Chapter 291: Enter the Dungeon Experience (1)_1
Really going to jail! Pei Qian’s eyes instantly turned red, as she forcibly held back tears that rushed out in a flood.
Sun Lizheng was also stunned, his mind buzzing with a blank emptiness.
A few constables came up and began to take them to the prison.
Finally able to stand up. Pei Qin bent over to rub her knees, and the name card she was carrying fell out.
Seeing the dropped item looked like a name card from a well-to-do family, a constable reached out to pick it up.
"What is that?" Meng Dinglun, who was about to step down, stopped and asked.
Pei Qin gave a forced smile, knowingly feigning ignorance, "Oh! Once I entered the Yamen, I heard that we were not brought to receive rewards but to be questioned for crimes, serious crimes at that. I was nearly scared out of my wits, my mind went blank, and I completely forgot about the name card!"
Not a single person in the crowd believed what she said. Scared out of her wits? Mind went blank? She was the one who seemed calm and clear, even interrupting the Sir Magistrate himself. This inquiry was turning less and less like an actual inquiry!
Pei Qian, seeing the name card, suddenly realized and shrieked, "We are not spies! We have been wronged! This is the name card of the Jinan Magistrate, he even knows about our cultivation of sweet potatoes!"
Upon hearing that it was the Jinan Magistrate’s card, Meng Dinglun’s expression changed. He was a fourth-rank Magistrate himself, on equal footing with Shen Gu of Jinan. However, the Meng family was far inferior to the Shen family and could not compare. The Meng family depended solely on him, while the Shen family did not rest on Shen Gu alone but on the high-ranking Grand Scholar of the Wenyuan Pavilion, Minister of the Ministry of Justice, Shen Bi—a man who had become an Elder Statesman.