Xue Zhentong also agreed: "Such a slave should be dealt with properly."
Qiuyun and Suyue begged for mercy.
At this moment, Xue Zhiyi finally lost her composure and knelt down: "Father and Mother, please spare their lives. It will only serve as a blessing for Big Brother's success in the imperial examination!"
Finally seeing such an embarrassed and frustrated look on Xue Zhiyi's face, Fu Rongxin felt extremely happy. She pressed the issue, "Such a lenient way of letting people off the hook is telling all the servants in the Xue family that stealing is not a crime and that they can be let off easily just by asking for mercy."
Xue Zhiyi bowed her head and kowtowed: "I dare not beg you, father and mother, to let them go. Even if you are willing, I dare not keep them any longer. However, the things they stole are really not worth much silver. If it gets out, I am afraid that the Xue family will beat a servant to death for a few dozen taels of silver, which will ruin my father's reputation!"
Xue Zhentong was silent: This matter is not a big deal. The Xue family has never had a precedent of beating someone to death for such a thing.
Fu Ling was also thinking that what Xue Zhiyi said did not make sense. The Spring Examination was just around the corner, and it was indeed not appropriate to spread any unpleasant news at this time.
Seeing that they were wavering, Xue Zhiyi said, "The Xue family has never lacked servants to serve us. I don't want to keep people like this around anymore. At worst, I can just kick them out and sell them to human traffickers. That's better than killing them!"
Fu Ling couldn't stand Xue Zhiyi, nor could she stand the people around her, so it would be good if she could deal with them... and by sending these two away, she could place her own people close to Xue Zhiyi.
Since Mother Qiao's death, she had not been able to get any real news about Xue Zhiyi for a long time, which made her unaware of when her adopted daughter became so rebellious.
Thinking of this, Fu Ling said, "Since you've asked for mercy, our Xue family isn't a bloodthirsty bunch. Just send him away and have nothing to do with the Xue family from now on."
When they heard that they were going to be kicked out, Qiuyun and Suyue's bodies went limp and they both collapsed to the ground powerlessly.
Xue Zhiyi also cried uncontrollably: "Zhiyi thanks father and mother for their generosity..."
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