Chapter 848: The Fate of the Ma Family (5)
"The Consort is making sense, Prince, what do you think?" Mei Hanqing looked at Chu Suifeng.
"The Consort’s intentions are the same as mine, and I add another decree, to severely punish those who unjustly strike women in their families," Chu Suifeng said viciously adding another punishment.
"Long live the Prince and Consort, may you live for thousands and thousands of years." All the women on the streets, whether married or not, all knelt down for Chu Suifeng and Lin Ziyin. No one had ever protected them like this, nobody had ever given them so much encouragement. All the women genuinely accepted Lin Ziyin as their Consort from the bottom of their hearts.
"Speak, who asked you to spread the rumors?" The advantage was now in Chu Suifeng’s hands, and the man whose finger had been cut off already was terrified out of his wits upon seeing how Chu Suifeng could kill a civil official without changing his expression, he had been frightened from the very beginning when he was captured. Initially, he couldn’t hold on, but because he harbored a tiny hope, he bit his tongue and didn’t confess, but then Prince Chu didn’t even give him a chance, directly cutting off his finger.
Oh mother, for a mere handful of copper coins, he had sold his own five fingers. If he had known, he wouldn’t have dared to speak recklessly even if he were beaten to death.
"Prince, spare my life, I’ll speak, I’ll tell everything," fear made him forget the pain, the man on the ground confessed everything, "It was a man, he gave me twenty copper coins and told me to say it, I will never dare to do it again."
As one man confessed, seeing the corpses on the ground and the man’s severed finger, the following people started confessing, "Prince, I remember now, that man had the accent of the Capital City."
"Yes, yes, I wouldn’t have remembered if you hadn’t said it."
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Once one person thought of a clue, immediately others echoed it.