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Song Xiangsi was anxious. He could not figure out where the doctor had come from, so he hurriedly replied, "If only it's my mother. I'll give you the money."

When the doctor heard this, he nodded blankly. Then, he grabbed the banknotes and said, "Young lady, please wait a moment. I will go to the backyard and get the medicine box!"

When Song Xiangsi heard this, she heaved a sigh of relief. She suppressed the anxiety in her heart and waited anxiously for the doctor to return.

However, they didn't expect that there would be two bailiffs waiting for them.

The two bailiffs carried sabers and called out the moment they entered the room, "Who is reporting to the officials? Where are the thieves? "

Song Xiangsi looked at him coldly. At first, he did not care, but who would have thought that the doctor would come out from behind the yamen runner and point at Song Xiangsi. It was this girl who brought a hundred silver taels to me for questioning. Judging from her worn out clothes, it's obvious that she stole it from an unknown lord. "

When Song Xiangsi heard this, she was so angry that she almost died. She pointed at the doctor and scolded, "You mediocre person, I'm looking for you to save my life. Why do you need money for this?"

Seeing how fierce Song Xiangsi was, the doctor hid behind the bailiff, "Sir, quickly arrest the thief. Don't mess with my place."

The two bailiffs looked at each other and pounced at Song Xiangsi.

However, they did not expect Song Xiangsi to reach out her hand so quickly. She turned around and swept the bottles of medicine on the counter, sticking close to the bailiff's body as she jumped out.

As he ran, he thought, there must be a bottle of life-saving medicine in the pocket in his hands. It was a pity that these hundred taels of silver could only be exchanged for these few bottles of medicine. It was likely that in the future, they would have to make more money for the treatment of the Lin Clan.

After running for half an hour, he finally managed to shake off the yamen runners and returned home. As soon as he entered the door, he heard a pair of siblings crying.

Song Xiangsi thought that the old woman had gone to bully them again, so she opened the door and entered. He saw his brother and sister squatting beside the Lin Clan. She cried out, "Mom's gone, Mom's gone!"

Seeing her enter, his sister ran in front of her and said, "Big sister, mother …"

Song Xiangsi did not pay attention to anything else. She hurriedly rushed to the front of the Lin Clan and used her hand to probe her breathing. Her eyes narrowed as she helplessly let go of her hand. The bottles and jars that she tightly protected shattered on the ground.

Song Xiangsi found it hard to believe that he was actually a step too late … She was vexed and blamed herself. Unable to put any strength into her legs, she kneeled down beside the bed of the Lin family.

"I'm sorry …"

"Yo!" What was going on? You guys just stood there crying. I didn't know you guys even thought your mothers had died! "

Before Song Xiangsi could finish, he heard Lady Wang speaking sarcastically at the door.

Song Xiangsi turned his head, and his ferocious gaze bore into née Wang. "If it wasn't for you refusing to pay the silver taels, how could my mother have died?" Right now, she couldn't stay calm either. If she was holding loose silver, how could a doctor report her to an official?

"What does it have to do with me! This is what she asked for. If it wasn't for her, how could this treasure have failed to make the list? She just has a cheap life and should have already gone to see that King of Hell! " Lady Wang clearly didn't place the Lin Clan's death in her eyes.

Song Xiangsi clenched her fists tightly as her cold gaze focused on née Wang. "A person like you, if you don't punish her, there will be no law in this world."

These words caused née Wang to take two steps back, as if feeling the unusual coldness. "What's the meaning of this? I am your grandmother! "

"Grandma? "You are not qualified." Song Xiangsi gritted her teeth.

Mrs Wang didn't want to be frightened by this little girl, so she straightened her back, "I've supported your family. Do you really think I'm doing a good deed? "Since that slut is dead, hurry up and work for me!"

Now that things had come to this, Lady Wang still wanted to squeeze them out?

Song Xiangsi knew that in the eyes of Lady Wang, if she died, then so be it. Having a pair of chopsticks missing, she was naturally very happy.

Just as Song Xiangsi was about to explode, his little sister brought a basin of water and walked up to him. "Sister, Mother is gone. Shall we help Mother wash?"

Song Xiangsi lowered her head and looked at the petite child in front of her. She was actually more human than Old Lady Wang. Her nose felt sour, but she didn't cry. Gritting her teeth, she took the basin of water from her sister's hands, walked to her sister's side, and gave her a scrub.

Although he hadn't interacted much with the Lin Clan, he could clearly feel her love for him. Now that the Lin Clan had died in order to save her, she owed the Lin Clan for being unable to let go of the person who had killed her and abused her.

"Get out of here. After you're done with my mother's funeral, we'll settle our old and new debts together." Song Xiangsi's words were calm, and she did not stop her scrubbing. She had already calculated in her heart that after she sent Lady Lin away, she would let Lady Wang pay with her life.

"Pui, a lowly life and you want to carry out a funeral? Drag him to the mountain valley and bury him, don't add to our family's misfortune! " Lady Wang crossed her arms and looked at them disdainfully.

Hearing this, Song Xiangsi's chest heaved with anger.

She suddenly got up and walked in front of Lady Wang. She grabbed a hemp rope that was used to trap firewood at the base of the wall and tied up Lady Wang in a few steps.

