The drumstick slammed towards him with a whistling sound. Peng Pei's expression changed with fright.
"Hua Qiong!" The second prince yelled in a deep voice, "If you want to complain, you can complain, if you make trouble in the court again, you will be kicked out!"
"Who said I want to complain?" Hua Qiong squinted at the past, and everyone in the hall was stunned.
"Then you..." Dali Siqing said suspiciously.
"I surrender myself!" Hua Qiong raised his head, not as if he surrendered himself but as if he had been ordered, "I killed Gui Jianzhou!"
The whole hall was silent for another moment, and the tenth prince muttered in time, "Hey, didn't you say that you fell into the water by slipping?"
"Who is talking nonsense in front of you and telling you that you fell into the water?" Hua Qiong smiled grimly. Using the torture of ten thousand snakes to extract a confession from Wei Zhi, a high official in the dynasty, just happened to be when I was visiting Master Wei and bumped into him, and I was trying to persuade him, but Gui saw that Zhou was insane and stabbed me with a knife..." She rolled up her sleeves with a swipe. The three-layered wound on the inside and the outside were exposed, and the three-inch wound on the arm was wrapped like a mallet. "I was forced to dodge and killed Gui Jianzhou by mistake while evading—I surrendered myself today!"
"You!" Peng Pei was so angry that he almost fainted, before he had time to say anything, Hua Qiong suddenly took a step back, grabbed Feng Zhiwei's sleeve and stroked it, saying, "There is no evidence for what you say, the punishment is here!"
Everyone stretched their necks to see that Feng Zhiwei's arm was densely covered with deep and shallow wounds, glowing with blood, which looked like it was bitten by something. Seeing the blood red, everyone gasped.
"Wan Snake..." Eunuch Jia turned pale, "Is there such a terrible punishment in the Ministry of Punishment?"
"Ten Thousand Snakes!" The Tenth Prince wanted to vomit, angrily, "Killing people is nothing more than nodding their heads! Why is it so vicious?"
The moment Hua Qiong stroked Feng Zhiwei's sleeves, Ning Yi, who had been leaning against him, immediately sat up straight, his gaze fell over, and after a careful look, there was a funny look in his eyes, he covered his face with a teacup, and Leaning back, he shouted angrily, "Peng Pei! Who would have allowed you to abuse lynching before the trial?"
"My lords, your highnesses, Eunuch Jia..." Feng Zhiwei only called out sadly, and then bent down with tears in her eyes.
Her thin shoulders were like a crane whose wings had been broken, fluttering unbearably aggrieved in the wind.
Except for some people, the whole house was full of sighs. Seeing that the first-rank national hero who was welcomed into Beijing by all the officials not long ago was suddenly imprisoned and suffered such a disaster, everyone felt sad.
Feng Zhiwei doesn't say a word, she is full of flair.
Peng Pei had already stood there in a daze for a while, then jumped up and shouted angrily: "You are talking nonsense and you are framing! We didn't execute you at all..."
"Master Peng!" Feng Zhiwei looked up in grief and indignation, staring at him with burning eyes, "Seeing is believing, you still have the guts to deny it?"
"You are framing!" Peng Pei was furious, "You are still a first-rank official if you are framing in court?"
"If you don't admit it, are you considered the number one prisoner in the country?"
"Why should I punish you?" Peng Pei was driven mad by this face-to-face shameless accusation, with veins on his neck, "You recruited yourself so fast, there is no need to punish you!"
"Yesterday you forced me to recruit this!"
"Where did you confess this!"
"Why didn't I recruit this?"
"You obviously recruited that you are a spy of Da Yue, and you said that you are directly under the Qian Jiwei of His Royal Highness King An of Da Yue..." Peng Pei blurted out in a rage, and it was too late when he realized that he had been duped and said something wrong.
"Da Yue spy?" Ning Yi sat up straight with a serious expression, "Peng Shangshu, why didn't you report this important case to me immediately?"
"Thousand Machine Guards?" The Tenth Prince opened his already round eyes wide, "I've heard of it! The number one spy of Dayue, specially stationed in various countries!"
"Why didn't such an important case be reported to the cabinet immediately?" Hu Dashi squinted his eyes.
Sweat broke out on Peng Pei's forehead.
"Everyone." The second prince, who had been unable to get in the conversation, couldn't help but say, "If Wei Zhi is really a secret agent of Da Yue, the case is more serious than the leak of the test questions. It is a felony that implicates the entire family. Misdemeanor denial, felony?"
"Second brother is very reasonable." Ning Yi said immediately, but the second prince did not feel relieved, stared at him with burning eyes, and he heard him casually say, "But since the criminal made this confession, according to my Tiansheng law, No matter what the criminal confesses, it must be recorded in the hall and reported to the department for verification—Master Peng, I have not seen this confession in Weizhi's case file, and I summoned you to inquire about the case last night, and you did not mention it to me thing."
"Your Highness..." Peng Pei's forehead dripped with sweat, and he said in a low voice, "The prisoner is talking nonsense, full of absurd words, saying something about the code name 'climbing higher and higher', captured Pucheng and escaped with all hardships. It's all bitter tricks, the purpose is to win the trust of His Majesty, steal the position of important ministers, intend to disrupt the Tiansheng National Talent Promotion Ceremony, use the leaked test questions to incite a student movement, link up with the reactionary, and unite with the generals of the Tiansheng Frontier Army. Da Yue sent millions of troops to northern Xinjiang to respond... The paper is full of absurdity, how dare you go to heaven to hear it, make His Majesty angry, and set up a big prison?"
"Sounds reasonable." The tenth prince held back his laughter, blinking his big eyes, "I don't think there is any loophole at all. Why do you think it's ridiculous, Mr. Peng?"
"Master Peng, this is your fault." Ge Yuanxiang, the commander of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, was born as a Jinshi and was newly promoted. This is also where the justice of the punishment and prison code is just and bright. If you don’t charge a misdemeanor and report a felony, you don’t need to investigate this article, and you don’t need to investigate this article if you think it’s absurd. Mr. Peng, although you are not an old criminal, you should also know the national law. Dian, it’s really hard to convince people.”
"My lord Peng's last sentence, I'm not very convinced." Ning Yi drank tea and said leisurely, "What does it mean to make His Majesty angry and set up a big prison? Your Majesty is wise and wise, whether it's true or not, who is right? , in front of the old man, it is as clear as Bai Ranzao's eyes, so how can you talk about acting rashly? Does Mr. Peng think that His Majesty is the kind of mediocre ruler who will act recklessly at the slightest word from his subordinates?"