I am the stepmother of my son, and the little villain has changed into a little cotton-padded jacket

Zhao Lu looked at Wen Shutang with a haughty expression, then walked straight to Tian Zhi, bent down, reached out to help him up, and spoke in a very kind tone.

"Brother Tian, ​​why are you sitting here?"

When Tian Zhi saw Zhao Lu coming, he immediately felt like he had seen a relative. He held Zhao Lu's hand and stood up from the ground, pointing at Wen Shutang and the others viciously and said.

"Brother, these are the people who slandered me, saying that I stole their horse and beat me up like this. Ouch, I almost died of pain, Brother Zhao, you must stand up for me!"

After hearing what he said, Zhao Lu carefully checked his injuries and found that his nose and face were bruised and swollen, with almost no healthy spot on his face.

Zhao Lu suddenly became angry. He was also from Xiaozhu Village and had a good relationship with Tian Zhi. Everyone in the village knew this, so they were very afraid of Tian Zhi. Zhao Lu also enjoyed Tian Zhi's flattery.

Now that Tian Zhi was beaten, it was like slapping Zhao Lu in the face, and Zhao Lu immediately became furious.

He turned to look at Wen Shutang and the others, and shouted angrily: "Who told you to beat people without knowing right or wrong? Who beat them?!"

Zhou Yong stood up and said in a deep voice: "I did hit him, but he was the one who tried to hurt me first, and I just fought back normally."

Zhao Lu looked Zhou Yong up and down for a few times, and snorted coldly: "Then you can't be so harsh, don't you know that Tian Zhi is protected by me?"

Zhou Yong was not panicked at all. He looked directly at Zhao Lu and responded calmly, "I am just protecting myself from harm. Is that not okay? Can I just stand there and get beaten?"

Hearing Zhou Yong's rebuttal, Zhao Lu became even angrier. Ever since he started working for the captain, no one has spoken to him in such an arrogant manner.

The boy in front of him was the first one who dared to provoke him.

Zhao Lu walked up to Zhou Yong with a sullen face and grabbed his collar. "You still dare to refute me? What I say is what it is. If my brother wants to hit you, you have to stand there and let him hit you. Do you understand?!"

Zhou Yong frowned, stared at Zhao Lu and said nothing.

Zhao Lu pushed Zhou Yong aside and said, "You said my brother stole your horse? How do you prove it?"

Zhou Yong straightened his messed-up clothes and said in a deep voice, "This guy stole two of my horses and took them to the hillside to kill them. I and the officers saw him red-handed."

Hearing what he said, Tian Zhi couldn't help but yelled, "You're talking nonsense! I bought those two horses with ten taels of silver! How can it be considered stolen?"

Zhao Lu tried to calm him down, then turned to the officers and asked coldly, "Did you see my brother stealing? Think about it first."

The threat in Zhao Lu's tone was self-evident. The leading officer broke out in a cold sweat and responded immediately.

"No, we just saw this man leading two horses, we don't know who these two horses belong to."

"So you arrested people for no reason? And let my brother be beaten like this?" Zhao Lu walked up and punched them one by one.

Several officers were trembling with fear, not daring to say anything, they just stood there as quiet as a chicken.

Zhao Lu's target was not them. He turned to look at Zhou Yong and sneered, "The officer said he didn't see anything, and you dare to slander my brothers? Do you know that slandering others casually is also a serious crime?"

Seeing that Zhao Lu was obviously biased towards Tian Zhi, Zhou Yongqi was shaking all over. He was not good at speaking and didn't know how to refute him, so he could only stare blankly.

Seeing his reaction, Zhao Lu smiled contemptuously.

Wen Shutang, who was standing aside, looked at him and suddenly sneered, his laughter full of sarcasm.

Wen Shutang immediately attracted everyone's attention, and Zhao Lu looked at Wen Shutang with a frown.

"why are you laughing?"

"I'm laughing at your ability to confuse right and wrong. It's really amazing. You have such a good eloquence. It's a pity that you don't become a storyteller and become a constable instead. Your eloquence is wasted." Although Wen Shutang had a faint smile on his face, his eyes were full of frost.

She originally thought that although Zhao Lu had some friendship with Tian Zhi, he would secretly give him some help and favoritism, but she did not expect that Zhao Lu would openly intimidate the officials in front of so many people, tamper with the facts, and even intimidate and humiliate Zhou Yong.

Hearing the sarcastic tone in Wen Shutang's voice, Zhao Lu became furious and pointed at her and shouted.

"You! How dare you mock me! Do you know who I am? Who allowed a woman like you to interrupt me when I'm solving a case?"

"Oh, you call this solving a case? Aren't you relying on your power to openly intimidate the people? How could the government employ someone like you?" Wen Shutang said coldly.

Hearing what she said, Zhao Lu became even angrier. Not only did an ordinary farmer dare to provoke him today, but now even a woman didn't take him seriously.

If he doesn't teach these people a lesson today, how will he be able to stay in the government in the future?

Thinking of this, Zhao Lu immediately raised his voice and shouted, "How dare you disrespect me?! I am powerful, so what? If I don't punish you today, I won't be called Zhao Lu! Come on! These two people slandered a good man for stealing horses. I now declare that these two people will be imprisoned and punished with sticks! Stop when you admit it! Come on, drag them out!"

Wen Shutang and Zhou Yong were both stunned when they heard what Zhao Lu said. Zhao Lu once again refreshed their perception of shamelessness.

The officers standing by did not expect Zhao Lu to be so arbitrary. He wanted to put people in jail before the case was even investigated. It was really reckless. For a while, no one dared to come out to execute his orders.

Wen Shutang looked at him coldly: "You are using lynching, are you trying to force a confession? If you can't distinguish between good and bad people, I think you don't need to be a police chief anymore. Do you really think you can cover the sky with one hand? You want to convict someone before the case has been thoroughly investigated. Do you want to replace the position of the captain?"

After hearing what she said, Zhao Lu suddenly became much more sober and thought of the pavilion chief, but in order not to lose face, he still stiffened his neck and shouted.

"The captain is not here now, and I am the most senior official here! You all have to listen to me. As long as I say a word, you will never be able to get out of prison in your life! Besides, even if the captain is here now, he has to give me some face! Someone, come here! Are you all dead? Didn't you hear what I said?"

After hearing what he said, the officers around him started to move, walked forward and reached out to grab Wen Shutang, Wen Ruizhou and Zhou Yong.

Tian Zhi looked at the three people smugly, his eyes full of malice.

"Now you know the consequences of slandering me, right? As long as Brother Zhao is here, you will never be able to stand up again!"