Chapter 187 Arrested
Since Wan Yangui dared to say so, it was equivalent to admitting that what he said before was all lies. But Qin Huai still stared at the door tightly until Qin Qing appeared in front of him unharmed.
Qin Qing was obviously a little surprised to see such a big scene. He glanced at Wan Yangui and quickly walked to Qin Huai, "Second brother..."
Su Luo quickly stood beside Qin Huai. She was afraid that Qin Huai would get angry and attack Qin Qing. Unexpectedly, Qin Huai just looked at Qin Qing, touched her hair, and asked in a hoarse voice, "Are you okay?"
Qin Qing shook her head, and Qin Huai asked again with concern, "He didn't do anything to you, did he?"
Qin Qing shook her head again. Qin Huai's body swayed and she was finally relieved. "It's good that you are alright. Let's go home."
Wan Yangui said jokingly, "Captain Jin, this is Miss Qin, the person Miss Su and the others are looking for. Ask her whether I am detaining her or she is staying in the Wan Mansion voluntarily."
Captain Jin stood up and walked in front of Qin Qing. "What's going on? Are you staying here voluntarily or is someone forcing you?"
Qin Qing looked at Qin Huai, panicked for a moment, lowered her head and whispered: "I, I volunteered to stay."
Wan Yangui clapped his hands, "Now the truth is out."
Captain Jin immediately gestured to his left and right, "Take him back."
The officers on both sides stepped forward and arrested Qin Huai. Qin Qing protected Qin Huai with his body and turned back to scream at Wan Yangui: "What happened? You said that as long as I stay, you won't deal with the Qin family again."
Wan Yangui pressed the wound on his mouth and took a deep breath. "He was the one who came to provoke me. I had no choice but to report it to the police."
Qin Qing wanted to say something else, but Qin Huai stopped her, "Ignore him, be obedient, and go home."
Qin Huai was taken away. Qin Qing stood in the hall, staring at Wan Yangui motionlessly, with confusion and resentment flashing in his eyes. Wan Yangui stood up, straightened his clothes, and without even looking at Qin Qing, he walked out of the hall. When he passed by Su Luo, he smiled and said, "The game has just started."
Su Luo no longer had the energy to argue with him, nor did she have the energy to teach Qin Qing a lesson. She asked the housekeeper to send Qin Qing home, and she followed the group of officials back to Shuntian Prefecture.
Su Luo originally wanted to negotiate and get Qin Huai out on bail, but it was late at night, and the officers were afraid that the prisoner would run away, so they had to arrest him. After waiting for a long time, only an eighth-rank governor who didn't care about the matter came out. He yawned and registered , then asked the officers to detain Qin Huai and asked Su Luo to go back to listen to the letter and wait for the court to go to court.
Qin Huai has been unusually quiet since he came out of Wan Mansion. When the officers took him to the jail, Su Luo called him several times, but he followed the officers without looking back.
Su Luo turned back and asked the judge when the case would be brought to court. The judge flipped through the register and said, "There are still a few cases to be handled. However, major cases will be decided within 40 days, medium cases within 20 days, minor cases within 10 days, and other easy cases within 3 days. You will be notified when the case is brought to court."
Su Luo asked again: "This case is not serious, right? It's just an ordinary fight, and the person who got beaten wasn't seriously injured."
"Tomorrow a specialist will go to examine the injuries." The wise man yawned again, "We still have to wait until the court session for the specific results."
Su Luo asked anxiously: "What if the person who got beaten doesn't pursue the matter?"
Zhishi thought for a moment and said, "Then... let's settle it? But isn't this the case reported by the person who was beaten?"
Su Luo nodded awkwardly, and then wanted to go to the prison to see Qin Huai. The official said impatiently: "What do you think the prison is? What time is it now? Go home and come back in the morning."
Su Luo talked to the magistrate for a long time and revealed her identities and titles, but he didn't buy it. As I said before, what kind of place is this? Shuntian Prefecture has the power to directly contact the emperor. Not to mention you, a princess who has not been officially named, even if a prince comes, he has to follow the rules.
Su Luo cursed all his colleagues in Shuntian Prefecture as he walked out of the government office. He looked up at the sky and saw that it was almost dawn. Su Luo simply did not go home and strolled towards the Forbidden City, intending to request entry into the palace as soon as the city gates opened. Didn't they say that the princes were useless? How about the emperor? It was not a big deal, so he could just use the back door.
Su Luo's plan was very good, but who would have thought that when they arrived at the Forbidden City, Liu Chengxuan was already waiting there. He looked at Su Luo and saluted with a smile, then pointed to the carriageway behind him and said, "I have prepared a carriage to take you home to rest. Why don't you come to the palace another day?"
