Chapter 397: I hope my son dies

Soon, Gu Shen came over with the yamen runners.

It was the first time for the common people to see a prisoner dressed so elegantly and brightly, and they all unconsciously made way for him.

Gu Shen was seen walking into the court with his hands behind his back, looking very majestic.

Gu Han and Li Jiaojiao were kneeling inside. Gu Han turned around and stared at him, his eyes full of hatred as if filled with poison.

He hasn't changed at all, and is even more majestic than he was a few years ago.

Gu Shen also stared at him, his eyes full of anger and contempt. This rebellious son has changed a lot, becoming black and dry, humph, a rat in the gutter!

When the father and son met, they were extremely jealous of each other.

Mei, who was outside, wanted to rush over, but was stopped by the yamen runners. Her eyes were red: "Master..."

Gu Shen waved at her, and Mei bit her lip and calmed down, but she stared hatefully at Gu Han who was kneeling on the ground.

"Silence." The prefectural governor Song slammed the gavel hard and asked as usual, "Who is here?"

Gu Shen raised his head and said, "I am Ningguo Marquis Gu Shen, humph!"

Prefect Song's face darkened slightly, and he looked at Captain Lu standing beside him: "Have you found any evidence?"

Captain Lu stepped forward and said, "Your Excellency, we have found it. And there is no need to search at all. We saw Lord Gu holding it with our own eyes."

As he spoke, he recounted what had happened at that time.

Prefect Song raised his eyebrows: "It seems that the blue box was really hidden by Lord Gu, and someone tipped you off in advance, so you wanted to destroy the evidence. Do you admit your crime? Do you need to call witnesses?"

Gu Shen's face turned pale. There were so many eyewitnesses, and all of them were of noble status. No matter how much he tried to argue, he couldn't get away with it!

Gu Shen gritted his teeth and said, "I admit that I did dig it out. But I did not poison my own child."

"And the box was not mine, but put there by this little thief. Prefect Song, everyone says you are the reincarnation of a judge, and you can solve cases like a god. Don't you understand this?"

"It's obvious that someone set up a trap and sent a thief to put the box in. Later, someone told me, and I was afraid that I would be wrongly accused by you, so I panicked for a while... So I wanted to take a look, but I didn't expect that there really was a blue box."

Along the way, he had thought of excuses and figured out a lot of things.

He was being plotted against!

The prefect Song at the top snorted and laughed: "But I didn't tell you where the box was hidden. I didn't ask the thief where he stole it. Instead, I asked Captain Lu to lead the thief to the Gu family. Unexpectedly, before the thief could find the thing, Lord Gu dug it out from the cellar accurately."

Prefect Song has been handling cases for so many years, so naturally he is no pushover.

When Gu Han suddenly confessed his injustice, he became cautious and did not ask the thief where he stole the things from, in order to guard against Gu Shen's trick.

Prefect Song looked at Captain Lu again and asked, "How long did it take from the time Marquis Gu returned to the mansion until the time he dug out the things?"

Captain Lu said, "Your Excellency, I asked the gatekeeper and he said it took less than a quarter of an hour."

Prefect Song looked at Gu Shen and said, "It took less than a quarter of an hour. It shows that Lord Gu had a target. He didn't look anywhere else, but chose to dig the cellar. It shows that the thing really exists, so he found it so accurately."

Gu Shen's face turned pale and blue, and he gritted his teeth: "This Marquis said... it's just because I'm afraid of being wrongly accused by you! This Marquis just happened to think of this cellar. You, the prefect, have no witnesses, so how can you convict this Marquis?"

"Then you had no witnesses back then, so how could you convict me!" Gu Han roared at him, "You've said now that someone might have put me in there. Then why wasn't mine put in there?"

Gu Shen said angrily: "Shut up! Who said there is no witness? Your personal servant said it was you who bought the things. He is the witness!"

"Hahaha, the servant's indenture is in your hands. What kind of witness are you?"

"Nonsense, what do I have in my hands? The indentures of the servants in every room of the house are in the hands of their respective masters, so the indenture of your servant is naturally in your hands."

"Yeah, so what? Later you kicked me out of the family tree and kicked me out of the house! What? Can't the money and servants in my house go with me? Didn't they all belong to the mansion in the end? As long as I'm no longer the prince or son of the Marquis's mansion, can I still hold on to this indenture? What's the use? Aren't they all equal to the Marquis's mansion!"

"You--it was you who poisoned me anyway!"

The onlookers were amazed to hear the quarrel between the father and son:

"Tsk tsk, what is this called... Is there any cultured person who can say something?"

"This is like allowing the county officials to set fires but not allowing the people to light lamps!"

"Yes, that's right, those are the two sentences! If there's something dirty hidden in your home, it must have been put there by someone else. If it was found in my son's room, it must have been him!"

"It's obvious that you want to trample your own son to death!"

"How can you be a father like this?"

"Silence!" Prefect Song slammed the gavel hard and looked at Gu Han: "Tell us exactly what happened back then, every detail."

Gu Han nodded, and then recounted what happened that year in detail.

The story was simple and crude, with almost no twists and turns: his father was sick, and to show his filial piety, he personally prepared medicine and fed his father the medicine, but he found out that his father had been poisoned by mosquito bites, and he would die after taking the medicine for forty-nine days. Finally, poison was found in Gu Han's room, and his servant also jumped out to testify against him, saying that it was Gu Han who poisoned him. Then Gu Han was kicked out of the house.

Song Fuyin asked, "Where did the poison come from? Where did you buy it or who sold it to you?"

Gu Han snorted coldly: "It's not me who poisoned, I don't know! Sir, ask the person who poisoned you!"

Prefect Song looked at Gu Shen again.

Gu Shen angrily said, "It was this rebellious son who poisoned me... I am the victim, how can you ask me?"

Song Fu Yin laughed angrily: "No, I am looking at you to ask, why didn't you ask about the source back then? Didn't you check it out?"

Gu Shen choked: "This..."

Song Fu Yin: "Whatever his servant says is true? So, that servant is your biological son, right?"

Gu Shen: "This..."

Prefect Song laughed again: "Humph, how much you want your own son to die!"

Gu Shen: “…”

Prefect Song: "Also, where is the servant who testified against Gu Han?"

Gu Shen: “…”

"Lord Gu, please answer!"

Gu Shen coughed dryly and said, "I work as a manager in a manor outside Beijing."

The people watching outside chuckled, "This is a big job for the master. He got a promotion."

Mei, who was standing in front, had a dark face. Gu Yang roared, "What do you know! He, he didn't protect his master. He has a conscience, so he deserves a promotion."

Prefect Song rubbed his temples, he was speechless, this case was almost transparent, what a simple frame-up!

But because Gu Shen was powerful, Gu Han was young, and the government was in chaos, they were fooled.

Prefect Song snorted coldly: "No matter whether you framed your own son or not, Gu Han should not be convicted for this."

Gu Shen said coldly, "Mr. Song is meddling too much. Expelling Gu Han from our family is our family affair, and the clan can decide. He was the one who fed the poison into my mouth, and I almost died because of it. This is his unfilial behavior!"