Chapter 589: Chapter 185: Trace of the Witch Immortal! Signs of Turbulent Times Beginning to Emerge! (Request for Subscription for the 10,000-Word Mega Chapter)_5
The little banner officer from the Imperial Astronomical Bureau rattled off every conceivable flattery, leaving nothing unsaid.
Simply because he recognized Fan Wu.
And that local arrest officer Ning was dumbstruck, completely and utterly flabbergasted!
With one hand propped against the ground and the other covering his face, he stared in disbelief at the little banner officer from the Imperial Astronomical Bureau and then at Fan Wu in front of him. Such a gesture he repeated over and over, as many as five or six times, while the little banner officer spoke.
Daoist Fan Wu?
Fan Wu...
Hiss!!
Fan Wu!!
"This fellow... beats the commoner in the street, and without evidence, he brands someone as a Blood Gu Sect disciple," Fan Wu said softly as he caressed the City God’s Command in his hand, which he had taken out at some unknown time.
The tip of the City God’s Command, pointing at arrest officer Ning, began to show a series of tiny blood-red characters.
"Tsk..." Fan Wu withdrew the City God’s Command, casually remarking, "This man is no good person."
Even though Fan Wu held no official position, the little banner officer treated him as if he were facing his superior’s superior.
"Understood!"
The little banner officer nodded earnestly, "I’ll have him locked up in the grand prison of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau. And I’ll interrogate him thoroughly, extracting every evil deed he has committed."
"Hmm." Fan Wu nodded and pointed to the commoner on the ground, "By the way, see to his medical treatment, will you?"
"Yes!"
The little banner officer nodded again.
The dialogue between the two not only stunned two officials from the yamen but also startled arrest officer Ning and the commoner.
The arrival of these few members from the Imperial Astronomical Bureau took the development of the incident in an uncontrollable direction.
Especially for arrest officer Ning.
He was bewildered!
"Wait... wait! Hold on, hold on!" The arrest officer Ning from Neihai County panicked again. He couldn’t care less about the burning sensation on his face, and he cried out in fear, "It’s a misunderstanding... This is all a misunderstanding! I’ve been wronged! This is an injustice!"
"You... you can’t put me into the grand prison of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau, I’m the arrest officer of Neihai County! I’m the arrest officer! You Imperial Astronomical Bureau have no right to detain me in the grand prison, you don’t have that authority!"
Could he not panic? Plainly speaking of being thrown into the grand prison of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau, and then to be tortured, what if he really revealed something?
He felt he couldn’t withstand the interrogation of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau, and he also believed he wasn’t a clean man.
Even...
Some things he had done were enough to have him dragged out and beheaded!
Once these things were exposed, his life would be over.
"Daoist Fan Wu!" Arrest officer Ning turned his head to look at Fan Wu, his face full of pleading, "I... I didn’t realize you were the same Taoist Heavenly Master who rescued Neihai County a few days ago."
"I was blind! It’s... my sight has failed me!" He didn’t need the little banner officer to slap him in the face; he had already given himself several hard slaps.
As if only by doing so could he appear more pitiful.
However.
He found that Daoist Fan Wu didn’t even bother with him, but instead turned and got into the carriage.
He watched helplessly as the carriages passed by him, watched as Fan Wu and his companions gradually disappeared into the distance, his heart that was twirling rapidly sank, not back in place, but into the abyss.
Arrest officer Ning looked desperately at his two subordinates for help.
But what he found was that his two subordinates were lying down even more readily than himself.
The two officials had thrown away the knives in their hands.
And assumed a position with hands clasping their heads, crouching down.
Damn!
How useless could these two be?
Then he saw the commoner, who was currently being attended to by two members of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau, checking his injuries.
Ning hurriedly said, "You... you might put in a good word for me! It’s just a misunderstanding, you can even kick me, if a few kicks aren’t enough, how about ten?"
The commoner from Neihai County didn’t say a word, and Ning was drenched in a cold sweat.
He swallowed nervously.
His complexion turned grim.
...
On the spacious official road.
Two carriages rode side by side, one to the left and one to the right, with another carriage closely following behind. The wheels crushed the ground, stirring up clumps of dust that raised a column half a zhang high.
"That guy really is shameless." Although it had been a day or two, Yun Jiuqing, trailing in the back, was still muttering discontentedly, with a sense of unfulfillment, "Who knows how many like him there could be, but surely he’s not the only one."
She referred to Ning, the arrest officer from Neihai County.
Without any foundation or proof, he rashly labeled commoners as disciples of the Blood Gu Sect and even condoned his officials to rough them up. Even going as far as to enter the fray himself, intending to beat the slandered and wronged commoner.
Such actions were truly despicable!
"I really don’t understand such matters," said Xing Fengzi, who was up front, his voice mixing with the sounds of hoofbeats and rolling wheels, "I only know that what the arrest officer did was wrong, and it brought shame to his post."
"This is just Neihai County. If news of disorder in the Imperial City were to spread throughout the Dynasty..." Xing Fengzi sighed, "Compassion, compassion, who knows what disasters it could cause."
