You confiscated my property, I exiled you, why are you crying when the treasury is empty?

When Su Wanning and the others arrived in the city, those people were still tied up and thrown in the yard.

Mo Lan followed them and went directly to the government office to report the case. Soon, several officials came to Su Wanning's yard.

Several officers saw one of them wearing an officer's uniform and walked up to him, looking at him with disgust. "Li Xiaoliu, you are no longer a government official. Why are you still walking around in your official uniform?"

Su Wanning looked at the man in official uniform lying on the ground, who was now looking at the people around him with resentment, "Bah, wasn't it the time when my brother-in-law was on duty and you asked me to do something for you?"

"Your brother-in-law has not been the head of the government office for a long time. The current county magistrate is an honest official transferred from other places. Don't even think about using money to escape the charges." One of the officials said indignantly.

Li Xiaoliu had obviously thought of the outcome. He looked at the other person who was tied up beside him with a sinister look, and finally looked at Su Wanning with a playful expression, "We didn't do anything. It's useless even if we report it to the police."

Su Wanning looked at Li Xiaoliu, "Who said there's no evidence? I just exchanged a thousand taels of silver notes from the bank. You stole the notes yesterday, and now you're trying to steal things from my storeroom again. Luckily, I took them away in advance."

"When did I steal your one thousand taels of silver?" Li Xiaoliu shouted at Su Wanning.

She didn't steal it, but she would slander me. Anyway, Mo Lan had already put the banknotes away in advance.

She turned to the officers and said, "If you officials still don't believe me, you can ask the bank's owner. He can testify for me. He probably hasn't had time to process all these banknotes yet. You can go to his house and see if he has any."

When several officers heard Su Wanning say this, they immediately signaled to the two people behind them, and the two left immediately. The remaining officers took the person tied to the ground and walked towards the government office.

When we followed the official all the way to the government office, someone had already notified the county magistrate to come over.

She hardly spoke, but Mo Lan, who had returned, had already repeated everything.

The county magistrate slammed his board and said, "Li Xiaoliu, we have witnesses and evidence. Do you have anything else to explain?"

Su Wanning heard the familiar voice of the county magistrate and looked up at him, only to find that it was the county magistrate of the city where the academy was previously established. She had heard him say that he was demoted before, but she did not expect it to be such a coincidence.

She was just worried that she had so much money and had no place to spend it.

Meanwhile, Li Xiaoliu was stunned when he saw the one thousand taels of silver notes that the police had found in his residence. He hadn't even had time to take them, so why was he in such a state now? "I'm innocent. I didn't steal the notes."

Thinking of something, he pointed at a few beggars nearby and said, "It's them. They stole and wrongly accused me. I was at home the whole day yesterday and didn't go out. How could I have stolen anything?"

When several beggars saw that Li Xiaoliu had wronged them, they all stood up and pointed the finger at Li Xiaoliu.

"It's him. It's all him. He's the one who told us to keep an eye on him."

"Yes, it's Li Xiaoliu. He asked us to keep an eye on other people before."

"All the money he stole and the bribes he took were in a brick inside his bed."

"There was a discrepancy between the accounts of property in the government office before, and it was also caused by him."

"........."

The more they spoke, the gloomier the county magistrate's face became, and Li Xiaoliu's face became paler and paler. The county magistrate directly ordered people to search Li Xiaoliu's house again.

Soon the officers came back, but when they came back, some of them were carrying several boxes in their hands.

Several people put the box in front of Li Xiaoliu and opened it. Li Xiaoliu fell to the ground on the spot, "You can't do anything to me. My brother-in-law has someone above me. If anything happens to me, he will not forgive you."

Thinking of this, the panic in his heart disappeared. Anyway, nothing would happen to him. His brother-in-law had promised his sister that he would protect him for the rest of his life.

The county magistrate looked at Li Xiaoliu and slammed his hand. "Li Xiaoliu, do you have anything else to say?"

Li Xiaoliu admitted it right away, "Yes, I did it, so what?"

"The criminal, Li Xiaoliu, stole silver and embezzled public funds. According to the laws of the Dashun Kingdom, he shall be sentenced to twenty strokes of the cane and fifteen lashes, and imprisoned."

When Li Xiaoliu heard the County Magistrate's decision to execute him, the panic that had disappeared reappeared. He looked at the County Magistrate with horror and said, "You can't do this to me. Wait until my brother-in-law comes before executing me."

The official who had been waiting on the side, upon hearing that the county magistrate had already imposed the punishment, quickly walked forward, dragged Li Xiaoliu to the yard, and started beating him with a stick.

After all, this group of people had long been dissatisfied with Li Xiaoliu.

Everyone was hitting with all their might.

"Ahhh, you can't do this to me. My brother-in-law won't forgive you if he finds out."

"You guys stop it!"

One of the officers leaned close to Li Xiaoliu's ear and said, "Don't count on others to save you. This morning, the brother-in-law you mentioned registered the divorce agreement he had prepared before leaving.

You said that such a good marriage was ruined like this. I wonder if your parents would kick you out of the house if they knew that it was you who broke up your sister's originally harmonious family?

Oh, no, you will probably spend the rest of your life in a dark cage."

After hearing this, Li Xiaoliu broke out in a cold sweat, his mind full of the news that his sister had been divorced.

Then he was hit a few more times and passed out.

The only sound in the yard was the beating of the board. Until the beating stopped, the county magistrate handed his silver medal of one thousand taels to Su Wanning.

"If we can find the owners of these things, we will register them and return them. If we can't find them, we will donate all the money to Keats Church." The county magistrate said, looking at the boxes on the ground.

After saying that, she was about to leave, but Su Wanning stopped her in advance.

The county magistrate turned and looked at Su Wanning, "Miss, is there anything else?"

She was not sad to see that the county magistrate did not remember her. After all, they had only met once. If she had not always remembered the mole between the county magistrate's eyebrows, she might not have remembered it.

"I heard that a school is going to be built in the city, and I want to contribute. Do you know who is behind the construction of the school?"

"My wife is in charge of this matter. If the girl wants to donate, I will ask her to come over later." The county magistrate replied.

Su Wanning refused, "How dare I? I wonder where your current residence is? I want to visit you in person."

The county magistrate glanced at Su Wanning. Since their home address wasn't private, he simply told her, "It's the first house in the alley behind the government office."

Su Wanning nodded and took her leave to the county magistrate.

Zhan Beiwang didn't understand why Su Wanning suddenly thought of donating money, but since she must have her reasons for doing so, he naturally didn't ask any more questions.

He soon arrived at the house that the county magistrate mentioned. Thinking that he was going to visit the female relatives, he asked Zhan Beiwang to wait at the door.