Su Luo almost burst into cursing. Wan Yangui was such an utterly ruthless person. He was also very thoughtful. He knew that she would go to the palace to ask for help, so he specially let Liu Chengxuan block her at the door.
"What if I must enter the palace?"
Liu Chengxuan frowned and said with consideration for Su Luo, "If you break into the forbidden palace, you might be arrested as an assassin." Liu Chengxuan glanced at Su Luo's face and said, "Don't think about being your aunt. The princess was summoned to the palace by the queen mother and lived in the palace yesterday. Hey? You don't know, do you?"
How could she not know? Su Luo gritted her teeth in hatred when she mentioned this. Everyone knew that the princess liked to join in the fun, and she might also go to join in the fun when Qin Huai opened a new store. The problem was, if she went, Wan Yangui would stage that scene again and scare the princess, which would not be a fun thing. So Liu Chengxuan didn't know how to tell the queen mother. The queen mother summoned the princess to the palace the night before yesterday, and she didn't come back for two days.
Liu Chengxuan smiled and waved his fan, "I have another suggestion, do you want to hear it?"
Su Luo had no room to refuse now . Liu Chengxuan had been running to the palace since he was a child. How many years had he been running? He was familiar with all the palace maids, eunuchs, and imperial guards. It was effortless for him to stop Su Luo.
"How about this, you don't have to come into the palace, I'll arrange for you to meet your 'husband', okay?"
Looking at Liu Chengxuan's smiling face, Su Luo almost wanted to slap him, "I can see him without you making arrangements!"
"That's not necessarily true~" Liu Chengxuan spread out his folding fan to hide the treacherous smile on his face, "If I interfere, you might not be able to see it, believe it or not?"
Su Luo wanted to cry but had no tears. "Isn't it just that I cheated you out of some money? We visit each other often, and you have the ability to cheat me back. Do you feel a sense of accomplishment by making things so difficult for a weak woman like me?"
Liu Chengxuan looked around, and even put his fan on his forehead and looked into the distance, "Weak woman? Where is she?"
Su Luo was so angry that she was speechless. She climbed onto Liu Chengxuan's carriage angrily and said, "Deal, let's go to Shuntian Prefecture now."
Liu Chengxuan jumped on the carriage and told the driver, "Go to Princess Huairou's residence."
Su Luo immediately jumped up and grabbed his neck, "Don't go too far!"
Liu Chengxuan coughed dryly and stretched out his arms in the carriage, "Let go, I don't fight with women."
"Go to Shuntianfu!"
"Qin Huai will not be in Shuntian Prefecture soon. Why are you going there?" Liu Chengxuan coughed twice and sat up, staring at Su Luo with lingering fear, "Are you a woman?"
Su Luo was a little confused. "Not in Shuntian Prefecture? Where? Could it be that he was transferred to the Ministry of Justice? He wouldn't be sentenced to death for just fighting, right? You must have helped Wan Yangui bribe the emperor, damn you!"
"Hey! Hey, hey!" Liu Chengxuan still adhered to the principle of never taking action, "Don't hit my face, don't hit my face... It's not the Ministry of Justice, it's the Dali Temple."
"Dali Temple?" Su Luo stopped and took a breath. Dali Temple is not a Buddhist temple. It is equivalent to the Supreme People's Court of the Ming Dynasty, where cases from all over the country are collected. The files reported every day are several people taller than those of a man. They wouldn't have the leisure to even take care of fights, right? "It was you who helped to do the bad things, otherwise Wan Yangui wouldn't have been able to send the case to Dali Temple."
Liu Chengxuan laughed, "You think too highly of me. The emperor has been in a good mood these days. The results are about to be announced, so he wants to find a typical case to test the abilities of the top three new Jinshi scholars. It just so happens that this case happened. What a coincidence! I will go to the palace after sending you back. I will mention this matter when the emperor goes to the empress dowager for lunch at noon. I think the emperor will definitely be interested."
Su Luo stared at Liu Chengxuan for a long time without saying anything, "You, you mean, you haven't used the emperor's back door yet?"
"Yeah. Don't I have to take you back first?"
"Are you sure that the emperor will send this case to the Dali Temple?"
Liu Chengxuan tidied up his messy hair and opened his folding fan. "This case meets the emperor's requirements. You see, the case is simple on the surface, there is a grudge, and then a fight; but it is complicated, because the two parties in this case are of different status. What is yours? The future son-in-law of the princess, right? Wan Yangui is a royal relative... that is, my sworn brother. It's really not right to sentence or not to sentence; it's not right to sentence lightly, and it's even more not right to sentence heavily. It's a dilemma," Liu Chengxuan said as if he was trying a case, tapping his head with his fan, "but it is precisely the dilemma that can best show the work ability of the Jinshi master, and coupled with my lobbying, the emperor will definitely agree."
