Chapter 334: Are only you allowed to cheat?

He scoffed: “Otherwise, what do you think? Hmph, Lian Fang Zhou, you really don’t know your place, how dare you offend my lady? In Yuhe county, there is no one who would dare! Those who are acquainted quickly let us go and apologize to her, ending the matter without a fuss! Ha! Lian Fang Zhou, this is just the beginning! What qualifications do you have to fight against the Zhao family? Even if you have caught us today, what about it? What can you do next time? Or the time after that? What my lady wants to do, nothing is impossible! Don’t be so naïve to think that you can catch us and it will be fine. Even if you send us to the yamen, our young lady has her own way of rescuing us intact. You’ll be the unlucky one then!”

“Yes, if you understand, then let us go quickly!”

“Let us go! Who has the time to waste with you here?”

The other Zhao servants also helped out, shouting aggressively.

Lian Fang Zhou laughed, sneering: “So it seems that if I just let you go, it won’t help?”

“So you understand!” Zhao San sneered back, thinking that he had convinced Lian Fang Zhou with just these words. He felt very proud of himself.

“Was the yamen born from your Zhao manor? You are too naïve, thinking that I would be afraid of you with just a few words of nonsense!” Lian Fang Zhou said.

Zhao San was furious and he mocked her, saying: “Since ancient times, whoever is the richest is the uncle. What about the yamen? For the sake of silver, even the yamen must bow to the Zhao family! Lian Fang Zhou, with just the little money you have, you actually think you can fight the Zhao family? You value yourself too highly!”

Lian Fang Zhou stared at Zhao San, her expression calm. “I have never seen such a shameless, shameless person like you. Your Zhao family is really bullying others!”

“So what if its bullying others, how can you stop me?” Zhao San laughed arrogantly: “You think you have any kind of power? Lian Fang Zhou, you’re just a wild girl from the countryside! No matter how hard you try, you’ll never make it to that stage! Since you understand, hurry up and let us uncles go obediently! Otherwise, unless you have the ability to kill us, you just wait!”

“Are you threatening me?” Lian Fang Zhou asked coldly: “You Zhao family servants attempted to burn my cotton fields. Now that I’ve caught you, not only are you not regretful, but you even threaten me! Even threaten the magistrate! Will the magistrate help you to oppress good people?”

Lian Fang Zhou’s words were clearly setting up a trap for him to fall into. As long as he was honest, he would not fall for it. However, now he had already been caught. Zhao San was flustered and confused, he could sense something was off but he could only hope that a more arrogant attitude would scare Lian Fang Zhou into letting him go. Where did he have the time to worry about anything else?

After listening to her words, instead of feeling guilty, he sneered and said: “As you’ve said! Enough talking, let us go!”

Lian Fang Zhou stopped paying attention to him, turning her head towards the darkness. “Uncle Li Zheng, village elders, Cousin, Brother Sun, you can come out now.”

Zhang Li Zheng and the others were expressionless as he said: “Young Lady Zhao is really amazing!”

“Having lived my entire life, I have never seen such an arrogant and shameless person!” One of the village elders sighed.

“We all remember his words, let’s go back and draw up a letter!” Sun Ming said lightly.

“You tricked me! Lian Fang Zhou, you—”

How could Zhao San not understand? Staring at Lian Fang Zhou with horrified eyes, he yelled and cursed. Before he could say another word, Lian Ze punched him in the mouth so hard his head snapped to the side and his curse turned into a scream.

Lian Fang Zhou swept across them with cold eyes. Stopping at Zhao San’s face, she said coldly: “So only you are allowed to pit me but I’m not allowed to pit you back?”

Under Lian Fang Zhou’s ordered, Wang Yi and Wang Er escorted Zhao San and the other servants back to the compound with Zhang Li Zheng and the others.

When they arrived, Qin Feng, Li Yi, and Li Er had already brought back the captured Zhao servants from Sanchakou. There was no need to bother with them, they just simply tied them up.

Lian Hai hesitated a bit but Sun Ming had already written down everything Zhao San had said in one go.

He carefully picked up the piece of paper, blew on it, and handed it to Zhang Li Zheng and the village elders respectfully.

Zhang Li Zheng took a look, nodded, and read it to the village elders. When everyone had finished hearing Zhao San’s words, they agreed and pressed their fingerprints to the letter, one by one. Sun Ming wrote the name of each person and then he and Lian Hai also signed their names and fingerprints.

Zhang Li Zheng and the village elders represented Dafang village. Their names, plus the signatures of two accomplished scholars, as well as the physical evidence of the oil barrels, carriages, and Zhao San and the eight servants of the Zhao family still tied up in the store room, were enough to make it impossible for the Zhao family to avoid being responsible.

“Steward Qin, take two people to the Zhao manor and tell them what happened. Invite Master Zhao to come. If he doesn’t come, tell him we will bring these things together and send them to the county magistrate with gongs and drums tomorrow morning! Go now!” Lian Fang Zhou told Qin Feng.

Qin Feng nodded and immediately took two people to the Zhao manor.

There was only a donkey cart at home so Qin Feng was not polite and went straight to the Zhao manor in the same carriage that Zhao San and the others had arrived in.

When Master Zhao heard Qin Feng’s words, which were neither hard nor soft but absolutely full of threats, he was so shocked he nearly fainted.

Since they had come to his house in the middle of the night, Master Zhao had no doubt that they were telling the truth.

He instructed his housekeeper to accompany Qin Feng in the flower hall and rushed to find his daughter.

Zhao Ru Jun had not slept yet.

She was extremely excited, waiting for Zhao San’s good news!

While waiting nervously, she couldn’t help but imagine how magnificent the cotton fields would look after the fire, imagine the panic and despair on Lian Fang Zhou’s face after she discovered it. She wished she could see the moment that Lian Fang Zhou realized that her family had become nothing…

The more she thought about it, the more excited Zhao Ru Jun became. How could she fall asleep?

There was a loud knock at the door.

Zhao Ru Jun’s eyes brightened and she stood up quickly, asking joyfully: “Could it be finished so soon? Mama Sun, go and open the door!”

Xi Que had also been very excited. She had volunteered the stand at the second door and wait for news. As soon as Zhao San came back, she would immediately report it to her young lady! No doubt, she had come back.

Mama Sun rushed forwards and opened the door—

“Father? Why are you here?” Zhao Ru Jun was stunned when she saw who her visitor was.

Master Zhao stepped inside and sneered: “If not me, who do you think it would be?”

TN: If anyone doesn’t already know, the yamen is a bit like the police. They handle any disputes or crimes.