Chapter 518 Find her a prison van
The men nodded, and then the lead officer said, "Find her a prison cart."
The officers present were speechless. "Boss, are you out of your mind? What could possibly make your thoughts wander so far that you've even considered the prison cart?"
"Boss, the Shu family doesn't need a prison van."
"That's right, and where are we going to get a prison van? The local government won't give us one."
"Boss, this is against the rules."
The lead officer scratched his head and said, "Then we won't use the proper prison cart. Let's just do it as a formality, without going through the government. We'll arrange it ourselves."
The crowd's expressions grew even more horrified. Had their leader gone mad too?
Sensing the gazes of the crowd, the lead officer raised his hand and slapped them one by one, saying, "What kind of expressions are those? Can't you let me finish?"
"Please speak."
"Here's what I think: that girl should still have some money on her. I reckon that since there's other silver buried in Dong'an Prefecture, she probably won't give us this silver. And we shouldn't ask for it back, right?"
Everyone nodded in agreement. Indeed, with the money from Dong'an Prefecture, they naturally couldn't force anyone to do anything more.
The lead officer continued, "But I'm not willing to give up. I don't want to let this silver go. I think she probably has quite a bit of silver on her, which she plans to use later when she gets to the southwest. We can take this opportunity to make her hand over the silver. We can use this silver to buy a mule, get a cart, put a cage on it, and imprison her inside."
The group looked at each other, then fell into silent contemplation.
The lead officer said, "If anyone asks, just say that the girl injured her leg and is walking slowly, which is affecting our progress, so her family bought her a mule cart. It's not like no one has done this before. When we're traveling, some rules aren't that strict. Once we're almost in the southwest, we'll let her walk again. By then, her emotions will have calmed down, and she won't be shouting for violence for no reason anymore, right? Then, that mule cart... will be ours."
The officers were immediately taken aback. "That's a good idea."
"Besides, we walk every day and get very tired. With the mule cart, we can take turns driving and rest. All the things we carry can be put on the mule cart."
The more they talked, the more they thought the idea was good, and they were soon convinced.
The lead officer said, "Then it's decided. Let's go find Miss Shu now and ask her to bring out the money to buy a carriage."
He finished speaking and left, and another officer immediately followed.
Standing at Shu Yu's door, you could still hear her bitter curses against the Shu family, "Just wait, I'll find a chance to kill you all."
The two officers exchanged a glance outside, then pushed open the door.
Shu Yu immediately sat up. In front of the officials, she didn't act like she did with the Shu family members; in fact, she was somewhat afraid and shrank back, asking, "What... what are you going to do?"
The lead officer walked over, his face grim and expressionless, and said, "What you did today has put us in a very difficult position."
"I'm sorry, I won't do it again."
Another officer looked at a piece of flatbread on the ground. It was the flatbread that Shu Yu had snatched from the second madam's hand during dinner, and now it had been trampled to pieces.
And you still say you wouldn't dare?
(End of this chapter)
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