Anyone else might have believed Li San’s explanation. However, Lord God Hunter Ji Youzhi was also present today! Moreover, with several mbers of the Ji Family present, no one missed the look in Li San’s eyes.
"You can’t rember, is that it? Then allow to help you recall your itinerary for today and how the bloodstains on your clothes appeared." A cold sneer touched the corners of Ji Youzhi’s lips.
"This robe you’re wearing, it looks newly made and recently put on, doesn’t it?"
Li San was astonished. "How did you know?"
"If it’s newly made, then it’s impossible for the bloodstains on it to have been acquired before the end of the fifth watch this morning. Of course, since no chickens were killed or sheep slaughtered at your ho today, the bloodstains also couldn’t have co from there."
Li San was even more surprised, his temples throbbing.
"After you left ho and ca to the Governnt Office for work, you spent the entire morning busy sweeping and tidying the courtyard. Later, you helped Chief Constable Wang and the others maintain order, ensuring the nearby villagers lined up to register and claim their children, correct?"
Li San nodded vigorously.
"Yes, that’s correct. So, in doing all this, did I do sothing wrong? Lord God Hunter, you’ve arrested and are holding here for trial; what is the reasoning for this?"
"I heard you are quite well-liked in this Governnt Office because you have a keen eye and are very clever."
"You overpraise , My Lord. This lowly one is rely doing his duty."
"It’s precisely because you are too clever. So, at noon today, when a child accidentally bumped into a village woman—that village woman who claid to be the mother of so ’Little Lucky Charm’ and boasted she was about to strike it rich—and demanded the child kneel and kowtow to her, the child refused. You thought the child was easy to bully, so you went to press her down and make her kneel, is that right?"
Li San’s body trembled, and he kowtowed, shaking. "Lord God Hunter, spare my life! This lowly one didn’t know that child was the Princess! Don’t people say that the ignorant are not to be blad? Please, I beg you, spare this lowly one!"
"Spare you? Has anyone here said you were to be punished?" Ji Youzhi sneered, grabbed Li San by the collar, and stared intently into his eyes.
Looking at Ji Youzhi’s hawk-like eyes, Li San felt as if his very soul was being crushed. "If... if you’re not convicting , then... then why did Your Lordship bring this lowly one here?" Li San stamred.
Ji Youzhi sneered and released him. "Naturally, it’s for another case. The Princess accidentally bumped into that village woman. Unexpectedly, that woman, being malicious-hearted, tried to throw her weight around, shouting that she would have the Princess beaten to death. She even proclaid she would have the National Master throw the Princess’s family into the great jail. This matter ca to His Majesty’s attention, who decided on a small punishnt to serve as a large lesson, ordering the Princess to handle it herself. The Princess, being kind-hearted, decided to play a ga of ’house’ with the woman. She dug a small pit and buried the woman in it. As long as the woman could get out on her own, the matter would be considered settled."
The mont Ji Youzhi said this, the entire hall erupted in an uproar. Even the young Emperor, sitting behind the ’Mirror of Justice Hung High’ plaque, couldn’t help but let the corner of his mouth twitch.
When it ca to doting on his niece, Youzhi was truly second to none. For Xiaosuisui’s future reputation, he had actually gone to such great lengths to spin this tale.
If it were him, he would have just stated the facts. He was the Emperor; what was the big deal about killing soone? Especially such a venomous woman with a malicious heart!
As the young Emperor was thinking this, Ji Youzhi’s voice continued. "This matter was originally nothing serious. The person was buried, the Princess left, and all that venomous woman had to do was get herself out. After all, the Princess is young and her strength is limited. How well could she have buried soone? The dirt didn’t even cover the top of the other person’s head!"
The mont Ji Youzhi said this, the few people present who had witnessed it were dumbfounded, especially County Magistrate Wu.
He desperately wanted to remind Ji Youzhi: Lord God Hunter, you are completely mistaken! The Princess’s strength is not small at all! The dirt on that woman wasn’t just ’not covering her head’; it was piled high above it! After the Princess finished covering her with dirt, she even deliberately stomped on it a couple of tis!
User Comments
0 comments from readers