Brother Hu had injured his foot, so he definitely couldn't run away, but the shout he made just now had already alerted the enemy.
After Ji Feng handed the person over to two colleagues to take back, he sent a signal to gather the men and horses, and rushed to Chunxiang Tower at full speed.
The person who drugged the couple was Chun Xiang Lou's thug. If there was nothing wrong with Chun Xiang Lou, no one would believe it if they told others about it.
Sure enough, when he and his men arrived at Chunxianglou, many people inside were carrying their bags and preparing to escape.
Looking at the madam riding on horseback and rushing out from the back door, Jifeng exerted force and swung the knife in his hand, passing by the madam's arm and instantly taking away one of her arms.
Along with the madam's shrill screams, bright red blood, broken arms, and the madam herself fell into the snow one after another.
Jingyu walked out from behind Jifeng slowly, making two "tsk tsk" sounds and teasingly said, "Ah Feng! How can you still be so bloody? After all, I'm a woman and I'm in this line of work. How can I face people in the future if you do this?"
Ji Feng glanced at his eccentric boss with a cold expression and said, "Boss, if you're kind enough to cherish women, why don't you go and help her reattach her arm? With her sleeve covering it, no one can see. Who knows, she might be so moved that she'll marry you?"
When Jingyu thought of the madam's face, which was whiter than Bai Wuchang's, the suffocating smell of vulgar powder all over her body, and the sharp sound of the clips that could scare mosquitoes to death, she felt so disgusted that she almost vomited.
He slapped Ji Feng on the shoulder and said, "Get out of here, who are you trying to annoy?"
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Jokes aside, serious work still had to be done. Within half an hour, everyone in Chunxiang Tower, from the madam and the top prostitute to the maids and servants doing rough work, had been arrested.
Zhao Yiming personally led people to knock on the door of the county government office.
The yamen runner who came to open the door was rubbing his eyes and looked like he couldn't sleep. He originally wanted to scold the guy who disturbed his sleep, but when he saw Zhao Yiming, he was so scared that he lost his sleepiness.
"Zhao, Mr. Zhao, you, why are you visiting me so late at night?"
"It's nothing. I caught the culprit of this strange disease, so I came to borrow the county government's prison cell." Zhao Yiming said lightly.
"Ah? Who did you say you caught?" The yamen runner suspected he was still half asleep. What was he hearing? Who could have been the culprit behind this illness?
The yamen runner was still imagining things, but Zhao Yiming was already getting impatient. "Why? I can't enter this county yamen?"
The yamen runner then realized that he had actually blocked the high-ranking official from the capital at the door!
"Of course you can come in. Please come in, please come in..." The yamen runner said as he quickly made way and opened all the doors. Zhao Yiming and the people behind him entered the county government office, and then asked someone to quickly notify the county magistrate and the legal advisor.
The county magistrate, who was sleeping soundly with his concubine in his arms, was so frightened when he heard the news that Zhao Yiming was coming to the county government office that he ran out without even wearing shoes. However, he was startled by the snow outside and realized that it was inappropriate for him to go out to meet people in his disheveled state.
Then he hurried back to the house to put on his clothes, shoes and socks before coming out.
When he arrived, the lawyer was already cooperating with Zhao Yiming to detain the suspect.
This was the first time that the county magistrate had seen Zhao Yiming up close. After seeing him from afar on the city wall, he had been hiding in the county government office for fear of being infected by the people, and left all the errands to his legal advisor.
Zhao Yiming was always busy helping the common people and had never set foot in the county government office. The county magistrate was also afraid that he would always mingle with the common people and bring diseases into the county government office, so he never invited him.
The two of them had such a tacit understanding that they met for the first time today.
Zhao Yiming was easy to recognize in his official uniform. The magistrate walked towards him as he entered the front hall. "I didn't realize that Lord Zhao would visit you so late at night. I'm sorry for not welcoming you. Please don't blame me, don't blame me!"
Zhao Yiming turned around, bowed to him, and said, "I was on errands late at night and didn't inform the county magistrate in advance. How can I blame the county magistrate? Instead, I was the one who disturbed the county magistrate's rest. It's my fault. Please forgive me."
The county magistrate was ashamed. Didn't this imply that he only knew how to sleep and not how to do his work?
Fortunately, he was thick-skinned and could still say to Zhao Yiming without blushing or beating his heart: "Thank you, Lord Zhao, for being here so late at night. On behalf of the people of Mei County, I would like to thank you, Lord Zhao."
"Relieving the emperor's worries and doing practical things for the people are the duties of an official. How can I trouble the county magistrate to come and thank you? I can't accept it." Zhao Yiming said without any mercy.
No matter how thick-skinned he was, he didn't know how to respond to this. Unfortunately, the other person was someone he couldn't afford to offend, so the county magistrate could only bite the bullet and change the subject.
"May I ask who these people, Lord Zhao, are? What crimes have they committed?"
The lawyer felt that something bad was going to happen when he heard the county magistrate's words. Sure enough, before he could remedy the situation, he saw Zhao Yiming's face darken.
He sneered, "Your Excellency, County Magistrate, you've neglected your duty! Mei County is under your jurisdiction. What happened on your territory? Who did it? You don't know, yet you come to ask me?"
“Ah, this…”
Before he could say anything else, Zhao Yiming interrupted him and said, "The county magistrate has slept for half the night, so he must be in good spirits now. The prisoners in the prison are now handed over to you. These people have been killing the people and committing heinous crimes. You must keep a close eye on them. If anyone dies, gets lost, or runs away, the responsibility will all be on you, the county magistrate.
I've been busy for half the night, so I'm going back to rest."
"Then I will not keep you, Lord Zhao. Please take care and have a good rest." Upon hearing that Zhao Yiming was leaving, the county magistrate hurried to see him off.
After Zhao Yiming left, he sat down dejectedly on the stool, pulled up his sleeves and wiped the cold sweat from his head, "I'm afraid my official hat is unstable!"
After that, he stood up and walked towards the prison. "Let's go! Let's watch it ourselves. If there is any mistake again, it's probably not just the official hat that will be in jeopardy, but even the head."
It was almost dawn when Zhao Yiming returned to the slums. He lay down and slept for an hour before getting up again and heading to the county government office in the rain and wind.
After these people are arrested, they must be tried quickly. Those who need to be tortured should be tortured, and those who need to be released should be released. We cannot bring them all back to the capital.
The sooner he could figure out what was happening here, the sooner he could set off for Beijing. The day after tomorrow was Chinese New Year, and although he couldn't go back to spend the New Year with his An An, he couldn't miss the Lantern Festival.
However, if he wants to go back quickly, he will have to work harder in the next few days. If he relies on that incompetent county magistrate, he probably won't be able to go back next year. I really don't know how such a person became the county magistrate.
However, no matter how he became the county magistrate in the past, he will never be able to be the county magistrate again in the future.
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