Wei Wei noticed someone bumping into Wei Shuxuan and quickly reacted. He grabbed the person right away. The person who bumped into Wei Shuxuan was a girl in a pink dress. She had a neatly coiled hair bun, which made her seem like a married woman. Wei Shuxuan looked at her and then at herself. She didn't have a hair bun.
"Let go of me! I'm in a hurry to report a case!" The girl in the pink dress, with her collar grabbed by Wei Wei, struggled hard.
Seeing the girl in the pink dress struggling so hard, Wei Shuxuan quickly told Wei Wei to let her go. "Wei Wei, let her go. It's impolite to do this."
"But, miss, she just tried to hurt you. So, I was just anxious and grabbed this girl."
Seeing that Wei Shuxuan seemed angry, Wei Wei quickly let go of the girl, but still didn't let the girl in the pink dress leave. "Miss, I need to protect your safety. This is the task given to me by the master. I can't fail to complete it."
"You're overthinking, Wei Wei. This girl doesn't seem like a bad person. You're a bit too nervous," Wei Shuxuan didn't mean to blame Wei Wei. She just hoped that Wei Wei could tell good people from bad ones and not hurt others. "Miss, I'm sorry. My personal guard scared you. I wonder where you're in such a hurry to go?"
The girl in the pink dress tidied up the clothes that had been wrinkled by Wei Wei. Originally, she was quite angry, but after hearing Wei Shuxuan's polite apology, her anger subsided. And she was in a hurry. "Forget it. It's okay. I'm in a hurry to go to the government office to report a case!"
"I wonder what happened to you that you need to report a case?" Wei Shuxuan wanted to find out something from this girl. Maybe this girl was going to report a case because of the disappearance of her family member.
When the girl in the pink dress saw Wei Shuxuan asking so many questions, she became suspicious. She was both anxious and worried that she might have met bad people. Her face showed a fierce look. "Why should I tell you? Who are you anyway? Asking so many questions!"
Wei Shuxuan tilted her head slightly and glanced at Xin Zizhao beside her. She was a bit helpless. She politely smiled and said, "Miss, if I've caused any misunderstanding, I'll apologize. I just want to ask if it's because your family member is missing that you're in such a hurry to go to the government office to report a case?"
Wei Shuxuan's words made the girl in the pink dress suddenly startled. She excitedly looked at Wei Shuxuan. "How do you know about this?"
"We're sent by the imperial court to investigate this matter, so we naturally know."
Hearing the girl in the pink dress's words, Xin Zizhao became interested. He whispered to Wei Shuxuan, who was showing a proud smile, "Xuan'er, let's go and take a look too."
Hearing Xin Zizhao's words, Wei Shuxuan nodded and agreed. "Okay."
Then, Wei Shuxuan looked at the girl in the pink dress, whose expression still showed a bit of excitement, and said with a smile, "Excuse me, can we go with you to the government office to report the case?"
The girl in the pink dress didn't expect Wei Shuxuan and the others to make such a request. She was stunned for a moment, but then quickly nodded and agreed. "...... Sure. Officers, please follow me quickly!"
Because Wei Shuxuan and the others were with her, the girl in the pink dress didn't trot like before, but still walked very fast towards the government office. On the way to the government office, Wei Shuxuan asked the girl in the pink dress her name and learned that her name was Yang Xiaojing. She and her husband had always lived in a house near the suburbs, and there were only the two of them in the family.
"So, why do you think your husband has disappeared?" Wei Shuxuan looked at Yang Xiaojing.
"This morning when I got up, my husband was already gone. Since I got up late, I thought my husband had gone to work in the fields. But, until I made dinner in the evening, my husband still hadn't come back. My husband has never come back so late for dinner. And with so many men disappearing recently, I immediately came to report the case."
"I see..." Wei Shuxuan nodded thoughtfully.
Led by Yang Xiaojing, they soon came to the gate of the government office. Yang Xiaojing rushed to the grievance drum anxiously and beat the somewhat old drum surface hard.
Soon, several officers came out of the government office. Seeing Yang Xiaojing beating the drum to report a grievance, one of the officers stepped forward. "Bold commoner! Why are you beating the drum to report a grievance? Don't you know that our County Magistrate Luo has already rested?"
"Sir, my husband is missing. Please ask County Magistrate Luo to help me find my husband!" Yang Xiaojing and her husband loved each other deeply. She cried and pleaded.
"Another disappearance case?" The officer sighed helplessly and softened his tone. "There's nothing we can do. The imperial court attaches great importance to this matter. Please come with me first to register your husband's information."
Wei Shuxuan and the others were about to follow Yang Xiaojing in, but were stopped by the officers at the door. Then the officer who asked Yang Xiaojing to come in to register information asked Wei Shuxuan, "Who are you?"
"We're Xiaojing's friends. We specially came with her to report the case."
Wei Shuxuan secretly winked at Yang Xiaojing. Yang Xiaojing nodded. "Yes, sir. They're all my friends."
"Not so many people can go in. Some of you stay outside."
After the officer took Yang Xiaojing in, Xin Zizhao asked Wei Wei and Xin Shang to stay outside and wait. He went in with Wei Shuxuan and the Ge Zian father - son. Originally, Sima Yongheng also wanted to go in, but after Wei Wei said a few words to him, he obediently stayed outside.
"Brother Wei, why don't you let me go in with Sister Xuan and the others?" Although Sima Yongheng obediently stayed outside and waited on the surface, he was actually quite unconvinced in his heart.
"They're going in to do something important. You have no identity. If you go with them, it will arouse others' suspicion and won't be of any use to the miss in investigating the case. Don't you want to help Sister Xuan?" Wei Wei's words seemed quite reasonable, so Sima Yongheng didn't say anything else.
Wei Shuxuan and the others followed Yang Xiaojing into the government office. County Magistrate Luo had just been called out by the officer who came in. The magistrate yawned, slapped the gavel on his desk, and said, "No cases will be accepted today."