Chapter 16 Execution of Li Changping

Zhao Shulan sat on the chair, feeling suspicious. She twisted her hands back and forth, and looked up at Cheng Jin from time to time, but she didn't know how to speak.

Cheng Jin, who was sitting next to her, also noticed Zhao Shulan's eyes, thinking that she was suspicious of how she knew all these things, and avoided her gaze with a guilty conscience.

[It's over, it's over. My mother is so smart, she must be suspicious of how I know all this. ]

[Mom, I am your daughter. Even if I have been in the palace for more than a year, I am still your dear baby when I come back. Mom, don't doubt me, I won't lie. ]

[I also want to tell you how I know, I want to say it, but mom, I really don't know how to say it, I'm afraid to scare you. Zhao Shulan

listened to Cheng Jin's inner voice and suddenly felt a pain in her heart.

Her poor daughter left home and entered the palace alone, living such a miserable life. She didn't know what she had experienced to become such a cautious and tentative person.

How could she not know what kind of child Cheng Jin was like after ten months of pregnancy? Even if her personality changed in the palace in the past two years, it was because of something that happened. No matter what, she was his daughter.

But now she actually doubted her dearest daughter.

Zhao Shulan looked at Cheng Jin's expression and blamed herself for being too suspicious. No matter how Cheng Jin knew these things, it was for her and Cheng Yishou, and for the entire Cheng family.

Zhao Shulan called Cheng Jin to her side, holding Cheng Jin's slightly cool hand. Zhao Shulan felt her heart was about to break. She said several times in a row, "I'm glad you're back. Stay a few more days when you're back." She couldn't help but hug Cheng Jin and shed tears.

This was the first time that Cheng Jin felt the love of her mother and felt the taste of being cherished.

She was an orphan and grew up in an orphanage since she was a child. She was used to being alone and didn't have so many concerns in her original world, so she adapted so quickly.

When she realized that she had come here, the first thing she thought about was not shock, but how to survive.

Now she has a father, a mother, and an elder brother, so she is not alone. She cherishes all these things, so how could she let her family die in vain.

The mother and daughter held hands and looked at each other. No matter what they said, they couldn't express their feelings at the moment.

Cuizhu heard about what happened in the front yard and came to tell Cheng Jin and Zhao Shulan.

"Madam, Miss, the master got very angry in the front yard and said that he wanted to drive all the servants out of the house. Let's go and take a look."

Zhao Shulan immediately stood up from her chair and said to Cheng Jin, "Your father is the most gentle and polite. How could he suddenly get so angry? Who must have done something that your father finds unforgivable?"

Cheng Jin was wondering if Cheng Yishou had discovered Li Changping's affairs. She rushed over and saw Li Changping kneeling in front of Cheng Yishou, shouting "Master, spare my life, Master, spare my life", and knew that Cheng Yishou had discovered it.

Cheng Jin and Zhao Shulan stood beside Cheng Yishou.

Cheng Jin looked at Li Changping and saw that he was unrepentant. She wanted to give Cheng Yishou a look.

Although Cheng Yishou was furious, he did not give Li Changping a final ultimatum. He must have been thinking about what Li Changping had done under him for so many years. Now, even though he had committed such a heinous crime, Cheng Yishou could not bear to execute Li Changping directly.

If a person like Li Changping was not killed, there would be endless troubles in the future.

"Dad, I just came back and haven't told you about what happened in the palace. I met a maid who was ungrateful. She framed me with another concubine in my palace."

Cheng Yishou looked at Cheng Jin in surprise, "I didn't know you would encounter such a thing. Did you punish the maid?" Cheng Jin nodded

, "Sent her to the Ministry of Punishment."

Cheng Yishou slammed the table, "Jin'er, you are soft-hearted. People like her, if she deceives and frames you once, she will do it again."

Cheng Jin glanced at Li Changping, "My daughter knows, if she encounters such a thing again, she will remember your father's teachings."

Cheng Yishou immediately understood what Cheng Jin meant. He waved his hand and called a few servants, "Just beat Li Changping with sticks and throw him on the mass grave."

Although the servants did not dare to disobey Cheng Yishou's orders, they stood there without moving.

Cheng Yishou looked around and looked at the people kneeling in front of him. He couldn't help but sneered, "Okay."

After just a laugh, Cheng Yishou's face changed suddenly, and there was no smile in his eyes anymore.

"If you are still hesitant, follow Li Changping to the underworld as a companion."

"Although I don't know which of you is the one Li Changping has found, in the Cheng Mansion, you still have the final say on who lives and who dies."

"If you are all willing to follow Li Changping today, that's fine. If someone asks about it tomorrow, just say that there was a fire in the mansion and you all died in the sea of ​​fire. How about that?"

After hearing these words, there was a burst of crying in the mansion, but there were still people who were tactful and shouted:

"I am a member of the Cheng family in life and a ghost of the Cheng family in death. This Li Changping has been treating us servants harshly in the mansion for a long time. If I hadn't respected and feared his position as the manager, I would have reported him to the master long ago. I don't know if it was the master's intention."

Cheng Yishou looked at the source of the voice, which was a young man with a simple and honest look.

"What's your name?"

"My name is Wang Dong."

[Wang Dong?]

Cheng Jin listened beside him and pondered the name carefully.

[Dad, choose him, he will bring prosperity to our Cheng family.]

Cheng Jin remembered this Wang Dong. When the Cheng family was confiscated, other servants avoided him and fled. He fought to protect his brother's only son, so that our family did not die out. He was really loyal.

After hearing what Cheng Jin was thinking, Cheng Yishou immediately said,

"Very good, you will follow me from now on."

Wang Dong immediately kowtowed when he heard what Cheng Yishou said, "Thank you, sir. I will do my best."

Seeing that Wang Dong had become Cheng Yishou's close servant, the kneeling people began to discuss.

"Li Changping is a servant anyway. Even though he is dead, it has no impact on us. On the contrary, we don't have to use our monthly allowance to honor him during festivals. Isn't this a great thing?"

Someone echoed, "Yes, yes, rather than dying with Li Changping, it is better to work in Cheng's house and live a peaceful life."

More and more people said that they wanted to execute Li Changping to give them justice. Li Changping saw that things had come to this point and could not get any help from the heavens.

Cheng Yishou felt disgusted when he saw Li Changping again, so he had people drag him away and throw him as far away as possible.

Those who were sent away were sent away, and those who stayed were left. After this incident, I am afraid that no one in this mansion will do anything rash for the time being.