Prison robbery?

We are all honest people and have never done anything bad in our lives.

If I can help the Regent and the Princess get out, this jailbreak will not be considered illegal, and in the future I can be considered as someone who followed the Prince and the Princess.

Everyone was ready to go, but Shen Yangui couldn't help but pour a basin of cold water on them.

"We're not going anywhere tonight, just here."

The farmer thought that the princess was worried about not having helpers. He quickly glanced between the prince and the princess, and then landed on the princess. He rolled up his sleeves, clenched his fists, and said passionately:

"Farmers don't have any other skills, but they have a lot of strength. Princess, don't look at me because I don't have much flesh. I can easily pick up a stone of grain on a normal day. If you need me, just tell me."

Right now, the prefect of Lingzhou is committing suicide.

The stage has been dismantled so early, how can Yu Zhizhou's play continue to be performed?

"Everyone, please be patient. Tomorrow we will ask the prefect to go to jail himself." Shen Yangui said.

Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment: "How is this possible?"

After all, they were still in prison, so Shen Yangui did not explain in detail. Instead, he changed the subject and asked them what their names were, if there were any relatives in their family, etc.

The farmer said his surname was Wei, and because he was born in September and was the fourth child in the family, he was called Wei Sijiu. The one who was looking for his sister said his surname was Zhang, his name was Yang, and his sister was Zhang Liu...

The whispering in the prison did not disappear until late at night.

At this time, the third task on Poshan's side should have been completed.

Before dawn, the fire may have spread to other places, and the flames could not reach this side, so the prison was dark.

Mo Chengying quietly held Shen Yangui on his lap, and before she could speak, he made a "hush" sound.

Then he whispered in her ear, "I'm very happy that you need me. Just treat it as a way to coax me. Pretend to be weak and rely on me for a while, okay? Lean on me for a while and I'll call you in the morning."

His hand supported Shen Yangui's face and gently pressed it on his shoulder.

The daughter was separated from her biological mother when she was one month old. I guess she cried a lot at night. I heard from Lu'e that when the little princess started crying, no one could comfort her and she insisted on being held by her biological father. Is this how he usually comforts Yu'er?

Shen Yangui leaned closer to him, and slowly loosened his arms around him.

Mo Chengying held his wife in his arms, and couldn't help but think of his daughter. She had not been separated from him in the past few months, and he didn't know if she would make a fuss tonight.

Poshan should be asked to inform Shen Ting to escort Princess Jingning to Lingzhou.

The mist was like a white veil, floating from the woods to the city gate. Before dawn, the gate guards had already lined up to welcome them.

"Sir, it's almost dawn. If you don't go there now, it will be too late." The master reminded while standing outside the Lotus Gate.

Behind the gauze curtain, Yu Guming sat in front of a bronze mirror with his eyes closed. He was nearly fifty years old, with graying hair. His concubine Liu'er, who was in her teens, had just been favored by the emperor last night and was combing his hair.

"What are you doing there so early?" Yu Guming asked back.

"The regent has a bad temper, and everyone knows it. If you offend him in public, he will be very unhappy and will chop off your head. The master did not dare to say it too clearly, "We don't need to offend him at this time."

"What do you know? There was a fire in the government office last night. I was busy all night and it's late. What's the problem?"

The master's eyes lit up, "Your Excellency is wise."

Yu Guming had a smile on his face, as if everything was under control. "You don't have to comb your hair too neatly. Messy hair looks more real."

Liu Er immediately pulled down a few strands of hair and asked, "What do you think, sir?"

Yu Guming slowly opened his eyes, looked at Liu'er's bruised face and the wound at the corner of her lips, and reached out to pinch her chin, "If you had been so obedient earlier, why would you have to suffer like this? You've been hungry for three days in vain, was it just to have a full meal last night?"

Liu'er wanted to take the opportunity to ask him to release her brother, but when she thought of last night, her stomach started churning and she felt nauseous, and she was afraid she would vomit if she opened her mouth.

When the maid brought the official robe, he cursed "you cheap bastard", let go and stood up, with his arms spread out.

Liu Er straightened his collar, knelt in front of him and tied his belt, finally suppressed the nausea in her throat, and said bravely:

"Sir, you promised me that you would release my brother today..."

"Let your brother go? Without your brother, wouldn't you be arguing with me about hunger strike and hanging yourself every day?"

Yu Guming kicked Liu'er in the heart and walked out of the door with his official hat.

The maid looked outside and quickly helped the person up, "Auntie, the ground is cold, please get up quickly."

"I'm not an aunt." Liu'er pulled her hand back, her lips trembling slightly.

"Being a concubine is better than being a maid or a laborer. Why does Miss Liuer have to make things difficult for herself?"

Liu'er shed tears silently. She would rather be a maid or a laborer than be humiliated by a corrupt official.

