The identity of Wei Guogong's son is neither a court official nor a formal knighthood. Of course, there is no identity token for authentication.But the things Xu Mingjin carried with him were not ordinary items, and if he took out a piece of jade pendant at random, it would be invaluable.

Some of these things can't even be owned by the rich, just as no rich businessman can wear silk and satin.

Although the clothes on Xu Mingjin's body were covered with mud and in a mess, after careful identification, it was found that they were the best silk in Suzhou and Hangzhou, which had always been used as satin.If it is not the relatives of the emperor, or the children of the important ministers who are appreciated by the emperor, there is no chance to wear this tribute.

At least, the county magistrate himself does not have that qualification.

With all these things being recognized, it is still unknown whether Xu Mingjin is the son of Wei Guogong, but his identity is definitely extraordinary.At least, not a small county magistrate can offend.

The atmosphere in the hall changed, and even the people watching the bustle noticed it, and they quieted down unknowingly.

Under the gazing eyes, a little bit of cold sweat came down the forehead of Mr. Zhang, the county magistrate.His legs gave way, and he almost fell to the ground with a "slap", but fortunately, his hands tenaciously supported the table, and he did not lose face in public.

Seeing that a few yamen servants were still suppressing him, and greeted him with killing sticks, Mr. Zhang was almost scared out of his wits by these idiots.He exclaimed in a trembling voice:

"Stop! Stop!"

While talking, he sprinted over and personally lifted Xu Mingjin who was like a dead dog. Looking at the blood stains on her body, he shouted in his heart: My life is over!

Sure enough, Xu Mingjin didn't give him a good face. If his body didn't allow it, he would have been kicked out by the dog-headed county magistrate. He sneered and cursed weakly:

"roll!"

"This, this, this is really a big misunderstanding..." The chubby county magistrate Zhang put on a smile and let Xu Mingjin's saliva spray on his face. He turned to look at the arrester who escorted Xu Mingjin, fawningHis smile turned into a livid face burning with anger, "Things with no eyes!"

"You, you, you..." Magistrate Zhang went one by one, "Tell me what's going on! It's so good, why did you arrest this young master as a suspect?"

He frowns coldly, and immediately throws the black pot out.

The arresting officers were stunned for a moment, and then realized something was wrong. They hesitated to say, "We received a report from the villagers of Shanglin Village. This is a kidnapper who was caught..."

"Nonsense!" Facing Xu Mingjin's bruised nose and swollen face, Zhang County Magistrate said without hesitation, "This young man is handsome and has an extraordinary bearing. He doesn't look like a kidnapper! How can you not distinguish between right and wrong, listen to meXiaomin said, arresting people indiscriminately?" He scolded righteously.

Several police officers were silent, their faces were full of question marks.

Their duty is to arrest people and interrogate whether they are good citizens or kidnappers. Isn't it the county magistrate's duty?

Seeing that the county magistrate was about to push them out as scapegoats to offset the nobleman's anger, the clever policeman hurried forward and kowtowed repeatedly: "My lord, please calm down, my lord, please calm down, we are also deceived by others, peopleIt was Li Sanlang of Shanglin Village who caught him, and he said he was the one who caught the kidnapper!"

He raised his hand and pointed, Master Zhang followed suit.

Immediately, the onlookers in that direction retreated in panic, so the people who were still standing in place stood out.

It was a boy who looked sixteen or seventeen years old. Although his appearance was handsome, he revealed the poverty unique to the villagers from head to toe, and his exposed skin was also rough from years of hard work.Although his expression was strangely calm, he didn't look like another nobleman pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger.

Although County Magistrate Zhang didn't want to understand, why did they just ignore the sufferer who reported to the official just now, and let the other party disappear among the onlookers, almost invisible-mostly because of the arrogant and steady attitude of the Duke of Wei.That's why he ignored Li Sanlang for the time being, right?

After carefully looking it over, the magistrate Zhang, who was sure that he would not be mistaken this time, was startled: "Are you Li Sanlang?"

"—Do you know that false accusation is a felony?"

