Gao Shu pointed at Shen Miao and said angrily, "Elder, look, Shen Miao wants to harm me and is acting like nothing happened. You must stand up for me!"
The elder waved his hand, signaling Gao Shu to be quiet, and stepped forward to ask, "Shen Miao, do you have to give our Ice Tiger Clan an explanation for what happened today?"
"Elder, your arrival is just in time. I was just about to look for you," Shen Miao said calmly.
Gao Shu couldn't help but say, "Stop with the nonsense, just tell me, why did you poison me?!"
Shen Miao glanced at Gao Shu and nudged Lü Zhu forward: "It wasn't that I wanted to poison you. This is all a misunderstanding. The one who actually poisoned you is this person."
All the beastmen of the Ice Tiger Clan were looking at Green Pearl. Gao Shu said angrily, "Don't try to fool me. I've never even seen this female beast before. Why would she want to harm me?"
"This is a long story, let me tell you from the beginning."
Green Pearl began to struggle and whimper. Nine-Headed Kicked her and said coldly, "Be quiet. If you don't want to die now, behave yourself."
Green Pearl glared angrily at Jiu Ying, but seeing that Jiu Ying remained unmoved, she turned her attention to glaring at Chen Miao.
Shen Miao completely ignored her and began to slowly recount the grudges of Green Pearl, and how Green Pearl had secretly sneaked into her house and poisoned the water. The Ice Tiger Clan beastmen were dizzy and couldn't believe that the truth was like this.
At this moment, an orc questioned, "Why should whatever you say be the truth? Who knows if you're just afraid the Ice Tiger Clan will cause you trouble and you've just found a scapegoat?"
The orcs chimed in, "That's right! If you're so capable, take the animal skin off that female Green Pearl's mouth and hear what she has to say."
Shen Miao's eyes held a faint chill: "As you wish, I will make her speak."
Jiuying removed the animal skin from Green Pearl's mouth, and Green Pearl immediately cursed, "Chen Miao, you're slandering me! I've never been to your house, let alone poisoned you! Don't try to frame me!"
"Whether it's slander or not, words alone aren't enough; let's look at the evidence."
Green Pearl was surprised and doubtful, and blurted out, "Where do you have any evidence?"
As soon as she finished speaking, she realized something was wrong. The beastmen around her were looking at her with strange eyes. Green Pearl panicked and hurriedly said, "You're talking nonsense. Even if you have evidence, it has nothing to do with me."
Shen Miao ignored her, reached out and rummaged through Green Pearl's body, pulling out something to show everyone: "This is the evidence. Everyone recognizes this. It's called Fine-leaved Grass. Its sap is highly poisonous, and the poison-detecting stone turns yellow when it comes into contact with the sap. Gao Shu, tell everyone, didn't your poison-detecting stone turn yellow after it came into contact with that bowl of water?"
Although Gao Shu didn't want to pay attention to Shen Miao, he still answered her: "It's yellow."
"No, that's not how it is. I didn't have any fine-leaf grass at all. Shen Miao put it on me. Yes, it was her. She deliberately framed me!" Green Pearl cried out in anguish.
Shen Miao curled her lips in a mocking smile. "You're not convinced, are you?"
"Yes, I disagree. This doesn't count as evidence at all," Green Pearl gasped for breath.
Shen Miao said, "Alright, I have more than just this one piece of evidence. Everyone, come with me. This is evidence that Green Pearl came to my house. She keeps saying that she didn't come to my house and didn't poison me. So I want to ask, who put this footprint on?"
All the Ice Tiger Clan beastmen crowded around to look, and sure enough, they saw a peacock beastman's footprint.
“Our tribe only has one peacock beastman, Green Pearl. Could this footprint have been left by a peacock beastman from another tribe? Do you all think that’s possible?” Shen Miao’s gaze swept over the beastmen.
The beastmen whispered among themselves, clearly their hearts already tipped in favor of Shen Miao.
Green Pearl's face turned deathly pale.
The Ice Tiger Clan elder stomped his scepter angrily, his sharp eyes fixed on Green Pearl, and said sternly, "Green Pearl, do you plead guilty?"
"I, I..." Green Pearl's lips trembled wildly, but she couldn't utter a single word.
"Speak! Did Shen Miao wrong you? Did you do these things? If you do not confess, you will be severely punished!" the Ice Tiger Clan elder said sternly.
Green Pearl suddenly went limp, kneeling on the ground with tears streaming down her face. She touched her forehead to the ground and cried, "I confess, I did it, I did it all."
After discussing the matter with their clansmen, the Ice Tiger Clan elders decided to execute Green Pearl.
When Green Pearl heard that she was to be executed, she collapsed to the ground, but no orc showed her any sympathy, because what Green Pearl had done was too heinous.
"Mother, Mother, waah—"
A cub stumbled in, grabbed Green Pearl, and wailed, "Please don't kill my mother! Please, don't kill my mother!"
Green Pearl was still bound and unable to repay Ya Ling, but she kept shedding tears.
The mother and daughter were crying together, looking utterly miserable.
The Ice Tiger Clan orcs stepped forward to pull Ya Ling away, but Ya Ling broke free from them. Her eyes darted around the crowd, and when she saw Shen Miao, Pu came over and hugged Shen Miao tightly.
"Auntie, please save my mother! Waaah, I don't want my mother to die!"
Shen Miao felt a pang of sadness, feeling sorry for Ya Ling. Having such a mother must have been a real hardship for the little one.
Ya Ling cried so hard she almost fainted.
Seeing Ya Ling like this, Da Bao and the others also had tears in their eyes. They quietly stepped forward, tugged at Chen Miao's clothes, and looked up at her with their little faces, whispering, "Mother, please help Mother, she's so pitiful."
The children all looked at Shen Miao pleadingly.
The kids didn't like Ya Ling before, and Da Bao even cursed at her. However, the kids played together for a while and developed a deep friendship.
Seeing their friend in such a miserable state, Da Bao and the others no longer cared about what had happened before; all they wanted to do was help Ya Ling and stop her from crying so sadly.
Shen Miao sighed. She really didn't want Green Pearl to have anything to do with her. The Ice Tiger Clan's execution of her was not what she wanted either. She just hoped that this female beast would stay far away from her.
But Green Pearl always insists on coming up to her.
Shen Miaozhen didn't want to get involved in this matter, but she couldn't bear to disappoint her children, so she said to them, "Mother can't make the decision on this matter, but Mother will try."
The Ice Tiger Clan orcs have already decided to take Green Pearl back to their tribe and deal with her there.
Shen Miao walked up to the elder and said, "I would like to have a talk with you."
"We can talk after we deal with Green Pearl," the Ice Tiger Clan elder politely declined.
Shen Miao took a deep breath and said, "Elder, I think Green Pearl is guilty, but not guilty enough to warrant death. She has a cub to raise. Could you please show leniency and spare Green Pearl's life?"
"Of course, as long as Green Pearl's life is spared, I will not interfere with how the elders deal with her."
The Ice Tiger Clan elder looked at her in surprise, his shrewd eyes narrowing, and said, "She's trying to harm you, and you're still pleading for her?"
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