Chapter 45 Dali Temple's Case Handling
Shen Huan smashed countless jade ornaments at home.
"Useless! All of you are useless! You can't even keep an eye on one person!"
After being rescued by a servant in his household, Shen Huan returned home in a disheveled state and threw a huge tantrum!
Who on earth hung him on the city gate?!
He lost such a huge amount of face!
The Duchess, doting on her grandson, was furious!
They beat Shen Huan's personal servant to death and displayed him to the public!
"We asked you to look after and protect our young master! Is this how you watch over him? Hanging him from the city gate in front of everyone! What about the reputation of the Shen family! If our young master were to fall from the city gate, your entire family's lives wouldn't be enough to compensate for it!"
Duke Shen was even more furious, "This is simply trampling on my dignity! Investigate! Investigate!"
Shen Huan shouted, "If we catch that man, I will skin him alive and leave him without a complete corpse!"
It took the Duchess a lot of effort to coax Shen Huan back to his courtyard.
To everyone's surprise, as soon as they returned to the courtyard, a servant came to report.
Zhao Ying'er, who was kidnapped, has disappeared!
Shen Huan kicked all the servants in the courtyard to the ground!
"They're all useless! Send men to find her right now! That bitch! She dared to run away! Once we catch her, I'll teach her a lesson!"
Just then, a squad of constables barged in.
"The Dali Temple constables are ordered to arrest the man, but where is Shen Huan?!"
Shen Huan immediately glared and shouted, "What kind of damned Dali Temple is this! How dare they cause trouble in the Duke's mansion! Men, throw them out!"
The servant standing nearby said, "Young master, these are all government officials. It wouldn't be right to take action against them!"
Shen Huan kicked him, shouting, "My aunt is Consort Shen! Who dares to touch me!"
One of the constables said, "Young Master Shen, we are acting on the orders of the Vice Minister of the Court of Judicial Review. Please do not make things difficult for us and spare us physical suffering."
Shen Huan said with a mocking expression, "You dare to touch me! If I lose even a single hair, my aunt will exterminate your entire clan!"
"I was unaware that the Imperial Concubine wields such power. I will ask His Majesty about it when we enter the palace tomorrow!"
The constables dispersed and said, "Sir!"
Shen Huan looked at the newcomer, his face full of mockery, "Who do we have here? It's you, you country bumpkin who crawled out of some unknown backwater! You think you're worthy to see His Majesty!"
Zhao Wuji ignored him and turned to ask, "Does it really take this long to apprehend a suspect who can't even kill a chicken?"
The constables looked at each other in bewilderment. After all, Shen Huan was the only grandson of the Duke of Shen. They dared not confront him if he did not cooperate. Lord Zhao had the Emperor's backing. If Shen Huan held a grudge against them, they would be in trouble in the capital.
Seeing that Zhao Wuji was ignoring him, Shen Huan was enraged. "Zhao Wuji! How dare you ignore me! Guards, where are all the men of the Shen family?!"
Upon hearing the commotion, all the servants of the Shen family rushed out with their weapons, shielding Shen Huan behind them.
Shen Huan said arrogantly, "Whoever breaks his hand first, I, the young master, will reward him with one hundred taels of silver!"
A burly servant boy said, "Young master, what if we break his leg first?"
Shen Huan laughed heartily, "Two hundred taels!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the servants rushed towards Zhao Wuji as if they had been injected with chicken blood!
Those servants were determined to kill Zhao Wuji.
After all, their masters would take responsibility for anything that happened!
Zhao Wuji immediately drew his twin swords from behind him and killed him with each strike.
The twin swords moved unpredictably, and in just a few moments, the servants were already lifeless.
"All members of the Shen family defied the imperial decree and resisted arrest; they shall be executed on the spot!"
The constables behind him stared wide-eyed as Lord Zhao killed a servant of the Shen family right there in the Shen residence!
