MTL - You Are Not In Exile, You Are Clearly Traveling!-Chapter 107 Good intentions do bad things
Chapter 107 Good intentions lead to bad deeds
In the exiled team, because there is no harassment from Captain Sun, Chen Xue and others no longer have to worry about this and that, and can also enjoy life.
Especially, because there are guards around, Mr. Chen doesn’t have to worry about someone breaking in directly, opening the car curtain and finding that they are not there.
Moreover, because Magistrate Xu sent a cart of supplies, they could eat well and openly.
Of course, wealth should not be revealed in vain.
They still chose to hide in the space and eat. Of course, the servants ate outside, so the food they ate was naturally sent by Magistrate Xu.
In fact, when Chen Xue was in the county town, she packed a lot of street snacks.
Because the space has the ability to preserve freshness, even the food you just bought will not go bad after being stored for many days, and it will still be fresh.
So she bought a lot of food.
Although I spent a lot of money, I did not lose money. Before leaving, General Pingwei and Magistrate Xu gave me a lot of money.
Master Chen refused, but what does it have to do with her, Chen Xue.
She would accept anyone who came, after all, who didn’t know that her father was “penniless”.
…
“Each person only has one bowl of porridge and one steamed bun!”
At lunch time, the yamen officer was distributing lunch to everyone. As a result, the yamen officer who was making porridge suddenly stared at the prisoner in front of him.
“You seem to have beaten me just now!”
The prisoner had a flash of panic on his face, but he still said calmly, "I didn't, I just got here."
The yamen officer stared at him firmly, "That's impossible, my memory is not that bad!"
"I really didn't." The prisoner cried sadly, "Sir, did you get it wrong? I really just came here."
“Haha!” The yamen servant sneered, “Although you have changed your clothes, you haven’t changed your shoes, and the smell on your body cannot be deceiving.”
"I…"
The prisoner's face suddenly became ugly, and then he looked at everyone and shouted, "Everyone, please help me testify. Even if these government officials don't give them food, they still frame people..."
After finishing speaking, I saw several men beside me echoing, "That is, we will ask General Pingwei and Magistrate Xu to make the decision!"
"you…"
The new yamen officer's face suddenly became very ugly, but he was different from veterans like Captain Sun. This was his first time as a yamen officer in the exile team, and his personality was not that bad.
So, when faced with this situation, although he was angry, he did not take out a whip and cursed at them, and he did not know how to deal with it for a while.
After all, they have just come here. If they don’t do well and the county magistrate or General Pingwei finds out about it, wouldn’t it be...
"what happened!"
Xu Tian noticed the movement here and hurried over. The prisoner's eyes lit up when he saw Xu Tian, and then he quickly ran over and complained to Xu Tian.
Xu Tian looked at the yamen servant, and the yamen servant hurriedly explained, "I clearly saw him and got a bowl of porridge and a steamed bun, and now he's running over again..."
"Forget it!" Xu Tian glanced at the prisoner and sighed, "That's the end of it."
A bowl of porridge, although there is a lot of rice, is still porridge and is not full. It is okay to let the prisoner eat more.
Seeing this, the prisoner quickly thanked Xu Tian and ran away quickly.
But the yamen officer frowned and came to Xu Tian's side, "Captain, if everyone is like him, then our food will not be able to last for a few days..."
"Yes." The old government servant next to him also spoke. He was the one who was in the exile team at the beginning. "The amount of food given to them is regulated. If the food is eaten, it will be difficult to replenish it!"
In fact, the imperial court did not really regulate the amount of food to be fed to the exiled prisoners, but there was a rule-based regulation, which was basically a bowl of porridge and a steamed bun.
Like Xu Tian asked them to make the rice thicker in the porridge, that’s already the case, if...
“Captain, it’s not a good thing if they eat too much. What if they start another riot?”
Xu Tian interrupted them, "What if they starve to death?"
How could they starve to death? The old yamen officer complained in his heart. In the past, the prisoners were given less food, and even the chaff and stone cakes did not starve them to death.
However, now that Xu Tian is the captain, how can he dare to disobey Xu Tian's orders.
…
After the prisoner left, the other prisoners who had agreed with him quickly followed him, and they quickly got together.
“It really works!”
The prisoner couldn't help but said excitedly that they had known Xu Tian's character for a long time, and these days they had also confirmed that the characters of other yamen servants were completely different from the previous yamen servants.
So, they can completely bully these government officials.
Furthermore, even if captain Xu Tian knew about it, he would favor them, so they changed their clothes and bought more food.
“Then let’s take turns changing our clothes and go out tomorrow. Two bowls of porridge will fill us up and we can still save two steamed buns.”
"that is."
“Let’s get some more food before these government officials are easy to bully.”
"But...I'm just worried that other prisoners will report us if they see us like this..."
“What are you afraid of!”
One man said with an indifferent expression, "In the worst case, we can bring them into the group. There are many of us and it will be a good thing for us to become stronger."
"Yes, I have discovered that as long as we unite, others will not dare to bully us, even those government officials... If they want to touch us, they must think carefully when the time comes..."
If Captain Sun was still in power, they would naturally not dare to do this, but now it is Xu Tian, and they know Xu Tian's character very well.
He has a very good attitude towards prisoners, and will prefer them as long as there is nothing special.
It's not illegal for them to take more food. Xu Tian didn't say anything, so they naturally became more courageous.
…
Xu Tian didn’t know that his momentary weakness led to a big mistake, and the prisoners also began to form gangs.
Furthermore, in order to allow the prisoners to eat better, Xu Tian also allowed them to go free. That is to say, on the way to exile, as long as they did not escape, they could enter the woods to pick wild vegetables and catch fish in the river.
Even at noon or in the evening, you can go hunting in the woods. As long as they don't run away, you can feed yourself whatever you want.
This move was of course approved by the prisoners, but it also caused trouble for the government officials.
They had to patrol the woods during lunch and evening, and then they had to do a head count every day to make sure the prisoners had not escaped.
Fortunately, General Pingwei was worried that they would not be able to control the prisoners with too few people, so he arranged more yamen for them.
One yamen officer was in charge of four or five prisoners, and there were fifty or sixty yamen officers. This was already the largest number of yamen officers in the exile team in recent years.
It’s just that the prisoners have gained freedom and their ambitions have grown. From barely enough to being full, these prisoners now plan to live a better life.
Of course, they never thought about competing with the Chen family.
Although I can’t see Chen Xue and the others eating anything good, the people in the Chen family eat better than they do.
They say it is impossible not to be envious. Without a backer, they can only rely on themselves.
As a result, many prisoners formed gangs, and when they found out that someone had hunted prey, they began to use coercion and inducement to **** their prey.
It was fine at first, but later on it even started to be deadly.
(End of this chapter)
