There is a stone table next to the pond in the garden. A plump-shaped woman and a girl in a goose yellow silk dress sit at the stone table eating refreshments and enjoying the leisure time in the afternoon.
"Mom, my daughter is the referee of the Immortal Competition today!" The girl in a goose yellow silk skirt shared her happy time this morning with a rosy look on her face.
These two women are He Guoping's wife Tian Ji and daughter He Sifan. Although the fairy competition is still going on, the group He Sifan's responsible for has ended, so he returned to the city lord's mansion to have afternoon tea with his mother.
"Is that so? My Fan'er has grown up!" Tian Ji nodded and smiled, happy for her daughter's growth.
"By the way, what about dad? Why didn't I see him?" He Sifan didn't see He Guoping after returning to the mansion. Usually, He Guoping accompanied Tian Ji for afternoon tea at this time. He didn't see him today, which made He Sifan a little curious.
"I don't know, your father is busy with official business and I don't know where he is going." Tian Ji shook her head and said.
Just as the two were chatting, a small servant quickly ran to the pond. After seeing Tian Ji, he quickly knelt down and saluted: "Madam, the old lady has come to the mansion and is now in the front yard."
"Hmm? What's my mother doing?" Tian Ji put down the teacup in her hand and asked the servant.
"I heard that Mr. Tian was killed. The old lady came to the mansion to complain to the city lord. She is crying now..." the servant replied quickly.
"What?" Tian Ji was stunned when she heard the bad news, and quickly stood up and said, "Let's go, come and take a look!"
The next moment, Tian Ji walked quickly towards the front yard. He Sifan was confused and walked out with her, wondering who was so brave enough to kill my uncle?
Soon, Tian Ji and He Sifan came to the front yard of the city lord's mansion. An old woman with white hair was wiping her tears and shouting: "My poor son! Why are you dead like this? How can I be worthy of your dead father? How can I be worthy of the ancestors of the Tian family..."
After seeing her mother, Tian Ji hurriedly walked up to support her and asked, "Mom, what's wrong with you? What happened?"
"Daughter! Your brother died so miserably! You and Guoping must make decisions for him!" Tian Ji's mother cried even more violently after seeing her daughter, which attracted the people in the house to watch curiously.
Seeing this, Tian Ji couldn't help but frown and scolded the servants: "Don't you have to work anymore?"
After being scolded by Tian Ji like this, the servants quickly scattered and left as if they ran away. Although Tian Ji's temper has always been very gentle, it is still very scary if she gets angry. So even if the servants are curious about what happened, they dare not stay.
After driving away the people, Tian Ji comforted her mother: "Mom, don't be excited, pay attention to your health! Don't worry, I'll go to the city lord now, so I won't let the ferocious beasts get away with it!"
"I have heard that the murderer has been arrested and is now locked in Qingfeng City prison! I will be willing to watch him die! My son..." Tian Ji's mother continued to cry.
"Grandma, since the murderer has been caught, why are you crying?" He Sifan asked in confusion.
"I want to watch him die! I want him to die now!" Tian Ji's mother said relentlessly.
Seeing his mother making such a fuss, Tian Ji frowned and was very anxious, thinking that this brother had done all the bad things. If Guoping hadn't helped him wipe his butt, he would have died many times. Unexpectedly, he still did not repent. Now that he was killed, it made his mother sad. He was really an unrighteous and unfilial person.
Although Tian Ji hated her incompetent brother, she didn't want to make her mother sad, so she comforted her mother: "Mom, let's do it! I'll take you to the prison first. Killing is a death sentence, and I won't let the murderer get away with it."
"Hmph, this is what you said. If you don't kill that murderer, you won't live..." Tian Ji's mother said sobly.
Afterwards, Tian Ji asked the servants to prepare the carriage, and then took her daughter and mother to the direction of Qingfeng City Prison.
At the same time, in the interrogation hall of the prison.
"Lin Sheng, since you are so smart and good at speaking, then I will test you! If you were me and someone killed your brother-in-law, what would you do?" He Guoping frowned and asked Lin Sheng.
"Kill the murderer." Lin Sheng answered without thinking.
"Thank you for your answer, then I have to convict you!"
"But I am not the city lord, and I don't have a bad brother-in-law." Lin Sheng said slowly, and it turned out that he had not finished his words.
"What if you are the city lord? What if you have a brother-in-law who is unforgivable?" He Guoping asked rebelliously.
"Then I will list all the crimes of my brother-in-law and not hold the responsibility for punishing evil righteous men." Lin Sheng replied.
"Will you really do this? Then how do you deal with your wife and mother-in-law?" He Guoping continued.
"It turns out that the city lord is worried about this, but since the city lord intends to let me go, I have a plan to do both ways. I can let you go and make it easier for the city lord to make things difficult for me." Lin Sheng said with a smile.
"Oh? I don't believe that you have this ability. If this can be solved, I will let you go!" He Guoping said in surprise, thinking that no matter how clever you are, you will be able to say that the black one is white.
"Come here." Lin Sheng leaned into He Guoping's ear and whispered in a low voice, then told He Guoping about his plan.
After hearing Lin Sheng’s plan, He Guoping’s eyes lit up and he nodded and said, “Wonderful! Just do what you said!”
At this moment, the prison chief suddenly heard the voice of the prisoner outside the door: "Madam, you can't go in! The city lord is interrogating the prisoner!"
"Get out of the way! You dare to stop me! You are looking for death!"
Bang...
As the outside was moving, the iron door of the interrogation hall was kicked open from outside, and then He Sifan rushed in, Tian Ji and her mother followed closely behind.
"Dad! So you are really here!" He Sifan stuck out his tongue and smiled when he saw He Guoping.
"Nonsense! The prison is a major place. What are you women doing?" He Guoping shouted angrily, as if he was scolding his daughter, but in fact he was scolding Tian Ji and her mother.
"Husband, my brother was killed. Do you know this?" Tian Ji stepped forward and asked He Guoping.
"Of course I know that this person is the murderer!" He Guoping pointed to Lin Sheng next to him and said.
After He Guoping pointed this, the three women discovered that there was a young man with chains in the interrogation hall. Especially He Sifan, he was stunned when he saw Lin Sheng, thinking that it wouldn't be such a coincidence, right?
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The first update is thanks to Piaopiao for the reward.