Chapter 29: The rules of beating people with a sack. The scene is so beautiful. I want to do it again next time...
Through the path made by the people, Zhou Tinglan saw a group of soldiers appear at the end of the street. They all had swords on their waists and were heading towards the tofu shop where Zhou Tinglan was.
Mr. Wu, who was lying on the ground and beaten to a death, heard the noise. He held his waist and looked up at the street with difficulty. When he saw the leader clearly, his eyes lit up instantly.
"Come and save me! Bring this vicious woman back to me!"
The leading officer saw the miserable state of Master Wu lying on the ground, and the corners of his mouth twitched. He suppressed a smile, stepped forward quickly, helped him up, and asked with concern, "Master Wu, are you okay?"
Master Wu stood up and angrily shook off his hand. "You came so late, don't you want your salary? I'll give you a good talk when I see my father!"
"I'm sorry. But we came here as soon as we received the news."
"Trash! They're all trash!"
Zhou Tinglan looked at Xie Zechuan beside him and saw that he also had a frown on his face. He sighed in his heart that Master Wu's behavior was not only oppressing the people, but even withholding the monthly salary of officials. It was a crime that was enough to send him to prison for life.
The leading officer finally managed to calm Master Wu down. He drew his sword and said, "Who are you? How dare you beat someone in the street? Take you to the authorities and torture you!"
The officers and soldiers surrounded the tofu shop and were about to go forward and arrest the person when they heard the order.
Zhou Tinglan was not afraid at all. She looked at Master Wu standing there with his back straight, and felt disdainful in her heart. She wondered how much power a government with corrupt officers and soldiers could have.
"We'll go with you..."
Before he finished speaking, a woman rushed out of the shop and stood in front of Zhou Tinglan. Her neck twitched and she sobbed, "My dear officials, it's not... it's not what you saw. It was that young man who wanted to take me away by force, so this girl..."
When Master Wu saw the soldiers pause, he said, "Why are you stopping? Go up and arrest them all! Quick!"
“No…no!”
Seeing the soldiers approaching step by step, the woman's legs went weak and she collapsed to the ground. The old woman on the other side of the tofu shop was also sitting on the ground, looking at the soldiers around her in horror.
Zhou Tinglan signaled Xie Zechuan with her eyes. She walked around the daughter of the tofu shop but felt someone grabbing the hem of her clothes.
Looking down, the tofu shop girl's face was covered with tears. She shook her head at Zhou Tinglan and murmured "no".
Zhou Tinglan smiled and took out a handkerchief, squatting down and handing it to her: "Don't worry, we will be fine. I heard that the tofu in your shop is delicious. I will definitely come to your shop to buy some tofu to try when I have the chance."
"Girl, if... you can come back, I'll give you some tofu!" Zhou Tinglan's hands were held, and she felt the hands holding her were trembling slightly.
"Okay, thank you for your kindness then."
Zhou Tinglan didn't look back and walked towards the officers and soldiers with Xie Zechuan.
Mr. Wu's arrogant words echoed throughout the street: "You guys know what's best for you!"
The officers and soldiers took Zhou Tinglan and the other two away in a mighty manner, and the people dispersed when they saw that there was no excitement.
The old woman in the shop finally came to her daughter's side.
"Mother, do you think that girl and boy can come back?"
"Yes, she said she would come to buy our tofu." The old woman looked at the street where there were no soldiers or officers, and prayed silently for the two of them in her heart.
Zhou Tinglan and the other man who were escorted to the government office by officers and soldiers were sitting in the interrogation room at this time.
"Do you admit your guilt?"
"May I ask what our crime is?" Zhou Tinglan crossed his arms over his chest, sat on the chair with his head down, and didn't even want to glance at the officers and soldiers sitting opposite him and Master Wu.
"What's your attitude?" the officer said unhappily. If it weren't for them, why would they have to deal with Master Wu, the arrogant and dissolute young master.
