Chapter 120 Bloodshed
Granny Li stared intently at her daughter, tears streaming down her face. "My daughter," she said, "the young lady treated me so well back then. Even you, who was giving birth late in life, almost lost your life. It was the young lady who hired doctors and spared no expense to save you... You were supposed to be loyal to the young master for life, but alas..."
Before the word "what a pity" could even finish, Granny Li suddenly pulled out a hairpin from her head and plunged it into Qing'er's throat.
Qing'er stared wide-eyed at her mother in disbelief, opening her mouth as if to say something, but blood gushed out from the hairpin.
Qing'er could no longer make a sound and fell down silently.
The unexpected turn of events startled Mu Xi.
Mu Xun stood behind her the whole time, patting her shoulder with his hand.
A gasp of surprise rippled through the hall.
Marquis Shen Lun of Yongguo picked up his teacup and took another sip: "Granny Li is truly a model of loyalty. Neither the Lord's Mansion nor the Marquis's Mansion will mistreat a loyal servant."
As if she hadn't heard, Granny Li slowly stood up, still muttering to herself, "Miss, Miss... This old servant begs your forgiveness."
As she spoke, she looked around blankly, as if searching for the young lady she was referring to.
After a while, she found nothing. Suddenly, her eyes snapped back to attention, and she turned to look at her daughter who was lying on the ground: "My child, don't be afraid, Mother will be with you soon."
As soon as she finished speaking, Granny Li suddenly rammed into the corner of a table not far to her left.
With a "thud," his brains splattered, and he collapsed into a pool of blood.
"Ah..." The crowd in the hall exclaimed in surprise.
Before Ma Zheng could even react to the loss of Qing'er as a witness, Granny Li died on the spot, leaving him unable to attend to either of them.
Mu Xi could hardly believe it; she even stopped breathing.
After a long while, he blinked again, and there were still two unchanging corpses in front of him. It wasn't a nightmare after all.
I nearly fell off my seat in a fit of dizziness.
“Your Highness…” Mu Xun knelt down and supported him with his shoulder.
“She…she…” Mu Xi opened her mouth, wanting to say “she didn’t have to die,” but no sound came out.
Ma Zheng was still shouting: "This...this mother and daughter died, and there was also a peasant woman...this peasant woman can also testify..."
The farming couple were so terrified by the sight of two lives lost before their eyes that they were speechless.
There's no turning back now that the arrow has been released. Ma Zheng grabbed the secret letter in his hand again: "I have this letter here. It is very detailed and points out that the Crown Prince of Jinfang was born a girl... Rumors may not be without reason. Don't you gentlemen here have any doubts?"
Upon hearing this question, the guests forgot about the deaths of Granny Li and her daughter and began to stir again.
Ma Zheng saw a glimmer of hope and tried to salvage public opinion: "According to my investigation, over the years, the Crown Prince has rarely seen anyone, citing his frail health, and has no male servants by his side... Moreover, why would this old servant seek death?"
"Enough..." Marquis Shen Lun of Yongguo slammed his hand on the table, his face also very ugly. "The lowly Left Supervisor of the Court of Justice should not go too far."
However, the discussions were already incessant:
"Yes, why bother?"
"It's still a human life, after all."
"Could it be that the Crown Prince's frail health is just an excuse?"
"Oh dear, looking at it this way, the young master is indeed a bit too weak."
"I've heard that the young prince's household is full of women, all of whom are of marriageable age but have never married."
"Upon closer inspection, the young master also doesn't have an Adam's apple..."
...
For a moment, they completely forgot that two lives were still lying on the ground.
Mu Xi stared at Li Mama's corpse, enduring the whispers and scrutinizing gazes of the crowd, wanting to say something but unable to utter a sound.
In desperation, he picked up the wine jug in front of him and drank it down in one go.
An unnamed outpouring of grief and rage erupted like a tidal wave.
Ignoring Mu Xun's attempts to stop her, Mu Xi drank a whole pot of wine, then suddenly stood up. She lost her balance, closed her eyes, and fell backward.
"Your Highness, what's wrong?" Mu Xun asked quickly.
The next second, her drunken personality kicked in. When she opened her eyes again, her once beautiful eyes turned into hellfire, but her face still had a bright and alluring smile. She pushed Mu Xun away forcefully: "Didn't you want to have your body checked? Just show it to them."
Upon hearing this, the hall fell completely silent.
Mu Xun stared wide-eyed at Mu Xi, wondering what she was up to.
Mu Xi approached step by step, taking off her outermost purple-moon dark gold robe as she went and throwing it on the ground: "Left Supervisor Ma, didn't you say you wanted a physical examination? Come and take a look."
Previously, Mu Xi had repeatedly refused to undergo a physical examination, so Ma Zheng was certain that he would catch her red-handed.
Mu Xi's sudden action startled him, causing him to take a few steps back.
If she were truly a woman, how could she act this way?
"Your Highness..." Mu Xun tried to grab him from behind.
The drunken man shoved him away forcefully, then untied his gold-inlaid jade belt and threw it at Ma Zheng: "Left Supervisor Ma, what exactly do you want to verify?"
A fleeting glimpse of something in his unfathomable eyes caused Ma Zheng to stumble backward, tripping over Li Mama's corpse and falling to the ground.
The drunken man grabbed his collar with one hand and pulled him down sharply, saying, "You'd better take a good look and see if this scar was inflicted by a bad guy."
"Your Highness...Your Highness..." Ma Zheng couldn't speak. He tried to stand up, but his legs were too weak.
As Mu Xi opened her collar, a dark red and ugly scar was revealed from her neck down to her collarbone, right before everyone's eyes.
Everyone held their breath.
The drunken man's personality became ferocious and he pulled even harder, then spun around on the spot; "Did you see that, Grand Marshal Gao? I don't know which one of those people who should have no descendants and die eight generations ago shot me with a poisoned arrow, but even with the hook and barbs, it didn't kill me."
Gao Quan's wolfish eyes were sinister, and he ignored him.
The drunken man turned around and burst into wild laughter: "Hahaha... What were you all talking about? Open your dog eyes and look at this! This is the incompetence of the Court of Justice. Instead of arresting the assassin, they come here to question my identity. The Court of Justice has ulterior motives. If you want to see, then see as much as you want, but you'll have to pay the price... Hahaha..."
Mu Xi wore the faux-human skin vest specially made for her by Doctor Luo, and with the lights flickering in the hall, she felt fearless.
The hall was completely silent.
"Oh dear, why are you all so quiet? Haven't you had enough? Should I take this off too?" The drunken man was not satisfied and pulled down his casual clothes as well.
Mu Xun rushed over and hugged him tightly: "Your Highness, you're drunk."
At the same time, Jin Fangjun Muzhen's voice finally appeared: "Xi'er, you must not be rude."
"Hahaha..." The drunken man laughed wildly, "Rude? Who is being rude? They've already ridden over the head of the Jin Fangjun residence, are they still going to keep causing trouble?"
Jin Fangjun Muzhen appeared, not in a wheelchair, but walking step by step up the steps to the main seat.
Behind him followed Liu Qi, a man in a crimson official robe with a goatee from the Court of Justice, and further back was his second wife, Lady Gao, who stopped behind a curtain.
"Get off me..." As soon as Mu Zhen appeared, Mu Xi tried to regain control of her body, but the alcohol was too strong and she couldn't control her drunken personality.
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