Chapter 76 Deterrence
After Qianhuan knew the culprit, she had already made up her mind. She turned to Master Cai and asked, "Master Cai, could you please help me tie up this evil man?"
Qianhuan really didn't want to tie him up herself. She felt sick to the point of touching him.
Upon hearing this, Master Cai picked up the clothes on the ground and twisted them into a ball, then tied up Wu Qiang's hands and feet.
Wu Qiang cried and begged, "Sister Qianhua, please let me go. The one who hurt you is Cuihua. Even if I wasn't there, Cuihua would have asked someone else to hurt you. I just wanted to make some money to spend."
Qianhuan ignored Wu Qiang's cries and waited for Master Cai to tie up the man. She knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Master Cai solemnly to thank him: "Master Cai, please accept my humble greeting. Thanks to your help today, I was able to escape danger."
"Girl, please stand up quickly. When seeing injustice, helping others with swords is what a chivalrous man like me should do. You don't have to be so polite."
Seeing the young woman in front of him showing such great courtesy to him, Master Cai felt a little embarrassed.
After Qianhuan stood up straight, their eyes met. Young Master Cai looked at the girl's eyes and eyebrows. He always felt that this little girl looked familiar to him, but he really couldn't remember where he had seen her.
He asked with a puzzled look on his face: "Girl, I don't understand, how do you know that I am Master Cai? Why do I always feel that you look familiar when I look at you? Have we met somewhere before?"
"Master Cai, I'm Brother Liang." Qianhuan said this in her original female voice.
Seeing that Master Cai was still confused and couldn't remember, she immediately changed her voice to a hoarse one and said to him, "Master Cai, I'm Brother Liang who sells sugar-roasted chestnuts."
At this moment, she no longer intended to hide her true identity from Mr. Cai.
When Master Cai heard the voice, he finally reacted, "What? You are Brother Liang? You...you are actually a woman?"
The expressions on Mr. Cai's face were wonderful. He first widened his eyes in disbelief, and then he looked as if he had suddenly realized something.
No wonder she spoke in a sissy voice when I first met her. It turns out she was a woman. No wonder she looked familiar to me just now.
"Well, I set up a stall in the city so I disguised myself as a man for the convenience of doing things. Thank you so much today. If you hadn't appeared to save me, I would have been harmed by this evil man." Qianhuan changed back to her original clear and soft female voice.
She also had a look of fear on her face at this moment. She really couldn't imagine how miserable her end would be if this evil guy succeeded today.
Qianhuan's soft voice was like a gentle spring breeze that brushed across Mr. Cai's heart. He looked at the weak and frail girl in front of him and couldn't help but speak out to comfort her.
"Brother Liang, oh no, Miss Liang, don't be afraid, everything is fine now. With Master Cai here, no one can do anything to you."
"Well, I'm fine now. With you here, I'm not scared at all."
When Mr. Cai heard her say this, he immediately felt needed and trusted. The heroism in his heart was instantly greatly satisfied. This was a feeling he had never experienced before.
He even spoke to her in a gentler voice without realizing it. He asked, "What are you going to do now? Do you want me to help you send this evil man to the authorities?"
When Wu Qiang heard that he was going to be sent to the authorities, he immediately became anxious. He cried and begged, "No, please don't send me to the authorities. Please spare me. If you want revenge, go find Cuihua..."
Qianhuan ignored the person on the ground. She walked up to Master Cai and said softly, "Master Cai, can we talk for a moment?"
The two of them left Wu Qiang aside, and when they were some distance away, Qian Hua asked in a low voice, "Master Cai, may I ask how long will the government sentence a criminal like him who attempted to commit a crime to death according to the laws of the Great Abyss? How long will the person behind the scenes be sentenced to?"
"In a case like this where the evil was not accomplished, the government would probably sentence him to half a year at most. If he has some connections in the government, he might not even need half a year, and could be released in two or three months. As for the person behind the scenes, it is impossible to convict him based on the testimony of the evildoer alone. There must be physical evidence."
After all, Young Master Cai is a gangster, and he has heard of the laws of the Great Abyss Kingdom, and he also knows a lot about some of the twists and turns therein.
Qianhuan couldn't help but feel disappointed when she heard this. She really didn't expect that she would only be sentenced to half a year, and if she had some connections with the government, the sentence could be reduced.
As for Cuihua, the culprit, it would be difficult to convict her. Based on her understanding of Cuihua, she would definitely not admit that she was the one who ordered this incident. If she argued in court and Wu Qiang could not produce any physical evidence, she would continue to get away with it.
Qianhuan suddenly felt a little discouraged. She should have thought of this earlier. This was ancient times, and sometimes it was impossible to rely on the government to give her fairness in some matters.
Even in modern times, many criminals are able to exploit loopholes in the law to escape punishment, and ordinary people often have to suffer in silence.
Take a big news story she had seen in modern society as an example, the sensational "Sun Haiyang's son Sun Zhuo was kidnapped" incident. The human trafficker who kidnapped the child for more than ten years was only sentenced to five years in prison. The child's biological parents suffered more than ten years of torment and pain, but one of the traffickers was sentenced to five years in prison and the other was sentenced to two years. Such a result is really unfair to the victim.
In modern society with more comprehensive laws, such a phenomenon can still occur. Then in ancient times, he could not rely on the government to punish the evildoers. It seems that she has to rely on herself for revenge.
She was silent for a while, then said to Master Cai, "Master Cai, I don't plan to report myself to the authorities. Firstly, if I do, as a victim, I will have to tell everyone how I was victimized, which will greatly damage my reputation. Secondly, if my parents knew about this, they would probably be very worried. If I want to start a business again in the future, I'm afraid they won't allow it."
"The third point is that the sentence for the evildoer is too short. When he is released from prison, I am afraid that our family will be in trouble. We are just poor people in the countryside, with no power or influence. If we are entangled by such an evil person, I am afraid there will be endless troubles."
"As for the fourth one, he has no physical evidence. If he only talks, and the other party denies it, it will be difficult to convict the person who ordered it."
After careful consideration, Qianhuan made what she thought was the most correct choice.
If sending her to the authorities could get Wu Qiang sentenced to death and Cuihua brought to justice, she would be willing to do it even if her reputation would be ruined.
But now, even if the case is handed over to the authorities for investigation, the bad guys only need to pay such a small price, while I have to pay such a painful price of ruining my reputation. It's not worth it.
Even in modern times when people are more open-minded, when some women’s innocence is ruined by criminals, many people will use the “victim blaming theory” to scold the victims, saying that they were exposed for their clothes, behaved promiscuously, seduced the criminals, and so on.
In this feudal ancient society, don't even expect anyone to sympathize with the victims. They will only scold the victimized women even more harshly.
"Well, girl, your considerations are all correct. Sending him to the authorities will indeed damage your reputation. So, should we just let him go?"
"It would be too easy for him to let him go. Since the government can't punish the evildoer for me, I can only rely on myself. Master Cai, I'm afraid I'll have to borrow your name later."
"Okay, as long as it can punish the bad guys, you can use it." Young Master Cai said, patting his chest.
Wu Qiang was tied up and unable to move. Seeing the two of them discussing something in the distance, he was extremely frightened, fearing that the two would kill him to silence him.
Qianhuan walked over and stepped on Wu Qiang's face. She still felt unsatisfied, so she kicked Wu Qiang a few more times to vent her anger.
Wu Qiang was kicked and screamed. He could never have imagined that Liang Qianhuan, who looked pure and weak, had such a cruel side. He thought Cuihua was cruel enough, but he didn't expect that the real cruel character was here.