Seeing the carriage approaching, the soldiers at the door were in an uproar and immediately surrounded them. Seeing this scene, Xu Miaomiao was a little puzzled and got off the carriage. Looking at everyone, she spoke: "What happened? There are no rebels in my family, and we have not done anything illegal. Why do you want to surround our house?"
The soldier did not answer him. Hu Chong walked out swaggeringly. When he saw Xu Miaomiao, he nodded and said, "Well, now that the mistress of the house is back, let's discuss your crime."
The next moment, Xu Miaomiao knelt in the hall. Hu Chong sat in his seat smugly. Seeing Hu Chong like this, Xu Miaomiao tried to suppress her disgust and said to him, "Sir, I don't know what happened at home, but my husband is also an official with you. I'm afraid it's not good for you to just casually surround our house."
Xu Miaomiao raised her eyebrows when she said this, looking at the man in front of her with disgust, but the man didn't care. He shook his head at Xu Miaomiao and continued, "Madam Xu, there's nothing wrong with me. But you, who keep wild animals at home, will be imprisoned according to the laws of my Southern Country."
Xu Miaomiao didn't take it seriously when she heard this, and her fingers gradually clenched. The only ones who had discovered that he was raising the tiger cubs were Madam Zhang and Liu Juan, but Liu Juan had no evidence, so she must have been Madam Zhang who had informed on him. Thinking of this, Xu Miaomiao immediately turned her eyes to Madam Zhang who was standing aside.
Madam Zhang raised her eyebrows, avoided Xu Miaomiao's gaze, and lowered her head with a guilty conscience. Xu Miaomiao naturally knew everything in her heart. Gu Yuanniang, who was standing next to her, immediately came up with her big belly and said, "My lord, please understand. We are an honest family. How could we possibly raise some tiger cubs?"
Seeing Gu Yuanniang's appearance, Xu Miaomiao was startled and raised her eyebrows immediately. Xu Qingshan immediately helped Gu Yuanniang up and said, "Whether to raise the tiger cub is up to Magistrate Hu. I believe he will not wrongly accuse a good person. Sixth mother, you should get up first. You are still pregnant. If something happens to the child, how can Magistrate Hu live like this?"
When Magistrate Hu heard these words, he coughed awkwardly. If Madam Gu Yuan was really in trouble, then others would think that she was bullying a pregnant woman. So he immediately waved his hand and said, "Come here, Madam Gu is already pregnant. Why don't you give her a seat?"
Xu Miaomiao didn't care when he heard this. Magistrate Hu saw that he was so unconvinced, and immediately said, "Madam Zhang, it was you who said that you would go to your house to raise the tiger cubs. Is that true or not?"
When Madam Zhang heard this, she glanced at Xu Miaomiao, then immediately fixed her eyes on Hu Xingli, and immediately said, "Yes, magistrate, I saw the two tiger cubs playing and fighting in the room with my own eyes. This is absolutely true."
As soon as he heard this, Xu Miaomiao remained silent, but it was hard to think of this. He thought that this woman had some calculations in her mind, but unexpectedly, the next moment she reported the matter to the government. Wasn't he afraid that something happened in the Song Mansion and implicated his son? Xu Miaomiao was silent.
Hu Chong smiled even more smugly when he heard this. He looked at Xu Miaomiao and immediately said, "Madam Xu, did you hear that? But it was someone from your family who said that. I didn't wrongly accuse you, did I?"
Xu Men disagreed: "Has the county magistrate seen the young tiger in my house?"
Magistrate Hu raised his eyebrows and immediately said, "So of course we have to search the mansion."
Xu Miaomiao stood up and looked at the person in front of her without hiding anything: "My husband is an official just like you. Now you don't have any evidence. How can you search the house based on a woman's one-sided statement? If you conduct a search, then we, the Song family, will lose face."
Magistrate Hu was not in a hurry to hear what Xu Miaomiao said. He took a sip of the tea beside him and continued, "Now that someone has said it, Madam Xu, you should be open and let us search. Only then will there be no problem! This will prove your innocence. If you don't let us search, wouldn't it confirm the news that you did raise a tiger cub in your house?"
"But no matter what, Song Wushao is also an official in the court. Magistrate Hu, now you want to investigate our Song Mansion, isn't that humiliating us? What if you don't find anything in our Song Mansion?"
Hu Chong raised his eyebrows, looked at the confident look in Mrs. Zhang's eyes, and immediately slapped the table and stood up: "If I don't find anything, I will post a notice and apologize to you in person."
When Xu Miaomiao heard this, she smiled. Fortunately, she had already sent the little tiger away before. No matter how they framed him today, they would not find any trace of the little tiger in this mansion. Xu Miaomiao nodded slightly.
"In that case, County Magistrate Hu must do what he says."
"Of course." Hu Chong nodded and waved his hand. The soldiers beside him began to rummage through the mansion, messing up everything.
Song Weiwei, who was standing by, frowned when she saw their rudeness and wanted to step forward, but Xu Miaomiao stopped her and shook her head.
Now is not the time to turn against each other, they should just wait quietly.
"Your Excellency, we didn't find anything."
"Your Excellency, we didn't find anything."
Different voices suddenly sounded from all directions. Now that the Song Mansion had been turned upside down, no evidence had been found. Hu Chong immediately waved his hands in dissatisfaction and looked at Xu Miaomiao: "Where did you hide the tiger?"
Xu Miaomiao didn't take it seriously and continued, "Sir, Madam Zhang is old and her eyesight is dim, so it's inevitable that she will make mistakes. Now you have searched my house and found no trace of the young tiger. Please fulfill your promise, apologize to the people in my Song Mansion, and post a notice stating that you made a mistake today."
Every word Xu Miaomiao said was very heartbreaking. Madam Zhang at the side shook her head in disbelief: "Impossible, I clearly saw two tiger cubs this morning."
Having said that, Madam Zhang immediately stepped forward and pushed open the door. However, after the door of the room where the two tiger cubs were locked up was opened, there was nothing inside except two small tiger-like dolls. Seeing this scene, Madam Zhang was even more frightened.
Hu Chong lost his patience and said, "You teased me like this! You mistook the two dolls for real ones. Do you know your crime?"
Although Madam Zhang grew up in the capital, she was still a woman who was raised in the boudoir. When the man said that, she was a little scared. She immediately knelt on the ground and kept apologizing: "Please forgive me, please forgive me, I guess the government must have made a mistake."
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