This workshop and Ning Cheng’s residence were not that far apart, and on the way Ning Cheng had heard a brief introduction from Yin Kongchan. At the beginning, although he had helped Ma Ang get a lot of algae yuan tendons, Ma Ang had only given him fifty silver coins, apart from doing him a favour by getting a few settlement status and a small courtyard. The shrewdness of a merchant was evident, as Ning Cheng asked for as much as he gave.
Ning Cheng immediately began to close his door to strike the Purple Mansion at his residence, and did not bother with anything else. And living here, everything cost money, not only did it cost money to eat, drink water, wear clothes and so on, it was his own house that had to pay a residence tax.
The 50 silver coins were obviously not enough, so Yin Kongchan and Xu Yingdi had to go to the market to find work. Both of them were very handy, so they rented a stall in the market to sell embroidery, and were able to make ends meet.
But that was the problem, as there were already a few embroideries being done in the market. Yin Kongchan and Xu Yingdi’s hands were so clever that when their products arrived, they crowded out the other shops in the market, and business was getting worse by the day.
Even if the law is harsh, as long as it touches one’s personal interests, someone will always find a way out. Not to mention the fact that Yin Kongchan and Xu Yingdie are so beautiful and have long been coveted by others.
After a month of calm, someone finally came to the door today. The embroideries sold by Yin Kongchan and Xu Yingdie were returned one after another, because they had used poor quality fabric, rewashed and dyed white, and then embroidered it. This kind of stuff not only tears easily, but the colour becomes a mess when it sees water.
There are very strict rules in Aaron City’s market. If a piece of fabric is used in a substandard manner, it will also face the most severe penalties from the Law Office. The most severe punishment is to be expelled from the city, and the most severe is to be sent to prison or even to be enslaved.
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Ning Cheng followed Yin Kongchan to the market, this was the first time he had come to this place since he had entered Aaron City.
At this moment, he did not have the heart to watch what was being sold inside the market, the first thing he saw was Xu Yingdie, who was draped in hair and had obvious blood marks on her body and face. Two men with redwood sticks in their hands, one on each side, had Xu Yingdie in the middle.
Ning Cheng didn’t even think about it, let alone talk nonsense, as he directly drew out his three-pronged thorn and charged up. He had been cultivating the Clasping Yang Divine Skill for so long, and with the recent loosening of his sea of consciousness, his divine sense was slowly being released, so he moved with even greater swiftness.
“Pffff ……” two flashes of blood, the two men who had used the redwood stick to pin Xu Yingdie directly fell to their knees, their knees had been completely shattered by Ning Cheng with the three-pronged prick.
Xu Yingdie broke free and rushed over to fling herself into Ning Cheng’s arms, sobbing in a low voice. She had always been a noble disciple of a large sect, when had she ever suffered such indignity?
Xu Yingdie’s warm and soft body flung itself into Ning Cheng’s arms, and Ning Cheng actually had a feeling of tranquillity, his heartstrings were plucked by Xu Yingdie for the first time.
Ning Cheng felt Xu Yingdie’s trembling, he gently patted Xu Yingdie’s back, “Don’t be afraid, no one dares to do anything to you.”
Xu Yingdie’s warm and soft voice trembled in Ning Cheng’s ears, “I’m not scared, I’m, very happy ……”
At this moment, all the onlookers in the market looked at Ning Cheng in shock, surprisingly no one dared to speak for a while. There has never been a case of such a ruthless hand in the marketplace, is this person not afraid of hanging?
“You dare to beat someone to death in the marketplace ……” an obese man pointed at Ning Cheng in fear, while tearing and roaring.
Ning Cheng took Xu Yingdie’s hand and walked up to this fat man and said coldly, “Then tell me, who are these two people that I injured? And what crime did my companion commit? To be beaten by these two people?”
The fat man had already snapped out of his most frightened time period, and he even reached out his hand and pointed at Ning Cheng, “The two of them interfered with the market and sold fake goods, and they are guilty of being beheaded and charged with slavery.”
After saying that, the obese man pointed at the two men on the ground whose knees had been shattered by Ning Cheng and said, “They only bought fake goods and came to return them, and you dare to seriously maim them. How dare you, you’re facing hanging, hanging ……”
Before this obese man could finish his words, Ning Cheng suddenly stepped forward and slapped him several times, while the three-pronged thorn swung out once again.
The piercing sound of bones shattering rang out once again, and this obese man was directly strangled by Ning Cheng once again and flung to the ground.
Ning Cheng raised the three-pronged prick and crouched down to say to the obese man, “Not only will I seriously injure you, I will also kill several of you, do you believe me?”
“You, you ……” The obese man was so frightened at this moment that he could not utter a word, he did not expect that someone would dare to be so reckless in the market.
Ning Cheng gripped the three-pronged thorn and walked up to the two men he had seriously injured before, these two men were so frightened that they couldn’t even complete their words.
“Stop ……” along with this stop voice came several guys dressed as sergeants, and one wearing an official hat, obviously the head of the group.
“Ning Cheng, what do we do? What’s coming here are people from the Law Tribunal.” Yin Kongchan came to Ning Cheng’s side and asked in a low voice, her tone calm and without much anxiety.
When the man wearing an official’s hat saw the bloodstains all over the ground and the three people who had fallen to their knees, he immediately became furious and said, “Who dares to be so bold as to strike in the market?
