Chapter 65: Complaints in the government office, clerks appear It

was dawn.

Liu Mingan and Jiang Ning, who had not slept all night, walked into their original home. The fire had long been extinguished, leaving only a charred area.

Liu Mingan walked to the place where the box was originally placed, but there was a beam on it. Jiang Ning saw his intention and kicked the wood away.

The box was burned to ashes, and Liu Mingan didn't mind the dirt. He directly searched there with his hands. After searching for a long time, he only found some blackened mirror fragments and a small black iron ring.

"What is this?" Jiang Ning asked, looking at the iron ring.

"It's on the slingshot my father made for me. It can be used to shoot birds, but my aim is not good and I have never hit it..." Liu Mingan replied with a smile, with deep nostalgia in his eyes.

Jiang Ning walked to other places and kicked around. There was a pile of broken porcelain pieces in the kitchen. Only the big iron pot and the iron tongs for burning the fire were still intact.

Jiang Ning turned her head calmly and observed Liu Ming'an. She found that he was still trying to find more things there. She made a prompt decision, walked to the back of the house, and started digging a hole with a dagger.

Liu Ming'an was still immersed in his own thoughts when he suddenly heard Jiang Ning calling his name. He stood up and saw that Jiang Ning was squatting there doing something.

"What's wrong?" Liu Ming'an walked over and asked.

He saw Jiang Ning taking out a box from a hole in the ground. The box looked familiar. When Jiang Ning opened it, there was a pile of gold and silver inside.

"This..." Liu Ming'an was surprised.

Jiang Ning lied calmly, "I buried the box behind the house yesterday. Fortunately, we are not penniless. We can buy a house in town after we report to the authorities."

Liu Ming'an was shocked by Jiang Ning's foresight and murmured, "Jiang Ning, you are really smart!"

Jiang Ning had already heard the cow mooing, and said nothing else. She threw away the troublesome box, put the gold and silver pieces into the arms of the two of them, and then said to Liu Ming'an, "Go wash your hands, the village chief and others are coming."

The water tank was not burned because it had been placed outside the kitchen, but it was still cracked in half due to the high temperature, and there was still half a tank of water inside.

When the two walked towards the kitchen, they saw two black objects in the corridor, with bones and teeth vaguely visible. They were the two rabbits.

"What a pity! I should have eaten them if I had known." Jiang Ning said as she looked at the rabbit carcasses.

Liu Ming'an looked at the black ash with pity in his eyes: "It must be too painful to be burned alive."

Jiang Ning raised her eyebrows and said in a barely audible voice: "Fortunately, it was just rabbits..."

Liu Ming'an washed his hands stained with ash with water and wanted to wash his face. Jiang Ning reminded him: "Don't get it on your lips. There are a lot of drugs in this water."

Liu Ming'an paused, nodded, and washed his face carefully.

When Jiang Ning washed her hands and face and put on her veil, the village chief and Zhuzi came over with a bullock cart.

"Ming'an, let's go to the government office!" the village chief called out.

Zhao Qiang, who was tied to the tree, had also woken up and was struggling, but unfortunately, both of his hands were dislocated by Jiang Ning, and he had no strength at all. He could only kick around when Zhuzi and Liu Ming'an tried to untie his rope.

"Get out! Get out! I'm not going to the government office! Get out!" Zhao Qiang yelled.

Seeing Zhao Qiang being so dishonest, Jiang Ning narrowed her eyes and pulled Liu Ming'an aside to prevent him from being kicked.

Then several people watched Jiang Ning walk under the tree, coldly said "You don't know what life and death are", and then raised his hand to chop Zhao Qiang's neck, and the arrogant man immediately drooped his head and fainted again.

Jiang Ning didn't need help from others. She bent down and pulled the back collar of Zhao Qiang's clothes, dragging him onto the ox cart like a dead dog.

"Let's go." After doing all this, Jiang Ning said calmly.

The village chief and Zhuzi were dumbfounded by Jiang Ning's actions and looked at each other.

Zhuzi was a child after all, and he couldn't hide his words. He turned around and asked Liu Ming'an quietly: "Brother Ming'an, the wife you bought is so fierce. Does she beat you?"