Zhao Wuji flashed in front of Shen Huan and punched him in the face.
Shen Huan immediately fainted.
Zhao Wuji coldly addressed the rest of the crowd: "The Dali Temple constables are vanguard officers who uphold justice for the people, not cowards who cower before the powerful and wealthy. Each of you go back and receive twenty strokes of the cane. If there is a next time, we will not let you off lightly!"
The constables looked rather grim. "Yes, sir!"
Zhao Wuji glanced at Shen Huan on the ground, "Take him away and return to Dali Temple!"
"Master, it's him! He's trying to take the young master to the Dali Temple!"
When a servant in Shen Huan’s courtyard saw that someone from the Dali Temple had arrived, he immediately went to find Duke Shen.
Duke Shen glared at him and said, "You, a mere junior official, dare to trespass into the Duke's mansion! Put my grandson down immediately!"
Zhao Wuji took out a jade pendant with a dragon pattern. "The Dali Temple is handling cases by imperial decree. Any bystanders who obstruct the investigation will be punished as disobeying the imperial decree! Duke Shen, please do not cause me any trouble!"
Upon seeing the dragon-patterned jade pendant, Duke Shen immediately knelt down, as if seeing His Majesty himself was present!
"Your Majesty, I pay my respects!"
Upon seeing this, Zhao Wuji turned and walked away.
The police officers behind them followed, carrying the unconscious Shen Huan.
The Duke of Shen said in a panic, "Quickly, send a memorial to the palace. I want to see the Imperial Concubine!"
The Prince of Zhenbei's Mansion.
After having lunch with the Emperor and Empress, Qin Jinzhi left the palace.
Yun Que and her three companions accompanied Qin Jinzhi to pick lotus seeds in the lotus pond of the Zhenbei Prince's Mansion.
Yun Jin said with a smug yet lewd expression, "The lotus seeds I picked are definitely the sweetest in the whole pond. When the prince is in a good mood, he might just bestow that Huanshan Bow from his study upon me!"
Yun Ge laughed and said, "Look at this, what a robber! You want to exchange a bowl of lotus seeds for the prince's priceless Huanshan Bow? You could have just gone to the prince's study to steal it, but you still gave the prince a bowl of lotus seeds. You're so kind!"
Yun Jinjin snorted, put her hands on her hips, turned around and bent over to pick other lotus seeds. When Yun Ge wasn't paying attention, she turned around and threw mud all over her.
Yun Ge wasn't going to back down either, and the two of them started fooling around, while Yun Shan stood aside laughing heartily.
Yun Que smiled and stood in front of Qin Jinzhi, afraid that the mud would be thrown at her.
Laughter echoed from the pond.
At this moment, a maid came over and said, "Princess, someone is requesting an audience at the gate."
Qin Jinzhi raised an eyebrow. "Who is it?"
Someone actually wants to see her? That's really strange.
The maid handed over a book and said, "That person covered her face completely, so you can't see her face. She also refused to give her name, only saying that she would give you this storybook, and then you would know who she is."
Yun Que took the storybook, and Qin Jinzhi smiled knowingly as she looked at the four characters "Peach Blossom Heroine" on the cover.
When Cui Ying was led to the lotus pond, she saw Qin Jinzhi and the others with their clothes tied around their waists and their sleeves and trouser legs rolled up.
The group of people were swimming in the pond with their arms and legs exposed.
Dig in the mud!
A princess!
Digging mud in the pond!
Cui Ying looked disgusted.
Qin Jinzhi scratched her head when she saw Cui Ying, who was covered up like a ghost in a black cloak, on the shore.
Cui Ying immediately said, "What kind of look is that!"
Qin Jinzhi said with amusement, "Are you trying to scare people by pretending to be a ghost in broad daylight?"
Cui Ying flung open the hood of her cloak. "What do you know! This is called disguise! You and I are mortal enemies. If people find out I've come to your residence, what will happen!"
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