Born a phoenix? The husband I picked up is the young emperor

Chapter 1723

The rain splashed muddy water on the bluestone slabs.

Madam Chi opened her mouth, her dry lips trembling, but she could not utter a decent rebuttal. She tilted her body and fell straight into the rain like a dead tree.

"Mother!"

"grandmother!"

Cries of surprise rose one after another in front of the mourning hall, but no one actually came forward to help.

Shi Anxia lowered her eyes and looked at the old woman curled up in the rain. Her voice was even colder than the autumn rain under the eaves. "Old Madam Chi is not feeling well. She should be directly involved in this poisoning case. Come here, press her hand to sign."

Everyone was stunned. It was the first time they saw someone lying so blatantly in public.

Madam Chi didn't dare to pretend anymore after hearing this, and she actually got up. The rain flowed down her messy hair, leaving grooves on her face. "It wasn't me! I didn't participate in the poisoning! Qing'er is my son, my biological eldest son, how could I poison him?"

Shao knew that she couldn't escape, so she had to drag someone down with her. "Yes, you didn't poison the place yourself. But the deeds to the three shops in East City were given to you by Ying Ruolan. You've been wearing gold and silver all these years, but you sucked the blood of your own son!"

“I don’t know!” the old lady screamed, her toothless mouth looking like a black hole. “At the beginning, Ying Ruolan only said that this was a tribute to her mother-in-law!”

Shao suddenly laughed shrilly, her laughter mixed with the sound of rain was particularly piercing, "My eldest brother has children, and Ying Ruolan is married, so what kind of mother-in-law are you to her?"

Madam Chi gritted her teeth and said, "Anyway, I didn't know at the time! I didn't know that she was compensating me for Qing'er's death!"

"You found out later." Zhao Liren slammed the gavel again, "Witness, come forward!"

An old woman who was soaked by the rain stood out from the pile of servants. She was the old nanny who had served in Madam Chi's room for many years.

She staggered and knelt in the puddle, not daring to look up at her master, her fingers like dry branches tightly grasping the corner of her clothes, "Reply, reply to the official, that day when Miss Ying invited the old lady to tea, she told the old lady herself. She said that she once thought she could be the old lady's daughter-in-law, but she didn't expect that she would not have this fate..."

At that time, Miss Ying said this with a smile, but her smile was filled with a vicious cold light. She said, since there is no such fate, then I can only ask your second daughter-in-law to kill Qinglang, and these shops will be your compensation, and you don't have to find trouble with her.

Mrs. Chi's hands and feet were cold at the time, and she couldn't believe it. When she returned home that day, she found Shao and slapped her in the face.

But Shao said, "Mother-in-law, I will take this slap today. In the future, please be polite to me. I am Miss Ying's person."

Old Madam Chi no longer dared to deal with Shao, but instead directed her anger at Huo Qingqing. That night, she found an excuse and asked Huo Qingqing to kneel in the ancestral hall to atone for her sins.

That time, I knelt for three whole days.

Huo Qingqing's legs were broken from kneeling that time, and after that, her legs would hurt whenever she stood for a long time.

Chi Shuang felt so painful that she could not breathe when she heard these memories. It turned out that her mother wrote the words "I have knelt all night long, my bones are cold, and from now on there will be no spring sunshine in the world" under such circumstances.

Old Madam Chi burst into tears and beat her chest, "My son is dead! I am also very sad! But..."

But she was dead, she couldn't even refuse the shop that Ying Ruolan gave her. That was bought with her son's life!

At this moment, a shrill voice from outside the courtyard penetrated the rain curtain, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has arrived——"

The rain was falling heavily in the courtyard, and the iron horses under the eaves jingled in the wind. Following the call, Crown Prince Xiao Zhi entered the courtyard with his attendants.

The prince strode over in the puddles, his black robe soaked through by the rain. His face was solemn, and the gloom between his brows deepened.

Zhao Liren quickly stood up and saluted, and Shi Anxia also quickly stood up from her chair.

The prince said to Zhao Liren, "Master Zhao, please continue with the case."