The crying of the child gave the yamen runner a headache. He snatched the child from the woman's arms with one hand and said fiercely: "Cry, cry, cry, you only know how to cry, I might as well strangle you to death."

"No! No, sir!" the woman begged, "Please give the child back to me. If the child is back, he will just be scared."

"Afraid?" The bailiff sneered, "You won't know fear when you're dead."

A sinister smile flashed across his face, and just as he was about to strangle the child to death, he heard a cold shout from the side: "Stop."

The bailiff's hand paused.

Shang Ruoyi walked forward, looked at the child in his arms, frowned, "The child is innocent, and the mistake he made is not his own. You are taking his life lightly."

"Who are you?" He came from another state and didn't know Shang Ruoyi, but judging from the way she was dressed, she must be rich or noble, and there was no way she could be allowed to be a fugitive.

"You only live here."

"Live here?" The bailiff looked at her suspiciously, "Can you exile the criminal?"

Shang Ruoyi nodded: "Not bad."

When the yamen runner heard this, his face was filled with anger: "How dare a fugitive question this official? He is simply seeking death." As soon as he finished speaking, he threw the child in his hands away, and the woman hurriedly hugged him in her arms.

The bailiff raised the whip in his hand again, ready to swing it at her.

Shang Ruoyi narrowed her eyes and was about to shoot the silver needle in her hand when a stone flew over and hit the bailiff in the chest.

He Jingheng was sitting in a wheelchair a few meters away.

A mouthful of blood spurted out of the mouth of the yamen runner.

He sat up from the ground with difficulty.

"You, you, you actually dared to fight with the police, you, you." He spat out a mouthful of blood: "You are simply courting death."

"You are looking for death?" Shang Ruoyi sneered: "You were hit by a flying stone and vomited blood, who can you blame?"

He wiped the blood from his lips and said angrily, "How could you throw stones at me? It's clearly a plot against you, you!"

"Haha, ambush?" Shang Ruoyi cast her eyes on the people not far away, and raised the corners of her lips slightly: "Ask them if they have seen them ambush you? Or ask the fugitive standing here, what exactly is the flying stone, or what kind of hidden weapon?"

They looked away and didn't answer. Shang Ruoyi walked up to him and whispered, "Not to mention throwing stones at you, even if I kill you, you won't be able to defend yourself."

"Who are you?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a group of yamen runners came over.

He seemed to have seen a savior, and he stood up, rolling and crawling: "Big brother! Big brother!"

The leading officer quickened his pace and walked towards this direction.

He was just about to complain loudly and wanted to make Shang Ruoyi's actions public when he saw the official walk straight past him and walk quickly towards Shang Ruoyi.

"Madam Shang." When the three words "Madam Shang" came to her lips, she changed them to "Madam Shang": "I'm sorry to have frightened you."

Shang Ruoyi blinked. Isn't this the officer Zhang Hu who was in charge of escorting them?

"Zhang Da." Shang Ruoyi smiled and said, "Why are you here?"

Zhang Hu looked at He Jingheng with a veiled look, and said with a wry smile: "Since the superiors have ordered this, I have no choice but to obey."

Shang Ruoyi smiled secretly in her heart, thinking that this must be the work of He Jingheng.

The beaten yamen runner stared in amazement at the elder man carefully replying to the woman, his eyeballs almost falling out.

"Sir, she, she..."

Before he could finish his words, Zhang Hu slapped him to the ground.

"You only know how to cause trouble for me every day." His eyes widened and he said angrily, "You don't even know how to keep your mask shiny. You dare to offend anyone."

He was shocked at that time, and when he looked at Shang Ruoyi again, his eyes were full of horror.

A fugitive actually made them bow and scrape.

With this status, he would never offend someone like him.

"Madam Shang, I was blind and didn't recognize Mount Tai. Please don't blame me."

Shang Ruoyi nodded: "You are really flexible."

"놆놆놆."

Zhang Hu stepped forward and whispered, "Madam Shang, it's the end of the year now, killing someone is unlucky."

When the yamen runner heard this, he was so frightened that he fell to his knees and said, "Sir, I will never dare to do that again. Never again."

"Forget it." Shang Ruoyi waved her hand: "How can I decide the life or death of a fugitive?"

Zhang Hu wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Why not?"

Here, life and death are at your disposal.

As long as you frown, the god will probably kill you before they can even draw their breath.

Shang Ruoyi's eyes fell on the exiles: "Why were they exiled?"

"He was the former prefect of Nanyi County." Zhang Hu pointed at the man half-kneeling on the ground. He was a little unconscious due to his serious injuries.

"There was a well-known bully in Nanyi County who robbed women. Zhao Da investigated and dealt with him according to the law. However, the bully had a strong background, so Zhao Da was found a reason to be exiled here." Zhang Hu sighed: "Zhao Da was a well-known honest official, loved by the people, but he ended up like this."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a stone even bigger than the previous one falling from a height and hitting the yamen runner on the head.

In an instant, blood spilled on the ground, and the man fainted and died.

Shang Ruoyi glanced sideways and saw Yunqi pushing He Jingheng back.

Zhang Hu smacked his lips and said to his men, "What are you looking at? He was killed by a rock rolling down the mountain, and you're not going to collect his body? Are you waiting for me to go there myself?"

Upon hearing this, the yamen runners hurriedly carried the body away, and the blood on the ground was quickly cleaned up, as if what had just happened was a wake-up call.

Mountain, where does the mountain come from?

The surrounding area is clearly flat, where are the mountains?

Knowing that their boss was talking nonsense, they had no choice but to pretend to be deaf and dumb.

Shang Ruoyi looked at those people and whispered, "Master Zhang, how are you going to deal with these prisoners?"

"We'll settle them down first." He looked at Shang Ruoyi's face, then his eyes moved to He Jingheng's back. He asked tentatively, "There's no vacant house now. Your courtyard is so big, I wonder if you can temporarily settle them in your house?"

Shang Ruoyi nodded: "Since you have such a request, I will naturally cooperate."

Zhang Hu wiped the sweat off his head and said with a smile: "In that case, I'll trouble you, Madam Shang."

Seeing this, the woman and the child knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly: "Thank you very much, thank you very much."

"No need to be so polite."

After settling down the few children, except for Zhao Da's family, the other three had been staying with Zhao's distant relatives. This time, the Zhao family raided their house and exiled them as well.

They were extremely dissatisfied with this, but they could do nothing about it.