General, Madam Called You To Farm - Chapter 529

General, Madam Called You To Farm
Chapter 529 – Successful retaliation (2) 

Translator : Moon Lee
Editor : Tea
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Emperor Jingxuan calmly raised his hand.  

The eunuchs released them.

Old Mr. Su collapsed to the floor, trembling uncontrollably: 

“I-I… was forced… those words… were what someone… threatened us into saying… We had just left the Marquis of Zhenbei’s estate this morning… hoping to find a cheap merchant caravan back to Qingzhou… then we were suddenly kidnapped…”

“That person gave me a pile of silvers and instructed me to say… all those things… and threatened that if I didn’t comply… my grandson and I would… die in the capital…”

Emperor Jingxuan asked skeptically, “Is this true?”

Su Dalang, mustering courage from somewhere, quickly added, “Your Majesty! Every word my grandfather said is true!”

Consort Xian’s face paled.

What is Qin Jiang doing? 

Can’t he even handle two peasants?  

They’ve already revealed the truth so quickly! 

Emperor Jingxuan continued, “Then, tell me the truth.”

Old Mr. Su, sweating profusely, replied, “He… he was indeed taken in by Su Cheng as a live-in son-in-law. I did not lie about that… But he had never come to the village before… and he never inquired about the Su family…”

Emperor Jingxuan pointed at Wei Ting and said, “Lift your head and look at him. Do you recognize him?”

Consort Xian’s frown eased slightly.

Yeah, even if we couldn’t frame Wei Ting for deliberately approaching the Qin family, we can at least prove that he was in Qingzhou.  

And that alone would be enough to convict him of deceiving the emperor! 

“I don’t recognize him.” Old Mr. Su said.

Consort Xian staggered slightly, “What did you say? You don’t recognize him? Look carefully!”

Old Mr. Su replied blankly, “I… I am looking carefully… I truly don’t recognize him.”

Consort Xian insisted sternly, “He is Wei Ting! The Gentleman Wei from your village!”

Old Mr. Su shook his head adamantly while looking at Wei Ting, “No, he isn’t. Gentleman Wei doesn’t look like this!”

Consort Xian pointed at Old Mr. Su’s nose and said, “You’re lying!”  

Old Mr. Su looked wronged, “I’m not lying!”  

Wei Ting glanced meaningfully at Old Mr. Su.  

Old Mr. Su knelt on the ground and turned toward Emperor Jingxuan on the dragon throne, “Your Majesty! I’m not lying! I really don’t know him!”  

Emperor Jingxuan fell into deep thought.  

Suddenly, as if remembering something, he asked suspiciously, “Wait, I heard Su Daya has three sons. If she only got married at the end of last year, where did the sons come from?”  

Wei Ting looked at Old Mr. Su again.  

Old Mr. Su said, “Are you talking about Dahu and the others? They aren’t the biological children of the Su family. Su Cheng brought them back and raised them under Su Daya and Gentleman Wei’s names. If you don’t believe me, you can send someone to our village, everyone knows this!”  

Emperor Jingxuan continued, “Isn’t Gentleman Wei called Wei Ting?”  

Old Mr. Su said, “We only know his surname is Wei. Whether he’s called Wei Ting or not, I don’t know.”  

Emperor Jingxuan frowned.  

Old Mr. Su explained, “We country folks aren’t educated. We all call each other ‘Goudan’ or ‘Niudan’. For a live-in son-in-law who didn’t grow up in the village, having a name to call him by is already considered good enough. No one goes around asking for his full name, and even if we did, we wouldn’t know how to write it.”  

*Goudan : Dog eggs ; Niudan : Cow eggs (also known as cow testicles, are one of the reproductive organs of bulls)

Eunuch Fu had come from the countryside himself. His family was poor when he was young, which was why they sold him into the palace to become a eunuch.  

He whispered to Emperor Jingxuan, “My village… was also like that.”  

Emperor Jingxuan pondered for a moment, “Where is this person now?”  

Eunuch Fu said, “It seems he didn’t come to the capital.”  

“The whole family came, but he didn’t?” 

Emperor Jingxuan looked at Old Mr. Su again.  

Old Mr. Su quickly kowtowed, “I was captured and brought to the Marquis of Zhenbei’s estate… I don’t know what happened to the Su family after that…”  

They were just two ordinary commoners who hadn’t committed any major offenses. 

So he couldn’t just subject them to torture right away, what would the world think of him as an emperor?  

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