According to the criminal law of the Tianhe Dynasty, Hu Laowen and several other people responsible for trafficking were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 20 to 30 years; Zhu Thuan, who had more than a dozen lives on his hands, was sentenced to be executed by the Queen of Autumn.

Of the thirteen little girls rescued from Zhu's mansion, eight were abducted and five were sold to traffickers by their parents and then bought home by Villain Zhu.

Of the eight abducted little girls, five were picked up by their parents and relatives and reunited as a family. The remaining three were sent back by police officers without anyone coming to pick them up. Unexpectedly, their parents and relatives did not want to recognize each other at all and only said:

Their daughter had already died of illness, and the person in front of them was not their daughter.

These three little girls, who finally escaped and thought they could finally go home, were abandoned by their loved ones.

Although he could force these unscrupulous parents to take their daughters home, the magistrate of Le'an County knew that they would not treat them well, so he took the initiative to place them in a charity hall in the county along with five other little girls who had regained their freedom.

The Shantang was established two years ago by a large family in the city who raised funds. It mainly takes in orphans without fathers and mothers and the elderly who have no one to support them. It is not good to live in the Shantang, but at least you will not starve or freeze, which is great.

's shelter.

The most regrettable thing is that of the five little girls abducted by Hu Laowen in the past ten years, only the one abducted the year before last was successfully recovered. The remaining four were so old that Zhu Thuan himself did not remember that they were abducted.

After being tortured to death and still not liking it, he was sold.

This is another heavy blow to the group of people who are eager to find the whereabouts of their daughter. In this era, it is as difficult as climbing to the sky to know whether the daughter is alive or dead and where she is.

This kidnapping case involved too many people and resulted in a lot of lives. It became a hot topic in the entire county throughout February. It was only because of God's retribution that Zhu Thuan and others got the punishment they deserved.

From the fall of the Zhu family in the capital to the execution of Mr. Zhu by Queen Qiu, everything happened so smoothly and coincidentally that it was hard for Mr. Qin not to suspect that Jing Heng had intervened. However, Jing Heng did not take the initiative to mention it, and he did not ask any more questions.

On the edge of Qinghu Lake, Meingya swung his short tail and leisurely nibbled on the tips of fresh grass; not far away, Rhubarb took off his large cotton-padded jacket, revealing a body of oily and smooth hair, and pawed at the soft earth, shouting excitedly.

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Wherever they are, Qin Xiaoxiao will naturally not be missing. At this time, she is sitting on the pony, holding a small fishing rod in her hand, and is facing Jingheng, who is less than a foot away from her.

Tournament fishing.

Sanbao sat obediently on the other side of her, using a dead branch to tease a fresh crucian carp with a tail as big as a palm in the bucket.

"Brother Li, there is a word for carp in your name. Carp is a fish. Why can't you catch one?" Qin Xiaoxiao looked at the bucket between the two of them with only water but no fish, and wondered to Jing Heng.

And sympathy.

"Shut up, don't talk!" Jing Heng's face became serious and he stared at the lake, as if he had a grudge against Qinghu: "You must be too noisy and you scared away my fish!"

Qin Xiaoxiao pouted, and just as she was about to retort, the small fishing rod in her hand sank, and she cheered loudly: "I'm hooked again, there are many fish in the water!"

Jing Heng sat there for half an hour without even seeing a single fish scale. He watched helplessly as the little girl closed the fishing pole with the help of a stone. Sure enough, there was another live big crucian carp hanging on the hook.

Seeing that his young master's face turned darker, he poked Dabu with scissors and whispered: "Young master, too, it's not like he doesn't know that he is not a fisherman, so he followed Miss Xiaoxiao's suggestion and went to the lake to fish.

I lost all my money."

Dabu asked him not to say anything so as not to be overheard by his young master, but he couldn't help but said: "Young master couldn't bear to laugh at the girl's disappointment, so he agreed. He probably thought that there were many fish in Qinghu Lake, and some ones without eyes might hit him.

Even if you think about it, you still can’t catch it.”

Scissors touched his chin and suddenly thought: "Young master doesn't like fish, but he likes to eat fish and raise koi. Do you think the master was born to a cat?"

Dabu was speechless: "According to your guess, Miss Xiaoxiao is afraid of cats, but cats like her, so is Miss Xiaoxiao born by a fish or a mouse?"

Scissor's eyes lit up, he slapped his thigh fiercely and said, "Yes, doesn't this just mean that the young master is a cat caretaker, so he bought the girl Xiaoxiao as soon as he saw her? Fish are stupid without brains.

That thing, looking at the clever girl Xiaoxiao, must be a mouse."

Da Bu: "..." Do you dare to say this to the young master? Do you believe that the young master asked you to jump down and feed the fish?

The two young ones didn't hear the mutterings of Scissors and Dabu. Qin Xiaoxiao looked at the half bucket of crucian carp he had caught, and then looked at Jing Heng with a sullen face, then put down the fishing rod, picked up the pony and ran away.

He walked over and said, “Brother Li, let’s fish together!”

After saying that, she placed the little horse and Jingheng's little horse next to each other, sitting next to Jingheng, staring at the lake, hoping that brother Li could catch a big fish, she didn't want brother Li to cry.

nose.

Jingheng didn't know what the little girl was thinking. He thought she was tired of fishing, so his expression softened: "Go back, you caught enough fish to eat."

Qin Xiaoxiao shook his head: "If I don't go back, I'll wait until Brother Li catches a fish before going back."

