Chapter 304: Who Is Lying?

All the others in the room were confused by Shi Qingxue’s action.

Shi Juncai asked with sarcasm, “What? Do you think that if you kneel in front of your grandpa’s memorial tablet, he will jump up and help you find the token granted by Emperor?”

He mocked at Shi Qingxue and even showed disrespect to Shi Lei indistinctly.

Shi Junhe frowned again and wanted to rebuke him, but he remembered that they were like water and fire now. It was pointless no matter what he said.

Shi Qingxue ignored Shi Juncai’s “bark” and seriously kowtowed to Shi Lei’s memorial tablet for three times, murmuring to apologize, “Grandpa, I am sorry.”

It was silent in the ancestral hall, and all people heard Qingxue say sorry yet didn’t understand what she was sorry for.

She knelt for about fifteen minutes and then got up. Afterward, she took a few steps forward.

She almost got close to the shrine for worshiping. Then she reached out to get Shi Lei’s memorial tablet down.

All people were silent.

“Shi Qingxue, what are you going to do?” Mo Shujun shouted angrily.

Shi Qingxue turned a deaf ear and continued.

She put the memorial tablet on the table in front of her and took out her handkerchief to wipe it carefully. Then she tiptoed and reached out her hands to the shrine.

This time, she fumbled at the bottom of the shrine for a while and then pulled out a long and small secret drawer unexpectedly.

When all people were surprised at why there was a secret drawer under the shrine, something more magical happened. Shi Qingxue took out a silver and bright square-shaped article from the drawer.

It was the token granted by Emperor.

“How is it possible?”

Shi Juncai shouted in surprise and couldn’t believe what he had seen.

He rushed up and wanted to grab the thing in Shi Qingxue’s hand.

Shi Qingxue swerved slightly and avoided him. Then she stated coldly, “Uncle, please don’t.”

“How is it possible? Why is the token granted by Emperor still in your hands and put…” Shi Juncai still looked doubtful.

Not to mention him, Mo Shujun and even Shi Junhe had never expected that the token granted by Emperor was put in such an obvious place while all people tried every means to find it and almost dug a deep hole under the Luotong Boudoir but failed.

It was like joking.

However, Shi Qingxue took it for granted and answered, “The token granted by Emperor was given to me by Grandpa. Shouldn’t I worship it under his memorial tablet?”

Shi Junhe looked into Shi Qingxue’s pure eyes and suddenly understood everything. Perhaps she had never considered keeping the token granted by Emperor for herself.

So when Zheng Liangcai suggested submitting the token granted by Emperor to Mo Xiangbin, she looked so hesitant.

It was not that she didn’t have it, but she was afraid that she would let her grandpa down.

Shi Junhe thought, “Silly child, you are so selfless. How can I bear to make you give up your persistence because of me?”

“Qingxue, no need.”

Shi Junhe sighed in a low voice and wanted to tell Shi Qingxue to take back the token granted by Emperor.

However, Shi Juncai cried again, “You really have the token granted by Emperor? So what? Junhe killed nothing but his younger brother, our father’s biological son.

“He did something so evil. If he is released because of the token granted by Emperor, will it be fair? If Father knows it, he may be angry and jump out of the coffin, right?”

“So, what do you want?” Shi Qingxue knew that Shi Juncai was rascally, so she just frowned slightly after hearing that and didn’t feel surprised.

Shi Juncai thought that he knew their soft spot and expressed complacently, “He can escape from death yet can’t go unpunished. Even though the token granted by Emperor can save his life, he has killed his brother, so he can’t have the title of nobility passed down by Father anyway.”

Shi Juncai beat around the bush and finally revealed his evil intention.

In the final analysis, didn’t he just want to grab Shi Junhe’s title of nobility?

Shi Qingxue sneered and suddenly asked Zheng Liangcai, “Speaking of which, I am confused. Lord Zheng, what crime will you accuse my father of?”

Zheng Liangcai firmed his determination to follow Mo Shujun. Hearing Shi Qingxue’s question, he still couldn’t help but swallow before answering, “Of course…he bought over a servant to kill his younger brother.”

“Oh?” Shi Qingxue nodded knowingly and then her eyes became stern. “Where’s the evidence?”

“Er…” Zheng Liangcai thought that the evidence was so obvious, and Shi Qingxue just tried to delay and make things difficult for him.

Right. Lord Zheng was suffering in his heart and hesitated for a long while. Then he replied, “The second master’s personal servant Shi Wang has confessed that he was ordered by Lord Shi to murder the second master.”

“Only this?” Shi Qingxue snorted with sarcasm in her eyes, as if saying, “Is this evidence?”

Before Zheng Liangcai spoke, she added unhurriedly, “My father has denied knowing Shi Wang.”

“Of course a murderer won’t admit that he has killed somebody!” Shi Juncai retorted in a hurry. Obviously, he didn’t believe Shi Junhe’s words.

Shi Qingxue laughed. “The real murderer will say that somebody else has done it. How can you confirm that Shi Wang told the truth while my father didn’t?”

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Zheng Liangcai and Shi Juncai were rendered speechless.

Right, both of them were witnesses. It was unreasonable that Shi Wang told the truth but Shi Junhe told a lie.

