"Who are you? You dare to break into my study. You are so brave! Come on, come on, get these people out of here!"
The prefect drank too much, and the more he spoke, the bolder he became. He even got up and walked forward, wanting to see the third prince clearly.
As a result, before he could reach the third prince, he was kicked away by someone beside him.
"Open your dog eyes and see what this is?"
His subordinates thrust the token into his eyes, and the golden token almost blinded his eyes.
"Your Highness, Prince Three Three Three Three?"
As a result, he was mostly awake from the wine. He rubbed his eyes in disbelief. He still couldn't see clearly, but his legs were so weak that he couldn't stand anymore and he knelt on the ground.
"Kong Heng, you are living a good life!"
The third prince glanced at his table, which was full of meat and several jugs of wine. He could tell by the smell that the food was good.
"Your Highness, please forgive me, I'm an official. I'm just like this when I have nothing to do. I don't usually act like this!"
The prefect was shaking all over, and he was shaking when he spoke. He really couldn't understand why the third prince came to Jiangnan, and why he hadn't heard any news before?
"If I remember correctly, today is not a holiday. You are like this during the day, and you don't know how cool you are behind the scenes. It seems that Jiangnan is really raising people!"
The third prince sneered, walked directly to the seat where the prefect was sitting just now, sat down, looked at the mess on the table with disgust, and asked the Yamen servant to leave quickly.
The prefect was kneeling on the ground, not daring to raise his head, not knowing how he would be treated.
Soon, the government officials cleared the table, and the third prince casually put his legs on the table. He glanced at the two women kneeling in the corner. Let’s call them women for now. After all, they were not considered women in the eyes of the third prince.
Allocate Zhao Huanyu to lift the skirt corners.
The two women had just heard the prefect call him Third Prince, and they also did not dare to look around. They kept their heads down, but they did not notice his gaze.
The third prince quickly turned his gaze back, looked at the prefect and asked: "Tell me, how do you explain the Shangya's day-to-day announcement of yin, and the most powerful incident between you and that girl that is now popular among the people? Why didn't you send someone
Go check it out? As a prefect, you don’t do any serious work and only spend your whole day eating, drinking and having fun. Why does the court support a waste like you?"
When it comes to teaching people, the Third Prince is unambiguous. After all, in his opinion, he will be the emperor in the future. People like the prefect will be worms under his hands in the future, wasting his money and food.
We have to deal with them now.
The magistrate couldn't express his sorrow, so he hesitated awkwardly on the sidelines.
Without saying a word, the Third Prince's subordinate gave him another kick and scolded him sternly: "Your Highness is asking you a question. What are you hesitating about? Tell me quickly!"
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, Your Highness, I feel miserable in my heart! Everything was fine at first, but it was all ruined by that foreign woman! I am poisoned in my body and my life is shortened every day, and I was forced to do so by her," he said.
I then asked for hundreds of dan of grain from those grain merchants. Now when those grain merchants see Xiaguan, they all show their teeth and Xiaguan dare not go out these days."
"And those rumors were clearly arranged by that woman on purpose! She was just a merchant, but she wanted to rely on Shangguan, so she always knew about the rumors between Shangguan and her. Shangguan warned her many times, but it was of no use. What could she do?
It just so happened that she was just an ordinary citizen, and even the lower-level officials did not dare to be violent with her, so the matter turned into what it is now."
"Your Highness is wise. She deliberately spread these rumors in order to make the official compromise and agree to take her as a concubine. However, the official felt that he was much older than her and had no such thoughts. He has been avoiding her during this period.
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"Also, Xiaguan has been sending people to investigate the murderer of the arson case. In any case, that is a warehouse of food! If it is transported to the disaster area, it can save countless lives. As the parent official of Qingzhou, Xiaguan naturally cherishes
People!"
"Your Highness, I feel very clear in my heart. Your Highness, please take a closer look!"
Since the third prince asked him to speak, he would tell everything he could think of. Anyway, the third prince didn't know that girl Duan, so what should I say that it was not up to him to decide?
After he finished speaking, he felt that he had performed well, and he didn't even complain about it, and he felt a little complacent in his heart.
