Her hair was disheveled, and her face was mottled with bruises. After hearing what the man who had reported the case said, the woman—
—glared viciously at him and said,
"You all deserve to die! You even had the yamen runners arrest a good Samaritan! I think my husband was the one you beat!"
"Why don't I report you and have these yamen runners arrest you instead?"
After hearing the gambler's wife, the man who had reported the case was so frightened that he hurried away.
"Ma'am, don't talk nonsense! How could your husband have been beaten by me?"
"I was the one who called these yamen runners! What a mess—trying to do a good deed, only to have it pinned on me. I'm done getting involved!"
The man who had reported the case fled in terror. He no longer dared to ask the yamen runners to arrest Li Changsheng.
If he kept making a fuss, the yamen runners might end up arresting him instead.
The man who had reported the case finally fell silent. Frightened, he hid among the crowd and no longer dared to show his face.
Meanwhile, Li Changsheng, Li Xue, Immortal Lord Miaoyi, and Sun Hongyu—
—decided to find the gambler Li Changsheng had injured and ask where his child, Xiao Bao—
—had been sold. They had to rescue him. They had only interfered because they pitied the child.
The gambler's wife had not heard the conversation between Li Changsheng and Li Xue earlier.
That was because, after hearing the woman say that her husband had sold their child, Li Xue—
—had angrily gone after the gambler, intending to kill him.
She had run off, but Li Changsheng caught up to her and pulled her back.
There had been some distance between them, so the gambler's