Chapter 91 Wang Qi accuses Si Yao of poisoning her entire family
Wang Qi?
Isn't he already dead?
With terror in her eyes, Si Yao kept backing away, trying to get behind Su Xiao.
Although the Yin energy on Su Xiao's body was suppressed by the dragon energy, she could still feel the chilling aura, which continuously deepened her fear and unease.
"You, you, you, are you a human or a ghost?!"
He could barely hold the imperial edict in his hand.
Wang Qi, dressed in white mourning clothes, held the memorial tablet and ignored Si Yao, walking straight to His Majesty.
With a thud, he knelt down.
"Your Majesty, I am the son of Wang Sheng, the commander of the Sixth Battalion. My father led five hundred men in his battalion to sweep behind enemy lines, but not a single one of them survived..."
"I am in deep pain. If my father had truly died at the hands of the enemy, I would have no complaints. I would only think of him as a great hero who defended our country. But..."
"But my father was murdered by treacherous people and died unjustly... I beg Your Majesty to investigate thoroughly and restore justice to my father!!!"
Wang Qi was in tears. His family was poor, but he had studied hard for many years and finally passed the imperial examinations to become a Juren (a successful candidate in the provincial-level imperial examinations).
One reason is so that her father can stop risking his life in the army and earning a future for him.
Secondly, it freed my mother from having to work tirelessly from dawn till dusk selling pancakes.
Thirdly, my grandmother was able to cure her eye disease, and the whole family was able to enjoy her company.
But now...
Their father died unjustly, and their whole family was nearly poisoned by evil people.
Today, Wang Qi is dressed in mourning clothes and holding his father's memorial tablet. Next to Wang Sheng's name, his name is also engraved.
He didn't expect to go back alive.
Even if the wicked are not killed, he will drag her down to hell.
"Since you suspect that your father was murdered by a villain, who is the villain you are referring to..." the Emperor asked.
Wang Qi glared at Su Xiao with eyes full of hatred.
Su Xiao was immediately alarmed: "Military orders are absolute. I have assigned an extra battalion of men to your father to protect him. Do not speak nonsense."
So many people die on the battlefield. If every one of them were to accuse the general, who would want to be the general?
"Get out of my way!" Wang Qi shouted.
Su Xiao blocked his way.
Su Xiao stepped aside, revealing Si Yao behind him.
Wang Qi kowtowed again, "Your Majesty, I wish to accuse Si Yao. She is the one who killed my father, Wang Sheng, and stole his military merits and promotion. I beg Your Majesty to do justice for my father!"
These words were spoken.
The ministers in the hall were immediately in an uproar and began to discuss it animatedly.
"How could this be? Didn't Su Xiao say that Si Yao had worked hard and made great contributions?"
"Yes, I heard that she led seven battalions of five hundred men without a single casualty, which is nothing short of a miracle. After the memorial was sent back to the palace, the Emperor saw it and decided to promote her to the rank of eighth-grade female general. Could it be... that there is something unknown about this?"
"Although this eighth-rank female general was killed by her, this miracle has spread widely in the army, and many people are scrambling to join the female battalion commander's camp."
Lord Lin scoffed, "I think Wang Qi makes sense. How could someone like Si Yao, who is arrogant and reckless, possibly know anything about military strategy?"
Her performance in the palace today was truly foolish. It would be strange if someone like her could achieve miraculous military exploits.
Qingbao sat back down in her seat and watched. The reason she hadn't stopped Siyao from being granted an official position was because...
The idea was to provoke her into acting impulsively and doing some foolish things so that when Wang Qi filed a lawsuit, everyone would believe what Wang Qi said.
The courtiers before him were clearly somewhat convinced.
"You're talking nonsense. My military achievements are the result of my bloody battles. Your father was not strong enough and died at the hands of the enemy. I didn't die, so you say I stole his military achievements. Do you have any evidence?"
Si Yao had already confirmed that the Wang Qi in front of her was neither a ghost nor an evil spirit.
Instead, for some reason, he was poisoned but didn't die!
Wang Qi angrily pulled out a stack of family letters from his pocket!
"These letters were sent home by my father during his year in the army, and they frequently mention a female battalion commander named Si Yao."
After saying this, he handed it to Eunuch Li, who then presented it to the Emperor.
The emperor frowned as he looked, growing angrier with each glance.
"Wang Sheng's paper was full of complaints about Si Yao. It turns out that he was already very dissatisfied with Si Yao before he died. Su Xiao, is this the kind of soldiers you manage?"
After saying that, he threw the letter at Su Xiao's face.
Su Xiao picked it up and saw that it was indeed full of resentment, expressing his dissatisfaction with Si Yao for abusing her power in the army because she was the wife of a general.
how so?
Si Yao's heart skipped a beat. She looked at Wang Qi and said, "You lied to me!"
When I visited his home, he said he had never received any letters from home.
After poisoning the Wang family of three, they searched the room but found nothing.
She thought there was no evidence left, but little did she know that it was the cunning Wang Qi who had hidden himself away, just so he could sue her at this moment.
If we had given it to her earlier, she wouldn't have poisoned it. That Wang Qi is truly a wicked person!
"Yes, I tricked you, Si Yao. You came to my house a few days ago and poisoned the well water, trying to kill my whole family to silence us. You didn't expect that, did you? You failed!"
He was very clever; the moment he saw Si Yao, he knew she was up to no good.
When he drew water from the well back to the kitchen, he was careful again and tried it with his mother's plain silver hairpin, which turned black.
Therefore, he and his mother pretended to be poisoned and lay face down on the table.
He knocked his grandmother unconscious.
Si Yao, who was in the distance, saw this and assumed that the whole family was dead, so she went to search their house without worry.
"Luckily, Qingbao came to our aid, which allowed us to enter the palace and report your evil deeds!"
Wang Qi pointed at her and cursed angrily.
The usually refined and gentle man now had tears welling up in his eyes.
Upon hearing this, all the court officials gasped in shock.
They even poisoned Wang Sheng's entire family; they were absolutely wicked.
Su Xiao silently moved away from Si Yao, his eyes filled with deep disappointment and unfamiliarity.
"Si Yao, I never expected you to be this kind of person."
He acted as if he had just met her for the first time.
"No, Brother Xiao, he's the one who's slandering me!" Si Yao stamped her feet as she explained, her mind a complete mess.
She couldn't let Wang Qi drag her down with him. As long as she denied it, there was nothing she could do without evidence.
“Slandering you? Hah, Your Majesty, I have brought a witness!” Wang Qi kowtowed to the Emperor again.
The Emperor immediately waved his hand, "Summon them!"
Outside the door, simply dressed people walked in, their hands and feet trembling with nervousness.
Si Yao stared at him with wide eyes, her whole body filled with fear, and she almost lost her balance.
"Your Majesty, I am the manager of Jifutang. A few days ago, this young lady came to my shop and bought..."
The shopkeeper, trembling, lowered his head and shouted, "I'll buy two ounces of arsenic!"
"Two ounces!!"
“Normally, if she wanted to harm someone, even half an ounce would be too much, but she actually bought two ounces.”
"No wonder the shopkeeper remembers her!"
"Two ounces of arsenic?" The Emperor looked at Si Yao in confusion. "Why did you buy so much?"
Si Yao stammered, "I...I didn't."
“I have a record here, because two ounces is too much, I dared not forget to record it. There were many shop assistants watching at the time, so I dared not lie.”
The shopkeeper presented the ledger with both hands.
The record is authentic; everyone who witnessed it wrote their name and pressed their fingerprint.
That was Wang Qi kowtowing to them one by one to verify it.
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