Hearing this sentence from Old Master Wang’s mouth, Zhao Yun was also resentful to the extreme, her voice like a cuckoo weeping blood: “Your Old Master Wang’s son is nothing but a villain who commits all kinds of evils in Yongcheng! Your wealth and property! All come from blood and sweat money squeezed out from the common people! You buy rice at low prices! When the rice is almost entirely bought up, you sell it at high prices for money! Pei! Your entire family are beasts, would I go to seduce a beast?! Laughable! If what I say is false, may I be struck by five bolts of thunder and die a horrible death! If what you say is false, may your entire Wang family die without a burial place! Your corpses fed to wild dogs!”

“You!!!” How could Old Master Wang dare to make an oath? When a person does too many guilty deeds, they will be exceptionally afraid of things like ghosts and gods.

“Swear then!! Call Wang He out to swear!!”

Old Master Wang was extremely angry, suddenly sneered, “Fine, Miss Zhao Yun, you are in cahoots with Chu Xi and the others, aren’t you.”

Looking down at the three of them with a contemptuous gaze, he said: “It’s not that because you say my Wang family has harmed countless people, my Wang family has harmed them.” He turned around and bowed to Prefect Song, “Lord Prefect, since these people accuse my Wang family of harming countless people and my son of raping and killing women, why not first send them to the prefectural yamen to be detained, and you can investigate further. If it is truly so, then punish according to the law, which is also not unacceptable.”

“This…” Just as Prefect Song was about to agree, Chang Xi immediately knelt on the ground and spoke, saying sorrowfully and bitterly: “Entering the prefectural yamen, do we still have our lives to come out? When Jin’er died, her father and mother went to the County Magistrate’s yamen to lodge a complaint, but were driven out. They went to the Prefect’s yamen to lodge a complaint, and the Prefect’s yamen said they must go to the County Magistrate’s yamen. Who doesn’t know your Wang family has the Chancellor backing you up from behind? Yongcheng is your Wang family’s world, even the Emperor cannot reach here!”

As soon as these words came out, all those present were shocked.

Only now did Old Master Wang notice him, feeling that this person also looked a bit familiar, and then saw Chang Xi kneel toward “Second Young Master Shen” once more, “Young Master, actually there are no ghosts or non-ghosts at all, everything is just a trick of my unwillingness to accept things, wanting to seek revenge for Jin’er. I was originally an actor from Fujin Garden, named Chang Xi, and was mutually in love with Jin’er. Young Master Wang took a fancy to Jin’er’s beauty, so he forced Jin’er, and then pressed Jin’er’s head to strike against the table, taking Jin’er’s life. Thus, I entered the Wang family to become a servant under the assumed name Chang Gui, intentionally utilizing ghost-manipulating techniques, wanting to make Young Master Wang repent for what he did!”

It was actually Chang Gui! Old Master Wang did not expect that the fierce ghost in the mansion was actually a human’s doing, and that Chu Xi appeared to be a fraud as well! Yet it just happened to be such a fraud who made his son lie sickly in bed right now! Unable to move at all!

The fury in his heart burned fiercely, and he had already decided not to let any of these three go today. He sneered and said: “Good, Lord Prefect, do you see! These few people are all frauds. According to the laws of my Long Dynasty, they should be thrown into the great prison! Their accused crimes against my Wang family are merely spoken words, without physical evidence! Their being frauds, however, is supported by ironclad evidence! Why not quickly have people take them to the yamen!”

Prefect Song could finally stop hesitating now, because throwing this group of people into prison was fully justified and well-grounded.

Before he could even issue the order, Ji Linxi said: “Who says there is no physical evidence?”

Old Master Wang looked at him: “Chu Xi, you wouldn’t think that a girl found from who-knows-where counts as ironclad evidence, would you?” He intentionally did not mention the other girls in the courtyard; right now, servants outside already knew the news and went ahead to handle those people. As long as these few were all sent to prison, these two noble young masters who wanted to poke their noses into others’ business would also have no moves against him.

Ji Linxi patted his sleeves, straightened his spine, and said: “That is only evidence number one.”

