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The news that Chapter 986, Part 3, has been updated has arrived.
Prefect Zheng Tong looked at the jailer and several guards, "Do you know your crime?"
What crime have you committed?
What crime...what crime...what crime should they confess to?
The jailer and several guards were all pondering this in their hearts...
As for the crimes... they range from minor to major!
Who knows what charges will fall on their heads after tonight's events!
The charge against him tonight... could be a big deal or a small one!
Perhaps the Prefect will show mercy and disregard this;
If the Prefect were to place the blame for these three deaths on them... would their own lives be spared?
Parents! Wife!
Third maternal aunt and second aunt...
Mother-in-law's brother-in-law...
After tonight, I wonder if we'll ever see each other again?
The jailer and several guards knelt there, drenched in cold sweat, trembling uncontrollably, their minds racing with incoherent thoughts!
Now that the prefect has asked them questions, they have to answer!
They looked at each other, and finally the jailer crawled forward two steps on his knees and forced himself to speak: "Your Excellency, we are guilty!"
The villains did not react quickly enough or stop it in time, resulting in the sudden deaths of three prisoners in the cell.
This is...this is the fault of us petty people, please punish us, Your Excellency!
"Oh?
Is that all?
Are there any other situations... that I am unaware of?
I can almost smell alcohol in this cell!
"I suppose... you were too busy drinking and having fun to pay attention to the prisoners in jail?"
Prefect Zheng Tong's words terrified the jailers and guards.
Drinking led to the deaths of three inmates in prison—once that charge is handed down, they'll lose their heads!
The group repeatedly kowtowed to Zheng Tong, begging for mercy.
"Please forgive me, Your Excellency!"
It's...it's tonight...tonight someone's family members...oh, it's Wang's family members, they...they sent an old woman to...to bring Wang and the others some...some food and bedding.
"Yes...yes, we were just too soft-hearted and...we agreed..."
Next, the jailer reported in detail to Prefect Zheng Tong about what had happened after Granny Zhou arrived.
"I dare not deceive you, sir. The food that the old woman brought, we really...we really tested it carefully with silver needles, and it really wasn't poisoned!"
Besides... besides... those dishes all came from Xiaofeng Restaurant, and the food boxes all had Xiaofeng Restaurant's mark on them.
Oh, by the way, did they bring a lot of food, or... or did several waiters from Xiaofeng Restaurant bring it along?
The little ones... the little ones... they all ate too...
The children are all fine now, which means... means... the deaths of those three criminals... have nothing to do with the food!
"hehe!
You're saying the deaths of those three criminals had nothing to do with the food they ate?
You've jumped to the conclusion that the deaths of those three criminals were unrelated to the food they ate!
Okay, even if the deaths of those three prisoners were truly unrelated to the food, you were on duty and accepted bribes from the prisoners' families without authorization, and allowed people into the prison to visit the prisoners without permission... Can you guarantee that the sudden onset of madness and death of those three prisoners... were unrelated to the people who visited them?
Can?
Leaving all that aside...
It's a fact that you were drinking and having fun while on duty, which delayed the best opportunity to deal with the emergency.
I have pretended not to know about the small favors you usually accept from prisoners;
But now that something has happened, I can no longer pretend I don't know!
Guards, take them out and give each of them twenty strokes of the cane and a month's salary deduction!
I'll see if you'll still be so greedy for alcohol in the future, and if you'll ever learn your lesson!
After saying that, Zheng Tong got up and left.
"Yes, my lord!"
The officer responded to Zheng Tong's retreating figure, then dragged the jailer and several guards out of the prison.
If the officials of Shuntian Prefecture were to beat the jailers and guards in the Shuntian Prefecture prison, and the Prefect of Shuntian Prefecture didn't even have to watch it, how heavy could those twenty strokes of the cane be?
With a series of loud "snap" sounds, the fight was over quickly.
The jailer and guards, rubbing their swollen buttocks and wincing in pain, were helped to their cells by the officers to lie down.
The commotion was all bark and no bite; after a brief commotion, the Shuntian Prefecture government office returned to calm.
In the study of Prince Yi's mansion.
Chang Gui brought over hot tea again, but Prince Yi, Xiao Jingyi, didn't even glance at it or move. He simply sat quietly, waiting...
It wasn't until a series of hurried footsteps approached that Xiao Jingyi's stiff body moved slightly, and his eyes involuntarily turned to the wide-open door.
A guard in black entered.
The man stepped forward and bowed, "Your Highness, news has come back from the Imperial Prison... and... the Shuntian Prefecture Prison..."
Xiao Jingyi stared intently at the black-clad guard before him, waiting for him to say what he both wanted to hear and feared to hear…
Jiang Ping and Tong Lian, who were standing to the side, also stood up and looked at Xiao Jingyi behind the table with concern.
Xiao Jingyi, who was sitting behind the desk, slowly stood up. His lips moved as if he wanted to ask something...
But in the end, I didn't ask.