Chapter 43: Let them eat their own fruit

Lin Jiaojiao gently stroked her chest, calmed down, and retorted, "How am I a criminal woman?!" "How are you not a criminal woman?" Dali Temple Assistant Minister Feng Jun slapped the gavel again, then pointed to the couple in rags and said, "The witnesses are here. Do you recognize these two?"

"Witnesses?" Lin Jiaojiao followed Feng Jun's pointing and looked carefully at the old couple in rags.

They looked to be nearly sixty years old and looked a little different from the Central Plains people: their eye sockets were deeply sunken, their eyebrows were sparse, and under their collapsed noses were a pair of thick lips. They wore coarse cloth and hemp clothes, and the holes in them were sewn with several patches of different colors. Even the straw sandals they wore on their feet exposed their big toes.

"Jiaojiao, we are your cousin-uncle and cousin-aunt. Don't you remember?" The old woman knelt and walked a few steps toward Lin Jiaojiao, reaching out her withered fingers to pull her. She spoke with a heavy Southern Frontier accent, and the tone of her speech was not very similar to that of the Central Plains people.

Lin Jiaojiao retreated a few steps repeatedly and asked strangely, "Who are you? I don't know you."

"Hey, Princess! I am your aunt! Do you really not remember!?" The old woman beat her feet and chest, looking indignant.

"When you were 7 years old, we were the ones who secretly took you out of the palace. How could you forget us?" The old man shook his head and sighed.

"At that time, although you were young, you actually took a poisonous oath to the Moon God, saying you must avenge your father and family and restore the Southern Frontier Kingdom."

"Bold!" Dali Temple Assistant Minister Feng Jun heard this and slapped the gavel hard, "Just relying on you as a princess fleeing outside, how dare you take a poisonous oath to take revenge?"

"The little ones dare not! We once advised Jiaojiao Princess to let go of the past and live a good life in the present," the old woman hurriedly kowtowed to clarify, "But the little princess never listened. Maybe it's because our couple lived too bitterly, and the little princess missed the glory and wealth!"

"When she was fourteen, the little princess took advantage of us being in a dream and secretly ran away."

"Yes, yes, she also took the Southern Frontier tiger tally with her. This tiger tally can gather many old troops of the royal family..." The old man spoke, secretly glancing at Lin Jiaojiao, "The little ones just wanted to live and work in peace and contentment under the rule of the Dakang Dynasty, and never thought of any revenge, any restoration..."

The more Lin Jiaojiao listened, the more bizarre she felt, "Since I hold the tiger tally, wouldn't it be easy to summon the old troops?"

"Yes, yes, holding the tiger tally can call the wind and rain." The old man nodded repeatedly.

"Then what does this tiger tally look like?" Lin Jiaojiao understood in her heart. This was clearly the Su family finding two people to splash dirty water on her.

Although she didn't know the family background of the original body before crossing over, saying she held the tiger tally was too outrageous!

If there really was a tiger tally for restoring the country, why would she have to sell herself to bury her father and marry Pei Aosong to be a concubine who could be bullied by everyone?

Thinking of this, Lin Jiaojiao made an assumption in her heart: If she really was a princess of the former Southern Frontier Kingdom and held a tiger tally in her hand, then the first thing she would do was to make those who harmed her eat their own fruit! Especially that old hag! And the entire Su family!

But now she had nothing except medical skills! She didn't even have a chance to poison the old hag to death!

"This... the little one doesn't know," the old man was a little embarrassed, but after rolling his eyes, he said, "The tiger tally is only something your Wang family has. We are not from the Wang family, and we have never seen the tiger tally."

"Then if I really have some tiger tally for restoring the country, why would I..." Just as Lin Jiaojiao wanted to continue asking, Dali Temple Assistant Minister Feng Jun slapped the gavel, "Are you the trial official, or am I the trial official?"

Lin Jiaojiao closed her mouth, but everyone present knew that the couple's words were full of loopholes. Could a never-before-seen former Southern Frontier Kingdom tiger tally be enough to conclude the case and label Lin Jiaojiao as a Southern Frontier restoration spy?

