Chapter 1600: An Unforgivable Crime
“You said that I gave you the keys, right? When was that?” Yao Zheng continued to ask as Jing Xi remained quiet.
“An hour ago, it was around 2,” Jing Xi answered after thinking carefully.
“I wasn’t even at the rear courtroom at that time.” Yao Zheng smirked. “I was instructing the other servants on their jobs.”
Yao Zheng even called over the servants that were supposed to be with her, and they proved that Yao Zheng was at the main palace around 2 in the afternoon.
“See? She’s trying to frame me,” Yao Zheng turned and told Huo Yunshen.
“What do you have to say for yourself now?” Huo Yunshen asked Jing Xi.
It was clear that Huo Yunshen believed Yao Zheng’s words more than the arguments of a nanny that had just arrived a few days ago.
“I know I’m in the wrong for touching the things in the room, but Vice-Manager Yao was really the one who gave me the keys. She wanted me to clean the room...” Jing Xi tried to explain.
“Enough! You’re fired! Don’t show your face here ever again!”
Lan Yi and Little Grape ran into Jing Xi as she was leaving.
“Auntie Xiaoxi!” Little Grape greeted and hugged her legs.
“Hey...”
Jing Xi rubbed the little prince’s hair as she felt reluctant to leave the little boy behind.
“Are you going back now?” Lan Yi asked as she noticed Jing Xi had her bag with her.
“Yes. Thank you for everything that you’ve done for me. I don’t think I’ll be coming back again...,” Jing Xi said and suddenly thought of the advance payment she’d received. “I’ll pay you back the advance payment that I got from you.”
“Why are you leaving?’ Little Grape asked.
“Yes, why? Aren’t you doing a great job here?” Lan Yi also asked.
“It’s not that I want to leave, but the king... he...”
Jing Xi then told Lan Yi everything that had happened.
And Lan Yi instantly realized it was Yao Zheng’s doing.