"I don't know, it seems like someone committed murder."
"Murder? Those two young masters and ladies? Why would they come to the prison to kill someone? Aren't they death row inmates? They'll be beheaded in a few days."
"I don't know. We've got a lot going on with wealthy families. Who would know? Let's not talk about it. Let's just observe."
The jailer knew he had committed a grave offense. If Prince Lu died in this prison of the Jingzhao Prefecture, he would be finished.
"Where did Fang get that hairpin? Tell me!" the jailer roared. Every prisoner who was put into the jail was searched before being put in, and anything that could make them hurt someone or commit suicide would be taken away. So why would Fang have such a sharp thing in her hand?
The jailers all bowed their heads, their faces ashen. Lu Shizi, the young general of the Lu family army, what a noble status that was.
"You won't talk, huh? If you don't talk about the people here, none of you will escape. They'll all die!"
One of them stepped forward: "Boss, when Fang was brought in, it was Old He who searched her."
The jailer glared angrily at Old He and grabbed his collar: "Tell me, did you take a bribe from her and allow her to hide this hairpin?"
Old He was already terrified. He knelt down with a thud and slapped himself repeatedly: "Boss, boss, I, I was bewitched. I took her money. That wicked woman told me that this hairpin was the only thing her mother left her before she died. If I could get her to keep this hairpin, the money she hid in her house on East Street would be mine."
Old He kowtowed repeatedly, pleading, "Boss, boss, I... I was wrong, I was wrong, please forgive me. My mother is sick, and we have no money for medicine, that's why I... that's why I agreed to it. How was I supposed to know that the hairpin had a mechanism, a sharp knife inside? If I had known, I would never have agreed, even if you beat me to death. Boss, please forgive me."
The jailer kicked him to the ground: "Tie him up!"
As soon as someone recognized him, two people immediately came up and tied him up.
Soon, the person who went to summon the imperial physician arrived with him.
Zhu Yu and the Duke of Zhenguo also arrived.
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