Chapter 102: The Emperor Arrives
"Fool, you have protected others, have you protected yourself?"
Huo Yiyan sneered, glanced at him disdainfully, and after finishing speaking, he turned around and left directly.
Hearing Zhao Yiyan's words, how could Sun Mingjie not understand what had happened? He slumped and sat directly on the ground, stretching out his hand tremblingly to the side.
"Hurry! Hurry up and open the door for me! ”
Sun Mingjie shouted out the door, and then was helped out of the main hall, shouting to the servants at home as he ran.
"Bring me my uniform!"
Zhao Yiyan returned the same way and found the emperor and bowed his hand to him.
"The emperor's words have been brought."
As soon as the words fell, he heard the heavy gate of the prefect not far away being opened from inside, and then two rows of officers and soldiers quickly poured out.
Seeing the battle in front of them, the old couple kneeling in front of the prefect was stunned, and then heard the sound of "ascending to the hall" inside.
The two old men thought they were auditory hallucinations, until someone behind them reminded them that the case was about to be heard, so the two supported each other and walked into the prefect's office tremblingly.
And the other ordinary people followed suit, and the posture of the inner and outer three layers was as if they were about to riot.
"Let's go in and have a look."
The emperor snorted coldly, turned around and walked inside directly with his hands behind his back.
Zhongli naturally knew that the emperor was in a bad mood, so he didn't say a word, and quietly followed behind the emperor.
And Zhao Yiyan and Zhongli didn't communicate much.
As soon as he walked into the yamen, he was found by the old servant of Sun Mingjie, who was excited on the side, and hurriedly came over and invited him aside.
"Your Majesty, our lord asked me to bring a few people in to the seat, and the lord said that he would handle the case impartially, please rest assured."
Sun Mingjie is not a fool, naturally he will not do something to make the emperor angry at this time, and he didn't even show up at all, but let his old butler follow behind Zhao Yiyan and look for a man similar to the emperor.
"Hmph, now I know justice! What about before? For so long before, could he Sun Mingjie be blind and deaf? ”
The emperor's annoyed eyes glanced at Sun Mingjie over there, and saw that the other party had already entered the hall in a slightly disheveled official uniform, but after hesitating for a moment, he still turned his head and walked towards the seat next to him.
Seeing the emperor appear in the lobby, Sun Mingjie's first reaction was to get up and kneel directly, but was stopped by the emperor's look.
After the emperor sat down on the seat he had prepared, Sun Mingjie took a deep breath, calmed his nervousness and shouted to them.
"Take the plaintiff to court!"
The two old fans walked into the lobby with their arms, and before the prefect could ask, the two knelt directly on the ground with a "plop".
"Lord Qingtian, you have to be the master for us! The two of us are not in good health, and only the little girl is waiting for us at home. I wanted to go up the mountain to worship the Buddha yesterday and pray for the good health of our old couple, but I didn't see the little girl come back until the evening. We asked the neighbor to go out to find it all night, but I didn't expect to get the news this morning, saying that it was taken away and sent to the Three Princes' Mansion, my wife and I are an old farmer, and we can't get close to the Prince's Mansion at all, and we don't want to go back to the little girl, and ask the lord to help us get the little girl back! We're here to kowtow to you! ”
After speaking, the two old men directly lay on the ground and refused to get up, kowtowing to the ground again and again, and banging their heads on the ground, which is really unbearable, but Sun Mingjie is also unspeakable!
They only know the three princes, the three princes, but how do they know that the so-called three princes in their mouths have now become the three princes, and this three princes are now in full swing, and I heard that maybe they may replace the crown prince.
The prefect looked at the situation in the hall, and then looked at the emperor sitting on the side, he really didn't know how to try it.
After all, this person is suing the prince, the emperor's own son. Although the emperor said that he would handle it impartially, he would be exiled if he robbed the people's daughters? Where do you have that qualification?
And when the emperor heard the old man tell what happened, he was a little suspicious, was the third prince who was respectful on his face really the humble and respectful third son in the past?
He couldn't help but frown.
But at this time, Sun Mingjie, who was sitting upright above, was fidgeting like a nail under his buttocks, after all, he was staring at the emperor's fierce gaze!
However, after weighing the two phases, he couldn't help but cough dryly and spoke heavily to the people below.
"Okay, your paper officer has taken it. But because this matter involves the three princes, the official needs to report the case to the court. Our emperor is a great and holy monarch, and he will definitely not show favoritism. ”
If you can't solve it yourself, report it to the top, anyway, no matter who you hand over this hot potato, it's better than keeping it in your own hands.
How could the emperor not guess Sun Mingjie's thoughts? So he sneered, and was about to say something, but heard Zhao Yiyan speak next to him.
"Your Majesty, it's not good to make a big deal now!"
The emperor has always been the Ninety-Five, how can he accept Zhao Yiyan's proposal, and immediately snorted coldly.
"Bold!"
Sun Mingjie was relatively close, his body trembled slightly, glanced quickly to this side, and then shouted loudly.
"Quit."
After finishing speaking, he quickly wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, hurriedly walked towards the prince with small steps, knelt down respectfully towards the emperor, and spoke.
