The Wucheng Bingmasi was under the Ministry of War and was specifically responsible for patrolling and arresting thieves and other ground-based police duties in the capital.
When the young woman saw the officers from the Wucheng Military Department coming, she threw herself in front of the leading officer with a miserable face and cried, "I am the victim. I used the perfume of this shop and my face became like this. I was so angry that I brought people to argue. I didn't expect that this shop hired female thugs. Not only did they not admit their guilt, they also beat me up..."
The leading officer was startled by the young woman's face and looked around: "Is that so?"
The onlookers nodded hesitantly.
Watching the excitement and making a fuss is a natural instinct for many people.
The leading officer looked at Lu Chuchu and Xiu Niangzi, frowned and asked, "Are you the shop owners?"
Lady Xiu endured the pain and said, "I am the shopkeeper of the shop. It's not like that—"
"Take them away!" The leading officer waved his hand after confirming the identities of Xiu Niangzi and Lu Chuchu without waiting for Xiu Niangzi to finish speaking.
Lu Chuchu stepped forward and asked angrily, "Why are you taking us away when the officer hasn't even asked clearly?"
"On what basis? You run a black shop here and beat the victims. Why don't you take them away?" The leading officer sneered.
Lu Chuchu pushed away the bailiff who was trying to arrest her, with murderous intent flashing in her eyes.
Lady Xiu hugged Lu Chuchu and said, "Chuchu, they are officials, don't mess around."
Lu Chuchu suddenly reached out and pulled the young woman towards her.
The young woman screamed loudly: "Help!"
The leading officer was furious: "You bold female thief, you actually dared to take hostages! You are committing an even greater crime!"
"Sir, you misunderstood. I didn't take anyone hostage. I heard that even if we go to court to confront each other, there can't be only the defendant and no plaintiff. Since you want to arrest people, why don't you just take us away? Why do you only listen to this woman's one-sided story?"
This damn woman!
She thought that the bad luck that had plagued her for more than a decade was finally over, but she didn't expect it to come back again after just a few days of peace.
There is no way there could be anything wrong with Lu Sheng Xiang's perfume, but the current situation makes it clear that they are trying to extort money.
I really want to break this woman's neck - Lu Chuchu thought bitterly.
"Stop talking nonsense, release the hostages and follow us immediately, otherwise--" the leading officer showed the long knife in his hand.
The uniformly equipped long swords flashed coldly in the sunlight, and the onlookers stepped back.
"What else?" A cold voice came, like a clear spring made of ice and snow, chilling to the bone.
The leading officer grasped his knife tightly and looked in the direction of the sound, and saw a stern man between a teenager and a young man, and next to the man stood a woman with an extremely outstanding appearance.
When she saw the two of them, Lu Chuchu's eyes suddenly lit up. She was about to say something when she received a look from Jiang Sidong.
She swallowed her words in time.
Seeing that the two men were not bad looking, the leading officer said in a slightly more relaxed tone, "Please don't be nosy and hinder the officers from arresting the bad guys."
"Evil person?" Yu Jinfeng glanced at the Lushengxiang sign and sneered, "It's clearly a conflict between the buyer and the seller. Which side is the evil person?"
The leading officer pointed at the young woman who was being held tightly by Lu Chuchu and said, "Sir, don't you see that this woman has become like this after applying the perfume of this shop? It is obvious which side is the evil one."
Jiang Si chuckled and said, "I also use the perfume of this cosmetics shop and have never had this problem. This sister-in-law's face looks like this. Is it because of the perfume, or did she accidentally take some medicine, or is she just ugly from the beginning? It's hard to say."
The onlookers burst into laughter.
The young woman was so angry that she jumped up and down: "Who is so ugly? How can you be so vicious, you thief——"
Before he could finish his words, he felt a pain in his mouth and opened it to spit out a mouthful of blood mixed with his two front teeth.
The young woman stared at the two front teeth in a daze, and then she began to cry like a slaughtered pig.
"He killed someone in broad daylight! Officer, you can't let the murderer go unpunished—"
The red spots on her face can go away with medicine, but what about her lost front teeth?
How can she hold a man's heart if she opens her mouth with two gaps in her teeth...
Thinking of this, the young woman cried even harder.
The leading officer's attention was on the golden beads that fell on the ground.
The young man in a gorgeous robe just before me used this golden bead to knock out the front teeth of a young woman.
The leading officer was not willing to be careless. When he saw the jade pendant hanging around Yu Jin's waist, he was immediately startled.
If he was not mistaken, the jade pendant was engraved with a four-clawed python pattern - this was a pattern that only princes could use!
"King, King——"
Yu Jin ignored the stammering of the leading officer and said openly, "This prince happened to be learning how to judge cases from the governor of Shuntian Prefecture. Let's make the final decision today."
This king?
When the onlookers heard Yu Jian say this, they were stunned.
Cui Mingyue, who was hiding in the crowd, was also stunned.
It was a surprise that Prince Yan and his wife appeared here, and it was another surprise that Prince Yan openly acknowledged his identity.
Why do this couple always act unexpectedly?
Cui Mingyue felt vaguely uneasy.
"His humble servant greets His Majesty." The leading officer saluted Yu Jin with a pale face.
The yamen runners followed suit and saluted.
In such occasions, there will not be a situation where everyone is kneeling down in panic.
Yu Jin nodded slightly and looked at the young woman: "You said that your face became like this because you used this perfume?"
"Yes..." the young woman trembled.
Oh my God, how could I meet a prince?
Still a nosy prince!
As long as she can get through this, she will give her more money.
"Where's the fragrance?"
The young woman hesitated for a moment and took out an exquisite glass bottle from her arms.
Yu Jin reached out to take it and played with the bottle of perfume.
The translucent glass bottle reflects colorful light under the sunlight, and the light pink liquid inside can be faintly seen.
A bottle of perfume like this is obviously worth a lot of money at first glance.
"This perfume in a glass bottle is not cheap, right?" Yu Jin asked Lady Xiu.
Lady Xiu immediately said, "Your Highness, the one in the glass bottle is top-grade rose water, the most expensive scented water in our shop."
"I wonder how much it costs?"
"It costs twenty taels of silver per bottle."
The onlookers immediately took a breath of cool air.
Wow, such a small bottle of perfume costs twenty taels?
What is the concept of twenty taels?
According to the current prices in the Great Zhou Dynasty, one cent could buy a large steamed bun, a pound of pork was only twenty or thirty cents, and one tael of silver was worth a thousand cents or even more.
For example, these common people who were watching the excitement only earned a few taels of silver after working hard for a month.
Twenty taels of silver to buy a bottle of perfume? This is something that ordinary people cannot imagine.
Yu Jin looked at the young woman with a half-smile: "I really can't believe that my sister-in-law is so generous."
The young woman was a little nervous and insisted, "What's wrong with twenty taels of silver for a bottle? My man loves me so much that he's willing to spend two hundred taels on me!"
"You said you used it before going to bed last night, and your face is like this today?"
The young woman nodded.
"I don't know where you used it. How many times have you used it?"
The woman was a little uneasy, but she didn't dare to not reply: "It's my first time using it, and I only applied it on my face."
Yu Jin glanced at the glass bottle and sneered, "Sister-in-law is really bold, she uses a lot."