There was an uproar in the court!

The prefect Zheng Zegang slammed the gavel and said sternly, "Now the evidence is irrefutable, Yao Qinghe, do you and your cousin have anything else to argue about?"

Yan Shixun said: "Sir, please let me ask this fellow a few words!"

Zheng Zegang frowned and said impatiently: "Ask!"

"Yes, thank you sir!"

Yan Shixun clasped his fists and saluted, then turned to the waiter and said, "Liu Haiyong, let me ask you, have you ever seen me poison the tea?"

Everyone looked at the waiter in the teahouse. Zheng Zegang said, "Don't be afraid. Tell the truth!"

The guy lay on the ground with his head down and rolled his eyes a few times, and finally said honestly: "I didn't see it!"

There was another uproar in the hall. Yan Shixun said loudly, "Sir, you heard it too. There is no direct evidence to prove that I poisoned the tea! It couldn't have been my cousin! There were three people in the elegant pavilion at the time. Qinghe couldn't have poisoned the tea under the eyes of Li's mother and daughter, and she didn't have that motive! And the waiter had no grudge against the deceased, so it was impossible for him to poison the tea! Then, there is only one possibility left! That is, the poison was put by the deceased Yao Bilian herself. She originally wanted to kill my cousin, but in the end, she suffered the consequences by mistake, which can be regarded as retribution!"

The court was in an awkward situation. Zheng Zegang frowned and remained silent, not knowing how to convict and close the case...

Li reminded him with a hint of meaning: "Liu Haiyong, think carefully again. Is it possible that you saw someone poisoning someone, but you didn't take it to heart at the time... Don't worry, the adults will definitely handle it impartially and will never wrongly accuse a good person!"

Qing He said sternly, "Ms. Li, are you trying to trick him into confessing? He clearly said he didn't see it just now, why are you trying to trick him into changing his statement?"

Qinghe now understood that the Li mother and daughter came here today to take her life!

First he wanted to poison me to death, then when he failed, he simply accused me of murder! In short, he would not stop until he achieved his goal!

I just feel sorry for Brother Sehun, who accompanied me out but ended up being dragged into this murder case!

Sigh, why did I deny that I was Madam Jiang Shao just now in the flower hall...

It seems that this prefect is very wary of that shameless scumbag! After repeatedly confirming his identity with me, he suddenly leaned towards Li's side...

If she admitted that she was the wife of that scumbag, would the prefect be cautious and not favor Li?

Li, who was standing by, looked at Qinghe with hatred and said, "You killed my Lian'er, don't even think about escaping the law!"

Qing He said coldly: "If Brother Shixun hadn't swapped those two cups of tea, I would have been the one who died today, right? In the end, by some strange coincidence, your daughter suffered the consequences herself! Who knows if this isn't retribution from God?"

These words touched Li's heart!

She rushed over and tore Qing He apart with gnashing teeth, cursing viciously: "You shameless little whore! I'm going to fight you today!"

Qing He had no time to dodge, and was grabbed and hit twice by her. She angrily fought back and cursed: "I have no grudge against you, but you are determined to harm me. You deserve retribution!"

Yan Shixun came up and quickly pushed Li away, yelling, "What are you crazy about? You killed your daughter, and now you want to drag others down with you!"

Li was going crazy and wanted to keep going. Yan Shixun protected Qing He behind him and shouted angrily, "How can you act like a spoiled child in the court?"

Zheng Zegang slammed the gavel heavily and said, "Silence! Li, I will spare you this time because of your grief over the loss of your daughter! If you continue to roar in court, I will punish you!"

Li finally gave up and slapped the ground with her hands and cried loudly: "Lian'er, mother is incapable of sending the adulterer and the adulteress who killed you to jail to avenge you! Don't blame mother!"

Zheng Zegang frowned and said, "Li, don't worry! I will definitely seek justice for you! Come, take the suspect Yao Qinghe and her cousin to the jail and wait for trial!"

The guards came up and put chains on Qinghe and Yan Shixun, and shouted, "Go!"

Qing He said angrily, "Sir, there is no evidence. Why do you lock us up like criminals?"

Zheng Zegang sneered and said, "You want evidence? That's not easy! I will make sure you die with a clear conscience!"

Then he slammed the gavel and said, "Take him away!"

The bailiffs pushed and shoved the two men away.

Li fell to the ground and kowtowed, saying, "Thank you, sir, for making this decision for me!"

Zheng Zegang frowned and said, "Li, please do not leave the government office for the time being. Wait for your call at any time!"

"Yes!"

……

After dark, inside the Yingtianfu prison, there was a loud "clattering" sound of a lock being unlocked, and someone walked in...

She stopped in front of the cell where Qinghe was imprisoned and sneered, "Yao Qinghe, you must want to know why I wrongly accused you, right?"

Qing He was originally sitting on a pile of straw on the ground with her knees hugged. When she heard the voices, she looked up and saw Li standing outside in the dim light of the cell!

With a sinister expression on her face, she looked at Qing He and said, "In fact, I am not only your mother's personal maid, but I also gave birth to a child with your father! That's right, Bilian is your half-sister..."

Qing He widened his eyes in shock, rushed over and grabbed the railing with both hands and asked, "What did you say?"

Li said softly, "Not long after your mother gave birth to you, I had an affair with your father, and then gave birth to Bilian. Your mother then drove us out of the house..."

Qing He said in disbelief, "Impossible! My mother said that my father is a talented and upright gentleman who would never do such a shameful thing! Don't believe her nonsense!"

Li smiled, "You are as naive as your mother! You have been deceived! In fact, he doesn't like you and your daughter at all, otherwise he wouldn't have disappeared without a trace after the exam and married Mr. Xu's precious daughter in the capital!"

Qing He said angrily, "You are talking nonsense! My mother said that she encountered war at that time, so she lost contact with my father! He didn't want to abandon us!"

Li said softly, "Oh? Then why didn't he come back to see you guys after he graduated from high school?"

Qing He defended herself, "My mother said that we were forced to move, and my father didn't know, so he didn't find us!"

Li nodded and said, "Well, not only that, but later on your family of three was forced to flee, and you met me and Bilian on the way..."

Qing He gritted her teeth and said, "Yes! I really regret saving you and your daughter. I should have let you fend for yourselves!"

Li said in a sinister tone: "If you knew why the soldiers went to arrest you, I'm afraid you would hate me even more!"

Qing He glared at her and said, "My mother said that someone went to the government to report us for harboring rebels, so the soldiers came to encircle and suppress us!"

Li said proudly: "That's right! I was the one who informed the government!"

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