Chapter 70: The Love of Parents
Li Shuhui's eyes were red as she reached out to help Jin Tao up. The man and the ghost looked at each other in silence, but they held each other's hands and cried bitterly.
After she finished crying, Li Shuhui looked at her father, Li Cen, with tears in her eyes, "Dad..."
She couldn't just let Lin Xiu go like that.
He killed his wife and almost harmed the entire Jian'an Marquis Mansion. She couldn't let Lin Xiu get away with it!
Li Cen patted Li Shuhui's head, a murderous look in his eyes. If anyone dared to plot against his daughter, even if Lin Xiu was the number one scholar hand-picked by Emperor Qinglong, he would make him pay the price. "Shuhui, don't worry, Dad won't let you suffer this in vain."
Li Shuhui nodded, her voice choked with sobs, but her eyes were firm, "Yes!"
Chen wiped the tears from Li Shuhui's face with a handkerchief and said, "Shuhui, don't be afraid. Your parents will definitely seek justice for you."
Damn Lin Xiu, he has plotted against everyone and even targeted the Li family!
If they could swallow this, they would never have the surname Li!
Jin Tao stood there in a daze, looking at the close relationship between the three members of the family, her eyes slightly dimmed.
If her parents knew that she died unjustly, would they, like Li Shuhui's parents, do everything they can to seek justice for her?
Probably not.
Jin Tao sighed.
She is different from Li Shuhui.
Li Shuhui is a lady from a noble family, but she - she has nothing.
Su Tan's gaze fell on Jin Tao with a complicated expression, "Do you want to see your parents?"
Jin Tao paused for a moment, then gave a wry smile and said self-deprecatingly with a gloomy look, "That's not necessary."
"I think even if they knew I was dead, they wouldn't react much."
"I'm already dead, so I shouldn't continue to make myself suffer."
When she was alive, her parents didn't like her. Would they be the same if she died?
Su Tan shook his head. "If you don't go and take a look, how will you know if you are asking for trouble?"
Jin Tao lowered her head and said nothing.
Su Tan counted on his fingers, sighed, and told Jin Tao something she didn't know. "Your parents already suspected there was something fishy about your death. After Lin Xiu's parents died suddenly, they became even more certain of their suspicions."
"They brought people up the mountain to dig up the grave overnight and dug your official blog out of the grave. They also called in a coroner to perform an autopsy. The fingerprints on the coffin lid and the coroner's response all confirmed that there was something fishy about your death."
However, Lin Xiu was the first top scholar in the local area.
The local government refused to take this case.
Jin Tao's parents had no choice but to go to the capital to file a complaint with the emperor.
"During this time, they have suffered a lot along the way. They have been beaten, cheated, and even nearly died."
When talking about this, Su Tan's voice was a little vague, and no one could tell what she was thinking.
Her eyes only fell on Jin Tao, with a bit of pity in them, "You really don't want to go and take a look?"
Jin Tao seemed to have lost all her strength in an instant, and her whole body was like a dead tree that had fallen into ice and snow, with all the life drained away. She stared at Su Tan blankly, motionless.
"You...what did you say?"
Her parents actually went to Beijing to file a complaint for her?
"I think they're almost at the city gate. Jin Tao, go check on them. Your parents miss you very much."
Jin Tao's tears fell.
Su Tan took her to the city gate, and Jin Tao saw her father and mother, who were dressed in tattered clothes, had gray hair, and had weather-frost on their faces.
In Jin Tao's memory, her parents have always been decent people. No matter how rich or poor their lives were, they always kept themselves clean and tidy.
In the words of Mr. and Mrs. Jin, if a person is sloppy and not decent and clean, the stray dogs on the roadside will roll their eyes and bark at them.
But now, Jin Tao's parents had gray hair and looked haggard, with wounds from falls on their bodies and torn clothes. They no longer had the spirit they once had.
