"Ah?" The madam was shocked. Has the truth been revealed? Who is this person in front of her?

"Are you coming from Shangjing, sir?"

Xie Boyuan took out the Imperial Sword and introduced himself, "I am the Minister of Personnel appointed by the court. Here is the Imperial Sword, as if the Emperor were here in person!"

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone in the brothel knelt on the ground.

"It turns out to be the Shangshu Lord. I didn't know you were here. I hope you will punish me."

"Madam, I will ask you one last time, where is Pan Dahu now? If you tell me the truth, I will let you go. If you don't want to, you can go and stay with Ji Fang."

"Your Excellency, Pan Dahu is on the second floor." She couldn't afford to offend the high-ranking official who came to the capital.

"Someone, come here! Bring the person over to me!"

"Yes!"

After a while, Pan Dahu was brought here in disheveled clothes. He was still sleepy at this time and didn't know what had happened.

"Fuck! Don't get close to me. Who are you? How dare you touch me? Do you want to die?"

"How dare you!" The guard kicked him.

"Sitting in front of you are the Minister of Personnel, Lord Xie, and Her Royal Highness the Princess. How can we allow you to act wildly?"

At this moment, Pan Dahu realized what was wrong with the Minister of Personnel? He still had the Minister of War above him.

But who is this princess? No matter who she is, the harem is not allowed to interfere in government affairs, she has no control over it.

"What's wrong with the Minister of Personnel? Can a minister do evil? Can he frame innocent people?"

Xie Boyuan just found it funny when he heard this. How dare this man call himself a good citizen in front of him? Who gave him the courage?

"Pan Dahu! This is the people's accusation against you. Do you admit your guilt?"

He threw the lawsuits in front of him.

Pan Dahu doesn't care. Every year, a lot of people sue him, but in the end, they are all settled. It's just a matter of spending some money.

"Humph! A bunch of ignorant people, what do they know? The entire Fengshui County is supported by our Pan family. These people are just making up stories out of nothing and are jealous of our family's money!"

Murong Yu felt disgusted when she saw his expression. It seemed that all the court officials who had come before had been bribed.

"Prince Consort, stop talking nonsense to him. The Emperor is still waiting for us to return and report."

"The princess is right."

Xie Boyuan raised his lips slightly and said, "It seems that Master Pan will never admit his mistake?"

"What have I done wrong?" Pan Dahu was sure that he had no evidence at all, but he didn't know that the other party was not here to look for evidence.

"Okay! Come on, parade Pan Dahu through the streets and tell the people that this man is at your disposal. If you can't kill him, beat him to death!"

"I obey my orders!"

Pan Dahu was stunned for a moment. What was going on? Why didn't they even go through the interrogation process? They just came and arrested him.

But before he could think about it, he was taken away by the guards.

"What are you doing? Let me go! You are breaking the law, you know that?"

But no one listened to him.

As soon as they left the brothel, the suffering people had already gathered outside spontaneously. When they learned that they could beat Pan Dahu up personally, they all rushed to take revenge.

After the guard repeated what Xie Boyuan had just said, he threw Pan Dahu into the crowd.

But no one dared to take action. After all, if this man didn't die, they would be the ones to suffer.

Pan Dahu said in panic, "Don't come over here! If anyone dares to hit me, I will make your whole family pay with their lives."

At this time, Xie Baiyuan came out and kicked him, "Don't worry, people. If anything goes wrong, I will take care of it!"

With someone's support, everyone was naturally not afraid anymore. They sought justice for their grievances and revenge for their grievances, and everyone kicked Pan Dahu.

"Ah! Stop it! Stop it! I'll give you money."

"Who wants your filthy money? You bastard, you took all your money from us. The money was originally ours."

"That's right, your Pan family is a parasite, bullying others in Fengshui County."

"You kicked me for my son. If you hadn't broken his leg, he wouldn't have hanged himself!"

The people fought and cried at the same time, finally getting some relief after years of grievances.

Bai Yuan and the eldest princess stood aside and watched, feeling more helpless than before. The people of Fengshui County were so pitiful. They had sought justice so many times, but were always stopped. Even God couldn't stand it anymore.

After half an hour, the people were tired of fighting and gradually stopped.

Seeing that it was almost time, the two men stopped everyone and asked the soldiers to drag Pan Dahu back to the brothel.

At this time, he was covered in blood and several teeth were sticking out of his mouth.

"What do you want to do?" he asked weakly.

Xie Boyuan took a sip of tea and told him calmly, "The people have sharp eyes, and I am naturally seeking justice for everyone."

"You have forced me to confess under torture. I don't admit it."

"He confessed under torture?" Bo Yuan looked at the people beside him in shock and asked, "Did I force him to confess under torture? Did anyone of you see me beating him?"

Everyone shook their heads.

"Your Excellency has never touched a hair of Pan Dahu."

"I didn't see it either. You were clearly drinking tea here."

The people in the brothel also responded, "Your Excellency is kind-hearted. How could he be forced to confess?"

Murong Yu covered her mouth with her handkerchief and laughed secretly. Then, looking at her husband's innocent face, her love for him grew even stronger.

"Look, so many people have testified for me. Your testimony is not credible. Why don't you ask the people outside whether I was tortured into confessing?"

Pan Dahu looked at these people with gritted teeth, he must avenge this!

"What do you want?"

"Pan Dahu, no matter how you deny, I have solid evidence. If you confess, I will give you leniency, but if you resist, I will give you severity. Do you want to execute your entire family, or spare their lives?"

"If you have anything to say, come to me, don't touch my family."

"Oh?" Xie Boyuan said sarcastically, "I didn't expect you to be a gentleman?"

He really laughed, and turned to look at Guard Jiang who had returned, "Guard Jiang, can you tell me who else is in the Pan family?"

"Your Excellency, the Pan family also has Mr. Pan and Mrs. Pan. In addition, there is a daughter and son-in-law. The rest are servants."

"Let's go, take Pan Dahu with us, and go meet the Pan family. Oh, and ask the people in the county to go with us. We can give those who we didn't catch just now a second chance."

"Yes!"

Pan Dahu was completely panicked. His mother's body couldn't bear to see such a scene.

"Sir! I know I was wrong. I will tell you what you want to know. You must not go to the Pan family. My mother is still sick. If my father knew, he would kill me!"

Upon hearing this, Xie Boyuan turned around and said, "If you plead guilty, I won't have to go!"

Pan Dahu gritted his teeth. At most, he would be a brave man again in ten years. "You said you wouldn't kill me. Do you mean what you said?"

"Of course. I never break my promise." Not killing now doesn't mean I won't kill in the future.

"Okay, I'll confess everything. All the things that the people said were done by me alone."

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