Chapter 1862: Chapter 1859: Responding
The crowd suddenly erupted with many citizens shouting angrily, furious at injustice.
Madam Wang and Chu Cai rushed over to witness this scene.
“Is it really true? Murder in the street?”
“If it’s not true, then why don’t the officials clarify?”
“But the Chu family are good people. Their fabric clothes are the cheapest, and they invented a new type of loom. Our lives are better because of them.”
“Who knows what these officials are doing in private? If they’re really negligently killing people, would we even know?”
“If you ask me, the lack of reaction for so long is a sign of a guilty conscience.”
“Even though that person bumped into the carriage, it wasn’t intentional! Directly beating and killing someone is too much, isn’t it?”
“Aren’t all officials like this?”
Madam Wang listened to these slanderous words, her chest heaving with anger: “This is too much, you all…”
Before she could finish her sentence, Chu Cai covered her mouth with his hand.
He pulled her towards the medical clinic, but they were unlucky as the entrance was guarded by bailiffs, neither able to enter nor leave. Chu Cai could only anxiously wait nearby: “Don’t speak. Someone must be trying to frame Third Brother. If we speak up, it won’t be good for him. I believe Third Brother can definitely resolve this.”
“Can he really?” Madam Wang was a bit anxious, but since she couldn’t go in, she could only stomp her feet in place.
At this moment.
Two guards dragged a man out, who was indeed the person involved.
“What’s the motion about? Follow the rules, and handle it accordingly.” The guard said coldly, looking at the weeping woman and children in front of him: “You, as the family of those involved, also need to be interrogated clearly.”
“Minister Zheng, take them away.”
The leading bailiff saw the man e out and a flash of surprise crossed his eyes, wanting to find someone to confirm.
Before he could speak, the guard’s retort stopped him: “Why? Isn’t Minister Zheng here to resolve disputes?”
“According to the rules, he needs to be jailed for interrogation. Does Minister Zheng have some difficulties? Or is he unfamiliar with the yamen’s procedures?”
Minister Zheng chuckled: “You’re joking, I’ll handle it right away.”
Saying that, he waved his hand, signaling the bailiffs to take the woman and children away.
The woman’s cries halted abruptly, looking at the man incredulously: “… Husband, are you really okay?”
“No, no problem.” The man looked terrified: “I-I didn’t do it on purpose.”
The woman screamed out: “You’re not my husband, you must have replaced him.”
Perhaps it was a woman’s intuition, she always felt that the man who looked like her husband wasn’t the one she was once close to.
“Madam, are you here to cause trouble? Your husband ran into someone, e what may, he must go to the yamen. Previously, speculations were fine, but now that he’s out, you still make a fuss. Is it that the weak are always right?”
“Going by what you said, I ran someone over and then brought my entire family, kowtowed, cried a bit, and it’s over?” The guard finished these caustic words, his mouth twitching subtly.
Suddenly, he felt nostalgic for old Lu Chuan. If the boss were here, he wouldn’t have to say such embarrassing things, right?
Citizens gathered around heard this, and were left speechless, their discussions quieter.
The guard waved his hand, immediately having people take the woman away.
Minister Zheng reached out to stop them, only to see Chu Heng walk out. Opposite him, his icy gaze made him instinctively look away.
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