“When my uncle and I came here, he was here too, so we arrested him as well.”
Huo Chengche held the little baby and fed him lunch, taking a moment to speak casually.
He had just sent someone to buy lunch.
It's close to the market here, where there are lots of delicious and novel things that you can't get in the palace. It's a rare opportunity to come out and satisfy my wife's cravings.
The little dumpling has eaten so much that he looks like a little kitten, his little belly is round and chubby, but he still won't stop and insists on eating a few more bites!
With food available, nothing else mattered to her. When her older brother, the Crown Prince, was talking to her fifth brother, which delayed feeding her, the little dumpling glared at her fifth brother unhappily and even reached out her little hand to pry at the Crown Prince's hand holding the spoon.
Huo Chengche smiled helplessly, quickly lowered his head, blew on the soup in the spoon, and fed it to his wife.
Just then, a flurry of footsteps came from outside. Duke Zhongwu entered and said, "Your Highness, Fifth Prince, the yamen runners from the Jingzhao Prefecture are here. They're blocking the way outside, saying they're acting on orders from Prefect Liang of the Jingzhao Prefecture to come in and suppress the accomplices."
Upon hearing this, Liang Sheng's small eyes immediately lit up. He quickly shifted his body, which was bound like a worm, and grinned at Huo Chengche above him, "Your Highness! Now you believe that I am innocent, right?"
"Hmm," Huo Chengche was not surprised. He had trusted Liang Sheng, but just as he was about to have him untied, before he could even speak, the guy started howling, which annoyed him, so he simply let him stay tied up for a while longer.
Huo Chengche glanced at Liang Sheng and ordered indifferently, "Alright, untie Lord Liang and tell me what you're doing here."
Liang Sheng, having been untied, felt as if he had been reborn, and let out a long, comfortable sigh of relief. He quickly moved closer to Huo Chengche and explained with a smile.
He did indeed investigate the cheating in the imperial examinations to this extent. Many cheating candidates' families had to bribe the examiners, but they dared not do so openly. So how to make connections and establish contact was a big problem.
There is such a force that specializes in making this voice heard in the middle.
"Your Majesty has learned that these people use these young children, sending them to various places to disguise them as little beggars running around the streets to spread messages. Once these children are older, they are then resold."
So, the human trafficking case and the imperial examination fraud case in the capital, which seemed to be two unrelated cases, were actually one and the same?!
Upon learning of this, Huo Chengche and Xuandi immediately led Liang Sheng and the captured individuals back to the palace to report the matter.
Even Emperor Chongjin was greatly shocked when he first heard about this. He had originally thought that Xuandi had just taken his sister out to play around, but he never expected that they would actually raid the human traffickers' hideout and uncover such a shocking case!
"They even dare to interfere with the imperial examinations?" Emperor Chongjin laughed angrily. "Very well, they've really got some nerve! Liang Sheng, Prefect of the Capital! Report to me truthfully, who exactly is the mastermind behind this case!"
Liang Sheng, that cowardly little mouse, rarely had the chance to see the emperor's face, and to make matters worse, this rare opportunity coincided with Emperor Chongjin's fury. He was so frightened that he trembled and could barely speak.
Huo Chengche coldly watched Liang Sheng's spineless appearance, raised his hand to press his temple, and, thinking that Liang Sheng was still a beloved minister whom he would "favor more in the future," Huo Chengche still spoke up to "help" him.
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