"Your Highness! Your Highness must save the official this time!" Zhou Bingyan knelt at Xie Yang's feet, his body shaking like chaff.
"Confused! Mr. Zhou, you are so stupid! What do you want me to say?"
Did he handle it cleanly?! He was actually left with a clue!"
"Your Highness, I was careless for a moment! I have ordered the butler to deal with the person cleanly. Who knows that people are not enough, he actually sold the person and wanted to make a fortune. I only found out about it yesterday!" Zhou Bingyan walked forward on his knees,
He grabbed the hem of Xie Yang's clothes, as if holding on to the last hope, "Your Highness, think of a way, if my housekeeper can't stand the torture..."
"Then when Xie Xun investigated the brothel that day, how did you silence the housekeeper? Keep him alive for the New Year?!"
Zhou Bingyan complained endlessly, "The steward thought it was an ordinary trafficked woman's family report to the brothel. She was about to take her out of the city to avoid the limelight. Who knew that Princess Huai ordered someone to block the way... Your Highness, the top priority is
Let’s find a way to keep this official first!”
"Guard you? Your book has been on my father's desk for a long time! What's the use of talking to me now!" Xie Yang kicked him away. If this matter is not handled well, he will kill him.
Woe!
"Your Highness! There must be something else you can do, Your Highness!" Zhou Bingyan had tears streaming down his face at this moment. He still looked aloof and aloof. As if something suddenly occurred to him, he crawled over and grabbed Xie Yang's clothes and said, "Master Xiao.
!Master Xiao must have a way!"
"You don't need to say that?! Isn't this king here to discuss with grandpa today?" Xie Yang looked at the useless thing at his feet and felt irritated, but he patiently reassured him, "Don't be impatient, Mr. Zhou.
You go back to your mansion first, and I will order someone to inform you as soon as there is any news."
"No, no, no, the official is right here. Just wait here." Zhou Bingyan was frightened. He was afraid that he would be arrested by people sent by Prince Huai's Mansion as soon as he returned to his own house.
"It's up to you!" Xie Yang flicked his sleeves and went to the study.
"Grandpa." Xie Yang bowed his hands in salute. He changed his past arrogance and domineering attitude, and the expression on his face was even more respectful than when he faced Emperor Qi.
Sitting in the front seat was a gray-haired old man with a calm expression, who was drinking tea.
This man was Xie Yang's grandfather, who was Xiao Shan, the left minister.
He gently put the tea cup down and said, "What's going on? Tell me."
Xie Yang told Xiao Shan everything about the Spring Festival.
"Confused." There was no anger on Xiao Shan's face, he just said these two words softly, but Xie Yang's hands under his clothes were already clenched nervously.
"Please grandpa teach the child how to crack it," Xie Yang said.
"We can persuade all the officials we can find to plead guilty, and Zhou Bingyan will bear all the responsibility."
"But grandpa, that team of sharks..."
"You have the nerve to say that!" With a bang, Xiao Shan placed the tea cup heavily on the table, finally showing a bit of anger, "I put the shark in your charge so that you can train it well in case of emergencies.
I’m not asking you to do those little things to win over your subordinates!”
"My child knows my mistake!" Xie Yang hurriedly knelt down, "But my child is unwilling to accept it! That team of sharks put in so much effort in training, my child is really..."
"What's more important, the shark or life?!" Xiao Shan hated iron but could not make steel. If he had known now, why would he do it in the first place?
"Is there no way to save him...and Yu Zai Zhongerchen is very good at using it, can you save him..." Although Xie Yang was afraid of Xiao Shan in his heart, he couldn't help but plead for mercy.
"How many brains do you think you have when you care about people's lives and raise a large number of soldiers privately?" Xiao Shan said angrily: "And that Yu Zaizhong, I have long told you not to follow these crooked ways. If you have the time, you might as well do some political achievements! What about you? Let me You don’t have the ability to lead troops. If you are asked to go out on patrol and you are afraid of hardship, what else can you do?!”
"Grandpa, please don't be angry. The kid knows it! I will do as grandpa said!" Xie Yang said hurriedly.
"Go down." Xiao Shan was disappointed. He had been working hard for more than ten years, but he never expected that such an incompetent person would come out.
The "Hongling Lake drowning case" involved a wide range of things. After the housekeeper of the Zhou family confessed to Zhou Bingyan, the imperial censor, and because Zhou Bingyan was friends with the fourth prince, the task of hearing the case finally fell on Xie Xun and Shen Xiaoyang, the minister of Dali Temple. .
Among them, because many common people were involved, the final trial location of the case was not set at Dali Temple, but at the Kyoto Prefectural Government Office.
At this time, Xie Xun, who was in charge of the case, was still in a coma.
"My lord, wake up. The girls we saved together are still waiting for you to redress their grievances..." Qin Rushuang said in a low voice.
Xie Xun has been in a coma for three days.
In the past three days, Qin Rushuang asked the doctor to diagnose him countless times, and the answer he received was that Xie Xun was fine, but he had not woken up yet, and the only thing he could do was wait.
"Is King Huai awake?"
After receiving permission from Qingzhi outside, Shen Xiaoyang rushed in eagerly.
He didn't want to see Xie Xun before, but now he, like Qin Rushuang, hopes Xie Xun can wake up quickly.
Qin Rushuang raised her head and tried her best to smile, "How's your investigation going?"
"If you can't laugh, don't force yourself."
Shen Xiaoyang frowned, Qin Rushuang's smile just now was really uglier than crying.
"Only relying on the testimony of the two people in the dungeon, we can at most identify Zhou Bingyan, but it is absolutely impossible for Zhou Bingyan alone to accomplish this."
Shen Xiaoyang said solemnly, "And there are too many victims involved in this matter. If you want all the victims to come forward to testify, I'm afraid it will not be an easy task."
Qin Rushuang knew Shen Xiaoyang's worries.
According to Daqi's law, the nature of a case is completely different between one person being killed and more than forty people being killed.
It's just that those girls have finally escaped from the tiger's mouth, and they are all women from innocent families. Now I want them to come out to testify and tear apart the injuries they suffered in the past bloody. How many people can do it?
Qin Rushuang glanced at Xie Xun, who was still unconscious. She looked away and asked, "How many girls are willing to come forward to testify now?"
Shen Xiaoyang shook his head, with a heavy expression on his face: "Less than ten people."
"If the prince does not wake up and those girls are unwilling to testify in court, then this matter will only involve Zhou Bingyan alone in the end. I am afraid that in the end, the big thing will be reduced to a trivial matter, and all the efforts you have made may be in vain."
Qin Rushuang stood up with a firm look in her eyes: "We have already investigated to this extent. This matter cannot be handled lightly."
"Zhao Changming and Butler Zhou have worked hard for you to torture them more severely and dig out more evidence. For the girl, I will find a solution."
"You..." Shen Xiaoyang wanted to stop working so hard and have a good rest, but looking at Qin Rushuang's firm eyes, her words changed again, "What can you do?"
In Shen Xiaoyang's view, Qin Rushuang has now lost Xie Xun, her biggest helper, and she has to take care of Xie Xun because she is in coma. She is already beyond her capabilities. There is no way to convince those girls and her family.
"Since you can't summon me, I'll go door to door to summon you."
