Royal Gold Medal County Magistrate

The next day, early in the morning.

Fang Zheng, in a lazy and relaxed manner, sat askew in the courtyard of the North Garrison, one leg propped on the armrest of a chair, his cheek resting on his fist, a playful look in his eyes.

Before him was a weak young man with sunken cheeks and pale lips, bound and kneeling on the ground, his mouth stuffed full with a specially made Jin Yi Wei gag.

Saliva dripped continuously from the hollows of the gag, forming a small 'lake'.

On the ground in front of him were laid out various instruments of torture.

The Jin Yi Wei surrounded him in a circle, each with a somber expression and a saber at their waist.

The atmosphere was so grim and terrifying that the young man became increasingly uneasy, looking at Fang Zheng with pleading eyes. If not for the hollow iron ball stuffed in his mouth, he probably would have vomited on the spot.

Not a single person spoke within the courtyard of the North Garrison.

It wasn't until Li Yuanzhao and Fan Cong arrived that a bit of liveliness entered the air.

Seeing the young man kneeling on the ground, Li Yuanzhao was overjoyed: "This is Mr. Lu?"

Fang Zheng nodded lightly.

"In the end, it's still the Jin Yi Wei, they caught him in just one night," Li Yuanzhao exclaimed in admiration.

Fang Zheng smiled: "The Jin Yi Wei doesn't need a whole night to handle a case. With hundreds of civilian contact points in the capital, catching him doesn't even take half a night."

A trace of envy flashed in Fan Cong's eyes.

To capture such a secretive person in the entire capital in less than a day.

What kind of efficiency and case-solving ability was this?

The ability to mobilize the populace on such a large scale to solve cases was something that almost all violent institutions in the capital looked up to. Only the Jin Yi Wei could achieve such exaggerated efficiency.

"Someone, His Highness the Crown Prince has arrived, loosen his mouth so His Highness can interrogate him personally."

A Jin Yi Wei stepped forward to help Mr. Lu remove the gag.

Li Yuanzhao immediately asked: "Are you Mr. Lu?"

The Crown Prince, this was the Crown Prince? I actually scammed the Crown Prince?

Mr. Lu was horrified and on the verge of death, nodding desperately.

"I'll go to your mother!" Li Yuanzhao flew forward with a kick, knocking Mr. Lu to the ground.

The surrounding Jin Yi Wei twitched their faces, tightly pursing their lips, afraid they would laugh out loud.

Fang Zheng quickly got up and pulled him back: "Your Highness! Pay attention to your demeanor!"

"Cough cough." Li Yuanzhao twitched his lips, "You dog thing, you're really like an old man eating arsenic, tired of living. You dared to swindle over a hundred thousand taels of silver? If the silver is short by even a fraction, you can wait to be sliced into a thousand pieces!"

Fang Zheng chimed in: "Heh, do you see who you've offended? Hurry up and confess everything, don't wait for the severe torture to be served."

Mr. Lu's liver and gallbladder were splitting apart, and he frantically squirmed: "Don't kill me! Don't kill me! I didn't cheat anyone... Master Fang, you even hit me when I was a kid."

Fang Zheng: "???"

A group of suspicious eyes turned to him.

Fang Zheng carefully sized up Mr. Lu a few times, displeased: "Trying to get close to this official, that's an added crime!"

Mr. Lu immediately became agitated: "I'm not lying! Master, my name is Lu Ergou, I used to hang out with Master Ji Er in the Beacon Fire Gang. You said you hated hoodlums the most, and you told me to go home and farm."

Li Yuanzhao recalled: "Hiss... it seems like there was such a person. We were together at the time, he was a child, and you even slapped him."

Fang Zheng looked at the sky, thought for a long time, and was sure he had forgotten...

"Heh, is there really such a thing? It seems that this official hasn't woken you up yet, and you've gone astray again!" Fang Zheng said disdainfully, "Stop saying those useless things, who instructed you to swindle the silver?"

Lu Ergou kept swallowing his saliva, his expression troubled: "Master, no one instructed me, I really didn't cheat anyone."

"Isn't it just betting on soccer, I sell predictions? I didn't say the predictions were definitely right, it's their own business if they want to buy, what does it have to do with me!"

"You say it has nothing to do with you again?" Li Yuanzhao's expression was unfriendly.

He was probably the biggest sucker in the entire Zhengtong Ward. From childhood to adulthood, he had never been swindled like this.

And the scammer was just a third-rate hoodlum, he wanted to kill him right now.

Fan Cong reminded: "Your Highness, Master, the important thing now is to track down the silver. Countless people are waiting to get their silver back."

"Yes, this official doesn't care about anything else now, where is the silver you swindled hidden now?" Fang Zheng asked.

Lu Ergou looked at Fang Zheng with despair, his teeth clenched, his heart sinking to the bottom.

"What, you won't say?" Fang Zheng smiled contemptuously, "It doesn't matter if you don't say, the various tortures within my Jin Yi Wei are enough to make you speak."

Saying that, he picked up a string of glass beads from the ground.

"This thing is called 'Chicken Laying Eggs', eighteen in a row, inserted into the abdomen from the anus, making people want to live but not be able to, want to die but not be able to. Want to try it?"

Lu Ergou's soul flew away: "It's not with me! It's not with me!"

"Then where is it?"

Lu Ergou's face was flushed red: "Can't say."

Fang Zheng and Li Yuanzhao exchanged a look, both amused.

He's risking his life to not say, it seems like they really caught a big fish by accident.

"Someone! Take him down and arrange a 'Chicken Laying Eggs', interrogate him after he's laid the eggs!"

"I'll talk! I'll talk! It's with Young Master Fang, with your son!!" Lu Ergou roared with red eyes.

As soon as the roar came out, everything was silent.

Fang Zheng petrified on the spot, the surrounding scenery felt like it was spinning.

The shocked gazes of the entire audience focused on him at the same time.

"Lao Fang... you, you're crying thief, catch thief?" Li Yuanzhao howled.

Fang Chengyu, how old is he, how could he pull off such a shocking case?

Fang must be instructing him from behind... I didn't expect this guy's money-making to have become so unscrupulous?

Well, using his son as a pretext, now he's cheating people so much that he's forgotten himself!

Fang Zheng went straight forward in three steps and grabbed Lu Ergou, his eyes tearing apart: "You fart! Framing my son, don't you want to live?"

Lu Ergou's eyes were full of tears: "Every word is true, Master Fang. Either way, I'm going to die, give me a quick death... I don't want to lay eggs..."

No matter how you look at it, this kid doesn't have the guts to frame anyone.

Fang Zheng's expression twisted, and he stood up and roared at the surroundings: "What are you all looking at here, get back to work!"

Good heavens, they were eating melons on their boss, this melon is poisonous, run!

"You speak! Explain everything to me from beginning to end, what exactly is going on?"

"Yes, yes, I'll confess everything..." Lu Ergou lay diagonally on the ground, crying and saying, "I used to sell candied haws at the entrance of Yucai Elementary School. I usually don't watch soccer, and I don't bet on soccer either. Young Master Fang usually likes to come to me to buy candied haws when he has nothing to do, and he buys a box at a time...."