Marry my elder sister? Fine! I'll give you the letter of annulment and marry someone else.

A scream suddenly rang out, and the man's face lost color as he looked at his hanging hand.

Ah Luan swung the hammer from behind and looked at Song Chenfeng with dissatisfaction, "Didn't we agree that I would come? Why are you trying to steal it?"

Song Chenfeng was embarrassed, "If you hit him with that hammer, he would have gone to heaven immediately."

Ah Luan curled her lips and said, "I already know how to control my strength."

Song Chenfeng had now mastered the trick to getting along with A-luan. He immediately agreed and chimed in, "Yes, yes, you're the best. Next time, I'll let you make the first move."

Only then did A-luan's face look better.

At the same time, the store became chaotic because the man was injured.

"Help! Someone's killing someone! The owner of the rouge shop is killing someone."

"Just because you have an official father, you can do whatever you want. Where is justice?"

"Report to the police! You are bullying us ordinary people. We want to report you to the police."

They immediately confused right and wrong and started shouting and making a fuss, as if they were determined to turn the store upside down.

Song Zhi, however, was not at all panicked. She smiled kindly and said, "Report to the police? Good suggestion. I'll satisfy you."

She moved to the side, and a group of officers and soldiers gathered around her in an orderly manner.

The people inside were dumbfounded, "You...you are serious!"

"if not."

Song Zhi smiled and said, "I am very happy to help others."

Knowing that the visitor had ill intentions, she had someone report to the authorities when she first arrived here. Now the timing for the officers and soldiers to arrive was just right.

Those people's faces changed drastically, and they scattered in all directions to escape, but the officers and soldiers had surrounded the place tightly, so they had no chance to run away.

In this way, the entire group was arrested and taken to the yamen.

The man with a broken hand was simply bandaged. They pretended to be calm and insisted that they just went in to look for their sister, but Song Zhizong injured them for no reason.

I thought that as long as they insisted on not saying anything, they could get away with it, but Song Zhi came up with an idea from nowhere and said:

"You can find someone, but smashing my shop like a bandit is nothing. What kind of good person would just go in and smash my shop without thinking? This is unacceptable. My shop can't be smashed for nothing. You must compensate for all the losses."

Her slender fingers, like green onions, flew flexibly on the abacus. After a while, she presented the abacus to the prefect and put on a proper smile.

"Sir, these are the losses I incurred after my shop was smashed and vandalized today. Please seek justice for me."

The prefect had already ordered people to investigate the whole story and naturally knew that what Song Zhi said was true.

The case was not difficult and the verdict was quickly announced, ordering the group of men to compensate Song Zhi with one hundred taels of silver.

Upon hearing this result, the men were immediately thrown into chaos and began to blame each other right in the yamen.

"One hundred taels! How can we afford one hundred taels? Even if we sell our entire family, we still wouldn't have that much."

"That's right, Wang Er, we followed you here to cause trouble because you said there was something to gain, so why do we have to pay for it?"

"Anyway, we don't have any money. If we need compensation, we should go to the two Wang brothers. We just follow their orders."

Wang Er, the man whose wrist was broken by Song Chenfeng, was pushed out by the crowd and his expression was unpredictable at this time.

He looked at his companions behind him who had turned against him without warning, then looked at Song Zhi who seemed to be enjoying the show, and fell to his knees with a plop.

"Sir, I am innocent. We destroyed the shop because we were concerned for my little sister's safety. In a moment of panic, we lost our composure. This was an unintentional mistake. I hope you will show some mercy."

Wang Er started to play the victim, "We are all poor people from Gou'er Alley. I believe everyone knows our situation. We can't even support ourselves, so how can we expect a hundred taels of silver as compensation?"

As he spoke, he touched his eyes hypocritically, expressing his sorrow to the extreme.

"I have an eighty-year-old mother and a young boy at home. Please have mercy on us, sir."

As he spoke, Wang Er started to kowtow violently.

After watching Wang Er's performance, the others quickly reacted and started to kowtow together.

"Please, sir, have mercy on us. Please, sir, have mercy on us."

The whole room was filled with pleadings, as if his were truly a group of innocent and unfortunate people.

The prefect looked at Song Zhi with embarrassment, "Miss Song, everyone knows the conditions in Gouer Lane. These people are indeed..."

"Without rules, there's no order. If you do something wrong, you must pay the price. Can you just cry and get away with it? If I let them off easily today, wouldn't that tell everyone in the world that the laws of Tianqi are just for show? If you make a mistake, you just need to kneel down here, kowtow, and cry and you can get away with it."

Before the prefect could finish speaking, Song Zhi interrupted him in a cold voice.

This statement can be taken lightly or seriously, and can be interpreted as either a minor or a minor one. To put it mildly, it means that the magistrate is a goody-goody and does not understand the situation. To put it seriously, it means that a dignified official is exonerating the criminal when the case is clear, which is suspected of being a contempt for the law.

The prefect broke out in a cold sweat. "Miss Song, you are too serious. I have no intention of letting them off lightly. They made a mistake and should bear the consequences. They have three days to pay compensation, otherwise they will all be imprisoned and await their punishment."

"That's pretty much it."

A Luan silently put down the hammer in the back. She was furious at what she heard just now. If Song Chenfeng had not stopped her quickly, the hammer would have been on the magistrate's head.

The magistrate survived the disaster, sweat pouring down his forehead.

Wang Er's plan failed, and he stumbled to his knees in front of Song Zhi. "Miss Song, please, this was an unintentional mistake. Could you please forgive us? One hundred taels of silver may not seem like much to you, but for the likes of us, we can't save that much even if we don't eat or drink for three years."

"Please, Miss Song, we know we were wrong."

The men who had looked ferocious before put away their arrogant expressions, and their humble appearance looked extremely pitiful.

If it were a young lady who was naive to the ways of the world, she might really be deceived by them.

But Song Zhi saw through their purpose from the beginning, so how could he be soft-hearted at this moment?

"Did I tell you to smash the store without explanation? Why didn't you think about the consequences before you took action? Now you know you can't afford the compensation?"

"You say one hundred taels isn't much to me. Yes, that's the truth, but the things my store lost are real. Why should I suffer this loss and endure it all just because I don't need money?"

"It's useless for you to say anything today. You must compensate me for this money."

Song Zhi's voice was resounding and he refused to give in.

Seeing that she had no intention of letting them go, Wang Er's face turned sullen, his eyes flashing with ferocity. He stood up from the ground and continued from a different angle: "How could those junks in your shop be worth a hundred taels? You're clearly ripping people off!"