Zeng Zhui listened to his confession and could not hide his anger. He wanted to walk up to the teacher and curse him a few times to vent his anger, but he forced himself to hold it back.
He couldn't interrupt Mu Cong. He had to let everyone hear his confession clearly, to make sure that his family member, Old Du, was not a person who was partial or corrupt, and to redress the humiliation that the Du family had suffered in recent days.
But he could hold it in, but others couldn't. Many people began to curse, spit and throw things at Mu Cong. Mu Cong straightened his back and took it all.
He walked steadily towards the imperial city with firm steps amidst the curses and the throwing of objects.
Xu Jiang felt quite unhappy, and Zeng Zhui and his students also looked reluctant, but they all held back and just followed Mu Cong silently, moving forward step by step.
Suddenly, someone came out from the crowd and shouted, "Kill this traitor and vent Du Siye's anger!" Then, several stones were thrown at Mu Cong from all directions.
Xu Jiang couldn't help but yell, "Be careful!"
Zeng Zhui, who was standing beside him, shouted loudly and rushed over on his donkey. Mu Cong was startled and dodged. Several stones flew past his forehead, and some others hit him and knocked him to the ground.
Zeng Zhui roared, "No matter what, he is an official appointed by the imperial court. Beating and killing an official appointed by the imperial court in the streets outside the imperial city, where is the emperor's majesty?"
Everyone was shocked by this sudden change, and then they all distanced themselves from it.
"I didn't smash it!"
“I didn’t smash it either.”
There was a lot of noise for a while.
The stone just now was clearly aimed at Mu Congye's head. It seemed that someone wanted to take advantage of the chaos to kill him.
Xu Jiang drove her donkey forward to block Mu Cong as well. She searched the crowd and suddenly heard someone shout, "This kind of scoundrel official should be executed by everyone."
Afterwards, more stones were thrown at Mucong. Zeng Zhui quickly pulled Mucong up and blocked them with his own body and the donkey's body.
Fortunately, no one was hit.
Xu Jiang looked in the direction where the stone had just flown from, and saw several familiar faces in the crowd. They were the guards of the Zhou family.
Then, he pointed at one of them and said, "I recognize you. You are Zhou Shancai's guard, from Wanjuanlou! What are you thinking of by killing court officials in the street?"
As soon as she pointed, the man raised a stone and was about to hit her, but at this time a hand came from behind him and knocked the stone down. The stone landed on the instep of his foot, making him scream in pain.
Xu Jiang looked closely and found that the man looked familiar, like... Zhao Xiu!
She was about to shout, but Zhao Xiu glanced at Mu Congye and ran into the crowd.
Then a patrol officer shouted to the crowd to rush over here, and the people who threw stones scattered like birds and beasts, trying to escape.
Just when Xu Jiang breathed a sigh of relief, he felt a buzzing in his head, and then his vision went black, and his body fell uncontrollably to the ground.
"Madam Xu!" Before she fainted, she heard Zeng Zhui's call.
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