Chapter 677: Let's play it this way, right?
"What's going on?" Censor Qi asked loudly, confused and panicked.
Anyone would be scared if their door was smashed in the middle of the night.
The knocking on the door suddenly stopped again.
After a brief period of calm, the housekeeper's anxious voice was heard.
He retreated in panic and shouted angrily: "Madam Qin, how dare you trespass into someone else's house? My parents are asleep. If you have anything to say, come back tomorrow!"
"No, this is an urgent matter, you must inform the adults immediately!"
Hearing the strange female voice coming from outside the courtyard, Censor Qi and the attendant in the room looked at each other, "Who?"
The attendant shook his head, he didn't know either.
In just a moment, footsteps were heard outside the door.
The housekeeper and two guards held wooden sticks in their hands and blocked the door of Lord Qi's room.
In front of them was Qin Yao holding the tied-up Wusheng in her hands.
She was a woman, and she was carrying a person in her arms, but the three men couldn't stop her at all and forced her to rush out of the room.
"Lord Qi! I'm your new neighbor. We've met once before. You must still remember me, right?" Qin Yao asked loudly towards the door.
Censor Qi was greatly shocked. How could a married woman break into her neighbor's house at night? How could this be disgraceful!
The door creaked open, and the housekeeper saw his master. He opened his mouth to explain something, but saw that Censor Qi had a gloomy face and waved his hand for them to leave. He sighed helplessly and looked at Qin Yao with even more displeasure.
He had to inform his wife, otherwise there would be so many misunderstandings.
"Madam Liu?" Censor Qi looked at Qin Yao, who was holding Wusheng in her hand, with his brows furrowed so tightly that they could kill a mosquito.
Qin Yao nodded, called Master Qi politely, and pulled the cloth out of Wusheng's mouth, and whispered in his ear:
"This is the Supervisory Censor Qi, who has the responsibility of supervising all officials. This is a rare opportunity, so please speak quickly if you have anything to say."
Wusheng's surprised gaze shifted back and forth between Qin Yao and Qi Yushi. He quickly reacted and fell to his knees.
"Sir! I, Wusheng, have something to report to you!"
As soon as Wusheng opened his mouth, Censor Qi had a bad feeling and raised his hand to ask him to shut up first, but Wusheng had just finished his meal and now had plenty of energy, so he blurted out everything about the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace who shielded Prince Feng from abuse of power and abuse of human life.
Censor Qi was just shocked at first, but halfway through, he realized that this was not something he could hear, and wanted to cover his ears, but Wu Sheng's voice was like a loud bell, and he had no choice but to listen.
In the end, not only did Censor Qi hear it clearly, but even the rest of the people in the Qi Mansion who were hastily called by the housekeeper also heard about 60% of it.
Wusheng bowed deeply, his eyes bloodshot as if he was crying blood, and he shouted at the top of his lungs: "Please, sir, make a decision for me!"
For a moment, the whole yard was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
Madam Qi was the first to react. She glared at the servants around her and quickly sent them away.
Soon, only Censor Qi and his wife, Qin Yao and the martial artist kneeling on the ground were left in the courtyard.
Madam Qi strode forward, grabbed Qin Yao who was facing away from her, and asked angrily, gritting her teeth:
"What are you thinking? I just didn't go to your housewarming party, but you're taking revenge on my Qi family like this. You woman have such a vicious heart!"
Qin Yao pulled her hand out, but she lost control of her strength and Mrs. Qi staggered and almost fell.
Madam Qi looked to be in her thirties. This was the first time Qin Yao had met her. Normally, this lady never left the inner house and seldom attended banquets, so it was quite difficult to meet her.
"Mrs. Qi, you are wrong. Although I, Qin Yao, am just a commoner, I know that public is public and private is private."
Qin Yao faced Censor Qi, who was standing at the door of the study, trembling all over, not knowing whether he was angry or frightened, and said loudly:
"Supervising all officials, impeaching and admonishing others are the duties of the censor. This martial artist was chased by villains today and fainted in the back alley of our house. I thought he was a thief and was about to take him to the government office, but I didn't expect him to reveal such a big thing."
"This is about the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace and Prince Feng. I am a commoner who is extremely frightened. Is there anything wrong with me coming to ask the Imperial Censor to enforce the law for the people?"
Censor Qi took a deep breath, raised his hand to suppress his wife who was about to speak, and nodded to Qin Yao: "No, it's my responsibility."
"It's just that." Censor Qi walked up to Wusheng, staring at him fiercely with eyes as sharp as torches, "Do you know what you just said, Wusheng? This is about the crown prince. If there is no evidence, I will not go to the emperor just because of a few words from a commoner like you."
"If we don't do it right, both you and I will lose our heads!"
The latter sentence was said while looking at Qin Yao, as a reminder.
He was now just thankful that everyone in this mansion was his own family. As long as they kept silent about what happened tonight, everyone could live in peace.
"Madam hasn't told the third person about this, right?" Censor Qi confirmed seriously.
However, Qin Yao's reaction was not what he expected.
She suddenly smiled, raised her hands to her ears, and made a "listening" gesture to the outside.
Censor Qi and Madam Qi subconsciously held their breath and listened to the side of the street.
The gong sounded, and someone in Kuanzhengfang knocked on the doors of every house, shouting, "A thief has been caught! Everyone, come out and see!"
"A lot of gold, silver and jewelry fell from the thief's body. Come and see if there is anything you have lost!"
The sound became louder and louder, and spread further and further. It was not yet time to go to sleep, and most people were still awake. When they heard the gong, they quickly opened their doors and ran out to ask, "Where is the thief? Where is the thief?"
Someone pointed to the Qi Mansion and said, "It has been delivered to the house of the Censor. Everyone, go and claim the property!"
The faces of Censor Qi and his wife changed drastically.
The housekeeper ran over, shouting, "My lord, my lady, something bad has happened! So many people are coming towards our house, my lord, please go out and take a look, even the abbot is here!"
There are more than one hundred markets in the capital, and each market elects a market master to be in charge of daily mediation of all matters, big and small, in the market.
Apart from the princes and dukes' palaces which occupied one block each and had no block masters, the remaining blocks had a total of 85 block masters.
These abbey masters are middle-aged or older men who are relatively prestigious in the abbey.
Even officials who lived in the neighborhood had to give some face to the neighborhood owner when they met him.
Listening to the noise outside, the entire Kuanzhengfang seemed to be awakened.
Wusheng looked back in astonishment at Qin Yao who was standing behind him, and suddenly felt that he was really lucky to meet her.
Perhaps, he could really seek justice for his deceased boss and companions, and avoid their unjust deaths.
Qin Yao looked at the trembling Qi Yushi and his wife, "Now that things have come to this, I have a."
Censor Qi raised his hands in horror: "I don't want to know, don't tell me, shut up!"
Qin Yao pressed his hand down and smiled kindly: "No, you want to know because you heard it."
"I have a way that will save everyone's life. We have already built up momentum. In fact, all you need to do is to follow the law and hand over the thief Wusheng to the abbot and send him to the Jingzhao government office."
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