Chapter 56: Do you think I'm afraid of death?

"Corrupt official, do you think I'm afraid of death?" Lin Jiaojiao sneered, the scald on her left cheek looking particularly ferocious in the flickering candlelight. Xu Xiao seemed to see a ghost from hell at that moment.

"In the end, this world is unfair, letting a piece of scum like you become a government official."

"You, what exactly do you want?" Xu Xiao cursed in a low voice, "People like you remaining in the world are the monsters that bring disaster to the country and the people!"

"Bring disaster to the country and the people?" Lin Jiaojiao laughed until tears came, and she even started clapping, "What a monster that brings disaster to the country and the people. So that's why you wanted to put me to death, right?"

"But you didn't die, did you? The result is that the person who died was a scapegoat who helped you sit in prison, hahahaha!" Xu Xiao laughed loudly, "Isn't the person who caused that woman's death yourself!"

Lin Jiaojiao gritted her teeth, her eyes flashing with cold light, that hatred like a sharp sword, stabbing at Xu Xiao.

She got up and went behind Xu Xiao, kicking him fiercely behind his knees!

Xu Xiao stumbled and knelt directly into that pool of dirty yellow!

At this moment, there was only bone-chilling cold and endless anger in his chest, "I should have handled it myself back then and let you go to hell with your parents!"

In addition to resentment, there was a trace of regret in Xu Xiao's voice, "They were all useless, you were taken away in advance and they couldn't even find out!"

Lin Jiaojiao glared at him. She heard her background before traveling from Xu Xiao's words and asked back along his words, "It was you?!"

"Yes! It was me!" Xu Xiao sneered, "If it weren't for your father, Lin Ye, who didn't know what was good for him and insisted on reporting me to the Emperor for embezzling military grain and pay, he wouldn't have ended up like that!"

Lin Jiaojiao's heart almost missed a beat: in the modern world, her father was also named Lin Ye!

"I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it, the Wang family actually had a fish that slipped through the net."

Lin Jiaojiao suddenly remembered the case file she had turned out in Song Shijie's room at the Dali Temple that day. She vaguely remembered another name on it, but now she couldn't remember what that name was no matter what.

She asked coldly, "Besides you, who else?"

"You actually don't know who it is? Hahahaha!" Xu Xiao laughed crazily, "You don't even know who your enemies are, and you came to seek revenge on me like this, it's truly ironic!"

Suddenly, two figures rushed into the courtyard quickly, one of whom shouted anxiously, "Over here!"

Lin Jiaojiao knew that this place was not a place to stay for long, so she got up and wanted to leave, but the visitor had already arrived in the room and reached out to stop her, "Stand still and don't go!"

This was Song Shijie's voice!

Lin Jiaojiao raised her eyes and glared at Song Shijie. She had expected Guo Shi to notify Lu Zhenting, but she didn't expect Lu Zhenting to bring Song Shijie along!

She glared fiercely at Lu Zhenting, who was standing next to Song Shijie, "Why did you bring him here?"

Lu Zhenting saw the intact Lin Jiaojiao through the flickering oil lamp, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, the tension on his face disappearing, "It's good that you're fine. I was worried that something would happen to you, so I found a helper."

"He would be a helper?" Lin Jiaojiao looked at Song Shijie mockingly, "I'm afraid this Dali Temple Junior Minister will throw me into the dungeon!"

Song Shijie was full of cold air, and his clothes were dripping with water. If it were normal times, Lin Jiaojiao would definitely press such a patient back onto the hospital bed, then scold him to rest well to prevent wound infection and prevent immune damage.

But the patient in front of her didn't care about his own body and even jumped out to accuse her.

He looked at Lin Jiaojiao with an unquestionable gaze and said righteously, "Hand over the antidote, and I won't throw you into the dungeon."

Very good, this is very Song Shijie.

Being able to let him give up throwing her into the dungeon was already the biggest concession, right?

Lin Jiaojiao sneered, "Song Shijie, you heartless man, I saved your life, but you still think about throwing me into the dungeon. No wonder you're destined to be alone!"

