A body, covered in white cloth, lay before them, surrounded by several weeping women.
A middle-aged man dressed in scarlet official robes stood there, his expression blank and full of pain, looking worn and on the brink of collapse.
Court officials wore slightly different official robes; Li Nuo could infer from the emblem on this man's robes that he was the Assistant Minister Zongzheng.
Earlier in the carriage, Housekeeper Wu had told him that the person who was accidentally killed by Yiren was indeed the son of the Assistant Minister Zongzheng.
Under normal circumstances of title inheritance, by the generation of the Fengyang county son, it should have been a Second-class Fengyang County Marquis.
The Assistant Minister Zongzheng, originally a First-class Duke of Daxia, had his only son commit a capital crime. After passing the title to his son and reducing it by one class to spare him from the death penalty, only the title of county son remained.
