Transmigrated into a female county magistrate during a famine, leading her country to prosperity

This kid came to provoke her, and she had originally thought of just going up and dealing with him casually, but who would have thought that his sister would come, and during the scuffle, the incident turned into a premeditated assassination of an imperial official.

This premeditated assassination could be either minor or serious.

To put it mildly, it means that he didn't even take out the murder weapon and didn't show his intention to kill: The world is in chaos, is it not okay for me to carry a dagger with me when I go out?

To put it more seriously, it is to speculate that he had this motive, but was stopped in time: He openly came to provoke the imperial official with whom he had a personal grudge, and he was carrying a weapon, and you said you didn't want to assassinate him?

After all, this kind of case is a hot potato. It depends on how the presiding official decides. It could go either way.

There were many things going on in Tongan County right now, and Shen Zheng did not want to divide her attention to guess Luo Kuangwen's intentions. Besides, the villagers had just punched and kicked each other, and they had avenged her, so Shen Zheng felt very relieved.

Luo Kuangwen is not even as good as a little toe of the people in her county.

Shen Zheng turned to look at Yu Zhengqing: "Sir..."

As soon as she started to speak, Yu Zhengqing interrupted her: "You want me to come again?"

Shen Zheng had already developed a thick skin, and was not embarrassed at all: "My Lord, you understand me."

Yu Zhengqing curled his lips and said, "Well, I have to do the good and the bad things, so don't worry about it. I will make the decision after I return to the government office."

His decision was to investigate all of the Luo family's activities and then judge them according to the law, sentencing those who deserved to be imprisoned and confiscating their property. As for today's incident, he was more inclined to believe that Luo Kuangwen had planned to assassinate an imperial official.

Although Shen Zheng's official title now is just a small county magistrate, her importance to the entire Great Zhou is self-evident. If she really suffers any loss today, not to mention him, even the emperor would probably want to chop the entire Luo family into pieces.

This matter is not something he can give a light sentence just because he wants to.

He raised his chin and said to the girl, "Take your brother back to Yonglu County. Tell Luo Shihe about what happened today and ask him to wait at home. I will look for him after I return to the government office."

Yu Zhengqing's words were extremely arrogant, and he was clearly saying: I am not afraid of you running away.

The girl nodded woodenly when she heard that. After a while, she pulled a bitter smile from the corner of her mouth.

My brother's actions today have brought the death of their entire family forward by some time.

She looked at Luo Kuangwen who was lying on the ground crying, walked up slowly, squatted beside him, reached out and touched his head, and said softly: "Kuangwen, come home with your sister."

At this time, Luo Kuangwen had already labeled himself as the "son of a bully". He felt that his life had lost its meaning, and he stood up like a walking corpse.

The pain from the wounds on his body seemed to have numb away, and he could not feel anything at all.

He lowered his head and let the girl lead him away, not daring to look up at anyone around him.

The two figures, one tall and one short, gradually walked away and disappeared into the fields.

The villagers stood there and looked at the two men's backs. One of them murmured, "The people of Yonglu County are even more miserable than we were before. The two counties are so close, but we didn't even know..."

The villager next to him sighed and patted him on the shoulder: "The county magistrate is very cruel, so the news will not reach our ears."

After saying that, he laughed again: "It is really a blessing from our ancestors that we can meet Lord Shen as the county magistrate."

......

Shen Zheng and Yu Zhengqing got on the carriage together and returned to the county government office.

She was thinking about something.

She has never been a mother, and has not even played the role of an aunt, so she is not sure whether the children's personalities are innate or acquired.

If a sapling grows one foot tall before it is discovered that it is crooked, will it be effective if human intervention is made to forcibly straighten it?

She looked at the middle-aged Yu Zhengqing in front of her, and after some hesitation, she asked, "Sir, is the child you and your wife have a boy or a girl?"

Yu Zhengqing knew that today's incident had made her pay attention to the children in the county, and replied: "My wife and I have a son and a daughter. The son is two years older than you, and the daughter is not yet of marriageable age. What's wrong?"

Shen Zheng had been thinking about how to ask, but she knew nothing about child education and didn't know which aspect was the key point, so she could only pick out some things and say them.

"You and your wife educate your children. Hmm... I don't know how to ask you. Are children's good and bad personalities innate? Or is it that... people are inherently good at birth?"

“When a person is born, his nature is good.”

Yu Zhengqing repeated this sentence softly.

He frowned slightly, then relaxed his brows after a moment and said, "I have only raised those two children, so I dare not give you a definite answer. But from my point of view, the character of a child is only partially determined by nature, and the majority is the result of what they have seen and heard during their growth."

"Take the girl in my family for example." Yu Zhengqing said this with a smile in his eyes, "She spent more time with her grandfather. When she was little, she was cute and innocent, and didn't know much about the world. But after staying with her grandfather for a few years and seeing more people and things, her little brain became active, and she was very clear when she needed to use her brain."

He smiled and turned to look at Shen Zheng, then said to her, "Nan Shu is a very smart girl. You will have a chance to meet her in the future."

Yu Zhengqing at this moment was completely different from usual, and Shen Zheng saw full of fatherly love in him.

It’s really nice to have family members who care about you and love you, Shen Zheng thought.

She nodded and asked, "What about your eldest son? How is he? Is he like you?"

"What's good about being like me? Always working against myself, not living comfortably, that's not good," said Yu Zhengqing.

"That brat is much more comfortable than me. My Yu family has been engaged in literature for generations, but he didn't want to. He insisted on learning martial arts. He went to the army for training a few years ago and made a bold statement: he wanted to become a general from a soldier."

When he talked about his eldest son, he restrained his smile and looked like he had a look of disgust, but Shen Zheng saw a trace of longing in the depths of his eyes.

He then began to refute what he had just said: "In fact, the military is not comfortable either. You should also know that the road to heaven in the military is paved with blood. Every step up is inseparable from the experience of blood."

Shen Zheng nodded, "We civil servants fight with our pens. We don't see bloodshed, and we focus on attacking the heart. Sometimes we get stabbed and it hurts, but the chance of losing our lives is smaller. In the army, one general becomes famous at the cost of thousands of lives. Millions of soldiers fight at the same time, but only a few can leave their names in history books."

Yu Zhengqing looked at her deeply and said, "That's right."

He said proudly, "I did not stop him from joining the army, nor did I discourage him. It's not because he is so good at fighting, but because he is stubborn. I cannot change his decision, nor... do not want to change it. Why not support him? This way, when he is on the battlefield, he can think about his family and cherish his life."

Shen Zheng suddenly realized that perhaps the love of parents is the best education for children.