"I don't know, you vicious woman! Just look at my face. I don't even know what it looks like after you beat me up. And you still dare to say you don't know!"
Zhou Tinglan glanced at Master Wu indifferently, then lowered his head: "It seems that Master Wu has no self-awareness at all. Aren't you just ugly?"
"you!"
Mr. Wu was so angry that he was about to rush over and hit someone.
"Hey - Mr. Wu, don't be impulsive. We are still interrogating. It's just an interrogation, don't be impatient."
"Why are you still trying to interrogate her?" Young Master Wu slammed the table. "Just torture her! This disobedient woman deserves torture!"
The officer hesitated and said, "But this is against the rules."
"Rules? I am the rules! Go now!" Master Wu asked the servant beside him to blow and pat his sore hands, and he shouted to the officers and soldiers.
The officers and soldiers looked at Zhou Tinglan and the others, feeling sorry for them. They didn't know what the beauty would look like after being tortured and covered in blood.
Just as they were about to take the torture instruments, the officers and soldiers still had selfish thoughts and reached for the lightest instruments.
Just at this moment, Zhou Tinglan took out a token from his arms and threw it on the table in front of him. The officers and soldiers stopped and looked at the token on the table.
"Miss, are you an iron-fisted official?" The officer exclaimed. He looked at Master Wu. If Master Wu was going to lynch an ordinary citizen in the town, it would be fine. But if he involved court officials, things would not end so well.
"What is the official position of Tieguan? I have never heard of him in this town. He must not be a high-ranking official. Continue to torture him!" Master Wu was determined to make Zhou Tinglan pay the price.
After a long period of inaction, Xie Zechuan, who had always been beside Zhou Tinglan, finally spoke up: "What about adding mine?"
The official's expression suddenly changed: "Please wait a moment, I will go and call our official in charge."
Master Wu sat back in his chair unhappily and muttered, "It's not like I haven't done this before. Why do I need to ask my dad to come?"
It seems that this happened more than once, Zhou Tinglan thought to herself, she could finally see who the father was that Master Wu mentioned over and over again.
Not long after, a middle-aged man in purple official uniform entered the interrogation room. Zhou Tinglan saw that Master Wu called out "Dad" in a muffled voice and then stopped moving.
Master Wu drove Master Wu out of the interrogation room, leaving only the officer behind. A shrewd look flashed in his eyes as he surveyed the interrogation room before speaking cautiously in a low voice, "Where did you two adults come from? Why didn't you tell me in advance so I could send someone to welcome you?"
Zhou Tinglan sneered. Mr. Wu was indeed a man who had been able to stay in the government for many years. He was trying to trick them.
She put on a half-smile and said nonsense, "I wonder where Mr. Wu thinks we come from?"
"Could it be the official from the capital?" Mr. Wu guessed.
Seeing that Zhou Tinglan still had the same expression, Mr. Wu felt even more that his guess was correct.
Zhou Tinglan calculated the time and spoke after a long pause, "Can we guess what the person above meant?"
"Yes, yes, yes." Master Wu was nervous and carefully looked at the expressions of Zhou Tinglan and the other man, fearing that what he said would displease the noble who came from the capital.
He cursed his rebellious son in his heart, saying that why did he dare to provoke a nobleman in the capital when there were so many people he could offend? He would have to have a good talk with him later.
"Then... would you like to move?"
Zhou Tinglan waved his hand and said, "We are just looking around and secretly asking around. This matter is private, so I hope Master Wu won't spread it."
"I will keep my mouth shut." Then Mr. Wu glanced at the officers and soldiers beside him.
The officer quickly said, "Me...me too."
Zhou Tinglan took back the token on the table with satisfaction and stood up to say goodbye.
Before leaving, she warned Master Wu: "I hope Master Wu will discipline my son well in the future. Today I only beat him in the street. If there is a next time..."
