The Peasant Girl’s Splendid Manor

Chapter 724 The final jump (1)

 The prisons of the Ministry of Punishment mostly held serious criminals from the imperial court. Usually, after trial, the prisoners would be sent to where they should go. Therefore, there were not many people in the entire cell at the moment, and there was no one in the cells adjacent to where Mo Qingze was.

With Li Yan and Tang Xin guarding outside the cell, Mo Yan could discuss the method of escape with his father without fear of being overheard.

"...Dad has a way to prove his innocence, and he will be able to go home soon. Yan'er is so happy to look at home, and just wait for dad to come back with peace of mind." Mo Qingze said with a gentle expression, and the originally somewhat solemn atmosphere was also shaken by his words. The words diluted it a lot.

Mo Yan thought this was her father's comforting words and said quickly: "Dad, don't worry, your daughter will take good care of you and will find a way to rescue you. All you have to do is to find a way to protect yourself. If someone wants to torture you, Just don’t hold on...anyway, my daughter will be able to save you!"

 Mo Qingze felt very uncomfortable when he heard this. It's not that he didn't want to tell his daughter exactly what he was planning. According to his daughter's temperament, even if she was angry with him and risked her life, she would not deny him as her father. But the enemy their family faces is too powerful. If they don't take this opportunity to overthrow them, what will happen will be their increasingly ferocious plans.

 Since we have come to this point, we can only continue to go forward and there is no way to go back. Telling her daughter the truth would only give her another hidden worry. If Prince Heng or the Lin family accidentally finds out, their next plan will not be able to proceed.

Knowing that Mo Yan didn't believe it, Mo Qingze touched her head and said helplessly: "Dad does have a way to escape, but the time is not right now, so I can't tell you for now. When the day of the public trial, you will know that dad did not lie to you! More Besides, this matter is actually directed at the Crown Prince. Since His Highness the Crown Prince knows about it, he won’t ignore it, so don’t worry!”

After listening to this, Mo Yan felt that what her father said made sense. The matter became so big overnight, it was impossible for Chu Heng not to know the fishiness involved. Now that he knows, he will not sit still and wait for death. As long as he is willing to take action and expose the plot of King Heng and the Lin family, his father will be fine.

It is not ruled out that when Chu Heng has no way to clear away the suspicion, he will blame everything on his father. However, this possibility is too small. If he doesn't have any means, he will not drag his sick body to the crown prince's house. He has been in this position for more than twenty years.

Thinking of this, Mo Yan felt a little relieved. Although he was curious about how his father could escape, he knew that if he continued to ask, his father would not tell him anything, so he could only say: "Since dad knows what he knows, my daughter won't say anything! Again, you must protect yourself. If King Heng and the Lin family send people to force you to admit cheating and lynching you, don’t hold on, deal with them first and avoid punishment!”

 Having heard such words twice in a short period of time, Mo Qingze was moved and amused. Undoubtedly, my daughter was always worried about this, so she laughed and taught her about the criminal laws of Da Chu.

After listening to this, Mo Yan realized that he had made a big mistake. It turns out that according to the laws of Dachu, suspects cannot be lynched before formal interrogation.

Mo Qingze has been accused of fraud, and there are all the witnesses and material evidence. When the time comes, he will go to court directly for a public trial, so he will be exempted from interrogation. Naturally, no one will torture him to extract a confession. In a public trial, if you can produce evidence to prove your innocence, you will be fine; if there is no evidence and you refuse to accept the verdict, you will be punished and the suspect will be forced to confess.

Of course, this is not absolute. For example, in local areas, some officials often lynch suspects to force them to confess for political reasons. Some suspects are indeed guilty, which is better to say, but there are also some people who were beaten into crime. Otherwise, how could there be so many unjust, false and wrong cases?

 (End of this chapter)