The county magistrate's daughter only wants to farm

When I came back from Zhuangzi and passed by the east city market, I suddenly heard a series of shouting and chasing from inside.

"catch him!"

"Quick, don't let him get away!"

"The boss said there will be a reward for catching him!!!"

I saw a young man and an follower fleeing from the market in a panic. While running, they kept looking back from time to time.

Chasing not far behind the two men was a group of strong men armed with sticks.

Suddenly, the young man running in front tripped and fell. His followers hurriedly pulled him up, but the people behind him had already caught up.

"Run! Why aren't you running anymore?!"

Several people surrounded the master and servant. One of them, who looked like a manager, spoke in an angry tone and kicked the two people on the ground.

"What do you want to do? Come at me if you have the guts, don't touch my master!" The follower blocked the kick for his master.

"Yo~~~ Quite sincere!"

"But your master stole our master's things, so it's not so easy to let it go."

"Bullshit! Framed in broad daylight! Do you have any law in your eyes?" The young man was very angry.

"The king's law?" The steward sneered, "When I catch you and bring you back, I'll let you see what the king's law is!"

After that, the steward waved his hand and said, "Take them all back to me!"

Gu Yin whispered to Little Li, then walked forward with Pearl: "Wait!"

Someone actually dared to come out to stop them. The steward looked for the source of the voice and saw that it was just a girl. He didn't take Gu Yin seriously at all and turned around to continue ordering: "Take her away!"

"Stop!!!" Pearl yelled, "Didn't you hear our lady yelling at you to slow down?"

The steward glanced at Zhenzhu and said, "What if she heard it? What if she didn't hear it? Who does your young lady think she is? How dare she interfere in our master's affairs?"

Pearl stepped forward unconsciously: "You! My lady is..."

"Zhenzhu." Gu Yin pulled Zhenzhu back and looked at the manager. "What do you want to do by arresting people on the street?"

"What we do is none of your business! You are a girl, why don't you stay in your boudoir and embroider instead of coming out to meddle in other people's business!"

"You are committing violence and arresting people in the streets of Ning County. Any citizen of Ning County is qualified to stop you!"

"He stole our master's things. Whoever dares to stop us will be arrested!" The steward was obviously impatient and threatened viciously.

"You are framing me! I didn't do it!" The boy defended himself at the right time.

Gu Yin followed up and said, "Did you see that? He said no. You can't just arrest him. If there is anything, you can go to the county government office to investigate!"

"It's up to our master whether there is any!" The steward was already impatient and waved his hand at them, "Take them away!"

Having said that, he forced the two of them to walk back.

The boy was pinned down and couldn't break free. In desperation, he turned around and shouted to Gu Yin, "Call the police! Help me call the police!"

"Miss, what should we do?" Pearl stamped her feet, looking anxious, "Let's go back to find grandpa!"

"Why are you in such a hurry? Look." Gu Yin pointed forward with her mouth.

Pearl looked over and was instantly happy.

It turned out that the yamen runners had arrived.

"Let's go to the government office and watch the fun!"

……

County Hall Lobby

The young master, his servant and the steward all knelt on the ground.

"Who is in the hall?" Gu Huaiyi asked as he slammed the gavel.

"I am Qian Rong, the owner of a grocery store that travels all over the country. Nice to meet you, sir." The manager bowed and answered first.

"Greetings, sir." The young man saluted politely, "I am Zhai Tianyou, and I followed my father to Ning County to do business."

"What did you conflict about?" Gu Huaiyi continued to ask.

"Your Excellency, this Zhai Tianyou came to my shop and I treated him well. However, he started to pick and choose in the shop. Not only that, after I weighed the goods, he falsely accused me of shortchanging them. He also left in a hurry without listening to my explanation. How can you say that he came here to do business? He is clearly here to cause trouble!" Qian Rong was the first to complain.

When the onlookers heard him say this, they all nodded in agreement.

Zhai Tianyou and his servant widened their eyes, their faces flushed red, and stared at Qian Rong angrily, unable to speak.

"Even so, there is no such thing as forced buying or selling in business. Why did you send people to arrest them?"

Hearing this, Qian Rong looked distressed and said, "I know that business is based on mutual consent. Zhai Tianyou falsely accused me of shortchanging him and left angrily. I didn't want to make a fuss about it."

Qian Rong said this with an excited tone, "But when I returned to the store, I found that the jade pendant that the master gave me was gone!"

"That jade pendant is worth a fortune! It's all my fault for being careless and leaving it on the counter..."

Qian Rong looked like he was crying and covered his face with his sleeves.

The onlookers were confused and began to blame Zhai Tianyou.

"He looked bright and clear-headed during the day, but I didn't expect him to be a thief."

"Who said it wasn't true? You can do anything at such a young age."

"Perhaps it is precisely because of his appearance that he would not arouse suspicion."

However, Zhenzhu, who witnessed the entire process of Qian Rong arresting people, did not think so, especially since Zhai Tianyou asked them to report to the police.

If he really was the one who stole the jade pendant, he would have been busy hiding from the government, so why would he ask them to report it to the police?

"Zhai Tianyou, what do you say?" Gu Huaiyi said in a deep voice.

Zhai Tianyou was poured a basin of cold water, and this time he was righteous! Hearing Gu Huaiyi's question, he immediately started to complain like pouring beans.

"I didn't! I've never seen the damn jade pendant he was talking about!"

"I did go to his store today to look at the goods, and I took a fancy to two large bags of dry goods."

"But I mentioned the goods before they weighed them, and the weight they weighed was far different from my own estimate. I didn't trust their scale, so I asked to use my own scale to weigh it again, but Shopkeeper Qian was unwilling to do so."

"He doesn't even want to re-weigh the goods, which means he has something to hide. If that's the case, why should I buy the goods from him?"

"So I left with my followers in a rage, but not long after we walked, we saw Shopkeeper Qian and a group of strong men holding wooden clubs chasing us!"

"Seeing this, we ran as fast as we could, but we were caught up just as we reached the market entrance."

"Luckily, we met a kind lady who helped us report the crime to the authorities. Otherwise, we would have been arrested by Manager Qian by now, and who knows what would have happened to us!"

Being in the court, Zhai Tianyou felt safe, and after saying this, he snorted viciously at Qian Rong.

"Oh? Is the lady you mentioned here present?"

Since Zhai Tianyou mentioned the witness, Gu Huaiyi would inevitably have to find the witness.

Thus, Gu Yin went from being a spectator to a witness.

When Gu Huaiyi saw that it was Gu Yin, he was stunned for a moment, and then he asked the usual questions as if nothing had happened.

Gu Yin told him what she had seen, without bias.

What no one expected was that after Gu Yin finished speaking, Qian Rong suddenly pointed at her and said hatefully: "You two are actually in the same group!"