mtl008 Chapter 122: Beat You
Chapter 122: Beat You
It was also the first time that Shen Yitian had seen such a yamen runner. The person who reported to the police did not explain anything clearly, but he wanted to interrogate the person who came from the capital.
Well, quite unique.
But people are not always so stubborn for no reason. There must be something that others don’t know.
Sure enough, after hearing what Yuan Dutou said, the clerk's eyes flickered.
"Then, how do you prove that you didn't hire someone to impersonate you?" He still refused to accept it.
Yuan Dutou was amused. "Then how can you prove that I hired someone to impersonate you? What do you think escorting exiled prisoners is? What good job is that?"
They even hired someone to pretend to be an exiled prisoner. How could they come up with that?
"Someone, go and get the magistrate. I'd like to see who's behind this investigation."
As soon as Yuan Dutou waved his hand, Brother Hu immediately stood up.
He walked so fast that the clerk who came to check on him had no time to stop him.
This time, Xiao Yu did not come to smooth things over and just stood silently behind Yuan Dutou.
The prisoners behind them watched intently, and no one dared to say anything.
Only Shen Yitian was eating and watching the show, looking extremely relaxed.
Not only was she relaxed, she was also wearing the clothes that Grandma Li had just bought for her. The clothes were made of the finest sarok fabric, which was cool and refreshing, and the patterns were very beautiful.
The clerk noticed her relaxed appearance and the fact that she was wearing clothes that were different from the others. He pointed at her and asked, "Who is this person? Does she look like an exile? I'm afraid you guys have sent someone to impersonate her. Tell me, who are you impersonating?"
Shen Yitian widened her eyes. This guy was really stupid to an earth-shattering degree.
"Me? Impersonating?" She pointed at herself and asked with amusement.
"Yes, tell me who you are impersonating. I tell you, impersonating a convict is a serious crime. I urge you to confess the truth."
The petty official did not dare to act rudely when facing Yuan Dutou, but he was extremely fierce when facing Shen Yitian.
After all, Yuan Dutou is an official, but Shen Yitian is just a civilian. Oh no, she is a prisoner, not even a civilian.
When exiled prisoners, the officers could beat and scold them as they pleased, without any reasoning at all.
Shen Yitian originally wanted to watch the fun, but she didn't expect that this thing would happen to her.
She looked at Yuan Dutou, then at Yue Niang beside her.
"Tell me, who am I impersonating?" Finally, she looked at the clerk and asked.
"I asked you to tell me, and you still asked me?" The clerk stared in astonishment and asked.
"Yeah, you said I was impersonating someone, so why don't you tell me who I was impersonating."
The problem was thrown back on the clerk.
The clerk was overwhelmed. He was clearly the one asking the questions, but why did the questions always come back to him in the end?
"Come here, catch her and give her ten beatings first." He waved his hand and called directly to the brothers behind him.
It's funny. If he can't confront Yuan Dutou head-on, how can he be intimidated by Shen Yitian?
The yamen runners he brought with him were no pushovers either. Upon hearing the words, they rushed out and were about to catch Shen Yitian.
Shen Yitian's expression remained unchanged, and she sat down slowly.
The clerk was just about to say that she didn't take him seriously when Xiao Wei appeared in front of Shen Yitian.
He was injured, so he didn't attack before the other party had a chance to do so.
But with him standing in front of them, the two yamen runners had no way of getting close to Shen Yitian.
"Who are you? How dare you stop me from arresting someone and interrogating him?" The clerk narrowed his eyes and was about to attack.
Yuan Dutou snorted coldly: "I am escorting a prisoner, and you torture him just like that?"
He was just thinking of giving the kid some advice, but now it seems unnecessary.
"Let's see who dares to move." He waved his hand.
Xiao Yu and other officials suddenly stood in front of Xiao Yu. Before anyone could react, the two yamen runners were pushed far away.
The petty official was so angry that his teeth were itching, but he couldn't really fight with the group of escorting officials from the capital.
The atmosphere became tense again.
When the clerk said he wanted to arrest Shen Yitian for interrogation, Song Yuerong and others got excited.
I thought Shen Yitian would finally feel the beating they received.
Unexpectedly, they couldn't even touch Shen Yitian.
"A bunch of trash." Song Yuerong cursed inwardly, but didn't dare to speak loudly.
The two sides remained in a stalemate until Brother Hu invited the county magistrate, who first bowed to Yuan Dutou when he arrived.
"Oh, what's going on? Is there any misunderstanding?" He bowed and looked at the two of them, asking with a smile.
He was not wearing official uniform. If Brother Hu had not personally invited him, Shen Yitian would never have associated this smiling man with the words "local official".
"Sir, there is someone missing from the exile team, but the captain refuses to let us investigate." When the clerk saw the magistrate coming, he felt like he had seen his backbone, and immediately went up to complain.
"There are fewer people in the exile team? Where did you get the news?" The magistrate asked with a frown, his smile slightly reduced.
"This woodcutter came to report to the official, saying that he saw with his own eyes that someone from this exile group ran away." He pulled the young man in front of the county magistrate.
"Oh, someone reported it to the police, then why didn't I know about it?" The magistrate took a look at the young man, and his smile disappeared instantly, replaced by a bit of majesty.
The clerk said, "Just now, I ran into him when I was out on patrol with my brothers. He saw it with his own eyes..."
"Bastard!" the magistrate shouted angrily, and the clerk's voice, which was about to continue, stopped abruptly.
"Since it's a report to the authorities, you should bring him to see me or your county magistrate. How can you bring people here to interrogate without permission?"
Shen Yitian raised her eyebrows. Well, now this person looks like a parent official, and is quite majestic.
Yuan Dutou invited the county magistrate to sit down, and the county magistrate had already ordered someone to bring the young man over.
"Since you are the one reporting this to the police, please state your name first, your age, and where you are from. Then tell me where you saw the prisoner escape, whether she is a man or a woman, how old she is, where she ran to, when she fled, and how long it has been since she escaped."
The magistrate threw out a series of questions in one breath, which were even more detailed than those asked by Yuan Dutou.
The young man knelt on the ground in a daze, hesitating for a long time before he could only say that his last name was Luo and that he was from Youyang Village in Liuyuan County.
As for whether the prisoner was a man or a woman, how old he was, etc., he couldn't say a single word.
Shen Yitian laughed when he saw this, but of course he couldn't say anything because he didn't see anyone running away.
The magistrate was patient at first and waited for him to speak, but when he hesitated for a long time and couldn't explain himself clearly, he finally got angry.
"How dare you, a rude and unruly person, tease me like this!"
He slammed the table and waved his hand to have the young man surnamed Luo dragged out and beaten with a stick.
The board that just failed to hit Shen Yitian was about to fall on him.
Seeing the stern look on the magistrate's face, the young man was afraid: "Please spare my life, sir. It was the exiled prisoners who told me that there were people missing from the team and asked me to report it to the authorities!"