The crowd of people gets more and more violent as they push and shove each other to get a glance of the corpses, I quickly get a rope and start whipping the ground with a bit of qi.
*Swick* * Swick* * Swick*
The sound of the role hitting the floor several times loudly echoes throughout the area, scaring the people as they subconsciously move backwards.
"We are conducting official business here! If any of you steps on the wrong thing and destroy evidence, we'll drag you back to the yamen and give you a few whips! If there is foul play, we will even charge you as accomplishes!" I shout out loudly.
"Oi, little boy, the magistrate has always let us look at the crime scene and dead bodies. Who are you to stop us!" one of the bigger sized men shouts out.
*Phisk*
One of the men next to him smacks his shoulder and says "You moron, look at the uniform that little boy is wearing. He is one of the judges. If you want to die, go die by yourself! Don't get us in trouble!"
When the crowd starts hearing what the man said, the crowd starts gossiping about my young age. Some of them started spinning tales about how much money my parents paid to get me the job and others started saying that I'm royalty or a noble. I couldn't be bothered with them and started using the rope to cordon off the area.
Judge Cui eventually couldn't stand all the tall tales that they were spinning around me and let out an oppressive burst of qi as he shouts out "Enough! if you say any more nonsense, I will give all of you a few slaps for disparaging the court!"
"Ah! He is the judge who slapped the young masters of the Ku family!" one of the people in the crowd recognises Judge Cui and shouts out.
*Boom!*
Judge Cui lets out another burst of qi in anger which creates a strong gust of wind and scares all the people. The gust of wind was so strong that several pieces of debris even flew away.
"Ahhhhh!" the man who said Judge Cui slapped someone ran away in fear after he realises that Judge Cui is staring at him fiercely. The sight of him running away also caused the rest of the crowd to retreat in fear and some of the women quickly ran off, creating a messy scene.
As I was cordoning off the area, which is not a common practice since the people don't care for evidence as nobody will actually touch the corpse and they will just look at it, Judge Tang who left to look for the magistrate's steward returned with him and the coroner.
The coroner looked at the corpses which the constables had dragged out with the help of the guards who lifted up the debris and said "I cannot make an accurate report right now as the body is burnt beyond recognition. I can, however, recognise that these are the bodies of a man and a woman. I will give the yamen a complete report on my findings by tomorrow." The coroner then points at two random constables and shouts "Bring the corpses to my workshop!"
The rest of the day was spent helping the constables clean up the debris of the burnt building. Everything was burnt and nothing was recoverable. We found a few more bodies of the guard dogs and they were sent to the coroner's workshop as well.
…
The next day in the capital, inside of the royal palace, there is a grand and extravagant building a few kilometres in front of the palace gates. This building is the palace court and this is where the emperor holds his morning court, where all the ministers will brief him on everything that is happening in the world. It is also where the emperor gives his orders and commands to all his subjects.
Today, all the ministers are seated in their usual positions, but there are two outsiders. General Ling is seated at the right side of the room at the front of everyone, while Shang Jian Rui is seated at the back of the left side of the room. The right side is generally the seating positions for all the ministers who are in departments related to the military, while in the left side of the room are the ministers who are in charge of the governing and administration of the empire.
The crowd of people gets more and more violent as they push and shove each other to get a glance of the corpses, I quickly get a rope and start whipping the ground with a bit of qi.
*Swick* * Swick* * Swick*
The sound of the role hitting the floor several times loudly echoes throughout the area, scaring the people as they subconsciously move backwards.
"We are conducting official business here! If any of you steps on the wrong thing and destroy evidence, we'll drag you back to the yamen and give you a few whips! If there is foul play, we will even charge you as accomplishes!" I shout out loudly.
"Oi, little boy, the magistrate has always let us look at the crime scene and dead bodies. Who are you to stop us!" one of the bigger sized men shouts out.
*Phisk*
One of the men next to him smacks his shoulder and says "You moron, look at the uniform that little boy is wearing. He is one of the judges. If you want to die, go die by yourself! Don't get us in trouble!"
When the crowd starts hearing what the man said, the crowd starts gossiping about my young age. Some of them started spinning tales about how much money my parents paid to get me the job and others started saying that I'm royalty or a noble. I couldn't be bothered with them and started using the rope to cordon off the area.
Judge Cui eventually couldn't stand all the tall tales that they were spinning around me and let out an oppressive burst of qi as he shouts out "Enough! if you say any more nonsense, I will give all of you a few slaps for disparaging the court!"
"Ah! He is the judge who slapped the young masters of the Ku family!" one of the people in the crowd recognises Judge Cui and shouts out.
*Boom!*
Judge Cui lets out another burst of qi in anger which creates a strong gust of wind and scares all the people. The gust of wind was so strong that several pieces of debris even flew away.
"Ahhhhh!" the man who said Judge Cui slapped someone ran away in fear after he realises that Judge Cui is staring at him fiercely. The sight of him running away also caused the rest of the crowd to retreat in fear and some of the women quickly ran off, creating a messy scene.
As I was cordoning off the area, which is not a common practice since the people don't care for evidence as nobody will actually touch the corpse and they will just look at it, Judge Tang who left to look for the magistrate's steward returned with him and the coroner.
The coroner looked at the corpses which the constables had dragged out with the help of the guards who lifted up the debris and said "I cannot make an accurate report right now as the body is burnt beyond recognition. I can, however, recognise that these are the bodies of a man and a woman. I will give the yamen a complete report on my findings by tomorrow." The coroner then points at two random constables and shouts "Bring the corpses to my workshop!"
The rest of the day was spent helping the constables clean up the debris of the burnt building. Everything was burnt and nothing was recoverable. We found a few more bodies of the guard dogs and they were sent to the coroner's workshop as well.
…
The next day in the capital, inside of the royal palace, there is a grand and extravagant building a few kilometres in front of the palace gates. This building is the palace court and this is where the emperor holds his morning court, where all the ministers will brief him on everything that is happening in the world. It is also where the emperor gives his orders and commands to all his subjects.
Today, all the ministers are seated in their usual positions, but there are two outsiders. General Ling is seated at the right side of the room at the front of everyone, while Shang Jian Rui is seated at the back of the left side of the room. The right side is generally the seating positions for all the ministers who are in departments related to the military, while in the left side of the room are the ministers who are in charge of the governing and administration of the empire.
