The bailiffs made multiple attempts to disperse them, but to no avail. In the end, they had no choice but to detain all thirty-nine people present. They were charged on the spot with obstructing official duties, storming the court, and disrupting court order, then taken into custody in the court's detention room.
That's right. Everyone spent the night at the court, accommodation provided free of charge.
"Uncle Qin, I just want to ask, how many days will they be detained?" eventually, Chen Zishi asked with great concern.
As a fellow villager, these women were his elders. After the trial ended, they hadn't hurried to leave and had witnessed everything that happened subsequently. News of Liu Mei and the others' arrest had spread like wildfire, and the village was in an uproar.
