Lin Jiujiu thought for a moment and then spoke.
"Let's hand it over to the authorities."
She did not like setting up private torture chambers.
Furthermore, with Tantai Yueming around, the government officials would certainly not dare to bend the law for personal gain.
Even the crown prince probably wouldn't dare to disobey his wishes.
Upon hearing her words, Baili Chenyuan waved to the people behind him.
Immediately, several other people dressed similarly to him appeared and picked up the person from the ground.
And right there, a group of officials came jogging from the front.
He shouted loudly as he ran.
"Make way, make way, the officers are conducting a case."
Lin Jiujiu could tell from the direction those people were heading that they were coming from.
It seems that someone went to the authorities to report the incident as soon as the conflict began.
The government office is quite a distance away, so their reaction time is quite fast.
Now that government officials have arrived, they can save themselves some trouble; they can just let these people take them back.
So the group stopped moving and stood there waiting for the approaching squad of officers.
After Li Zhuoan's incident, the county magistrate carried out a major purge of the officials and runners in the yamen.
Those who were allowed to remain in the government office were people who usually acted with a sense of propriety and had not made any major mistakes.
After witnessing Li Zhuo'an being flogged, kicked out of the yamen, and almost imprisoned, the official became less arrogant in his daily work.
When they saw one group of people holding another group of people captive and waiting for them, they did not indiscriminately determine which side was at fault.
Instead, he first asked the onlookers about the situation before bowing to Lin Jiujiu and her group.
“Madam Lin, although they were in the wrong first, your pet did indeed hurt someone. Let’s go back to the yamen with us and explain the situation.”
Lin Jiujiu had no objection to this.
It's a fact that Xiaobai injured someone, and she has no objection to paying compensation.
So he said to the constable, "Let's go."
Baili Chenyuan then instructed his subordinates to hand An Susu and her entourage over to the yamen officials.
However, An Susu was not as easy to talk to as Lin Jiujiu.
When she saw an official trying to help her up, she slapped him across the face.
"You dog servant, what are you to dare touch me, young lady?"
The officers were also stunned by the beating; they were merely acting in accordance with the law.
But I got slapped for no reason. Who can I complain to?
Moreover, they are not good-tempered people to begin with.
After being slapped, the instinctive reaction is to slap back.
The head constable coughed lightly, signaling his subordinates not to act rashly.
It would feel good to slap her back now, but that girl is clearly not an ordinary person. Now that they've suffered a loss, if she retaliates, it's something they can't afford to deal with.
But if they are simply following the law, that's another story.
Seeing that his companions did not retaliate, the leader turned around and bowed.
“Young lady, we are just doing our job according to the law, and we are not anyone’s servants. If you have any grievances, you can tell our superiors.”
Our only responsibility is to ask you all to return home.
As he spoke, the man deliberately shook the shackles in his hands, and emphasized the word "please" in his voice.
It's as if it means, "If you don't cooperate, I'll put you in shackles."
"you……"
An Susu was about to make a move when the nanny beside her pulled her back.
"Miss, we must not act rashly on someone else's turf."
"You've been wronged today. Once we return to the capital, I'm sure the Empress and the Crown Prince will seek justice for you."
When this old woman spoke of the Empress and the Crown Prince, she deliberately raised her voice, as if she were speaking to the constables on purpose.
Those people did indeed feel some apprehension upon hearing this.
Even the person he had just slapped instantly lost the hatred in their eyes.
When An Susu heard her words, she raised her chin high and gave Lin Jiujiu a smug look.
The provocation in his eyes was blatant, like that of a victorious little hen.
However, the wound on her face from Xiaobai's scratch hadn't scabbed over yet, and with a sudden expression and movement, the wound opened up a bit more, and blood dripped down her chin.
An Susu gasped in pain, which made her even angrier.
He pointed at Lin Jiujiu and her group.
“If you dare to hurt my face, you won’t get away with it. When we get to the yamen, I’ll make sure the magistrate strips you naked and beats you.”
An Susu's words were undeniably venomous, but Lin Jiujiu saw them as nothing more than a clown.
They didn't take it to heart at all.
If the Crown Prince and Empress truly cared about her, they wouldn't have asked her to return to her hometown to observe mourning for her father when she was of marriageable age and the old Marquis of Anyang passed away.
She truly believed the Crown Prince would marry her, unaware that her good cousin had already arranged a good marriage for her, waiting only for her to return to the capital after observing mourning before marrying her off, thus helping him build connections.
She alone still fantasizes that one day her cousin, the crown prince, will ascend the throne and make her his empress.
Lin Jiujiu knew all this because Tantai Yueming would visit her house every day, telling them gossip about the secrets of wealthy families in the capital.
Lin Xiaomei was the most loyal listener.
The two had argued so badly before that Lin Xiaomei hadn't thought much about it, but now she's realized what was going on.
He quietly approached Tantai Yueming, tugged at his sleeve, and asked in what he thought was a whisper.
"She wouldn't happen to be that unlucky girl you were talking about, the eldest daughter of the An family, would she?"
Lin Xiaomei spoke in a low voice, which she thought was just right, but it was also just enough to ensure that An Susu could hear her.
Lin Jiujiu watched her scheming with amusement, seeing through her but saying nothing.
Lin Luo, who clearly knew his younger sister well, also moved closer to her and asked her questions.
"What unlucky guy? I don't know anything about him. Tell me about him."
Lin Xiaomei subconsciously rolled her eyes at him.
"That's the unlucky guy who thought he would become the Crown Princess, but was tricked into going back to his hometown to observe mourning, only to find that his sweetheart turned around and married his best friend, and was even used by his sweetheart as a tool to win over his subordinates, who then betrothed him to the mentally challenged son of one of his subordinates."
She understood every word Lin Xiaomei said, but when put together, An Susu didn't believe a single one.
She instinctively grabbed the old woman on the other side and asked.
"Granny, what she said isn't true, is it?"
This is a capable person from my aunt's side; my aunt specially sent her to pick me up.
If her aunt didn't value her, why would she have specially sent someone to pick her up?
Her aunt treated her so well, and she had been in love with her cousin, the Crown Prince, since childhood. Even if she couldn't become his principal wife, she would accept being a concubine for the sake of her cousin's great cause.
Now this person is saying that her cousin wants her to return to Beijing to marry someone else, which she simply cannot believe.
Then what about all the sweet moments they shared in the past?
If she hadn't been observing mourning for her father, their child would already be two years old. They had been so sweet together; how could he have let her marry someone else?
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