Qu Yutang staggered a few steps after being pushed. When he turned around and rushed to the prison door, Sun Ren had already closed the prison door and left.
"Let me out! I am an imperial envoy appointed by the emperor. How dare you treat me like this..."
“This is outrageous!!”
"Let me out now..."
Qu Yutang banged on the cell door and screamed at the top of his lungs.
"Sir...sir!!?"
When the people lying on the ground in the neighboring cell heard Qu Yutang's shout, their sleepy eyelids opened instantly, and they all fell onto the fence connecting to the neighboring cell.
"Sir, how did you get caught here?"
"Sir, stop shouting, no one is coming."
"Master Qu, I have failed to live up to your trust..."
After the officers saw Qu Yutang clearly, they felt hopeless in an instant.
The only person who could save them was also captured, so how could they get out?
Qu Yutang heard the noise coming from the cell next door and turned around in shock.
Looking at the disheveled head lying on the cell, his eyes went dark.
The moment he saw his personal bodyguard, his brain exploded.
With a "bang", Qu Yutang's eyes rolled back and he fell straight to the ground in a faint.
The officers were stunned and started shouting at the top of their lungs.
After shouting for a long time, the tightly closed prison door finally opened.
Everyone in the cell shouted in panic, "Help! The master has fainted."
"Help! Someone's dying!"
“…”
The bailiffs glanced at Qu Yutang who had fainted in the cell and frowned slightly.
"I'll go take a look. Put these people in the nearby cells."
The jailer opened the two cell doors next to Qu Yutang, then turned around and opened Qu Yutang's cell.
He walked in and checked Qu Yutang's breathing and pulse. "It's okay. He fainted, but he won't die."
At this time, the yamen runners took all the officials at the gate of the prefectural yamen and sent them all into the cell.
The chief officer, who was being pushed, kept talking.
"You are so bold! We are the Imperial Envoy's men."
"The Imperial Envoy is here on an inspection tour under the Emperor's orders. If you dare to defy the Emperor's authority, your entire clan will be exterminated!"
"Let me go, I want to see the Imperial Envoy!!"
“…”
The yamen runner impatiently pushed the chief officer into the cell.
"The imperial envoy you want to see is right here, go see him!"
"He~~tui, what is that!!"
"There are so many freeloaders, it's not annoying enough."
The yamen runners looked at the cells full of people and rolled their eyes in disgust.
The chief officer was stunned and turned to look at the cell next door in a daze.
Who else could the person lying on the floor in the neighboring cell be but the Imperial Envoy?
He washed the imperial envoy's official uniform himself.
The chief officer rushed over, pressed his face between the bars, and shouted at the next cell,
"My lord, my lord!!!"
At this time, in the next cell, the personal guard said to the roaring officer,
"Stop yelling, the master has fainted, save your energy."
When the chief officer heard this, he looked up and saw his personal guard, his eyes almost popped out of their sockets.
"You.....Why are you here too!?"
The personal guard sighed and looked at the chief officer helplessly.
"I was caught, how else could I get here?"
"Governor Deng is definitely planning a rebellion. Be careful not to make too much of a fuss and be killed as a warning to others."
"Just take a good rest. There's no point in calling for help. No one will come until mealtime."
After saying that, the personal guard leaned back into the corner again and rested with his eyes closed.
How could they have the energy to complain after eating such coarse grains every day? They were lucky enough not to starve to death.
Magistrate Deng arrested them all, and it was obvious that he no longer took Emperor Tianwu seriously.
Governor Deng didn't even take Emperor Tianwu seriously, so how could he take these little Karamis seriously?
This has gone too far. We might have to take action against him.
The chief officer stared at the familiar faces in the personal guard's cell with his eyes wide open. His legs went limp and he collapsed to the ground.
He had a sad face and was filled with regret.
If he had known this earlier, he would not have urged the imperial envoy to meet with Prefect Deng.
They just lived well in the post station, did some work every day, and at least they had enough food and drink, and they were free.
Now I am locked up in a smelly cell without sunlight.
Looking at the sallow faces of the officers who had been locked up in the cells early on, it was obvious that they had not eaten well.
Look at the officers who came in with him. Not only do they all have rosy and shiny complexions, but they all look very energetic and it is obvious that they have eaten well.
It’s hard to have a sallow complexion if you eat meat buns, vegetable buns and rice porridge every day.
There is no harm without comparison. I used to think that work was too hard, but now...
When it was time for dinner, the chief official looked at the multi-grain steamed bun in his hand which was as hard as a stone, and tears couldn't help but well up in his eyes.
He would rather go to work every day and eat big meat buns than lie in the cell and eat hard multi-grain steamed buns.
........
"Sir!" Zhao Tongpan looked at Prefect Liu with red eyes.
When Magistrate Liu heard the familiar voice, he suddenly looked up.
Looking at Zhao Tongpan, who looked like he had rolled in the mud, his heart trembled and he choked up,
"It's good that you're back, it's good that you're back!"
He hasn't slept well in the past two days since he asked King Qianhuang for help.
Old Zhao has been with him for so many years and is his right-hand man. If Old Zhao is gone, he... Oh!
Prefect Liu quickly stood up and walked towards Zhao Tongpan excitedly.
"You're suffering, tell me about it."
"What did the prince do to those people?"
Judge Zhao pursed his cracked lips and said in a hoarse voice, "Sir, let me drink some water first."
Along the way, he was very nervous and did not dare to rest, for fear of meeting those people's accomplices again on the road.
"Okay, okay." Prefect Liu turned around, picked up the teacup on the table, and put it into Zhao Tongpan's hand.
"The temperature is just right, freshly brewed tea, drink it quickly."
Judge Zhao nodded, opened the lid of the teacup, tilted his head back and drank the tea in one gulp.
After drinking the water, he felt his throat was better.
“They’re all dead!”
Putting down the teacup, Zhao Tongpan breathed a sigh of relief.
"...Ah!?" Magistrate Liu asked suddenly, "Who are these people? They didn't even leave a single one alive?"
To be honest, he had never seen Shen Yong kill anyone.
When they came to threaten them, they just fed them poison.
And every time Zhao Tongpan went to fetch water, King Qianhuang would give them the antidote.
Zhao Tongpan went to Qianhuang City once every three days, and including the time spent on the way there and back, he had just enough time to take the antidote.
Unexpectedly, this time Shen Yong did not keep these three people, but killed them directly.
It seems that these three people are from powerful backgrounds.
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