“There is something more unfillial” Ji Wu Jiu stood up, fold his hands and said “ Minister Xu Shang Yong, snatching a woman in broad daylight, and the case was brought to the magistrate, I have already ordered for him to be suspended from his post to aid the investigation.”
Xu Shang Yong is Xu Wei Rong’s father. Has no outstanding talent, a pervert, with lots of concubines in his house, and when he sees pretty ladies he will want to obtain them no matter what methods, he will use. This time he bullied a married lady, with a strong personality, who went home and committed suicide. Her husband carried her corpse and kneeled in front of the magistrate court, he did not request for money and was not afraid of power, and was only aiming for an explanation. Magistrate Shun already felt that the citizen was bullied, but because Xu Shang Yong is the uncle of the emperor, he pushed the case back, and wrote a report to ask for Ji Wu Jiu’s opinion.
Ji Wu Jiu’s answer back to him was only two words “Punish Accordingly”
“He is your uncle!” The empress dowager’s voice also changed.
“So what, if the king went against the law, he will be punished accordingly as well. If he wasn’t my uncle, most probably he wouldn’t have dared to do such vicious acts”
“you…You…”