Chapter 14: Chou Cai
"Crash!"
Noisy footsteps resounded as a large group of people carrying torches rushed from afar, completely surrounding the Xu Family’s estate.
The man leading them was over seven feet tall with a somber face and two mustaches at the corners of his mouth, giving off a particularly unfriendly aura.
He looked at the blood-drenched scene in front of him, resembling hell itself, and involuntarily twitched his eyebrows. Glancing around, his gaze first lingered on Su Heng’s towering figure, and then fell on Song Baoyi standing nearby. "Song Baoyi, tell this County Magistrate what exactly has happened here."
The County Magistrate was an official in charge of judicial affairs and handling cases. In grass-root units like Changqing County, his power was second only to the prefect.
The County Magistrate of Changqing County was named Chou Cai, and, true to his name, he sought office merely to amass wealth.
When handling cases, he didn’t bother with the causes, and immediately arrested both the complainant and the accused, indiscriminately whipping them fifty times each.
After that, he would further proceed depending on the amount of fine paid for atonement.