The prefect's heart trembled violently, Mu Tianxue's words were like a wake-up call, and the fear in his heart suddenly deepened.
He was indeed selfish and wanted to send those who beat his daughter to jail, so he used the crime of contempt of court to teach those who beat his daughter a lesson first and had no time to care about the people in the hall.
The scholar, or Mrs. Gaoming, just wanted to vent her anger for her daughter and herself first.
What I didn't expect was that the person in the hall was the sixth prince who was the most beloved of the current emperor. Beating the sixth prince and the sixth princess would be a crime of death. What's more terrible is that his usually unruly and trusting daughter,
He also dared to insult the Sixth Imperial Concubine and threatened to kill the Sixth Imperial Concubine and the Sixth Prince. This crime of punishing the nine clans would cause the entire Zheng family to perish.
"What? Master Prefect, I have nothing to say."
Mu Tianxue's cold eyes glanced at the trembling prefect, and then continued: "The prefect's daughter insulted me, but I have spared her life. Originally, everyone could live in peace.
But the magistrate, you just sent an officer to take me and the sixth prince into custody, and without asking the reason, you convicted me and the sixth prince. Magistrate, what are your intentions? I am very suspicious, how did the magistrate come here in the past?
The one who decides the case.”
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty..." The magistrate trembled and stuttered for a long time, but he couldn't explain why. His original intention was to vent his anger on his daughter, and the crime of contempt of court was also imposed on him.
, now that it was revealed by Mu Tianxue, he couldn't give any explanation at all.
Seeing the speechless magistrate, Mu Tianxue sneered in her heart. This magistrate was obviously bending the law for personal gain, pretending to be public for personal gain, and wanted to vent his anger on his daughter. He even accused them of contempt of court. Although she was not an ancient person,
We still know a little bit about who should kneel before an official or who should not.
"Master Magistrate, do you want to convict yourself, or do you want me to convict you?"
Long Chen also saw that the magistrate had nothing to say, so he impatiently issued orders in a cold voice.
"Please forgive me, the Sixth Prince. The crime of being a lower official is worthy of death. The lower official does not know that it was the Sixth Prince and the Sixth Princess who were in the hall. When they saw that he was not kneeling, they immediately changed the rule that the dynasty's distinguished people are not allowed to kneel.
I forgot, so I mistakenly thought it was contempt of court and dereliction of duty as a subordinate, so I asked the Sixth Prince to forgive me."
The magistrate was in tears, and kowtowing at this moment felt like soreness. His forehead was already bloody and bloody, but he still did not stop. The sound of kowtowing could be heard over and over again in the courtroom.
"I beg the Sixth Prince and the Sixth Imperial Concubine to forgive me. It was the daughter of the people who insulted the Sixth Imperial Concubine. The daughter of the people is willing to suffer. I also ask the Sixth Prince and the Sixth Imperial Concubine to spare my father's life."
When the daughter of the prefect saw her father, she kept kowtowing and begging for mercy, with blood streaming all over her face. She quickly crawled to her knees in front of the prefect and kowtowed to Mu Tianxue and Long Chenyi to beg for mercy.
"Okay, stop knocking." Mu Tianxue saw that the foreheads of the two people were bloody and bloody. She frowned and looked at Long Chenyi.
Long Chenyi's gloomy and cold face seemed to be frozen. When he saw Mu Tianxue looking at him, he glanced coldly at the two people kneeling on the ground, then looked at Mu Tianxue and said, "You want to let them go again?"
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Mu Tianxue smiled slightly and said: "The magistrate will not let you go if he bends the law for personal gain. It is just a crime of bending the law for personal gain. If the crime is not punishable by death, it can be executed according to the laws of the imperial court.
If this daughter of the magistrate was disrespectful or even insulting to my concubine, it was supposed to be a death penalty, so I would punish her with two hundred sticks. If she was still alive after the two hundred sticks, it was God's will, which meant that her crime would not lead to death.
I will spare her life.
If after two hundred sticks, she cannot hold up and is killed by the stick, that is God's will. It means that she has committed a crime that leads to death and this is what she deserves. Sixth prince, what do you think of my concubine's suggestion?"