"One thing is one thing." Song Shijie had expected Lin Jiaojiao to use the fact that she saved his life to speak, but in his eyes, these two things were clearly not to be mentioned in the same breath.

Furthermore, he had already agreed to marry Lin Jiaojiao. Wasn't it enough to use the rest of his life to repay the favor?

In the future, she might be his wife, so how could he be destined to be alone?

The scale in Lu Zhenting's heart had already tilted, especially every time he saw the shocking scald on Lin Jiaojiao's face, he felt extremely heartbroken.

"Song Shijie," Lu Zhenting called him by his full name, with a little less brotherly affection in his eyes, and a little more soul-searching, "If the person burned to death in the Dali Temple was Lin Jiaojiao, and not Bai Zhi, what would you do?"

This wasn't the first time Song Shijie had encountered Lu Zhenting's "valuing sex over friends" behavior. He stood as steady as a mountain in front of Xu Xiao: "Then I would find the real culprit and bring him to justice."

This person's heart was truly eaten by a dog. Lin Jiaojiao's eyes were filled with tears of grievance and indignation, "I was blind that day, actually saving you back!"

"When you were injured, your good brother Lu Zhenting was still looking for Japanese pirates for you, taking revenge for you. Even if I am not your good brother, I count as your savior. You don't want to help me take revenge to repay this life-saving favor, and you naively hope to bring the real culprit to justice!"

Lin Jiaojiao tilted her head slightly, forcing the tears back, "Fine, since you are so insistent on justice, do you know that my parents were slandered and unjustly killed?"

Song Shijie remained unmoved, "I was still young at that time and didn't know about the old unjust case. Since you say your parents were unjustly killed, is there any evidence to support it?"

As he spoke, he reached out a hand to Lin Jiaojiao to ask for evidence.

"Evidence? The evidence is right behind you!" Lin Jiaojiao pointed directly at Xu Xiao behind Song Shijie.

At this time, Xu Xiao's old face was dark as ink, his eyes closed, as if as long as he closed his eyes, he could regain a trace of dignity.

Song Shijie turned his face and looked at Xu Xiao with a scrutinizing gaze, "Minister Xu, someone is accusing you, is that evidence?"

Xu Xiao heard this and slowly opened his eyes, firmly meeting Song Shijie's questioning gaze, and asked back: "Shijie, do you think I look like evidence? Do you think I look like someone who handled an unjust, false, or wrong case?"

"Shameless!" Lin Jiaojiao cursed with red eyes, and spit even sprayed onto his face, "You just admitted it, now that you see Song Shijie, you're starting to put on an act?"

Song Shijie saw Lin Jiaojiao's chest heaving with anger, and Lu Zhenting was trying to soothe her emotions, "If he doesn't say it, I will find a way to pry the truth out of his mouth."

Song Shijie understood that Lin Jiaojiao wasn't lying, and he also knew Lu Zhenting's methods. If Xu Xiao didn't say anything, the entire Xu Fu might be wiped out by him!

Thinking of this, he felt quite a headache: Lin Jiaojiao had already wiped out the Xu Fu.

Lu Zhenting had a personality of seeking revenge for the slightest grievance. Once someone touched his brow, he might hack the nine clans of the Xu family!

Therefore, he must obtain the truth about the unjust case from back then from Xu Xiao.

"If there really is an injustice, I will definitely overturn the case for you!" Song Shijie said, reaching out to Lin Jiaojiao, meaning for her to take out the antidote.

Song Shijie looked at Xu Xiao and said in an extremely cold voice, "Tell the truth about back then, and I will let her give you the antidote."

Because Xu Xiao's muscles were out of control, he couldn't even make the movement of shaking his head.

In front of Song Shijie, he could only bite the bullet!

He knew very well that Song Shijie had an upright personality. As long as he loosened his mouth and said a word that was ambiguous, Song Shijie would get to the bottom of it and find out the truth.

By then, even if he was the leading superior, Song Shijie would die to remonstrate with the Emperor and throw him into the dungeon!

Xu Xiao met Song Shijie's sharp eagle eyes and said firmly: "There has never been any unjust case. Shijie, you were promoted by me, don't you know my character?" ===== CHAPTER 57 =====