bayedsolid Chapter 1253: Lantern Festival (4)
Chapter 1253: Lantern Festival (4)
Inspector Liang and Clerk Xia were so busy that they were exhausted and yelled at the common people.
As a result, the people were quiet for less than three seconds and continued to make noise again.
There were many yamen runners and soldiers to maintain order, but they were all villagers and neighbors, and everyone knew each other. They didn't dare to do anything to the common people.
The Lantern Festival, which was originally a happy occasion, has now caused panic among the people, who wish they could grow wings and fly out of the city gate.
Patrolman Liang shouted loudly: "Silence, silence, line up one by one, and you can leave the city after the inspection."
If the people were so obedient, there wouldn't be such a chaotic situation.
Everyone rushed forward, pushing and shoving, trying to get home a second earlier and half an hour earlier.
Sun Shan hurried over and couldn't help but widen his eyes when he saw such a "lively" scene.
Where did these people come from? How could Yuanlu County be filled with so many people?
Sun Shan had always thought that Yuanlu County had more mountains than plains, and that there were fewer people. But now it seemed that there were no fewer people, they just lived in scattered places.
Sun Shan gave Sun Dali a look, and Sun Dali understood it immediately.
He immediately called a few younger brothers to bring the "fire tank" over, immediately put up two long and tall stools, and then simply placed a door panel on it.
Gui Ge'er hurriedly took a stool and held it tightly. Sun Shan stepped on the stool and stepped on the door panel.
Due to limited conditions and my voice not being loud enough, I had to make a simple loudspeaker.
If possible, I really want to drive the crowd to the back of the stage, where there are real loudspeakers.
Sun Shan stood on top and shouted loudly: "Fellow villagers, be quiet, be quiet, be patient."
Such shouts immediately attracted the attention of the crowd.
In less than a few seconds, everyone found their magistrate standing tall not far away.
Sun Shan couldn't help but feel his scalp tingling.
I was worried that the two benches were unstable and might fall down, which would cause me to lose my authority as an official.
Secondly, it is lonely at high places. The higher you stand, the easier it is to become a target for thieves.
But the situation was urgent and there was no time to worry about so many things. I could only bite the bullet and pretend to be calm, standing straight like a thousand-year-old pine tree.
The moment the people of Yuanlu saw Sun Shan, they felt inexplicably relieved and then calmed down.
Inspector Liang and Clerk Xia also breathed a sigh of relief.
With the county magistrate around, there is a backbone.
After all, if something happens, the head of a county bears 99% of the responsibility, so their responsibility is much less.
Sun Shan coughed quietly and shouted in a sonorous voice: "Fellow villagers, thieves have entered the city today."
As soon as these words were spoken, the crowd immediately became excited and couldn't help but talk about it, and of course, they were also afraid and nervous.
Sun Shan did not give the crowd a chance to speak, and continued, "Fellow villagers, the thief has been caught by the government. Don't worry, don't be nervous."
Upon hearing that the thief had been caught, the onlookers became excited again and couldn't help talking about it. Of course, this was also accompanied by inexplicable excitement and excitement.
Sun Shan continued to not give the onlookers a chance to speak.
Then he said: "Fellow villagers, if you want to leave the city, quickly follow the instructions of the yamen runners and line up. Accept the inspection one by one. If you cooperate well, you will be able to leave the city soon."
This time, the onlookers seized the opportunity and asked many representative questions.
Onlooker A asked, "Sir, the thief has been caught, why do we need to check again? It's getting dark, we have to go back quickly."
Sun Shan looked at the bright moon in the night sky speechlessly.
You should enter the city after dark, otherwise there will be ghosts if you leave the city before dark.
However, despite such illogical words, Sun Shan still answered very patiently: "Although the thief has been captured, it is still unknown whether he has accomplices. We must check them one by one to prevent them from escaping the city by taking advantage of the situation."
When the onlookers heard that there were accomplices, they couldn't help but become scared.
A spectator asked tremblingly, "Sir, why are there accomplices? What if one of them draws a knife and attacks us while we're waiting in line?"
Sun Shan wanted to glare at this person so hard that his eyes would burst.
It's not worth mentioning. It would be better if you knew the answer to such a question that makes people panic. Why would you ask about it?
Sun Shan did not answer the question, but turned to another one: "Fellow villagers, we asked you to line up one by one to check out of the city. The main purpose is to prevent human traffickers from abducting pimps and girls and taking advantage of the situation to escape from the city. Please check whether your pimps and girls are all there."
This issue is more worthy of concern than thieves.
The parents subconsciously checked their children and breathed a sigh of relief when they found that they were being held tightly.
Sun Shan continued, “Everyone, a few years ago, there was an incident of kidnapping and selling children in Yuanlu. For the safety of all the little girls in Yuanlu, they must line up one by one to be checked.
If you delay for a quarter of an hour, maybe you can save a tooth. Folks, many of us are parents, and we must protect our little teeth and little sisters.
Everyone, please follow the instructions of the government office, divide into two teams, and line up. The more you cooperate, the faster you will leave the city."
Since Sun Shan said so, the people leaving the city had no choice but to do as he said.
Xia Dianli and Liang Xunjian quickly divided the crowd into two rows, and asked their subordinates to pull a long hemp rope to separate the crowd in the middle so that the team would not be messy.
Sun Shan still stood high on the water jar so that the people could see him first.
After waiting for a long time, Sun Shan said again: "Fellow villagers, if you have relatives in the city, it is best to stay with them and leave the city tomorrow. This is safer."
When Sun Shan said this, the people in the queue suddenly remembered that they had relatives in the city.
After all this discussion, some people actually went to live with their relatives.
The people who had no relatives panicked and asked nervously, "Sir, what should we do if we have no relatives? Will it be dangerous on the road?"
Sun Shan gave him a "reassuring" look.
But what the people saw was a ferocious-looking monster with triangular eyes hanging high in the air, and they were trembling with fear.
Sun Shan smiled charmingly and said, "Fellow villagers, if you have no relatives, just gather as a village and go back."
The people in the queue were afraid of the magistrate with a green face and fangs.
But for the sake of his life, he still mustered up the courage and asked tremblingly: "Sir, we are the only two brothers in our village who can go to the city. What should we do?"
I almost cried when I said this.
Sun Shan looked speechlessly at the two brothers who looked 80% alike. He didn't know who gave them the courage, but the two of them went into the city and then hurried back at night.
I asked the two brothers where they lived. It would have been fine if they didn't tell me, but when they did, I wanted to hit them with a stick.
It takes half a day to walk from my hometown to Yuanlu, which means it takes half a day to walk back as well.
These two brothers actually dared to rush back overnight after watching the lantern festival.
It doesn’t matter whether there are thieves or not, but aren’t you afraid that a ferocious beast may jump out on the mountain road?
The youngest of the brothers cried out, "I, I, my brother and I heard that there were lanterns in the city, so we came to join in the fun. We didn't think too much."
Onlookers: ...
Fortunately, it wasn’t one of our own. If it was, he would have been so angry that he would have vomited blood.