He spoke harshly, like a storm.As soon as he thought that it was this kid who made him offend the nobleman, his face turned ashen.

What's more, this stupefied young man is still standing upright.

Just when I was about to curse again, "Why don't you kneel when you see an official", and greeted you with a killing stick, I saw Lengtouqing in front of me raised his head, and said confidently: "I didn't make a false accusation. He said that he would invite me back to Wei Guogong's mansion to be his son., isn’t this a kidnapper, what is it?”

County magistrate Zhang was taken aback for a moment, forgetting what he wanted to say just now.

"Ridiculous!" he laughed angrily.A country man, lying is full of loopholes, "You are a radish pit in the field when you are the prince of the government? How can you just invite someone to do it! You are a savage and unreasonable person, and dare to talk nonsense about Wei Guogong's government?"

The onlookers also burst into laughter.

"Yes, yes, my lord is really discerning." Amidst the laughter, the young man nodded sympathetically, "I just said that this is a lie, everyone really thinks so—"

Like a nimble cat, he suddenly appeared in front of Xu Mingjin, and smiled with white teeth when he looked down at him: "You were the one who said you wanted to invite me back to the Duke's mansion to be your son, right?"

Xu Mingjin looked at him coldly, if his eyes could turn into reality, Su Ying would have been chopped into eight pieces by his eyes.

Bathed in his cold eyes, Su Ying smiled brightly, and nimbly avoided the yamen servant who wanted to grab him, walked around Xu Mingjin in a circle, and then stood still.

He was still smiling one second, but in the next second, his expression changed and his waist straightened. He imitated the tone and expression of County Magistrate Zhang and reprimanded Xu Mingjin sharply:

"A savage little man, ignorant of reason, dare to talk nonsense about Wei Guogong's mansion?"

He pointed at the chubby county magistrate Zhang: "—Your lies have been seen through by the county magistrate, and you will be lenient in your confession. You still haven't honestly explained your identity, origin, and purpose."

Su Ying's tone of voice was serious, and he was upright. He looked more like the county magistrate than the county magistrate himself.That aura of being like no one else, as if this court is his home field, and he is the master of this place.

How did this lie get caught?Why did you start to interrogate the prisoner on your own initiative?Everyone was stunned by his miraculous operation, and couldn't react for a while.

The prince of Wei Guogong came to pick up another person to be the prince of Wei Guogong's mansion?County magistrate Zhang was also confused, especially Su Ying, who seemed upright and confident in the courtroom.

His heart skipped a beat, and he had a somewhat ominous premonition.

Looking at Xu Mingjin's face again, saw that the nobleman who had no scruples to scold him just now was just staring at the countryman in front of him who was uttering wild words, with anger, hatred, and some unknown fear in his eyes——As if, this country boy is more difficult to provoke than the dignified county magistrate.

"..." Magistrate Zhang gradually realized that something was wrong.

He swallowed back the words he originally wanted to scold Su Ying: "What the hell is going on?" Can anyone explain clearly?

"The facts are clear." Without waiting for others to speak, Su Ying kicked Xu Mingjin who was on the ground, and motioned, "This one, pretending to be the son of the Duke's Mansion, trying to abduct me, how should ordinary kidnappers be punished?Judgment."

"?" Magistrate Zhang was silent.

He should have asked the yamen servant to teach this daring little man a lesson, just like Xu Mingjin was taught before.

However, Su Ying's aura and Xu Mingjin's weird attitude towards him made Mr. Zhang, who had just made a mistake, instinctively dare not act rashly.

In the end, the chubby county magistrate just hesitated and said, "...Is that so?"

Su Ying asked back: "Isn't that so?"

County magistrate Zhang felt that this was going the wrong way. Didn't he originally want to be promoted to interrogate the prisoner? How can he be the master? It seems that he has changed to another person?This doesn't seem right anywhere.

Before he could figure it out, a voice interrupted him.

"I need to say it several times, I'm not a kidnapper!" Xu Mingjin raised her head on the ground and defended herself with the loudest voice.

