"Bald guy, you're going a bit too far..."
Magistrate Xu wiped the cold sweat from his brow, because every word the bald man uttered felt like a knife, piercing his heart.
Isn't he the one who stole someone else's wife?
Isn't this the kind of person the bald guy wants to kill?
Based on this idea, Magistrate Xu decided that even if he didn't behead the bald man, he couldn't let him go; he would keep him locked up forever.
"Actually, we can understand how you feel when you discover something like this."
At this moment, Prefect Xu still intended to offer some words of comfort to the bald man in front of Jing Zhe: "However, the best course of action is to report to the government and let them uphold justice for you, rather than acting rashly on your own and ending up in this situation!"
"Heh, report to the authorities?"
The bald man was unmoved, glancing at Magistrate Xu and saying, "I've heard you're no better! Didn't you manage to seduce that young lady of Master Feng's? And you know perfectly well whether Master Feng's son is actually surnamed Feng or not, don't you?"
"You—don't talk nonsense!"
Magistrate Xu never expected this bald man to be so audacious.
"Nonsense? Judging from how agitated you are, it seems to be true! If you ask me, none of you officials are good people, not a single one of you is any good! And you think you can lecture me? Bah, what a bunch of idiots!"
The bald man continued to curse.
"A scoundrel like you is far more hateful than the two people I killed. At least they didn't make me raise other people's children! If I were that wealthy Master Feng, I would have had you all executed by slow slicing!"
The bald man became more and more agitated as he spoke, wishing he could skin Magistrate Xu alive.
Magistrate Xu was in a real bind; at this moment, he didn't want to stay in this cell for even a second longer.
"You...you're simply...stubborn and incorrigible!"
Magistrate Xu was so angry that his hands began to tremble. He pointed at the bald man and said, "I can't believe that after all these days, you're still like this. You're hopeless!"
He then whispered to Jing Zhe, "President Jing has also seen it. Some prisoners are just like that. No matter how much we comfort them, their attitude remains so extreme and cannot be changed!"
Jing Zhe nodded and said, "I appreciate your hard work, Prefect Xu. This bald man is indeed no good; he's filled with too much malice. I just heard that he not only killed his wife and her lover, but he also killed the wife, children, and elderly people of his neighbors?"
Magistrate Xu nodded and said, "Yes, his neighbor's wife had only given birth half a month ago, and she was killed. The scene was extremely bloody and utterly inhumane!"
Jing Zhe nodded, glanced at the bald man in the cell, his eyes carrying a hint of ambiguity.
His wife cheated on him, so he killed both of them to vent his anger. He was cuckolded, but wasn't the neighbor's wife also a victim? Both were victims, especially the woman. She had just given birth and was still in her postpartum period. How could she know that her husband was having an affair with the woman next door? She was the most innocent one, along with her baby who wasn't even a month old yet.
This bald man, simply to vent his personal anger, killed a woman and her infant child; he is utterly unworthy of being called a human being.
“Prefect Xu, I understand. There’s really no need for you to comfort these prisoners, because there are some people you can’t change.”
Jing Zhe said calmly.
"Yes, yes, President Jing is right!"
Prefect Xu was quite surprised by Jing Zhe's approval.
"Since there's nothing more to say to him, let's move on to the next prisoner! We've visited several cells already, and I haven't seen Magistrate Xu communicate normally with a single prisoner. I'm starting to doubt what Magistrate Xu said earlier!"
At this moment, Jing Zhe urged again.
"It was all an accident, it was all an accident, President Jing!"
He said that, but Magistrate Xu was already in a real bind.
The bald guy is tough to deal with, but are the rest of the prisoners easy to handle?
You see, the reason he wanted to cross that cell block was because it housed difficult, hardened criminals. If the first bald guy was this hard to deal with, who knows how much harder the other prisoners would be!
Just thinking about it gave Magistrate Xu a headache, and he really didn't want to continue.
He originally wanted to follow Jing Zhe because he felt that Jing Zhe came to the prison for Master Kongjing and the others, so he wanted to follow him, fearing that Master Kongjing might say something he shouldn't.
But now he really didn't want to stay here any longer, and remembering that he had just instructed Master Kongjing, he figured he wouldn't say anything carelessly. So he finally made up his mind and said, "President Jing, I just remembered that I have important matters to attend to at the yamen, so I'm afraid I can't continue today!"
"But hasn't Magistrate Xu offered his condolences to even a few people yet?"
Jing Zhe asked with a regretful expression.
"President Jing, if it's not possible today, then tomorrow will do. Anyway, I come to offer my condolences every day, so one more day won't make a difference!"
"But I'll be busy tomorrow, how will I have time to watch it?"
It's best if you don't have time; the problem is when you do!
"President Jing is very busy with many affairs of state. There is really no need for him to waste his time coming to visit me and comfort the prisoners. After all, these are trivial matters!"
Jing Zhe thought for a moment, then nodded helplessly: "I see, then we'll have to do it this way..."
So Prefect Xu led his men and fled as fast as he could.
Watching their retreating figures, Jing Zhe smiled.
In fact, Jing Zhe did not want to see Magistrate Xu comforting the prisoners. His purpose in coming to the prison was to see Master Kongjing, but he did not want Magistrate Xu to interfere with his interrogation. Therefore, he deliberately let Magistrate Xu comfort the prisoners and then let him leave on his own.
You know, how many good people end up in jail? Visiting them isn't just asking for trouble, is it?
Therefore, Jing Zhe had long foreseen Xu's fate.
Now that he's gone, Jing Zhe can go find Master Kongjing. The 15,000 taels of silver needed to buy the Feng Family Restaurant depends on him!
Just as Jing Zhe was about to take a step, two constables followed behind him.
"do what?"
Jing Zhe said warily.
"Chief Jing, when Prefect Xu left just now, he instructed us that this is Chief Jing's first time in the Jiangling prison and he is not familiar with the place, so he asked us to accompany him throughout the visit and also to protect him."
Accompanying and protecting?
Jing Zhe almost laughed at their joke, but he understood what Magistrate Xu meant: he just wanted to send two people to monitor him.
Jing Zhe waved his hand dismissively and said, "No need. I'm just taking a walk around the cells. What danger could there be? Besides, the cell doors are all locked, and the prisoners can't get out. What's there to be afraid of? What are you waiting for? Let's go!"
Having finally managed to get rid of Prefect Xu, Jing Zhe didn't want anyone else following him, so he immediately sent them away.
"But Magistrate Xu said..."
"What, is Prefect Xu's official rank higher than mine? Don't you even listen to me?"
"..."
"Hurry up and go, don't make me say it a second time!"
"Yes, President Jing..."
After hearing this, the two constables dared not linger any longer and turned to leave.
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