I feel so good after dressing up as a peasant girl

Chapter 253 Bai Jingzhou's Revenge

Seeing the county magistrate's evasive gaze, County Magistrate Peng put on an expression that said, "I'm doing this for your own good," and said to the county magistrate earnestly, "Brother, it's better for us not to get involved with some people."

The county magistrate thought about his condescending attitude just now, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead. He forced a smile and said to County Magistrate Peng: "I just think that this child is young and promising, and I admire him very much."

County Magistrate Peng pretended to have forgotten the condescending words of the County Magistrate, "This kid." He nodded to show that he understood, "Then I feel relieved."

After a pause, he continued, "Before Lord Mu left, he asked me to take care of the Bai and Gu families. He admired this child and his fiancée very much, and told me that these two children are a perfect match made in heaven."

What he meant was, don't have any bad ideas about her, because her fiancée has already been recognized by Mu Hanzhi.

The county magistrate forced a smile, just as a reply to County Magistrate Peng.

County Magistrate Peng didn't mind that his smile was uglier than his cry. "Come to think of it, my good-for-nothing eldest son, second son, and youngest daughter still owe these two kids a life-saving favor."

The county magistrate was stunned and subconsciously turned to look at County Magistrate Peng.

County Magistrate Peng was not afraid to tell him the inside story.

"My eldest son was naughty. He took Lord Mu's brother into the mountains to hunt, and they almost lost their lives in the mountains. Thanks to Jingzhou and his fiancée's rescue, they were able to get out of the mountains safely."

"And my two little ones, didn't they get lost some time ago? The traffickers who abducted them were caught with the help of Jingzhou and his fiancée."

"If it weren't for them, I would have lost a total of three children."

He never took a concubine or a maid. There were only four children in his family, born to his first wife and second wife. If three of them died, it would be the end of his life.

The county magistrate was shocked but also realized that the mystery was solved. He said, how did Bai Jingzhou, a country boy, suddenly get close to Lord Mu, the emperor's close confidant and close minister? It turns out the connection is here.

There is also his immediate superior, County Magistrate Peng. The county magistrate had also heard about the incident in which his eldest son and his classmates went into the mountains to hunt, but they encountered danger in the mountains. However, because the other party finally returned safely, the county magistrate did not take it too seriously. Unexpectedly, it was Bai Jingzhou and his fiancée who saved the county magistrate's eldest son and Lord Mu's younger brother.

He glanced at Magistrate Peng and thought to himself, since the other party is your son's savior, why don't you just stand up and support him? What's the point of using Lord Mu to pressure him?

County Magistrate Peng laughed. Did he think he was stupid? Did he not know that this bastard had always been dissatisfied with him as the county magistrate and had always wanted to squeeze him out and climb up to become the county magistrate of Qingshan County?

He was a mere seventh-rank official who was kicked out of his position as county magistrate by his subordinates. He was not as important as Mu Hanzhi, the emperor's close confidant.

Since he sincerely wanted to help Bai Jingzhou solve the problem, he would of course take the opportunity to pull out Mu Hanzhi, the emperor's most popular minister, so that the county magistrate, that bastard, would completely give up the idea of ​​plotting against other people's children.

What County Magistrate Peng didn't know was that the county magistrate had behaved himself, but Bai Jingzhou, who held a grudge against the county magistrate for speaking ill of Gu Wenxuan, soon afterwards sent County Magistrate Peng a piece of evidence of the county magistrate's crimes of corruption, abuse of power, and murder.

The county magistrate had done this private murder case together with his former superior before County Magistrate Peng took office. Now his superior had died in the war, but that did not prevent Bai Jingzhou from digging it out as well, and let it, along with the county magistrate's other evidence, become one of the straws that broke the camel's back.

Thanks to him, County Magistrate Peng was finally able to kick out the annoying county magistrate with a legitimate reason.

However, this skill he showed also made County Magistrate Peng even more envious of his outstanding ability in gathering intelligence.

You know, County Magistrate Peng had long wanted to deal with the county magistrate who always made trouble for him openly or secretly by relying on his local status, but he had been struggling to find evidence to bring the other party down.

Now, Bai Jingzhou handed the knife directly into his hand, allowing him to take advantage of the situation.

Now let's talk about Bai Jingzhou. After returning home, he told Gu Wenxuan the general story, and then spent some time organizing and classifying the evidence he had collected before, and sent it anonymously to the county government. Bai Jingzhou never worried about the shameless old county magistrate again.

Together with Gu Wenxuan, he called upon Fang Youfu, Bai Jingshan and others, and gradually transported most of the grain, dried meat, dried vegetables, pickles, coarse salt, cloth, medicinal materials... in the small valley to the farm closest to Baijia Village.

They didn't plan to hoard these things forever. The next time would be the most difficult time for poor families, so Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou planned to carry out targeted poverty alleviation.

They picked out the best ones and took some home, asking their family to distribute them to relatives and neighbors with whom they were on good terms, and then gave some to Fang Youfu, Bai Jingzhou and other people who helped them with their daily chores.

As for the vast majority of the rest, Gu Wenxuan, Bai Jingzhou and the others divided 30% of it into a sack and a backpack of supplies, and secretly took it to help the poor families in the surrounding villages who were having trouble making ends meet.

These poor families are on the verge of running out of food. The young and middle-aged men and women in the families are either dead or injured, or have remarried and left. The only ones left in the families are the elderly, the weak, the disabled and the sick, who have almost no ability to survive.

Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou did not want to be seen as scapegoats by some people with ulterior motives, nor did they expect these poor families to give them anything in return, so they sent the gifts in the way that others would steal.

They delivered the packaged grain, dried meat, dried vegetables, pickles, coarse salt, and cloth at night to the homes of poor families who could not make ends meet. When the poor families woke up, they would find a full sack of grain and a backpack of other daily necessities under their windowsill without anyone noticing.

These people were reluctant to keep the more valuable dried meat, salt and cloth for their own consumption, and basically exchanged them all for cheaper food or silver that could help them out in their urgent needs.

Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou didn't care about this, or to be more precise, they had actually anticipated the other party's behavior a long time ago.

With their mysterious gift, the villagers in the surrounding villages who were struggling to make ends meet did not suddenly live a good life, but they were able to barely survive the harsh winter and wait until the next year when wild vegetables would sprout.

In addition to the 30% that was distributed at designated locations, Gu Wenxuan, Bai Jingzhou and others used the remaining 70% to support homeless orphans in villages, towns and county towns.