Just now, Su Ying's kick was not very harmful, but extremely insulting. In addition, he was a kidnapper when he opened his mouth and kept his mouth shut. Xu Mingjin's anger bar rose and exploded all of a sudden.

The aura around him was almost substantiated by anger.

"No, you are!"

Su Ying happily jumped in front of him like a primary school student, but Xu Mingjin couldn't reach or hit him.

"I'm not!"

"You are~"

"I told you I'm not a kidnapper——!"

Xu Mingjin didn't know if this guy was really stupid or pretending to be stupid, he was so angry that he was almost delirious.If he hadn't been lying on the ground and couldn't get up, I'm afraid he would have given up his usual demeanor by now, and was about to jump up and fight Su Ying.He even started to suspect that he shouldn't be here in the first place.

"???" County magistrate Zhang, who had never seen the world, doubted his life amidst the terrifying aura emanating from the two big men.

It took a long time for Mr. Zhang to remember his identity, and that he should be the one handling the case.

He coughed lightly, signaled the yamen servant to step forward to separate the two, and slapped the gavel: "Silence! No noise is allowed in the courtroom!"

Then, Mr. Zhang looked at Xu Mingjin, and asked solemnly: "Li Sanlang accused you of impersonating Wei Guogong's son and committing abduction, do you admit it or not?"

——He decided to keep everything simple and follow the procedure.

"I don't admit it." Xu Mingjin, who was mad, also calmed down, knowing that he had lost his composure just now, and the top priority was to get out as soon as possible. He responded cooperatively, but his tone was difficult to keep calm, "Is the token I gave not enough to prove my identity?"

County magistrate Zhang gave him a wink, and someone helped him up from the ground. Xu Mingjin patted his clothes with difficulty, straightened his clothes, and said solemnly: "I am Xu Mingjin, the son of the Duke of Wei. I have never impersonated anyone, and I have never done anything to deceive."

"Since this is the case, what is the reason for the son of Duke Wei to appear in Shanglin Village?" County Magistrate Zhang continued to ask.

"There's no need to tell you about it." Xu Mingjin's expression turned ugly.He didn't want to expose his life experience in public.

In the depths of his heart, he actually held some unrealistic hopes: Maybe after Wei Guogong's government took back the real son, he might not reveal his true identity.What if the duke and his wife have deep feelings for him, even if he is no longer the eldest son, they are still willing to let him be their biological son?

Before Wei Guogong made a public statement, Xu Mingjin didn't want the truth to come out from his own mouth.

"He didn't want to say it because he was here to abduct me."

Su Ying next to him explained for Xu Mingjin.

Xu Mingjin immediately glared: "I, no, yes!"

In the past, what he saw was not the children of the rich and powerful who fought each other, or the students who were friends of gentlemen in the academy. He had never seen such unreasonable and stalking country mud legs!

Although Su Ying doesn't look like an ordinary country boy, Xu Mingjin is obviously more extraordinary.County magistrate Zhang ignored the warning in his intuition, and couldn't help but speak to Xu Mingjin: "...So, Li Sanlang deliberately framed it?"

He secretly turned his gaze to Xu Mingjin.

Xu Mingjin really wanted to say yes, and then have someone drag that guy down and beat him with 180 sticks, preferably to death.

But he can't.

He didn't forget that this guy he hated and hated deeply had the blood of the Duke's Mansion flowing in his body, and his cousin Xu Mingyu was on his way to pick him up.

——If he relied on his status as the heir of Duke Wei's mansion to accuse the real heir of a false accusation and let the other party be slapped by the county magistrate; once he returned to the mansion of the Duke of Wei, what he would do would be that he was unwilling to exchange identities, the evidence of deeply resenting the son, the Duke's Mansion must not tolerate him.

Xu Mingjin said with difficulty: "...No, it's nothing, it's just a misunderstanding."

Obviously he was the one who was beaten, he was the one who was slandered, and he was the one who was hurt, but in the end he had to speak for the people who caused him to encounter these things.Every word he uttered made Xu Mingjin vomit blood, and his nails couldn't help but sink deeply into the flesh.

But his attitude is even more suspicious.

The onlookers were in an uproar.

