Masquerade in Bridal Attire and Marry the Prince

Chapter 150: Who Was More Tougher?

Translator: derekliang

The master of Patrol Office was extremely anxious at the moment. He glanced at the adviser beside him and couldn’t help but scold, “All people have known that the culprit has been arrested. I’m running out of solution at the moment.”

Just now, the third prince sent him a message to ask him to report the situation here. So he dared not to delay the progress and immediately reported everything he knew to the third prince. He once believed that this event must be a precious opportunity for him to get promoted with the help of the third prince. But to his surprise, the third prince even asked him to stop the news from being known by more people.

Yes, the third prince asked him to stop the news from being known by more people. But now, looking at the huge crowd outside the Patrol Office, he believed that the Emperor must put him in custody once he dared to suppress the news.

“Master, don’t worry. I think we cannot completely follow the third prince’s command.” His adviser suggested, “After all, everyone knows that the Crown Prince always prevails in the court when the eldest prince remains powerless through the years. So the third prince is unlikely to impose any severe punishment over us.”

“But the third prince is a prince after all.” Yuxing Wei sighed in relief with a thoughtful look in his eyes. What he concerned the most now was the disagreement between the two princes.

“Speaking of this matter, it was caused by warriors in the martial field. At least, we would not offend the third prince if we start to openly follow his order. So the third prince has no reason to blame us. On another hand, we could threaten the third prince in return, because after all, we could see that the third prince must have some connections with those warriors in the martial field.”

The adviser quickly pointed out the key point of this event through simple talk, so that one had to admire his wisdom. With his suggestion in mind, the master became suddenly enlightened, “So I’ll come up with a counterplot plan based on his order.”

“Exactly. People who would send the culprit here must not be any important officials. We need to ask them to stop further propagating the news. Then, we need to impose a severe punishment over the culprit in front of all the civilians. It’s another topic as for whether we should hand over the culprit for the third prince to make the final decision.”

Both of them didn’t come to the hall before they had come up with their plan.

When the master sat in the hall, he heard a loud report from outside, “Commissioner Chang has arrived!”

“The third prince has arrived!”

The two reports came in succession. So Commissioner Chang and Yuxing Wei met at the entrance. People on the side believed that Commissioner Chang and Yuxing Wei must come here to fairly judge the case. So they were full of admiration.

“Hahaha, your arrival totally shows your care about people, Your Highness.” Both of them looked at each other. Before Commissioner Chang started talking, he heard an extremely arrogant voice.

When both of them turned back, they saw an extremely arrogant man in red standing on the tree. Half of his face was covered by a mask, so that no one really knew how handsome his face was behind the mask.

Yuxing Wei couldn’t help but have more worries, “I never expect that Lord Luo would come here as well. Since you are already here, let’s come in and have a look.”

Commissioner Chang could see that the man on the tree was having an extraordinary momentum. But he didn’t know that the man was indeed the owner of Sect Luo. So he was very surprised and glanced at Du Chuxuan. Du Chuxuan had been staying by the side of Emperor Han for a long time and knew much about what had happened in the past. But Commissioner Chang had no idea whether Lord Luo was deliberately coming to Xiangyang City or not. So he believed that it was necessary to report to the Emperor.

Du Chuxuan didn’t really care about the various thoughts of those people. He quickly moved and landed on the ground with another person in his hand, “In response to the third prince’s invitation, I would like to come in the hall together with you since I don’t have to bother waiting for the final judgment in the outdoor.”

As he said this, he strutted into the hall without even caring about Yuxing Wei and Commissioner Chang aside.

“Mom, that older brother was so amazing just now that he didn’t even care about the third prince and Commissioner Chang.” A kid started to have an admirable look in his eyes when he saw Du Chuxuan’s reaction. But his mother quickly covered his mouth as soon as he finished his talk. His mother had a fearful look in her eyes and said, “You know nothing. Stop talking nonsense.”

Although Du Chuxuan had overheard their conversation, he didn’t really care about this. Because the child was right anyway. Obviously, Yuxing Wei was really looking forward to his arrival at the moment.

The master reacted quickly when he found the arrival of the three people, “Your Highness, Commissioner Chang,may I know the name of this guest?”

“I was once your suspect. I find it really ridiculous for me to have even become one of your suspects. So I’m coming this time on behalf of all the martial practitioners, to check who is the real culprit to even dare ignoring the martial rules.”

Du Chuxuan lazily sat in a chair beside him so that there were not enough seats in the hall. The master’s eyelids twitched and he felt that the result of today’s interrogation must probably go beyond his expectations. However, Yuxing Wei didn’t seem to be surprised. So the master could only ask a follower to move another two chairs into the hall.

When everyone sat down, the master officially started the interrogation.

The culprit’s hands had already been tied behind his back. When he was brought to the hall, he didn’t even have the strength to move. The guards threw him to the ground and he didn’t even lift his eyelids, as if everything here had nothing to do with him. The scholar and beggars who had caught the culprit had already been brought to the hall.

“Quiet!”

The master glanced at the third prince and found that the prince was looking at the culprit while hugging his arms, as if nothing had to do with him. So the master became immediately relieved and asked, “Who are you? How do you know that this person is a rapist?”

In fact, the master was right. This person was indeed a rapist because he kept taking away many innocent girls. That was why many people believed that he was indeed infatuated with beauty and named him as a rapist.

“Lord, we’ve been temporarily living in the Land God Temple at the outskirt of this city last night. Althoughy the temple is often a destination of many homeless people, it is also having a large population flow. They are many poor women living inside it as well.”

The scholar stood up and talked about the situation clearly.

“In the middle of last night, when we were going to lock the temple gate so that everyone would have a sound sleep, we suddenly heard some sound of fighting from outside at that time.”

“Yes, he is right. Last night, when our second brother was opening the gate, his head was about to be cut off by someone.” Another beggar couldn’t help but interrupt the scholar’s talk.