“It's because the Ou clan's carriage was moving rather quickly at the time, and then they ended up hitting a commoner,” one of the soldiers recalled.

“What do you mean, a commoner?” another soldier corrected. “It was just a good-for-nothing who deliberately gets hit and extorts compensation. He loves throwing himself at those ordinary carriages.”

“That fella always does this sort of thing. Since the Ou clan is based here, and they didn’t really cause too much trouble, we just turned a blind eye to it,” another soldier quickly added. At the same time, he secretly watched Zu An’s expression.

Mi Li harrumphed as she watched from nearby. “That good-for-nothing probably treats them with a lot of respect, and that’s why they turned a blind eye to it.”

Mi Li was the empress of a country, yet she actually understands these matters so well? Zu An thought. However, he hadn’t come here to investigate this matter today, so he didn’t care much about the guards’ corruption. He asked, “Then?”

Seeing that Zu An didn’t continue to ask about those matters, the guards...