Xu Chong's heart was beating like a drum, and it felt like it might jump out of his chest at any time, especially when he saw his wife answering according to Gao Ping's words. She was about to fall into Gao Ping's trap. His heart was in his throat, but Gao Ping had already blocked his mouth. He wanted to tell his wife not to do anything stupid, but he couldn't. He could only widen his eyes and let out a dull roar, then jumped up and kicked Zhang Tuiguan desperately.
This insignificant official was the cause of all this! If it weren't for him, everything would have been reduced to a minor issue. Who would have started a war over a corpse of unknown origin, and even implicated all of them? !
It’s all because of this ignorant little official!
Tui Guan Zhang expressionlessly avoided Xu Chong's legs and glanced at him coldly. These upper class people were really ridiculous. They treated other people who got in their way like ants. When they were unhappy, they would cut off people's livelihoods and cut off people's fingers, as if they were just chopping melons and vegetables at ordinary times.
They are arrogant and do not regard people who are inferior to them as human beings. However, once something happens to them, they cannot tolerate even the slightest scratch.
Grandma Xu couldn't help but burst into tears when she saw her husband's crazy look.
Gao Ping's eyebrows jumped, fearing that things would change again, and asked coldly and impatiently: "You are not Li, then why did Aunt Shen keep saying that you are Li?! Did you live in Shenjia Village back then? Tell the truth! Otherwise, now that the matter involves human lives and the Zhennan Palace, don't blame me for being ruthless!"
Xu Huixian didn't even dare to cry. She looked at her mother with a dazed mind, not knowing how things had turned out like this.
Grandma Xu sobbed and cried, "Sir! The one who died was Li!"
Everyone was shocked.
Xu Chong let out a breath that he had been holding in his throat heavily, and he finally stopped pouncing and biting like a mad dog. He stared blankly at Grandma Xu, as if thinking about something.
Tuiguan Zhang glanced at him and frowned.
Gao Ping also immediately frowned, looked at Grandma Xu for a while, and a sneer escaped from his throat.
If it is proven that Grandma Xu is from the Li clan and a member of the Demon Queen's clan, and that she killed the descendants of the Prince of Zhennan's Mansion in order to conceal her identity, then the Xu family will absolutely not be able to make a comeback this time.
Of course, he would not easily believe what Grandma Xu said, so he sneered: "Young Lord denied it before, insisting that you never knew any Li, and never lived in Shenjia Village. Now listening to what you said, it is clear that what Grandma Shen said is true. It is true that you lived in Shenjia Village, and you know the identity of the body under the tree! You still dare to say that this matter has nothing to do with you!? You still dare to say that you are not Li?! I think you are trying to shirk responsibility now that there is no evidence?!"
Grandma Xu's lips had been bitten and were bleeding. She looked pale and haggard, shook her head, and knelt on the ground: "No, sir, our uncle is afraid... afraid that what happened back then would be leaked..."
Gao Ping immediately asked, "What happened back then?!"
Xu Chong seemed to have realized something and stopped making a fuss, staring at his wife closely.
Grandma Xu covered her face with her sleeves and cried: "Your Excellency, I... I did live in Shenjia Village for more than half a year. At that time, the henchmen of the deposed emperor had been searching for me, the one who escaped the net. I could only hide in Shenjia Village with the remaining loyal servants, hoping to avoid the disaster and wait for my aunt to come..."
She whimpered, looking extremely pitiful. "Shenjia Village was indeed remote and the people were simple, so I hid for a long time. But who would have thought... who would have thought that after a while, a girl suddenly fell down in our hiding place, saying that she was being hunted down. She was unconscious, and the servants were afraid that if she died outside, it would attract pursuers, so they could only keep her temporarily. She woke up after several days, saying that her last name was Li, and that she was being hunted down because she accidentally killed someone... We couldn't reveal our own identities, so we had to hide her as well."
Qi took off her sleeves, her eyes blurred with tears: "But who would have thought that one night, I found her trying to stand me up, and then I realized that she was not an ordinary person."
Gao Ping raised his eyebrows, said "oh" and asked, "Then what?"
"Then..." Qi's lips trembled, looking very aggrieved: "Then we had an argument. It turned out that she was from the Li clan of the demon queen. The so-called being hunted was actually being hunted by people who had been framed by the Li family. She secretly released the pigeon to contact the Li family and catch us to make merit. I was frightened and panicked at that time. How could I dare to confront her head-on? I pretended to calm her down, but she still wanted to escape at night to report it. That's when I..."
Xu Huixian couldn't believe it. This matter was full of twists and turns, and it was many times more exciting and tortuous than a play.
It turns out that my mother had such a story in her past. She even killed someone...
Xu Chong also opened his eyes wide.
He understood why Qi was so bold to come to Shuntian Prefecture.
This was not a decision that the cowardly Qi could make, nor was it a method or words that Qi could think of.
This should be what my father and Qi Yunxi meant.
But even if that's the case, what can it do? Xu Chong was puzzled, and even found it difficult to breathe. Looking at Grandma Xu, he felt something rolling in his chest, which almost made him feel sick.
Gao Ping remained calm. What Xu Chong could see, he could see too. It was obvious that Qi's current statements were all guided by someone else. Thinking of the news brought by Zhang Tuiguan that Ding Cheng and others had been silenced, he tapped his fingers on the table and sneered, "Really? Then you killed people to protect yourself, and you killed the Demon Queen's clan. After the current emperor ascended the throne, it was clearly stipulated that anyone who is the descendant of the Demon Queen can be killed. You are not even guilty of murder."
It's Xu Shun indeed.
The older he gets, the stronger he becomes, and the more shrewd he becomes.
The situation was clearly so urgent, yet he was able to think of such a solution in such a short time.
Grandma Xu sobbed softly, "We had no choice. At that time, the deposed queen was very powerful. If she escaped, I would be the one to die. So I killed her and buried her under a big tree. Later, because I received a letter from my aunt, the servants took me away at night to avoid any more trouble..."
Gao Ping stared at the pitiful Grandma Xu calmly, uttered an "oh", and asked meaningfully: "So, as you said, you got these things from the demon queen later, and they were also obtained from this Li?"