Chapter 170 Anger rises from the heart, evil is born from the gall.
"What happened after that is what you see..." Tang Si took a deep breath, "I committed an unforgivable sin."
At this point, Tang Si showed no sign of pain; instead, she seemed relieved and let out a long sigh of relief.
He picked up the glass of water in his hand, took a big gulp, and moistened his throat.
At that moment, in the courtyard, beside the stone table, a murderer, a prefect of a prosperous era, and Prince Jing of the Great Wei Dynasty, the three men had different expressions, but they were all looking at the lamp plate in the center of the stone table.
The flickering flames cast an unreal glow on everyone's faces.
After a long while, Li Jincai nodded, but he raised his hand and pushed the lawsuit back in front of Tang Si: "I cannot accept this lawsuit."
Tang Si paused.
Yun Jianlin was even more surprised.
"Why?" Tang Si put down her cup, looking surprised.
Li Jin raised his hand, rubbed his temples, and said slowly, "You are not the murderer of these three people." He said, "It is true that you killed Xuan Yutang, but you did not kill these three people."
"If you didn't kill him, why should you bear this unforgivable crime?"
With a questioning look in his eyes, Li Jin kept fanning himself as he glanced at Tang Si's face, waiting for him to give a reasonable answer.
His gaze was deep yet powerful, as if he could see right through Tang Si's soul, leaving him nowhere to hide in his presence.
The bright moon climbed over the eaves and fell into the courtyard full of roses, making the surroundings more tranquil than during the day.
"How exactly did these three people die?" Li Jin glared at him. "And why are you taking on this heinous crime of murder?"
His words left Tang Si stunned for a long time.
A fleeting look of disbelief crossed his face, and a dry, forced smile played on his lips, revealing a heart-wrenching pain.
"If I hadn't attacked Xuan Yutang that night, those three wouldn't be dead." Tang Si said through gritted teeth, fidgeting with her fingers. "Xuan Yutang, he's not human, he's a beast!"
At that moment, Tang Si stood before Xuan Yutang with a resolute determination to perish together with him.
After raising the price to one thousand taels of silver, Xuan Yutang was surprised to find that the servants who had come at the sound gradually dispersed.
At this moment, he was truly terrified. He forced an ugly smile, enduring the pain in his abdomen, and retreated step by step: "Brother Tang, let's talk this out, let's talk this out! Don't you still have money to settle? I'll settle it for you! I'll settle it tenfold! I have money, really, I have plenty of money!"
Tang Si took one step forward, and Xuan Yutang took three steps back.
Until there is nowhere left to retreat.
From the very beginning, what Tang Si wanted was not money, but Xuan Yutang's life.
Without changing his expression, he raised his knife and brought it down. In that instant, Xuan Yutang reached out and grabbed the woman cowering to the side, holding her in front of him.
Tang Si was shocked and couldn't stop in time; the dagger pierced the innocent woman's abdomen.
His surprised and flustered expression gave Xuan Yutang a glimmer of hope.
He pointed at Tang Si: "Don't come any closer! If you do, I'll strangle her!"
After saying that, he pinned the girl who had borne him two children against the wall and put his hands around her neck.
Tang Si hesitated; he wanted to save the woman.
"Put the knife down! Now! Put it down!" Xuan Yutang yelled at him, "Or I'll strangle her!"
He lost all humanity, his eyes bloodshot, and he burst into laughter: "Trying to kill me? You're a hundred years too early!"
Just as Tang Si hesitated and was about to put down the dagger, his gaze suddenly fell upon the girl who had been poisoned and rendered mute. Her lips moved as she uttered three words before losing consciousness: "Kill him."
"The hatred in her eyes gave me strength instantly." Tang Si covered her face and tears streamed down her cheeks. "In that instant, I thought of my wife and children, my coworkers, everything we've suffered over the years..."
He tilted his head back and took a deep breath.
"I gripped the knife tightly and charged forward..."
Seeing that the woman in his hands was ineffective, Xuan Yutang used her as a shield in front of him. Tang Si was already in a bloodthirsty rage, stabbing several times in a row, and he couldn't even tell who he was stabbing.
Xuan Yutang then threw the woman away and overturned the table.
The rustling sound made the two children huddled in the corner cry out in fear.
This man, this beast, rushed up to the two children, grabbed their clothes, and retreated to the second floor.
"Tang Si! You forced me to do this!" After saying that, he lifted the youngest girl high and threw her down without a second thought.
"The little girl fell heavily on the stone steps at the door. At first, she could still cry out, so I told her to run." Tang Si covered her cheek. "I wanted to save the child, so I rushed into his attic. When he saw me come up, he grabbed the child by the neck and went down the other side."
Xuan Yutang was already injured and was planning to flee.
But looking at his child in his arms, watching him cry and scream, anger rose in his heart, and evil thoughts took hold.
Tang Si just stared at him, watching as he strangled the last child to death right before her eyes.
Enraged by the carnage, Xuan Yutang stood in the main hall with his arms outstretched, laughing like a ravenous demon from hell: "Tang Si! You're just a coward! What kind of hero do you think you are!"
He clutched the wound in his waist, pointed at the three motionless people lying on the ground with his other hand, and grinned menacingly: "Let me tell you! You can't save any of them!"
"You couldn't save them! You're the one who killed them!"
He couldn't save anyone, and no one was saved.
His wife and his son.
An innocent woman, two innocent children.
These words struck Tang Si like a thunderbolt, causing him to shout and charge towards Xuan Yutang with his dagger raised, disregarding everything.
After losing his mind, he finally brought his life to a close, a life that could no longer be called human.
A man who didn't cry when talking about the deaths of his wife and children.
The man who didn't cry even when his grave was covered and a monument erected.
At this moment, unable to save three innocent lives, he broke down in tears in front of Li Jin and Yun Jianlin.
That night, he used red paint to write "deserved to die" and "just got what he deserved" all over the room.
He covered all traces with paint, and the paint bucket fell beside the woman. He could vaguely see that the woman was still breathing.
He quickly saw her turn over, and then he saw the woman smile, shake her head at him, and mouth a thank you.
"She pointed to my paint bucket, then to herself, and wrote a few words on the ground with her blood." Tang Si covered her mouth. "She wanted me to make a big scene, as a warning to others, in exchange for peace and stability in Shengzhou..."
At this point, Tang Si could no longer continue. His sobs contained despair, sorrow, relief, and self-blame, but no regret.
Yun Jianlin ordered Tang Si to be taken to prison and taken good care of, to be dealt with later.
He gazed at Li Jin's profile under the moonlight, and after a long while, let out a long sigh.
At night, Jin Shu heated up the herbal medicine, stepped over the threshold, and saw Li Jin sitting at the table, intently writing something.
His calligraphy of Leng Jinxuan is priceless, with hard labels on both sides featuring gold backgrounds and dragon patterns, resembling imperial edicts.
Jin Shu stood to the side with the medicine in her hand, and saw Li Jin say in a deep voice without looking up, "Grind the ink."
She paused for a moment, put the medicine aside, glanced at the memorial he was writing in front of her, then rolled up her sleeves and obediently held the ink stick, slowly turning it on the Chengni inkstone.
"Was what I did right or wrong?" Li Jin said without looking up, writing as she spoke, "Was it wrong to do something knowing it was impossible?"
After he finished speaking, he looked up and glanced at Jin Shu.
She seemed a little dazed, but continued grinding ink in her hands.
Jin Shu never expected that Li Jin would want to ask the Emperor of Wei for leniency on Tang Si's behalf.
Unlike him.
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