The maid advised kindly, "We women, especially those who come from poor backgrounds, don't care who we marry or who we sleep with. To put it bluntly, marrying a farmer means you'll have no food to eat. It's better to stay with the master. You have a good appearance and the master likes you. If you take the opportunity to give birth to a son for the master, are you afraid that he won't take care of your brother and your family?"

Are women born to be slept with by others? Are they born to give birth to sons?

Aren’t the lives of the poor worth anything?

But she had clearly already promised to marry him.

Yu Guming knew that Liu'er would not seek death again for her brother, so he did not order any special supervision. Liu'er came out of the main courtyard and sat in the garden in a daze, not moving a single step.

The two old women were sitting in a flower stand, chatting while they were working, saying that the regent who came to Lingzhou before was fake, and the one who came today was the real one.

"I heard that the real regent is stern and fair, and the princess loves the people like her own children. That dog official was afraid, so he made a confession overnight, fearing that he would be exposed in front of the prince."

"Afraid? What does he have to be afraid of? He controls the lifeline of every household. No one dares to speak up. The imperial envoy has been here for half a month and has not found any clues. What can the regent find after two days?"

"Well, we are still lucky. Let's just endure it in this fire pit. Only when we die one day will we be free."

No one dares to say it? Liu Er suddenly tightened her grip on the corner of her clothes, and a bold idea came to her mind.

Yu Guming was two cups of tea late when he arrived at the city gate in a carriage with the people from the government office.

As soon as the carriage stopped, he rushed to the front of the crowd holding his official hat and robe, shouting as he ran.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please forgive me..."

Yu Guming panted and said, "I didn't mean to be late. I was really in the city."

"My Lord, my Lord." The gatekeeper reminded repeatedly, "The Regent has not arrived yet."

"Didn't come?"

Are you here early?

Yu Guming glanced at the end of the road and saw no movement at all.

The sun was very good today, and it felt even hotter at noon. Yu Guming, along with all the officials from Lingzhou City, waited under the sun for the whole morning.

I secretly sent someone to the post station to inquire, and they said they had not received the latest news yet.

Even if the officials were thirsty, hungry, or in a hurry to go to the bathroom, they had to hold it in and stand up straight at the slightest sign of trouble.

After 3 p.m., someone from the post station came to pass on the message:

The Regent is gone.

"Gone? Where did you go?"

Yu Guming almost fainted the whole day and was now being helped to sit on the side of the road, his legs trembling as he drank honey soup.

"It is said that the princess wanted to climb the mountain on Double Ninth Festival, so she went to Yuezhou and was going back to Beijing from Yuezhou. She may be arriving soon."

"You bastard, why didn't you report such important news earlier?"

Yu Guming immediately ordered his men to beat up the messenger at the post station, and he kept cursing on the carriage back to the city.

"You dog prince! He caused me to burn down the government office! And now he's gone? I really overestimated him."

"When a person stays in a high position for too long, everything in the world is at his fingertips. How can he maintain the same way as before?" said the lawyer.

"That's right."

Even though I was the governor of Lingzhou, I couldn't resist the temptation, let alone him?

Captain Yu had been beaten and scolded a lot in the past two days because of the Regent's visit. He felt very aggrieved. After sending his brother back to the yard, he turned around and went to the prison.

"Someone, bring those two adulterers from yesterday to me!"

The jailer came over and opened the cell door, pointing at Shen Yangui and Mo Chengying and said, "You, and you, both of you! Come out!"

Most of the people in the prison were illiterate, but they knew that the princess and the prince were of noble status. No one pointed out their identities, and they all stood in front of Shen Yangui and Mo Chengying.

The young man was impatient. "What are you doing? You are just two foreign merchants passing through here. Do you want to kill them?"

The old man dropped his attitude, knelt down and begged, "These two are a couple who have worshipped heaven and earth, they are a couple from a good family, not an adulterous couple, please let them go, warden?"

Captain Yu heard the noise and came over. Through the cell door, he said with a fake smile:

"You are a good girl, not only did you trick the jailer into locking you up with other men, but you also made all the men in the prison obey you in just one night."

"I am more and more curious about your abilities."

Captain Yu looked across the crowd at Shen Yangui, and deliberately moved his gaze downwards, clearly harboring ill intentions. "You are standing behind people because you are afraid that I will see you doing something naughty?"

"Yu Doghead, what kind of filth is coming out of your fucking dog mouth?"

Wei Sijiu took off his straw sandals and threw them accurately at Captain Yu's face, causing him to let out a cry.

"Someone, come here! Beat that troublemaker to death on the spot!"

The jailers in the prison were afraid of being implicated, so they all rushed over, immediately pulled Wei Sijiu out, and pushed him to the ground, cursing at him and raising their feet to kick him.

Shen Yangui and Mo Chengying pushed through the crowd and kicked people away from the left and right.

