It doesn't matter what the lord is.

It seemed as if Liu Shi could no longer hear.

Xiuzi moved a chair and sat down, and then told him what A-Mo had done over the years, just like a child showing off a new toy.

Not long after, Naru suddenly ran back panting.

"Oh no, Master Shuzu. Miss Amo has left the house!!"

Xiu Zi stood up from his chair and said:

"How is that possible? Hasn't she been under constant surveillance?"

Naru said anxiously:

"We need our people to guard outside the dungeon. In order to avoid too many people and let others hear something they shouldn't hear, the trusted people who were originally sent to keep an eye on A-Mo have all been withdrawn..."

"Where are the security guards? They are also a bunch of rubbish? Why did they let her out? Why didn't they notify me first?"

Xiuzi's problems are more numerous than one.

Naru took a hard breath and said:

"Miss Amo had already prepared for this. She put drugs in the tea for the guard. The guard trusted Miss so much that he didn't notice it at all..."

Xiuzi kicked Naru in the chest, sending his skinny body flying backwards and falling against the wall.

He went out angrily, the ominous premonition in his heart becoming stronger and stronger, so he quickly asked someone to find a horse and prepared to chase after him.

However, it was too late.

In the center of Fengcheng is the City Lord's Mansion, and adjacent to it is the Internal Affairs Department, commonly known as the government office.

There is a drum erected in front of every government office, which is called the drum for appealing for justice.

Now, Amo, who had taken off her luxurious and gorgeous clothes, was wearing snow-white mourning clothes.

She held the drumstick, took a deep breath, and slammed it hard on the drum of redress.

The powerful voice immediately spread throughout the city, and the city guards quickly assembled and headed for the Interior Affairs Department.

Ah Mo, who was only eight years old this year, knelt there, her face full of tears, kowtowed deeply, and said in a very methodical voice:

"Amo, the daughter of Carissa and Ryuishi, sued the Yoshihirata family for the murder of my mother and imprisonment of my father."

50. Her Three Years

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three years ago.

Five-year-old Amo is playing hide-and-seek.

She made an agreement with her mother that if her mother couldn't find her within an hour, she would carry her to see her father forging iron.

However, unexpectedly, she did not wait for her mother to come to her. Her mother seemed to have had an argument with someone outside. Amo, who was hiding in the closet, wanted to go out to see, but soon, there was a scream outside, followed by a commotion. Before she could go out, someone had already entered the room and whispered:

"Search. Search this area thoroughly. Leave no one alive."

Ah Mo was so scared that she huddled in the corner of the closet. Soon, the sound of rummaging through the closets could be heard in the room. The quilt was lifted, the mattress was pushed aside, the curtains were carefully searched, and the closet in the corner was not left out.

Not long after, the closet door was opened.

Outside was a young maid about 25 years old. She was slightly surprised when she saw Amo.

Amo covered her mouth tightly, looked at her in horror, and trembled.

This scene lasted for about a second, and then the voice outside sounded again:

"Have you finished searching?"

The maid quickly made a silent gesture to Amo, then closed the door of the cabinet and said to the outside as if nothing had happened:

"We've searched the room, and there's no one in it."

Amo heard footsteps getting closer and closer, and two people were standing not far from the cabinet talking.

A man's voice came in:

"Your name is Xue Yin, right? You saw what happened just now. Carissa is dead, and now only the two of us know about this. Once it is exposed, you and I will be inseparable. Now I want you to do something for me, understand?"

The maid named Yukine answered respectfully:

"Yes, Master Xiuzi."

Shuz continued:

"Carissa's death cannot be concealed. The mansion is so small that we can find out everything if we investigate. The only way is to frame Liu Shi for this matter. After all, he is just an outsider. As long as we don't leave too obvious evidence, I can tell my father and pass the blame to him. So don't be afraid, just do as I say."

Xue Yin replied:

"I will obey Master Xiuzi's orders."

Showz said:

"Okay. You are about the same size as Carissa, and your appearance and voice are similar. I want you to put on Carissa's clothes now, and then lie down on the bed and pretend to sleep. When Liu Shi comes back later, you deliberately turn over and make some noise to let him know the fact that Carissa is sleeping in the room. He will fall into a state of madness during the forging, and you can knock him out at that time. Carissa's body is now burning in the forging pit. You have never seen him fall into that kind of madness. He looks like he wants to kill someone. When he wakes up, he will remember that there were only him and Carissa in the room, and he will think that he killed Carissa. Even if he has any doubts, he was the only one here when the guards came. We can force the blame on him, and he will have no way to defend himself."

