The protagonist chased the villain, and Tiandao screamed in anger

A shocking incident occurred in the county. Magistrate Yao and his nephew and his wife died tragically in their home.

The first person to discover what happened was the boy guarding the yard. His surprised scream woke up the other servants, who all gathered around, seeing that something was wrong.

Then, a group of strangers who looked like high-ranking officials broke down the gate of Yao's mansion and aggressively cleared the area to disperse the crowd. The leading official, who was dressed in official uniform and had a solemn expression, approached the bloody room, looked around, moved the paperweight away, and picked up the petition underneath.

Because the first person to discover the crime was a servant, and the victim of such a serious case was a local county magistrate, people were in a panic and talked about the matter a lot.

Fortunately, the imperial envoy revealed his identity and stabilized the situation, preventing rumors and criticisms from spreading further.

The imperial envoy originally came with the emperor's order. The court released the news that it would clean up the chaos among local officials, which exposed many officials who had accepted bribes privately.

After spreading the bait, quite a few fish were caught, and County Magistrate Yao was one of them.

Unexpectedly, before they could thoroughly investigate the case of Yao County Magistrate's corruption and bribery, they received the news of his death.

But fortunately, the evidence is out there.

Following the instructions in the complaint, they discovered a secret room in Magistrate Yao's study, from which they carried out more than 30 boxes of gold, silver, and jewelry, as well as several corpses in varying stages of decay.

The more the imperial envoy read, the more frightened he became. He immediately wrote a letter of divorce and asked his trusted confidant to deliver it to Kyoto at full speed, stating that it must be handed over to the emperor.

Although the person was dead, the liquidation task still had to go on. Therefore, several wealthy businessmen and landlords who had been on good terms with Master Yao were punished and taken away by officials for interrogation overnight.

The county magistrate died and the imperial envoy conducted a thorough investigation. On the surface, everything seemed normal, but secretly, everyone was in danger, fearing that they would be implicated.

The only lucky ones in this turmoil were the You family, which had been isolated before.

Mr. You had sold his shop earlier and had the money in hand. Since he had not attended the banquets of those wealthy businessmen for a long time, he had no business dealings with them, was away from all the disputes and entanglements, and was safe and sound.

When the old lady sent a servant to deliver a letter to the countryside, Mr. You looked at the letter again and again, sighing that fortune can change and good and bad are interdependent.

But the joy of celebrating this good fortune did not last long.

In Mrs. You's main house, the sound of porcelain cups breaking was particularly harsh!

"...What did you say?" Without the cup in her hand, Mrs. You was in no mood to ask anyone to clean up the mess. She frowned and looked at Xue He who was kneeling in front of her.

Xue He knelt upright, kowtowed to Madam You, and said, "Xue He loves the young master, please allow Xue He to stay by the young master's side."

These words were so powerful that they hung high on the beams of the house. After echoing a few times, they all fell into the ears of Mrs. You.

The room was silent. Madam You, who was sitting on the main seat, was so quiet that even her breathing was so shallow that it was almost non-existent.

After a long time, she took out another cup from the tea tray, poured herself a cup of tea with trembling fingers, and held the cup warmed by the tea in her hand.

Today, Xue He came to pay off the debt owed by Aunt Xue. She was surprised that Xue He had managed to collect the money in such a short period of several months.

Then he took out the deed and debt documents signed by Aunt Xue and tore them up in front of Xue He, thus settling the debt.

However, when she said to let him go, Xue He just knelt down.

When she first heard it, she thought she had misheard!

After trying her best to suppress her irrational emotions for a long time, Mrs. You spoke in a suppressed voice: "I will just pretend that I didn't hear about what happened today. Take your mother and leave here."

Aunt Xue worked diligently in the yard and got along well with her. Remembering this friendship, Mrs. You didn't want to create a stalemate and embarrass the other party.

She knew that her son was good-looking, but Xue He was thinking this way, so she couldn't keep him in the You family and stay with her son.

Seeing Xue He remained silent, Madam You continued, "If you need money, I can give it to you, but you need to leave Taoxi Village and sign a written agreement, swearing never to appear in front of Mu'er again."

In a few breaths, Madam You thought a lot and felt that perhaps Xue He was actually a money-making person, so she wanted to use money to get rid of him.

Her son must not be harmed in any way.

Xue He pursed his lips and said nothing. He bowed his head to Madam You again and begged: "Madam, I'm sorry that Xue He can't obey your order. Madam, Xue He only wants to stay with the young master. Apart from that, he has no other wishes."

The other party kept insisting, which made Madam You feel something was wrong. If it was just Xue He's secret thoughts, he could have kept them to himself. Why did he kneel down in front of her like this? Could it be that he...

Out of a mother's intuition, Mrs. You almost subconsciously confirmed that Xue He must have done something to her, Mu'er!

"boom!"

The cup was smashed into pieces again, with porcelain pieces flying everywhere, but this time it broke near Xue He's legs.

There was a cut on the corner of his forehead, and blood was flowing down his forehead and all the way to the end of his eyebrow. Xue He seemed not to feel the pain and did not frown at all.

"Xue He, how you treated Mu'er...how you treated him..." Not only was Aunt Xue unable to speak, but even Mrs. You was furious and found it difficult to speak, so she questioned him intermittently.