After hearing Yun An's words, Cheng Ruyi turned around and saw that there was another person lying in front of her eldest daughter, dressed exactly like those thugs.
"What's going on with this person?" She looked at Meng Daya beside Yun An with suspicion. Could it be that this girl knocked him down? She's definitely a reliable kid!
Unexpectedly, Meng Daya also shook her head in confusion, "Madam, I... I'm not quite sure either. He suddenly lunged at me, and I fell down before I could even react..."
Meng Daya also found it strange. How could someone fall down for no reason? How could someone like that be a hoodlum?
"I know! I know! Mommy, I know~~" Little Cheng Yunle shouted excitedly from the side, "Just now when my sister was carrying me out, a few beads from the hair ornament in my hair accidentally fell to the ground. When that person rushed over, he stepped on the beads and fell onto the water vat next to him. Mommy, look, he even broke the water vat!"
Cheng Ruyi squatted down to examine it carefully and found that there were indeed several beads on the ground, which were exactly the same as the beads on Yun An's head. Moreover, the edge of the water vat next to it was indeed chipped and there was even some bloodstains on it.
For a moment, she was speechless. Was this the legendary suicide mission? Was this thug just incredibly unlucky? Or were her two daughters incredibly lucky?
Before she could think about any of this, Jiang Dutou's voice came from the street. He must have received the news and rushed over. It was all worth it for her to give him the free spa tickets several times.
Regardless, she decided to go to the county government office. This matter had to be resolved; she really didn't want to leave a hidden danger behind and live in constant fear!
The Cheng family has changed a lot since a year ago.
Cheng Ruyi had been going in and out of the yamen quite a few times. Especially after the lantern festival incident at the beginning of the year, most people in the county yamen knew her and knew that she had an unusual relationship with the Zhou family and that she was as close as sisters with the county magistrate's wife. So they would give her some face when they saw her.
For ordinary fights and disturbances like this, Luo Xian would naturally not personally intervene. Only County Magistrate Cao would make a perfunctory appearance, and then the matter would be handed over to Registrar Peng for handling.
In theory, Magistrate Cao was the second-in-command of the county government. It should have been his responsibility to handle such matters when the magistrate was away. Meanwhile, Registrar Peng was mainly responsible for internal affairs and finances, and generally wouldn't be involved in matters like trials and arrests.
However, there are always exceptions. Registrar Peng is the most senior in the county government and has the Zhou family, the most powerful family in the county, as his backer. Therefore, Magistrate Luo, who only wants to get through this year peacefully and then be promoted to go to the capital, and Assistant Magistrate Cao, who only wants to curry favor with the magistrate so that he can go to the capital with him, will choose to turn a blind eye to these insignificant "minor matters".
Peng, the registrar, was an old acquaintance of Cheng Ruyi, and with the Zhou family's connections, he naturally sided with her.
There was hardly any need for interrogation before the bald man honestly confessed everything. In fact, the two of them didn't have any deep-seated hatred. It was just that a year ago, he went to the Cheng family to steal something but failed and was kidnapped and sent to the authorities. This incident made him lose face in front of his brothers, and even the boss began to distance himself from him, no longer letting him participate in important matters.
During this period of time, he always felt that the people around him were laughing at him, and seeing the Cheng family getting better and better, his hatred grew deeper and deeper. He always felt that if it weren't for the Cheng family, he wouldn't be living such a miserable life!
"My lord! I only brandished the knife to scare them. See, none of them are hurt! On the contrary, I... oh dear, I've been beaten until I'm spitting blood! My lord! I'm the one who suffered the most!"
The bald, big man with a full beard was lying on the ground with tears and snot all over his face, sobbing and complaining to Registrar Peng. The scene was really unpleasant to look at.
Cheng Ruyi glanced at him disdainfully and looked away. "Registration Officer Peng, he led a dozen or so thugs into our legitimate business, smashing things and breaking in without a word. I clearly heard them saying things like 'If you don't pay protection money, you'll die.' What kind of money is this so-called protection money? I only know that we need to pay taxes to the imperial court and the county government. Who are they? What right do they have to collect money? Do they think they're on the same level as the imperial court and the county government?"
The bald man broke out in a cold sweat. Such a huge pot had fallen from the sky, hitting him so hard that he was dizzy and could only kneel on the ground in a daze, his expression filled with panic.
"What a sharp-tongued and shrewish woman! How dare you slander our Green Dragon Gang!"
With a powerful roar, a man with a fierce look on his face, broad shoulders and a height of about 1.9 meters appeared at the door and walked in without any politeness.
"Boss! Waaah, boss, come save me!" When the bald man saw his boss appear, he immediately crawled over and grabbed the other's leg for help, but was kicked away.
Liu Wei looked at the bald man lying on the ground, groaning in pain, and coldly said, "Useless trash."
What? The Green Dragon Gang? Did she hear that right? What a cringeworthy name! Why do these gangsters always like to come up with such pretentious names?
Cheng Ruyi felt that this bald leader looked very uncomfortable. She focused her attention and found that there were several wisps of ominous black aura wrapped around him. This was the first time she had ever seen such an aura.
Ordinary people generally have no aura at all.
Since Ruyi began practicing the art of observing qi, she has seen only a handful of people with auras, apart from her family.
The first is Wen Jingqing, whose aura is incredibly complex and vast; even a single glance at him would cause a splitting headache. The second is Zhou Yantang, who has a faint golden light, but it is so faint that it is almost invisible unless you look closely. The last one is Guo Xiaoyu, who also has a trace of white aura, but it is also very weak; Ruyi thought she was seeing things several times.
As for their own family members, because they had been consuming foods containing spiritual energy in fixed quantities for a long time, although they couldn't retain and refine the spiritual energy within their bodies, they were still able to absorb a trace of spiritual light from it, though it was much weaker than Guo Xiaoyu's white aura.
So if she wasn't mistaken, this ominous black aura should only appear on the hands of a vicious and ruthless person who has stained their hands with a lot of blood and lives.
Cheng Ruyi couldn't help but frown. This person was no good, and she didn't want to confront him directly right now.
"So it's Vice Chief Liu, my apologies!" Chief Clerk Peng said, but he remained calmly seated in his chair, his attitude unchanged, and casually asked, "I didn't know that Vice Chief Liu had graced us with his presence. What brings you here? Is it perhaps for the person kneeling on the ground?"
Liu Wei stared at Registrar Peng for a long time before speaking, "Of course not. He's just an ordinary laborer working at our dock, and has nothing to do with me. Registrar Peng, please handle this impartially."
After hearing this, the bald man wanted to beg for mercy, but when he saw Liu Wei's eyes, he obediently shut his mouth, looking like he had bowed his head and resigned himself to his fate.
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