Chapter 2373 Take the Opportunity to Strike

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Mrs. Chen panicked after hearing this and quickly begged for mercy: "Mrs. Qin, I know I made a mistake, and I will never dare to do it again... I just wanted my little brother to succeed so much that I made a mistake. Please give me another chance." , don’t make a big deal...my husband-in-law doesn’t know yet, if it makes a big fuss and he finds out, I, I’m afraid I’ll be divorced!”

Mrs. Chen covered her face and cried bitterly. She was very scared. If her man was implicated in this matter, her family would be over.

Gu Jinli said: "If someone dared to do something wrong and cry in front of me before, I would definitely not be merciful and send you to the government together. You should be sentenced as you should. But this time it involves my aunt, and it has not caused a big disaster. , just take your money back and live your life as usual."

Then he looked at Widow Xiao: "Auntie, you deliberately used your relationship with my family to make money. This is a serious crime. You must be fined one thousand taels of silver and put it into the military camp to buy food and medicine for the soldiers."

"One thousand taels? Nephew, are you crazy..." Widow Xiao was about to explode when she saw Gu Jinli glance at her coldly. She quickly suppressed her words and pretended to cry: "Nephew, my aunt knows that she is wrong. I and Chen The madam said that her little brother can’t be the manager of the pharmacy, but she doesn’t believe it and insists on giving me money... Money, you also know my aunt, if you don’t accept it, I’m afraid of committing a sin!"

"You are guilty of accepting it!" Gu Jinli was too lazy to argue with her, so he just said: "Either pay a fine of one thousand taels of silver, or go to the Yamen and surrender now and be sentenced to jail."

Now, when Widow Xiao saw that Gu Jinli was serious, she really cried: "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.

Gu Jinli smiled brightly: "Don't worry, aunt, uncle has made great contributions and will be rewarded. One thousand taels, your family can afford it... The reward hasn't come yet, so I advanced it to you. Remember to pay it back."

Can it still be like this?

Widow Xiao cried even more miserably, one thousand taels, she just lost it!

"Oh, my God!" Widow Xiao slapped her thigh and wanted to sit on the ground and cry and act, but then she remembered that she might be the general's wife. She couldn't lose her face too much, so she held it in for dear life.

Seeing that she had stopped howling, Gu Jinli took out a one hundred tael silver note and handed it to Mrs. Chen: "Mrs. Chen, this is the compensation given by my aunt to your family."

Then he turned to Widow Xiao and said, "One thousand one hundred taels, remember to pay it back!"

Widow Xiao wanted to die. The happiness of more than a month was gone, and she cried hard.

"Take it." Gu Jinli stuffed the banknote and the bag that Widow Xiao took out to Mrs. Chen, and said sternly: "Mrs. Chen, this is your first offense, so I won't take you to the county government office. If you do it again, you will be punished directly. It is a matter of military law to deal with it. Please note that it is against military law to give money to put people in workshops controlled by the military camp!"

Then he said: "There is also the suspicion of taking the opportunity to harm the reputation of my husband!"

Brother Qin has just seized military power and won a battle. If it is revealed that his relatives are using his name to collect money to do things, his reputation will be completely ruined. How will he govern the northwest in the future? !

With a plop, Mrs. Chen's face turned pale and she knelt down: "Mrs. Qin, spare your life, I, I don't mean to harm Mr. Qin Xiaohou's reputation, it's just too..."

"Mrs. Chen, the matter has already come out. Talking about this is nonsense." Gu Jinli interrupted Mrs. Chen and said: "Anyway, Mrs. Chen, please remember that if you violate military law again, you will not be let off lightly. It’s about seeing real blood!”

See, see blood?

Mrs. Chen rolled her eyes and almost fainted. She hurriedly held on for the sake of her family. She nodded like a clove of garlic and said, "Yes, yes, yes, I know I made a mistake, and I will never dare to do it again. Thank you, Mrs. Qin, for being kind, woo woo woo~"

It really scared her to death.

