Young masters from wealthy families who flaunt their power on the streets cannot withstand close scrutiny. Even if everyone speaks highly of you, to the aggrieved party, no matter how much money they are given, you are still a sinner.
Moreover, the Liu family was not an official family; they were simply merchants.
Within a day, the aggrieved party's lawsuit reached Huo Xiaolong.
"Your Highness, this group of people often abducts women. The women they abduct are all helpless orphans."
"Orphans, or those with younger siblings, or those whose families need money and whose parents are seriously ill, are given a sum of money. If their families resist or take legal action, it will turn out like last night..."
The grass can't say much, but these people are behaving like animals.
The methods were ruthless and cruel. Most of the girls who survived were in a daze. How many more died?
No one can find out.
"Isn't this enough to make him die several times over?"
"Is the prefect of Jiangnan really a useless piece of trash?"
Huo Xiaolong slammed his hand on the table, breaking it in two. Liu Xu, who had been listening to the news at the door, knocked and said...
"Long'er, I have something to tell you."
Xiao Cao led the people to clean up the mess on the ground. The woman walked in, sat down next to Huo Xiaolong, and said to her...
"It happened last night. The situation in Jiangnan is a bit troublesome."
The girl nodded.
"Sister, tell me."
"Although this group of people are from merchant families, they are all related to high-ranking officials in the capital. They are either concubines or second wives, and their petitions will not be submitted to the prefect."
"Why?" Huo Xiaolong asked.
“From the moment the complaint is filed, there are officials who are on their side. Starting from the county government office, and then moving to the city government offices, it is considered a great blessing if the complaint can be submitted to the county magistrate.”
"Behind the seemingly prosperous and beautiful landscape lie beasts that devour people without spitting out the bones."
“Take the Liu family for example. When my mother was still alive, she let me play with the daughters of the magistrate and the sub-prefect. They even joked about arranging a marriage between me and a young master from another family.”
Huo Xiaolong nodded, then suddenly felt like saying something irreverent.
Master Miao would be angry, but he held it in.
After all, we were discussing serious business.
"If Long'er wants to eradicate them completely, it's not impossible. I'll help you."
Her bright eyes met the woman's pitiful eyes, and then the girl smiled and said...
"Okay! I'll let my sister know if I need any help."
My sisters have always been like this since I was little. No matter what she wants to do, they will always take care of other things for her.
I feel so lucky to have met them.
The girl then continued...
“After a few days, once the child and his sister are feeling better, I will have them take the complaint to the authorities.”
With the Prefect and the Prince of Zhenbei and the Marquis of the Southwest personally overseeing the situation, she wanted to see who would dare to bend the law for personal gain at this time!
—The gavel slams, the law is brought before the court.
The young girl, holding the complaint, clearly recounted the evil deeds committed by Liu Ruoning and her gang, one by one. With witnesses and physical evidence, there was no way to deny it.
They never imagined that someone in Jiangnan would sue them, let alone that the petition would reach the hands of the prefect.
Just as the prefect, holding the gavel, was about to sentence him to immediate execution, the vice-prefect came over and whispered a few words in his ear.
"My lord, kneeling below the hall is also the nephew of His Majesty and His Highness the Empress."
"Why isn't a verdict being handed down, Your Excellency?" Long'er asked from the side.
She had excellent hearing and had already clearly heard what the magistrate was saying.
"I think... I think we should go back and organize the evidence first. In three days, I will give the people an explanation."
That sounds nice, but in three days, there are so many things that can be done behind the scenes.
Looking at him from behind now, the prefect in his official robes looks rather ironic.
Huo Xiaolong called out to the man.
"Your Excellency, Prefect."
"Your Highness."
"A distinguished person scared you like this?"
Upon hearing this, the prefect of Jiangnan sighed. He couldn't afford to offend Huo Xiaolong, and he couldn't afford to offend the people in the palace either.
“If it were just a noble person, what would I be afraid of? You’re here. But… but… that noble person happens to be the eldest daughter of the Minister of Justice. You see… every three years, the Ministry of Justice sends someone to check on the performance of the officials.”
"So you're scared?"
"Your Highness, could you please give me a few more days? Let me get rid of the people who came from the capital."
The girl nodded upon hearing this. That's how it is to be an official; treacherous officials must be treacherous, and loyal officials must be even more treacherous. She understood.
If she didn't have her own private army, she would have chosen the same path as the prefect, just like Wei Ci back then, and could only wait for the other party to take the initiative.
But things are different now...
She wanted to deliver the evidence directly to the emperor.
Long'er's progress is going fairly well, but things aren't so peaceful at Liuxu's place.
Ever since Master Liu learned that his eldest son had been detained by the Prince of Zhenbei, he has been running around like crazy trying to pull strings.
Until today, when he saw the Prince of Zhenbei's biological daughter behind him during the court session.
Liu Xu smiled and greeted her stepmother.
"Master, is that Ruoxi? Is that Ruoxi?"
"It's her...it's definitely her."
"She's so close to the Prince of Zhenbei, she'll definitely be able to plead for Ning'er, she definitely will."
Madam Liu's plan was quite clever. She was initially worried that Liu Xu would come back and take away her son's inheritance, but now she wanted to get Liu Xu to rescue her.
Do you really think people don't know what you did before?
"Ruoxi".
Liu Xu stepped out of the house and happened to meet Master Liu at the door. The woman smiled at him and called out...
"father."
There was nothing he couldn't say, and there was no pretense of crying and wailing when they met; he simply said, "Dad."
"All these years...where...where have you been?"
Liu Xu replied
"I was sold by my stepmother. She hired human traffickers. Father, why don't you go back and ask her about this? This is the evidence. The traffickers are still in jail. I'll take you to see them."
The string of words left Master Liu somewhat bewildered.
But when Liu Xu took her to the prison and she saw the human traffickers, Liu Wei'an understood everything.
He was familiar with human traffickers, after all, he had personally selected all the dancers in his household.
Testimony cannot be fabricated.
Sigh, the woman felt a little regretful.
If she had the time, Liu Xu really wanted to give her biological father a good talking-to, for example, to make him slowly discover the wickedness of the people around him, and to let him know that the human traffickers he often dealt with had also sold his own daughter.
The pain would definitely be much greater than it is now.
What a pity.
Long'er still has to go to the capital to report on his duties.
And I don't have much time to waste on crying and sobbing.
"Ruoxi, you've suffered all these years."
“It’s not bitter, Father. I’m doing very well by the side of the Prince of Zhenbei.”
He couldn't bring himself to ask his daughter to save his brother. Faced with Liu Xu's smiling face and thinking about what his second wife had done, the man simply couldn't say those words.
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