The Sixth Prince incubates the eggs during the day and at night. When he gets bored, he tells the eggs stories. Now he's worried because the eggs have been incubating for a month and the little divine bird still hasn't hatched! Hahaha! The egg is actually just a piece of colored stone; how could a little divine bird possibly hatch from it! Hahaha!
Chuanwen let out another merciless laugh. The emperor slowly closed his eyes to suppress the anger in them. Just now, his thought was that if the sixth prince dared to rebel, he would send the sixth prince and the third prince to reunite. But now, he would rather the sixth prince be plotting a rebellion!
Last time he was tricked into spending a lot of money on a so-called fire-breathing divine bird, and this time he was tricked into buying a divine bird egg and is now incubating it like a mother hen every day. Is this going to drive him crazy?
However, Li Feng breathed a sigh of relief. Hatching bird eggs was at most a loss of face, which was better than losing his head for treason!
If the Sixth Prince had rebelled, he, as the maternal grandfather, would have been implicated as well. But for now, his family's lives were spared. Li Feng wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, thankful that the Sixth Prince was utterly useless.
In court, Tu Sandao had been beaten so badly he was too weak to shout and soon passed out. Zhang De glanced at Tu Sandao, whose buttocks were covered in blood, but that still didn't quell his hatred.
"According to the laws of the Great Jin Dynasty, anyone who steals goods valued between ten and fifty taels shall be sentenced to thirty taels of silver for minor offenses and an additional three years in prison for serious offenses. Tu Sandao stole but shows no remorse, roaring in court and spouting nonsense! He should be severely punished! Guards! Take him to jail!"
Zhang De slammed the gavel with great force, startling Chuanwen, who was gossiping about the Sixth Prince, back to his senses.
[Isn't this quite a judgment? Wasn't that haphazard ruling just now a cover-up for Tu Sandao because of Li Feng?]
After listening to Zhang De's verdict, Chuanwen thought to himself, which made Zhang De almost drop his gavel. He quickly ordered the two constables to drag the man away.
Li Feng, standing outside the crowd, was stunned. He had only heard shouts inside about the Sixth Prince becoming emperor and other related terms like "uncle," and he was so worried about whether the Sixth Prince was plotting a rebellion that he hadn't paid any attention to who was shouting.
At this moment, Tu Sandao, who was being dragged away, still retained a little consciousness. Upon hearing that he was to be taken to prison, he instantly became more alert and panicked, tears and snot streaming down his face. "My lord! Spare me, my lord! I am a relative of the Li family, the chief justice of the Dali Temple. You can't arrest me! My mother is the godmother of the Li family's daughter. Chief Justice Li values my family very much. If you arrest me, Chief Justice Li will definitely not forgive you!"
Tu Sandao had already been beaten down to almost nothing, but now he started struggling again, screaming like a pig being slaughtered.
Li Feng was stunned for a moment, and finally, under the emperor's intense gaze, he remembered the matter of his daughter's godmother. If Zhang De hadn't brought it up with him before, he would have completely forgotten about this person.
He was furious. It turned out this guy was trying to harm him!
His legs immediately buckled, and he pushed aside Yin Shuang, who was supporting him. He stormed through the crowd and slapped Tu Sandao's fat face several times, making Tu Sandao see stars and speechless.
At this moment, someone in the crowd recognized Tu Sandao. "Isn't that Tu Sandao from the vegetable market? I heard he's related to the royal family. He's a bully in the market, forcing people to buy and sell. He sells a bunch of vegetables for five taels of silver!"
Su Yue, who was standing next to her, nodded repeatedly. This was her own experience, well... although she didn't suffer any losses in the end!
After hearing what the man said, the person next to him also remembered the gossip he had heard and chimed in, "I've heard that too. There was a guy who refused to buy his vegetables, and he cornered him in an alley and slashed him three times. That's where his nickname comes from!"
Li Feng gritted his teeth and bowed to Zhang De, saying, "Lord Zhang, my daughter was seriously ill when she was young. In order to make it easier for her to take care of her, we arranged for her to be the godmother of a woman surnamed Qiu who worked in the kitchen. After my daughter recovered, my family was grateful for her kindness and has never mistreated her family over the years. We send people to deliver valuable gifts to them during festivals."
I never expected that this family would be so arrogant and do bad things outside under the banner of my Li family, spouting nonsense! We knew nothing about these things, otherwise I would have broken one of his legs long ago without the adults having to lift a finger!
"My lord, this scoundrel has committed a crime. You only need to handle this matter impartially. Kill him if he deserves it, punish him as he should, and my Li family will have no objections! Furthermore, I ask that you bear witness here that we have repaid their kindness enough. To prevent them from using our Li family's name to commit further evil deeds, from this day forward, our Li family will no longer have this godmother and will have no further connection with them!"
Li Feng spoke with righteous indignation. Although he knew that with the imperial edict, the emperor must already know the whole story, otherwise he wouldn't have summoned him. But he still had to explain it in detail. The emperor knew the whole story, but the onlookers outside didn't. He couldn't let the Li family be talked about behind their backs, especially because of these completely unrelated people!
Well... although he wasn't as good to Tu Sandao and the others as he claimed, hypocrites are always good at talking.
Furthermore, he also needed to express his stance and get rid of his godmother, so that he wouldn't be dragged into the mud without even knowing it!
Tu Sandao finally managed to see who had hit him, only to hear Li Feng say he wanted to sever ties with them. He was completely stunned. Wait, what's Li Feng doing here? Why does he want to sever ties with his family?
With Li Feng's words, Zhang De became even more fearless. He ordered the two constables to drag Tu Sandao over again and asked in a sinister tone, "What other crimes have you committed? Tell me honestly!"
Tu Sandao was completely bewildered, not understanding how things had turned out this way. But denying it was the right thing to do: "No, no! I'm an innocent citizen! You can't wrong an innocent person, sir!"
"A good person?" Zhang De sneered. Tu Sandao was a good person? He knew nothing about the things Tu Sandao did at the market!
When a wall falls, everyone pushes it down. A few onlookers ran away, but soon more people arrived. They cried and shouted their grievances outside the courtroom, all accusing Tu Sandao of stealing their vegetables, occupying their territory, and forcing them to buy vegetables at unreasonable prices.
Zhang De let them all in and began to explain one by one. The clerk's pen flew across the paper as he recorded, and he was sweating profusely when he heard a girl's voice.
“We went to buy vegetables the day before yesterday and bought a few bunches of greens from him. He then asked us for five taels of silver!”
Just now, all the voices were those of middle-aged men and women, but suddenly a clear and bright girl's voice came through. The clerk couldn't help but look up and was immediately puzzled.
The girl was pretty and delicate, dressed elegantly and extravagantly; she clearly wasn't the type to go grocery shopping with a basket. So he wondered if she was some mischievous young lady who had come to join the fun. He hesitated, not putting pen to paper.
Zhang De was stunned, Li Feng in the courtroom was stunned, the emperor and his companions watching the commotion from outside the crowd were stunned, and Su Yue and her group, who were standing at the front, were also stunned.
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