Chapter 19 Ye Ling'er: Ruoruo made some cakes. If you don't want them, I'm still craving them.
The fire patrol office, night watch, fire prevention and theft prevention, and patrol and theft prevention are a very small business segment.
Therefore, his cell was very small and had not been used for a long time, and it smelled like rotten wood.
A beam of light fell on Wu Xi's face from the small window.
Compared with ordinary prisoners, he was neither unkempt nor dressed in rags.
The son of Ningyuan Marquis was tried by three judges. The combined result must have left him with enough dignity and honor.
Sitting against the wall in a daze, Wu Xi's brain, which had been battered these days, finally calmed down. He felt a little confused.
How come it suddenly became like this?
Isn’t it just riding a horse and trampling a commoner to death?
He himself might have forgotten how many murders at the hands of the sons of nobles he confessed to during the three-court trial.
creak~
Sunlight poured in through the wooden gate, dispelling most of the darkness.
Ta da~
Very light footsteps appeared before him while he was still adjusting to the light.
"Young Marquis Wu, I haven't seen you for a while. How have you been?"
The familiar voice brought back Wu Xi's unbearable memories. He, the son of the Ningyuan Marquis and a founding noble, was arrested by the Kyoto government in public. All because of...
"Ye Zheng!"
His expression, which had been numb for several days, suddenly shattered, revealing a ferocious resentment.
"Why are you so furious? Young Marquis Wu, you should be happy. You only lost two years of freedom, but old man Su lost his life." Ye Zheng's tone gradually changed from deliberate 'doubt' to cold.
Wu Xi was stunned for a moment, fear flashed in the depths of his eyes, and his body instinctively moved to a dark corner, "Why are you here? Where is the jailer? Where is the bailiff?"
"What are you yelling about?" Ye Zheng shouted, his voice echoing in the cell. When the echo died down, he said in a threatening voice, "See clearly what I'm wearing. This is the prison of the Fire Patrol Office. I'm the commander of the Fire Patrol Office. What's wrong with being here?"
Wu Xi was stunned for a moment.
Fire patrol office?
Fire patrol commander?
So, why is he here?
The memories in his mind began to attack him.
Three judges held a hearing...
Question after question, flashback after flashback...
At last…
It was as if someone had pulled out all the bones.
"No, no!"
"I should go to the Huai'an Salt Field. How can I be a forced laborer? I can't stay in Kyoto! I..." Wu Xi suddenly started to scream wildly.
It's also because the Inspection Bureau is too efficient. Today, Kyoto Prefecture and the Inspection Bureau have arrested countless people from the Fire Patrol Office.
If it were any other government office, the bailiffs would have already stopped him. If they met someone with no background, they would just open the wooden gate, go in and start beating him left and right, and then say anything else.
Yeah.
It's easier to talk when there's no one around.
"How much evidence of your crimes have you betrayed to the 'Rangers'?" Ye Zheng saw that Wu Xi's reaction was not entirely due to fear of him.
As if his throat was strangled, Wu Xi suddenly stopped shouting, glanced at Ye Zheng with flickering eyes, and shook his head repeatedly, "What evidence? I don't understand what you are saying?"
"hehe."
Ye Zheng deliberately lengthened the space between the two words to make it more "offensive".
"You..." Wu Xi glared, but didn't dare to glare too hard.
"Don't be anxious or panic. I will first tell you about what happened after you entered the Kyoto government office, and then I will tell you about your current situation."
Wu Xi looked at him without saying anything. It was obvious that he was also eager to fill in the missing information so that he could make some plans.
"The next day, at the court meeting..."
"...Do you understand now? I sacrificed yourself to help several of your 'Ranger' brothers. How about that? Do you feel better?"
Ye Zheng did not add any water in his story, but simply concealed his own role, making his story sound more like the founding group of people who took advantage of the situation to create opportunities.
"I really don't know what you are talking about." Somehow, when it came to the Fire Patrol Office, Wu Xi's tone was very stubborn.
"Okay, as long as you understand it." Ye Zheng smiled and continued in a relaxed tone, "Tell me about your current situation..." "Slow down, ask Commander Ye to send someone to Ningyuan Marquis Mansion to inform them that I am serving as a prisoner here." Wu Xi interrupted him and said.
