Outside the academy, when they saw the Third Prince come out, the onlookers knelt in unison.
“Everyone ……”
The Third Prince’s voice was gentle and carried the power to comfort people’s hearts, “The imperial doctor has already diagnosed that the old man was struck by the fifteen-day sleep, which means that the old man will automatically wake up after he has slept enough for fifteen days.”
“Really?”
I don’t know who asked.
Hearing this, the Third Prince not only did not get annoyed, but instead nodded gently, “Naturally it is true, but the old gentleman is already old, if he really has to sleep for 15 days, his body will not be able to withstand it, I have ordered the imperial doctor to develop an antidote, so that the old gentleman can wake up sooner.”
“The Third Prince is kind-hearted!”
Someone shouted, followed by others, and the shouts rose and fell, drifting overhead.
The Third Prince raised his hand high and gestured for the crowd to stop, “The old man has educated countless people and is loved by all the people of the world. I am here to give you my word that I will find the murderer who poisoned him and cut him to pieces to avenge Old Mister!”
“Third prince is wise!”
The shouts once again rose and fell.
The Third Prince was very satisfied, most of these people were scholars, and being able to take this opportunity to make a good impression on them would be of great benefit to his future bid for that position.
He raised his hand again and gestured for the crowd to quiet down, “I heard that you have all been keeping watch here since the old gentleman’s accident, you have worked hard, now go back and rest well and wait for the old gentleman to wake up in peace.”
After saying this, the Third Prince took the lead and walked towards the carriage.
The Duke of Qi followed closely behind.
When both of them had gotten into the carriage, the Prefect was leading the way.
It was not until they were far away that some of the onlookers slowly dispersed.
All the way to the magistrate’s office, the magistrate waited to one side and waited for the two men to get off and enter the office before he followed them.
Inside the magistrate’s office, the magistrates knelt down to greet them.
The Third Prince and the Duke of Qi ignored them and went straight to the back of the courthouse.
After freezing, the county magistrate scrambled to catch up and ordered tea to be served.
In order to leave a good impression on the Emperor and the people of the world, the Third Prince and the Duke of Qi had indeed come all this way at a fast pace, and even in the carriage they were tired, and did not hide it in front of the County Magistrate, lying down on the back of the chair.
“Qingping County, tell us the results of your interrogation in the past few days.”
The county magistrate dared not be slow and told him about the interrogation of Qin Qian in the past few days, “I used all the torture I could on him in the past few days, but his mouth was very hard and nothing came out. In order to make it look real, I even had constable Liu find a corpse and throw it at a mass grave, but so far no one has come out.”
The Third Prince was a little thirsty and brought his tea, opened the lid and frowned in disgust, not drinking it, just fiddling with the tea leaves on it, “You suspect he has accomplices?”
“My humble servant thinks so! How could Qin Qian, a schoolboy, have a great grudge against the old man? He must have someone behind him to direct him.”
“There is a bit of truth in what you say ……”
The third prince put down his tea again, “In that case, there is no need for this prince to be tried in the lobby, you can quietly bring the man to the back hall, and I will try him in private with the State Prince.”
The county emperor answered yes and called for constable Liu to come in and order down.
Sheriff Liu went to the main prison with two magistrates and quickly carried Qin Qian to the ground.
Qin Qian grunted a few times in pain.
The Third Prince waved his hand and Sheriff Liu and the two magistrates retreated.
Seeing that the County Magistrate was still standing in place, the Third Prince waved his hand again, and the County Magistrate froze slightly.
The Duke of Qi coughed, and the County Magistrate hurriedly lowered his head, “The subordinate officer is right outside, you can command at any time ……”
Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by the Third Prince, “My people are outside, just call them in, as for you, go and arrange a place for the two imperial doctors, leave someone to wait on them, and whatever herbs they need go and buy them as soon as possible.”
“My humble servant understands.”
The magistrate withdrew and led the two imperial doctors to the backyard. He knew that people would come from the capital and had ordered them to be prepared long ago.
Inside the back courtyard, only the Third Prince and the Duke of Qi were left.
The Third Prince relaxed himself completely, his body lazily slumped in his chair as he looked at Qin Qian, “Tell me, why did you poison the old man?”
Qin Qian tilted his head with difficulty to look over, “I ……”
“If you don’t want the bones in your body to be cracked piece by piece, tell the truth, I don’t have that much patience to listen to your nonsense.”
He said it lightly, but Qin Qian couldn’t help but shake his body a few times, the torture he survived these days was worse than death, and he didn’t want to go through it again.
He stretched out his hand and used his only moving finger to dip it in his own blood and slowly wrote the word ‘letter’ on the ground.
The Duke of Qi narrowed his eyes.
“Did you deliver the letter?”
“Yes.”
Qin Qian spat out a word with difficulty.
“Reason!”
“I, I, I am ……”
Before he could finish his words, Qin Qian’s eyes went black and he passed out.
“Come on, splash …… on me.”
“Hold on!”
The Duke of Qi interrupted the Third Prince’s command, “This person has gone out of his way to poison the old man to lure us over to investigate Gu Yi, he must have a blood feud with Gu Yi, as the saying goes, the enemy of our enemy is our friend, we are new to Qingping County and are inconvenienced in many places, if we have someone to help us, we will get twice the result with half the effort.”
The Third Prince was not impressed, “With him?”
“Naturally not, I think Qingping County has a point in what he speculated just now, there must be someone behind this man, what we want is the help of the person behind him.”
The Third Prince sat up straighter, “Grandfather has a point, come on!”
The guards came in.
“You go and call Imperial Doctor Zheng over. ”
“Yes.”
The guard went out and asked the master to take him directly to the backyard.
The magistrate had just arranged the two imperial doctors and was asking them what herbs they needed when the master brought the guard over and the guard said, “Doctor Zheng, the human prisoner has passed out and the Third Prince has asked you to come over.”
Before he could even get his buttocks next to the chair, Doctor Zheng hurriedly followed him over again, carrying his medicine chest.
The county magistrate subconsciously wanted to follow him, but when he took one foot out, he remembered what the Third Prince had just said and withdrew it, giving a wink to the master, who immediately followed.
Zheng imperial doctor entered the back court, saw the fainted person on the ground, could not help but draw a breath of cold air, “This ……”
“Just wake the person up.”
It was wake up, not save, imperial doctor Zheng had a number in mind, put the medicine box on the ground, took out silver needles and stuck them on several major points on Qin Qian’s head.
But in a moment, Qin Qian slowly opened his eyes.
The imperial doctor withdrew with the medicine box on his back.
Qi Guo openly spoke, “Since you wrote the letter to lure us to investigate Gu Yi, you must have a blood feud with Gu Yi, tell us, what kind of feud is it?”
“The great-educated-Wu-Bo-Hou-is-my-grand-grandfather.”
Qin Qian spoke out slowly, word by word.
The Duke of Qi rose to his feet, “Impossible!”