Chapter 267 Testimony
Shang Zhichun subconsciously asked, "What do I want to burn for you?"
Mi Er clenched her hands a little tighter and said sternly, "Of course I'm showing it to the judge, lest he sees me and thinks I killed that mourning ghost and sends me to purgatory."
He added, "If you hadn't pushed me down the well and turned me into an earthbound spirit, I would have been reincarnated long ago!"
Shang Zhichun rolled his eyes because of being pinched.
He hurriedly said, "Okay, okay, I'll write it. I'll write it right away."
Upon hearing this, Mi'er loosened her hands, said, "I'll go get the pen, ink, paper and inkstone," and then left the bed.
Shang Zhichun took a few deep breaths and suddenly remembered that there was a peach wood sword hidden in the secret compartment under his bed. He glanced outside the tent and did not see Mi'er.
He immediately turned over and lay on the bed, reaching for the secret compartment switch.
After a light "bang" sound, the secret compartment appeared. He grabbed the peach wood sword that was only as long as his palm and pushed it back into the secret compartment.
Then he hid the peach wood sword under his body.
Just as I was done hiding, Mier came in, lifted the curtain, placed a hidden table on the couch, and laid out the writing brush, inkstone, and paper. She said, "Write down all the good things your aunt and you have done."
Shang Zhichun replied calmly, "Okay."
He quietly reached out to grab the peach wood sword.
After catching her, he shouted, "Taishang Laojun taught me how to kill ghosts and gave me a magic formula!" and then stabbed Mi'er in the chest.
Unexpectedly, Mi'er seemed to have expected it. She dodged and patted him on the back of the neck. He was instantly hit by an unprecedented severe pain and almost fainted.
Immediately afterwards, his wrist was also slapped, and the same excruciating pain came over him.
He subconsciously let go, and the peach wood sword fell on the bed.
Mier pushed the peach wood sword to the ground with a pen and sneered, "You still want to attack me? I think you are tired of living and want to go to the underworld with me to see the judge."
Shang Zhichun didn't expect this evil spirit to be so difficult to deal with. He endured the pain and said, "I, I'll write it right away."
After saying this, he was afraid that Mi'er would take his life, so he grabbed the ink stick and ground it desperately.
Mier dropped the pen onto the paper.
He picked up his pen, dipped it in ink, and wrote down Aunt Zhuang's plan and the things he had to do "out of necessity to cooperate."
After finally finishing, Mier glanced at it and said, "There are still two missing."
He was stunned.
"Which two?"
"The death of the former Duke's wife and the death of Nanny Liu."
Nanny Liu is Shangchen's nanny. After Luo gave Shangchen an acupuncture injection in his fontanelle, Shangchen cried incessantly. Aunt Zhuang was worried that Nanny Liu would notice something, so she had someone steal the longevity lock that Nanny Liu had given to her son in advance, and privately threatened her to think carefully about what she should and should not say.
As soon as Shang Chen died, Nanny Liu couldn't wait to return home. Aunt Zhuang knew that she loved to eat glutinous rice balls with wine, so she specially asked someone to pretend to be a vendor on the street and sell her a bowl of poisoned glutinous rice balls with wine.
Nanny Liu was poisoned to death by the fermented rice balls.
This matter is clear to Shang Zhichun.
But he really didn't know anything about the former Duke's wife.
"My stepmother died of illness," he replied. "I don't know if it has anything to do with my aunt."
Mi'er asked, "Does that have anything to do with you?"
Shang Zhichun: "..."
"It has nothing to do with me!"
"Okay." Mi'er reluctantly said, "Then write down the nanny's name first."
Shang Zhichun wanted to ask her why she even wrote about her wet nurse, since the wet nurse had nothing to do with her, but the back of his neck hurt so much that he just wanted to end the pain as soon as possible.
So I wrote it down obediently.
After finishing writing, he signed his name, stamped his private seal, and pressed his fingerprints as Mier requested.
As soon as the ink dried, Mier folded the paper, hung up the curtain, turned around and said, "Take it away."
A man with inverted s-shaped eyebrows, three white eyes, and the Chinese character "川" (Chuan) on his forehead suddenly appeared in front of him with two tall and mighty men.
He was startled.
"I did everything you asked. Why did you hand me over to the judge?"
Mi Er turned around and smiled: "This is Zhang Tixing, the criminal justice officer of the Ministry of Justice."
Shang Zhichun: “???”
Criminal Justice Department?
Since when did the Criminal Justice Department become able to try cases involving ghosts?
Confused, he glanced at the ground and was shocked to find that both Mi'er and the three men had shadows!
"You, you're not dead?"
He cried out in surprise.
"Mi'er" raised her hand and tore off her face from the forehead downwards.
Beneath the skin was Feng Qingsui's face.
Shang Zhichun: “!!!”
Mi'er turned out to be Feng Qingsui in disguise!
He suddenly remembered that the voice he had just heard was not quite like "Mi'er", but he was too nervous and did not pay attention - he might have subconsciously thought that there was a difference between the voices of ghosts and humans.
He was just deceived into writing a confession in front of the Chief Judge of the Criminal Department?!
A figure suddenly flashed through my mind.
"That Xiaowu, is he one of yours too?!"
Feng Qingsui kindly answered his question: "Yes. We also arranged for Ju'er to be here. She didn't die, she just lay there as a corpse."
Shang Zhichun: "..."
What happened tonight turned out to be a complete trap.
He just went in without knowing anything...
A quarter of an hour later, Aunt Zhuang was woken up by Cai Gu.
"Auntie, wake up!"
Aunt Zhuang rubbed her eyes, which were difficult to open due to lack of sleep, and looked out the window. She frowned and said, "It's not even dawn yet, why are you calling me up?"
Cai Gu looked terrified: "The judge from the Dali Temple is here and wants to see you."
Aunt Zhuang's expression paused.
"To see me?"
Even if someone discovered that Luo was dead and reported it to the Dali Temple, the people from the Dali Temple would have looked for the prince, not her, a concubine?
"The Chief Justice is waiting at the Second Gate," Cai Gu replied. "They say you're suspected of murder and they want to take you back to the Dali Temple. If you don't leave, they'll go into the inner courtyard and arrest you."
Aunt Zhuang: “…”
Die'er's parents are still in her hands, how dare she hand her over to others?
But even if that girl testified against her, there was no evidence.
She was not afraid of going to the Dali Temple for confrontation.
After getting up, changing clothes, and putting on some light makeup, she took Cai Gu to the Chuihua Gate.
The judge looked like a mourning ghost, and the lighting was dim. She almost got scared when she saw him.
"Why are you leaving us all standing here?" she asked the servants at the hanging flower gate. "I wonder if you could invite us to the reception room and have a seat and some tea?"
The servant stammered, "Master Zhang said they don't have time for tea..."
Aunt Zhuang smiled apologetically and said, "I apologize for my poor hospitality. What brings you gentlemen to visit me so late at night?"
Judge Zhang said expressionlessly, "Ms. Zhuang, you are suspected of murder. Please come with us to the Dali Temple."
Aunt Zhuang paused in her laughter and asked in surprise, "I'm suspected of murder? Could you have found the wrong person?"
"Someone personally testified that it was you who did it."
Judge Zhang replied.
Aunt Zhuang suppressed her smile and said calmly, "The testimony of a servant cannot be counted."
Judge Zhang raised an eyebrow: "Who told you she was a slave? The one who provided evidence was the prince of the Shangguo Mansion."
Aunt Zhuang: “???”
The prince of the Shangguo Mansion?
Isn't that her son?!
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