"Mr. Ye, I'm sorry, no matter what we did, we couldn't get that old lady to say who instructed her to do so. Since the incident didn't have serious consequences, we could only detain her for five days and fine her two hundred yuan," Officer Zhou said apologetically the next day when he came to report on the case.
The old lady was completely impervious to persuasion; though her lies were exposed and she was taken into the police station, she merely said that she was old and couldn't remember clearly, leaving everyone frustrated.
"It's not your fault; there's no need to apologize to me," Ye Qiu said with a gentle smile, already having an idea in mind.
