Man Gu sat up groggily and thought it over for a moment, confirming that this wasn't a dream.
The reason was simple: he couldn't dream up something like this.
"Senior Brothers, back then I didn't understand the rules of officialdom and offended Magistrate Lu, which made him dislike me. But you can't arrest him just for that."
Meng Jingzhou gave him a thumbs-up, reassuring him. "We followed the rules and regulations. Magistrate Lu was the one in the wrong."
Man Gu relaxed. That was right. His two senior brothers were both sticklers for the rules. They wouldn't arrest someone to satisfy a personal grudge.
He remembered asking his two senior brothers to come help catch ghosts. One night later, they'd arrested his superior. The answer was obvious.
"So Magistrate Lu was behind the haunting?"
As expected of his two senior brothers—they'd solved a problem that had been bothering him for three months in a single day.
"Not quite. We happened upon an illegal organization while on night duty. Following the trail, we discovered that Magistrate Lu had been protecting it all along," Lu Yang explained.
"I see." Man Gu nodded.
This wasn't his first time dealing with a magistrate, so he didn't feel burdened by it. He and his two senior brothers, Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou, had killed the magistrate of Yanjiang Commandery.
Besides, they were only arresting a magistrate this time, not killing one. It wasn't that big a deal.
Arresting Magistrate Lu was no small matter, and there was no way to keep it quiet. Lu Yang and the others had nothing to hide, since they'd acted with integrity. The news of Magistrate Lu's arrest quickly spread throughout the entire government office.
"What? Magistrate Lu was arrested by the new guys?"
Everyone in the government office who