If he hadn't been pretending, the dignified princes of the Duke's Mansion would have been caught and beaten as kidnappers, and it would be too suspicious to defend people who misunderstood him.

... Is there any secret that cannot be revealed?

Or, what Li Sanlang said is not wrong...

"There is no misunderstanding, you just want to abduct me."

Sure enough, the next moment, "No Yi Bu Rao Li Sanlang" went online.

Everything is in an endless loop again.

"Li Sanlang" insisted on abduction and would not stop unless Xu Mingjin explained the cause and effect clearly and clarified the truth of "abduction".Otherwise, "Li Sanlang" would be questioned by the county magistrate for false accusations.

——Xu Mingjin was very happy to see the other party was convicted.But in that case, after he returned to the capital without letting everything happen, he would not be able to stay in the Duke's mansion any longer.

I don't know how long it took, but during the interrogation by County Magistrate Zhang, Xu Mingjin heard her gnashing of teeth:

"I'm not abducted, I came here specially to find Li Sanlang."

"We have been wrong since we were born... the real Duke Wei's son... is not me."

"...I discovered my background and came to correct my mistakes. I didn't expect that I would be treated as a kidnapper."

He fixed his eyes on Su Ying, and said every word, while speaking, his teeth seemed to bite someone into pieces.

——This is the purpose of this guy!

—Forcing him to admit his life experience in public, and become the laughing stock of everyone like a clown!

——And he tore the deepest wound in his heart for everyone to see, and the ultimate goal was to help his greatest enemy get rid of the crime and let the other party not be punished!

Xu Mingjin felt an unprecedented humiliation.This deep humiliation is a hundred times better than being beaten, thrown into a pigsty, or taken to court for interrogation.

Deep in his pupils, unconcealable hatred burned.

Even the idiot county magistrate next to him who forced him to expose his scars was also hated by Xu Mingjin.

"!!!"

Master Zhang's pupils trembled, and the gavel in his hand fell to the ground with a thud.

But his reaction was not surprising.

The onlookers eating melons outside the court were also shocked and dropped their melons.

There was no sound around.

But after a moment of silence, the noise suddenly became louder.The onlookers began to whisper excitedly.

How could a family like the Duke's Mansion mistake the child and only find out after more than ten years?And the real son actually grew up in their small place?The Duke's mansion, which was originally far away, suddenly became down-to-earth.

The people who eat melons suddenly feel that there are endless topics to talk about, and they cast their eyes on the court.

Many eyes fell on Su Ying who was standing there.It seems that he wants to see how the princes of the Duke's Mansion are different from ordinary people.Looking at Su Ying's appearance and attire, it is obviously the same coarse linen clothes, how come he looks so unusual when he wears them.So they sighed again: You deserve to be the queen of the nobleman!

The magistrate Zhang was even more anxious.

Only one sentence echoed in his mind: It's over, it's over, I bet on the wrong treasure just now!Why did I worship the wrong true Buddha!

But the person at the center of the topic didn't realize that he had become the focus person at all, he was still stubbornly insisting on his point of view: "Switch identities casually, you think you are making up a storybook, you must be abducting me!"

County magistrate Zhang, who was anxious about making the wrong bet, was strangely silent.

He looked at Su Ying, who was seriously accusing the other party of abduction, and then at Xu Mingjin, who was suppressing his anger and resentment. A sparkling light bulb seemed to pop out of his head.

Before the light bulb broke, another weak voice floated from the side: "Sanlang, you probably misunderstood."

It was naturally Lan Xin who spoke.

Before she ran out suddenly to protect Xu Mingjin, she was taken aside by the yamen servants. Seeing that Xu Mingjin's identity was confirmed, Lan Xin was alarmed by her impulsiveness, and silently lowered her sense of existence.

But seeing that Su Ying is still entangled endlessly, and the blood on Xu Mingjin's face is almost gone, Lan Xin thought and thought, and finally said: "I don't think anyone will tell such a lieto lie to you..."

"And you and your sister and brother-in-law really don't look much alike, maybe you really belong to a noble family in the capital—"

Su Ying interrupted her: "But Aunt Lan Xin, didn't you say that kidnappers like to deceive people by identifying relatives?"

