"You know perfectly well whether I'm making up stories. Do you really think no one knows what you've done?"
Jiang Nuan continued speaking to him.
"You little brat, your mouth is full of nonsense! Today, I'll teach you a lesson on your parents' behalf!"
Livid, he prepared to attack Jiang Nuan outright.
Naturally, he had no chance of succeeding. Even without beautiful spring flowers and autumn moonlight there, Magistrate Pan would never have allowed him to bully Jiang Nuan like that.
And so Deputy Magistrate Tao was immediately pinned down by Magistrate Pan's men.
"If you didn't do it, why are you so worked up? Doesn't that just make you look like you have a guilty conscience?"
Magistrate Pan spoke bluntly. Having lived so many years, he saw through Deputy Magistrate Tao's little tricks at a glance.
"Master, please continue. I want to see exactly what he's done."
After subduing him, Magistrate Pan spoke to Jiang Nuan.
"Ahem. His original name was Wei Goudan. He was a farmer from Wei Family Village who couldn't read a single word. Every day, he went out to work at sunrise and returned to rest at sunset.
"After a quarrel with a neighbor, he sneaked into the man's house in the middle of the night and killed him.
"But he was rather lucky. That night, torrential rain fell in the area, triggering a flash flood. Most of the people in Wei Family Village lost their lives in their sleep.
"He escaped the disaster because he had dragged his neighbor's body outside to dispose of it.
"Disasters struck frequently that year, forcing them to migrate. Along the way, he happened to meet Tao Fu, who had also survived the flash flood. Later, when food ran short, he brutally murdered him.
"After discovering that Tao Fu