The carriage curtain was quickly opened.
Sun Qi thought it was Pei Heng who had come down. He was so frightened that he didn't even dare to raise his head. He knelt on the ground and bowed to the ground.
Xu Wanning also thought it was Pei Heng.
But when the man spoke, it was not Pei Heng's voice.
"Thank you, the Governor, for sending me this humble post." The people who came down were grateful and bowed to the people in the carriage.
The voice seemed a bit familiar.
He seemed to be an old acquaintance from Yancheng.
Xu Wanning was tied up in the carriage. She couldn't see the people coming out, only her back.
A laugh came from the carriage: "Master Wang, do your best."
"Thank you for your love, the Governor. I will dedicate myself to the imperial court till my death. I will live up to the Emperor's love for my humble position and live up to the support of the Governor!"
Xu Wanning recognized it, it was Wang Xingmin.
Has he come to the Chengnan District County Office?
Pei Heng sent him here personally?
The black carriage has left.
Xu Wanning saw the carriage through a crack in the curtain, and seemed to feel that the people in the carriage seemed to have been staring at the carriage she was sitting in.
Until the carriage turned the corner and was no longer visible.
This was something Xu Wanning did not expect.
She originally wanted to scare Sun Qi by threatening Cui Yunfeng and let Sun Qi let her go, but Sun Qi asked Cui Yunfeng to take her away from the county government and die somewhere else. It was obvious that Sun Qi planned to wholeheartedly curry favor with Duke Wei.
Cui Yunfeng is a headstrong person, and because of his physical disability, he is a little more irritable. Xu Wanning will force him to lose control, and his father and elder brother will definitely find out that she is missing. After finding the county government, they will definitely find other ways. Get away.
But Xu Wanning didn't expect that Pei Heng would come.
He actually made Wang Xingmin the county magistrate of Chengnan District.
Although they are all seventh-rank officials, the seventh-rank officials in Kyoto are different from the local seventh-rank officials. If he can come to Kyoto to become a seventh-rank official, and with Pei Heng's support, Wang Xingmin's promotion is just around the corner.
Not only Xu Wanning thought so, but Sun Qi also thought so.
He glanced at the black carriage that could no longer be seen, and then at Wang Xingmin. His eyes were full of despair and his face was ashen.
The seat of the county magistrate is occupied.
Even if he gets close to Duke Wei, he still won't be able to sit in that position!
Wang Xingmin turned his head and looked at Sun Qi, who was slumped on the ground: "Are you the county magistrate Sun Qi?"
Sun Qi came back to his senses, unwilling to give up. The matter had become a foregone conclusion, so he had to get up and bow down to Wang Xingmin respectfully: "Sun Qi, the lower official, has met with County Magistrate Wang."
"No need to be polite. Get up and do your work." Wang Xingmin pointed at Cui Yunfeng and said, "This man has slandered the Governor and we haven't captured him yet."
Sun Qi whispered: "My lord, this person is from Duke Wei's palace, so I cannot offend him!"
Wang Xingmin rolled his eyes: "Can't you offend? You don't dare to offend the people of Duke Wei, so you just want to offend the governor? Don't forget, the emperor has made a decree, no matter who it is, the emperor's relatives, relatives, or even officials and citizens , you are not allowed to slander the Governor in person. If you are guilty, you will be punished with forty-four sticks. Did Sun Xian Cheng forget it?"
Sun Qi: "I dare not forget this."
"Since you haven't forgotten, let's take him down quickly. Not to mention a distant relative of Duke Wei, even if Duke Wei came and rebuked the governor in person, the forty-four boards would be indispensable." Wang Xingmin said this That's true.
Because Pei Heng had a distinguished status before, he was the companion of Zhang Hedi, who was still the crown prince at that time, and he was also the heir apparent of the Duke of Zhenguo. Although he later had an accident and became disabled, Zhang Hedi still trusted him and regarded him as As his right-hand man and confidant, he couldn't bear to have anyone slander Pei Heng in person.
So he issued such an order for Pei Heng alone. Even though many people hated and feared Pei Heng, they did not dare to say that he was a eunuch to his face, because if he said so, he would be disobeying the imperial edict!
Although Wang Xingmin had just arrived, he was sent to take office by the governor himself. How dare a group of county police officers bully this stranger. With an order, the group of agents stepped forward and pulled Cui Yunfeng off the carriage.
Cui Yunfeng opened his mouth to curse, "Wang Xingmin, I didn't expect you to become a lackey of pickled dogs."
Upon seeing this, Wang Xingmin took off one of his shoes and blocked Cui Yunfeng's mouth.
Cui Yunfeng smelled the smell of feet and almost felt sick.
Wang Xingmin proudly looked at Cui Yunfeng's disgusting look, and said with an expression of "I want to be good for you," "I am saving your life. If you keep barking like a dog, you will offend the governor." If he's unhappy, it's not just about the forty-four boards. Someone, take him to jail and wait for his fate."
The police took Cui Yunfeng away who could not even speak.
Xu Jia also got on the carriage and brought down Xu Wanning, Changan and Chen Wang.
When Wang Xingmin saw Xu Wanning, who was tied up and her mouth was covered, he gave her a relieved expression, turned around with curiosity on his face, and asked Sun Qi: "Sun County Prime Minister, did these three people commit something?"
Sun Qi's mind was spinning rapidly: "This is the person Cui Yunfeng brought, and the subordinates don't know about it."
Wang Xingmin looked at Sun Qi's trembling head with a smile.
He is a villain who falls with the wind.
"Mrs. Xu, tell me, what's going on?"
Sun Qi suddenly looked up at Wang Xingmin and then at Xu Wanning.
Something suddenly occurred to him, but he didn't dare to think any further.
Because Xu Wanning's words sent shivers down Sun Qi's spine.
Xu Wanning was able to speak, "Returning to Mr. Wang, after the peasant woman brought her son Chang'an to Kyoto, in order to enable Chang'an to study, she went to the county office in the south of the city where my parents lived to apply for household registration, but Mr. Sun kept asking, " They stopped me from applying for household registration four times.”
"Oh." Wang Xingmin asked Sun Qi again: "Sun County Cheng, what's the reason why you don't help her apply for household registration?"
Sun Qi began to sweat on his head: "Use, use..."
After using it for a long time, I couldn’t use it.
Wang Xingmin asked Xu Wanning again: "Mrs. Xu, tell me."
"He said that my son was not my son and asked me to provide evidence that my son was my son before he registered me." Xu Wanning told the truth.
Wang Xingmin smiled: "Master Sun, you are the county magistrate. When ordinary people come to apply for household registration, you just give them a seal. When did you start doing the work of a county magistrate?"
Sun Qi's head was sweating: "Come on, come on..."
"Could it be that you thought that since the county magistrate has been vacant for a few months, and you are the county magistrate, you will definitely be able to take this position, so you exercised your duties as county magistrate in advance?" Wang Xingmin asked again.
Sun Qi couldn't speak anymore, "No, no, no, no..."
This is what he did, but he didn’t dare to say it!
Wang Xingmin then asked Xu Wanning: "What next?"
"Master Sun said that I kidnapped children."
"Abducting a child?" Wang Xingmin thought this excuse was really funny: "Since Sun County Prime Minister has this suspicion, has he ever investigated the origin of this child? Has he ever asked the people who knew Mrs. Xu, doctors, and Po Wen, what happened to her back then? Have you ever been pregnant or given birth to a child?”
Sun Qi was sweating profusely.
No, no, not at all.
