It was certainly inappropriate for the prefect's son and the prince to fight over a woman. However, the yamen runners did not know Zhao Heng at the time, and it was difficult to make a conclusion based on Li Shiyuan's one-sided statement.

After all, there were many injured people at the scene who needed medical treatment. Zhao Heng had just ordered the group of knights to disperse, otherwise they would have suffered losses today. The yamen runners summoned doctors to treat those at the scene and to take the remaining uninjured people away.

Li Jun was seriously injured and could only let the doctor bandage and treat him. Going to the government office was a matter of time anyway. Zhao Heng accompanied Li Shiyuan and followed the yamen runners.

Li Tian never expected that this time Zhao Wei let him out was actually the last time to use this waste.

It would be the best if he could get Li Shiyuan. If he couldn't get her and injured Zhao Heng, it had nothing to do with him. The worst that could happen was that he would be silenced. The outside world's view of this matter was nothing more than a case of kidnapping a woman.

The place where Li Jun was located was under the jurisdiction of Xiangfu County Government. A county government like theirs was like a fictitious institution in Shangjing. Nine out of ten cases involved powerful people. How could he, a county magistrate, handle it?

When this matter reached the yamen today, the county magistrate almost beat up the head constable. Arresting the son of Daming Prefecture would be embarrassing for him. Besides, although Li Jun was just a scholar, in the Zhou Dynasty, scholars had a high status, and scholars were not so easy to talk to.

Just as he was thinking about it, the bailiff had just taken everyone on the stage to the Ministry of Justice for processing when the county magistrate saw a familiar-looking man, who seemed to be the fifth prince Zhao Heng.

"Wait a minute..." In order to verify whether he had seen it wrong, the county magistrate stopped everyone, walked down from the desk, and bowed slightly beside Zhao Heng.

"You are Zhao..." The voice was very soft and the movements were very precise. Zhao Heng immediately understood that this person recognized him.

"Ahem~~~ You're right, but I have something that will surprise you even more. Would you like to take a look?" County Magistrate Zhao looked at him with a teasing look.

What was even more surprising was that the magistrate thought, this is the end, should this case be handed over or not?

When he walked to the back court, Zhao Heng took out the emperor's handwritten decree granting marriage, which was stamped with a seal and was dated several days ago.

The magistrate watched Zhao Heng carefully fold the imperial edict and then put it in his arms. He felt confused again. He knew that this matter would not be handled so easily. If it was handed over to the Ministry of Justice, those people would definitely hate him to death.

"I see, it's not easy for you to judge. I suggest you find someone from the Ministry of Justice to serve as a juror. That way you can save yourself the trouble of submitting memorials later. The key is that if you mention that I'm here, they'll probably come."

Zhao Heng was the son of Concubine Wei Shu, who was currently enjoying great favor and was very likely to become the empress. If they heard that Zhao Heng was present, the Ministry of Justice would definitely send someone to deal with him, primarily Li Tian.

As Zhao Heng expected, the people from the Ministry of Justice really showed up, and the case seemed to have become much simpler...

In Dingzhou County, in the Prince's Mansion, Li Xin received a letter from the emperor asking him if he wanted to find a son-in-law.

Li Xin thought about it over and over again, but couldn't understand why the emperor suddenly asked this question?

When he thought of the grand construction of Luancheng, he realized that the emperor thought his daughter was going to get married. At that time, Li Xin had only one daughter and no children. Someone had asked him to remarry or take a concubine.

Unexpectedly, this prince was a romantic man and could not forget his deceased princess.

He could have adopted a son from the clan, but it happened that there was a handsome young man in his wife's family who got along quite well with his daughter. They were both young at that time.

The two families decided to make the boy their son-in-law, and asked the emperor to grant him the surname Zhao as his adopted son. Therefore, the boy was named Zhao Gao.

Because Li Shuya was still young at the time, she called Zhao Gao "Sixth Brother".

Unfortunately, during a small-scale conflict with foreign tribes, Zhao Gao, who was already young and just going there to gain experience, was shot to death by a flying arrow.

Since then, no one in Li Xin's yard mentioned this matter again, and everyone knew that this was the master's taboo.

After Zhao Sheng arrived, the Zhao family suddenly felt that the sixth brother seemed to have come back to life, but many people did not know Zhao Gao, and after so many years, everyone almost forgot about it.

Li Xin personally rode his horse to the central city of Luancheng, which was being decorated. Seeing this, Zhao Sheng hurried forward to greet him.

After dismissing everyone, Li Xin showed him the emperor's letter and then slowly said:

"Your presence has been reported to the court. I must find a son-in-law, and my daughter dislikes everyone. You are the best candidate now."

Oh my god, what do you mean I am the best candidate? I just want to be a humble nobody.

Zhao Sheng was speechless. What he was most worried about was that he would be recognized among the guests who came to congratulate him.

In fact, the prince wanted to find a son-in-law, and it would be him, not the princess, who would ride in the bridal sedan.

But Zhao Sheng still expressed his concerns and reluctance.

"Kid, I know your story. The emperor only demoted you to a commoner and didn't punish you. What you're most worried about is the Second Prince. Don't worry, no one dares to touch you in Dingzhou."

"Hey! That makes sense. I'm just a commoner, and it's not a capital crime. Even if I didn't die from hanging, it wasn't my fault. At worst, if I'm discovered, no one will say I'm faking my death."

Zhao Sheng reluctantly accepted the suggestion of finding a son-in-law, but he always felt a little uncomfortable. He was living a good life, so why should he be a son-in-law?

"Well, since you agree, I have a suggestion for you. You should change your current name to Shen. It will still be Zhao Shen, but it will be much safer when writing invitations."

As expected, the old ones are still the wisest. Li Xin continued, "Now that you have a given name and a surname, you should have your own courtesy name. Li Shuya's sixth brother was called Zhao Gao. You should use Gao as your courtesy name. It's still different."

Zhao Sheng understood that everything Li Xin did was to give himself a legal identity. From then on, he was called Zhao Shen, with the courtesy name Gao.

Zhao Sheng did not tell anyone about this incident after returning home. In his opinion, it is better to be cautious about some things.

Jia Siren supplied some blue bricks to Luancheng and made a small profit, but the people of Cui family in Dingzhou noticed it and kept it in mind.

After all, Jia Siren is a relative of the Cui family. What does it mean that instead of making money in Zhao County, he goes to Dingzhou to get involved?

Soon the news spread among the Cui family. Jia Siren's brother-in-law was from a branch of the Cui family in Daming Prefecture. After learning about this, he made a special trip to Dingzhou to meet the head of the Cui family in Dingzhou.

The head of the Cui family in Dingzhou is Cui Yueming, who is also in his forties. The main branch is the Qinghe Cui family. Although Jia Siren's brother-in-law is from a side branch, he can also be considered one of their own.

Besides, this trip was about Jia Siren's matter, and the head of the family would definitely not show displeasure to others.

When the people and gifts arrived, Jia Siren's brother-in-law Cui Wenxin respectfully stated the reason for his visit and apologized to the clan members on behalf of Jia Siren.

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