The Duke of Qi held his tea, and a stern look flashed in his eyes.
“Call Qingping County here.”
The Third Prince ordered someone to pass it on.
The county magistrate came over with trepidation.
The Duke of Qi stared at his head, his voice carrying an eerie chill, “Qingping County, do you know your crime?”
The County Magistrate knelt down with a poof, cold sweat instantly soaking his official robe, he braced himself to keep from feeling weak, “Under, my humble servant does not know.”
Snap!
The Duke of Qi slammed his tealight down in front of him, “How dare you pretend to be confused with my lord, you don’t want to wear the flower plume anymore, do you?”
The tea splashed onto the County Magistrate’s hand, and the Magistrate’s hand shrank from the heat, “I have done everything according to your and the Third Prince’s instructions, I really don’t know what crime I have committed, so please let me know.”
“You told them about Wei Ning while the man surnamed Yao was attending to your illness!”
The County Magistrate was scared out of his wits and knocked his head on the ground, “Your Highness, please be clear, even if you gave me ten guts, I wouldn’t dare.”
The Duke of Qi let out a cold laugh, “How dare you not even if you were given ten guts? I didn’t know you were so bold, but it seems that being the magistrate of Qingping County has been a great disservice to you.”
The county magistrate’s forehead was broken, “Your Highness, please understand, I really didn’t say anything.”
The Duke of Qi stared at him grimly.
Blood stained the ground.
“There you go ……”
The third prince voiced out.
The Prefect’s head rested against the ground, not daring to lift it.
“Get up and speak.”
The County Magistrate stood up with trepidation, the blood on his forehead running down his cheeks, and he did not dare to wipe it.
The Third Prince gave a disgusted look and pulled out a handkerchief, “Wipe it first.”
The county magistrate took it with shaking hands, and had just wiped it when he heard the third prince ask
“How long have you and Gu Qian known each other?”
The County Magistrate was so frightened that he almost fell to his knees again, “I’ve known you since you came to Qingping County, not long ago?”
“Is there anything unusual about him? For example, his beard is fake and his voice occasionally becomes shrill when he speaks? ”
The Prefect thought carefully for a while with a trembling heart before shaking his head cautiously, “No, no.”
The word “waste” was on his lips, but the third prince swallowed it back again.
They were in need of someone now, and it was better to have this waste than none at all. He picked up the portrait of Gu Yi sitting on the bed and unfolded it, “See if this is Gu Yi?”
The county magistrate carefully stepped forward and took just one look, “Yes.”
The Third Prince unfolded the portrait of King Qin again, “Look at this one again.”
The county eunuch’s eyes instantly widened, “This, this, this ……”
“Isn’t it very similar?”
The county magistrate nodded repeatedly, “Like, more like than with Master Gu.”
“This is the Ruined King of Qin.”
Dang!
The magistrate dropped to his knees, beads of sweat falling instantly, his mind buzzing.
“The Third Prince and I have been ordered by the Emperor to investigate Gu Yi’s origins this time, the Emperor already suspects that he is the son of the Ruined King of Qin, the reason why Wei Ning was detained yesterday was to force him to ask questions, as for the Gu family’s tavern I suspect that they burned it down themselves in order to use it to save Wei Ning.”
The county magistrate was sweating like rain.
“So, from now on, we need your cooperation, as long as Gu Yi’s identity is uncovered, it is natural that you will be given an official title and an increase in rank.”
“How will, how will the next official, do that?”
The county magistrate was trembling, unable to speak.
“Send someone to keep an eye on the old gentleman’s side, and whenever you see them go out, find a way to cause them some trouble.”
After the county magistrate answered, he crawled back a few steps before slowly standing up and stumbling outside, his mind still ringing with the thought that if Gu Yi was really the son of the ruined King of Qin, then he ……
The county magistrate did not dare to think further and ordered in a shaky voice, “Go and get constable Zhang to come.”
The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you’re doing.
The more you try to calm down, the more your body shakes, “You, you, you go to the Song, Song family side to guard, guard, a, once you find the old gentleman and others out of the signs, signs, then, create, create some trouble.”
Zhang Shoutu froze.
“Go quickly, remember, remember, whether you and I can keep our heads depends on whether you can do it, on whether you can do it well.”
As soon as he heard that his head was at stake, Sheriff Zhang immediately answered yes, turned around and walked away with great strides.
The county magistrate stayed in place for a while before slowly holding himself up against the wall and returning to his courtyard.
Inside the house, when the waiters had packed up the broken pieces of porcelain and retired, Duke Qi said to the Third Prince, “Send someone to send a message to Qi Wu, asking him to come over.”
“What does grandfather mean?”
“Tell him to take his men to the Gu family again in the evening, and that no matter what he thinks of, he must take down the Gu father and son.”
The Third Prince sent someone to call for Qi Wu to come over.
After listening to them, Qi Wu did not hesitate, “I have wanted to do so for a long time, except that my men may not be a match for them, so I would also ask the Third Prince and the State Prince to send your capable men as well.”
The Third Prince had brought over a number of guards, whose martial arts skills were naturally higher than those of the dart masters, and the Duke of Qi had also brought a few attendants with high martial arts skills.
“Good, all these people are yours to deploy, remember, no matter what means you use, you must take …… down.”
Before he finished a sentence, the Duke of Qi felt a vague headache again, he shook it slightly and it disappeared again.
Suppressing the uneasiness in his heart, he continued, “Make sure to take them down.”
Qi Wu responded, agreed on an hour for the night’s action, and left the county courthouse through the back door.
……
After Song Lin and Xu left in the carriage, Song Wan Yue accompanied Grandma Song for half an hour and went back to her house.
There were five large wooden boxes by the bed, Song Wan Yue opened one of them, which was full of medical books, she looked at it for a while, silently closed it and lay back on the bed, looking at the roof.
After a while, she sat up again, opened the box again, took out a medical book and sat down on the bed to read it.
Only when she saw Song Shu and Liu Cui Lan return from their stall did she put away the medical book and come outside, where she heard Liu Cui Lan say to Grandma Song, “Lao San is not in a good mood, so her elder brother and sister-in-law have taken her to the mansion to rest and will not return for the night.”
“Worthless thing.”
Grandma Song scolded, and when she saw Song Wan Yue come out, she turned the conversation around, “Leave him alone, you guys rest for a while, I’ll make whatever you want to eat tonight.”
After greeting Song Shu and Liu Cui Lan, Song Wan Yue went back inside to continue reading her medical books.
As soon as he entered the door, he said to Grandma Song, “Er Ya won’t be coming over today, Da Ya is back.”
Song Wan Yue smiled and tightened the medical book in her hand.
……
Late at night, dozens of people holding the third prince’s token called open the city gates and came out in a line of fish towards the Gu family village.
An hour later, the Song family’s front door was knocked on eagerly, “Yue’er, something’s happened!”