A moment earlier.
When Li Xiao saw so many constables arriving at the inn, his heart could not help but tremble.
After all, Zhang Chengxiang was still inside the secret chamber!
Fortunately, they did not seem to be here to demand answers or conduct a sweeping manhunt. They had merely chosen the inn as a place to rest their feet.
Just as he and his aunt were run ragged with work, he suddenly heard his wife scream.
"Ah!"
The spatula in Li Xiao's hand clattered to the floor. He rushed into the rear courtyard and saw a servant-dressed lackey blocking his wife's path and molesting her, having even torn half her clothes away!
His eyes instantly went red as he roared, "You dare?"
He immediately stepped forward and struck the back of the lackey's head with his palm.
Relying on Zhao Jianchen's influence, this lackey had always run rampant. Having come to a little town like this, he practically wished he could turn into a crab and scuttle sideways without restraint.
He had never imagined that, after molesting some country woman, her husband would actually dare to resist!
In his towering fury, Li Xiao struck with all his strength, without considering the consequences in the slightest.
The lackey took the blow to the back of his head and collapsed at once, his face the color of gold paper.
"Ah! You dared to kill someone?"
The other servants immediately shrieked and called the constables over.
Once Li Xiao's hot blood cooled, he looked at the person lying on the ground and felt his limbs turn cold. Inwardly, he cried, I killed someone... I killed someone...
When he saw the wolfish, tiger-like constables approaching, having long been accustomed to being a law-abiding commoner, he did not even dare resist. He let them