Seeing this, Jinzhu felt even more strange and hurriedly followed him into the hall.
In the hall.
The Duke and the Old Lady were also a little surprised to see Su Li rushing in.
The two elders put down their chopsticks, and the old lady asked, "Ali? What happened? Why are you so anxious?"
Ji Jingxu, who was dining with them, felt a pang in his heart. He looked at the bowl of Babaoshan soup in front of him with a guilty conscience and suddenly had a bad feeling.
Could it be that she knows something?
No no no! This is impossible.
The poison was bought by his most trusted confidant, and the soup was cooked by himself and delivered personally. He did it so covertly that it was impossible for him to be discovered.
Moreover, because he wanted to please his parents, he learned how to make various sweet soups since he was young, and often made soup for them himself. Therefore, no one would suspect that his behavior was unusual.
Besides, how could Su Li know that he was making soup since he didn't live in the mansion, and it was even more impossible for her to know that he was going to poison his parents.
He must be here at this time because of some urgent matter.
However, things went against his wishes and Ji Jingxu made a wrong estimate after all.
Su Li pointed at the pot of sweet soup on the table and said directly: "Grandfather, grandmother, this soup is poisonous. Ji Jingxu, that unscrupulous beast, is going to poison you to death!"
Everyone was shocked, and the maids and nannies serving in the hall looked at each other in shock.
Nanny Jin was the first to react. She quickly sent the servants away and asked Jinzhu and Jinzhu to go out and guard the courtyard gate, while she stayed with the old lady.
Of course, Xiao Ye and Xiao Wu also stayed at Su Li's request.
"What did you say?"
The old lady looked confused and suspected that she had heard it wrong.
Jingxu, her son wants to poison them?
How is this possible?
How is this possible!
She frowned, completely unconvinced: "Ali, is there some misunderstanding? How could Jingxu do such a thing?"
"This is complete nonsense!" Ji Jingxu immediately put on an angry look, "You have no evidence at all. Why are you accusing me like this? They are my parents. How could I possibly do such a thing!"
"Yes," the old lady quickly chimed in, "Ali, you must have misunderstood your uncle."
Then he looked at the expressionless and silent Duke beside him and called out suspiciously, "Duke?"
Su Li looked straight at Ji Jingxu: "Whether I'm talking nonsense or not, you will know after drinking this bowl of soup. It's extremely poisonous and will kill you instantly. Ji Jingxu, do you dare to drink it?"
"Don't accuse me. This talk of a deadly poison that kills instantly is simply nonsense!" Ji Jingxu pretended to be angry and raised his hand to pour out the pot of soup in front of him.
Xiao Ye followed Su Li's instructions and stood behind him as soon as he entered the door. Seeing this, he quickly pulled Ji Jingxu away, then picked up the pot of soup and held it in front of him.
That's evidence, we can't let it go.
The old lady was stunned, and her face turned ugly instantly. At her age, she had seen all kinds of people, so how could she hide Ji Jingxu's obviously guilty look from her?
But she still couldn't believe it, and didn't dare to believe that her son wanted to poison them.
Su Li knew that they would find it hard to believe without any reason, so she took out the letter Pei Ji had written to her and said, "Grandfather, Grandmother, this is the carrier pigeon message Pei Ji sent me the other day."
"In order to obtain the title of Duke, Ji Jingxu sent fifteen secret guards to kill Pei Ji, but was captured by Pei Ji instead. Now, the captured secret guards are being escorted back to the capital. Ji Jingxu was afraid that his crimes would be exposed to you two elders, so he wanted to cut off the source of the trouble and poison you..."
Before he could finish his words, the Duke, who had been silent until then, slammed the table and stood up. "You actually went to kill Pei Ji again! You actually... you beast! How could you be so cruel? That's your brother's only child, your family! How could you be so cruel!"
again?
Su Li was stunned.
What does the Duke mean by this?
Did he know that the person he had poisoned before was Ji Jingxu? Otherwise, why did he use the word "again"?
As expected, the Duke's face was filled with sorrow and disappointment. "First you killed my father, then you killed my nephew, and now you're killing my father and mother again. Ji Jingxu, just for the title of Duke, how many more relatives are you going to kill? How many unscrupulous things are you going to do? It's such a misfortune for our family. How could our Ji family have produced such an evil creature like you?"
Su Li also understood at this time. Before she had the chance to tell him that Ji Jingxu had poisoned the Duke under the guise of revenge for the remnants of the vassal kings, the Duke had already known about it. It was obvious that he had known about it for a long time.
It was no wonder that when Pei Ji had just left Beijing for business, Liu Furong came to inquire about how many people were around him. It turned out that the Duke had already been deliberately guarding against them at that time and had concealed from them the fact that he had given Pei Ji secret guards.
Xiao Ye, who was standing by, also realized that the pot of soup was useless, so he silently put it back on the table and then returned to Su Li's back.
The old lady naturally understood the meaning of the Duke's words.
She still couldn't believe it and still held on to a glimmer of hope: "Jingxu? Is what your father said true? Are you really, really going to kill your biological parents for the title of Duke?"
Ji Jingxu didn't look at the old lady, but only looked straight at the Duke: "So you knew it a long time ago?"
It turns out that what he did had already been exposed.
hehe!
Ji Jingxu no longer had the energy to quibble and simply gave up.
He looked at the Duke with a mocking expression, "Did you already know that it was me who poisoned you?"
"yes!"
"Why don't you expose me?"
"I originally wanted to give you a chance, a chance to reform..."
The Duke looked at him intently, unable to conceal the disappointment on his face.
God knows how shocked, disappointed and heartbroken he was when he found out that the person who poisoned him was his own son!
He tried his best to find excuses for himself and to criticize himself. He thought that he must have done something wrong, which was why his son was disappointed in him and hit him.
This time, he would not bother with him. He would give him a chance to mend his ways, and he believed that there would not be a next time.
"But the facts have proven that I was wrong, utterly wrong! How could a man who had already poisoned his own father find his conscience and turn back? My son is nothing but an evil creature, a beast without humanity!"
“Bang!”
The old lady finally couldn't bear it anymore and slapped Ji Jingxu hard.
Her eyes were red, and she was filled with grief. "Why? What did your father and I do wrong to make you not only bear the crime of killing our father and mother, but also poison us with your own hands? Could it be that the grace of giving birth to a child is not as valuable as the title of a Duke? Ah? Ji Jingxu, tell me, why do you treat us like this? Why!"
She suddenly remembered how sad and upset Ji Jingxu looked when the Duke was poisoned and almost couldn't be saved, and she was immediately horrified.
Is that really her son?
How could her son be so cold-blooded and so terrible...
"Why?" Ji Jingxu sneered, "Why don't you know? Don't you know how you treat me?"
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