Chapter 6 - The Witnesses Came Out

Mammy Luo was a little hesitant. She always felt that there was some other meaning in Shi Qingxue’s remarks, but she couldn’t figure out what was wrong. She could only nod and say surely, “Yes! I saw the enshrining table in the ancestral hall burned.

If I am lying, make me shocked by thunder and meet with a tragic death!”

Such vicious vows were spoken out. They couldn’t help but be moved. People at present almost believed Mammy Luo’s words.

However, Qingxue looked inside the ancestral hall with surprise at this moment, “Well? But it was not burned in the ancestral hall!”

“It’s impossible!” Let alone Mammy Luo, even Shi Juncai was surprised this time!

“Grandmother, if you don’t mind, you could enter the hall and then you would know it.” Shi Qingxue didn’t argue with them at all and proved it with the facts.

Mo Shujun was thinking about the tablet in the ancestral hall. As soon as she heard what Shi Qingxue had said, she strode straight into it, not even paying attention to the shout of her youngest son.

It was indeed not a wise choice to enter a once-burned wooden house. Dong Hui secretly pulled the sleeve of Shi Qingxue, and whispered, “If the beam in the house collapses and your grandmother were injured, wouldn’t the third master’s family create a big disturbance?”

“There won’t be a problem. You can rest assured.” Shi Qingxue couldn’t tell it clearly, but she patted Dong Hui’s hands gently, and entered first in the sights of those in the third master’s family, who were expecting a big show.

Everyone followed into the hall, but the next moment they were shocked by the scene in the house: The light insides was dark yellow, full of santal, and Shi Lei’s tablet was on the primary position. Everything was safe and sound.

“How is that possible?” Mo Shujun saw the scene inside the room, relieved first, but then looked at Shi Qingxue in amazement.

It was all burned out on the outside. Why was there nothing wrong inside?

Shi Qingxue’s look remained unchanged, instead she turned around to ask Mammy Luo, “I’m also surprised. How could you see the ancestral hall was on fire insides?”

“It’s impossible. I undoubtedly did ask…” Mammy Luo shouted in surprise, then suddenly shut her mouth up, pretending to have said nothing.

Shi Qingxue then asked, “What did you undoubtedly do? Only then did you just say that you saw the ancestral hall on fire, but now the ancestral hall is intact. How do you explain that?”

Mammy Luo’s face became pale, but she was still stubborn in her words, “I really saw that the ancestral hall was on fire. How could it become like this? I really don’t know. Sixth Lady, ask someone else and you shall know, if you don’t believe me.”

“Qingxue, you asked her one after another like this. Are you trying to force her to confess?” Shi Juncai suddenly interrupted at this moment.

And he asked intentionally, “Besides, when normal people see that the courtyard of the ancestral hall is on fire, they must think that it is also burning inside. How did you know that there was no fire inside? Isn’t this a bit unusual?”

This remark apparently accused Shi Qingxue of deliberately framing Mammy Luo with a trap.

Shi Qingxue wasn’t flurried at all. In the confused gaze of Mo Shujun, she slowly revealed the truth, “Today is grandmother’s birthday banquet. I remembered that grandpa always loved to wake up early in the morning to worship God, hoping that God would bless grandma healthy and safe. But my mother asked me to meet the guest in the front hall, and I could only let my maids, Xia Mang and Dong Shuang, come to worship for me first.”

Mo Shujun obviously also remembered Shi Lei’s habit. She could not help but look a little soft, no longer doubted, and listened to Qingxue’s words.

“Xia Mang and Dong Shuang came into the ancestral hall to incense, but they saw three men sneak into the ancestral hall and set fire. They captured the three men and tortured them to find out that it was actually Mammy Luo’s order to do such an evil thing. But when Xia Mang reported to me, Mammy Luo had already committed arson outside the courtyard, so I asked them to protect the ancestral hall, at the same time, I counterplotted in order to drive this evil person out!”

After that, Shi Qingxue sneered on the corner of her mouth, and said to Shi Juncai unhurriedly, “Third Uncle, if you still don’t believe it, you can ask those three witnesses of Mammy Luo.”

She raised her hand, and Xia Mang and Dong Shuang, who had been hiding in the dark, took the three men out.

The three subordinates didn’t bother to explain it anymore. All of a sudden, they knelt in front of Mo Shujun, and told how Mammy Luo used money to lure them to burn the ancestral hall and frame Dong Hui.

“Mammy Luo, now do you still dare to say that you aren’t the one who wants to disturb my grandmother’s birthday banquet and slander my mother?”

Shi Qingxue’s words turned sharply towards Mammy Luo, she was scared and fell down to the ground, trembling and begging for mercy, “Sixth Lady, please forgive me. I am just a servant. These are all third…”