Xue Yin was silent for a while, then said:

"Then what about this servant...?"

Shuz said without hesitation:

"From now on, you will be my woman. You don't have to do hard work anymore. Just follow me and enjoy yourself."

Xue Yin quickly knelt on the ground and thanked him:

"Thank you, Master Xiuzi."

Amo stayed in the closet. She was sensible enough to know what was happening outside.

Several times she wished she could rush out and die together with the villain who killed her mother.

But she knew she couldn't do it.

So she followed Yukine's instructions, covering her mouth and not daring to breathe.

What happened afterwards was basically completely under Xiuzi's control.

The only difference is that he did not let Xue Yin live. After Xue Yin knocked Liu Shi unconscious, she wanted to escape from this place, but Shu Zi was already waiting for her at the door. Seeing Shu Zi coming towards her, Xue Yin's voice trembled a little, and she asked Shu Zi to take her away from this place quickly, but Shu Zi responded with a palm that caught her off guard and pushed her into the fire pit.

"There is another loophole in this plan. It has been several hours since I pushed Carissa down. After burning for a long time, Carissa's body has become ashes without a trace. This is not like the [crime scene] that just happened. In order for everything to be perfect, a woman who looks like her must die now. Don't blame me, Yukine. For some things, the fewer people who know, the better..."

After that, it's something everyone knows.

Liu Shi had no doubts and took the blame. It was actually a coincidence. The sword he was forging was buried in the forging pit. After Shuzu pushed Yukine down, Yukine's blood and soul were all burned into the sword, which made his research progress by leaps and bounds. Liu Shi didn't know that the person who died was Yukine. In addition, he mistakenly thought that Carissa had cheated on him during that time, so he had some bad thoughts several times. When he saw that his research had made a breakthrough for the first time, he naturally thought that he had paid for it with Carissa's life.

As for Yukine, it was easier to deal with her. After all, she was not of Yoshihirata's bloodline, so if she disappeared, not many people would pay attention.

In Shuzu's opinion, once Yukine died, he was the only person who knew about this matter.

Liu Shi was exiled from his home, and everything went according to his plan.

But he could never have imagined that during the time he had finished setting up the scene and went to his father for help, Xueyin quietly opened the cabinet and let go of Amo who had been eavesdropping the whole time. Xueyin did not explain the reason to her at the time, but Amo understood later that she was a smart maid and had long known that she could not escape the fate of death. Resisting was death, and obeying obediently was also death. In the huge Yoshihirata Mansion, she had no chance of survival.

So she let Amo go and let her leave, so that one day she could tell the truth.

Amo, who was only five years old, wiped her tears and ran away as if nothing had happened, and ran to Naru. Naru didn't know anything at this time, and seeing that Amo was in a low mood, he tried to tell her some jokes from the old times to cheer her up.

The scream broke the silence of the mansion, and Naru left Amo behind and ran towards the forging pit. Everyone ran towards the forging pit, leaving Amo standing there alone, with the clear sky above her head.

That day, Amo clenched her little fists, her nails piercing into the tender flesh, and trickles of blood flowed through her fingers.

She watched the crowd running as if nothing had happened, pretending to be confused.

But I swore silently in my heart.

From then on, hatred and resentment were buried deep in her heart. She wanted to pull this young master of her family down from the clouds, no matter what difficulties and obstacles she faced, no matter how long it would take, even if she was alone, even if she was just a little child this year.

She wants to avenge her mother with her own hands.

51. Ideas of Big People

Xiuzi got one thing wrong from the beginning to the end.

He adopted Amo because he felt that Amo looked like his dream lover, Karissa.

But it would be fine if A-mo didn't look like her, but if she really looked like her mother, how could she possibly like Xiu Zi from the bottom of her heart?

For three years, Amo had been humiliated. When her father was exiled, she had thought about standing up and making the truth public. But she endured it because she knew that a poor blacksmith who was despised by the blacksmithing world and a little girl who was only five years old could never bring down the big tree of Ji Pingtian.

