"Something strange? You mean, your mother suspected that Queen Feng's fall off the cliff was not an accident, but man-made?" Upon hearing this, Si Chengfeng dropped the towel in his hand into the water in the bathtub with a "pop" and then drifted away.
"Indeed, my mother took her doubts and reasoned based on the files, listing and sorting out the unreasonable points one by one, and then wrote a thick memorial."
"Has the emperor seen it?" Si Chengfeng's heart ached slightly. Why had his adoptive grandfather and the others never heard of this?
"No." Shan Zuo shook his head.
"My mother couldn't wait for the next morning court session, so she took the written memorial to the palace gate and presented it that very night."
"The memorial was lost?" Si Chengfeng narrowed his fox eyes slightly, looking serious.
"I don't know, I just know that it didn't reach the emperor. And... and the next day, the Imperial Guards came to Shan's house and arrested my mother on the grounds of accepting bribes and dereliction of duty. She was sentenced to dismissal and exiled to the frontier on the same day. And our entire family of dozens of people were reduced to slavery and became official slaves." Shan Zuo's eyes were moist, and every bit of the past in his memory struck at his heart.
"My mother died of illness on the way to exile to the frontier. A month later, my father heard the news of my mother's death and died soon after due to excessive grief. And Ayou and I became orphans from then on..." Shan Zuo, who was immersed in sad memories, burst into tears unknowingly.
"The past is over. The most important thing now is that you and your brother can live well, and your mother and father can live as well." Si Chengfeng took out a handkerchief from his arms and gently wiped the tears from Shan Zuo's face.
He had originally intended to probe and find out the details of the two brothers, Dan Zuo and Dan You, but he had never imagined that their mother had died to avenge the wrongful death of Feng Lingyan, and that their family members had been innocently implicated and reduced to slavery. Thinking of this, Si Chengfeng could not help but feel a thousand thoughts in his mind.
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