Li Yong, the leading police officer, said: "No, it was the lady who took the things out for us to check."
In fact, he hadn't planned to search so quickly. After all, he hadn't seen the thief. It was just that the old woman just barged in and threw out all the things, asking him to search quickly.
He only found out this morning that the old woman's son had some relationship with the county magistrate. He didn't want to offend him, so since he had already thrown the man out, he went ahead and searched for him.
But now this girl was too calm. He had caught many thieves, but no thief was as calm as her.
He was already certain that the golden bead was not stolen by this girl.
If she didn't steal it, then it would be hard to explain the things on the floor.
He was not trying to shirk responsibility, but a new county magistrate had just taken office, and it was obvious that this girl was not someone to be trifled with. His intuition told him that if she made a scene, he would definitely lose his job!
Li put her hands on her hips and said, "I threw it out! You stole something, so I threw it out for the officers to search, what's the problem? In this situation, of course we have to take them by surprise! After all, you are so cunning!"
Xing Nong nodded gently: "Just admit it!"
Li's eyelids twitched, and she straightened her back. "I dare to take responsibility for my actions! Of course I admit it! Do you dare? As the saying goes, if you steal needles when you are young, you will steal gold when you grow up! I shouldn't have indulged you in the first place! I am reporting to the police now to teach you a lesson and make you turn over a new leaf! I am teaching you how to be a good person! I hope you learn from this lesson and don't make mistakes in the future."
Xing Nong didn't even bother to look at her. She walked towards Li Yong with a freezing expression.
When Shen Mingzhu saw Xingnong's calm reaction, her heart skipped a beat. Could it be that she wasn't the one who stole the golden bead
Impossible! The restaurant owner said that a customer was indeed missing. Even if what she found was not stolen, she did not return it and used other people's money to buy so many things, which was almost the same as stealing!
Thinking of this, she felt relieved.
Xing Nong looked at Li Yong: "Let's go to the government office. Take her, her, and her with you!"
Xingnong pointed at Li, Shen Mingzhu and the maid with a fierce look in his eyes.
Everyone felt that she was angry, and very angry!
This anger makes people feel like a storm is about to come.
Li: “…”
For no apparent reason, she began to feel pain all over her body!
The fear of being dominated by the nail board resurfaced.
Shen Mingzhu: “…”
She doesn't want to go!
Li Yong said to Li and Shen Mingzhu: "Madam, Miss Shen, please come in!"
Li came to her senses and refused subconsciously: "I won't go. Why should I go? I won't go! My maid can go! She was the one who found out!"
She still feels pain from the nail holes and her butt!
Xing Nong sneered, and came in front of the three people, his eyes swept over Li, Shen Mingzhu, and the maid: "If your maid wants to go, you have to go too, you all have to go, what, are you scared?"
The maid shrank back subconsciously when Xingnong looked over.
"Who's afraid? You stole something, so long as there's a witness! My maid is the witness."
Xing Nong looked at Li Yong and pointed at the mess on the ground: "Don't blame them for these things, they don't have to go."
After saying that, she turned around neatly, shook her head, and strode away.
The wet ponytail flicked in the air, throwing out a string of water droplets that splashed onto Shen Mingzhu's face, and then hit Li's face with a "pop".
“Ah~”
"ah!"
The two of them screamed one after another.
Wherever Xingnong walked, the yamen runners and villagers made way.
Shen Mingzhu quickly took out a handkerchief to wipe her face: It's so dirty!
Li's old face was hit by Xingnong's hair, and it was burning with pain, and it turned red in an instant. She covered her face and jumped up: "Shen Xingnong, you bastard dare to hit me! I will sue you for being unfilial! Let the county magistrate beat you with a stick!"
Xing Nong didn't even turn his head: "The government office is waiting for you!"
Li: “… .”
Li was so angry that her face turned red, then blue, then blue, then white, and she almost had a myocardial infarction.
"Sir, did you see that? She hit me! Not only did she disrespect me as an elder, she also hit me!"
Li Yong was also getting impatient: "Let's go! If you don't leave, I'll have someone take the three of you away!"
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Futai County Government Office
Ren Zilin changed into his official uniform and was a little angry when he saw someone so leisurely that he even had the time to practice calligraphy.
If someone hadn't informed him that someone in the government office had reported a crime, he would have left him alone in the peach forest. "Aren't you my legal advisor? The court is in session! Let's go together!"
God knows who he came to this remote place to be a small county magistrate for.
“No.” Chu Tiankuo responded lightly without raising his head, while his hands continued to move.
The man had a handsome and dignified figure, and his slender and well-proportioned hands, with distinct joints, held the brush and painted freely on the rice paper.
The brushstrokes are as stunning as a flying dragon.
Ren Zilin took a closer look and saw a line of words written on the paper in a vigorous and elegant style. "'Staying at Jiulong Temple at night, the stars are brighter when I open the window.' Isn't this the poem you wrote when you were ten? Why did you write it? Has our Crown Prince of Chu, who is the best among the four kingdoms, run out of talent? You are actually digging out the poems you wrote as a child to write?"
Ren Zilin was deeply traumatized by being beaten by someone in his childhood, so he naturally couldn't help but make fun of it whenever he got the chance.
He naturally knew that he was not out of ideas, but after experiencing that incident, he hid himself and lost all his talent.
Chu Tiankuo ignored someone's gloating and continued to write the next two sentences as freely and elegantly as flowing water: The thin clouds play with the moon, and the vast sky allows the stars to be dense.
Finally, he put down his pen, looked down at the poem that still smelled of ink, his expression gloomy.
Overnight at Jiulong Temple.
Open the window and the stars are brighter.
The clouds play with the moon.
The sky is vast and the stars are bright.
This is a poem he wrote when he was young at the Jiulong Temple. On that trip to the Jiulong Temple, he met his master and accidentally picked up a pair of spiritual beads from his master. The master gave them to him, saying that the pair of spiritual beads were destined to be with him.
The pair of spiritual beads are the greatest treasures of heaven and earth, and only those who are destined to have them can obtain them.
He has held the spirit bead for so many years, but he still hasn't figured out how to use the golden spirit bead.
She just kept it for one night, and she actually made a pot of plants inside come alive...
"My dear Master, are you going or not?"
“I won’t say my words a second time.” Chu Tiankuo collected his thoughts, sat down, put away the poem he had just written, picked up the medical book beside him, leaned back casually on the chair, and began to read.
Ren Zilin couldn't care less about him, and walked out unwillingly, muttering, "Who is whose master?!"
Ren Zilin came to the side door of the government hall. Two yamen runners were guarding outside the door. They saluted respectfully and said, "Sir, the prisoner and the person who reported to the court are already in the hall. The complaint is on the table."
"Yeah." Ren Zilin stepped over the threshold, walked in, and saw the dark and thin girl standing in the middle.
She stood there calmly, staring at the words "a clear mirror hanging high" without blinking. She seemed to have noticed someone coming, and her eyes fell on him.
Ren Zilin turned and left.
Xing Nong: “… .”
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