Chapter 337: A powerful dragon finds it hard to suppress a local snake

"Master."

Sun Wukong flew back from the inner courtyard, "Master, hurry and come with Old Sun."

"What's the matter?" Tang An rose from the grand master chair and put the chair away.

Sun Wukong grabbed Tang An's wrist, "Master, just come with Old Sun first; we'll talk when we get there."

Seeing that they were heading toward the inner courtyard, Lady Shangguan quickly scrambled up from the ground and followed them.

When Sun Wukong brought Tang An over, he kicked open the door to one of the rooms and pulled Tang An inside.

Yang Jian and Nezha followed closely behind, knowing that Sun Wukong must have seen something unjust to be in such a hurry.

Once Tang An entered the room and saw the two people frozen in place, she understood why Sun Wukong was so anxious.

It turned out to be the son of the Prefect, who was in the middle of forcibly abducting a woman. The woman had already been pushed onto the bed and was nearly violated.

The reason Sun Wukong hadn't taken the people away immediately was to secure this hard evidence, so the Prefect couldn't be biased or deny it later.

"Release their immobilization," Tang An said, glancing back at the Prefect, Lady Shangguan.

Lady Shangguan was so terrified she knelt down immediately, not daring to speak out of turn.

Sun Wukong nodded and immediately released the two from their immobilization.

"Little lady~" the Prefect's son said, still trying to pounce toward the bed.

Tang An grabbed him and, with a "slap," gave him a loud smack across the face.

The Prefect's son was knocked back several steps and fell onto a stool.

"You, you dare hit this..." When he saw how many people were in the room, he was clearly bewildered.

Especially since his father was kneeling on the ground, desperately signaling him with his eyes not to act rashly again.

"Who are you people?"

"Dad, why are you kneeling to them? Get up quickly."

Tang An interlaced her fingers and flexed her wrists. "You don't need to do anything; I'll handle it myself."

The Prefect's son was confused, "You woman, you're quite sharp-tongued."

"You're not bad-looking either; why not join me and the beauty to enjoy..."

"Slap!" This time, Tang An used the Merit Golden Brick to strike him.

With just one hit, the Prefect's son spat out broken teeth and blood foam.

He clutched his face and pointed angrily at Tang An. "You, you actually dare to hit this young master?"

Tang An chuckled, "You are the first person to call himself a young master in front of this Palace, and even dare to harass this Palace."

"Prefect, you've raised a good son." Tang An rarely felt genuine anger.

The Prefect, Lady Shangguan, quickly crawled over on her knees to shield her son.

"Princess, I beg the Princess to show mercy." She had watched with her own eyes how her own arm had been lost, so she couldn't let her son lose his arm too.

"Princess? You're actually a princess? Which small country's princess are you?"

I don't know if he was too stupid or too bold, but even like this, he still didn't take Tang An seriously.

"A small country?"

Tang An laughed out loud, "You dare harass this Princess and even call my Great Tang a tiny, insignificant country."

"Prefect, oh Prefect, it seems the heads of your nine clans will have to fall today no matter what."

Saying this, Tang An took out paper and pen, "This Palace will write to the Emperor right now and see if the Emperor sentences you to immediate execution or execution after autumn."

"Princess, Princess!!!"

Lady Shangguan was kowtowing until her forehead was nearly broken, "My son was spoiled by his mother; he just didn't recognize who he was dealing with, he truly had no intention of offending the Princess."

The Prefect's son seemed to finally realize what weight a Great Tang Princess carried.

"Dad, Dad."

"Why did you bring a Great Tang Princess to our house?"

The Prefect turned and pulled at him, not letting him speak nonsense anymore.

But the Prefect's son was clearly spoiled rotten, fearing neither heaven nor earth.

"Even if you are a Great Tang Princess, so what? This place is my Fengxian Prefecture."

"My Shangguan family is the true king of Fengxian Prefecture!"

"Good, very good." Tang An took out a robe and draped it over the beautiful woman, "Yang Jian, take her to find her husband, and then send them both home quietly."

The beautiful woman gripped Tang An's hand and shook her head at her.

"A powerful dragon finds it hard to suppress a local snake; Princess, please don't suffer a loss here."

Tang An patted her hand, signaling her not to worry.

"No matter if his Shangguan family is a dragon or a snake, they have to coil up obediently in front of this Palace."

"Rest assured, the Shangguan family will pay the price for their actions."

"You go back with your husband, and don't mention the Shangguan Mansion again in the future. Don't let this memory ruin your reputation and your life."

"I will give your family an explanation."

The beautiful woman was still worried, but seeing Tang An so determined, she had no strength to persuade her further and could only follow Yang Jian to find her husband.

When the Prefect's son saw the beauty leave, he shouted "Beauty" and tried to chase after her.

The Golden Brick in Tang An's hand changed into a wolf-tooth club. A fiery red light flashed on the club, and with lightning speed, she swung it toward the Prefect's son's abdomen.

"Bang!"

Where the Prefect's son landed, the tables and chairs were all shattered to pieces.

Before he could even speak, he spat out several mouthfuls of blood and fainted.

"Son, son~"

Lady Shangguan quickly stepped forward to support him, "Quick, quickly call the mansion doctor."

"Let's see who dares." Tang An stood the wolf-tooth club in front of her. "Whoever moves, he will be your best outcome."

The servants watching from outside were all silent as cicadas in winter, not daring to move.

"Princess, even if you are a Great Tang Princess, you cannot disregard my son's life!"

"Disregard?" Tang An found a stool and sat down, "Your son forcibly abducted another man's wife, was that not wrong?"

"Your son was disrespectful to this Palace, can that also be forgiven?"

"And this Palace merely hit him twice, and that becomes disregarding his life?"

"Then this Palace must ask the Prefect properly: your son abducted a woman, and you locked her husband in prison for three years; what kind of logic is that?"

"Is it just as your son said, that your Shangguan family is the king of Fengxian Prefecture?"

Lady Shangguan couldn't answer for a moment; she was burning with anxiety but couldn't do anything to Tang An.

"Princess, you don't know, this whole thing was a misunderstanding from start to finish."

"Oh?" Tang An took out her tea set and poured herself a cup of tea.

"Then this Palace must listen carefully to what kind of misunderstanding it is."

Seeing that there was hope for an explanation, the Prefect immediately told Tang An the whole story.

It turned out that three years ago, his son was bullying men and women, and the woman's husband came to the mansion, at which point he already had the intention to discipline his son.

But his wife was too protective, and during their argument, they knocked over the Jade Emperor's offerings, which led to the three-year drought in Fengxian Prefecture.

He knew his sins were heavy and was very afraid of his wife, so to protect the two of them, he could only lock up the husband and keep the beautiful woman in the courtyard, sending people to watch her day and night.

Although the couple had been locked in the Prefect's mansion for three years, the beautiful woman had not been violated, and her husband was still alive and well.

"That's it?"

"That's the whole explanation?"

Tang An laughed speechlessly, "Why, do you think you're very reasonable? Should this Palace praise you for doing the right thing? Is that it?"

"No, no, no..." Lady Shangguan quickly knelt down to beg for mercy, "The official just wanted to explain the situation, hoping the Princess will show mercy outside the law and spare my wife and son's lives."

Tang An took a deep breath and questioned, "Your wife and son's lives are lives, but other people's wives and children's lives are not?"

"Can the unprovoked disaster of the people of Fengxian Prefecture be offset just because you protected the lives of your wife and son?" ===== CHAPTER 338 =====