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"This official pays his respect to Your Highness!"

Liu Changsheng bowed deeply towards Ye Lianhe with a smiling face. This made Ye Lianhe feel even more disgusted.

This king came here today because I heard that someone was causing trouble at a restaurant set up by this king's imperial concubine, and then the justice courts arrested the person who was causing the trouble. This king came here specifically to thank Lord Liu, but I saw Sir Liu beat up my servants like this.

Ye Lianhe's voice wasn't loud, but his ice-cold voice shocked everyone present.

"We …" We are not here to cause trouble! "

A seven or eight-year-old boy standing to the side was dressed in heavy mourning attire. He clenched his fists and said, "My father was poisoned because he ate in that restaurant yesterday!"

Ye Lianhe looked at those stubborn little eyes and saw that this person was unwilling to submit to him. His heart couldn't help but be moved, and he suddenly thought of Luo Lingwei, that fellow who was also not afraid of him.

"How dare you!"

Liu Changsheng, who was standing at the side, shouted, "How can you, you commoner, answer my words!"

With that, Liu Changsheng signaled for the bailiffs to take the boy down, ready to execute him.

Ye Liancheng glared at him and said in his heart that this Liu Changsheng was truly despicable. Although he had clearly stated that in order to protect the authority of his prince, he was punishing this fellow who did not know when to advance, in the eyes of the onlookers, he was using his identity as the prince to bully the common people. If he succeeded, then the people that Luo Lingwei had built up for the Prince's Mansion these days would be completely lost.

"Stop!"

Ye Lianhe raised his hand. Two of his personal guards stepped forward and pushed away the bailiff who was holding the child down. Ye Lianhe strode to the front of Dong Liang and He Lu. The two of them tactfully stood up to give up their seats.

"The world knows that we, the Guangling King Manor, are benevolent and compassionate. Lord Liu, are you trying to make this king bear the crime of defrauding the world and get scolded?"

Ye Lianhe waved his sleeves and sat down. He then pretended to casually glance at Zhao Wei and confirmed that his life was not in danger. He secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

"This King wants to conduct a side trial on this case. I believe Lord Liu has no objections, right?"

Ye Liancheng turned around and looked at Liu Changsheng, and Liu Changsheng felt a wave of panic in his heart. He could only let out a dry laugh and said, "I dare not, this official will decide the case fairly. If Your Highness wants to conduct an adjudication, then this official will do everything possible to solve the case cleanly!"

At this moment, in the back hall, Ye Feian was drinking tea. When he heard that Ye Lianhe had barged into the hall and disturbed Liu Changsheng's case, he knew that things were not going well. He hurriedly ordered some people to keep an eye on Ye Lianhe.

"Honorable servant, report all of your grievances!"

Ye Lianhe was not polite either. Although it was a side trial, he made the first move to let the group of victims talk about this matter.

"In reply to Your Highness, this commoner was originally a common household in the capital."

A woman wearing white robes wiped away her tears as she sobbed, "Yesterday, my husband and a few brothers made an appointment to go to esteemed wangfei's restaurant to eat the 'hotpot' she invented."

Not long after he returned home, he fell to the ground and died!

I went to ask the other people who went with me, but they all fell to the ground and died just like my husband!

They clearly died from the food poisoning in that restaurant, please let the great master Qingtian help us!

"

"That's right!" My son too! "

"So is my father!"

"Please redress our grievances!"

When Nightingale heard this, all the victims were now certain that the dead died from eating the food in the hotpot. This was a headache-inducing matter.

Although it was easy for Nightingale to solve this case, it had now become clear in the minds of the public that they had eaten the food in the restaurant before dying. This made it difficult for him to convince the public, no matter how much he tried to remedy the situation.

Unless the truth was revealed, it would not end so easily.

"Silence!"

Liu Changsheng clapped his hands towards Ye Lianhe and said, "My lord, what do you think about this case?"

He knew that if he continued to be so arbitrary, he would definitely let things go. After all, if the person behind him couldn't take down Nightingale, then he would be the first one to be cut.

"This King asks you, when was your husband dining in the restaurant yesterday?"

Nightingale asked.

"Reporting to Your Highness, it was about yesterday's time."

The woman recalled.

"Then when does he return home and when the poison breaks out?"

Ye Lianhe asked.

"This …"

The woman pondered for a moment and said: "My husband came back with the last minute. It took less than half an hour for the poison to be released."

"After the dead people ate in the restaurant, they were separated by two hours from home. If they really ate something poisonous in the restaurant for so long, then why didn't they poison halfway home before dying? Furthermore, why did it only take a single night for them to know that this poisonous substance was from that restaurant? "

Ye Lianhe asked a bunch of questions and told everyone about the various aspects of the case, causing everyone in the hall to be stunned on the spot.