The third prince didn't say a word from the moment he opened his mouth to the moment he closed his mouth. His expression was very impatient, and there was a taunting smile on his lips.
After the prefect finished speaking for a long time, he suddenly noticed that none of the third princes spoke. He finally noticed that something was wrong, and felt nervous for a moment. Could it be that the secret was exposed somewhere?
He didn't dare to talk nonsense for a while, as he would make mistakes if he spoke too much.
After a while, the person next to the third prince suddenly said: "Your Highness, this man did not tell the truth. According to the law, he should be severely punished. Do you think he is going to chop off his hands or his feet?"
The prefect was shocked. He didn't understand why he was just talking nicely and suddenly wanted to chop off his hands and feet?
He jumped up in a hurry and said: "Your Highness, what I said is true. That woman is a snake-hearted woman. She looks harmless on the surface, but in fact she is a vicious and vicious woman. He not only poisoned me, but also poisoned Qin."
My young master also poisoned her and forced her to take leave to give her food. She will be punished by God for doing this!"
"Who gave you permission to get up?"
The third prince did not pay attention to him, but was dissatisfied when he suddenly jumped up. He winked at the people around him, and someone immediately came up and kicked the prefect's back knee. The prefect immediately knelt down firmly again.
Arrived on the ground.
"Wow, your highness, what I said is true! Your Highness must believe me!"
The third prince looked at him with great interest and asked: "Then you can tell me what happened with the banquet in the blue sky and the two women?"
"Those were given to Xiaguan by others. There are many rich people in Jiangnan and they like to give gifts. It is not unusual for Xiaguan to eat a chicken every two days."
The prefect thought that there would be no flaws in what he said. Unexpectedly, the subordinates next to the third prince snorted and laughed: "This is the first time I have heard that someone can use the word bribery in such a refreshing and blatant way!"
"Bribery?" The prefect was startled, and hurriedly waved his hand and said: "No, no, Jiangnan people are more enthusiastic. They like to give people food, just some food, and nothing else. Your Highness is really misunderstood.
Resigned!"
The prefect kept trying to make his presence felt, and he insisted on saying it several times even though he could do it with just one sentence.
The Third Prince didn't have much patience to begin with. Being able to listen to him talk so long today was considered an extra-judicial favor. But now that he heard him being so rude, his patience had been exhausted.
"Kong Heng, what you said is correct."
The third prince nodded, and the magistrate thought he really believed it, and his mouth instantly opened.
However, before he could speak, the third prince continued to say: "If I don't know Miss Duan, then you will really have deceived me."
What?
What did the third prince just say?
Does he know that girl? How? Why did he know him? That girl doesn’t speak with a regular accent!
Could it be that the person behind that girl is the third prince?
No way, right?
The prefect opened his mouth wide and his jaw almost dropped to the ground.
Why is this happening? Why doesn't he have any news? Then what he just said...
"Your Highness, please spare your life! I'm going to lower my rank...ah!"
The third prince kicked him over without saying a word, but he still felt annoyed. He took the whip from his waist and hit the prefect hard several times before giving up.
"Although I don't come here often, it's not that easy to fool. Our store has known about Miss Duan for a long time. I came here today to ask you why you didn't send someone to help her find the murderer, but you are here messing around with me, confusing right and wrong.
, is this what you should do as a prefect?"
"Someone, give me a hard beating! Beat him until he tells the truth!"
As he said that, the third prince pushed him again and sat back on the stool.
Really, fortunately, he asked Miss Duan what was going on before he came. Based on what he had learned before, what Miss Duan said was absolutely true, and the prefect was simply a loser.
The people under his command had long been unhappy with the prefect, and started whipping him without saying a word. The prefect had been beaten by Zhao Huanyu's men before, and the injuries on his body were not healed. Now he was whipped again, and the pain was unspeakable.
"Your Highness, I know I was wrong. Please forgive me, Your Highness! Please forgive me!"
"I know I was wrong and I don't dare to do it anymore. Please forgive me, Your Highness!"
He repeated the words "spare your life" over and over again, his voice getting louder and softer, until finally he could no longer speak because his mouth had also been whipped and was now swollen like that thing.