Moreover, Shi Junhe’s identity was honorable. If they confronted at court, more people would believe him in the end.

Zheng Liangcai hesitated for a moment and finally stated, “The runners found some things after searching Shi Wang’s room, and they are the rewards given to him by Lord Shi and the poison. These are evidence. And, the servant Shi Yu who lives in the same room as him said that he had seen that Shi Wang went to Duke Shi’s mansion to ask for rewards.”

He racked his brains and mentioned all the evidence, pretending to be serious about it.

Shi Qingxue listened to him quietly till he finished his words and then asked, “Since you confirm that Shi Wang poisoned Uncle Junfeng and said that my father ordered him to do it, can I ask him some questions to solve our puzzles?”

Zheng Liangcai wiped the sweat on his forehead and ignored Shi Juncai’s glare, answering obediently, “Please…go ahead…”

Although he surrendered to Mo Shujun, he didn’t want to offend Shi Qingxue.

Shi Qingxue politely nodded at Zheng Liangcai and then turned to Shi Wang who knelt on the floor as a captive. She stared at him till he felt nervous and lowered his head with guilt. Afterward, she asked, “Did you murder Uncle Junfeng?”

In the beginning, Shi Wang had been taking precautions against Shi Qingxue’s odd questions. Hearing such a simple question, he was relieved.

He instantly looked as if he regretted it and answered in a sad voice, “Yes, I poisoned him, yet I just followed the orders of…”

“Fine. Just answer my questions. Don’t talk nonsense.” Shi Qingxue coldly interrupted Shi Wang and made him hold back his chicanery.

His sad face with regret twisted.

Shi Qingxue ignored it and continued to ask, “Where did you get the poison?”

Shi Wang became well-behaved this time and answered directly, “The first master gave it to me.”

Shi Qingxue asked, “When?”

“Ah?” Shi Wang was dumbfounded and didn’t understand Shi Qingxue’s question seemingly.

Shi Qingxue asked patiently, “Didn’t you say that my father gave the poison to you? When did he give it to you?”

Shi Wang was still in a daze. He had never expected that Shi Qingxue would ask about the details, and he didn’t prepare the answers.

Shi Qingxue noticed it and asked immediately, “Since you said that the poison was given to you by my father. How can you not know when he gave it to you?”

“I…I have forgotten it!” Shi Wang tried hard to argue.

Shi Qingxue didn’t bother about this point and then asked, “If it had happened long ago, you might have forgotten the time, but you can’t forget the place, right?”

It was not the daily routine but a one-time task of the highest level, to kill somebody. It wouldn’t make sense if Shi Wang justified himself with the excuse that he had forgotten it.

Obviously Shi Wang realized this matter and stuttered, “No. I..I remember it. It…happened in the small alley outside Duke Shi’s mansion.”

He racked his wits and finally figured out an answer. He was afraid that Shi Qingxue would question closely, so he added hurriedly, “The first master gave me alone and nobody saw that.”

“Really?” Shi Qingxue had known that this servant lied like a gas-meter, and she didn’t expect that he would say something true.

“That’s it!” Before Shi Wang replied, Shi Juncai confirmed it anxiously for the servant.

At the same time, he looked at Shi Qingxue impatiently. “Qingxue, although you don’t believe that Junhe did something so evil, the truth is obvious. Don’t play for time.”

Shi Qingxue pursed her lips emotionlessly. “I just want to find the truth by investigation, but you convict my father so anxiously, Uncle. Do you have some secret intentions?”

“You… What nonsense are you talking about?” Shi Juncai denied it hastily and realized that he was too rash, which would arouse suspicion, so he shut up resentfully.

Shi Qingxue turned to the manservant Shi Wang again and asked, “You said that my father gave the poison to you, and what else did he do?”

“The first master told me to find an opportunity to put the poison in the second master’s food. After I did it, he would make sure that I would have endless wealth and glory. And…” Shi Wang repeated what he had said before clearly and logically.

“So you poisoned Uncle Junfeng for money?” Shi Qingxue suddenly asked.

Shi Wang didn’t know why she asked such a question. After a moment of hesitation, he still nodded. “Yes, yes.”

“What did my father give you in advance?”

Shi Wang responded, “Just some gold, silver and jewelry. Shi Yu has seen that I received the awards from the first master, and he can bear witness.”

“Bear witness?” Shi Qingxue repeated the words while pondering. “So he personally went with you to see my father?”

“How is it possible?” Shi Wang denied it in haste. “The first master ordered me not to tell anybody else about this matter, so I went to Duke Shi’s mansion to see him alone every time.”

“Since he didn’t see it, how can he testify that the person you went out to see was my father?”

Shi Qingxue asked in reply all of a sudden and made Shi Wang speechless again.

She asked, “How many times have you seen my father? When did you see him respectively?”

Shi Wang couldn’t answer the last question and he was afraid that he would be rebuked, so this time he answered at once, “I have seen him twice. The first time, I went to receive the awards, and the second time I went to get the poison. It happened at midnight every time. I…”

Shi Wang wanted to say some unimportant details to make people believe his words more, yet he saw that Shi Qingxue looked cold.

She stared at Shi Wang and declared seriously, “You are lying.”

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