When she asked Widow Xiao for help with the money, she also knew that it was against military and criminal laws, but everyone in Dachu did this in private, and Widow Xiao happily accepted the money. She, she I just thought that the Qin family acquiesced in this matter, just... Now it seems that the Qin family did not know about it and did not approve of this behavior. It was Widow Xiao who was making money behind the Qin family's back!

Alas, she was only half right.

It was true that Widow Xiao was collecting money from the Qin family, but Gu Jinli knew about it early on. The reason why he didn't say anything was because he knew that after Brother Qin won the battle, many people would come to curry favor with him and give him money. People who know him ask for help. In order to avoid big trouble in the future, we might as well indulge Widow Xiao for once, then deal with it severely, and take the opportunity to say that anyone who dares to hand over money to ask for help will be punished by military law!

Seeing that she was really scared, Gu Jinli nodded and said, "Go back and live a good life. Don't do these useless things. It will only harm yourself."

He added: "With your younger brother's personality, he is very suitable to work in a pine oil workshop. He is literate and as long as he is willing to work hard, he can be promoted to a small manager after a period of time. But being in charge of a medicine shop is a no-brainer. The medicine shop is related to the lives of the soldiers at the front. If you want to be in charge of the medicine shop, you must be from the military, or have a death contract, and you must know the knowledge of medicinal materials and pharmacology. Your brother can't do it. You risk the whole family to get him one. As a drug store manager, he won’t last long and will be kicked out.”

After hearing this, Mrs. Chen cried even more miserably.

Her younger brother was a nerd, with an injured foot and a slight limp. He was a person with deficiencies in the five elements. It was difficult for him to join the yamen as a scribe. She could only desperately find a way for him, and she really ignored whether he could take it. A matter of livelihood.

"Mrs. Chen, go back." Gu Jinli asked people to send Mrs. Chen out and told him that no one who came to see Widow Xiao would be allowed to enter the house during this period.

Finally, they sent someone to the county government to tell them that in the future, such behaviors as asking for work by handing over money would be strictly dealt with. They also had people shout in the streets and alleys: "General Qin runs the army strictly, and anyone who dares to ask for help by handing over money will be punished by military law, with as little as three punishments." Ten military sticks, the most serious one is to behead him in public display!"

"It is a violation of military law to give money to ask for services. Don't do it. You will lose your head if you do it!"

They were shouting in the county town every day, and within three days, everyone knew about it. Many people who had prepared money and were looking for opportunities to stuff money to ask for help started to back down.

"Even Mr. Qin Xiaohou's aunt was fined a thousand taels of silver and beaten with twenty boards. I heard that she was crippled. If we do this again, we will definitely be beheaded. Don't do it. Don't do it. It’s done, calm down!”

Everyone was scared, but Widow Xiao was indeed beaten, but she was not lame, she just suffered some skin injuries, and in exchange for this, she had to pay back a hundred taels of silver.

As for Mrs. Chen...

The county magistrate was very kind to this daughter-in-law. After all, they had escaped together. He did not divorce her. He just scolded her and punished her to shut up and think about her mistakes until the army returned from victory.

Mrs. Chen's younger brother continues to work in the pine oil workshop, but he used to complain that the work was smelly and tiring when he came home, but now he no longer complains and works honestly.

After Gu Jinli finished this, he started to make shoes and summer clothes for the two Zaizai: "It will be summer when I see them again, so I have to make some cool clothes for them to wear."

Then he gestured to the small shoes and asked Sanqing: "Are they too small? Bring me the measuring tape."

"Yes." Sanqing hurriedly brought the two young masters' measuring ropes sent by Aunt Yu.

Gu Jinli measured it and nodded with satisfaction: "The shoes are half an inch longer than the measuring tape, so they shouldn't be too small."

Then he looked at the shoes and sighed: "My Zaizai's feet are really small."

It makes me feel pitiful to think about leaving my parents at such a young age.

But now she can only wait, wait for Brother Qin to drive the thieves out of Longshan Mansion, wait for the area to be completely cleared and safe, and then take the child over.