"Is there any other evidence that can prove she wants to restore the Southern Frontier Kingdom and disturb the imperial court of this country?" Dali Temple Assistant Minister Feng Jun was a little impatient. In his eyes, even if Lin Jiaojiao was a former princess of the Southern Frontier Kingdom, if she didn't do anything that violated the imperial court, she couldn't be counted as a spy.

Since the current Emperor ascended the throne, the Dakang Dynasty had been quite tolerant of the people in the territory incorporated into the dynasty. In addition to treating them the same as the people of this dynasty, they also allowed intermarriage and business. The descendants of intermarriage with the people of this dynasty could enter the court as officials, but if they violated discipline, they would be punished twice.

In addition, General Lu Zhenting occasionally went to the border to sweep away rebels, so most of the people of the small countries that were annexed, and even the fallen nobles, would not risk their lives to engage in any restoration plan.

Looking at Lin Jiaojiao, she didn't look like a princess of a fallen country with a plan to restore the country.

The old man and the old woman looked at each other, not knowing what to do for a while.

"Hey, do you have any evidence there?" The old man asked the old woman in a low voice. The other party shook her head helplessly, "This... they didn't give me any evidence either!"

These two people, really don't know which shallow and ignorant person found them. Dali Temple Assistant Minister Feng Jun felt a little annoyed, "If not, the case cannot be defined. Furthermore, reporting false cases and disturbing the Dali Temple's handling of cases will require bearing double the criminal responsibility."

After saying that, he slapped the gavel again, yawning, wanting to close the case quickly so he could go back and take a nap.

Hearing that reporting a false case would require accepting double the punishment, the old man actually trembled in his heart and fell directly to the ground!

The old man's hands and feet twitched, and then he rolled his eyes!

The Dali Temple Assistant Minister was suddenly startled from his nap. He shouted, "Someone, quickly call a doctor to check the witness's condition!"

"No need to call, I'll take a look. It's highly likely it's faked." Lin Jiaojiao waved her hand generously and walked to the old man's side. The old man stopped twitching. He lay there motionless, and his body directly lost reaction.

Lin Jiaojiao hurriedly turned his eyelids to check the situation, but when she turned his eyelids, she found that the old man's pupils were dilating!

Lin Jiaojiao hurriedly went to feel his pulse and leaned over to listen to his heartbeat, but this person's heart had actually stopped beating!

Even his breathing was minimal!

This was epilepsy inducing a heart attack!

"Need emergency rescue!" This was the first reaction in Lin Jiaojiao's brain. This is ancient times, there is no defibrillator! Can only do artificial rescue!

She couldn't care about so much, knelt directly beside the old man, raised his neck a little so that he could keep his mouth open, and then quickly started to do cardiopulmonary resuscitation for him!

Dali Temple Assistant Minister had never seen such a way to save people. A few days ago, he heard from his subordinates that Lin Jiaojiao used a method they had never seen before to save Song Shijie's life, which showed that her method of treating people was unique.

But he didn't stop Lin Jiaojiao from saving people, just walked out from behind the case table, wanting to see what was going on.

"You hurry up! I will press three times, and you will give him artificial respiration!" Lin Jiaojiao said while doing heart resuscitation, and told the old woman beside her anxiously, "Hurry up!!!"

"What is artificial... respiration?" The old woman looked fearful, "Is, is he still alive?"

"If you don't do artificial respiration, he really won't live!" Lin Jiaojiao was a medical student and knew how a heart attack would develop, but the old woman was still full of confusion and fear.

Lin Jiaojiao could only tell her while doing heart resuscitation, "Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, that is, I will press his heart. You come and blow air into his mouth!"

"What is blowing air into his mouth?" The old woman was both fearful and puzzled, "He, he and I are not husband and wife, we can't do that mouth-to-mouth thing, and..."

As soon as she said this, it was equivalent to confessing that she was not a witness at all, but at this time Lin Jiaojiao only cared about saving people and didn't pursue the fact that she and the old man were fake witnesses!

This old woman couldn't be counted on, so she had to do it herself!

Maybe if she saved this witness, he would be grateful and withdraw those messy accusations! If he had a conscience, he should be able to confess the person behind the scenes!

Just as Lin Jiaojiao pinched the old man's nose, closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and blew air into the old man's mouth, suddenly an angry shout came from behind her, "What are you doing?! You bunch of wimps! Why don't you hurry up and pull her away!" ===== CHAPTER 44 =====