Chapter 1640: A Fair Trial

Seeing this scene, Dan was filled with horror and was momentarily stunned.

Qiaozhi saw the sheriff's reaction, laughed, and raised his fist to strike down.

The fist and despair landed on Dan's face together.

Amidst endless despair, Dan was beaten until he passed out.

After hearing the sounds of the fight fade, the sheriff turned around to look at the panicked Masha and the nonchalant Qiaozhi.

Qiaozhi stepped forward and said, "Respected Sheriff, this matter is my fault, but I feel quite good about beating this scoundrel."

"If there is any issue, come to me; I will take full responsibility for this!"

"Please take me away."

Qiaozhi held out his hands, showing no intention of resisting at all.

Masha's tears fell; she rushed over, grabbed Qiaozhi's shoulders, and trembled, "No, no, no, Qiaozhi, you cannot go with him."

"This matter has nothing to do with you; Dan came looking for me."

"Sheriff, I beg you not to handcuff Qiaozhi; everything is my fault."

Masha's weak body collapsed at the sheriff's feet: "It is all my fault, it is all because I am an unfortunate woman."

"Because of me, Mr. Qiaozhi had to resort to violence."

Qiaozhi helped Masha up and said gently, "This is Dan's fault; it has nothing to do with you."

Masha, however, said, "But I am a woman cursed with bad luck; every man I like ends up having something bad happen to him because of me."

The sheriff interrupted the two and said in a deep voice, "You two, someone must be held responsible for this matter. Please tell me what just happened, and I will provide you with a fair resolution."

Masha told the sheriff exactly what had happened.

Masha knew the sheriff and had a good relationship with him, but she did not ask the sheriff for any reduced sentencing or the like.

This was a sign that made the sheriff feel conflicted.

She could not do that.

After listening, the sheriff nodded and glanced at Qiaozhi.

Qiaozhi was a big celebrity in Fojilisi, and the sheriff knew his background; Qiaozhi was a Plantation Owner who possessed a bag of Silver Coins, so such wealth was not a difficult matter for him.

He then looked at the evidence left in the room.

He had the answer in his heart.

The sheriff looked at the unconscious Dan again, poured a cup of cold water over his head, and he regained consciousness.

Feeling the pain in his head, he began to wail in agony on the floor.

The sheriff looked at Dan with extreme disgust and asked coldly, "Mr. Qiaozhi, why did you beat him? Dan, I hope you can answer truthfully."

When Dan heard this, his face lit up with joy; the fact that Qiaozhi had beaten him was an indisputable fact, and he didn't even need to embellish his account.

It was enough to send Qiaozhi to jail.

However, what Dan wanted was not just that; he wanted to completely destroy Qiaozhi's reputation.

He wanted Qiaozhi to know exactly how far it was from Heaven to Hell.

It was all within his own whim.

Dan added fuel to the fire, saying, "Masha, as my brother's widow, is actually hooking up with a pretty boy. If I hadn't caught them, who knows how long this vicious woman would have kept it up, and I don't know how much of my brother's inheritance this pretty boy would have taken away..."

Dan was full of rascality, using the most vicious words in the world to paint the two of them as devils.

Masha looked at Dan in disbelief; back when he was in trouble, his brother had forbidden her from helping this scoundrel of a brother.

Yet she had secretly given Dan money to pay off his gambling debts outside.

Masha's kindness was not acknowledged, but instead met with all sorts of rascality from Dan.

Qiaozhi smiled coldly at such a scoundrel.

Any vicious vocabulary that could come out of his mouth was possible; Qiaozhi had seen

plenty on the battlefield.

The sheriff was extremely disgusted and, unable to bear it any longer, reminded him, "Please tell me the point of this matter."

Dan said coldly, "Every word I am saying now is the point!"

"..." the sheriff.

After Dan had finished spilling all his words, Dan said indifferently, "Sheriff, you must get justice for me; these two have infringed upon my interests."

The sheriff said indifferently, "I will give you justice."

After hearing these two versions of the story, the sheriff glanced at the so-called evidence on the floor, ignored it, and said indifferently, "Mr. Qiaozhi, do you admit to beating Dan just now?"

Qiaozhi smiled: "I admit it. Even if we went to court, I would say the same. If the sheriff feels I did wrong, you are welcome to handcuff me right now."

Hearing Qiaozhi's answer, the sheriff nodded.

He looked at Masha again and asked, "Was everything that happened just now true?"

"Yes, Sheriff. If Mr. Qiaozhi is guilty for hurting someone because of me, then I am willing to bear the guilt with him."

Masha looked at the sheriff firmly.

She looked at Qiaozhi again and smiled slightly.

She did not know why, but her heart had been completely captivated by this man's charm, and her eyes could not help but look at him.

Seeing Masha's unregretful smile, the sheriff also smiled, and the three of them looked at Dan.

The sheriff gave a cold verdict: "Mr. Dan, I declare you guilty."

"The charges are attempted molestation and illegal occupation of Miss Masha's property. According to the laws of Britain, you must come with me!"

Hearing this, Dan's smile came to an abrupt end, and his ferocious face became even more terrifying: "Sheriff, do you know what you are saying?"

"I am the one who was harmed, not them."

"Do you understand what that means!"

The sheriff sneered, pressed down on Dan, who could no longer move, handcuffed him, and said indifferently, "If you feel dissatisfied, you can hire a lawyer to sue me."

"But you will only be able to find your lawyer from inside the prison."

After the sheriff handcuffed Dan, he looked at Qiaozhi and smiled, "Qiaozhi, you are the hero of our Fojilisi; your battle record is as noble as your character."

"Do you know why I believe your words?"

Qiaozhi was extremely confused; in his view, this arrest was completely without reason.

Even if Dan was a scoundrel, all sorts of evidence indicated that he himself was the one who had started the fight.

This point could not be washed away.

The sheriff smiled and said, "Dan is the younger brother of Masha's husband; when her husband died, he left a final testament that absolutely no copper coins were to be left to Dan, and that all his plantations and family property were to be left to Masha to take care of the children."

"Although the will was written this way, Masha did not feel that doing so was right."

"After all, Dan was her husband's younger brother; one day, Masha saw Dan beaten by debt collectors until he had only one breath left, and her heart softened, so she paid off his gambling debts and even gave him a sum of money."

The sheriff looked at Dan coldly: "If it weren't for your incorrigible nature and continued gambling, you should be living quite well now; after all, the property Masha left for you was enough for you to live very comfortably." Recently, the transcoding is severe, which gives us more motivation to update faster. Please move your little hands to exit reading mode. Thank you.