Transmigration: I, the Dragon Overlord, start by protecting my beautiful bride!

"Hey, he's ignoring me!" Liu San was getting impatient and was about to curse when Long Aotian came out of the room.

"Lord Shen, have you found anything out?" Liu San asked.

Long Aotian shrugged and immediately replied, "I'm truly ashamed. All those years I spent in the Town Night Watch, and I haven't found anything..."

These words elicited mixed reactions, with some pleased and others distressed.

"Hahahaha, I knew it!" Liu San was very happy. "Lord Shen, you don't need to blame yourself. After all, in everyone's eyes, it's normal that you couldn't find out. Hahahaha!"

"Alright, since we haven't found anything, let's take them away." Zhang Zhong breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that it was finally over.

His younger brother was the same way, to the point that he couldn't help but smile slightly.

"Hey, you seem to be having a good laugh," Long Aotian suddenly turned around, startling his younger brother.

"No way..." Although his younger brother was slightly flustered, he knew that Long Aotian hadn't found anything, so he remained quite firm. "I think you're just being too suspicious, Lord Shen. Even at this point, you still doubt me?"

Long Aotian smiled slightly; these were exactly the words he had been waiting for!

He shouted, "That's right, I, the Chief Inspector, suspect you!"

"Shen, you coward, what else are you going to do?!" Before his younger brother could even get angry, Zhang Zhong couldn't sit still any longer.

He pointed at Long Aotian and cursed, "A piece of trash is a piece of trash. If you can't find out, you can't find out. Why waste everyone's time? If you keep spouting nonsense, don't blame us for being impolite!"

Upon hearing this, Long Aotian scoffed and stood with his hands behind his back, saying, "Hmph, it's because of you bunch of good-for-nothings that the Zhenye Division has turned Qianzhou City into a breeding ground for bandits from all over the country!"

"What?! What did you say?!" Zhang Zhong was furious.

"Zhang Zhong, you're angry," Long Aotian said with a smile. "Your anger proves that I've told the truth!"

"You piece of trash, what right do you have to lecture us?" Zhang Zhong roared, pointing at Long Aotian. "Didn't you say that someone else stole the money pouch? Then show me the evidence!"

“That’s right, Lord Shen. I have always respected you as the Chief Inspector of this prefecture, which is why I have been so tolerant of you.” The old woman pointed at Long Aotian angrily and said, “But what is your intention in repeatedly doubting my son and slandering his innocence? If he really did commit petty theft, please provide evidence. Otherwise, please stop slandering my son!”

“Here is the evidence!”

The next second, to everyone's astonishment, Jiang Beichuan walked out of the backyard holding a pottery jar high!

Upon seeing this pottery jar, some people were puzzled, while others turned ashen-faced and their hearts pounded like drums!

"What kind of evidence is a broken jar?" Liu San said dismissively.

"Hmph, Kitagawa."

"understand!"

At Long Aotian's instruction, Jiang Beichuan raised his hand and smashed the pottery jar!

With a crisp cracking sound, a jar of pickled vegetables broke open, along with several strings of copper coins and two silver ingots worth five taels each.

The moment he saw the money, Long Aotian immediately threw his head back and laughed, saying to Shi Mingxiang, "Madam Shi, come up and see if this money is yours."

Upon hearing this, Shi Mingxiang immediately stepped forward, picked up the money from the ground, and discovered that it matched the missing money in the purse perfectly!

"Yes, Lord Shen, these are the coins I lost from my purse, and the amounts match!" Shi Mingxiang replied.

Long Aotian immediately threw his head back and laughed wildly: "Hahahahahahahahaha! Hehehehehehehehe! Hehehehehehehehehe!"

Then he walked up to his younger brother and said smugly, "How about that? Are you still going to be stubborn now?"

"This, I..." The man stammered for a long time, unable to say a word.

"Hmph!" Long Aotian said angrily, "This pottery jar was found in your backyard. There were a few pairs of footprints nearby that match your mother's shoe prints. Do you want me to take you there to see them?!"

"I……"

"Kitagawa, since he's being so stubborn, then throw him into the Black Prison!"

"No!" The younger brother finally couldn't take it anymore and knelt down, pointing at the old woman and saying, "Lord Shen, I was wrong. It's all her fault. She couldn't stand that my sister-in-law was coming back and taking away the ancestral home, so she made me do this. I was really confused for a moment!"

Upon hearing this, the old woman nearly fainted. She stomped her feet in anger, pointing at the man and yelling, "Fine! I've helped you so much, and who am I doing it for? And now you're betraying me! I..."

Seeing the two of them fighting like dogs, the truth of the matter became clear.

"Kitagawa, take him away."

"Alright, you two stop arguing and come back to Black Prison with me."

Jiang Beichuan held the man down, preparing to escort him back to the Zhenye Division.

Long Aotian, with a smug look on his face, walked up to Zhang Zhong and Liu San, patted their chests, and said in a mocking tone:

"Oh dear, my memory isn't very good. Who was it that just called me, Shen, a good-for-nothing?"

"Lord Shen..." Liu San, being a fence-sitter, immediately changed his tune, "I never addressed you that way. You know, I, Liu, have always held you in the highest esteem!"

"You just want money, right? Here you go!" Zhang Zhong pulled out a few taels of silver from his waist, intending to use it to shut Long Aotian up.

"Hey." Seeing this, Long Aotian grabbed Zhang Zhong and said, "This money is what you lost in our bet, so of course you should give it to me. But you just called me a piece of trash and tried to be disrespectful to me. If I remember correctly, Beichuan."

Jiang Beichuan said loudly from the side, "That's right, sir, I heard it clearly!"

Knowing he was in the wrong, Zhang Zhong had no choice but to suppress his anger, grit his teeth, and bow, saying, "I was very disrespectful to Lord Shen just now, please forgive me."

"Hmph, let's go!"

After saying that, before Long Aotian could speak, he tried to leave with his men.

"Hey, why are you in such a hurry?"

Long Aotian stopped him again and said, "Did I say I forgave you?"

Liu San: "Hehe, Lord Shen, you are very magnanimous, just let us go like a fart."

Long Aotian: "You make things difficult for me at every turn, how can I be magnanimous?"

"This..." Zhang Zhong, "Then what do you want to do?"

"Well..." Long Aotian smiled wickedly, "If you shout 'I'm a piece of trash' three times on the spot, and Lord Shen and Lord Jiang are both extremely intelligent, I'll spare you."

"Otherwise, hmph," he continued coldly, "what happened today will soon spread throughout the entire city of Qianzhou, and then you two will be forever branded with the humiliating title of 'idiots'!"

"Shen Congxin, you want me to say such humiliating things? Dream on!"

Zhang Zhong refused to comply even at the cost of his life, but Liu San, standing to the side, did not hesitate for a moment and immediately shouted:

"Oh dear, I'm such an idiot! I couldn't even catch the real culprit in a case like this. It was only thanks to the brilliant Lord Shen and Lord Jiang that the real culprit was prevented from escaping justice! Liu San truly admires the two of you!"

Long Aotian: "..."

Jiang Beichuan straightened his chest, looking radiant. "Hmph, you're smart to know what's good for you, hahaha!"