing.
However, what the girl said seemed to make sense. Afterwards, Feng Zhishang went crazy again, and everyone found that he had set his sights on pregnant animals again, but he didn't dare to take action.
For a moment, everyone in the Mu Mansion turned pale when talking about Feng.
Everyone kept their distance from Feng Zhishang, but revered Mu Qingcheng as a god.
Because everything Mu Qingcheng developed was eye-opening. Mu Qingcheng worked day and night on the steam engine, but the steam engine required high-quality steel.
So she had to make a furnace of steel first. A hand-cranked blower was easy to make. With the blower, she heated the furnace to refine the molten iron, removed impurities, and then refined it again until it became steel.
Steel is easy to obtain, but if you want to forge magical weapons and parts, you will need a crucible furnace in the end.
What material is the crucible furnace made of? Where can she find something that can withstand a high temperature of 2000 degrees Celsius without melting?
Mu Qingcheng felt that her brain was working too hard recently and she was afraid that she would turn into a Mediterranean.
Oh my God! What is she doing?
Didn't we agree that once we got Yun Qing's 10,000 taels of gold, we'd retire and live a peaceful life? How did it end up like this?
She wants to give up. She’s quitting! She’s quitting! She’s quitting.
Mu Qingcheng was venting her anger in the study. She wrote on more than ten sheets of paper in one breath, and each sheet had only two big words on it: "Pay back the money."
Her ten thousand taels of gold, she remembered, the IOU Yunqing wrote to her was still in the notebook, and the notebook was with Yunqing.
This means that her ten thousand taels of gold are still in Yun Qing's hands.
"Humph! Liar, liar..."
Mu Qingcheng kept muttering "liar" while writing. So, as she wrote, it became "liar, pay back the money"
Outside the study, Liu Liu stood at the door with her arms folded. She had very good hearing, so she could naturally hear her master cursing. Who was so bold as to lie to her master? Liu Liu clenched her fists until they made a crackling sound.
But she promised Mu Qingcheng not to use force at will, so she obediently served as a maid.
In reality, she had no idea what a maid was supposed to do, and no one asked her to do any work. Every day, besides following Mu Qingcheng, she would learn arithmetic. She was the dumbest student in Teacher Mu's class; even Chen Qing, Madam Chen's son, learned faster than her.
She still couldn't even recognize the Arabic numerals from one to nine. Three days had passed since the competition deadline, and she no longer dared to mention the competition, and could only obediently serve as a maid.
Yunqing's door opened, and Meng Yun followed Mo Yu out. Liu Liu saw the two of them and hurried to follow them. Mo Yu pretended not to see them, but Meng Yun recognized the girl; he still remembered the match vividly.
"Miss Liuliu, is there something wrong?"
Liu Liu raised his eyebrows, his face full of gangster spirit: "My name is Liu Liu, get rid of the girl for me."
Meng Yun didn't bother to pay attention to her and turned to leave.
Liuliu put her hands on her hips and said anxiously, "Hey! I haven't finished yet! What's your attitude?"
The two men turned around and warned her in a low voice: "Shut up, no loud noises are allowed in the inner courtyard!"
Liu Liu looked impatient. Wasn't he just afraid of scaring their sickly master?
Zijin and Zipei told her that their male master lived in the bedroom on the east side of the inner house. He was seriously poisoned and was in seclusion to detoxify. No sound could disturb him, otherwise he would be in danger.
However, for Liu Liu, she only has one master, Mu Qingcheng. As long as Mu Qingcheng is safe, no one else is a danger to her.
"I ask you, which liar dares to owe my master money? Tell me, I..."
Liuliu wanted to say that she was going to beat the liar to death, but when she thought that she couldn't use force, she became discouraged.
"I'll help the master get the money back!"
There is actually such a thing, Meng Yun: "..." He also wanted to know.
Mo Yu: "..." He knew, but he didn't dare to say it.
Liu Liu looked at the two people carefully, then grabbed Mo Yu by the collar and asked, "Tell me who it is?"
Mo Yu was caught off guard. He pushed Liu Liu away in annoyance, complaining in his heart why he always suffered at her hands.
He warned her again: "Mind your own business."
Then, he quickly left with Meng Yun.