The beautiful and powerful minister hooked up with the crazy emperor and couldn't escape

"stop!"

While Mo Ling spoke out to stop the prefect, Bingchen flew forward and repelled the yamen runner who had originally captured the man, pulled the man behind him, drew the sword at his waist and confronted the yamen runner.

"Since he has come to my carriage to cry out for justice, I have no reason to sit idly by. And your things, return to where they came from, I have no use for them."

Wang Jing's smile froze on his face: "This is not good. It's just a small matter. I won't bother you, my Lord."

Mo Ling glanced at Wang Jing casually, and Wang Jing couldn't help but wipe the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve. Is this the power of a third-rank official in Beijing? It is indeed much more powerful than other officials he has seen, but Bai Yunjin must not interfere in this person's affairs.

"I'm just informing you. Brother Bing, would you like to come with me?"

Bingchen bowed and said, "Don't dare to disobey."

"Who is this?" Wang Jing asked puzzledly.

Mo Ling pointed at Bing Chen who was stopping the yamen runner and said, "This is Commander Bing who is beside His Majesty. He is a third-rank officer and has the same rank as me."

"Haha, it turns out to be Lord Bing. Xiaguan is blind and does not recognize a great man. Please forgive me, Lord."

Wang Jing saluted Bingchen very politely, with the eagerness in his triangular eyes even greater than when he saw Mo Ling. After all, Bingchen was different from Bai Yunjin, he was a close minister of the emperor.

Bingchen nodded coldly as a return gesture.

Wang Jing originally wanted to get closer to Bingchen, but no matter what he said, Bingchen had a cold face, as if he didn't hear him. He also had a big knife in his hand, and it was obvious that he was not someone who was easy to get along with.

With Bingchen here, Wang Jing didn't dare to take the man back by force, so he could only show weakness and said, "Since Lord Bai has arrived in Suizhou, why don't you stay in my mansion first? As for this man, I will take him back to Suizhou government office and try him after Lord Bai has rested. How about that?"

Wang Jing was thinking, as long as this person went to the prison of Suizhou government, it would be his territory. If something unexpected happened, who could say anything to him? Even if Bai Yunjin and Bingchen were powerful, they couldn't suppress him, a local snake.

"No need,"

Mo Ling directly rejected Wang Jing's proposal and turned to look at the man: "I am here. If you have any grievances, you might as well speak out directly. If you really have grievances, I will definitely take care of it for you."

Wang Jingdi's face turned pale, and he tried to dissuade him, "How can this be done, Lord Bai? This is a case of my subordinate Suizhou. How can you judge it? Isn't this overstepping your authority? It's against the law."

Mo Ling looked sideways at Wang Jing and said, "Don't worry, this is the case I am in charge of. Even if there are any problems, it has nothing to do with you."

"this--"

Wang Jing couldn't think of a good excuse for a moment, and was so anxious that sweat broke out on his head.

Seeing that Mo Ling seemed to be really ready to make the decision for him, the man knelt down in front of Mo Ling with a plop.

"This dog official colluded with the rich people in the city to frame me for murder, and also killed my sister!"

"I am Li Ergou, a villager of Xinghua Village. I have an older brother and an older sister. A few years ago, my older brother said he found a job in Suizhou City and could earn half a tael of silver a month, but he never heard from me again after he arrived in the city. My parents were worried, so my sister and I came to Suizhou City to look for my older brother."

"I searched for half a month before I found out that my eldest brother had a conflict with someone shortly after arriving in Suizhou and was thrown into prison. My sister and I wanted to go to the prison to see him, but we were told that he was sent to the mine in the west of the city to do hard labor."

Wang Jing glared at Li Ergou, then turned around and explained to Mo Ling with a smile: "My Lord, you know that there is an iron mine outside Suizhou City. A large part of the court's weapons come from the Suizhou Iron Mine, but the civilians cannot serve during the busy farming season, so I thought of letting the prisoners in prison go to the mine, which can not only guarantee the output for the court, but also reduce the burden on the Suizhou government."

Mo Ling glanced at Wang Jing indifferently: "You are good at giving advice."

Wang Jing smiled so hard that his face wrinkled into a ball: "Master Bai, your praise is too much. I am ashamed to accept it."

Feng Jiuqing had been with Mo Ling for a long time, so he naturally knew that Mo Ling was not complimenting him, but this prefect seemed to have no self-awareness at all.

"Go on, Lord Wang, please do not interrupt unless necessary."

Mo Ling still had that indifferent tone, but it made Wang Jing silent.

The man's eyes were bloodshot and a tear fell every few words he spoke.

"The Chengxi Mine is far from Suizhou City. My sister and I have almost run out of money, so my sister wanted to go and help with a couple of days of work to earn some money so that we can go and see my brother."

"But I didn't expect that family would bully my sister and I because we are illiterate. They actually tricked my sister into signing a contract to sell her body so that they could marry her as a concubine."

"My sister got engaged to Zhang Shusheng from the village last year. As long as Zhang Shusheng passed the imperial examination, they would get married. But she refused to agree, and was locked up in the woodshed by that evil-hearted family. I didn't see my sister for several days, so I went to that family in a hurry, but was driven out."

When he said this, veins on his neck bulged, tears streamed down his face, and his eyes were filled with hatred.

"As a result, the next day, the young master of that family died as a result of divine punishment. They reported me to the government office and insisted that I was the one who did it. This crooked official did not conduct any investigation at all. He took the money from that family and directly tortured me into confessing!"

His voice became shrill, mixed with helpless resentment and pain: "That family even came to the prison to tell me that my sister had been beaten to death by them and buried with that damned young master!"

The man kept kowtow, tears and sweat dripping down, looking miserable and pitiful. He was obviously a young man, but he was like a withered yellow leaf in winter, hanging on the treetop and could be blown to the ground at any time.

"Master Bai, I shouldn't have scolded you. I will let you do whatever you want! But please, redress my sister's grievances and give her justice!"

"Please, Lord, please give us justice!"

Feng Jiuqing stepped forward and supported the person: "Don't worry, if your sister really has such a problem, Lord Bai will not let it go."

Mo Ling looked at Wang Jing solemnly and said in a cold voice: "Sir, is this what Li Ergou said?"

Wang Jing wiped the sweat from his forehead and shook his head, saying, "Nonsense! Lord Bai, please don't be deceived by such a lowly person. There is solid evidence that he killed someone, and there are witnesses and evidence. It is not my fault. As for his sister, she signed a contract to sell herself and became someone else's slave. Whether the master wants to kill her or sell her is not within the jurisdiction of the government. Even if I want to intervene, there is nothing I can do."

"You're talking nonsense! You officials and businessmen are colluding with each other. I just sat outside that family's door for one night. When did I go in? My sister was clearly tricked into signing the indenture. They were trafficking her! You bastard official distorted the facts. Aren't you afraid of being punished by God like that young master?"

Li Ergou clenched his fists with veins bulging on his hands. Feng Jiuqing had no doubt that if the yamen runners had not stood in front of Wang Jing, Li Ergou would have beaten Wang Jing to tears.

Not to mention him, Feng Jiuqing even clenched his fists after hearing this. The people he had protected at the border for so many years would not let these corrupt officials kill them.