Inside the hall, as Pei Yuqing asked the question, everyone looked over, including Lu Ziyan who was holding a horsewhip.
The impending storm made the thugs who usually bullied the countryside and raped single women panic.
"My Lord, please understand," the next moment their mouths were unblocked, several people with tears streaming down their faces begged for mercy, "This thing belonged to an old woman. Judging from her appearance, she must be a runaway slave from a wealthy family. She stole her master's property and ran away, and was caught by us."
Old woman, runaway slave.
Lu Ziyan swung the whip in his hand, directly circled a person's neck, dragged him in front of him, and shouted: "Where is that old woman!"
His eyes were bloodshot and his whole body was filled with violent aura, as if he was ready to devour someone. It looked extremely scary.
Several thugs collapsed to the ground in fear, hesitating, "That old woman...did a big yanghu dance."
Dancing the Dayanghu...
Pei Yuqing, who was still squatting on the ground, swayed a bit, his face turned pale, and he suddenly grabbed the arm of a person on the ground tightly, "What did that old woman look like? What did you argue with? What did you say? Tell the truth. If you lie,... you don't want to know the consequences."
Then he turned to the county governor and said, "Capture all the passengers on that ship, one by one."
He wanted to know what had happened.
Although the county magistrate did not know Pei Yuqing's identity, seeing that Pei Yuqing dared to stand up in front of the killing god Lu Ziyan, he also knew that this man was definitely not someone he could afford to offend, so he gave orders to his subordinates without saying a word.
Several of Pei Yuqing's followers also followed.
The thug whose arm he grabbed was the one who was injured by Xie Wan Ning with a dagger. The wound happened to be caught right there. He screamed in pain, blood oozing out of his thick cotton coat, and kept begging for mercy.
The scream was interrupted by a whip on the head by Lu Ziyan, "Speak!"
The thug cried bitterly, not caring about anything else, and said quickly: "The old woman hid her face, and I didn't see her appearance, but she was quite skilled and had a dagger on her body. She took advantage of my unpreparedness and hurt my brother's life and scratched my arm... As for speaking, she was like a mute, and she never spoke a word from beginning to end."
The man kept talking, and the officials in the hall listened and realized that something was wrong.
He hides his head and face, refuses to speak, carries a sharp knife, jewelry, and some skills.
How could such a person be an ordinary escaped slave?
Even...is she really an old woman?
There was a clang sound.
It was the sound of the whip in Lu Ziyan's hand falling to the ground. He let the handle made of fine iron hit the ground, his face was dull for a moment, "What did you do to her?"
Why did she have to jump into the lake?
Such a cold day, such cold lake water...
Soon, they found out what happened that night.
The destination of the passenger ship was Luzhou. There were less than a hundred passengers on board that day, and they were all in Luzhou city at this moment.
Pei Yuqing's subordinates were very efficient and brought all these people back in less than two hours.
There was such a big commotion that night, and there was no one on the two-story merchant ship who was unaware of it.
The lobby couldn't accommodate all these people, so they were all asked to stand in the courtyard.
When they heard that they were arrested because of what happened on the boat the night before and there was no need for trial, these people started discussing among themselves one by one.
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