You could have heard a pin drop in the prison cell.
The ministers could no longer bother pretending to be busy. One after another, they whipped their heads around and stared in shock-
What did she mean, she didn't know them?!
Hadn't they gone strolling through the mountains together in perfect harmony just yesterday?!
Even the jailer gave the little dumpling beside him an odd look, his voice hesitant. "You don't know them?"
Jiang Yingcheng nodded vigorously and declared with absolute conviction, "I don't!"
The jailer: "..."
Then that little rascal their magistrate's son had mentioned, the one who looked full of wicked schemes at a glance, wasn't you either?
After a brief pause, Jiang Yingcheng frowned again. "Uncle, did you just say they were arrested for going into the mountains to rob a tomb?"
The jailer snapped out of his thoughts and nodded. "Ah, yes... That's right. Our yamen's men caught them red-handed. At the time..."
"They're so bad!" Her young, indignant voice cut him off again. "How could they be so bad?!"
[How could they not wait for Chengcheng?!]
[How could they leave only Chengcheng behind at the inn?!]
Her resentful gaze swept across the faces of everyone in the cell. Jiang Yingcheng looked up and huffed, "Then when will they be beheaded?!"
The court officials inside the cell: "..."
The innocent jailer outside the cell: "...Huh??"
Had the young master really gotten it wrong?
The jailer looked around blankly.
No, it all fit...
A bunch of adults who looked like crafty old foxes, and a little rascal who looked full of wicked schemes.
They all matched!
There was no mistake here?!!
"...It's not quite that serious," the jailer said with difficulty. "Our County Magistrate Tuobi governs benevolently and cares for the people. Their offense isn't a grave