Chapter 111: The Style of the Leader of Qingshuiwan (Bonus chapter for Alliance Leader 'Loli Destroyer Controller')

Whether Zhu Yitao treated Aunt Liu as a soft persimmon was not yet certain.

But Xiao Yu was very sure that Zhu Yitao was eight-tenths serious this time.

Seventeen or eighteen government office runners in black long robes blocked the entrance, a dark mass, very intimidating.

At least the guests drinking and having fun in the brothel were intimidated, and the shouting of drinking games stopped.

Some guests even quietly left their seats and left through the side door.

"Aunt Liu, greetings~~~"

When Aunt Liu walked out in a rush, the two head runners with sideburns bowed and greeted her, while the other runners had no reaction.

"Tong Shuisheng, Tong Huowang, are you going to take me to the government office to be beaten with boards?" Aunt Liu's face was as cold as frost, her voice mocking, "Your guts are not small, but what reason do you have to take me? Take out the warrant and let me see."

The elder brother Tong Shuisheng smiled: "Aunt, don't misunderstand; we brothers are just dead-end runners. We have to do what the masters above tell us to do."

After finishing the polite words, he leaned closer to Aunt Liu and sighed in a low voice: "Aunt, you should also know Zhu Yitao's temper.

Now, not to mention the entire eastern part of Shu, at least our Yingxiang Mansion has heard about the counterfeit silver case, and everyone knows about Old Xu and Aunt Xu's affairs.

Look at you, Aunt Xu's seventh day hasn't even passed, Old Xu was beaten to a cripple, the Xu family was smashed to pieces, and the Xu family's daughter was sent to the Red Sleeve Workshop."

Aunt Liu also lowered her voice: "As the saying goes, if the people don't sue, the officials don't investigate. The counterfeit silver case ended long ago; at least when Grandpa Guan Chenghuang intervened, the case in the prefectural government office had already ended.

After all, Zhu Yitao had already sentenced what needed to be sentenced, and just posted a notice to capture the counterfeiters.

He should go capture Jia Yintong!

Old Xu owes money and can't pay, using his daughter to pay off the debt is justified, reasonable, and legal; what else does he care about?"

Tong Shuisheng nodded repeatedly, agreeing: "Who says it isn't! According to convention, Grandpa Guan Chenghuang has already judged the underworld case, and the magistrate of the mortal world should avoid it, pretend not to know, and not care."

"Aunt, I'll tell you the truth, this time no one sued at all; Old Xu is still lying at home!

He signed the contract to sell his daughter to pay off the debt in black and white; it's useless to sue in the government office.

Moreover, he didn't sue the official this time.

Last time Zhu Yitao beat him miserably, and he doesn't even dare to see Zhu Yitao now."

"Then what is going on with Zhu Yitao?" Aunt Liu asked, puzzled.

"Sigh, since this Magistrate Zhu took office, has he done few outrageous things?

The county magistrate, the registrar, the clerk, and the six departments all came to persuade Zhu Yitao to 'not meddle in other people's business.'

Zhu Yitao scolded them, saying that the magistrate is the father of the city's people, and how can a father's management of his children's affairs be considered meddling?

He is just acting on his own, insisting on standing up for the Old Xu family and wanting to be an enemy of you all.

Besides our team coming to the Red Sleeve Workshop, two other teams went to the Hu family and Bu Si Gui respectively."

Hearing Tong the Elder say this, Aunt Liu understood that Zhu Yitao wasn't just targeting her, and the anger in her heart dissipated by more than half.

"It seems our Profound Heaven Town will soon change magistrates!" Aunt Liu sneered.

Tong the Elder laughed awkwardly: "I'm just a small head runner, I only know how to work hard. You see if you can make it convenient..."

Aunt Liu put on a straight face again, coldly saying: "Take out the warrant. I want to see what reason Zhu Yitao has to take me."

"It's not big, but it's not small either; it's just forcing a good woman into prostitution."

Tong the Elder gave his brother a look.

Tong Huowang took a piece of paper from his python belt, but didn't hand it to Aunt Liu, saying seriously: "Aunt, we brothers obey your orders.

There is only one thing you should know, Aunt.

The rules in our government office, any warrant, is not obtained out of thin air.

To get this piece of paper, our eighteen brothers pooled together a full three hundred strings of large money.

We certainly respect and love you, Aunt, but you should also have pity on us.

Now we don't dare to ask for anything extra, just give us back our capital."

Aunt Liu sneered: "I bought Xu Hui'er for only sixty taels, and you open your mouths and ask for three hundred strings of money; do you really think I'm a little girl who just had her hair combed, hasn't seen the world, and can be scared by you?"

Tong the Elder hurriedly bowed and apologized, saying quickly: "How would we brothers dare to extort you, Aunt; three hundred strings of large money is truly not a single copper coin less."

