"Regarding the Hot Spring Villa incident, your grandfather and my father have already punished us and forced us to separate. What else do you want?"
"That's not enough!" Si Chuyu slammed the teacup down on the table and said sternly, "Your second and fourth branches will be expelled from the clan and sever ties with your relatives, and you must die as a token of your guilt!"
"Hahaha... What a joke! What qualifications do you have to ask me to expel you from my clan? You are just my son-in-law. It is not your turn as an outsider to meddle in our Lu family's affairs!"
Lu Zeyi was furious. "You just can't stand seeing the old man divide his land between my second and fourth wives. You're really ambitious. You actually dare to covet my Lu family's property!"
"Pah!"
Si Chujin was furious and slammed the table hard, shaking the teacup.
Lu Zeyi's heart trembled with fear, and he instinctively took a step back. "What? You want to fight over a disagreement? Is this how your aristocratic Si family operates?!"
"I'm sure you're well aware of my Second Master Si's style of doing things." Si Chujin took a breath, came up to him, grabbed his collar, and said in a bad tone: "Even if I touch you here, what can you do to me? Hmm?"
"How outrageous!"
"How dare you? You were the one who slandered my eldest brother first, so is it not my duty to teach you a lesson? Do you think everyone is like you, obsessed with money, wanting to monopolize the entire Lu family business, and not hesitating to kill your own eldest brother? Are you still human? Huh? That's your eldest brother, your biological brother, born of the same mother."
"You're worse than pigs and dogs, you're so heartless! I'm so disgusted with myself for touching you!"
Si Chujin suddenly shook off his hand, and Lu Zeyi fell heavily to the ground.
"You're talking nonsense! This is clearly a false accusation!" Lu Zeyi got up from the ground without any dignity, and shouted angrily: "That's my own brother, how could I possibly harm him!"
"Chu Yu, you arranged for someone to investigate back then. My eldest brother's death was purely an accident! The results are the same as the official investigation!"
Even if Chen Ji was imprisoned by the Si family and tortured, he would not be able to tell the truth about this matter, because his entire family is still in his hands.
They have a relationship where they share the same fate!
"I don't think you'll cry until you see the coffin! Ling Xiao, bring Chen Ji over here."
"Yes!" Ling Xiao responded and left. Si Chuyu threw a box of evidence in front of Lu Zeyi.
Lu Zeyi looked at the Jianghu Killing Order in front of him and felt extremely terrified.
This should be broken, how did it appear here!
"Second Uncle." Si Chuyu called him without a trace of emotion, "What else do you have to say?"
"This is fake! It's a forgery. They must be framing me!"
Si Chuyu said: "These were all found in the dark room of Chen Ji's study. Chen Ji has confessed everything!"
"Master! I am sorry for you!" Chen Ji came in, covering his broken arm and knelt in front of Lu Zeyi.
"You!" Lu Zeyi was so angry that he kicked him to the ground.
"I've treated you well, why are you still keeping these?"
Chen Ji has nothing to say at this point. He kept these for self-protection!
"Uncle, don't be angry. If you want to blame someone, blame Chen Ji for being greedy. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to find out the truth about my father-in-law's murder!"
Si Chuyu said slowly, "After Jie'er was found, I wanted to investigate whether my father-in-law's death was really an accident. I was about to give up the search when A Yuan proposed to take back the custody of my second and fourth uncles. I never expected that this move would cut off Chen Ji's convenience. The Golden Jade Ding is worth hundreds of taels of silver. He has been keeping it for himself in the name of honoring guests for many years. That's why my people went to investigate him. I didn't expect that we would find out the truth of that year..."
"Not only that, you even colluded with the Cui family to smuggle iron ore. This is a heinous crime that could lead to the extermination of nine generations of your clan. How dare you do it!"
"Me!" Lu Zeyi slumped down in the chair.
It's over! It's all over!
Seeing him like this, Si Chuyu had Chen Ji taken away.
"Second Uncle, what do you think? Do I have the right to ask you to sever ties with your family and die as an atonement? Or do you want to go to the government office and confess your crime and be sentenced to death like Second and Fourth Aunts? Oh, no, your case will be more serious, possibly beheaded!"
"Brother, you're wrong. He's the Lu family's culprit! He colluded with the Cui family to smuggle iron ore. This is treason and rebellion. The entire Lu family will be destroyed along with him!"
"My sister-in-law has already married into the Si family and will not be implicated. Brother Jie is only six years old, less than eight years old. He doesn't need to die. At most, he will be exiled."
Si Chuyu asked, "What about Sister Yao'er?"
"Don't worry, we'll arrange for Sister Yao'er to get married as soon as possible before we expose the truth. That way, she won't be implicated!"
"What about the old man?"
"Grandpa Lu has done a lot of good deeds over the years. Whenever there's a disaster, he always donates a lot of money to help the people. He's truly a kind man. If we help intercede for him, he'll naturally be spared the death penalty. As for the others, we can't help them. Even Grandpa Lu's two eldest grandsons, Lu Hangan and Lu Hankun, can't escape death. They're so pitiful!"
Si Chuyu sighed and said, "They are indeed pitiful. They could have pursued official careers and achieved fame, but their respective mothers ruined their path to the imperial examinations. Now, they are about to lose their lives because of Lu Zeyi's collusion with the Cui family to smuggle iron ore..."
"That's enough!" Lu Zeyi interrupted the two men's conversation with a harsh voice. "Stop singing the same tune in front of me. Don't I know your purpose?"
"Even if I colluded with the Cui family to smuggle iron ore, and you have irrefutable evidence, what can you do to the Cui family? I'm sure you're all very clear about the current situation. The Second Prince is very powerful right now. Even if you were to expose me, do you think you could succeed?!"
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