"Get out of the way!" An urgent voice came from behind the crowd. After opening up a path, Wei Jingcheng, who was the governor of the Jing Zhao Prefecture, walked quickly towards the city gate tower with a dark expression.

It really was Wei Wenbin!

Wei Jingcheng suppressed the shock in his heart and ordered two bailiffs to put Wei Wenbin down while he walked to the foot of the city wall. He saw the soldiers that were responsible for guarding the east gate lying on the ground sleeping soundly, unable to wake them up even after such a loud commotion.

Grand Master Liu stepped forward to inspect the situation, before saying in a low voice, "My lord, I'm afraid they've been drugged."

Wei Jingcheng coldly said, "Go get some water."

Soon, a bailiff brought a large bucket of water and poured it on the soldiers' heads according to Wei Jingcheng's instructions. Under the stimulation of the cold water, the soldiers finally opened their eyes dizzily.

"What's going on?"

The soldiers exchanged glances and one of them whispered, "I don't know either. I only remember about three hours later when I smelled a strange fragrance and then immediately lost consciousness until …" He glanced at the ugly expression on Wei Jingcheng's face and didn't dare to continue.

"Useless thing!" At this moment, a bailiff had already brought Wei Wenbin down and removed the cloth that was stuffed into his mouth. When the bailiff saw Wei Jingcheng, he hastily shouted, "Master Wei, save me!"

After indicating for the bailiffs and soldiers to retreat about a dozen steps, Wei Jingcheng spoke with a face full of doubt: "What is going on?" The fact that he was beheaded instead of Wei Wenbin was extremely secretive. Even though Wei Jingcheng was Dong Fang's trusted aide, he did not know about the matter.

Wei Wenbin glanced at the commoners who were standing not far away and looked at them with all his might. He covered his face and said urgently, "This is a long story. Anyways, someone is harming someone. Leave this place and we'll talk about it."

"Alright." Wei Jingcheng thought so and was ready to bring him back to the Capital Prefecture, but the onlookers blocked his path. He boldly shouted: "Didn't Wei Wenbin get beheaded? Why are he still alive?"

"He's not Wei Wenbin, he's just a prank!" Before Wei Jingcheng could finish his words, someone retorted, "I know him. He's Wei Wenbin. I can't be wrong."

Wei Jingcheng's face sank as he scolded, "So what if I say it's not true? Move out of the way!"

After a short period of silence, a voice came from the crowd, "The person who was beheaded yesterday was not Wei Wenbin at all. What was that?"

"How dare you!" Wei Jingcheng was a little embarrassed. He wanted to let the bailiff arrest the person who spoke, but when he looked around, he found that there were people everywhere. He did not know which one of them had spoken just now.

While he was searching in all directions, the voice from before sounded again, "I thought Your Majesty was wise and fair, but it turns out that there's no justice in this world at all. My lord, my lord, I spit!"

Wei Jingcheng panicked. With a deathly pale face, he shouted: "Insolent and disrespectful to His Majesty. Men, arrest him!"

The bailiff did not dare to hesitate and immediately charged into the crowd. However, they did not know who the speaker was or what he looked like, so they could only fly around randomly like headless flies, causing the citizens to be dissatisfied.

Looking at the rowdy crowd, Master Liu said in a low voice, "Your excellency, the situation isn't right. Let's return to the yamen first."

Wei Jingcheng also had the same intention. Taking advantage of the citizens' attention being attracted by the bailiff, he quietly left the east city gate with Wei Wenbin, and only after they stepped into the Jing Zhao Prefecture's yamen, did he heave a sigh of relief. After taking a sip of tea, he sent his irrelevant subordinates to Wei Wenbin, whose hands and feet were still trembling, "Sir Wei, can you speak now?"

Wei Wenbin swallowed his saliva and said, "To tell you the truth, the one who was beheaded on the execution grounds yesterday was only someone who had a face similar to mine."

Master Liu was at the execution ground yesterday as well. "If you think back carefully, that person's face was dirty, so it's hard to see his exact appearance. From afar, it looks like he looks like Master Wei, but before the execution, Wang Lang who was responsible for supervising the execution confirmed …" Halfway through his words, he suddenly shut his mouth tightly, wanting to transfer the prisoners. The first person he would bribe would be the examiner who was responsible for the medical examination.

Wei Jingcheng probed, "This is the Marquis Wei's idea? "Then Your Majesty …"

"His Majesty also knew about this. Originally, I had already left Jinling City yesterday, but during the night, someone suddenly barged in and knocked me out. I didn't even see their faces clearly, and when I woke up, I was already hanging on the tower." After saying that, he continued to panic, "Now that so many people know that I'm still alive, will they really pull me to behead them?"

Wei Jingcheng comforted his, "Lord Wei, don't worry. It's just some ignorant fools. They shouldn't be hard to deal with. I'm afraid …"

Wei Wenbin asked anxiously, "What are you afraid of?"

Elder Liu replied, "I'm just afraid that someone will intentionally cause trouble. If that happens, it will be even more troublesome."

Wei Wenbin was not stupid and immediately thought of the voice he had heard at the city gate. He clenched his hands and hatefully said, "If I want to know who is behind this, I must skin them alive!"

Wei Jingcheng thought for a moment and said: "We have to inform His Majesty of this matter as soon as possible. Martial Grand Master Liu, send someone to prepare a palanquin. Senior Wei and I will enter the palace immediately."

"Yes," Martial Granduncle Liu replied. Before he could go down to prepare, a bailiff came in quickly with an anxious expression, "My lord, there are many commoners outside, surrounding us. They are all very agitated and are constantly shouting for us to …" He glanced at Wei Wenbin and whispered, "Hand him over, Sir Wei!"

"How dare you!" Wei Jingcheng had an ugly expression on his face as he said, "This group of troublesome commoners actually dared to besiege the Jing Zhao Estate. Could it be that they want to rebel?"

Wei Wenbin had long panicked and said with a trembling voice, "Mr. Wei, you must not hand me over to them."

"Of course." After comforting Wei Wenbin, Wei Jingcheng led Master Liu out of the room. As the bailiff had said, there were many commoners outside. When they saw him come out, the noisy crowd fell silent.

Wei Jingcheng coldly swept his eyes over them and said in a deep voice, "You guys have so much guts to actually dare to come to the Jing Zhao Estate and cause trouble. Do you have any laws in your eyes? Hurry up and leave, otherwise don't blame me for being impartial! "

Just as those people seemed to shrink back from his scolding, a sarcastic voice came from behind, "What a great 'unselfish and unselfish' phrase. Don't you feel embarrassed speaking it out loud?"

Wei Jingcheng's eyelids twitched. This voice was obviously the same one that was disrespectful to him at the city gate entrance. Sure enough, he had also come.

"What do you mean?" As Wei Jingcheng lured the man to continue speaking, he gave a meaningful glance to Master Liu. The latter understood and quietly left with two bailiffs.