Chapter 35 What! Forced?
Yuan Ruan yawned:
[I'm hungry. I want to eat fried chicken but I can't chew it. The melon doesn't taste good either. ]
System: [My poor Ah Ruan. I will wait for you to be three years old and give you fried chicken every day! ]
The young officials leaned forward, wanting to shout: "Stop! It's so uncomfortable to eat half of the melon!"
Doctor Wen heaved a sigh of relief and continued, "Your Majesty. The Second Prince once used the ancient method of finding relatives to help a family that had lost their oxen and successfully found their oxen. I think the Second Prince is kind and intelligent, and it would be a pity if he was idle at home..."
System: [Wa Qu, it turns out that the second prince was the mastermind behind the injustice of killing an entire family because of a working ox! Are you interested in listening, Ah Ruan? ]
What?!
And it also brought up an unjust case?
After these words were spoken, unfortunately the following words in Doctor Wen's mouth were stuck in his throat and could not come out.
The young officials pricked up their ears again: Please, little goddess, would you be interested?
Yuan Ruan suddenly felt a chill on his back and thought subconsciously:
【Tell me about it.】
System: [Once, the second prince went to the street to perform in order to gain fame. He happened to see two families fighting over a working ox. Both families said that the working ox had strayed from their homes. The second prince thought of a story in a storybook and directly put a rope on the working ox, and asked each family to pull a rope outside. The one on the left, who was dressed in luxurious clothes, quickly lost the rope and cried that he couldn't bear to part with it. The second prince then awarded the working ox to him.]
When this story came out, most people thought there was nothing wrong with it.
The prince frowned slightly, as if thinking about something.
The emperor chuckled and shook his head.
Yuan Ruan frowned slightly:
[It feels a little strange. Have people from wealthy families also read this story?]
Many people suddenly realized.
Yes!
They can all be circulated in the storybooks, and people in wealthy families wearing fine clothes are very likely to have read them and make the correct response in advance.
System: [Hahaha! Ah Ruan is really smart. The rich family just read the storybook. In fact, the ox belonged to a poor family, but because the judge was the second prince of the dynasty, other officials who knew the truth did not dare to overturn the case. The poor family lost their ox, and within less than half a year, the male owner died of depression, and finally the whole family lost their lives.]
Yuan Ruan: […hiss. If the top beam is not straight, the bottom beam will be crooked even if it wants to be straight.]
The rest: …
The emperor and the prince frowned.
The Crown Prince was kindhearted, and he immediately secretly arranged for his confidant to go to the Ministry of Justice and have him review all the cases judged by the Second Prince. If there were any unjust, false or wrong cases, they would be overturned and compensated in a timely manner.
Doctor Wen took a deep breath and thought, his intelligence cannot be exaggerated, so he decided to praise his kindness.
Doctor Wen bowed and said, "I know that Daxia was hit by a flood three years ago. The common people complained bitterly. Your Highness personally donated 50,000 taels of private silver, and when he left the disaster area, the victims gave him 10,000 umbrellas."
The emperor's expression was slightly moved.
He still remembered that three years ago, the second son came back from outside the palace, his face full of fatigue, crying and saying that he felt sorry for his mother but could not bear to see Daxia suffer from the disaster, so he sold a lot of his biological mother's dowry and scraped together 50,000 taels of silver, hoping to donate it all to the disaster area.
The Crown Prince also remembered the Second Prince's compassionate look, and his heart softened: Even though the Second Brother's personal morals were poor, he did contribute to the country and the people. Public is public, private is private, and perhaps they should be viewed separately.
The young officials also showed expressions of approval.
Just at this moment, a surprised voice suddenly came from my heart:
[Oh my god, it’s this melon! I didn’t expect that the second prince is not only a bad person, but also extremely greedy! ]
Crowd: !!!
An ominous premonition arose in Wenlang's heart.
