Chapter 550

She had to tell the truth!

"I was just bored and wanted to fight rats; I just put two rats in a jar and let them tear at each other."

"Yes, I just wanted to watch rat fighting."

Jia Zhangshi remembered cockfighting.

Chickens can fight, so why can't rats fight?

"The rats I caught were all put in a jar to fight; two would tear at each other, and only one would survive, and the survivor would continue to fight other rats."

"No matter how many rats I caught, only one would survive, and they were all locked in the jar!"

Jia Zhangshi's lie became more complete as she wove it.

Officer Song was amused.

Cockfighting, cricket fighting, dog fighting—it's intense and cruel.

Many people engaged in it in the old society, but he had never heard of anyone using rats to fight!

"Jia Zhangshi, do you take me for a three-year-old child?"

"You'd better explain clearly: what exactly do you want to do by catching rats?"

Officer Song didn't believe it.

The neighbors in the courtyard didn't believe it either.

"Officer Song, I really was fighting rats!"

Jia Zhangshi insisted.

She knew very well that once her true purpose for catching rats was discovered, Wan Ping'an would definitely not let her go.

"Alright!"

"Jia Zhangshi, I hope you aren't lying, and I hope you can withstand the investigation!"

Officer Song had no choice.

Jia Zhangshi insisted that she was just fighting rats.

"Yi Zhonghai, as the First Elder, your work is very inadequate; Jia Zhangshi was raising rats, why did you take so long to discover it?"

"When something happened, you even helped her cover it up?"

"On behalf of the subdistrict office, I express severe criticism of you."

"Go, convene a courtyard-wide meeting; I have something to announce!"

Officer Song reprimanded Yi Zhonghai.

A few children immediately ran to notify every household; each household sent at least one person as a representative to the middle courtyard to attend the courtyard-wide meeting.

"Jia Zhangshi, come to the front."

"The subdistrict office has repeatedly ordered the extermination of rats—to thoroughly eliminate rats. I don't care what your purpose is, you cannot bring live rats back to the Sihe Academy."

"Now, in front of everyone, give a self-criticism!"

Officer Song didn't intend to let Jia Zhangshi go.

He would make her criticize herself!

"I..."

Jia Zhangshi was very conflicted; couldn't she avoid self-criticism?