Chapter 517 Indiscriminate Attack

The First Madam was shocked and exclaimed, "What are you doing?"

Shu Yu lunged at her and pinched her, "What am I doing? I'm going to kill you. Aren't you very powerful? Aren't you the matriarch of the Shu family? Didn't you always say that you treat your stepdaughters very well and take good care of them? Then why didn't you step in when Aunt Xue hit me? Why did you help her punish me? You're an accomplice too, no, you're all the masterminds. I'll kill you all..."

The First Madam screamed, struggling but unable to break free. Her strength was no match for Shu Yu's, and she soon found herself unable to breathe.

The officers came to arrest people again, and this time they got angry. "It's happening again and again, isn't it?"

The head officer gave Shu Yu a cold look, pulled him aside, and said, "You better behave yourself and walk this way."

Shu Yu was still furious. Although she had separated Shu Yu from her family, it had little effect.

She seemed to have been severely provoked by Aunt Xue, and now she hated everyone in the Shu family, ready to take action at any opportunity.

In the past, the officials would not care who it was and would just start beating people.

But Shu Yu still has over a hundred taels of silver in Dong'an Prefecture. For the sake of money, she has to endure it.

A few days ago, they sent someone back to dig two places. Last night, the person sent word back that they had indeed dug up twenty taels of silver.

Now the officials were even more unwilling to miss out on the remaining silver.

However, Shu Yu's antics were clearly not over yet. When they arrived at the inn that evening, no one wanted to share a room with her.

What if she suddenly goes crazy in the middle of the night and strangles them to death?

The officials were also worried. Although it was quite normal for prisoners to die on the way to exile, when they arrived at their destination, they had to specify the cause of death in their official documents to the local government. If the cause of death turned out to be strangulation by the same prisoner who had safely arrived at the place of exile, then their job was over.

Since the Shu family didn't want to share a room with Shu Yu, they simply decided to have them all squeeze together.

The Shu family preferred to squeeze together; Shu Yu was too terrifying.

After settling the Shu family in, the officers gathered together and said, “This can’t go on. The third young lady of the Shu family has suffered a lot of trauma. She’s biting anyone she can get her hands on. If we have to go and break up fights every day, we’ll be exhausted.”

"Why don't we just fight for a while? If she gets scared, she won't dare to do it again."

"No, if we hit her, what if she holds a grudge against us and doesn't tell us where we buried the silver when we get to the southwest? Wouldn't all the care we've given her these past few days have been for nothing?"

Other officials: It wasn't a waste of time to take care of her, after all, she did give her fifteen taels of silver.

However, they really didn't want to lose the other one.

“We really can’t hit her. Didn’t you hear what she said today? She’s been beaten since she was a child in the Shu family. If we hit her, what if it stirs up even deeper hatred in her heart? Wouldn’t that cause her a huge uproar?”

The group sighed. Some suggested using force, while others suggested reasoning and appeasing them. Everyone had their own ideas, and they almost started arguing.

Halfway through the argument, the officers realized that the lead officer hadn't said a word the whole time.

The group exchanged bewildered glances, and after a long pause, someone finally asked, "Boss, what are you thinking?"

The lead officer wiped his face. "We can't hit her, and we can't let her be tied to the Shu family. Even if we walk alone behind her, there's no guarantee she won't pounce on us. We'd also have to split up our own men to keep an eye on her. It's not worth it."

(End of this chapter)