Seeing him back down, Officer Cai didn't care to make a big deal of it. It was New Year's, after all—let it go. He waved his hand. "You'd better watch yourself next time. I've got your plate number. I'll be reporting it to the traffic department. If I hear one more complaint about you overcharging passengers, you'd better be ready for trouble."

"Yes, yes!" Xu Songshu nodded frantically. But for a good long while after that, he didn't dare fleece another passenger.

Only after Xu Songshu had gone did Chen Shutang breathe a sigh of relief. "Uncle Cai, you have no idea what a wretch that man is," she said to the policeman named Cai. "He dragged us all the way around the outer ring road."

"Men like that bring shame on every last one of us Songjiang folk," the policeman named Cai cursed. "Don't you worry. I'll have someone keep an eye on him. If that fellow dares to fleece passengers again, I'll deal with him myself."

"Oh? And who might this be?" the policeman named Cai asked, looking at Yang Yanchuan.

To be continued.