"Weichen is one step late, please blame the emperor."
The emperor's body is trembling with anger now, but he is just a prefect of the capital, and he dares to go behind his back like this, so what about the officials below who he can't see? How many people are on the side of the third child?
The Emperor sneered, his cloudy eyes overflowing with evil energy.
"Hmph, that's great! After I saw you, I thought that the current emperor was no longer me, but the third child! ”
This sentence is simply heartbreaking.
Liu Mingjie immediately kowtowed to the emperor a few times, and his body trembled like chaff.
"No, Your Majesty, listen to my explanation, it's not like this."
He stretched out his hand to wipe the cold sweat from his head and forced a smile at the emperor.
"Weichen used to be at home to serve his sick mother, so he came a little late. As for sending this matter to you for trial, it is because it can highlight the emperor's grace even more, and there are many doubts in this case, so ......"
It's just that he hasn't finished his words yet, and he was directly waved by the emperor and snorted coldly at him.
"Needless to say, you don't have to be in a dilemma in the future, take care of your sick mother at home, right?"
The meaning of this sentence is self-evident, but the holy decree naturally cannot be disobeyed, Sun Mingjie's face was ashen at this time, but there is no regret in the world, and he is naturally responsible for the lies he said.
And the emperor ignored Sun Mingjie's eyes, got up angrily, and raised his eyebrows to look at Zhao Yiyan.
"King Qingyang is okay today, right? Accompany me to see my bold third child, I want to see who gives the third child this boldness! ”
After speaking, his gaze swept over Zhongli, who had been silent next to him, and he also spoke.
"You go with you."
Zhongli was not a person in the court, and he didn't want to be involved in the affairs of the court, but when the emperor said this, he could only smile and thank the lord Longen.
As for Sun Mingjie, who had collapsed to the ground and become a puddle of mud at this time, no one paid attention to him at this time!
Zhongli dragged his heavy steps behind the emperor as if he were going to the execution ground.
When the emperor angrily took Zhao Yiyan and Zhongli to the mansion of the three princes, it was quiet as if nothing had happened.
Two tall and mighty stone lions stood in place at the door, the red lacquered wooden door was tightly closed, and there were two fierce and vicious family members standing at the door.
Seeing Zhongli walking over, he immediately pointed the spear in his hand forward.
"This is the Three Kings' Mansion, why don't you retreat quickly?"
Looking at the emperor with a dark face, Zhao Yiyan hurriedly stepped forward to identify himself, but he didn't directly say that the emperor was also here.
The family in the house saw Zhao Yiyan's token, hurriedly went in to call someone, and after a while, the housekeeper inside walked out, and when he saw the emperor standing in front of Zhao Yiyan, the whole person instantly hit a spirit, his face changed, he hurriedly took two steps forward, and knelt on the ground.
"Long live my emperor, long live, long live."
When the other minions heard this, they didn't have time to look at who the emperor was, so they were so frightened that they knelt down directly to say goodbye.
Suddenly, Banzai's voice echoed in the sky above this area, but the emperor's mood did not change for the better, but his forehead was tightly twisted, and his expression was gloomy and he walked in all directions.
"What about the third? Let him get the hell out of here! ”
As soon as he entered the door, the emperor shouted at the kneeling minions.
The housekeeper at the head raised his body slightly, and the sweat on his forehead kept flowing down, but his body was still close to the ground.
"Back to the emperor, the prince is not in the house now."
"Not in the house? Where did it go? Get me back, I'm waiting for him here! ”
"Yes, the minion will send someone to find it."
After speaking, the housekeeper nervously got up and prepared to gather the people in the house to find the third prince.
But before he could take a step, he was called down by the emperor, "Wait a minute." ”
The butler quickly turned around and bowed his head to face the emperor.
"I heard that someone sent a woman to the house yesterday, where is she now?"
The emperor thought of the accusation he had heard at the prefect's gate before, and it happened that the third child was not at home, so he decided to deceive.
When the emperor came up, his face was gloomy, and the housekeeper knew that something had happened to the third prince, and he didn't pay attention to the fact that the prince was told to the prefect's yamen, after all, now that the third prince is in full swing, those villains are not worrying.
So even though something happened, he didn't mean to let people go to the third prince, but now that the emperor has come to the door, he naturally maintains his previous luck mentality, and he is even more cautious when facing the emperor, for fear of causing trouble to himself.
After the Emperor's questioning, he shook his head after thinking about it carefully.
"Back to the emperor, no one sent a woman to the house yesterday."
"None? Are you sure? ”
The Emperor narrowed his eyes, his sharp gaze as if it was about to pierce the man.
"Your Majesty, the slave is sure that not only did no one send any women to the mansion, but even yesterday I didn't see any women come to the mansion."
The housekeeper thought about the woman who was hidden, and he insisted that there was no woman.
The emperor did not dwell on this matter, and asked the housekeeper to summon the guards in the palace to hurry out of the palace to find the third prince.
The emperor sat on the top of the main hall, Zhao Yiyan sat on the bottom, and Zhongli sat even lower.
In the main hall, the atmosphere was stiff, and none of the three of them spoke.