The Constable Booked the Assassin Every Night novel · Chapter 16 of 24
Chapter 16: Without a Badge
"Open it," said Chief Dou.
The captain looked at the Prefect.
Ding stood on the cell steps with plum sugar on his sleeve and the drum rolling through the walls, and Shouzhi watched him do sums.
"Release the Doors' prisoner into the Doors' keeping," Ding said at last, through his teeth. "The Inspector should find the law in order."
Qinghe walked out past the captain with his split lip and his dignity, and did not look back at the bench.
Xiuying did not look at him either.
She had picked up her rope and begun, absently, to coil it.
Hui lifted two ringed fingers in a little wave.
The grating clanged shut on both of them.
Shouzhi had never hated a sound so much.
The Provincial Inspector came up the hill at noon in a plain grey palanquin, with six outriders and no banners.
The whole city came to watch, and the Prefecture square was packed from the gate to the steps.
Ding stood on the top step in his plum-colored robe and his jade belt.
The entire staff of the Prefecture stood in a row behind him.
He had washed his hands and combed his beard.
He looked like a kindly uncle at a festival.
The Doors stood along the left side of the square, forty men in black with red piping.
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