Chapter 500: Chapter 500: The Outcome

"Hey, aren’t those Niu Dashun and Niu Ershun from Niuhe Village?"

As the saying goes, your worst fears always come true. Soon enough, someone in the crowd recognized Niu Dashun and Niu Ershun.

When Niu Dashun and Niu Ershun heard this, their faces instantly turned so red they looked like they might bleed. They seethed with hatred for Er La Niang, wishing they could give her a brutal beating right then and there.

"Hey, are you all heading to the Public Security Bureau? Niu Dashun, what did you guys do? How did you end up getting caught by a young girl?" a nosy bystander immediately asked.

Niu Dashun kept his head down, not daring to answer. He wanted to run, but with his hands tied, he had no chance to escape. He could only let Su Qing unwillingly drag him to the county Public Security Bureau.

The officer on duty was taken aback when he saw Su Qing, a young girl, dragging in several burly men tied up. "Comrade, are you the one filing a report?"

"Yes." Su Qing nodded. "These men ambushed me on the road. The ropes and the sack were all things they had on them."

"Officer, we’ve been wronged! We got the wrong person! We didn’t mean to ambush her," Niu Dashun hurriedly proclaimed his innocence. "We were just trying to play a joke on a friend and mistook her for someone else."

The officer glanced at Niu Dashun and his men, then at the sack in Su Qing’s hands, and sneered, "Playing a joke on someone with a sack and ropes during the New Year? Do you think you’re an idiot, or that I am?"

Just then, Du Changting, the captain of the Xiyuan County Public Security Bureau, walked out from inside. He couldn’t help but look a few more times when he saw Su Qing. After squinting and thinking for a moment, he asked, "You’re Su Qing, right?"

Su Qing was a little surprised. She had seen Du Changting before and knew he was the captain of the county Public Security Bureau. Back when those people were in the mountains, she had secretly sent a tip to the bureau and had seen Du Changting leading a team into the mountains. However, she had never had any direct contact with him. She didn’t expect the captain to know who she was.

Seeing that an officer from the county Public Security Bureau actually knew Su Qing, the color drained from the faces of Niu Dashun and his men.

"Yes, I’m Su Qing. And you are...?" Su Qing nodded.

"This is our Captain Du," the officer beside them said with a smile.

"Ah, so it’s Captain Du," Su Qing replied with a smile.

"You’re here to file a report? What happened?" Du Changting asked.

So, Su Qing recounted the incident to Du Changting, adding, "If I didn’t know some self-defense, I’m afraid I would have been in serious trouble today. These men definitely had a motive."

Du Changting nodded and said to the officers nearby, "Take them to the interrogation room."

"Officer, we’re innocent! We’re really innocent!" Seeing the police were getting serious, Niu Dashun and his men were terrified and hurriedly shouted.

"If you’re innocent, we certainly won’t let you be wronged. But if you had malicious intent, don’t think you can escape the law. Now, come with us," the officers said. Ignoring the struggles of Niu Dashun and the others, they dragged the men to the interrogation room.

"Come, have a seat. We’ll need to take your statement," Du Changting said to Su Qing with a smile.

Su Qing smiled and nodded. "Understood."

The two sat down, and Su Qing asked curiously, "How does Captain Du know who I am?"

Du Changting smiled. "Do you remember the officer named Feng Bozhou you met on the train to Beijing last year?"

Su Qing raised an eyebrow at his words. She did indeed remember Feng Bozhou. He had tried his hardest to persuade her to join the police force in Bingcheng. She just never expected the captain of the Xiyuan County Public Security Bureau to know him as well.

"My name is Du Changting. I’m friends with Feng Bozhou. After he failed to persuade you to join the Bingcheng police force, he was still unwilling to give up and came to me asking about you. I was also a bit curious, so I looked into you a little," Du Changting said to Su Qing with a smile. "Honestly, with your skills, it’s a real waste for you not to join our police force."

Su Qing smiled. She knew it would be easy for Du Changting to find out about her affairs in Lihua Village if he wanted to. However, she didn’t mention that she was now a non-staff officer in Beijing, only saying, "I’m still in school, so I’m not considering work at the moment."

"Oh, right, you’re a student at Beijing University. Congratulations on getting in," Du Changting said, smiling. He had a very good impression of Su Qing.

"Thank you."

The two chatted for a bit, and Su Qing gave her statement. Before long, the results from the interrogation room were in. Niu Dashun and his men were just villagers who had never set foot in a Public Security Bureau in their lives. The moment the interrogation began, they were already panicked. The police didn’t even need to use any special techniques before the men quickly confessed everything.

When Su Qing learned that Er La Niang actually wanted to force her to marry her nephew, she was at a loss for words. ’Is there something wrong with that woman’s brain?’ The problem was that Er La Niang was fixated on tormenting her. ’Wasn’t the beating I gave Su Shengguo’s family enough of a deterrent for her?’

Su Qing couldn’t quite wrap her head around Er La Niang’s thought process, so she decided not to dwell on it. In any case, those men were definitely not going to get off easy.

"How will these men be dealt with?" Su Qing asked.

Du Changting replied, "They’ll probably be sent to a farm."

Su Qing nodded, having no objection to this outcome.

Du Changting then said, "Su Qing, since you’ll be returning to Beijing, you’ll need to leave us an address. We’ll need to contact you if anything comes up that requires your input."

"Alright." Su Qing agreed, left the address of her courtyard house in Xilin Alley, chatted with Du Changting for a few more minutes, then left the county Public Security Bureau and headed for the bus station. School was about to start, and she planned to take the evening train back to Beijing.

Su Qing left Xiyuan County, and the news that Er La Niang, along with a party of four Niu family men—fathers and sons, including Niu Dashun and Niu Ershun—had been arrested by the police quickly spread to Lihua Village and Niuhe Village. When the people of Lihua Village heard the reason for their arrest, they all gasped. ’Good heavens, were those people insane? They actually dared to mess with Su Qing!’

The Old Su Family, in particular, was in awe of the Niu men’s audacity. Nowadays, when it came to Su Qing, the Old Su Family only dared to curse her in private; they would never dream of challenging her to her face.

However, not long after, Li Xiaoju and her sister-in-law, Zhang Shuoni, showed up at their door with their daughters in tow.

"Open the door! Open this door right now!" Li Xiaoju and Zhang Shuoni were practically losing their minds. The able-bodied men of their family had all been taken to the Public Security Bureau and were going to be sent to a farm for labor. How could they possibly accept that? Er La Niang had been arrested too, so even if they wanted to settle scores with her, they couldn’t find her. All their pent-up fury was now directed at Su Qing.

But Su Qing had already gone back to Beijing, so the Old Su Family became the target for their rage.

Before anyone from the Old Su Family could open the door, Li Xiaoju began screaming at their house, "That little slut you raised! Not only did she seduce my son, but she also sent my son and my husband to the Public Security Bureau! Are the daughters of your Old Su Family that desperate for a man that you have to ruin our Niu family?"

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