She ran home with her little feet.

After whispering with Lu Dashan for a while, the two men revealed fierce expressions on their faces.

“We can’t go!” Lu Dashan said.

Zhu was taken aback. If she didn't go, who would?

“Let Mother go. She’s old and is Su’s mother-in-law. No matter what she does wrong, she can say that she’s old and confused and her mind isn’t working properly. That way, Su won’t be able to settle scores later.” Lu Dashan said, then whispered a few words in Zhu’s ear.

Zhu shuddered and walked toward Old Zhu's room.

In the candlelight, the two whispered to each other.

The next morning, Su Jiaoniang was awakened by a series of knocks on the door.

I put on my clothes and opened the door.

What came into view were the menacing-looking officials who had stood in front of the stall yesterday.

An old woman followed the official, and Old Zhu, with her lips wrinkled like a chrysanthemum, uttered inhuman words: "Sir, it's her! The child you're looking for must have been hidden by her!"

As Old Madam Zhu spoke, she stared at Su Jiaoniang with a sinister gaze.

Su Jiaoniang pursed her lips; she was never one to make things difficult for the elderly or children.

But the old woman in front of me is so inhuman!

Clenching her fists, she thought about what Lu Dashan had done before. She hadn't even settled accounts with them yet, and these people still had the audacity to come looking for her. Did they think she was a pushover?

"Hand her over." The officer drew his sword, its gleaming silver blade enveloping Su Jiaoniang.

Su Jiaoniang took a step back, mentally simulating how an ordinary, innocent woman should behave in such a situation.

She trembled, her facial muscles and pink lips shaking as she cried out, "Sir, sir, I only brought some children back from human traffickers. They all live in the county town and have never seen any strange children except for those children. Sir, I'm innocent!"

She had seen the portrait yesterday and knew that these people were looking for Xiao Changsheng.

The young emperor of the State of Qi.

The children in the orphanage for the disabled are either ugly, blind, or missing limbs; their injuries are old and chronic, and they are not the kind of people these people are looking for.

Once we get through this hurdle...

Su Jiaoniang's cold gaze fell on Old Zhu Shi. Don't think that respecting the elderly and caring for the young means you can be bullied!