Ye Zheng smiled again, this time it was a sneer.
"Are you really a fool? How can you notify your family and ask them to send you food, gold and silver as gifts after you have been assigned to a labor camp?"
Without waiting for Wu Xi's response, he continued, "The founding family took the opportunity to re-enter the army, which affected the interests of some people. You should know that cutting off someone's money is like killing their parents. There are so many dukes and princes in the founding family, and the court and the army are still connected. Those people may not be able to move, at least not for a while. I may have contributed a lot to this matter, and I will definitely be hated, but I am not panicking. I believe that people in Kyoto will always give my uncle a face, and you..."
You don't have to say everything, leave some for people to imagine.
Wu Xiguo was horrified. After a pause, he anxiously asked Ye Zheng, "Ye Zheng, how can you inform my family? Money? Or something else?"
"Why don't you understand, Wu Xi?" Ye Zheng said with a disappointed tone, "You were detained in the Jingdu prison, did anyone from your family go there? You were detained in the Ministry of Justice prison, did anyone from your family go there? You were taken to the fire inspection office today, did anyone from your family come to see you off?"
After asking three questions in a row, he suddenly paused and said in an inexplicable tone, "I heard that Ningyuan Hou has another son."
"Also..." Wu Xi was stunned, and suddenly his whole body seemed to break into pieces. With a fierce look on his face and unwillingness to believe, he said, "He is a bastard, a bastard!"
"Once he is confirmed as the legitimate son, he will be the legitimate son!" Ye Zheng said coldly.
It is really a coincidence that Ningyuan Hou’s wife, Wu Xi’s biological mother, passed away last year.
The anger of being abandoned and the intense fear quickly engulfed Wu Xi.
"Aah~"
His shouts echoed throughout the cell.
Ye Zheng quietly waited for this groundhog-like catharsis to end. When Wu Xi's broken eyes slowly moved towards him, he spoke, "Try to live. In the next period of time, I will patrol the fire station day and night."
"What do you want? What do you want? Why are you telling me all this? If I die, I will pay for the old man's life. Isn't that what you want?" It seemed that after the extreme emotional turmoil, this guy's brain worked better.
"Stop talking nonsense! How could I be like them and ignore the law?" Ye Zheng refuted in a 'very angry and righteous' manner, as if to 'make people look at you wrongly', and then said seriously, "You are being tried by the three courts, and your majesty has made a holy decision. Who dares to object?"
Wu Xi's expression relaxed secretly.
You are still young, why do you act like those corrupt scholars, talking about "saints and national laws" all the time?
Young, arrogant, and with a bottom line.
It’s good to have a bottom line.
Ye Zheng felt relieved as well.
This was just a gimmick.
"Ye Zheng~"
"Commander~"
"Ye Zheng~"
"Commander~"
Two voices were heard outside, the latter was Sun Liuwu and the former was his second sister.
"You take a rest first." Ye Zheng stood up.
After he turned around, both he and Wu Xi behind him looked gloomy.
"Of course people can die, but they cannot die in the fire patrol office."
"He's right. First, survive..."
……
Fire patrol office, hall
Ye Ling'er looked around and frowned slightly.
Hearing footsteps behind her, she said without turning her head, "This place is a bit shabby."
Entering the hall from the corner gate, Ye Zheng frowned when he heard the voice and said to Sun Liuwu, "This is a very important place for the government, how can you just let someone in?"
Sun Liuwu was stunned.
He quickly glanced at Ye Ling'er and thought: Could it be that this is not the commander's second sister? Or is the relationship between the siblings not harmonious? Stupid, stupid, I should have left her in front.
Just as he was about to bow his hands and apologize, Ye Ling'er said, "Ruoruo made some cakes. There are candied plum snow cakes, candied plum thousand-layer cakes, and spring rolls. If you don't want them, I'm still craving for them."
As she said this, she pretended to leave.
Ye Zheng immediately looked at Sun Liuwu and frowned, "How can you be so rude? Go and get some tea."
Sun Liuwu: I...
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