"to be honest!"
The third prince was impatient to wait for him, so he drew out his sword and put it against the tip of his nose, and said in a cold voice: "If you dare to tell another lie, my highness will cut off your nose and feed it to the dogs!"
The prefect was so frightened that although he did not dare to lie this time, he could not open his mouth and was so anxious that he could not open his mouth.
"It doesn't matter if you can't speak. Just write it down. I'm not the kind of unreasonable person."
The people under his command immediately prepared pens, ink, paper and inkstones, and slipped the magistrate over to let him write. The magistrate not only had wounds on his body and mouth, but also on his hands, and there was a large blood mark on the back of his hand.
But even so, he still hurriedly picked up the pen and started writing down the details. Now he was facing the third prince, a person who could cut off his head if he was unhappy. He really couldn't afford to offend him.
Although he knew that after writing these things, he might not live long, but it was still much better than now.
Originally, he wanted to wait until Zhao Huanyu left to bring some money to please his boss, so that he could still secure his position as prefect.
No matter what the public reputation is, it can at least keep him in this position for a few more years.
But he didn't expect that the third prince would come in person, so even if he wanted to go through the back door, it would be impossible.
Not only that, the third prince is also the supporter of that little bitch. In this way, the third prince knows all the things he has done, and naturally he will not keep him.
And there was no need for him to struggle anymore. The evidence was conclusive and it was useless to say anything.
Thinking of this, he suddenly relaxed. Before the antidote arrived at noon today, he had been anxious. How could he get the antidote in Zhao Huanyu's hand?
If he didn't get the antidote, he would definitely roll on the ground with stomachache like before, and if he didn't get the antidote for a long time, his life would be sealed.
But now that these things have happened, when he writes about those processes, he actually feels calm.
He's going to die anyway, and he doesn't care what the crime is.
He wrote the things with trembling hands and asked someone to serve it to the third prince. Then he knelt down not far away without making a sound. The jar had already been smashed.
"Your Highness, I know that I have sinned deeply and I dare not ask for Your Highness's forgiveness. However, my family members are innocent and my child is innocent. I beg Your Highness to spare my life!"
He has sons, and there are quite a lot of them. He has two main wives, and there are also extra rooms for concubines. Anyway, the most important thing for him is children.
But the two children who are truly affectionate are still the two children born to him. After all, he has been able to accompany these two children most of the time since they were born, and they still have some emotional foundation. Now they are the ones who are most worried about.
"Didn't you just say that you were innocent? Didn't you say that the girl wanted to curry favor with you and become your concubine? Why are you saying that you are innocent now, but you are so guilty? What do you think of me as the prince?
, how can you allow yourself to lie like this?"
The third prince slammed what he had written on the table. Sure enough, what he actually wrote was the same as what Miss Duan told him.
Miss Duan is such a good person. She can tell him these sincere words for the first time when we meet. However, there are these rats who always bully such a simple little girl!
He wanted to deal with the payment now, but after thinking about it, he felt that this person was still useful, so he sighed and said: "Get up!"
The prefect thought he had heard wrongly. He was already prepared to die, so why did he suddenly let himself get up again?
He looked up at the third prince in disbelief and was not moved for a moment.
"Your Highness asked you to get up, are you deaf?"
The prefect licked his lips and said dryly: "Your Highness, please let me kneel down and die!"
As he said that, he kowtowed to the third prince. The main reason was that if he was killed while standing, he would not know whether it would hurt when he fell to the ground.
"Let's get you up and stop talking nonsense!"
The third prince's men stepped forward and lifted him up.
Seeing his cowardice, the third prince couldn't help but laugh out loud and said: "Now there is a way for you to make up for your sins. It depends on whether you are willing."
Does this mean not to kill him?
The magistrate's eyes lit up and he said hurriedly: "As long as the only thing I can do is to go through fire and water, I will do it for Your Highness!"
"There is no need to go through fire and water, but I, the prince, have been ordered by my father to provide disaster relief. It is a time when there is a shortage of food. Jiangnan is a land of fish and rice. You should have a lot of food in stock here. I will give it to this palace. I will use it for disaster relief. I will remember it for you.