Chapter 285 Public outrage
Qin Huiyin sat up and shook her head: "I can't sleep, I don't want to sleep anymore."
This incident was a great shock to Qin Huiyin.
Since she came to this different time and space, she had experienced poverty, scolding, and even fistfighting with others in the village, but this was the first time she realized that she was only one step away from death.
If she hadn't played dumb just now, allowing that wretched nobleman to let down his guard and help her untie the ropes, she would have had no chance of saving herself.
"Can you tell your brother what happened just now?" Song Ruize stared at her expression and immediately changed the subject if he saw anything wrong.
Qin Huiyin took a deep breath and told him what had just happened.
She was still afraid and still had lingering fears, but she was safe now, and with the person she trusted the most. She didn't want to hide those life-threatening things from him.
"I played dumb and tricked him. He believed I was a fool and helped me untie him. As soon as I untied him, I stabbed him with the dagger under my pillow. I wanted to catch him by surprise, but I didn't expect that the thief was a martial artist. I had no choice but to deliberately push down all the candlesticks to make the fire burn quickly. While he and his minions were rushing to put out the fire, I quickly escaped. But there were too many of them, and they were all martial artists. They blocked the door tightly. I had to continue setting fire while avoiding their pursuit."
"Luckily, Brother Chen Yong was nearby and arrived quickly. Brother, I heard from that guy that he had raped other girls before and ended up with their heads and bodies separated. Also, the reason why this guy is so fearless is because he has a backer. If this case is exposed, I'm afraid it won't affect him at all since the officials are protecting each other."
"When officials protect each other, the people will be angry. Since this case involves so many innocent victims, the government should give the people an explanation. Just take a good rest, I will send someone to arrange the next things. The man has died in the fire, and his minions who survived can all serve as evidence."
As for how many survive, that's up to them.
This group of people committed many crimes following their master, and their hands are all stained with blood. It is not a pity that they die.
"It's my fault this time. I didn't protect you well. You tell me how to punish me, and I'll do whatever you say." Song Ruize blamed himself.
"Don't take all the blame on yourself. Even if we are brother and sister, we can't be together all the time. Those people have set their sights on me and will take action sooner or later." Qin Huiyin said, "But this incident also made me realize that I should disguise myself when I go out. How about I dress like a man in the future? Maybe it will be safer this way."
"If you like dressing like a man, then dress like a man. If you don't like it, just for safety's sake, I promise you that I won't let you make any mistakes again."
"Don't tell my mother about this. I'm fine now. If she knew, she would worry when I go out in the future, which would only cause her unnecessary troubles."
Song Ruize hugged her and stroked her hair gently: "What a silly girl."
She was the one who was frightened, but she always thought about others. Besides business, her little mind was filled with family. She didn't feel tired at all.
The more considerate she was, the more he blamed himself and felt guilty.
He couldn't reshape time, so he let those people receive the punishment they deserved.
At dawn, Song Ruize took Qin Huiyin to have breakfast. After breakfast, they returned to the inn where they were staying. Coincidentally, Chen Yong and Jiang Qibin came out and were about to look for them.
"Brother Ze, we have handed the evidence to the families of the victims. They are making a scene outside the government office, demanding an explanation from the government."
“What was the government’s reaction?”
"The local magistrate had been deaf and dumb before, not daring to provoke the murderer behind the scenes. Now all the evidence is in front of him, and the murderer died in the fire, so he poses no threat to him. He could just drag out the thief's minions to appease the public anger. In addition, the thief's property was burned, but a golden house was found. The magistrate might have wanted to embezzle it."
"Let him be greedy. If he is not greedy, how can we get evidence to continue to appeal and make the inaction county magistrate pay for his own mess?" Song Ruize said calmly, "Keep watching this case."
Qin Huiyin was a little worried.
"Brother, if that person really has a backer, will we get into trouble?"
Song Ruize touched her head and said, "If this person is really a relative of a noble in the capital, and was sent to this remote place, I'm afraid he is not favored. Even if he is favored, he started the fire himself and was burned to death in the fire. We didn't kill him. He committed a crime and aroused public anger. It was because of his many evil deeds that we cannot be blamed."
Song Ruize didn't want to be as considerate as Qin Huiyin. She was frightened, and all she could think about was whether she would cause trouble for him and whether she would make her family worry.
He simply let Chen Yong and Jiang Qibin take charge of the follow-up of the case, and he was only responsible for accompanying her. Of course, he also asked the local tyrants for help in finding people. He specially brought Qin Huiyin to a banquet for those brothers who helped, which was also a way to show his face in front of them, so that Qin Huiyin would not have no one to help her when she encountered trouble in the future.
The local tyrant obviously knew something about this person, and he pulled Song Ruize to a corner and whispered to him for a long time.
At the government office, the victims' families blocked the gate of the government office for several days, and everyone in the city knew how those innocent girls died tragically. The government could not bear the pressure of public anger, and just as Song Ruize said, they took the thief's henchmen out and beheaded them in public to appease the public anger.
As for the cause of the thief's death, they claimed that it was retribution and punishment from God, who burned him to death in his own home.
Qin Huiyin and Song Ruize stayed there for a few more days. They watched those lackeys being beheaded, and then the prefect came after hearing the news, searched the county magistrate's house, and found a large amount of gold. The magistrate could no longer deny the charge of corruption.
The prefect continued to investigate and found out that the county magistrate had known who the culprit was in this case, but he had been doing nothing and turning a blind eye to ensure safety.
Now the case that had been piled up for several years was turned up, and the criminals involved in the case received the punishment they deserved. The people praised the prefect and called him a great and honest judge.
Song Ruize took Qin Huiyin away from that place of trouble.
On the way, Jiang Qibin, who was riding well, suddenly changed his expression. He rode to catch up with Chen Yong in front of him and said in a low voice: "Something is wrong."
"What?" Chen Yong said calmly.
"I suddenly remembered something was wrong." Jiang Qibin said, "There's something wrong with that corpse, that thief's corpse. I'm afraid the real thief is not dead."
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