Chapter 192 - Chapter 192: Chapter 192: Unparalleled Courage (1/2)
Chapter 192: Chapter 192: Unparalleled Courage
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“How dare you! I am the Magistrate’s wife, you outrageous lot! Surrounding an official’s family is no minor crime. It’s enough to throw you all into the deepest cells of the prison. It would be wiser for your master to come and speak to me directly. Otherwise, you shall regret it.”
“If you want our master to come and talk, even if you truly were the Magistrate’s wife, you wouldn’t be qualified. What’s more for an impostor like you. You keep claiming to be the Magistrate’s wife, but do you have any proof?”
“What more proof do I need? I am indeed the Magistrate’s wife, genuine and irreplaceable. Do I need to prove myself to a mere servant?” The Magistrate’s wife was getting more irritated. Since when was it a servant girl’s place to question her? It wasn’t that there was no evidence; she simply felt a servant girl was not worthy to demand it.
However, the old woman accompanying the Magistrate’s wife sensed something amiss. Madam’s identity document was in her keeping, carried whenever they traveled in case of emergency. When she went to look for it now, it was gone, and her face went pale with fear.
“Madam, your identity document is missing.”
“What did you say? Wasn’t my identity document well kept with you? How could it go missing?!” Mrs. Zhang realized upon hearing that her identity document was gone that this was a trap designed specifically for her, and she began to feel panicked.
“Madam, I checked everything before we left, and I truly don’t know how it disappeared.” The old woman knelt on the ground, her face struck with terror, fully aware that they had fallen into someone else’s trap, and certain that with the Madam’s temperament, she would not be spared.
“Hmph, what do you mean ‘missing’? How can something as crucial as an identity document just vanish? It’s clear you’re making a farce to deceive us, nothing but a bunch of liars! Servants, seize these duplicitous scammers and take them to the County government!”
“We are not scammers! Let Su Wenyue come out, she can prove our identity.”
“Still trying to deceive us? The Miss is pregnant at the moment, who knows what schemes you might be harboring. We dare not risk letting the Miss come out. Say whatever you have to say to the Magistrate.”
Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Sun had not expected the Su Family to do more than make idle threats, yet they truly dared to do so. They were actually tied up and delivered to the County government. They were not afraid of going to the County government, in fact, they planned to demand that Magistrate Chu severely penalize the people of the Su Family. But being tied up and sent off in such a manner was deeply humiliating.
“You bunch of scoundrels! How dare you treat me in this way? When we arrive at the County government, I will ensure that you are all punished!” Mrs. Zhang had truly been shaken today. The verbal affronts were one thing, but being escorted to the County government like a criminal was unprecedented in her life. She feared that her name would become notorious throughout the Daming Dynasty for being captured by a mere merchant. Even if the culprits were punished later, the honor she had lost would not be restored.