"Song Qianning, it's all your fault!"
Pan Ruoruo looked at Song Qianning with a ferocious face, wishing she could pounce on her and strangle her to death.
"If you had sold the baby rabbit to me earlier, none of this would have happened!"
At this time, Pan Ruoruo had lost her mind and didn't care what she was saying.
As Pan Ruoruo's words became more and more sharp, both the common people and the yamen runners looked at her differently.
When Pan Ruoruo, who had lost her mind, confessed everything, there was silence inside and outside the court, and the people outside could not help but lower their voices and whisper to each other.
"It turned out that Miss Pan was the one who did it."
"She tried to forcefully buy Miss Song's rabbits, and after being refused, she sent her servants to snatch them away. After bullying her, she even dared to bring the matter to court. How could she be so shameless?"
"Miss Song is also pitiful. She is hated by people like Miss Pan."
"Your Excellency, the prefect must not let her go."
Looking at Pan Ruoruo who seemed to be suffering from dementia, Qin Ye narrowed his eyes slightly and glanced at the prefect sitting in the court.
Upon meeting Qin Ye's gaze, the prefect was briefly stunned, but he didn't dare to delay any further. He slammed the gavel, his face solemn and serious: "Pan Ruoruo, you are guilty of a heinous crime. When you failed to force the purchase, you allowed your evil servant to cause trouble. You even dared to distort the facts in court and deceive me and everyone else..."
After listing all of Pan Ruoruo's crimes, the prefect said to the bailiffs in the hall, "Come here!"
"Capture the evil woman Pan Ruoruo and give her twenty canes."
As early as when Pan Ruoruo started to scold Song Qianning for revealing the truth, Pan's mother felt uneasy.
By the time she realized something was wrong and wanted to stop her daughter from talking, it was too late.
When Pan's mother heard the prefect's verdict on Pan Ruoruo, her eyes suddenly widened and she fell to the ground.
"No, no, sir, please spare my daughter."
Because the prefect in the hall did not respond, Pan's mother, who had just gotten up, fell to her knees again with a thud, her face covered with snot and tears, and she kept calling Pan Ruoruo's name.
Noticing Song Qianning standing next to her, Pan's mother's eyes lit up again. She knelt and crawled towards her, her tone full of pleading: "Miss Song, Miss Song, please."
"You are a magnanimous person. Don't bother with Ruoruo. Ruoruo didn't mean it."
Pan's mother, whose heart was filled with her daughter, ignored her resentment towards Song Qianning. She kept kowtowing to her and reached out to grab her clothes.
The whole person burst into tears, with a pleading look on his face, without any of the arrogance of yesterday: "Miss Song, as long as you are willing to spare Ruoruo and plead for Ruoruo, I will give you whatever you want."
"Ruoruo is so weak, if she really gets beaten with twenty sticks, she won't be able to bear it."
"Saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda, Miss Song, please do me a favor."
Facing Pan's mother crying bitterly, Song Qianning just stood aside with her arms folded and watched coldly with a sarcastic smile on her lips.
Knowing that only if Song Qianning gave in would it work, Pan's mother knelt in front of her, crying non-stop: "Miss Song, I beg you, please have pity on Ruoruo..."
Hearing this, Song Qianning sneered and rolled her eyes.
Pulling her foot out of Pan's mother's hand, Song Qianning bent down and looked at her with a gentle smile on her face.
Mistakenly thinking that her plea for mercy had worked, Pan's mother was about to say something when she heard Song Qianning's next sentence.
"Spare her? Why should I spare her?"
Looking at the stunned Pan's mother, Song Qianning smiled more gently, but her words were merciless: "Yesterday, it was Pan Ruoruo who went to the farm first and tried to force the purchase of the young rabbits."
"I simply refused her, and she sent a servant inside to forcibly take the baby rabbit. She somehow fell to the ground and tried to hit me with a stone. As a mother, you didn't discipline your daughter properly, but instead allowed her to do evil."
"Oh, yeah. And you brought him to me yesterday, didn't you want to teach me a lesson? It's a shame you didn't succeed. If it were someone weaker, he might not even be standing here today."
She looked down at Pan's mother, her lips curled slightly. "If it weren't for those animals testifying, I would have been framed by you. I would have been the one to be caned and spanked. Why would I plead for my enemy?"
"Your daughter was beaten with a stick because of you."
Besides, she's not crazy.
After saying this, Song Qianning yawned and didn't look at Pan's mother again.
Knowing she was going to be beaten with a stick, Pan Ruoruo kept struggling, her face filled with tears, "Mom, please save me, I don't want to be beaten with a stick!"
The prefect waved his hand at the yamen runners and said, "Take him away!"
After receiving the signal from the prefect, the bailiff took Pan Ruoruo away.
Seeing Song Qianning's reaction when Pan's mother begged for mercy and cried, Qin Ye looked at her with a hint of interest.
If it were an ordinary woman, she would most likely be soft-hearted when faced with such a plea for mercy.
It seems that Song Qianning is not a kind-hearted person.
The corners of his mouth curled up slightly, and his interest in Song Qianning grew deeper.
After dealing with the issues of Pan's mother and Pan Ruoruo, Song Qianning headed home.
On the way back, Qin Ye followed Song Qianning. Looking at the refreshed woman in front of him, he asked with a hint of curiosity: "Miss Song, what do you think about what happened today?"
Hearing Qin Ye's words, Song Qianning tilted her head with a strange look on her face: "What do I think?"
"Whether it was Pan Ruoruo or Madam Pan, they both made mistakes. In the end, Pan Ruoruo was beaten with a stick for their own reasons. Mistakes should be punished, but twenty sticks is considered light."
Seeing Song Qianning's expression, Qin Ye became even more curious: "Miss Song, what do you think of Madam Pan's plea for mercy?"
Recalling what happened yesterday, Song Qianning sneered, "This was Pan Ruoruo's own fault, so naturally they should pay for it. It was Pan Ruoruo and Madam Pan who provoked me yesterday. Why should I agree to her begging for mercy? She's not the king of heaven."
"I won't offend anyone unless they offend me. I won't take the initiative to cause trouble, and I won't allow others to bully me either."
Qin Ye's eyes flashed with interest. After Song Qianning finished speaking, he pretended to be indifferent and said, "The Pan family is quite powerful in the town. I'm afraid that Miss Song has completely offended the Pan family with what happened today."
"As you said, it was indeed the Pan family's fault. It was the Pan family mother and daughter who provoked you first. You can take advantage of this opportunity to stir up trouble."
"The prefect and the people outside are all on your side. At that time, you could have asked the prefect to increase the severity of their punishment, and what happened later would have nothing to do with you. Now women are weak, even if they really..."
After a pause, Qin Ye continued, "It's not your fault. You can also eliminate the ones who are behind you to avoid leaving any trouble for yourself."
Song Qianning had originally wanted to answer, but after hearing Qin Ye's words, she sensed the murderous intent in his tone and paused, her mind suddenly popping up with the words the Barefoot Immortal had said to her that day.
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