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Before Jiang Yingyue could react to her words, the woman spoke again, calling her by name: "Jiang Yingyue." Then she tilted her head to the side and said, "You are Ji Yinglei."
"Who exactly are you?" Jiang Yingyue turned her head to the side, breaking free from the woman's hand. Just then, a commotion broke out at the entrance of the main hall.
"General Xiao Qi?...Hey! General Xiao Qi, you can't come in!" It turned out that Medicine Jar Li was still guarding the door, and his voice sounded very panicked.
"Don't stop me." The next second, the main hall door was opened, and General Qi, dressed in silver and black armor, walked in. The clanging of metal echoed throughout the hall. "How long are you planning to keep this from me?"
With the help of the daylight, the two were finally able to see the face of the young General Qi clearly. She was a girl only a few years older than them. Unlike the woman, her face had no trace of makeup, but instead had several scars.
"Isn't there anything going on at the military camp that you need to worry about?" the woman asked, her tone tinged with reproach.
General Qi retorted without backing down: "These two are wanted criminals throughout Hangzhou!"
The woman chuckled: "I originally thought General Qi only cared about leading troops into battle and making military achievements, but I didn't expect him to also be in charge of catching fugitives for the government."
"Since you knew the authorities wanted to arrest them, why did you bring them to your Xuanjin Pavilion?"
Hearing her say that, the woman finally fell silent, as if considering how to reply. In the end, she just sighed and said, "A country has its laws, and a family has its rules. I have the right to take action against my daughter first."
Before the words were even finished, the group's eyes widened simultaneously, and they all exclaimed in unison, "What?!"
General Qi was so shocked that he took a few steps back: "Ji Wushuang, you... really?"
Jiang Yingyue had initially thought this was a delaying tactic devised by that woman to appease General Qi, but the next second the general called out her name. Ji Wushuang, her mother who hadn't shown herself for nineteen years, her own mother, was actually meeting her in this way.
Ji Yinglei couldn't believe it either. She knew that her surname came from Ji Wushuang. Although she had acted as if this person didn't exist for so many years, she was still filled with a lot of emotions after actually meeting him.
Ji Wushuang smiled again: "I remember telling you that."
General Qi's face suddenly turned ugly, and he impatiently questioned, "Do you know what they did?"
"Of course." Ji Wushuang turned to look at Jiang Yingyue, a hint of ruthlessness in her eyes. "She murdered her father to seize the throne, killed her fellow disciples, and committed a public murder in Hangzhou."
These words immediately pulled Jiang Yingyue out of her reverie: "That's not how it is! It was all Bai Yu!" she immediately protested, but Ji Wushuang simply turned around slowly and sat down.
She waved the letter she had just picked up: "It's true that he gave me this letter. I also know that he and your father have a long history of conflict, so I didn't intend to read it." Just as Jiang Yingyue was about to relax, Ji Wushuang changed the subject, "But there's also a document in this letter with your fingerprint on it, which is a list of your crimes."
"You refused to accept the position of sect leader; you abandoned all your disciples and fled; and the murder at Nanfeng Tower is an undeniable fact." Ji Wushuang read out the crimes one by one, and with each word he spoke, Jiang Yingyue's heart grew colder.
"Teacher's wife..."
"Shut up." Ji Wushuang interrupted Ji Yinglei without any mercy. Her gaze never left Jiang Yingyue. "You'd better give me a proper explanation, or you won't leave here alive."
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