In his suspicious eyes, Lan Xin struggled to defend: "No, I mean that kidnappers like to do this. But not all people who come to recognize relatives are kidnappers..."

When she was speaking, she didn't notice that Xu Mingjin, who was supporting herself, raised her eyelids and glanced in her direction.

...It was this woman who ruined his good deed?

He just explained that the plan was well planned, why was he arrested as a kidnapper without saying a word when they met?Originally, he still doubted whether "Li Sanlang" was really stupid or deliberately pretending to be crazy, but he didn't expect someone to be a hindrance...

but why……

...Why did she say those things to Li Sanlang?

...Was it intentional or unintentional?

what does she know...

Wasn't what happened back then an accident...

Did he accidentally spoil his good deed, or did he know something long ago, and wanted to help him but it was self-defeating... Thinking of the other party jumping out to protect him, Xu Mingjin had a vague understanding.

For a moment, various thoughts appeared in Xu Mingjin's mind, and he looked at Lan Xin with a bit of murderous intent in his eyes.

...It seems that after getting out, we must find an opportunity to eliminate possible hidden dangers.

Xu Mingjin thought well, but he didn't wait for the chance to get out, and instead was thrown into the prison of the county government on the spot.

Because Su Ying still insisted that he was abducted.

Under Xu Mingjin's unbelievable eyes, the chubby county magistrate Zhang pronounced the sentence: "This person is unknown, his speech is ridiculous, and he is suspected of being abducted. Come on, take him down and put him in prison first. After all the evidence is complete, choose him."retrial."

Xu Mingjin: "???!!!"

——What the hell are you talking about?!

Amid Xu Mingjin's yelling for breaking his defense, he was pushed down.When the verdict was over, County Magistrate Zhang showed a courteous smile to Su Ying, and invited, "It's getting late, it's inconvenient to hurry, and the case has not yet been clarified, Mr. Li, why don't you stay at the county government's mansion for a rest?"

"Okay."

Su Ying was really too lazy to hurry, so he agreed to his invitation without hesitation.Although I'm a little worried about the pigs at home, it's okay for Aunt Lan Xin to go back and feed them, right?

Immediately, the smile on Master Zhang's face became more sincere.

He personally picked the best guest room, led the people to live in it, and arranged for the people to serve him well, and then he left with peace of mind.

The master who witnessed everything was very puzzled.

——No matter what, Xu Mingjin has been raised in the Duke's Mansion for more than ten years. Is it really okay to offend him so badly?After all, it is the family affairs of the Duke's Mansion, why bother to get involved?

Magistrate Zhang shook his head: "What do you know!"

He smiled enigmatically.

... Neither side should offend, in fact, neither side should please.

The real prince insisted on accusing Xu Mingjin of abduction, did he really think he was abducted?Obviously not, he was just showing his unwillingness to give up.No matter how many years Xu Mingjin has been raised in the Duke's Mansion, no blood relationship is no blood relationship after all.The real son of the world will never let him go against him, and he will definitely lose.That being the case, why don't you just stand in line and use this to climb up to Duke Wei's mansion?

More importantly, he had already offended the other party severely after the first beating with the killing stick. When Xu Mingjin told the truth about his life experience, the experienced magistrate Zhang had already noticed the strange way the other party looked at him.

As for the real son, even though he almost made a wrong bet, it was just a wrong sentence, and he had no other substantive actions. If he didn't stand in line to express his attitude and let the other party clear up their grudges, what are you waiting for?Could it be that in the future, both of them will be dissatisfied with him and punish him?

Sending Xu Mingjin in is to show his attitude!

——Of course, it is also necessary to lock people in and return them to lock in, and send doctors to treat injuries.After all, this is also the adopted son of Wei Guogong's mansion, so there must be no accident in the prison.

Facts have proved that his choice is correct.

Now, the prince agrees to stay, doesn't it mean that he is very satisfied with his statement and accepts his flattery?

County magistrate Zhang, who consciously hugged his thigh, laughed happily.