"No, no, don't worry, sir. I will go back and discipline that rebellious son."
After leaving the government office, Zhou Tinglan first went to the tofu shop, then took thousands of paper cranes and wooden carvings and returned to Zhou's knife shop.
The mother and daughter in the tofu shop were very happy to see Zhou Tinglan and his friend appear, and gave Zhou Tinglan several bags of tofu.
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In the middle of the night, two figures sneaked into the Wu Mansion. Zhou Tinglan looked at the structure of the Wu Mansion and quickly guessed the courtyard where Master Wu lived.
Xie Zechuan remembered that when they were in the knife shop, Lan'er told him that she couldn't swallow the fact that that bastard Mr. Wu had been in jail today, and she was going to beat him up again tonight.
He thought Zhou Tinglan was joking, but unexpectedly he was actually dragged to the Wu Mansion.
Mr. Wu, you just wish yourself good luck, Xie Zechuan looked at the yard below.
From the courtyard came Master Wu's curses: "She's just a minor official. I don't know what Dad is so afraid of. She actually told me not to go against them. Bah! Does that vicious woman deserve it? How dare she hit me!"
The sounds of things falling to the ground and breaking could be heard one after another.
Zhou Tinglan leaned close to Xie Zechuan and whispered, "It seems that Master Wu did discipline Young Master Wu after we left, but looking at him now, Master Wu still hasn't made up his mind."
"Lan'er wants to discipline him for Master Wu?"
Zhou Tinglan rolled up her sleeves and said, "Of course not. Since he can't discipline his own son, let me do it for him."
"Where's the thing I asked you to pick up?"
"There's nothing Lan'er asked me to do that I haven't been able to do." Xie Zechuan handed the folded object to Zhou Tinglan.
Master Wu cursed non-stop. Suddenly, his vision went dark, as if something was covering him from above. Master Wu struggled hard: "Who! Take this thing off my head!"
Zhou Tinglan looked at Master Wu who was trapped in a sack, and his hands groped around trying to remove the sack.
The corners of her mouth curled up into a smile. Picking sacks? How is that possible?
Zhou Tinglan kicked him and Master Wu fell to the ground in pain.
Xie Zechuan thought about how Zhou Tinglan had put in a lot of effort beating Master Wu this morning, and was worried that Zhou Tinglan would be tired.
He turned around and took a broom from the yard. The broom was very big and thick, probably used to sweep fallen leaves in the yard.
"Lan'er, use a broom, don't tire yourself out."
Zhou Tinglan picked up the broom and weighed it: "This broom is really good, let's use it. I'm afraid of dirtying my legs if I kick."
After saying that, he hit Master Wu with the broom.
Master Wu became even more agitated after hearing the conversation between the two: "You vicious woman, how dare you trespass into the Wu Mansion! Ouch! Stop it! Stop it now, or else..."
The broom kept falling. Zhou Tinglan snorted, "Our Young Master Wu wants to find his father again. I want to see if your father can protect you this time."
After playing for a while, Zhou Tinglan felt her hands were a little sore. When she stopped, she saw Xie Zechuan moving a chair and a table from somewhere, and even found a teapot.
Xie Zechuan saw Zhou Tinglan stop and took the broom from her hand. "Are you tired, Lan'er? I just went inside and brought a chair and made a pot of hot tea. Lan'er, you can have some tea and sit down while I do the beating."
Afterwards, Zhou Tinglan sat on a chair, drinking hot tea comfortably, watching the scene not far away where Master Wu was beaten to the ground by Xie Zechuan with a broom.
The picture is so beautiful, I want to see it again next time.
Zhou Tinglan looked at Master Wu, who was nearly fainting, and kicked him again: "I hope Master Wu will remember today's discipline in the future."
However, just as the two turned around to leave, a female voice came from the courtyard gate: "My two nobles, please save us!"
Zhou Tinglan frowned and looked over.
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