Going to Beijing to save his father, all the powerful officials in the city are vying to be his fath

Su Qin's heart tightened when she saw Su Jijing thrown on the ground. Su Jijing was still wearing the tattered bloody clothes. His wounds had begun to heal with Su Qin's medicine, but they opened again during the struggle when leaving the city today, staining his clothes red, making him look more like a bloody man.

He was half-lying on the ground, his face pale and he had lost the will to live. Mrs. Su and his two children were kneeling beside him. Mrs. Su also had a pale face. She had thought that she still had a chance of survival, but she didn't expect that she would die after just one day.

She hugged the two children tightly, and both children were trembling with fear.

There were tens of thousands of refugees staying outside Shangjing City. At first, they each found places to disperse, but when they saw the court bringing people, they quickly gathered together, and the scene was densely packed with people.

After leaving the city, Zhao Liangchen sent people to the Imperial Guards camp to mobilize more people. When the Imperial Guards arrived, he formed a human dragon defense line at the front.

He ignored the victims who were taken out of the city by Zhao Liangchen and mixed in with them. Su Qin also went into the crowd to look for someone she knew.

Someone recognized her, grabbed her arm, and asked, "Su Da, didn't you go look for your father? Why are you back again?"

Su Qin looked at the other person. This was Wang Er, a young man of about seventeen or eighteen, who had walked with her all the way. Wang Er was a warm-hearted person. Seeing that Su Qin was thin, he took the initiative to protect him along the way.

When Su Qin saw him, she said aggrievedly, "I didn't find my father. I was arrested and have been in jail for the past few days. I was only released today."

Wang Er looked her over carefully when he heard this: "You were arrested. Did they beat you?"

Su Qin shook her head: "Where are Uncle Xu and the others?"

Wang Er: "Come with me."

He pulled Su Qin through the crowd and soon found a group of people. Su Qin saw a middle-aged man with a goatee in the crowd and squeezed past him: "Uncle Xu."

Xu Chunshan was also very surprised to see Su Qin: "Xiao Su, why are you here? Didn't you say you wanted to find a way to get into the city?"

Su Qin nodded: "I did go into the city, but I was arrested not long after. I have been imprisoned ever since and was only released today."

Xu Chunshan was a scholar with some knowledge. He was the one who brought some refugees to the capital.

He knew that the government wouldn't release anyone so easily, so he asked, "Since they've arrested you, why are they letting you go so easily?"

Su Qin: "Because something happened in the prison, the court was afraid that the matter would get out of hand and had to release us."

She repeated what she had said to the prisoners in jail.

Her words sent the surrounding refugees into a frenzy: "What? The imperial court already gave us disaster relief funds? And those corrupt officials embezzled them?"

"Don't those damned corrupt officials care about our lives?"

Those disaster victims who came out of the prison also found the refugees they were familiar with and told them what they knew. There were curses all around, and the voices of the officials who came to comfort the disaster victims were completely drowned out by the curses. Some disaster victims were so angry that they wanted to rush up to the officials and fight them, but were stopped by Zhao Liangchen and his men.

Xu Chunshan was calmer. He asked Su Qin, "How do you know the court would just find a scapegoat to kill and comfort us?"

Su Qin blinked her innocent eyes: "I don't know, I just think that the corrupt officials have been arrested, and the silver must be found. I just saw that the whole family of those corrupt officials were arrested and waiting to be beheaded. It's impossible for the corrupt officials to have their whole family beheaded without handing over the silver. If their whole family is dead, there is no point in hiding the silver. They will definitely use the silver to exchange for their family's chance of survival.

If they had found the silver, the court would have given it to us, but they didn't, and instead chose to chop people in front of us. I just don't think it's right."

Xu Chunshan nodded: "It's not right, let's go take a look."

A group of people squeezed forward. Su Qin was small and Wang Er was tall. He pulled Xu Chunshan and Su Qin and quickly squeezed to the front among the victims.

At this time, the victims were furious and continued to fight against the imperial guards.

Su Qin grabbed a familiar disaster victim in front of her and shouted at him to calm down and listen to what the officials said first, so as not to get into a conflict and risk his life.

Xu Chunshan also kept persuading the refugees in front. Some people listened and began to persuade the people around them, and gradually the crowd calmed down.

Zhao Liangchen breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Su Qin was able to control the victims. He silently changed his position and stood in front of Su Qin to protect her. He was afraid that if Su Jijing was still going to be chopped, Su Qin would not be able to bear it and would expose herself.

Su Qin didn't know what he wanted to do. She thought Zhao Liangchen stood in front of her to better monitor her. In fact, even though she believed Zhao Liangchen yesterday and gave him advice and asked him to send her back to prison, she didn't trust Zhao Liangchen. She wanted to break the passive situation.

Ever since arriving in Shangjing City, she has been doing whatever Zhao Liangchen says. She doesn't want to be so passive. She wants to find a way to take the initiative to participate. No matter what is done or what the outcome is, as long as it starts, she will get directly involved. She will be able to find the flaws and then find a way out through the flaws.

As a result of her action, she saw her father again. She believed in her father's intelligence and wisdom. As long as the two of them met, with the cooperation of the two, her father could find a chance to save his life. Although he would not be able to escape the crime, at least he would not be hastily convicted and beheaded because of the dissatisfaction and unrest of the victims.

As long as she could extend the time for convicting him, she would have time to make things more confusing. The more people were involved, the greater the chances of their family surviving.

She wanted to attract her father's attention, so she shouted loudly: "Fellow villagers, let's be quiet and listen to what the adults have to say. I believe that the emperor and the court will not ignore us."

Normally she would deliberately lower her voice when speaking, but this time she used her own voice. No one could hear who was speaking because of the crowd, but Madam Su and Su Jijing who were kneeling in front of them heard it. They both looked up at this side at the same time, and when they found Su Qin's figure in the crowd, their eyes widened in surprise.

Because of her shout, the crowd became quieter. Master Yan was satisfied, and he spoke loudly to comfort the victims.

While he was talking and everyone's eyes were on him, Su Qin opened her mouth and made the sound of "crying out for injustice". Afraid that Su Jijing and Madam Su wouldn't understand, she said it several times in a row.

Madam Su and Su Jijing understood what she meant instantly. Su Jijing nodded slightly at her, then lowered his head.

Mrs. Su also buried her head in Su Jin's neck, and she whispered instructions to Su Jin.

As soon as Grand Tutor Yan finished speaking, officials from the Ministry of Justice announced the charges against Su Jijing and other co-conspirators, and declared that they would be executed on the spot to appease the people.

When he finished reading and was about to let the executioner take action, someone in the crowd shouted: "How can you prove that they are the real corrupt officials and not just scapegoats you made up?"

The official who read the report suddenly frowned and shouted, "What nonsense are you talking about? There's irrefutable evidence that they embezzled disaster relief funds. It's a fact. How could they be scapegoats?"

Someone else shouted, "Whether he is a scapegoat or not is up to you to decide. As for the evidence, how do we know if it's true or not?"

"Yes, you said they were the ones who embezzled disaster relief funds. They've been arrested, but where's the money?"

"That's right, hand over the silver. Don't think you can fool us by killing a few people."

Someone shouted at Su Jijing, "Hey, Mr. Su, where is the disaster relief money you embezzled?"

At this moment, Madam Su uttered a shrill voice: "We are wronged."