The next day, which was this morning, he followed the instructions and stayed at the county government office, and gathered his men here. Seeing Wei Wu bringing a group of people back, he understood more or less, but he didn't expect that the water behind this small town was so deep.

Looking at the dozens of lives and names of officials in this small account book, Yu Jin slammed the table and shouted angrily at his men: "You are so audacious! You deserve to die!"

"Sir, spare your life!"

When several officials saw the body of the matchmaker, they understood what had happened. They were finally filled with anxiety all morning and knelt on the ground begging for mercy.

Only County Magistrate Wang, who had been temporarily released, was still standing there struggling, cupping his hands and saying in a literary manner, "I wonder what you mean, sir?"

"What do you mean?" Yu Jin was furious. He threw the account book in front of him and said, "Sir County Magistrate, why don't you take a good look to see if your name, Wang Ju, is on it!"

"At the end of September, you bought a servant from Renqian Yahang. On October 1st, you bought another servant from the Yahang. Why is your family so short of people?"

County Magistrate Wang bent down to pick up the account book and read every record on it. Every record of buying people was stamped by an official, and the records of several other officials were stamped with private seals. Only the record on which he left his handprint was a tampered private seal.

He was not worried to begin with, but he calmed down immediately. He smiled at the superior and said, "Sir, every household goes to a pawnbroker to buy people. You can't vent your anger on us just because there is something wrong with this pawnbroker."

Yu Jin said coldly: "Turn back for a moment."

County Magistrate Wang's steady heart paused, and he hurriedly flipped through the pages. When he saw records such as "A servant was sold at the end of the Xu month of the sixth year of Chengning and died" and "A servant was sold at the beginning of the Hai month of the sixth year of Chengning and survived for twenty days", his face changed drastically.

He didn't expect that the old hag in front of him would have such a trick up her sleeve. This was not at all the book that the human trafficker had given them to stamp when they bought the person!

She was playing tricks on them, hoping to use it to threaten them if something went wrong! He was careless!

County Magistrate Wang stared with bloodshot eyes at the old woman who was shot to death by two arrows on the ground.

"How is it?" Yu Jin asked sarcastically, "What else do you want to say, County Magistrate?"

County Magistrate Wang resisted the urge to shoot two more arrows at the cold corpse, and knelt down and said, "Sir, this person is mine after I bought him. How to deal with him is my business. Besides, many of them were executed because they made mistakes. I, the humble official, do not think I have done anything wrong. I must admit my guilt!"

Gu Qinghe didn't want to clash with the power of the government as a commoner, but she couldn't hold it back any longer. She shouted angrily: "Being an official is to plead for the people. How can you be an official if you don't care about human lives? How can you eat the food they provide and use the taxes they pay?!"

"If I use silver to buy you back and then kill you, will you agree? Do you agree? I don't know who gave you the face to say that you are innocent and you must admit it. I think you deserve to die! If I were to be in power like you, I would definitely kill you!"

"How dare you, ignorant boy! How dare you say in court that you want to assassinate an official of the imperial court? I want to see how many heads you have lost!"

County Magistrate Wang had never expected that a young man who appeared out of nowhere would dare to be so disrespectful to him. He stood up angrily and gave orders to the constables beside him, with all his authority, not taking the county magistrate above him seriously: "Come here, catch him!"

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