Qin Wanqing and Su Lingwei couldn't help but cover their mouths and giggle, their eyes full of satisfaction.
Lu's mother was carried on his shoulders, feeling both ashamed and afraid, but could only cry out for help.
But no one was willing to help her; she brought this upon herself. After getting up, Lu Jin pointed at Shen Qingtang and cursed, "You're so vicious! You could have saved my mother, but you just watched her being bullied!"
Shen Qingtang made a face at him, her tone full of sarcasm: "Me, vicious? When the Northern Desert people carried her away, why didn't you go to save her? You're incompetent, yet you blame me for not helping?"
Those people from the Northern Desert seemed to be controlled by some force, and their embrace of Lu's mother became increasingly excessive.
When Lu's mother was exhausted, her body was covered in bruises, her hair was disheveled, and even her gauze dress was torn in several places.
When one is in a terrible state.
Shen Qingtang finally made her move. She took out a repeating crossbow from her spatial storage and shot down several Northern Desert people with a few "whoosh" sounds. Before the remaining people could react, Shen Qingtang teleported behind them and slit their throats with a single blow.
After all the people of the Northern Desert died, Lu Jin immediately rushed over and hugged his mother.
Seeing her miserable state, his eyes were red, but he couldn't say a word.
Old Master Shen sighed, shook his head, and said, "The world is going to the dogs."
The others nodded in agreement; no one sympathized with Lu's mother.
At this moment, the junior officer who had gone to fetch reinforcements finally returned.
Panting, he said, "My lord! The magistrate of Qinghe County said... that the Northern Desert people are too fierce, and they are unwilling to send troops. They also said that we are an exiled force, and there is no need to waste our strength..."
"It's all your fault!" Lu Jiaojiao suddenly jumped out, pointing at Shen Qingtang and shouting, "It's all because of your bad luck that we're having such bad luck everywhere!"
"Slap!" Shen Qingtang slapped her across the face and said coldly, "If you talk nonsense again, I'll throw you to feed the Northern Desert people too." Lu Jiaojiao covered her face and dared not speak again.
"Alright, the matter is resolved, let's continue on our way." After saying this, Shen Qingtang took the lead and walked forward. The others did not dare to delay and quickly followed, and soon they arrived at Qinghe County.
The people in the county town lived a mediocre life. Although there were pedestrians on the street, they all looked tired.
Shen Qingtang and her group found a reasonably clean inn. Just as they sat down, officials from Qinghe County arrived. Leading them was County Magistrate Zhou Bowen, followed by County Assistant Li Xiu and Registrar Wang Qing.
As soon as Zhou Bowen entered, he greeted everyone with a broad smile: "Gentlemen, you've worked hard! I'm so sorry I didn't dare send troops earlier. Are you all alright?"
"Something's happened." Shen Qingtang suddenly spoke, pointing to Lu's mother in the corner, "Something's happened to her, what do you think we should do?"
Lu's mother was still wearing that ripped pink gauze dress, and her heavy makeup was a complete mess. When she heard Shen Qingtang's words, she wished she could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.
Zhou Bowen, Li Xiu, and Wang Qing looked in the direction she pointed, their eyes lighting up instantly, even though they felt that Lu's mother looked quite old.
But her outfit and exposed skin still made them drool, their eyes fixed on Lu's mother.
When Lu Jin saw this scene, he felt a burning pain on his face as his mother looked like this.
To be looked at like that by officials is an utter disgrace!
He quickly took off his coat, wrapped it around Lu's mother, and shielded her behind him, glaring at the officials with a grim expression.
After Shen Qingtang and her party settled into the inn.
It wasn't long before they discovered the anomaly in Qinghe County, which had been causing trouble for the county magistrate Zhou Bowen and the county assistant Li Xiu, who had been so friendly to them during the day.
After nightfall, he secretly went to a villa on the outskirts of the city.
Shen Qingtang used her spiritual power to investigate and discovered a group of sinister-looking people gathered in the courtyard. They were all dressed in luxurious clothes but had bloodthirsty eyes.
Zhou Bowen and his men completely lost their daytime official arrogance in front of them, instead bowing and scraping, not daring to even raise their heads.
There were also more than a dozen young women locked up in the villa, chained up and forced to serve those ruthless people.
One woman was serving tea when her hand slipped slightly, and one of the men in purple drew a knife and slit her throat, splattering blood on the ground.
Those people acted as if they hadn't seen anything, continuing to chat and laugh, their appearance as if they were eating raw meat and drinking blood, which made people's scalps tingle.
“Magistrate Zhou, among the exiles during the day, there was a woman named Shen Qingtang who was quite capable and killed many of our Northern Desert brothers.”
The man in purple toyed with the knife in his hand, his tone icy, "You need to find a way to kill her, or you'll ruin our big plan."
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