After I stopped being a lady from a rich family, I fought all over the capital

Chapter 22 I'm afraid of spitting on you both

Su Hezhi simply and clearly stated the reason why Xie Shangqi died: "... Mr. Xie personally instructed him to treat him the same way he had treated Miss Song before."

He pointed at Doctor Yang and sneered disdainfully: "I don't know how Madam Xie had the nerve to shout so loudly that Miss Song is an ungrateful person."

"It seems that there is some truth to the old saying that there can't be two kinds of people sleeping in the same bed."

Su Hezhi looked down on the Xie couple, so he was naturally not polite when speaking to them.

"You two are the real ungrateful wolves!"

"Madam Xie gave you half of the Song family's assets back then, and she only asked you to protect her only daughter and let her grow up safely."

"But what about you?"

"My conscience is ruined!"

"You took someone's money, but you abused and tortured their daughter!"

Su Hezhi was furious when he thought of what he had just heard: "You, you are such people, even if I spit at you, I'm afraid it will defile my spit!"

"I bother!"

"I used to disagree with the saying 'God is merciful', but now I see that God is really merciful. Otherwise, how could such filthy people like you two be allowed to survive in this world?"

"Calling you beasts is a slander against beasts and a sin of the mouth."

Su Hezhi pointed at Lu and kept on talking, his voice getting louder and louder.

"You two are a nest of snakes and rats. You are hypocritical in front of people and vicious behind their backs. You are enough to make evil spirits ashamed and feel inferior to you!"

"It is disgusting that they do such dirty and shameless things in the name of being upright!"

"It is a misfortune and shame for me, Su Hezhi, to be neighbors with such filthy and evil creatures as you two."

Jiao Bubai was shocked by the speed at which the man spoke, which was like spraying beans.

"Master Su, Master Su, that's enough, that's enough, stop for a moment, stop for a moment."

He put the tip of his tongue against his teeth and said gently, "Master Su, if you continue to curse, you will be guilty of cursing. It's not good to do this in front of me, right?"

Jiao Bubai moved closer to the man and whispered, "Walls have ears, be careful of your mouth, Lord Su."

He stood up straight again and said seriously, "Why don't you listen to me first?"

Su Hezhi doesn't care whether it's a crime to swear or not.

He and Xie Shangqi were both officials in the court, of similar rank, and both were civil servants.

Even if the Xie family really wanted to sue him, the emperor would at most reprimand him and order him to write a letter of confession or something.

However, his mouth was indeed dry from what he said, so he stopped and swallowed twice to moisten his throat. He then raised his hand to wipe his mouth, and using the cover of his sleeve to lick his slightly cracked lips a few times. Only then did he feel better.

"Master Jiao, please speak."

Jiao Bubai's expression suddenly became serious: "What Lord Su just said, but..."

Really?

Before he finished speaking, Su Hezhi's face darkened and he raised his hand to swear: "I swear on every word I just said! If what I said is not true, I will be struck by lightning and die a miserable death!"

"If you don't believe it, you can just knock on the doors of your neighbors and ask them one by one!"

As he spoke, he suddenly raised his voice: "I believe that the neighbors are all reasonable people who know right from wrong and can distinguish right from wrong. They will not pretend not to hear something even though they clearly heard it."

Jiao Bubai: ...

Hey?
This old man has a really impatient temper, just like a stinky stone in a pit, smelly and hard, and he won't tolerate any oil or salt.

No wonder he is almost at the age of retirement. The Chief Justice of the Dali Temple has been replaced three times, and the chief clerks who took office in the same year have been promoted two times, but he is still stuck in the position of eighth-rank reviewer, without making any move.

However, since it has come to this, Jiao Bubai gave his deputy a look and asked him to go door to door to see if there are other witnesses. The deputy quickly brought a few people living nearby to confirm that what Su Hezhi said was true.

"Suspicion breeds evil. If Xie Shangqi does too many bad things, won't he run into a ghost?"

"Xie Shangqi was yelling something like, 'Sister, please don't kill me,' and he was begging and kowtowing to the air, as if he was possessed by a demon."

"He also said that the money was spent by the whole family, and if he had to die, he should take my mother and brother with him."

The neighbor sighed: "What a filial son!"

The truth of the matter seems to have become clear.

At the Princess's Spring Banquet, Xie Yuyao accidentally revealed the Xie family's evil intentions towards Song Lan, exposing the Xie family's true colors.

Xie Shangqi had done many bad things and was afraid of ghosts knocking on the door in the middle of the night. He mistakenly thought that the ghost of Song Lan's mother Xie Yuanyi came to claim his life, so he begged for mercy.

He also asked for atonement in the same way he had treated Song Lan in the past, but accidentally, the man hit him too hard and beat him to death!
So, it was both a homicide and an accident.

But Jiao Bubai always felt that something was not right.

Good luck!
So smooth!
With his keen intuition from years of handling cases, it was hard for him to believe that such a case with clear evidence and a clear direction was not secretly facilitated by someone.

Jiao Bubai's eyes subconsciously fell on Song Lan.

I always feel that this young lady is too quiet.

If a normal person sees a murder, wouldn’t he be so frightened that he would faint and then become seriously ill?

But he felt that Song Lan was full of energy and was ready to go.

If he gave the order to close it, she would probably run quickly to the tofu pudding stall that had just been set up at the entrance of the alley.

So even with such a big thing happening, her mind is not here at all?

Jiao Bubai stared at the person carefully.

Just now when the vendor was taking the fried dough sticks out of the frying pan, the girl swallowed her saliva.

"Boss? You're investigating a case!"

Jiao Bubai's assistant coughed twice, gently tugged at the man's sleeve, leaned close to his ear, and whispered, "You should be careful about the occasion when you are attracted by beauty, right? Besides, I heard that this cousin of the Xie family has been engaged to the young master of the Zhang Mansion since she was born."

He leaned closer to the person's ear and said, "The Zhang Mansion...we can't afford to offend them!"

The deputy was quite worried, fearing that his boss was greedy for women, crazy about love, and would risk his life to win her away.

"Although Patriarch Zhang does not hold a high position, he has a close personal relationship with the Saint. You..."

Before anyone could finish speaking, Jiao Bubai glared at him.

"Why don't you arrest the man and take the body away?"

Jiao Bubai frowned and said coldly: "Don't you see that more and more people are coming? Are you planning to wait for more and more people to come and watch the excitement, and then block Que'er Lane so that you and the prefect will both be reprimanded for dereliction of duty?"

Deputy: ...

Isn't it just exposing your little thoughts? Why are you so fierce!
"Hurry up?" Jiao Bubai glared at him.

"Got it, let's go."

The deputy, with a droopy head, led his men to escort Lu and the nanny back to the yamen.

Lift up the bodies of Xie Shangqi and Doctor Yang—"Eh? What is this?"

The man in charge of carrying the corpse suddenly cried out in surprise, attracting everyone's attention.

(End of this chapter)