He gazed at Old Master Wang, the expression in his eyes causing Old Master Wang to feel a trace of fear for no reason: “I still have evidence number two, evidence number three, evidence number four, evidence number five, evidence number six…”

“Inside the well of Junzi Xuan, under the peach blossom tree behind Anju Tang, the pond in the middle courtyard…” He reported those locations that struck terror into Old Master Wang’s heart one by one. Under Old Master Wang’s incomparably shocked and enraged eyes, his smile grew wider and wider; to call it sinister and triumphant would not be an exaggeration. “The places I mentioned all have the skeletons of the people your Wang family harmed buried underneath.”

This kind of smile only flashed across Ji Linxi’s face, and when he turned his head, his hands clutched the table in front of Chu Yu. When he raised his head, tears quickly welled up in his eyes: “Young Master, these are all evidences of the Wang family harming people! You only need to have people go take a look, and you can find the people killed by them! Redress their grievances!”

Chu Yu cooperated: “Since it is so, then go take a look. If they are truly there, then hand Old Master Wang over to the Court of Judicial Review for interrogation and investigation.”

“Hold on!!”

Chu Yu looked at Old Master Wang, but Old Master Wang did not look at him, instead pressing toward Chu Xi step by step, every word harboring killing intent: “Who told you all this?”

Ji Linxi turned his head and blinked his eyes: “Of course it was your good son Jinzhi ah. Yesterday I went to your Jinzhi’s place to extract blood, and lied to your Jinzhi saying that your Wang family still has other resentful auras. To know the places where dead people are and set up a magic array to appease the grievances, he wouldn’t need to have his blood drawn. Your Jinzhi then told me everything bit by bit.”

“Your Jinzhi also said your Madam poisoned two beautiful concubines whom you loved immensely, and he himself violated over thirty women, killed seven, and the others were beaten to death by you all.”

He said “your Jinzhi” bite after bite. Hearing this, Old Master Wang’s eyes threatened to split open, and even Madam Wang on the side, who didn’t know how to handle the situation before her, turned deathly pale.

“You!”

“You!”

“You deceived my son’s innocence! You despicable scoundrel!!!”

Old Master Wang looked around, grabbed a knife used for peeling fruit, and was about to charge at Ji Linxi.

Ji Linxi admitted to himself that he was a scoundrel alright, but compared to the Wang family people, he could practically count as a great good person. This Old Master Wang was old and physically weak, yet actually wanted to hurt him? Letting the other party touch even a corner of his clothes would count as his own incompetence. But on second thought, he felt a bit conflicted: if he evaded, what if this person hurt his beloved?

Thinking this way, a desire to protect his partner suddenly arose.

Thinking further, if he got a little injured under the guise of protecting the beautiful young master, and played the pity card, maybe he could even win some affection and sympathy.

After these three thoughts, Ji Linxi immediately shouted out loud: “I will not allow you to harm the young master!”

And so he fought with Old Master Wang with bare hands.

Chu Yu: “…”

Yan Huai, who was intimidating the servants: “…”

The real Second Young Master Shen, who was coldly watching from the side: “…”

Old Master Wang was so angered by this shameless scoundrel that his throat stifled, full of a bloody taste. The two of them fought for a while, and Ji Linxi intentionally let the knife scratch his arm, then kicked the person away, clutched his arm, and retreated to the front of Chu Yu, showing a pained expression.

Seeing up to here, Chu Yu knew this farce should end. He stood up, walked around the table to Ji Linxi’s side, supported Ji Linxi, and said coldly to Old Master Wang: “It seems all of this is true. Old Master Wang, you used Chancellor Wang’s power and influence to ride roughshod over others and killed countless people. Do you confess to your crime?”

Madam Wang walked over quickly to support him, saying anxiously: “Master!”

Old Master Wang stood up with his wife’s support. He looked around a full circle. The County Magistrate was already dumbfounded with fright by the sudden turn of events, and the Prefect looked troubled. Aside from these two tactless noble young masters from the capital, and Zhao Yun, Chu Xi, and Chang Xi, the rest were all his own people.

Confess to his crime? How could that be possible?