After a pause, he lowered his voice and explained: "If we just came to the Red Sleeve Workshop to find you, Aunt, let alone three hundred strings of large money, even if we gave it for free, no one would want to take this warrant.

Even bandits wouldn't dare to act wild in front of you, Aunt.

We public servants are the lowest and meanest; how would we dare to pull the tiger's whiskers?

It's just that today is a bit special.

Didn't we just say, the magistrate sent three teams; one team went to Bu Si Gui, which is the most miserable; one team went to Shopkeeper Hu's house, which is the top-tier lucky draw; if they don't go to the Guan Chenghuang Temple to fulfill their vows tomorrow, they wouldn't be worthy of today's luck.

Our brothers had bad luck, pooled three hundred strings of large money, three draw one, and drew a bottom-tier draw."

Tong Shuisheng took the warrant from his brother's hand and smiled bitterly: "Look, three paper balls to draw lots, draw once, three hundred strings of large money, everyone was counting on going to Shopkeeper Hu's house to win a small fortune!

Unfortunately, our brothers had bad luck and came to your Red Sleeve Workshop.

We don't count on a small fortune, just hope to break even."

Aunt Liu said calmly: "Your bad luck, what does it have to do with me? Tong the Elder, I'll put it this way today: not a single copper coin!"

The Tong brothers' expressions were ugly.

The government office runners behind them also showed anxious anger.

Aunt Liu was not afraid, her left hand on her waist, her right hand pointing at Tong the Elder's nose, "From the moment your mother spread her legs to let you out, our Red Sleeve Workshop has never been extorted.

If you want to break even on me, you might as well drag your mother over; I'll clear a good spot for you, let your mother spread her legs and sell hard, maybe after three or five years, you can scrape together three hundred strings of large money."

Tong Huowang was furious, drew his sword and roared: "Old bitch, you dare—"

"Bang——"

Half a blue brick flew through the air, its momentum thick, its speed swift, and it seemed to have a bit of the spirit of falling flowers, smashing solidly onto Tong Huowang's face.

"Puchi~~~"

Tong Huowang's nose broke and teeth shattered, he spat out a mouthful of blood, and his body fell straight backward.

"Clang, clang clang~~" Tong the Elder subconsciously drew his sword and assumed a defensive posture, while the other government office runners didn't draw their swords but took two steps forward, assuming a threatening stance.

Aunt Liu was not alone; the Red Sleeve Workshop had sword maidens and hired thugs, all standing behind her!

"Fight them!" Seeing the government office runners draw their swords and rush over, someone among them shouted, and they all threw the things in their hands.

For example, sticks, tea bowls, stools...

For example, two more pieces of brick whistling from the back.

"Ouch~~" Tong the Elder, who had the highest combat power, was also knocked down by a brick.

"Rebellion, there are stubborn people killing officials and rebelling—ah—puchi~~~"

"Mercy, Aunt Liu, mercy, we surrender, stop hitting!"

When Aunt Liu came back to her senses from her stupor, all eighteen government office runners were lying on the street in front of the Red Sleeve Workshop.

"Sigh, why are you so impulsive!" Aunt Liu's forehead veins jumped, she held the warrant high in her hand and shouted: "The government office only asked us to allow Old Xu to redeem Xu Hui'er; why go to such lengths!"

Xiao Yu quietly threw away the brick in her right hand, jumped onto the table, stood on tiptoe, and looked at the warrant.

The main content was to redeem Xu Hui'er, and the Red Sleeve Workshop could not obstruct it.

Finally, a manager had to be arranged to go to the government office to reply.

It didn't even need Aunt Liu to go out in person.

It was indeed a small matter, no need to fight a group battle at all.

"Aunt, it's not that we went to such lengths, it's that these bastards wanted to extort the Red Sleeve Workshop and even wanted to draw their swords to kill you!" Uncle Zhang, who was holding a stool and stepping on the back of a government office runner, shouted.

Aunt Liu was full of anger and wanted to roar: Fart, with my imposing momentum at the time, it would be strange if he could draw that sword!

"Sigh, Uncle Zhang, we should believe in Aunt Liu's scolding ability. If she didn't have the confidence to scold the runners away, why would Aunt Liu speak?" Xiao Yu sighed.

"You little barbarian, you still dare to speak sarcastically!" Aunt Liu pointed at her and cursed: "Don't think that because you were hiding in the back, I didn't see it, and don't know that the brick was thrown by you.

Others truly don't have that skill, can't use that kind of clever force!"

To be a head runner in Profound Heaven Town, one must at least be in the True Qi Realm.

The Tong brothers were greedy, but their hands were not weak; in the Jiang Hu, they were at least second-rate experts.

Yet they were easily knocked down by two broken bricks... was this something any brothel guard could do?

Xiao Yu laughed awkwardly: "I was also worried about Aunt, um, concern leads to chaos... Aunt, now that people have been beaten, how to clean up the mess is the key.