"father……"
"mother……"
Jin Tao's voice choked with sobs, unable to control herself any longer. She cried and walked forward, wanting to throw herself into her mother's arms, but her hand just went straight through her mother's body.
Mother Jin only felt a gust of wind blowing past her, but she had no way of knowing that it was her daughter whom she was thinking about all the time.
The soldier guarding the gate saw these two people in a very miserable state, frowned tightly and blocked their way.
"What do you do?"
"Take out the pass and show it to me."
There have been some mishaps caused by refugees lately, and these two people look really suspicious.
Mr. and Mrs. Jin looked embarrassed, and Mrs. Lin rubbed her hands on her clothes awkwardly.
"Sir, our travel permit and baggage were stolen on the road. We are coming to Beijing to seek refuge with our relatives, and we..."
Before Jin Mu could finish her words, she was driven away by the soldiers, "Go away, go away! No matter what you are here for, you cannot enter the city without a pass."
This is the emperor's territory. Who knows what this group of people are here for? What if they are in disguise and their real purpose is to assassinate the emperor?
Mother Jin's eyes were red, and Father Jin also knelt humbly, "Sir, please be flexible. We really came to Beijing to seek refuge with our relatives. We..."
"You don't understand what I'm saying, do you? I told you to show me your travel permit. Without it, who cares what you're doing here?"
"Go, go, go away. Don't delay us from checking the people behind us."
Father Jin's face turned pale.
They had clearly arrived at the emperor's feet, but were stopped at the city gate.
I am only one step away from redressing my daughter's grievances.
"Dad, Mom! Go back and stop meddling in my affairs. I'm an unfilial daughter. I've made you and me die young, and I've misunderstood you all along!"
Jin Tao burst into tears and knelt in front of Jin's father and mother.
Unfortunately, Mr. and Mrs. Jin couldn't hear her cries.
I couldn't see how she knelt down.
Jin's father and mother were at their wit's end and could only beg again and again, hoping that the gatekeeper would be flexible and let them through.
Needless to say, the result was a severe rebuttal.
Some of the gatekeepers had already drawn their swords. "Anyone who delays here will be treated as an assassin!"
Mr. and Mrs. Jin's faces turned pale.
Jin Tao turned her head and stared at the soldier closely. Black air surged from the palm of her hand. She was about to attack, but Su Tan grabbed her arm tightly.
"what are you up to?"
Su Tan's cold voice rang out, and Jin Tao's body stiffened. After a while, she bit her lip and said aggrievedly, "They bullied my parents, and I can't swallow this!"
Su Tan shook his head. "They're not bullying your parents. They're just following the rules. If your parents can't produce a pass, they can't let them pass."
"The emperor lives in the capital, so they can only do this."
After all, if something goes wrong.
This consequence is also unbearable.
By then, none of the soldiers guarding the gate will be able to escape.
Jin Tao lowered her head and said nothing. After a moment, she asked with red eyes, "Am I just going to watch them bully my parents like this?"
Su Tan was about to answer when someone from the Jian'an Marquis Mansion arrived.
This man was the steward of the Jian'an Marquis Mansion, and the soldiers guarding the gate all recognized him.
As soon as the steward saw Jin's father and mother, he called them Master and Madam.
"Master and Madam have had a long journey. The Marquis has been waiting for you in the mansion for a long time. I wonder if something happened on the way, so I specially asked this servant to come and pick you up."
As he spoke, he took out the warrant of Jian'an Marquis Mansion and showed it to the soldier guarding the gate.
"This is a relative of our Lord. His family has been in trouble, so he has come here for refuge. I hope you can help him."
As he spoke, he took out a large bag of silver and handed it to the soldier guarding the gate, saying that he had delayed his work and that he was inviting him to tea.
The gatekeeper laughed immediately. "So you're a relative of the Jian'an Marquis' Mansion. Blame me for being so short-sighted. Master and Madam, please come this way."
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