After reading my mind, Daddy, why don't you smile?

Lord Xu smiled, tilted his head and bowed, "Didn't I ask you to..."

Just as he finished speaking, on his right, the only legitimate daughter of the current emperor, the prince's biological sister, and the wife of the aforementioned pillar of the Chu State, Princess Chengqian, spoke up, "Are you calling me?"

Lord Xu smiled humbly, "I'm not calling you!"

"I am summoning the suspect's parents..."

"I am the thief who has committed many crimes..."

Lord Xu looked at Shangguan Shu with dull eyes.

Next, on the right...

"I am a fickle, shameless person!"

"belch……"

Lord Xu's heart stopped suddenly, he twitched twice, rolled his eyes and fell down.

"Sir!" The lawyer screamed in surprise, but did not dare to step forward.

The hall was completely silent.

Qian Xiaoliu and Fan Ren widened their eyes in disbelief and said repeatedly: "Impossible...Impossible..."

Everyone in the audience knelt down with their foreheads on the ground, not daring to look up, their bodies shaking like sieves.

Zhao Ying glanced around the hall expressionlessly, and everyone felt uneasy.

However, Zhao Ying said nothing, but softened her brows and waved to Jiang Youhou, "Qi You, come over here, mother..."

Jiang Youhou stepped forward, "Mother..."

To Qian Xiaoliu and Fan Ren, these two words were like two sharp swords piercing their chests.

Qian Xiaoliu and Fan Ren lost their last bit of hope.

They watched Jiang Youhou walk towards Zhao Ying with despair.

He is really the third son of the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion...

He really is...

Qian Xiaoliu's tears were streaming down his face. He kowtowed and admitted his mistake immediately. "Princess, please spare me. I was careless for a moment and it was not intentional...Princess, please spare me, please spare me!"

He then said to Jiang Youhou: "Please forgive me, Third Young Master! I was blind and offended you!"

Beside him, Fan Ren was already scared silly. He felt a wetness from under his body, and then smelly urine flowed out. The servant kneeling behind him grinned at the sight, but dared not move.

Jiang Youhou walked up to Zhao Ying and finally couldn't hold back his tears, "Mother..."

"What's wrong? Tell mother what wrong you've suffered?"

"Mother... my father was murdered. You must help me find the culprit and avenge my father!"

Zhao Ying wiped Jiang Youhou's tears with heartache.

"Qi You, don't worry, mother..."

Before Zhao Ying finished speaking, a dead body in the hall slowly sat up...

The dead body mentioned by Jiang Youhou came back to life...

Zhao Ying: ...

At the same time, the sharp cry of the little baby rang in the minds of Shangguan Shu, Zhao Ying, and Jiang Youhou at the same time, [Ah——]

【It’s a fake corpse!!!】

Shangguan Qingyue was like a little mouse that had encountered a cat, desperately trying to get into his father’s arms, [Ahhhhhhhh——]

Shangguan Shu was also stunned.

Immediately afterwards, horrific screams broke out throughout the Jingzhao Yin Yamen.

When everyone saw this, they immediately became chaotic.

"It's a fake corpse! It's a fake corpse!"

"Master, don't worry and go! We will burn paper for you!"

The most frightened person here was Fan Ren. He retreated while crying, "Uncle, I didn't kill you. If you want to seek revenge, go find my aunt. It was her! It wasn't me. Don't look for me!"

Jiang Youhou turned around in disbelief, and seeing the familiar figure, he murmured, "Father..."

Amidst the chaos, Jiang Bisheng knelt down towards Zhao Ying.

Zhao Ying recovered a little, but he was still panicking. However, he pretended to be calm.

Jiang Bisheng: "Princess, please forgive me. I did not intentionally lie..."

Jiang Youhou finally confirmed that Jiang Bisheng was still alive. He turned from sadness to joy, ran towards Jiang Bisheng, threw himself into his arms, and cried with joy, "Father, you are not dead! Woohoo! That's great!"

Jiang Bisheng hugged Jiang Youhou and said, "Father is not dead..."

Jiang Youhou then remembered that he had just accidentally seen Jiang Bisheng moving. He thought it was an illusion, but it turned out to be real.