"Little bastard, what are you doing? Let me go! "

Song Xiangsi's slender arm held Lady Wang tightly, completely ignoring her struggles and curses. He instructed a pair of sister-in-law, "Watch out for your mother."

Then, he pulled Lady Wang along to the yamen.

After tying up Lady Wang at the yamen's entrance, Song Xiangsi walked up to the wrongdoer's drum and knocked on it three times. Immediately, someone came over and asked, "Who reported you to the government?"

"My daughter Song Xiangsi, accusing this old woman of killing my mother."

After a while, the magistrate slowly came out of the room and sat in the middle of the hall. He slapped the wooden table and asked, "Why have you come to report to the officials?"

Song Xiangsi grabbed Lady Wang by the side and knelt on the ground. "My humble daughter, Song Xiangsi, sued Lady Wang for the murder of my mother. May the county magistrate have a clear look."

"Sinner Wang Shi, do you know your crime?" The County Magistrate slapped the wood and shouted angrily.

Lady Wang immediately cried and said, "My lord, you are wise. The old woman had only lectured her daughter-in-law a few times. Who knew that she would be so unlucky as to run into a wall? "My granddaughter doesn't know what's good for her. She blamed my wife's death on me, this grandmother."

Once the relationship between these two people was made clear, the county magistrate would be put in a difficult position. Even the yamen runners started to whisper among themselves.

Since ancient times, it was unfilial to sue an elder. Even if it was a mother-in-law killing her daughter-in-law, it would still be a family matter. It was said that it was difficult for officials to cut off family affairs. Moreover, the matter had happened so both of them spoke the same words. As the county magistrate, thinking about it made him even more troubled.

Seeing that the county magistrate had remained silent for a while, Song Xiangsi said harshly, "My lord, this old woman is lying!"

"Oh, my lord, please listen to me. How does my granddaughter address her grandma? Can you even believe the words of a child like this?" Mrs. Wang said as she cried. It was a kind of grief.

Perhaps the county magistrate had been shocked senseless by the ruckus. He slapped the wooden log and asked again, "Song Xiangsi, do you know your crime?"

When Song Xiangsi heard this, she was about to explode in anger. This county magistrate had decided the case without seeking witnesses or asking the neighbors. Listening to her and née Wang's words, he swayed left and right. She felt that since she had come to the county magistrate's office today and made a mistake, she might as well settle Lady Wang in private.

When Lady Wang saw Song Xiangsi being humiliated, she raised her eyebrows proudly.

"Lovesick girl, you and I need to go home now. Work well for my grandmother and let me show you kindness. I don't blame you for what you did today. If you don't, I'll sue you for beating up my grandmother. Even though I won't take your life, I'll let you have a taste of my flesh and blood for a long time! "

Listening to Lady Wang's unrepentant way of killing people and taking advantage of her age, Song Xiangsi's teeth were itching in hatred.

"Master, does it mean that seniors can kill people without paying for it? Is it true that as long as an elder resolves a case, they can be acquitted? "

Song Xiangsi's forceful questioning caused the county magistrate to be embarrassed. He was so angry that he wanted to knock on the door, but he was interrupted by the Grand Master who hurriedly ran in.

The Grand Master walked to the side of the county magistrate and handed over the items wrapped in a silk handkerchief.

The county magistrate opened up the silk handkerchief. Just as he was about to berate Grand Master for being too mysterious, he was frightened by what was inside the handkerchief. He almost lost his balance and fell to the ground.

Grand Preceptor Xie immediately supported the county magistrate, propping him up as he whispered a few words into his ear. The county magistrate's expression changed, as he swallowed hard and glanced at Song Xiangsi while holding onto a chair.

"That... That Miss Song! You... What do you want to sue Old Lady Wang for? "

Miss Song?

Song Xiangsi thought that something was wrong with her ears. She raised her head to look doubtfully at the county magistrate, only to see him smiling at her.

Song Xiangsi was a little curious. The county magistrate had just finished reading what the Grand Preceptor had given him. Was his attitude a hundred and eighty degree change?

"Miss Song? Will you please repeat the complaint? " When the county magistrate saw that Song Xiangsi did not speak, he asked again.

When Song Xiangsi heard this, for the time being, she did not want to know why the county magistrate had changed.

"Your excellency, democracy sued the Wang family for the murder of my mother. Your excellency, please look into it!" Song Xiangsi spoke each word forcefully.

The county magistrate said, "Good, good. Beat him up for me!" As he spoke, he tossed out two of them from the barrel.

This one symbolizes fifty boards, and two are a hundred. After a hundred slates, Lady Wang would definitely lose her life. At the side, the Grand Master hastily held down the county magistrate. He thought to himself, "This old master shouldn't kill this old woman just because he wants to show off to the higher-ups."

In any case, this old granny was Song Xiangsi's grandmother, and she had broken her bones and tendons. If the county magistrate were to kill Lady Wang today, Song Xiangsi would regret it later and complain to the great Buddha above, and they would all die.

Thus, she hastily spoke up before the county magistrate could say anything. "Fifty slabs, beat him up. Ruthlessly beat him up."

Liu Qingping also instantly understood the Grand Preceptor's intentions and silently wiped away his sweat.