Chapter 252 Impersonation
Chapter 252 Impersonation
He Anyu said again: "Patriarch, I can prove that Xie Xingmeng is not Xie Shaocai. He just returned to Yuncheng a few days ago. He was away for several years before that."
Bai Zhaozhao also echoed, "Yes, Chief, and haven't Miss Ayu and her parents met Xie Shaocai?"
The Wu clan leader said in a deep voice: "Ayu and her parents are dead."
Bai Zhaozhao:!!!
He Anyu: "Dead? Who did it?"
Xie Xingmeng said unhappily: "Who else could it be? Of course it's Xie Shaocai who pretended to be me! Although he used a fake name, his behavior confused others. Others thought he was me!"
The chief of the Wu clan glared at him. Xie Xingmeng stopped talking, but his eyes looked very aggrieved.
The Wu clan leader had a serious face and said to He Anyu with a firm gaze: "I can let the death of A Yu's family go, after all, they betrayed the clan rules, but the treasures of my Wu clan must be returned to the Xie family, otherwise I will ask Emperor Tianyuan if he wants the people of the southeast border to live in misery and be displaced!"
Bai Zhaozhao:!!!
She looked at the old man in shock, as if a flash of light passed by her, so fast that she couldn't catch it.
He Anyu realized the seriousness of the matter and became more cautious, but his momentum did not change at all: "Master clan leader, please be patient. I am the emperor's direct guard, responsible for catching criminals and imprisoning the emperor! Although I have some friendship with Xie Xingmeng, if he really does such an unjust thing, I will never tolerate it!"
Xie Xingmeng: ...
Bai Zhaozhao immediately added, "That's right! Patriarch, I have nothing to do with Xie Xingmeng! I just came to visit the Xie family, and now I come here to join in the fun! I testify that what Lord He said is correct!"
Xie Xingmeng: ...
The Wu clan leader fell into deep thought, as if he was weighing their words. At this time, a young man next to him asked, "You are talking nonsense, but you have no evidence. Why should we believe you?"
Bai Zhaozhao was startled and pretended to be anxious: "Young man, you can't say that. Have you ever been out? Have you ever known the Tianyuan Dynasty? In our Tianyuan, gentlemen value reputation. Lord He is an official, and he will definitely keep his promises!"
The young man sneered, "It is precisely because I have been out that I understand you Tianyuan people. What's wrong with the officials? They are full of liars! Otherwise, how could there be the waiter tragedy in Jiangling County? If it weren't for the goddess' announcement, who knows how many people would have been harmed! So whether this Lord He is a good official or not is still unknown!"
He Anyu: ...
Bai Zhaozhao's eyes lit up, and he immediately said, "Master Patriarch, since you believe in the goddess, have you heard of Bai Lin? The people call him Bai Zhuangyuan and say that he is favored by the goddess!"
The people of the Wu clan were whispering to each other, and it was obvious that many of them had heard of Bai Lin.
The young man hesitated for a moment: "I've heard of it, so what?"
Bai Zhaozhao immediately put on a smug attitude: "He is my brother! My name is Bai Zhaozhao, and I am his biological sister! I swear in his name that Xie Xingmeng is not Xie Shaocai. If this is false, God will strike you with lightning!"
Xie Xingmeng: ...
He Anyu: ...
The young man looked as if he had been struck by lightning: "What did you say? You are the sister of Bai Zhuangyuan? How could Bai Zhuangyuan have a sister like you?"
Bai Zhaozhao instantly got angry: "What do you mean by that? What's wrong with me? Do you know what I'm like? You said that the first time we met, it's really rude!"
The young man suddenly felt guilty and turned his head away and stopped talking.
The Wu clan leader's expression seemed to ease a little, and he said, "Girl, my son didn't mean it. He just couldn't accept that Bai Zhuangyuan's sister was in cahoots with this thief."
Xie Xingmeng: "I already told you I didn't steal it!"
Bai Zhaozhao immediately took the opportunity to say, "Master Patriarch, you can send someone to find out. Bai Lin's sister Bai Zhaozhao, the Princess of Zhaohe County appointed by the emperor, is me! Besides, if we are really in the same group with Xie Shaocai, we should have gone through your exit, right? Is it necessary to go through so much trouble to get out of the miasma?"
The Wu clan leader seemed very interested: "Yes, if there is a shortcut, no one will go through the miasma. That's why I didn't arrest you. Throughout history, there are only a few extraordinary people who are not afraid of miasma."
The young man also echoed: "That's right, we were planning to torture you severely!"
Bai Zhaozhao: "Okay, okay, even if you don't believe us, if you want to get the treasure back, at least you have to tell us what it is! Maybe after we resolve the misunderstanding, I can help you find it!"
The Wu clan leader hesitated for a long time, and finally sighed and said to the young man, "Go and ask the high priest to come."
The young man replied, "Yes, Dad."
Bai Zhaozhao and He Anyu looked at each other. The high priest, isn't that the person that A Yu mentioned who guarded the last Tingyan grass?
So the two of them stopped talking and waited patiently.
Only Xie Xingmeng kept protesting that they had arrested the wrong person, that he was not A Yu's husband, and that he had not killed their family.
Bai Zhaozhao was also very sad about this. She asked the Wu Clan leader softly, "How did Ah Yu die? Can you tell me?"
The Wu Clan leader winked at someone nearby, and immediately a young girl replied, "After Ah Yu returned home, she didn't see her parents. She thought they were out hunting, so she went to look for them. But I didn't see Ah Yu for several days in a row. Finally, we found the bodies of her family at the exit, and our treasures were gone!"
Bai Zhaozhao probably understood: "So you suspect that it was Xie Shaocai who lured A Yu's family into stealing the treasure, and then Xie Shaocai killed them to silence them?"
The girl said, "Yes, this year only Xie Shaocai came in, no one else. We have inquired with people outside. Before Ah Yu came back, he went to the Xie family and looked for Xie Xingmeng. Except for the name, the age characteristics are all right. Who else could it be but him?"
Xie Xingmeng interrupted at the right time: "The biggest loophole is that the names don't match!"
The girl retorted: "The name is just a code name. Don't you have an alias when you are outside?"
Xie Xingmeng stopped talking immediately. Even if he said no, no one would believe him. What's more, he had a lot of code names, and Xie Laogou was the most common one.
"The high priest is here!"
The villagers automatically made way for her, and an elderly woman slowly walked out with the help of everyone.
The Wu clan leader said respectfully: "High Priest, they said they didn't steal the treasure. We arrested the wrong people."
The high priest slowly looked at Xie Xingmeng, shook her head, then looked at He Anyu, shook her head again, and finally her gaze fixed on Bai Zhaozhao. She was so shocked that her body trembled and almost fell down.
He Anyu vigilantly stood in front of Bai Zhaozhao.
The high priest raised a trembling finger and pointed at Bai Zhaozhao: "Who... who are you?"
Bai Zhaozhao poked his head out with a puzzled look: "Have you seen me?"
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