Only then did Li Yu remember what Zhou Jia had mentioned about covering up for one's family. She was furious. Why were women the ones who had to be tortured for thousands of years? The most hateful thing was that there was such a lousy law in this damn place to help the wicked!
Li Yu thought to herself, Since I can't punish you with the law, there will be other more direct and effective methods!
"Alright, go and call the Zou family's patriarch here and get someone to bring the Li family's mother and daughter over." Scribe Tu nodded and got the magistrate officers to take Madam Li and her daughter away while he went to call the Zou family's patriarch.