TSBFL Chapter 122.2

TSBFL Chapter 122.

Chapter 122.2:  狡辯

[Sophistry]

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The man nodded his head and the officer then removed the cloth from his mouth.

 

The man named Fei Xing first glanced vaguely at his boss, Zhao Lao Ye. He saw that his eyes were staring at him in a cold manner, and even Mrs Zhao beside him was staring at him in a cold and icy expression, so he could not help but shiver.

 

Associated with the thought of Zhao Lao Ye’s ways of doing work, Fei Xing knew that he absolutely could not be the one who betray them, but when he about to open his mouth to admit that he had taken the initiative to hire a murderer to hurt people, a voice suddenly sounded beside him.

 

“Fei Xing, Steward Fei, I hope you can tell the truth. Hiring a murderer to hurt someone is already a serious offense, and deceiving the official master on behalf of another person is double guilty, so you have to think clearly.”

 

Fei Xing looked towards the direction where the voice came from, only to see a thin man standing there coldly, with a pair of eyes that seemed to have insight into everything staring straight at him, even with a bit of sarcasm in it. Obviously, a seemingly unthreatening person from a ruined family somehow now gives him great pressure.

 

Fei Xing suddenly remembers how he came here so after learning that the gangsters who went to attack Gu Lang had disappeared, Master Zhao asked him to leave for some time for safety reasons.

 

When Fei Xing was riding leisurely out of the city in a carriage with the money given by Zhao, he was suddenly caught by a group of black-clothed men who appeared out of nowhere, and they didn’t even ask him why he had to hire people to hurt certain person, they directly confirmed that he was the one who was responsible for hiring those gangsters.

 

Fei Xing looked at Gu Lang’s emotionless eyes and suddenly shivered. He felt that Gu Lang might have known everything, but he never said anything, he just watched them perform like an ugly character, until they reached the climax of the performance, and then gave them a heavy blow.

 

Fei Xing felt that his white hairs were all standing up, he felt that if he took the blame for Zhao Lao Ye, then his outcome might be even more miserable than betraying Zhao Lao Ye.

 

“How dare you!”

 

There was a sudden rebuke sound to his ear, Fei Xing turned his head to see the County Magistrate looking at him with a furious expression.

 

“In the hall you even dare to go out of your mind, do you still have no regard for this official? This official advises you to tell the whole story, or else, don’t blame this official for giving you great punishment!”

 

Fei Xing shivered again, then in the midst of the crowd’s expectant gazes, he shivered and opened his mouth, “I confess, Your Honour I confess to everything. I was the one who found these gangsters, and I was the one who told them to attack Gu Lang, but it was all Lao Ye’s order. He even gave me a large sum of money to make sure I get this matter done.”

 

Even though Fei Xing was shivering, his voice was loud enough for everyone present to hear it clearly in the open and spacious court.

 

Master Zhao, who was originally complacent and thought that he would soon get away, froze the moment Fei Xing finished speaking.

 

Madam Zhao couldn’t suppress her rage and pointed at Fei Xing, yelling, “What are you talking about? My husband has never treated you badly, but how dare you join forces with outsiders to frame him? If you have any difficulties in your family, just say so, and Lao Ye will definitely give you a helping hand for the sake of friendship. Why do you need to use such underhanded means to confuse black and white (right and wrong), to gain that unjust fortune, what good is it to you?”

 

Madam Zhao put all the blame on Fei Xing, and framed Gu Lang for being his partner in crime.

 

Fei Xing looked at the furious Madam Zhao, and then met the County Magistrate’s suspicious gaze, he only felt that there was nothing he could say to defend himself at the moment.

 

“No, I’m not, I’m telling the truth, what I said is the truth ah!”

 

While Fei Xing was defending himself, Master Zhao also reacted quickly, he turned his head to look at the County Magistrate above him and righteously said, “Your Excellency, I, Certain Zhao, absolutely did not do the things he said, these are all his false accusations against me. Your Honour, you must distinguish between right and wrong and give me justice ah!”

 

Master Zhao spoke with a sense of justice and awe-inspiring righteousness.

 

The crowd of onlookers from afar also began to talk, and their faces changed from watching to sympathizing; after all, anyone who encounters such a subordinate will have a headache.

 

The county magistrate listened to those not so small discussions, against those who look at the sight of the fun, see the two sides of the word below only feel a headache, he turned his head and wanted. to discuss with the private adviser beside him about what to do next. Beside his ear suddenly rang a burst of laughter.

 

That laughter in this deeply anxious court above appears unexpectedly stiff, setting off a few points of weirdness.

 

Everyone looked towards the direction of the voice, and saw that the owner of the voice was today’s victim’s, Gu Lang, who had been regarded as a person from the perished family, and who had only recently proved himself to be Juren. 

 

Seeing that Gu Lang covered his face and laughed out loud as if he had heard some funny jokes, he then stopped amidst the gazes of all the people and slowly tightened the smile on his face, looking at Zhao Lao Ye and slowly said:

 

“Zhao Yuan, you are really as eloquent as ever, and even the wife you married is playing with words too. Do you really think that for the things you did in the beginning, there are no witnesses or physical evidence to convict you, letting you make things up as you like?”

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