In the past, Liu Ming'an would always rush to explain when he heard someone misunderstand the relationship between him and Jiang Ning. Now that he has realized his feelings, he always feels uncontrollable joy in his heart when he hears Zhuzi say the word "wife".

"Cough!" Liu Ming'an clenched his fist and coughed lightly to hide his emotions, but the look he gave Jiang Ning was unnaturally gentle.

"She never hit me. She treated me very well." Zhuzi heard Liu Ming'an say this.

Zhuzi expressed his disbelief. When he got on the ox cart, he still felt a lingering fear and sat far away from Jiang Ning.

The group of five arrived at Lingshan Town. People on the street looked at them sideways. The

five people walked straight to the county government office. Jiang Ning looked up at the four characters "Baoji County Government Office" on the vermilion plaque and felt a little emotional.

She had been shady most of her life and had done evil all her life. As a result, she walked into the "police station" as a "victim". It was really unpredictable.

Jiang Ning was thinking about something else. The village chief got off the car, walked to the big drum at the entrance of the government office, took out the drumstick and started beating the drum "dong dong dong".

After knocking for a while, three people came out from behind the door. The man in front was short, with a big belly, wearing a gauze hat on his head. He looked very arrogant. He looked at the five of them and said, "Who is beating the drum here?"

The village chief respectfully bowed and said, "Your Excellency, I am He Jizhong, and I have a case to file a complaint."

"Oh, then come in and tell me!" said the adult.

When he opened his eyes, he saw another person lying on the ox cart behind them. The man asked

again: "Who is that? What happened?" The village chief replied: "My lord, that is the thief we want to sue. He wanted to escape and was knocked unconscious."

"Oh~", the man stretched out his tone, turned his head and said to the two blue-clothed yamen runners behind him: "Go and bring him in."

"Yes!"

The two yamen runners responded crisply, walked to the ox cart, and carried the unconscious man on the left and right.

The man kept watching their actions, and when the two dragged the man on the ox cart, he finally saw the face of the so-called "thief" clearly.

"Zhao Qiang?"

The man who was originally holding the arrogance suddenly lost his composure, ran down the steps in a few steps, walked to Zhao Qiang's side, and stretched out his hand to take the man.

The two yamen runners saw Zhao Qiang's face clearly and were also filled with fear and doubt.

The village chief seemed to have expected this scene. He bowed again and said to the anxious official in a dignified manner: "Sir, this man is the thief I want to sue. Please help me!"

Jiang Ning knew that the clerk in front of him was Zhao Qiang's uncle!

Several people stopped talking and just looked at the clerk. Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, he had to handle it impartially.

"Bring him in!" said the clerk, and he was the first to step into the yamen.

"Yes!" The yamen runner replied, carefully carrying Zhao Qiang into the door, trying not to let him bump into anything.

The county yamen occupies a large area. Opposite the gate is a courtyard, and behind the courtyard is the court.

The clerk was full of anxiety, and from time to time he turned his head to look at Zhao Qiang, with obvious worry on his face.

"You said he was a thief, then what did he steal?"

The clerk still couldn't believe it. Although his nephew was a thief when he was young, he later brought him to the government office as a coach. Nothing happened under his nose. Even if he was idle all day, at most he would gamble and drink a little, and never got into trouble. How could he become a thief?

"My Lord, I don't know anything. It's just that some villagers complained that Coach Zhao stole and colluded with his accomplices to set a fire. I am the head of the village and I can't just stand by and watch." The village chief answered honestly.

At this time, everyone walked to the courtyard. The clerk stopped and turned to look at the others: "That means, one of you filed a complaint?"

Liu Ming'an stepped forward and bowed, "Your Excellency, I am Liu Ming'an, the one who filed the complaint."

"Where is the complaint? Let me see it first!" The clerk stretched out his hand to Liu Ming'an.

"This..." Liu Ming'an was stunned and forgot that there was such a thing. He could only answer: "Your Excellency, my house was burned down and I didn't have time to write a complaint."

The clerk frowned and said, "How can you file a complaint without a complaint? Go find someone to write a complaint first, and come back tomorrow."

"Then where is this thief?" Jiang Ning asked the clerk with a gloomy look.

"Detain him for the time being. Bring your complaint tomorrow for the trial!" The clerk waved his hands impatiently. The two yamen runners dragged Zhao Qiang to the other side of the court. He thought about it and followed them.