Why not carry the runners into the house, bandage their wounds properly, and prepare two tables of good wine and food..."

"Now you know how to act cowardly?"

Aunt Liu glared at her and shouted at the runners groaning and wailing on the ground: "Don't pretend to be dead for me, get up quickly!

My Red Sleeve Workshop makes a fortune every day; if you delay my business, even selling your mothers and wives won't be enough to pay off the debt."

Xiao Yu was a bit surprised; shouldn't she give a sweet date after a stick? She was so arrogant, hitting with a stick and then slapping the face...

Except for the few who were knocked unconscious by Xiao Yu's bricks, the other runners were not seriously injured.

They climbed up groaning, not daring to say harsh words, only quietly scanning the people of the Red Sleeve Workshop with poisonous eyes, and silently carried their companions away from Qingshuiwan, limping.

Aunt Liu said with a gloomy face: "Lan'er, Dongmei, you take the girls to comfort the guests, Aunt Qing bring Xu Hui'er over, and come with me to the government office to see Zhu Yitao.

Also, Old Qin, you take people to notify all the brothel madams in Qingshuiwan, just say I'm waiting for them at the Qingshuiwan Bridge entrance."

After speaking, she walked toward the bridge head first.

There were five other aunts and eight guards following behind her.

Xiao Yu thought for a moment and decided to go out to see the world.

In about the time it takes to burn an incense stick, people walked out of the brothels in Qingshuiwan one after another.

They were all configurations similar to the Red Sleeve Workshop, a middle-aged madam with charm, with a few capable aunts, plus a group of hired thugs.

In about half an hour, the madam army had exceeded a hundred fierce generals, plus aunts and thugs, hundreds or thousands of people.

Xiao Yu leaned over to Aunt Liu and whispered: "It's getting dark, why not have everyone hold a torch, it would be more imposing."

"Do you really think we are going to rebel? Still holding torches..."

Aunt Liu didn't agree with her bad idea, but after hesitating for a moment, she let everyone light lanterns.

Xiao Yu was a bit regretful; lanterns were too elegant.

If thousands of people held torches together and surrounded the government office in silence, that would be something to see.

Even so, the madam army still attracted countless neighbors.

Xiao Yu even saw Aunt Zhang from Soy Sauce Alley.

Aunt Zhang had her usual loud voice, "Sigh, what's going on, why is the back street also making a scene?"

The people of the Red Sleeve Workshop called Soy Sauce Alley the "Back Alley," and the residents near the Liang River called the Qingshuiwan area the "Back Street," and they were both right.

"Where else is making a scene?" Xiao Yu asked, leaning over.

Aunt Zhang wasn't standing on the side of the road eating melons, but was following along, carrying the melon-eating to the end.

"Isn't it Shopkeeper Hu's house on the front street. Sigh, it's a sin, harming others and harming oneself. He has already been judged by Grandpa Guan Chenghuang to wear a cangue and be paraded, Shopkeeper Hu is lying on the bed just howling in pain, and now he has been dragged away by the government office runners."

Xiao Yu asked curiously: "Are the government office runners so heartless, didn't they receive money?"

Aunt Zhang was surprised for a moment, then her expression became strange, and she lowered her voice: "Isn't that so! Shopkeeper Hu is greedy, and Aunt Hu is stingy.

Her own husband was judged guilty by Grandpa Guan Chenghuang, and she had no remorse at all.

It's been several days, and she hasn't returned Aunt Xu's jade pendant to the Xu family.

Now Zhu Yitao sent people to demand it, she put her thick waist on her hips, like a mother tiger guarding a cave, blocked her own door, didn't allow the runners to enter, and cursed, all kinds of ugly words... oh my, she really isn't afraid of underworld retribution at all!"

Xiao Yu asked in surprise: "Did the runners let her curse?"

Aunt Zhang shook her head: "Of course not, but Aunt Hu's father is the master of the 'Mo Family Martial Arts Hall' outside the East City Gate.

She herself is a good fighter, her iron fists have beaten all the aunts on the four streets, and she has several fellow apprentices guarding her."

"Sigh, no wonder Profound Heaven Town could block the million-strong allied army of thirty-six countries; the folk customs are truly fierce," Xiao Yu sighed.

Aunt Zhang said proudly: "Don't look at me being thick-bodied now. When I was your age, I also studied in a martial arts hall for half a year!"

——No wonder you are so energetic at such an old age; it's already dark, you don't go home to sleep, you run from the back street to the front street, and then follow all the way to the government office, not looking tired at all.

Xiao Yu muttered in her heart, but asked with her mouth: "Since Aunt Hu is so brave, why did she let the runners take Shopkeeper Hu away?"

Aunt Zhang sighed: "She only cares about her own pawnshop, she doesn't care about Shopkeeper Hu in the backyard at all."

"What about your Red Sleeve Workshop?" she then opened her eyes wide and asked with great interest. ===== CHAPTER 112 =====