"Rebellion, huh?" Captain Yu loosened his hand, a straw sandal print on his face. "Come here! Someone is plotting rebellion here. Call all the detectives with swords in the yamen."

"Captain Yu~~ I'll give you whatever you want. Why make such a big scene? It's scary."

Shen Yangui spoke, without any deliberate affectation, but her voice was soft, as if the person who had just kicked the jailer to the opposite cage was not her.

"You are a sensible woman." Captain Yu stepped forward.

Wei Sijiu quickly got up and wanted to protect Shen Yangui, but was stopped by Mo Chengying.

"My lady, I will protect you. You should go back to the cell first to avoid being hurt by mistake."

"Oh, you are so arrogant. You even want to protect your wife? Who do you think you are?"

Captain Yu didn't even cry out in pain. He just felt his vision blurred, a blow to the nose, and his head tilted back. He took several steps back and was supported by the jailer.

His nosebleed was flowing very smoothly.

Before he could come to his senses, Mo Chengying spoke first: "Whoever of you has the ability to invite the prefect here, I will reward him with a separate courtyard and a thousand taels of silver."

"A room in a separate courtyard, and a thousand taels of silver?" The jailer naturally didn't believe it. He pointed a knife at Mo Chengying and said, "Who do you think you are..."

Shen Yangui stretched his arm forward, slowly opened his fist, and in his palm was a five-liang silver ingot.

"Is this credible?"

"You want to bribe my people with money?" Captain Yu wiped the blood from his nose, "Come here! Take off this woman's clothes, and all the money she has is yours!"

The jailers glanced at the silver ingots and were forced to step forward with their knives.

"and many more!"

Although some among them were willing to be dogs for the Yu family, there were also people who bowed to the Yu family in order to survive. Shen Yangui stopped them with his hand.

"You should think clearly. The Yu family has taken your fertile land, robbed your wives and daughters, and doesn't treat you as human beings. Do you really want to risk your life for such people? Today they can put innocent people in jail, and tomorrow they can send you to the guillotine."

The innocent people in the cages on both sides began to echo each other, and some of the jailers began to waver.

The jailer was a distant relative of the Yu family, and he got the job by doing favors, so he was reluctant to give it up.

"What are you standing there for? Do you all want to die?"

The jailers hesitated, their knives pointed forward and their bodies stepped back.

Shen Yangui decided to use force first and then courtesy. She glanced at the knife closest to her and quickened her pace as she walked towards it.

Before everyone could see how she snatched the knife, a cold light flashed.

With a clang, the knife in the prison boss's hand fell and the prison boss covered his neck with both hands.

Blood oozed from between his fingers, he fell to his knees and soon collapsed.

Captain Yu retreated tremblingly, trying to escape. The people in the cages on both sides stretched out their hands and tried to catch him, shouting like a tide:

"Don't let him get away! Catch him!"

Qi Xiuyuan also shouted at this time: "The previous regent was a fake, created by the Yu family to deceive people! These two are the real regent and princess, they are here to rule for the people of Lingzhou!"

How can a shaken jailer not know the situation of the prisoners?

As soon as they heard the decision, they rushed forward. Since Captain Yu was too fat, they could not catch him, so they simply piled up one after another to hold him down.

Only the head of Captain Yu was left exposed.

A jailer remembered that when Shen Yangui came in yesterday, Captain Yu seemed to have mentioned the matter of more than 100,000 silver taels to the jailer, so he used this as an excuse to trick the prefect into coming.

As soon as Yu Guming walked in, the two constables and his lawyer who were protecting him were all held at knifepoint by the jailer.

"You, you want to rebel, right?"

Seeing that the situation was not right, he turned around and tried to leave, but Wei Sijiu and Zhang Yang stepped forward and restrained him. Qi Xiuyuan took off his official hat with both hands, and then his official robe was stripped off.

As he roared and struggled, the common people put shackles on him.

The prison door was opened, and everyone in the prison, carrying out the task given by the princess, spread the news of tomorrow's public trial throughout the city overnight.

The public trial was not held in the government office, but on the most prosperous street in Lingzhou City.

The ritual table was placed in the center of the intersection, with Wei Sijiu and Zhang Yang standing on both sides, each holding a silence sign.

At noon, the streets were full of people.

Shen Yangui slammed the gavel, and the jailer shouted in a mighty voice with a stick in his hand. Yu Guming, who had been locked up for a night, was dragged over.

The public trial begins.

They thought that the case could be resolved quickly and Yu Guming and his minions could be beheaded in public at noon today, but things developed in an unexpected direction.

Even though Shen Yangui and Mo Chengying showed their golden seal and golden order to identify themselves, no one among the witnesses on the street dared to speak.

Qi Xiuyuan and others knelt on the ground to plead their case, but were not only overthrown on the spot, they were also accused of multiple crimes including murder, robbery, and rape of decent women.

All witnesses are available.

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