"Sir, this Miss Li is probably delirious. I didn't do anything wrong. Besides, I'm all alone, while she has a whole bunch of servants around her. How could I possibly kidnap her? She saw me and got lustful, wanting to take me back to the Li family to be her son-in-law. I didn't want to, so she dragged me to the yamen." Liu Mazi was a petty hoodlum, and he had long since mastered the art of lying through his teeth.
Now, without even thinking, he blurted out those words.
It was as if they had rehearsed it a thousand times beforehand.
"You're talking nonsense! My mother is already engaged. Why would she want an ugly thing like you?" Xu Qingshi was disgusted by the ugly thing in front of him.
"You think you can just kidnap me like that? Do you have any proof?" Liu Mazi said confidently.
He just saw his cousin, and she will definitely save him.
“My lord, I am a family member of an official appointed by the imperial court.” Li Zhiwei ignored Liu Mazi’s smug shouts and instead put pressure on him directly.
"master."
At this moment, a yamen runner walked up to Magistrate Cao and whispered something in his ear. The man glanced at Liu Mazi on the ground.
frown.
This man is actually the younger brother of the concubine?
He provoked someone he shouldn't have, and he didn't have the guts to protect him.
After all, if Li Zhiwei were to report this to the authorities, he would lose his official position.
Looking at Magistrate Cao, who sometimes frowned and sometimes glanced at Liu Mazi, Li Zhiwei knew that things were probably not so simple.
"Qingshi, where's your waist tag?" Li Zhiwei asked Xu Qingshi.
"Mother, he stole my waist token." Xu Qingshi only remembered when he tried to take it off his waist that the bad guy had stolen his waist token, which was a token that symbolized his status as the heir apparent.
“Miss Li, although you are the family member of an official, you have no evidence to prove that Liu Mazi kidnapped you, right? Besides, you have so many maids and attendants around you, while Liu Mazi is just one person. Can he really kidnap you?” As soon as Magistrate Cao finished speaking, the people outside began to point and whisper.
"Oh dear, this Liu Mazi, I doubt he's really that capable, does he?"
"That's right. It's one thing for him to steal chickens and dogs on ordinary days, but to kidnap people? The people around Miss Li don't look like they're easy to mess with."
Liu Mazi listened to the whispers of those around him and felt a sense of smugness.
He knew that his cousin must have a way to save him.
"My lord, I am truly innocent! Miss Li, you cannot use your wealth to frame innocent people like us!" Liu Mazi cried sadly.
“My lord, the reason why Liu Mazi was able to kidnap us is naturally because he had accomplices. Moreover, I have evidence,” Li Zhiwei said neither humbly nor arrogantly.
"What evidence do you have?" Magistrate Cao asked Li Zhiwei.
“This man has a waist tag on him, made of pure gold, with the character ‘An’ and the two characters ‘He Ming’ engraved on it.” As soon as Li Zhiwei finished speaking, Liu Mazi’s face turned pale.
The waist tag was indeed on him.
"Sir, she's wronging me. I found this badge," Liu Mazi said reluctantly, taking out the badge.
"Liu Mazi, do you know what's written on this waist tag?" Magistrate Cao looked at the waist tag in his hand, then looked at Liu Mazi and asked.
"Your Excellency, I am illiterate. I just picked up this waist tag because I thought it looked nice," Liu Mazi quickly said ingratiatingly.
"Then what evidence do you have to prove that you found this badge? Do you know what kind of badge this is? It's not something you can touch," Li Zhiwei said bluntly.
Magistrate Cao examined the waist token in his hand and felt that it looked somewhat familiar.
But he didn't recognize him at first.
"Master, this waist tag doesn't look like something Liu Mazi would have." The clerk standing to the side was startled when he saw the waist tag. If he remembered correctly, it seemed to be a waist tag from the Prince An's mansion.
However, the name tag doesn't say "He Ming". Which of these two is lying?
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