When the obese man saw the man in the official’s hat coming, he wailed like a pig, “Lord Sen, if you hadn’t come, we would have been killed by this lawless man, your honour must do justice to the law-abiding people ……”
Some of the fellows who were obviously on the side of the obese man followed, shouting and cheering from the crowd, demanding that the murderer be dealt with severely and that the market be given a clean slate.
The man in the official hat had a murderous look in his eyes, stared at Ning Cheng and said with a grunt, “You have a lot of nerve, men, bring them back to the court of law, after trial, they will be sent to the slave market. These two women, take them back as well and imprison them in prison first ……”
A few guys dressed as soldiers were about to step forward, but Ning Cheng also shouted, “Stop right there.”
The few sergeants who wanted to arrest Ning Cheng were surprisingly deterred by Ning Cheng.
Ning Cheng inserted the three-pronged thorn into the leg binding and took a few steps forward. When the man with the surname Sen, who was wearing an official’s hat, saw Ning Cheng step forward, he hurriedly took a few more steps back and was about to order the men below him to go up and bind Ning Cheng when Ning Cheng suddenly stared at him and sneered, “My lord, I’m not too bold, but you’re even more bold. If you capture me now, I’m afraid that the next moment you’ll be going to Slave City as well, right?”
“You’re nonsense, I’m an officer of the Law Tribunal, sanctioning a criminal like you for destroying the market ……”
Before this man surnamed Sen could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by Ning Cheng, “Lord Sen, there are many people here watching, what law are you using to arrest me, a man of merit? What means are you using to trample on the strict and sacred laws of Aaron City? I am a man who knows the law and abides by it.”
Ning Cheng said, and raised his hand to clasp his fist in the direction of the City Lord’s Palace.
“You ……” The man surnamed Sen was so angry at Ning Cheng that he almost couldn’t speak, but he quickly reacted and said with a cold smile, “You destroyed the market and committed a blatant murder in the market, and you are still a man of merit? If I hadn’t come, I’m afraid you’d already have a few lives on your hands, wouldn’t you? According to Article 971 of the Aaron City Law, anyone who commits murder in the marketplace and destroys the market will be directly charged with slavery. Anyone who resists can be killed. Hey, it looks like you want me to kill you outright!”
Ning Cheng said disdainfully, “Lord Sen, these three people impersonated officials from the Law Office and beat up my companions, bullying the market, so I would be taking credit for killing them. According to Article 618 of the Yaren City Lineage 2 Law, anyone who impersonates an official of Yaren City can be killed and credited with no fault. Lord Sen, do you want to help these thugs who are impersonating Aaron City officials?”
This official-hatted Lord Sen’s face turned pale at Ning Cheng’s words, and he really did not know that such a thing was ahead of him. If the Row 2 Law and the Row 5 Law clashed, it was definitely the Row 2 Law that would prevail.
At this moment, the obese man immediately shouted as if he had killed a pig, “We didn’t impersonate an official, it was him who fabricated the facts.”
Lord Sen thought to himself, “That’s right, who would dare to impersonate an official in Aaron City? Unless one didn’t think it was a good enough death. As soon as his fear went away, his tone immediately became stern again, “Falsely accusing someone of impersonating an official is a more serious crime than what you just did ……”
Ning Cheng unceremoniously interrupted Lord Sen’s words and stared at the obese man as he coldly asked, “I ask you, what crime did my companion commit that you had to beat her up?”
“She is a complete slave by using substandard goods, interfering with the workshop and selling fake goods ……” the obese man hissed.
Ning Cheng’s tone was even colder, “Have you investigated? Or are you guessing? Or did you listen to one side of the story?”
“I didn’t investigate, these are the obvious things, others have come to return the goods.” The obese man still argued.
The man with the official hat on his head, surnamed Sen, had already sensed that something was wrong, only when he didn’t wait for him to speak, Ning Cheng said in a cold voice, “Even if the Law Tribunal wants to sanction a person, they have to investigate first before they can convict. You have not even investigated and you have already convicted first, and you have even injured my companion. Let me ask you, what qualifications do you have to be able to convict someone? You don’t even call this impersonating an officer, so what does it mean to impersonate an officer? I ask you again, what qualifies you to assault my companion in the marketplace? Could it be that you rely on the fact that you know Lord Sen?”
As Ning Cheng said this, he also looked at Lord Sen with a deliberate heave laugh, “My Aaron City laws are fair and equitable, and anyone who has not been convicted of a crime is a good, kind and disciplined person. Lord Sen, even if this person knows you, he cannot trample on the fair and equitable laws of my Aaron City.”
Ning Cheng spoke in an impassioned tone, and some of the onlookers applauded after hearing this.
Lord Sen’s face turned a little pale, and the obese man had long forgotten about the pain in his knees and said in a sweat, “You also beat up people in the Square Market, and you also beat us up badly.”
Ning Cheng walked up and slapped the obese man on his fat face a few times, “Idiot, I am taking credit for this, do you understand? You are posing as people from the Law Tribunal to measure people, how can I tolerate this kind of thing happening?”
After saying that, Ning Cheng once again turned back to look at the official-hatted man whose face was extremely ugly and said, “Lord Sen, you, as a Lord of the Tribunal, came and didn’t even investigate anything before arresting the meritorious heroes. According to Article 431 of the Aaron City Row One Law, I wonder what your lordship should do?”
Cold sweat seeped out from the man surnamed Sen’s forehead, he really could not figure out why Ning Cheng was so well versed in the laws of Arun City.