System: [They don't know where the 50,000 taels of silver came from. Three years ago, 200,000 taels of silver that Daxia transported for disaster relief disappeared. Relief officials went to the disaster area to investigate and found that it was the local county magistrate Wang who embezzled the disaster money. Fearing that he would be exposed, Wang bribed the relief officials, but the relief officials remained unyielding.
County Magistrate Wang decided to go all out and teamed up with his servant to poison the relief officer.
After the relief official was poisoned, the matter was immediately reported to the Second Prince. Originally, the Second Prince could have saved him, but he did not. After the relief official died, he sent troops to interrogate the County Magistrate Wang, and then embezzled the 200,000 silver coins. In the end, he donated 50,000 to the court and kept 150,000 for himself. 】
The Emperor and the Crown Prince: !!!
Both of them gritted their teeth in anger. What a wicked creature! Murdering loyal people is like digging up the foundation of Daxia!
Young officials: ...
I'm so angry! What a bastard prince! Fortunately, they didn't rush out to support the Second Prince to stay.
Doctor Wen's scalp was numb. He looked at the emperor and the prince's angry faces and regretted that he shouldn't have mentioned the Second Prince here. It was he who harmed the Second Prince!
Doctor Wen kowtowed and said, "Your Majesty. I believe that the Second Prince is not a bad person and cares about the Xia Kingdom. If there is anything inappropriate, it is probably because he was blinded by the servant beside him."
System: [A touching brotherhood! Wipe away the tears.]
Doctor Wen:?
Wait? He and the Second Prince are not that familiar with each other! Where does the brotherhood come from?
Everyone else looked at Doctor Wen in unison. How awesome! He was on friendly terms with the prince. No wonder he was trying so hard to get rid of him.
Yuanruan was also a little curious:
【What? 】
System: [Wen Langzhong grew up in a poor family. He had a childhood sweetheart who was sold to the Second Prince's mansion as a maid. Wen Langzhong and his childhood sweetheart have been in constant contact, especially in the past year, when they chatted more and more. But he didn't know that his childhood sweetheart had died a long time ago. It was the Second Prince who found the letters between the two. It happened that the Second Prince was short of someone from the Ministry of Justice, and thought that Wen Langzhong was obedient and easy to use, so he chatted with Wen Langzhong in the identity of his childhood sweetheart and instructed Wen Langzhong to do various things! ]
Doctor Wen:!!!
W-what?!
Yue Niang is dead?
So the man who has been chatting with his brother every day and writing love songs with him is a man?
Doctor Wen's face turned green and he suddenly vomited.
Yuanruan was startled and turned back in surprise:
[Doctor Wen is not feeling well. Then what the Second Prince is doing is just a lie.]
System: [Yes! He is quite good at it. That’s why Doctor Wen couldn’t help but force himself on her.]
What!
The overlord forced himself on me?!
The young officials gasped.
Yuan Ruan's pupils trembled, and the voice in his heart echoed again:
[But it's still not right, system. It says here that Doctor Wen, as the most famous cruel official under the Second Prince, has worked diligently for five or six years, confiscating property, exterminating clans, and killing countless people. In all these years, he didn't realize that the childhood sweetheart he slept with was a man? ]
Young officials: !!!
What? The civil official is actually a cruel official?
Wait, let me put this revelation aside for now. What the system said before about brotherhood and rape has not yet broken through that level!
Could it be that Doctor Wen forced himself on the Second Prince?!
But that's not right! It's impossible to tell the difference between men and women.
Or was it really bent?
For a moment, the officials who were closer to Wen Langzhong silently moved away a step.
Doctor Wen felt extremely embarrassed by being looked at. He was trembling all over and clenched his fists, wishing he could rush into the Second Prince's residence and fight!
The emperor and the crown prince were both livid. They suddenly wondered if it was too late to expel the second prince from the royal family tree?
[Hiss. Second Prince is willing to sacrifice so much?!]
Crowd: !!!
How can I sacrifice this?!