It’s hard to break a phoenix’s destiny

Chapter 651 The Story Is Not Over Yet

The truth of the case was revealed, and everyone was silent for a while, just thinking about everything that had happened since the incident. Especially before, Xie An had been determined to be impossible to overturn the case, but it was actually reversed in just three days, which was really shocking.

"Jin Xi, Lord Jin, you can bring Xie An here for interrogation, and call his father over as well. We will review what happened on that day and put an end to this case today. Don't let the word 'injustice' ruin the reputation of the Han Dynasty." There was unquestionable majesty in Yang Xianrong's tone. Jin Xi quickly agreed and went back to Chang'an Prefecture to do the work himself.

Liu Cong suddenly asked Yang Xianrong, "Third sister, when did you start to doubt Li Xiuying? Didn't you sigh that day that she was weak due to a miscarriage... Why?"

"Yes, I felt sorry for her before, and I still feel sorry for her now." With the emergency treatment of the doctor, Li Xiuying has recovered. Her mother and sisters half hugged her and kept crying softly. Shuanzhu, who was kneeling beside her, also had tears on his face. He opened his mouth, but didn't know what to do. "But she knew about it but didn't report it, and wrongly accused a good person. How should this matter be handled?"

"She knew it all along? Wasn't she unconscious?" Liu Cong frowned.

"Her father and brother hid Mou Huaizhong's body in a closet. Wouldn't it stink after a long time? When I first entered her room, I smelled a faint stench. At that time, I thought it was caused by her lochia after a miscarriage and the lack of ventilation in the room. But later I found that the smell would not go away." Yang Xianrong glanced at Li Xiuying's room, and his voice was somewhat resentful and dark. "Your Majesty, you also know that the stench of a dead body is a very difficult smell to dissipate. It is not something that can be dissipated by opening a window. It may not be removed even after ten or eight years."

Suddenly, a cold wind blew in the inn, and everyone trembled with fear. Shuanzhu even lay flat on the ground, not daring to look up.

Yang Xianrong glanced at Shuanzhu and continued, "These past few days, I deliberately chatted with the people in the cosmetics shop and helped my mother-in-law treat her injured leg. I stayed up late. In addition to learning more about the situation from her, I also wanted to show it to the interested people in the inn. You know, if Xie An was really wronged, wouldn't the innkeeper know about it? He is here day and night. If the boss was killed, wouldn't he hear anything?"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's attention shifted to Shuanzhu again.

Shuanzhu crawled on the ground, not daring to look up.

"So, Shuanzhu is also the murderer?" Liu Cong asked.

"He may not be the murderer, but he is an accomplice and played a key role, especially in wrongly accusing Xie An." Before Yang Xianrong finished speaking, a shocking howl could be heard at the door of the inn. It was Xie An's father Xie Tianshou who shouted, "My son is innocent!"

He had been keeping an eye on the inn's every move these days, because he knew that Liu Yao and Yang Xianrong were re-investigating it, and he didn't dare to leave for a moment, for fear of missing something. But after all, he was of low status and couldn't enter the core area, so he could only stand outside the inn and wait.

When Yang Xianrong said that she could have someone interrogate Xie An and asked Xie Tianshou to come as well, he was the first to rush in. He just happened to hear what Yang Xianrong said and couldn't help but howl, "Oh my God, my son is really innocent!"

Yang Xianrong frowned, and Liu Yao had already walked over and raised his foot. However, when he thought that this man was the victim's father, he could not use force, so he could only shout: "Don't cry! Listen first."

His voice was quite scary, and Xie Tianshou immediately shut up and looked in the direction of Yang Xianrong with tears in his eyes. Yang Xianrong nodded slightly at him, and then said to Liu Cong: "Your Majesty, now that things have come to this, they have all admitted their guilt. You might as well open the gate so that more people can hear the trial up close." Liu Cong nodded.

Liu Yao immediately went to the entrance of the inn to maintain order and let some of the people in the front row in. However, he was still cautious, after all, there were too many people, and the mix of good and bad people would cause problems.

At this time, Yang Xianrong looked at him and touched her ear with her hand. Liu Yao noticed that Yang Xianrong had secretly replaced one of her earrings with a white jade pendant. He immediately understood and seemed to turn back to her side, but in fact he exchanged glances with Yuan Jianshuo and gradually disappeared into the crowd.

After all this commotion, Li Xiuying had already woken up, and she was in tears again when she looked at her family. She also whispered, "Shuanzhu, don't be afraid. I will accompany you even to the underworld."

"Tell me, they have all pleaded guilty more or less. So, what's going on on your side?" Yang Xianrong asked without giving her time to think.

Liu Cong stood up and walked a few steps to Li Xiuying, "What? Did you really steal someone?"

He was the emperor of the Han Dynasty. His sudden approach frightened Li Xiuying so much that she almost fainted again. However, Li Xiuying's sisters started crying and knelt at Liu Cong's feet, "Your Majesty! Don't kill my sister. Her life is too hard!"

Li Xiuying's mother even hugged Liu Cong's thighs and begged in various ways.

How could Liu Cong's close followers let them get so close? Even Jin Zhun rushed over to pull Li Xiuying's mother away. The scene became extremely miserable again, and those who were watching the excitement were already in tears.

"Okay, we need to understand the matter clearly before we can punish you! Do you understand?!" Liu Cong is not a person who will not tolerate soft words, not to mention that his ideas are often different from those of ordinary people, and crying a few times can soften his heart. "Answer me first, what is your relationship with this guy?"

"Don't make it difficult for Sister Xiuying! I'll tell you everything!" This time Shuanzhu raised his head and kowtowed hard, "I am an accomplice. All the fault is mine! Don't blame them! Sister Xiuying doesn't know anything either!"

“Speak!” Liu Cong roared, shaking the eaves of the inn.

How could Shuanzhu, who worked at the inn, not notice the dispute between the Li family father and son and the owner Mou Huaizhong? This internal family conflict had been going on for a long time. In fact, he was an orphan. When he was ten years old, he fled to Chang'an due to famine. Mou Huaizhong took him in out of kindness, but he also worked hard. All the cleaning work inside and outside the inn fell on his young and skinny shoulders.

But because he had food to eat and a place to live, Shuanzhu did not complain or resist, and was even very obedient. Mou Huaizhong would beat him when he was in a bad mood, but he was a boy after all and could run fast. Over time, the two of them stumbled through seven or eight years like this, and the days went by, but Shuanzhu also hated Mou Huaizhong very much, and had secretly planned to leave here after getting his salary at the end of the year.