The fool has become a spirit, and she can speak

Chapter 1838 Government Office Case Handling

Head Constable Sun looked down at Han Muran, who was lying on the ground, and said in a deep voice, "I don't care who you are. Even if the Heavenly King himself is standing behind you, it won't stop you from coming with me today!"

"I advise you to learn to assess the situation and be pragmatic. If you dare to arrest me, you'll lose your head!"

"What arrogance! You dare threaten people like a fish on a chopping board? You'd better worry about your head and get rid of it while you're ahead!" Officer Sun was too lazy to talk to a witch, and waved his hand, "Tie her up."

Two constables immediately entered, tied Mu Ran's hands, and, together with Liu Wushi, an official from the Ministry of Justice, pushed him out of the meditation room.

Without exception, everyone who appeared in the temple was bound, including seven pilgrims who came to offer incense that morning.

A headcount revealed eighty-two people in total!

At the command of Constable Sun, more than forty constables escorted more than eighty people in a grand procession toward the yamen.

The women were wailing and crying! As if they were all innocent victims!

Upon seeing them on the road, everyone was captivated and unable to move! The crowd of onlookers grew larger and larger. This was the first time such a large-scale arrest operation had been carried out in the capital since the founding of the Fengqi Kingdom.

As the officials handled the case, passersby quickly made way, whispering amongst themselves and exchanging information, whether they knew the nuns or not. Everyone wanted to know what crime this large group of nuns had committed. Among the crowd, there were always some discerning people. The refined affairs of Tingfeng Nunnery weren't kept secret; otherwise, how could anyone have gone there to steal from them?

Once the truth was out, everyone rushed to throw the contents of their baskets at the nuns' faces. Eggs were a must, and cabbage stalks were indispensable. Hearing that they were selling sex and making money at Tingfeng Nunnery, everyone gritted their teeth in hatred and wished they could beat these vixens to death with whatever they had in their hands.

There were eight or nine men in the crowd. One of them, with a pale face and his head down, was immediately recognized by someone: "Isn't that Liu Wushi, the Assistant Director of the Ministry of Justice!"

Upon hearing this, everyone looked at the man with his head down!

Passerby A said, "It really is that scoundrel! This person commits all sorts of crimes and is utterly wicked!"

Everyone became interested, and Passerby B asked, "What despicable thing did he do? Tell us! He always seems so respectable, we've never seen him do anything wrong!"

Passerby A said, "What do you know? What you see is just the surface, it's not believable! I wouldn't dare spread this if Liu Wushi hadn't been arrested. Aren't all the local death penalty review documents handled by him? Last spring, in Songchun County to the south, there was a wealthy man surnamed Xu who killed someone in a land dispute. Then he sent his servant with ten thousand taels of silver to knock on the gate of Liu's mansion at night. Guess what happened in the end?"

Everyone in the crowd craned their necks to listen, their interest piqued just as they were getting into it, and they couldn't wait to ask what happened next.

Passerby A said, "After Liu Wushi accepted the bribe, he changed the words 'premeditated murder' in the case file to 'accidental killing during a dispute,' and secretly altered the witness's testimony, allowing the wealthy man surnamed Xu to escape the death penalty and only be sentenced to exile for three thousand miles."

Passerby C asked, "How did you know about this?"

Passerby A said, "The servant of the Xu family who knocked on the Liu family's door at night with ten thousand taels of silver was my distant cousin. He even stayed at my house for one night the day he came to Fengying City on business!"

Passerby Ding said, "If that's the case, then isn't Liu Wushi, the Assistant Director of the Ministry of Justice, constantly using the guise of review to solicit bribes?"

Passerby C chimed in, "Of course! Who knows how many injustices are hidden in the piles of case files in the Ministry of Justice!"

Suddenly, a passerby named Ding shouted, "Kill that wicked Liu Wushi!"

Enraged, the crowd threw the baskets away when the vegetables were gone! They were determined to kill Liu Wushi with their weapons!

Suddenly, a commotion broke out at the front of the crowd. Constable Sun's team had collided with the team led by the head of the Ministry of Justice! The Ministry of Justice rarely took charge of arrests, and seeing them making arrests, the people were very excited, craning their necks to see who had been arrested!

Suddenly, a commoner shouted, "The home of Liu Wushi, the Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Justice, has been ransacked! Those more than one hundred people chained up are all Liu Wushi's family members!"

Liu Wushi, whose face was bruised and swollen from being hit by the vegetables and baskets in everyone's hands, suddenly let out a miserable howl upon hearing this, his legs went weak, and he collapsed to the ground! At this moment, two constables immediately came up and whipped the man with their whips, making him stand up from the ground. When he walked, his body swayed from side to side, as if he might fall down at any moment.

On the same day, Liu Wushi's family was not the only one whose home was raided. The homes of Wang Xianren, the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and Zhao Chong'an, the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Rites, were also raided. Each household had more than a hundred people, and countless amounts of money were confiscated!

The home of Wang Xianren, the Vice Minister of Revenue, was raided by Ge Dongqing and his men from the Ministry of Justice; the home of Zhao Chong'an, the Vice Minister of Rites, was raided by Song Tingzhi, the Censor, and his men from the Ministry of Justice! Both raids were conducted at dawn, when everyone was on their way!

The entire population of the capital was on the streets. Everyone was busy with the commotion, and information was being exchanged in a chaotic manner. In short, no one in the city was idle, and the streets and alleys were bustling with activity.

Upon closer listening, it became clear that everyone was referring to Tingfeng'an, the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and the Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Justice, with the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Rites naturally being among them as well.

However, the most talked-about figures were Han Muran, the sorceress abbot of Tingfeng Nunnery, and Liu Wushi, the assistant director of the Ministry of Justice. Everyone in the city knew that the assistant director of the Ministry of Justice had been dragged out of Han Muran's meditation room. It was said that he had stayed at Tingfeng Nunnery the night before. Moreover, the story had been adapted, and the adapted story made everyone both angry and amused. Although it was very interesting, after hearing it, everyone thought these people were utterly wicked, then spat on the ground and immediately said a few words in unison!

The Han family, who were arrogant yesterday, were completely panicked upon learning that Han Muran had been arrested by the authorities! Madam Han immediately led her daughter-in-law to knock on the gates of Prince Pang's mansion! Their demeanor was completely different from yesterday; they pounded on the gates loudly, their voices pleading! "Open the door quickly! We need to see the Prince and the Old Madam! Open the door quickly!"

The vermilion gate was tightly shut. After a long while, a gatekeeper came out and spoke to them: "His Highness has ordered that the Prince's residence will not receive any guests today!"

Madam Han pointed to her chest and said, "I am a member of the Han family! I am the prince's aunt! Go and inform him, and your prince will surely see me!"

The gatekeeper waved his hand, a gesture to shoo them away, "The prince says he won't see you, so you can go back!"