While the Madam of the Duke Mansion and a few others were shifting blame and setting traps for each other over the bracelet, Qi Zhen was holding a crude and simple slingshot, his face ashen, staring at the servant kneeling before him.
"If no one admits to it, then all will receive fifty strokes and be expelled from the mansion. The Duke Mansion, after all, is not short of hands. Oh, and whoever reports and corroborates will be rewarded fifty taels of silver."
The crowd shrank back, shouting their innocence.
Qi Zhen's patience had run out, and with a wave of his hand, two guards immediately stepped forward and dragged a servant randomly, kicking and pressing him down, and began the beating.
The servant, who was shouting his innocence, cried out in horror. He was truly innocent. Among so many people, why was he the one to be beaten first? He clearly wasn't the ringleader. Boohoo.
