Qingyu Case: Female Minister of Dali Temple

"I was wrong, I know I was wrong," Shi Xing kowtowed repeatedly, "Please have mercy, sir, I will never dare to do it again next time."

"Next time?" Chen Shao sneered twice, not wanting to waste time talking to him, "Tell me, where did you get these clothes and jewelry?"

Shi Xing did not dare to hide it any longer and confessed honestly: "They are all their clothes and jewelry."

Chen Shao asked coldly: "Who are they?"

"they are……"

"Sir," Ding Lisheng walked into the second hall cautiously, and after quickly glancing at Shi Xing, Hu Lilan and the others, he said quickly, "The common people who petitioned for him are here again, as well as Zhao Qiang from Fulai Commercial Bank, Tao A-mei's two brothers, Tao Xiaolan, Ma Dali and the others."

Chen Shao glanced at Shi Xing and said, "Please let them in!"

"I killed all of them. They don't know anything," Shi Xing kowtowed and cried like a madman after Ding Lisheng passed away. "Please have mercy on them, sir. Please let them go."

Seeing him kowtow like this, Hu Lilan and Shi Hui followed suit and kowtowed too.

"If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have done it in the first place!" Chen Shao said harshly, but he still ordered Fu Jiu, "Take them to the side hall and keep a close watch on them. No one is allowed to come out without my order!"

"I know I am wrong... Thank you for your mercy!" Shi Xing cried and laughed, "Thank you for your mercy!"

"Brother Xing..."

"Listen to the adults and go quickly! No one of you should come out without the adults' orders." Shi Xing raised his hand, wiped the tears from Hu Lilan's face, looked at Shi Hui and said, "Your mother and An'er are in your hands. Take good care of them."

"Don't worry, Second Uncle," Shi Hui said with red eyes. After helping Hu Lilan up, she pulled Shi An up as well. "Even if it costs me my life, I will definitely take good care of mother and An'er!"

"Good boy, it's your uncle who is sorry for you, go quickly." Shi Xing shed tears.

"Brother Xing," Hu Lilan was reluctant to leave, "Just let Ah Hui take care of An'er. You'll be too lonely alone. I'll stay with you."

"Dad, Mom, and Big Brother are all waiting for me to apologize down there, how could I be alone?" Shi Xing forced a smile, "You should go quickly, Ah Hui has suffered so much with us for so many years, we can't delay her any longer."

Hu Lilan looked back at Shi Hui, then held back her tears and pulled Shi An over: "An'er, come here and kowtow to your father."

Shi An didn't know what was going on. He obediently went forward and kowtowed three times to Shi Xing, then stood up and pulled Hu Lilan, saying, "Mom, stop crying."

"Go quickly." Looking at the people who were already coming this way, Shi Xing urged.

After watching Fu Jiu lead the people into the side hall, Shi Xing kowtowed to Chen Shao gratefully, "Thank you very much for your kindness, sir."

Chen Shao said coldly: "It's too early to show mercy now. Whether they can leave the prefectural government depends first on whether they have committed a crime, and secondly on whether you will confess honestly!"

The second hall is not big.

After the people who came in the morning and the families of several victims came in, except for the small space occupied by Shi Xing, all other places were occupied.

Chen Shao knocked the gavel twice, and when the voices gradually quieted down, she raised her voice slightly and said, "The trial will begin now. Everyone, be quiet! Tao Ming, Xu Xianmin, Sun Qi and others, please take care of the elders. If anyone can't hold on, help them go outside to get some fresh air immediately!"

Tao Ming and other students responded in unison.

Chen Shao knocked the gavel twice again, signaling Shi Xing: "You can continue speaking."

Shi Xing kowtowed vigorously and said truthfully: "I was the one who killed the man."

The crowd was instantly in an uproar.

There was an endless stream of various curses and questions.

Chen Shao knocked the gavel hard several times before the crowd gradually quieted down. "Why do you want to kill them?"

Why kill them?

Shi Xing was silent for a long time before he slowly answered: "At first I just wanted to vent my anger, but later I felt they deserved to die."

"She doesn't deserve to die!" Tao A-mei's eldest and second brothers asked angrily when they heard this.

Shi Xing didn't know them. When he heard such a question, he answered calmly: "They are arrogant and domineering, unreasonable, disrespectful to the elderly, and unvirtuous. They are black-hearted and rotten at a young age... I know that killing people is wrong, but everyone I killed was an evil person hated by everyone in their village!"

Tao A-mei's second brother said with bloodshot eyes: "You are talking nonsense, our A-mei..."

Chen Shao knocked the gavel to stop him from speaking, then looked at Shi Xing and told him the whole story of how Zhao Tianhai and Zhao Qiang staged a show to help Tao A-mei get back the land that originally belonged to them.

After hearing this, Shi Xing denied it stiffly, "It's impossible. I have been asking around in Zhaojia Village for so long and have never heard of any drama."

"To find out?" Chen Shao's eyes flashed with a cold light. "Are you admitting that your purpose of going to various villages and towns to help those students or those with unfortunate lives was to find out the details of those you killed?"

Shi Xing's heart tightened instinctively, and he subconsciously wanted to deny it, but then he saw the spirit tablets and could only admit, "Yes."

The crowd was in uproar again.

Li Tianliu impatiently snatched the gavel and slammed it hard, "Quiet!"

Chen Shao looked at him, then at the quiet people, and said mockingly: "Do you know what these people standing behind you are doing?"

Shi Xing didn't look back, but he had already heard many familiar voices.

They were all people he had helped with work.

He could think of no other reason for their coming here than to expose him, and he had indeed heard them cursing at their utmost.

"They came here," Chen Shao said word by word, "initially to petition me to let you go!"

Shi Xing looked up suddenly.

Chen Shao sneered: "Don't believe it?"

Shi Xing didn't say anything. He really wanted to look back, but he didn't dare.

Chen Shao insisted on stabbing him twice. After repeating word for word what they had said in the lobby in the morning to praise him, he said coldly in his stiff gaze, "Continue to explain. On July 13, the sixth year of Yuanhe, you committed your first crime. You killed Zhou Lan, a 51-year-old from Daye Village. You just said that you started killing people to vent your hatred. What hatred did you vent? Whose hatred did you vent?"

Shi Xing was still immersed in the emotion that they were all here to plead for him. When he heard the question, he almost instinctively answered, "To vent the Xue family's hatred."

Chen Shao questioned: "How did the Xue family offend you? Why did you kill Zhou Lan to vent the Xue family's hatred?"

"The Xue family... my parents finally came to the county town, but the Xue family not only took away the chickens, ducks, fish and meat I prepared to welcome them, but also occupied the house I prepared for them. They wanted to drive them out to live in a donkey pen, calling them dirty peasants," Shi Xing's emotions had just come out of the joint petition, and he fell into distant memories again. "My parents were so angry that they wanted to leave immediately, but they stopped them and snatched their bags, saying that they must have stolen valuables and were in a hurry to leave, and they also threatened to report my parents to the police.

"After my father and mother returned empty-handed, they fell ill one after another. Not long after, my father passed away. I wanted to go back to mourn for my father, but they wouldn't let me. They even threatened me with the lives of my mother and my eldest brother."

Chen Shao: "So, you killed Zhou Lan to vent your anger?"