"Don't tell the truth?" Gu Yun said coldly, "I think you want to walk out of this door sideways today."
The old man's face turned pale, his lips moved, and he weakly defended himself, "Sir, what I said is true..."
Gu Yun stood up and slapped the table in front of him. Immediately, wood chips flew everywhere and the table broke into pieces. The old man was so frightened that his whole body trembled, his legs went weak, and he knelt on the ground in embarrassment.
"You're still not telling me?" Gu Yun raised his eyebrows slightly and stared at the old man fiercely with his almond-shaped eyes.
The old man said with a frightened face, "Sir, what do you want me to say? I really don't know anything. This jade lock piece was really picked up by me."
Liu Ziqi made a gesture to the servant outside the door, and the man turned and left. Not long after, he came back holding a child. The boy struggled wildly in his arms and cried loudly.
When the old man heard the voice, his expression changed drastically, "Da Zhuang..."
He stood up tremblingly and tried to take the child from the man's arms.
The man dodged, twisted Tong's neck with his hands, and stood aside with an expressionless face.
"Grandpa, Grandpa..." the boy cried loudly.
"Where did you get this jade lock piece? Tell the truth as soon as possible so that your grandson can suffer less." Liu Ziqi's gentle face showed a grim and indifferent expression.
Seeing his grandson's face turned red from being pinched, the old man panicked and wanted to step forward to take his grandson back, but his strength was no match for the strong young man.
"I don't think you will cry until you see the coffin!" Gu Yun drew out his sword and pointed it at the old man's grandson.
The old man hurried to stop them. In a hurry, he didn't care about anything else. "I'll tell you everything. As long as the two gentlemen agree to let my grandfather and grandson go, I will tell you everything."
Gu Yun sneered and looked down at the old man, "Are you qualified to negotiate terms?"
He pointed the tip of his sword at the boy's forehead and said coldly, "Hurry up and tell me!"
The old man was filled with regret. It was because he saw that the two young men were kind-hearted and generous in giving money to the begging refugees that he thought of using the jade lock to exchange for some money to buy food.
If I had known this would happen, I would have thrown away the jade lock piece and avoided such a disaster.
"I stole this jade lock from a wealthy family," the old man stammered. "It was more than ten years ago. At that time, the wealthy family was in trouble, and I was cleaning the stables at that mansion, and I took this item."
Liu Ziqi closed his eyes, and the scene of the princess's mansion being raided, with people fleeing in all directions, flames all over the sky, and cries of pain and shouting emerged in his mind.
"Is the wealthy family you are talking about the Princess Huaiyang's Mansion?" Liu Ziqi opened his eyes and asked in a restrained tone.
Hearing him mention the princess's mansion, the old man shrank back, with panic in his eyes, "How...how did you know?"
Liu Ziqi sneered. How could he know? Who could know better than him, a witness?
"You stole this jade lock on the day when Princess Huaiyang's mansion was ransacked. What other items did you steal?" Liu Ziqi restrained his expression and continued to ask.
The old man didn't dare to lie anymore, and stammered, "There is also a hairpin... a pair of gold earrings. The officials who confiscated the property were very strict, so I didn't dare to take the big items, so I only took these few things."
Fearing that Liu Ziqi would ask him for the other two items, the old man hurriedly said, "Our family has been poor these years, and I have already pawned the earrings and hairpins for money. All I have left is this worthless jade lock."
Liu Ziqi rubbed the jade lock in his hand. This thing was indeed worthless, and the workmanship was even a bit rough. When his aunt was still pregnant with little Su Jian, he enthusiastically found a master craftsman and wanted to make a jade lock for his little sister. However, due to his young age and lack of strength, he wasted several pieces of jade, and finally he could barely grind out this jade lock.
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