Chapter 151: line with translation of chapter title

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She is a Person

She is a Person

Then

Gu Jiu Ling felt this baby was very well-behaved, and she was waiting for a hundred thousand "whys".

She smiled at Sir Qiao and said, "Sir Qiao, you also saw that something was off with the problem, didn't you?"

"Everyone think about it: if a person is killed, they suffer external injuries; even if the injury reaches the bone, it's just a bone fracture, damage, but no one has ever seen a bone turn black."

"This... this... what if the knife was poisoned?" Sir Ruan began to feel guilty.

"This case was his judgment; he wanted to put Gu Kang to death, so his judgment was also rough, and he didn't expect such a big loophole in it."

Gu Jiu Ling gave a cold laugh: "Good! Sir Ruan asked well!"

"But earlier, didn't your Ministry of Justice say that Gu Kang's dagger aimed at the victim was directly at the heart?"

"I think Sir Ruan's eyes are fine, right? If you don't look more carefully, which bone of the corpse has changed color? Exactly where?"

"The few constables handling the case were each so frightened they turned pale, not daring to speak, but everyone this time saw things crystal clear."

"The onlookers outside never expected to see such a wrongful case of a spared life at the execution ground; Gu Jiu Ling spoke with a pleasant voice, explaining everything clearly."

"In the whole hall, those many nobles overseeing the interrogation dared not speak, or rather were unwilling to speak, but some bold commoners shouted loudly: 'The bone on the victim's neck has turned black.'"

"Sir, you have keen eyesight," Gu Jiu Ling laughed, "to be precise, it's the throat bone that has turned black; what does that signify?"

Sir Qiao blurted out: "Poison!"

Gu Jiu Ling laughed in agreement: "Yes, poison!"

"And moreover, someone forced poison down his throat, then stabbed him in the heart with a dagger, and sent him to the Crimson Red Tower! It just so happened that a fool named Gu Kang went there, and it matched."

Gu Kang lay on the cold ground, his whole body trembling slightly; this time it was because his grievance had been redressed.

"What do you mean?" Princess Yuanqing suddenly stood up, "Just based on your one-sided account, you want to frame me?"

"You mean the princess poisoned her maid, who was like a sister to her, just to frame your worthless brother?"

"What if it was your brother who gave my maid poisoned wine, then stabbed her?"

"What a guy! Gu Jiu Ling, after coming over, has seen many thick-skinned people, but never anyone as thick-skinned as a city wall!"

She slowly smiled, picked up the victim's bloody hand, and with a tiny tweezer extracted something from the victim's long fingernail.

Gu Jiu Ling had someone bring clean water to wash it, then she took the tweezer and walked over to Sir Ruan and the others, showing each of them carefully.

It turned out to be a pearl the size of a grain of rice; though small, it was actually a micro-carving, engraved with the Bei Di royal clan's insignia.

Gu Jiu Ling held a magnifying glass taken from her space, showed it to the several adults, and then personally presented it to Emperor Longqing.

Emperor Longqing's face darkened slightly; he gave a faint glance at the already stiff-faced Bei Di siblings.

Princess Yuanqing opened her mouth, but couldn't utter a single word of defense; she instinctively flicked back the sash at her waist adorned with the micro-carved floral bead.

But that gesture was exactly a case of trying to cover up and only drawing more attention.

Gu Jiu Ling coldly laughed: "Princess Yuanqing truly is a heroine among women, actually personally going out to kill?"

"What excuse do you have this time? Surely it's not that we're all wearing your clothes and someone snatched a bead from us in a panic?"

Princess Yuanqing's expression wavered; earlier she had also worried the servants wouldn't handle things well, so she personally watched from the side, not expecting to still be attacked by that maid.

Fool! Even in death he finds no peace!

Gu Jiu Ling continued: "As for why they wanted to frame Gu Kang, I suppose it was..."

Gu Jiu Ling looked at the landscape painting she had just presented to Emperor Longqing, placed before him; without another word, anyone with clear sight could see it plainly.