Long Chenyi frowned slightly, and after thinking for a while, he stroked Mu Tianxue's hair and said, "Then, it's your decision."
"Thank you to the Sixth Prince and the Sixth Imperial Concubine for not killing me." After hearing that they were exempted from the death penalty, the Lord Magistrate and Magistrate Jin Qian hurriedly kowtowed with tears in their eyes.
"My Lord Magistrate, you clearly knew that the Magistrate was bending the law for personal gain, but you did not stop him and warned him, but you still colluded with him. Do you know your crime?"
At this moment, Long Chen turned his attention to the magistrate who was kneeling on the ground and did not dare to kick him.
The magistrate's body trembled violently, and he kowtowed quickly and said in horror: "I know that I am guilty, and I ask the sixth prince to punish you."
"Come here, the magistrate and the county magistrate have bent the law for personal gain. Each of them is punished with a hundred sticks. The magistrate's daughter has made disrespectful remarks to the imperial concubine, threatened and intimidated the royal family. They will be dragged down and executed. They will be punished with two hundred sticks."
After Long Chenyi's order was given, Lan Yi and Zi Yi dragged the three of them down and began to execute the order. The punishment for the magistrate and magistrate seemed very light, but in fact it was not.
Because the executors are Lan Yi and Zi Yi. Their strength is enough to kill the magistrate and magistrate.
As for the punishment of two hundred sticks for the daughter of the prefect, she will definitely be beaten to death, and the crime she committed does not have a way to survive. Mu Tianxue ordered her two hundred sticks, which can be regarded as giving her a way to survive.
Chances are, if she can really survive the two hundred sticks, it can be regarded as God's will. Her life should not be cut off, and it is not impossible to spare her life.
Before Lan Yi and Zi Yi finished executing their orders, Mu Tianxue and Long Chenyi left the magistrate's office. The smell of blood in the courtroom was so strong that it made people sick to their stomachs.
On the way back to the villa, both of them had nothing to say, and the atmosphere was very tense. Mu Tianxue knew that Long Chenyi was very dissatisfied with her handling of her. With Long Chenyi's iron-blooded ruthlessness, he would definitely kill the prefect and his wife.
The daughter of the prefect would never change the decisions he made, but today, he was stopped by her twice in a row, and Long Chen was definitely very angry in his heart.
"Yi" When he was approaching the entrance of the villa, Mu Tianxue grabbed Long Chenyi's hand.
Long Chen didn't say anything, he just held her hand and walked towards the villa. The cold and gloomy expression on his face softened a lot, but the sullenness in his eyes had not dissipated.
"Yeah." Mu Tianxue suddenly stopped, holding his stomach, showing a look of pain.
"Xue'er, what's wrong with you?" After Long Chen also stopped, he saw Mu Tianxue frowning and covering his stomach with one hand, with a look of pain on his face. His heart tightened, he picked him up and quickly
Run towards the main hall.
After Mu Tianxue was picked up, she put her hands around his neck. Looking at his worried look, she chuckled and said, "Are you still angry? I took the initiative to let you hug me. You should also calm down your worries, right?"
The feeling of depression.”
After Long Chen heard her slightly naughty words, he slowed down his running speed and looked down at the person in his arms. When he saw her smiling face, his hanging heart relaxed.
"You're kidding me," Long Chenyi said angrily and coldly. Although his tone was angry and cold, he didn't mean to let go of Mu Tianxue.
"How dare I play tricks on you!" Mu Tianxue's hand hugged his neck a little tighter, she leaned her head on his chest, slowly closed her eyes, and raised a smile on her lips.
Long Chen also hugged her and walked towards Xueyuan. The cold air on his face dissipated in an instant, and the anger in his eyes gradually turned into tenderness.
When he saw her clutching her stomach and showing signs of pain, he was so frightened that his heart almost jumped out of his throat, fearing that something would happen to her and the baby in her belly.
When he saw her teasing him with the baby in her belly, the anger in his heart suddenly surged. He wanted to teach her a lesson and tell her not to use the comfort of his body and the comfort of the baby in her belly to tease him.
He, his heart, couldn't bear her teasing like this.
But seeing her deep, smiling eyes, the anger in his heart could not be expressed.
