Sun Siyuan kept kowtowing and praying, feeling both regret and hatred in his heart.
He never dreamed that Gu Sijin, who used to frequently curse bastards, would one day be so high and mighty, able to decide his life or death with a single sentence.
"Oh, so you didn't do it?" Si Jin, dressed in red, leaned back in her chair with her legs crossed.
Her peach blossom eyes curved into a beautiful arc as she smiled kindly: "Then it's all the Yun family's fault, right?"
"Yes! It was all instigated by the Yun family!" Sun Siyuan roared, "The Yun family feared you would return to seize their family property, and their murder of a high-ranking official is an unforgivable crime. I beg you, Your Excellency, to investigate thoroughly! Arrest her and kill her immediately!"
"Okay." The person who had been paid to write the petition for detaining the Yun family finished writing it, and Sun Siyuan, in order to save his life, signed it without hesitation.
Then, with hopeful eyes, she looked up at Si Jin and said, "Your Excellency is magnanimous. I have done a good job exposing the Yun family. May I go home now?"
"Go home?" Si Jin asked softly, smiling slightly at Sun Siyuan's hopeful gaze. "That's impossible. You're the one who hired someone to kill me, and you'll have to pay with your life too."
"However, since you confessed relatively readily, I can spare your tongue and tie you up to behead you!"
Upon hearing this, Sun Siyuan was so frightened that he almost lost his mind. After recovering, he roared wildly, "Gu Sijin, you slut who deserves to die young! You bastard who was born of a mother but raised by one!"
"You deliberately forced me to confess, you deliberately forced me to harm my mother!"
“Young Master Sun, you are joking.” Si Jin stood to the side, lowered his eyes and read the confession: “The confession also includes that you forcibly abducted women, raped and killed thirteen people; you trampled the crops that farmers outside the city depended on for their livelihood, not only did you not pay compensation but you also crippled people, causing more than a dozen farming families to become beggars. Is this also something I forced you to do?”
Just as they were about to be beheaded, Yun's weak voice suddenly rang out from outside: "Spare his life! I have a pardon... a golden token, spare my son!"
She screamed at the top of her lungs, the whip marks on her body causing unbearable pain, but she still stole Sun Wuyang's pardon and came to save her son.
The moment he arrived at the Eastern Depot, he knelt on the ground, utterly exhausted, his eyes filled with tears: "Please, Governor, have mercy and spare my life."
As she spoke, she slowly clenched her fists. If Si Yuan hadn't been in his hands, she would never have knelt before Gu Sijin, even if her life was threatened!
The Emperor bestowed upon him a pardon from death. The imperial guards, who had raised their swords, looked at each other, unsure of what to do next.
If someone kills someone despite seeing a pardon, it would be considered disrespectful to the emperor and a capital offense punishable by death.
Upon seeing this, Sun Siyuan became excited and tearfully said to Yun Shi, "Mother, I miss you so much. When I was in prison, I was afraid I would never see you again. Please save me, Mother!"
He looked pitiful and helpless, as if he had completely forgotten how he had just betrayed his mother.
Gu Sijin dared not kill him now. Once he escaped this calamity, he would definitely have his father submit a memorial to impeach him and kill this bastard!
But the next moment, Si Jin snatched the sword from the guard's hand and, without hesitation, severed Sun Siyuan's head.
The moment the head hit the ground, not only the Yun family, but even the members of the Eastern Depot were stunned.
Didn't you see the pardon? How dare the eunuch...?
Isn't he afraid of being punished by the emperor and losing his head?
Everyone held their breath, their gazes fixed on Si Jin. They saw the red-clad man finish killing someone, then wearily pinch his brow, his lips turning pale.
He paused for a moment, as if only then realizing what was happening: "Excuse me, I was given a slow-acting poison and had some tinnitus just now. I didn't hear what you were saying. If you're going to kill someone, do it quickly. What happened?"
Everyone gasped again, belatedly realizing that the poison in the Grand Eunuch's body was administered by the Yun family mother and son.
The slash just now was only because the poison had taken effect and he hadn't reacted in time, and the Yun family, who had poisoned him, had no excuse.
At this moment, Si Jin slowly turned her head and said, "Oh dear, what is Madam Yun doing here? Arrest her as well."
When the others brought the vacant-eyed Yun Shi to them, Si Jin immediately handed her the confession.
Let her see with her own eyes how the good son she risked her life to save betrayed her.
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