Shu Yu snorted coldly, lifting her foot to kick down the lead man, then swiftly sidestepping and flipping another over her shoulder.
Turning back, Ying Xi had also taken down two.
The crowd: "..." Aren’t you a weak woman? Aren’t you unable to beat them?
The middle-aged man was stunned, instinctively taking a few steps back.
Others also dared not step forward, only enclosing a loose circle. Shu Yu moved forward, and the circle moved with her.
The back courtyard wall had already collapsed by more than half, and Shu Yu easily led the horse out the door.
The middle-aged man realized this situation couldn’t continue; if it did, they would be gone.
At this mont, soone shouted, "Officers are coming."
Shu Yu looked up and indeed saw two officers dressed as constables walking this way, unsure if they happened to pass by or were called by soone.
Soone in the crowd called out to Shu Yu, "Miss, didn’t you say you wanted to report to the officials? The bailiff ca just in ti."
Shu Yu glanced at that person; why do these people love to watch the commotion so much?
But he wasn’t the only one who loved chaos; soone in the crowd was already shouting loudly, "Bailiff, soone here wants to report to the officials."
Shu Yu twitched her mouth; the middle-aged man’s face slightly changed.
Things had co to this point, and there was no other way.
The middle-aged man saw the bailiff looking this way and hurriedly went up to et him.
Sharp-eyed, Shu Yu saw the man hand a piece of silver to the bailiff, who glanced at him and then accepted it.
Ying Xi leaned closer to Shu Yu and whispered, "Miss, those officers may not be on our side."
"Mm, let’s make a big fuss later and go straight to the governnt office and find the magistrate."
After all, she was soone with status now, unlikely to suffer losses over such trivial matters, right?
Just as she was speaking, the two officers approached, looked at Shu Yu, then at her beside the White Horse, and said, "Are you the one who wants to report?"
Before Shu Yu could speak, they continued, "Wait a bit, we have sothing to deal with now, we’ll discuss the details later. Alright, step back a bit now, don’t block the way."
Shu Yu thought they would imdiately make a move against her, unexpectedly they asked her to wait?
The officers were already waving people back, "I was wondering why there were so many people here, even the courtyard wall is half-collapsed. Alright, alright, don’t crowd around, move back a bit more."
As soon as they finished speaking, they saw two carriages coming from not far down the street.
Soone beside Shu Yu whispered, "Isn’t that the magistrate’s carriage?"
Shu Yu suddenly realized, the magistrate had business passing through this street; were these two officers clearing the way?
Just as she was thinking, the two carriages passed by in front of them.
From the first carriage, soone drew back the curtain to look outside, directly eting Shu Yu’s gaze.
"Lord Wan??" Shu Yu exclaid in surprise.
Wasn’t this the Ministry of Personnel official who went to Linzhang Prefecture to announce an edict before?
Shu Yu had t Lord Wan once; when Yao Tianqin was reinstated, it was Lord Wan who announced the edict and brought him back.
He seed to have been injured or fallen ill and was saved by the dicine Madam Hou had.
When Yao Tianqin left Heichang County, Shu Yu went to see him off and t Lord Wan at that ti.
Wasn’t he serving in the capital? Why had he co to Shangyang Prefecture? Surely he wasn’t here to announce another edict?
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