Spring scenery in the fields

Chapter 146: The Police Arrested Someone

"Sir, my son was deceived. He was deceived. He did not sell illegal salt. He would not do anything that could get him beheaded."

"Sir, please let my son go. He is really not that kind of person..."

He knelt on the ground, crying, his eyes full of pleading, and kowtowed to them continuously.

Lan Qiuhua stood behind them and whispered, "A three-year-old child knows that smuggling salt is punishable by death. How could his son not know that? How pitiful! An old man has to send off a young man."

Knowing that there is a tiger in the mountain, he still goes there because he is hoping for a lucky break.

The biggest mistake the people who sold illegal salt did was to bring gamblers with them.

When gamblers get too excited, they will even sell their wives and daughters, let alone their unrelated friends.

Ji Wenhe sighed helplessly in his heart. If you commit a capital crime, you must be prepared for the day when your crime will be exposed.

Looking expressionlessly at the person kneeling on the ground trying to grab his trouser leg, Li Tianba quickly took two steps back.

His tone was cold: "Your son has committed a capital crime, he can't escape, someone, go in and search him!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the three officers behind him drew their swords and rushed into the yard, searching for every place where people could hide.

Shen Dadong wanted to step forward to stop him, but was held down by Li Tianba and forced to the ground.

He raised his head with great effort, and when he was about to find his son's hiding place, he shouted loudly.

"Son, run, run!"

He just shouted, and suddenly a man jumped out from behind the firewood pile in the utility room. It was Shen Hubiao who had not been seen for a long time.

How could he, alone, deal with three officers armed with knives? He was caught on the spot and had knives held to his neck.

One of them said, "Shen Hubiao, you can't escape. Be honest, or my knife will be blind."

Shen Hubiao glanced at the big knife against his neck, and said in a trembling voice: "Sir, sir, I won't run away, I won't run away."

The crowd watching discussed quietly.

"I was wondering why I hadn't seen him for a while, and I thought he had run away, but it turns out he was hiding at home."

"Shen Dadong pretended to be quite similar. I didn't notice anything wrong."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, how pitiful! What shall we do in the future?"

"What's so pitiful about him? He knew he would be beheaded, but he still dared to go. He should have thought that this day would come."

The sound of people talking was endless.

Shen Dadong was still crying and begging for mercy to let his son go.

"Officer, please, please let my son go. He was framed and deceived!"

At this time, Shen Hubiao was crying and begging for mercy, but Li Tianba didn't listen at all and shouted coldly.

"Take people away!"

They didn't release their hold on him until they brought their people to the village entrance.

Shen Dadong struggled to get up from the ground and stumbled after him: "Son, my son."

His voice was filled with despair.

After this, I’m afraid I’ll never see you again.

Shen Zhong didn't know when he arrived. He stood aside and sighed, "Oh, why don't you do something else but sell contraband salt? How stupid."

Li Tianba walked up to him and said respectfully, "Now that Shen Hubiao has been caught, we must take him to the government office for interrogation as soon as possible. Grandpa, I will bring Liuyun back to see you next time."

"Hey, go ahead."

Then he turned around and spoke to the younger generations.

"Go and bring your Uncle Dong back."

The younger generations trotted towards the village entrance.

After Shen Zhong left, several aunts whispered behind them.

"How do you think the police knew Shen Hubiao was hiding at home? We don't know."

"Yes, as soon as he entered the village, he went straight to Shen Dadong's house without asking any questions. It was obvious that he knew Shen Hubiao was at home."

"Could it be related to the village head?"

"It's hard to say. He's his grandson-in-law. If he does something meritorious, there's a reward for him."

"Maybe it was really discovered by the village head, and he sent someone to the town to tip off the matter, so that his grandson-in-law could get credit for it."

Ji Wenhe and the other two looked at each other and left the crowd.

Shen Suya said: "Mother, sister-in-law, is what the aunts guessed true?"

"do not know."

She felt that it was most likely related to Shen Zhong. The last time the officials asked them, the news spread in the village.

Everyone else was gossiping about whether Shen Hubiao had escaped and where he had gone. Plus, they were about to plant rice in the fields, so the matter was forgotten.

The only one who could continue to pay attention to this matter was Shen Zhong. Just as the aunts guessed, catching the person would indeed be a great achievement.

Lan Qiuhua looked towards the village entrance and saw Shen Dadong slumped on the ground, surrounded by people trying to persuade him.

"Your son is gone, Shen Dadong, please don't give up."

Ji Wenhe looked at her: "Aunt Lan, are you saying that he will do something stupid?"

"I won't do anything stupid, but now that my only son is gone, I'm afraid I'll get seriously ill."

Just as she finished speaking, there was a commotion in the distance and someone said, "Go and get a doctor."

Shen Dadong fainted and a junior carried him on his back. Everyone looked worried.

"Alas, no one in the village dared to plead for them for selling illegal salt, for fear of being accused of being an accomplice."

Ji Wenhe understood that if it wasn't a very serious beheading, the villagers would not just sit there and watch, and would definitely come forward to plead for mercy.

But no one dared to plead for them in this matter.

When I got home, I turned the peppers over and continued to dry them in the sun.

After sitting in the yard and playing with nets for a while, Shen Rongshan came up with a shovel.

"Wen He, what did the official say when he went to Uncle Dong's house?"

She told him everything.

"Brother Shen, is it possible that Shen Hubiao will be given a light sentence?"

"No, he sold 500 kilograms of illegal salt and absconded. He must be sentenced to death."

Not only him, but even those who provided private salt could not escape. It depends on whether the government can find them.

Shen Rongshan washed his hands, sat beside her, and took a red string: "The officials came suddenly."

Ji Wenhe turned around and said, "You also suspect that it was the head of the village who leaked the information."

He nodded: "Yeah."

He then expressed the same guess as himself.

And the fact is exactly as they guessed.

On the other side, at Shen Zhong’s house.

In the bedroom, Qin Hehua half-closed the door and lowered her voice while looking at the door.

"Boss, Shen Hubiao has been arrested. Tianba said he will definitely be sentenced to death. Do you think we have gone too far?"

"Shen Dadong only has one precious child. Now that his son is gone, will he be so depressed that he will hang himself at home?"

When she thought about how she had harmed someone because of this incident, she felt uneasy in her heart, and she was always worried that they would become evil spirits and come to take her life.

Shen Zhong sat cross-legged on the bed, took out the fine tobacco that Li Tianba had given him, lit it, took a puff, and squinted his eyes in enjoyment.

"Too much? He committed a capital crime, and he can't escape. We just helped the police catch him earlier."

"That's true, but if he finds out, we will..."

Feeling the cold gaze coming from the side, he immediately stopped, huddled to one side, and lowered his head.