Shangguan Shu patted Shangguan Qingyue and said, "Don't be afraid, it's not a fake corpse."

The little guy finally calmed down and secretly glanced behind him.

[Really not dead...]

[Not a dead person...]

[Why did he pretend to be dead? Pretending to be dead is fun, right? ]

[Then I’ll try it next time…]

Jiang Youhou sobbed and asked, "Father, if you are fine, why are you pretending to be..."

Jiang Bisheng glanced at Jiang Youhou, then at Zhao Ying and Shangguan Shu. He knew that these two big shots were also curious about the reason.

Jiang Bisheng pushed Jiang Youhou aside and kowtowed.

"Princess, His Majesty..."

Jiang Bisheng then slowly explained the reason.

It turned out that not long after the fire started, Jiang Bisheng woke up due to suffocation. When he opened his eyes, he found Mrs. Jiang lying on him.

Mrs. Jiang was fat, and when she lay on him she covered him tightly.

At that time, Mrs. Jiang was still breathing.

Seeing this, Jiang Bisheng wanted to push Mrs. Jiang away, but Mrs. Jiang held him tightly. He didn't know why, but his body felt sore and weak, and he couldn't push her away no matter what he did.

Mrs. Jiang suddenly smiled when she saw that he woke up.

"I just feel that... God will not... let a good person like you... not have a good end..."

"Pan Niang, what do you mean?"

"Da Lang...I have misled you in this life..."

"In my next life, I will... no longer be a human being."

After saying this, Mrs. Jiang lost her breath, and no matter how Jiang Bisheng called her, she couldn't be woken up. It seemed that she wanted to apologize to him while she was still alive.

"Pan Niang, wake up!"

"Mother Pan, I don't need you to save me!"

Even though Jiang Bisheng already hated Mrs. Jiang to the extreme, he felt heartbroken at this moment.

He watched Fan Pandi's back being burned by the flames, and it was as red as the first time he saw her, she was wearing a washed-out red dress, and she stood timidly in front of him.

Later he found out that it was her best dress.

She once said that she didn't like being called Pan Di, she liked the name of her neighbor's sister, Yan Hong.

Sadly, not only was she unable to scream, but her lifelong beauty was also sucked away.

Jiang Bisheng waited for rescue in the raging flames. During this time, he had figured out everything, so he pretended to be dead in order to lure the snake out of its hole.

Unexpectedly, he discovered Jiang Youhou's background.

With this background, Jiang Bisheng believed that no one would dare to slander his descendants, so he woke up with relief.

Everything went smoothly afterwards. Shangguan Shu had the Jingzhao Yin woken up and forced him to try the case truthfully. Fan Ren was sentenced and beheaded.

After the case was tried, Lord Xu was almost dismissed.

It doesn’t matter that he is disabled, what makes him desperate is that his official career is completely over.

Immediately afterwards, Qian Xiaoliu was sentenced to 160 lashes with the cane, setting the highest precedent for beatings in the Chu State.

The sentence was well-reasoned and based on facts. According to the words "fickle, shameless, sneaky, and full of evil", the punishment was ten strokes of the cane.

As a result, after being hit more than ten times, the man died.

When she was being beaten with the stick, Shangguan Qingyue opened her little mouth, fiddled with her little fingers, and counted the sticks one by one. Although the runners could not hear her words, the lawyer next to her was staring at her lip movements carefully.

[One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten...fifteen, fifteen, fifteen, fifteen...]

Shangguan Shu twitched his lips, "Sixteen..."

【Oh... sixteen, sixteen, sixteen...】

Shangguan Shu: ...

Shangguan Shu: “Twenty.”

The little guy shook his head at him, [No, no, the number after sixteen is nineteen! ]

The little guy looked at his father with disdain, "Daddy, can't you count?"

Shangguan Shu: ...

Shangguan Qingyue seemed to have discovered a treasure, and hurried to Zhao Ying, her little mouth moving, "Mommy, mommy, daddy doesn't know how to count!"

Zhao Ying: ? ?

Shangguan Shu: ...