Jing Heng slowly put away the fishing rod: "I won't fish anymore. I won't be able to catch anything anyway."

Qin Xiaoxiao didn't believe it and shook his arm coquettishly: "No, I will definitely catch a big fish. I want to eat a big fish head and a big fish eye. Brother Li will catch a big fish for me."

Can I eat well?”

Jingheng was so entangled by her that he had no choice but to throw the fishhook back into the lake, and said in a ferocious tone: "If I can't catch a big fish, I'll put you in the lake and catch you as a big fish!"

Qin Xiaoxiao was no longer afraid of him and said with a smile: "Brother Li doesn't know how to catch a big fish. Brother Li must be too stupid if he can't catch a big fish!"

Jing Heng raised his hand and pinched her little face: "If you get brave enough, you'll even curse others."

"No~" Qin Xiaoxiao pretended to cry, her big watery eyes brighter than the surface of the lake under the sun: "Brother Li scared me first and wanted to put me in the lake!"

Even though he knew that the little girl was pretending to cry, Jing Heng immediately let go of his hand and rubbed her face with the back of his hand: "No pretending to cry, no acting coquettishly!"

Qin Xiaoxiao returned to normal instantly and patted Jingheng's shoulder solemnly: "Brother Li, you have to catch big fish well. If you can't catch big fish, then Brother Li is stupid. Then I will call you Brother Stupid from now on."

"No!" Jing Heng knew that he couldn't catch a big fish, so he was determined not to use this unpleasant name. He glared at Qin Xiaoxiao fiercely: "You dare to call me a try and see how I deal with you!"

When Qin Xiaoxiao heard this, he became curious: "How will you deal with it?"

Jing Heng was at a loss for words. He was just talking and had never thought about this problem. However, he would not admit it in front of Qin Xiaoxiao. Suddenly, he thought of a good idea: "While you are resting for a while, put the cat in your mouth."

Under the quilt, let it sleep with you!"

"No shouting, no shouting, I won't shout!" Qin Xiaoxiao was startled, holding Jingheng's arms with her two little paws, afraid that he would really get a cat to deal with her.

Those cats were too aggressive, and when they saw Brother Li, they were too frightened to pester her. But when Brother Li was not around, they would follow her secretly, and only Dahuang and Biemechu would chase her away.

Jingheng's dimples were looming, and he rubbed her head: "Be good and don't yell, and no cats will get under the quilt."

Qin Xiaoxiao nodded hurriedly, not daring to say the words "stupid brother" anymore.

Next, Qin Xiaoxiao concentrated on waiting for Jingheng to catch the big fish. But her buttocks were almost numb from waiting. She didn't even see a small shrimp, let alone a big fish.

Jing Heng already knew this would be the result. He asked Rock, Paper, Scissors to put away the fishing rods, buckets and other items, and then took Qin Xiaoxiao's hand and walked towards Qin's house.

"Why can't I catch a fish? Why can't I catch a fish..." Qin Xiaoxiao muttered in a low voice and kept looking back at the lake. It was obviously just a lake, but how could she catch so many fish and carps?

My brother can't catch even one?

The Qin family were not surprised when they saw the big crucian carp in the bucket. They learned that these fish were caught by Qin Xiaoxiao, and that Jingheng didn’t catch a single fish scale. They secretly wondered: This shouldn’t be the case. Xiaoxiao was here, how could it be possible?

Can't catch fish? Is it possible that Mr. Jing is so unlucky that even Xiaoxiao's good fortune is useless?

Thinking of this possibility, the Qin family sympathized with Jing Heng for a moment. But when they thought of Jing Heng's background, they wanted to slap him in the face so that he could wake up: Even if Mr. Jing is unlucky and cannot catch fish, there are still many people who can catch the fattest fish.

Does he deserve your sympathy in front of him?

At noon, Lin Qiuniang was about to make lunch. Seeing that Jing Heng and his party didn't leave, she cooked for four more people, burned all the half a bucket of crucian carp, took four or five fish and made a big pot of crucian carp soup, and the rest was

Fried.

When the meal started, Jing Heng did stay. What he drank the most was crucian carp soup, and what he served with the meal was fried crucian carp.

Only then did the Qin family know that Jingheng's favorite food was fish, but he did not eat carp or koi.

After the meal, Jingheng held Qin Xiaoxiao's hand and ate in the yard. After Qin Xiaoxiao went to bed to take a rest, he returned to Huaqingyuan with Rock Paper Scissors.

After getting off the boat, as soon as the group of people walked to the gate of the Villa, they saw a short, thin, lame old man in shabby clothes wandering there, looking into the Villa from time to time, as if he was waiting for someone.

The old man also saw Jing Heng and the other four, and when he saw that they were dressed in extraordinary clothes, he subconsciously hid to the side. But he seemed to have thought of something, hesitated for a moment, then walked out slowly, bowed and shrank forward.

"What are you doing?" Rock, Paper, Scissors wouldn't let someone of unknown origin get close to his young master, so he stepped forward to stop the old man before he could get close.

The old man was startled, limped back two steps, stood not far away, and replied tremblingly: "Masters, are you from this villa? Can you take me in to see Master Sun?"

Mr. Sun, Rock Paper Scissors looked at each other and shook their heads in unison.

This villa was built by the family more than ten years ago. Due to some reasons, the two masters have never lived there. Even the young master returned to the capital a few years ago and told the eldest master that he wanted to build a courtyard in Qinghu.

Huaqingyuan was built by the master himself.
Chapter completed!