So she forced herself to smile and say some things against her will, crying alone in the middle of the night while biting the quilt. She stayed by Xiuzi's side, carefully serving him and looking for evidence as much as possible. The evidence was hard to find, but she soon figured out the real reason why Xiuzi let Liushi go.

The Yoshihirata family needs Ryuishi's research results, and this thing can only be made by Ryuishi.

"Don't worry. Once he finishes making the stuff, I'll send him a letter and call him back. I'll give you a chance to get revenge with your own hands!"

When Shuzu said this to Amo, Amo quickly made a judgment that the Naru who went out with Liushi was most likely not loyal, but was 100% a dog raised by the Yoshihirata family. Otherwise, Shuzu would not have known about Liushi's current situation, and would not have known whether his research was completed or when it would be completed.

So when Liushi and Naaru returned to Wind City three years later, and Luo Mei came to find Amo to explain the situation, Amo made the wisest decision at that time.

Naru is unreliable. If he goes to see Ryuishi alone now, not only will he be captured and taken back to the Yoshihirata family, but he will also lose the trust that he had gained from Shuzu with great difficulty over the past three years.

Once you are suspected, it's all over.

So she immediately reported the whole story to Xiu Zi and asked Xiu Zi to give her a team of guards to catch the man.

Even if she had to watch her own father being beaten until his head was bleeding, she had to endure it.

When Xiuzi has all his trusted followers take care of Liushi and relaxes his vigilance against her, he will seize this only opportunity -

In the eyes of others, she had been living a life of luxury and rising rapidly in the past three years.

Only she herself knew that she had not slept well at any night in the past three years.

All for today!

……

With Fengcheng City Lord’s Mansion.

Two people were sitting at an elegant mahogany table, sipping tea leisurely.

One of them was wearing a purple robe and was respectfully serving tea. He smiled and said:

"Come, come, Prince Huai has come to our little broken city in person. I'd like to offer a toast to Prince Huai first."

The other took the tea, put it on the table, played with his folding fan, squinted his eyes and replied:

"Kai, your way of addressing me changes every day. You used to call me brother, but now you are so distant?"

Kai, the ninth son of the Lord of Fengcheng and Lord Huai, bowed and said:

"The past is the past, and the present is the present. My father is seriously ill, and all the big and small matters in the Huaiwang territory are depending on you to worry about. Someone told me that Brother Kaiya's status is getting more and more important, and he doesn't want us to... Well, let's not talk about this. Since Brother Kaiya remembers our previous friendship, I will still call him what I should call him. Brother Kaiya, is there anything you want to do when you come to Fengcheng this time?"

Prince Kaiya of Huai narrowed his eyes and said with a smile:

"Nothing. I was in the capital when my ninth brother got married some time ago, and I couldn't make it back. I brought gifts today, first to apologize, and second to join in the feast to make up for the regret of not being able to drink the wedding wine at that time."

When talking about the capital, Kaia frowned slightly. The trip to the capital was not as smooth as he had imagined, especially after being framed by an unknown person. Some time ago, Lord Lingwu sent a letter to his father, accusing Kaia of using his name to cause trouble in the capital. For this, the Huaiwang Territory compensated Lord Lingwu with 100 horses, and Lord Huaiwang scolded his son that night.

However, Kaia would not tell these things to his brother, and soon turned the topic to Kai's new marriage.

They started chatting about family matters and became familiar with each other again.

At this moment, the dull sound of the injustice drum sounded unexpectedly. The tea on the table shook, and all the furniture in the room trembled slightly.

Kay immediately stood up from his chair and said:

"I'll go out and take a look..."

Before he could finish, a guard came in, knelt in front of him and said:

"Lord Kai! Someone has accused Master Hidetsu of the Yoshihirata family of murder, illegal imprisonment, and other crimes. He has just beaten the drum to appeal for justice, and is now kneeling in front of the door of the Internal Affairs Department!"

Kai frowned and muttered:

"Hidetsu... Oh, I remember now, the young master of the main family. How did he get into this kind of trouble? Who is the plaintiff?"

The guard bowed deeply and said:

"The plaintiff calls herself Amo, and says she is the daughter of Liushi and Karisa. She is... a child."