First-rank palace maid Su Jixiang

Chapter 119 Your Father's Evidence

Su Jixiang was happy to see Wei Ling was satisfied with the meal.

Su Jixiang is an orphan who grew up under the care of the country, so she joined the army to serve her motherland. In her previous life, she had received too much kindness and gifts from people she had never met, so she always wanted to find a way to give back to everyone. After retiring, she chose to be a chef because she likes cooking and wants to bring glory to the country in this field.

She likes to see the satisfied expressions on other people's faces when they eat the food she cooks.

This is her achievement!

"Once I have all the molds ready, the results will probably be even better." Su Jixiang said with a smile.

"Then I believe it!" Wei Ling nodded.

"Hey! You two adulterers!" Ye Shizhi, who was tied up on the side, couldn't stand it anymore. He saw that Wei Ling and Su Jixiang had an expression that they didn't take him seriously at all, and they were eating and laughing as if no one was around. He felt that he had been greatly insulted!

After all, he is more or less an assassin!

What's going on? Even an interrogation?

How much you look down on him!

Su Jixiang looked back and met Ye Shizhi's fiery eyes, but the boy's mentality was still a little unstable. Although his eyes were fierce, he would still glance at the cake in Wei Ling's hand from time to time.

Damn, this stuff looks really delicious!

And it smells so good!

He was very hungry. The damned thief Wei Ling had tied him to a pillar since he woke up, and ignored him. He hadn't had any water or food for a long time. He was really hungry and thirsty. But they were eating such delicious food in front of him, which made him even hungrier and more thirsty!

He kept cursing, and his throat was smoking!

"Who are you calling the adulterer and the adulteress?" Su Jixiang asked unhappily, picking his ears.

"You and Wei Ling are bastards!" The young man's face turned red with anger.

"Oh, I'm sorry to disappoint you." Su Jixiang shrugged. "He and I are married in a formal ceremony, understand? We are a legal couple! Understand? Boy, you are not very old, why do you have such bad breath? What did you eat to grow up? I didn't want to pay attention to you, but since you even scolded me, I am a little dissatisfied."

"Come on, let's celebrate." Su Jixiang dragged a round stool and sat not too far from the boy. She noticed that the boy was always looking at the cake from time to time, so she deliberately scooped out a small piece of cake and put it on a small plate. She shook the cake in her hand while speaking.

Ye Shizhi's attention was indeed attracted by the cake in Su Jixiang's hand.

"Is there any evidence of his father's guilt?" Su Jixiang turned to look at Wei Ling and asked.

"Yes. Here." Wei Ling held the small plate with cake in his hand, but he didn't put it down. Instead, he pointed towards the table with his mouth.

Su Jixiang...I don't want to bother with him!

Su Jixiang still picked up the booklet on Wei Ling's desk.

As expected, this booklet specifically recorded the evidence of the former county magistrate’s crimes.

"Oh? In the sixth year of Emperor Jing's reign, there was a severe drought in Mangcheng, and the people had almost no harvest in the autumn. Not only did your father collect grain, but he also used the name of collecting grain to buy and sell decent women on a large scale, and then secretly sold them to the Turks as slaves..." Su Jixiang became furious after just one look.

"This was done by a human? How dare your father call himself a parent official?" Su Jixiang wanted to throw the whole booklet in Ye Shizhi's face after reading only this one sentence. "Just the illegal trafficking of human beings and forcing his own citizens to become slaves of other races is enough to sentence your father to death!"

"My father would never do such a thing!" Ye Shizhi was stunned, then roared.

In his mind, his father was kind and knowledgeable, and it was his father who personally taught him at home.

"Haha! Just because you think he couldn't have done it doesn't mean he really didn't do it!" Su Jixiang turned the book over and showed it to him, "It contains the confession and fingerprints of the farmer who was forced to sell his daughter! You can't deny it!"

Ye Shizhi's face suddenly fell, "You are the ones who framed my father!"

"Young man, don't make false accusations without any evidence!" Su Jixiang said angrily, "You said Wei Ling framed your father, where is the evidence?"

"At that time, in order to rebel, of course he had to fabricate a reason to kill my father!" Ye Shizhi said with red eyes.

"You also said that he was rebelling. If he was rebelling, it would be fine to kill your whole family. Why did they only kill your father and not you? Do you think he doesn't know the principle of cutting the grass at its roots?" Su Jixiang snorted coldly. "Don't think you are so smart. Others are not stupider than you!"

Su Jixiang’s words left Ye Shizhi speechless for a moment.

When his father was beheaded by Wei Ling, he was less than ten years old. After so many years, he was only a little over fourteen years old. Although he did not see what happened with his own eyes, he heard the fighting outside the door, the sound breaking through the sky.

He was hidden in the woodshed by his mother, but was dragged out soon. When he was dragged into the yard, his father was already dead and his mother had fainted from fright.

It was one night. The surrounding torches illuminated the entire yard. The place where he used to play had become very unfamiliar.

Standing in the yard were those peasants whom he would normally never even glance at. They were dressed in tattered clothes, but each of them looked excited. The torches in their hands shone so brightly that he could hardly see their faces. There was only one person standing in front of everyone else. He had black hair and black clothes. His face was cold and beautiful, like a beautiful demon crawling out of hell.

The man was now sitting behind the desk, holding a small plate of cake and tasting it in small bites with satisfaction.

His movements were graceful and slow, and he didn't seem like the same person that night!

Everyone else in the yard was clamoring to kill him and his mother as well. He still remembers the deafening roar that night.

The man who was eating now raised the knife dripping with blood in his hand, causing the people around him to suddenly quiet down. "Every wrong has its perpetrator, and the debt has its creditor. The perpetrator is dead, and the disaster has not affected his wife and children. If we don't even let go of the women and children in his family, what difference will there be between us and beasts like them?"

Ye Shizhi remembered what Wei Ling said that night...

So he and his mother survived, but were expelled from Mangcheng and their home.

In the darkness of the night, he watched a fire break out in his former home. The flames quickly shot up into the sky, illuminating the path he was leaving on.

"What are you thinking about?" Su Jixiang saw Ye Shizhi in a daze and couldn't help asking, "Are you thinking about whether your father did anything wrong? If it's really hard for you to think, I have a few more charges against your father. Do you want to listen to them? I'll help you recall them."