Qi Baoer paused and turned to look at Shang Chengfeng. Facing his earnest eyes, she nodded heavily.
"My lord, I believe it."
The two words "I believe" completely defeated Shang Chengfeng, who was once an iron-clad man, and his tears instantly fell from his eyes.
Qi Baoer hurriedly took out the handkerchief and wiped it for him, while speaking in a voice that was only heard by the two of them: "Sir, wait for me, I will rescue you."
She has Ah Piao's army with her, so it's not difficult to find out the facts.
What's more, she already knew the facts of Shang Chengfeng's case and had asked the emperor about it. However, the emperor never gave her a single reply.
She then knew the emperor's attitude.
With the great general Wang in Gaochang, it is impossible for the emperor to let Shang Chengfeng occupy such a high and important position as Minister of War. The reason why Shang Chengfeng is in prison now is to demote Shang Chengfeng's best opportunity.
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The key now is whether the emperor will spare the lives of Shang Chengfeng and his family.
The key to this depends on the news coming back from Yanxi Pass, and more importantly, whether the general Wang of Gaochang wants Shang Chengfeng's life.
But Shang Chengfeng shook his head, forced out a smile that was uglier than crying, and said to Qi Baoer: "That great general in Gaochang wants my life, and no one can save me."
Qi Bao'er seemed not to have heard anything and turned around to open another food box. The whole food was filled with small packages of unknown items wrapped in cloth.
Qi Bao'er took out a package, and a small package just fit in the gap between the prison pillars and could be stuffed in. She handed it to the three young masters of the Shang family, "These are steamed buns. There are ten in a package. You can usually put them away. If you are hungry,
Take it out and cushion it when you are ready."
At this time, there was no need to pay attention to politeness, and Mr. Shang accepted it gratefully.
Throat sore: "Thank you."
Qi Baoer smiled and continued stuffing.
After stuffing a whole food box with twenty-two packages of steamed buns inside, Qi Baoer turned back to Shang Chengfeng, who had calmed down.
"Sir, don't worry about Prime Minister Fang."
After saying that, he stood up and left without lingering any longer.
After a while Twelve came in, packed up two empty food boxes and left without saying a word.
When the footsteps of the two people were far away, Shang Chengfeng retracted his gaze that had been staring at the direction they left, turned to look at his descendants who were staring at the food on the ground with eager expressions, and tugged the corner of his mouth bitterly.
"Eat them all."
The young masters of the Shang family were okay. Although they were also greedy, they could bear it after all. However, the juniors were not as forbearable as the adults. After Shang Chengfeng's words, they immediately pounced on the food on the ground.
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Qi Bao'er walked out of the prison. The cell leader who had been waiting outside heard the footsteps and hurriedly ran over, licking his face and wiping cold sweat.
"Lord pray."
"Prison leader, can you tell me about the situation of the Shang family in prison?"
A soft and sweet voice came from above the head, but it made the prison head feel that the cold sweat he had just wiped off was breaking out again.
He kept bowing and didn't even dare to take a look at the cell leader who was said to be the stunningly beautiful Qi Shangshu. He never thought that a voice that sounded so soft and cotton could actually give people such a suffocating feeling.
It also makes people dare not even think about hiding something.
"Lord Qiqi, it's not that we want to bully Mr. Shang's family, but that Xiang Xiang sent someone to threaten him, saying that if we dare to be kind to Mr. Shang's family in private, then let's try... That person can still do it.
I came over from time to time to keep an eye on him. One time, a government official was soft-hearted and secretly stuffed a steamed bun for the Shang family's child. The government official was punished twenty times and almost lost his life."
They are just the lowest level servants in the yamen. They cannot afford to offend anyone, and anyone can point their fingers at them, or even kill them.
"Can I report it to your minister?" Qi Baoer asked.
The prison head shook his head and said in a helpless tone: "Sir Qi, how can we people see Master Shangshu?"
After a moment of silence, he clenched his fists and said with a desperate look: "Sir, I pray that I will report this matter to the person in charge."
"Which one is in charge?"
"Master Lu."
Qibaoer looked at Twelve.
Twelve immediately leaned closer and whispered: "Sir, there is only one chief executive named Lu in the Criminal Department. He is the chief executive and is responsible for the prison."
Qi Baoer's eyes darkened, and he walked away without saying anything else.
Twelve forced a purse into the hands of the cell leader and left immediately.
The prison boss waited until the two men left before he dared to stand up straight and squeezed the load in his hand. There was a lumpy hard object inside, which should be silver.
Estimating the size of the silver, it was probably not more than twenty taels of silver.
Normally, with a benefit as big as twenty taels, he would wake up laughing even in bed at night.
But now, he just feels that this silver thorn is hot to touch.
It was Prime Minister Fang and he was praying for the chancellor. There was an important official above who was looking at Prime Minister Fang, and he was stuck in the middle...
"Alas~"
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Prime Minister Fang's Mansion.
A man dressed as a housekeeper hurried into Prime Minister Fang's room and said, "Prime Minister, someone from the Ministry of Punishment just came to report that Qi Shangshu went to the prison of the Ministry of Punishment."
At this moment, the pale-faced Fang Xiang was leaning on the soft pillow, being taken care of by a beautiful woman. When the housekeeper yelled in a hurry, Fang Xiang had no time to react. The beautiful woman was frightened first. She shook her hand and hit the spoon with the spoon in her hand.
When it came to Fang Xiang's mouth, it came into close contact with his teeth, making a crisp clashing sound.
Fang Xiang hissed in pain, and pushed the beautiful woman to the ground with a backhand.
The beautiful woman screamed and was so frightened that she quickly knelt down and apologized repeatedly, "My lord, please spare my life, my lord, please spare your life."
Fang Xiang glared at the beautiful woman and said, "Get lost."
In the past, he would definitely have punished this ignorant scoundrel; but at the moment, he had more important things to do.
The beautiful woman quickly thanked her and fled as fast as she could.
The whole process, the butler stood aside respectfully as if he were blind, until Prime Minister Fang asked him coldly: "Did you hear what Qi Shangshu and Shang Chengfeng said?"
He took a few steps closer and then replied: "Shang Shu Qi left suddenly, and Director Lu happened to be away from the Ministry of Punishment at the time. Before Shangshu Qi entered the prison, he gave an order not to allow anyone to follow him."
This means that none of their people heard what Qi Shangshu and Shang Chengfeng said.
Fang Xiang was angry, but he also knew that the Ministry of Justice was not a place where he could intervene at will; the person surnamed Ji was smelly and tough, and he would not give face to anyone. If he hadn't buried Lu Yuan in the Ministry of Justice early, Lu Yuan would have been able to do it.
After climbing all the way to the position of chief executive, he could not even privately go to the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice to try Shang Chengfeng's case.
Thinking of this, his hatred for Qi Bao'er increased even more.
Although the Fang family said that he had taken the position of left prime minister, his foundation was still too shallow compared with other important ministers, and his position as left prime minister was not stable.
As far as the country is concerned, those who really control the lifeblood of the country are not the high-ranking ministers like them, but the six ministers.
But although he said he could manage the affairs of the six departments, none of the six ministers were his, so he could only manage them but not control them.
How could he, who was already a prime minister, be willing to accept this?
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