novelhk Chapter 339 Confusing right and wrong
Chapter 339 Confusing right and wrong
"Mr. Prefect, they are all slandering me. What they said is completely false." Nie Junfeng stiffened his neck and refused to admit it. If he refused to admit it, could the prefect still force him to confess?
"You mean that all these people are slandering you." The prefect's face was gloomy.
"Yes, it's this woman. I gave her money out of kindness, and she gave her daughter to me. Now she is biting me back. How can she frame me so easily?"
Nie Junfeng confuses right and wrong and speaks without thinking. It has been so long since the incident happened, so he can say whatever he wants.
"You are so shameless. You keep saying that you gave me money, but where is the money? Even if you gave me money, would I give you my daughter whom I raised with great difficulty?" Li Xiaoxiao had great makeup skills and a large birthmark on her face. Even though the prefect had seen her several times, he did not recognize her at all. Her chest was heaving violently and she looked sad.
"Who knows which wild man you used the money to support? After I gave it to you, do I need to ask where the money went?" Nie Junfeng said as a matter of course, disdainful of her words.
"You are talking nonsense. I have come a long way with my daughter to live with her parents. I have gone through so much hardship along the way. I would rather die of starvation on the streets than send my daughter away."
"Do you think it's been so long? I can't find any witnesses. Haha, you must be disappointed. The reason I can survive until today is all because of this belief." Li Xiaoxiao accused and questioned loudly.
"What do you mean?" Nie Junfeng couldn't help but frown. Does she have any tricks up her sleeve?
"Humph, you forcibly abducted my daughter at that time, but many people saw it. I went through a lot of hardships and finally got them to testify for me." Li Xiaoxiao said, looking at the crowd outside the lobby.
Soon several people came out from the crowd. These people were the witnesses who saw Nie Junfeng raping the woman. Some of them were businessmen doing business on the roadside, and some were ordinary people who happened to pass by that day.
Nie Junfeng looked at them with a ferocious look on his face, as if he wanted to eat them alive.
Several people walked into the hall with their heads held high, not daring to look at him, and knelt down directly in front of the prefect.
"Your Excellency the Prefect, we saw with our own eyes a few days ago that Nie Junfeng forcibly abducted this woman's daughter and beat her severely, and he did not give her any money." Several people spoke together to prove that what Li Xiaoxiao said was true.
"You few lowly people, how dare you slander me? Do you know who I am? My father is the Marquis of Dingguo. If you dare to talk nonsense again, I will not forgive you." Nie Junfeng threatened. If they were not in the court now, he would definitely teach them a lesson.
"How dare you, Nie Junfeng, openly threatening a witness in court. You are so bold! Someone, come and give him ten blows of the board." The prefect suddenly shouted.
Soon two yamen runners came over and brought up the execution tools.
"Zhu Gao, you, a prefect, actually dare to have people beat me." Nie Junfeng simply couldn't believe it. What right did he have?
"Why shouldn't I dare to let anyone beat you? Everyone who makes a mistake must be punished accordingly. Calling my name in the court will increase the crime by one level. Execute immediately and give me ten strokes of the cane." The prefect threw the execution token directly to the ground.
The yamen runners took two steps at a time, one of them grabbed one of Nie Junfeng's arms and forced him down on the prop. Only then did Nie Junfeng really feel scared, because twenty strokes of the cane would be enough to kill him.
"Don't hit me, you can't hit me." Nie Junfeng already had a wound on his head, and coupled with his emotional excitement, he felt dizzy all over. He wanted to struggle to get up, but he was held down so tightly that he couldn't move at all.
The two yamen runners didn't listen to him. They had just heard what he had done outside. They were ordinary people, so they could naturally empathize with him and were already furious.
This time they finally got the chance, the two men looked at each other, then nodded silently to reach a consensus. Usually, when ordinary people had a quarrel or some disharmony between neighbors, the prefect would occasionally give them a few beatings, but they were all minor and they would just deal with it casually. However, the situation today was obviously different.
Nie Junfeng had done too many evil things, so now that he had fallen into their hands, they naturally had to treat him well. From the first blow, they used all their strength and only wished they could hit him harder.
Nie Junfeng had been spoiled since childhood and had never experienced such pain. He almost fainted from the pain after the first blow, but before he could faint, the second blow came.
Miserable screams rang out from the lobby, accompanied by the sound of sticks hitting flesh.
His screams were very loud at the beginning, but after the last beating, Nie Junfeng didn't even have the strength to shout. His voice was barely audible, and he was only breathing heavily.
The crowd watching outside the yamen cheered, and there were many voices of praise for the prefect, saying that the prefect was truly an honest official who was not afraid of power and always spoke up for the people.
Looking at Nie Junfeng lying on the ground like a dead dog, the prefect's eyes flashed with deep contempt. From Nie Junfeng, it could be seen that the family style of the Marquis Dingguo must not be very good, otherwise how could they raise such a son.
The news from the court was soon passed back to the Dingguo Marquis's mansion. The Dingguo Marquis was so angry that he threw the teacup in his hand to the ground. He had already made arrangements with this rebellious son before he left, so why didn't he listen?
He has done so many stupid things and thinks that if he doesn't admit it, others can't do anything to him. This is really embarrassing for him, Marquis Dingguo.
Nie Junfeng's mother, Xiao, the mistress of Dingguo Marquis's Mansion, was trembling with fear and took two steps back in an attempt to prevent Dingguo Marquis from paying attention to her.
But things often go against one's wishes. The more she thought about it, the more things developed against her wishes.
Marquis Dingguo just happened to see her retreating figure out of the corner of his eye, and the anger in his heart seemed to have found an outlet. He slowly turned his head to look at her with a grim gaze.
The moment he looked at her, Xiao was so frightened that her legs went weak and she almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, she reached out in time and managed to hold on to the table beside her.
"You know everything Junfeng has done over the years, right?" Marquis Dingguo slowly stood up and walked towards her step by step, staring at her without blinking.
The anger that was about to burst out from her eyes scared Xiao so much that she wanted to run out of the door. Just as this thought came to her mind, Marquis Dingguo came to her side.
With lightning speed, he stretched out his hand and grabbed her neck mercilessly, with increasing force, as if he wanted to strangle her neck.