The onlookers around grew angry; the Bei Di people, since coming to Southern Qi, have been overly arrogant, actually framing the heir of the Southern Qi Prime Minister's residence just to obtain that sister's picture.

Curses and discussions rose, impossible to suppress.

Princess Yuanqing simply shouted: "Yes, it's me who finds you, Gu Jiu Ling, displeasing; I wanted to use your brother to set a trap, to make you feel uncomfortable—what can you do about it?"

"This vile woman is my slave; I killed her, and it's her honor!"

"Damn your mother's nonsense!" Gu Jiu Ling told herself not to get angry, not to get angry, but she still ended up angry.

She coldly looked at Princess Yuanqing: "She is a person, just like you, a living human; before the King of Hell we are all equal; there is justice in this world! You cannot kill justice! One day it will rebound on you! This old woman awaits to see your fate!"

Gu Jiu Ling in Shang Jing had always been a shrinking turtle; since marrying Prince Rui she became somewhat lively, and she had never before shouted so abusively.

Xiao Yin hurriedly stood up, seized Gu Jiu Ling's tightly clenched fist, and softly comforted: "Don't get angry; it harms the body, it harms the child."

Gu Jiu Ling's tense back, under those few words of comfort, finally relaxed a little.

Princess Yuanqing also didn't expect to be scolded bloody by Gu Jiu Ling; she coldly laughed: "I killed a Bei Di person—what can you do to me?"

Gu Jiu Ling stared fixedly at her; Xiao Yin beside her coldly laughed: "Princess Yuanqing, have you forgotten how you framed Second Master Gu?"

"How is the debt to Second Master Gu to be settled?"

Princess Yuanqing laughed loudly: "Of course we settle it with the Gu family! Could it possibly be charged to my head? Xiao Yin, are you staying with this woman and have become stupid?"

Now everyone's gaze fell on Gu Kang's bloody, mangled back; his head hung low, and the Gu family made him feel nauseated.

He never wanted to return to the Gu family in his lifetime, but at this moment waves of chill ran through him, already sensing he would be abandoned again.

After all, in everyone's eyes he was merely a worthless person.

Indeed, Emperor Longqing halted the momentum of this matter continuing to escalate; the urgent task now is to send these two Bei Di plague gods away; as for whether Gu Kang is wronged, it's whoever sent him to the Crimson Red Tower.

If we investigate further, it would only make Southern Qi a laughingstock.

"This matter ends here!"

Gu Jiu Ling furrowed her brows, glanced at Gu Kang lying limp on the ground; Xiao Yin beside her thought she was distressed and hurried forward to argue further for Gu Kang.

Whether it was initially chopping off one of his fingers, or now arguing for him with reason, it's all for Gu Jiu Ling.

Gu Jiu Ling grabbed his sleeve and whispered: "Prince, there's no need to waste energy on a fool; it's good enough that he kept his life."

Xiao Yin raised his brows: "Is there another arrangement?"

After a retrial, Bei Di's Tuoba Heng, with his sister, finally left Shang Jing of Southern Qi.

The Gu family also had no intention of taking Gu Kang back; Gu Kang was like a duckweed drifting with the current, wandering the lowest strata of Shang Jing.

He was born a noble son; naturally even beggars looked down on him, beating and humiliating him.

Gu Kang's leg was broken brutally, and he could no longer do heavy work.

The people of Gu Xiang's Residence also secretly gave him bitterness to eat; in just a few days, Gu Kang had completely become a beggar covered in wounds and filth.

He was even the most unwelcome person in the beggar gang, begging alone, and no beggar was willing to be his companion or pay attention to him.

That day he was so hungry he couldn't stand it, he snatched a bowl of slop from a wild dog, grabbed it with his hands and shoved big mouthfuls into his mouth, when unexpectedly a pair of exquisitely crafted shoes embroidered with gemstones walked up before him.

Gu Kang slowly lifted his head following the embroidered shoes, his turbid eyes meeting the woman he loved dearly.