Chapter 119 Impulse

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Chapter 119: Chapter 119 ImpulseSu Jin couldn’t help but laugh and cry. This maid picks up things based on her mood. If it wastes her time, she won’t bother picking it up... If she doesn’t pick it up, the maid plotting against her in the dark might just pretend she didn’t see it and move it from the grass to the stone pavement. Xingxing didn’t think much of it, just assumed that the garden was haunted, and in fright, she kicked the Purple Jade Bracelet flying. Though it was a pity for such a Purple Jade Bracelet. But Su Jin thought that kick was well worth it. Anyone who dares to scheme against her and her maid ought to learn what it means to ’lose the bride and the army’ in their attempt to ’steal the chicken’. Perhaps by now, they regret it extraordinarily? Feeling quite pleased, Su Jin went to Qihao Hall. The Old Madam was sitting on the Arhat couch, sipping tea. Princess Nanzhang sat at her right hand, along with Xie Jinyu, and the Second and Third Madams were also present. Su Jin stepped forward, taking the initiative, "There’s a ghost in the garden that startled everyone. I plan to bring a Taoist into the manor to exorcise the evil spirits." Xie Jinyu was so angry that her hand holding the embroidered handkerchief trembled. She raised her hand to point at Xingxing, "What ghost?! Obviously, it was your maid who was being playful and kicked the Purple Jade Bracelet that the Empress Dowager awarded me, using the excuse of ghosts to evade punishment!" "If it wasn’t a ghost, then could you, Eldest Young Madam, explain why the Jade Bracelet followed my maid?" Su Jin countered. Xie Jinyu was so angry her lips turned purple. Xie Jinxiu came to her aid, "Who saw the Jade Bracelet follow the maid? Eldest Young Madam shouldn’t be biased." Su Jin was speechless. If she couldn’t trust her own loyal maid, should she trust their malicious intents? Su Jin’s gaze swept across them, "I’m quite curious how the Purple Jade Bracelet ended up on the ground. It must be quite the blockhead who wouldn’t notice a bracelet falling off their wrist." Xie Jinyu was enraged to the point of wanting to kill someone. Her eyes turned red, and tears welled up from anger, as the Purple Jade Bracelet was the thing she liked most. Seeing Su Jin’s confrontational attitude, Princess Nanzhang pointed at Xingxing and said, "Drag this maid outside and beat her to death!" Xingxing’s face turned pale as paper. She clutched Su Jin’s cloud sleeves tightly. When the two women stepped forward to grab her, Su Jin’s icy gaze swept over them, freezing them in place, feeling as if a single glance from the Eldest Young Madam could chill them to the bone. Xie Jinyu became even more furious seeing the women stunned by Su Jin’s imposing manner, "Why are you still standing there? Drag her out!" "I dare anyone to try!" Su Jin’s voice seemed to come through the icy mountains. Using the Purple Jade Bracelet to scheme against Xingxing was meant to remove her capable assistant. Now that the Purple Jade Bracelet was broken, they wouldn’t rest until Xingxing was dealt with. How could she let them have their way?! Xie Jinyu glared at Su Jin, her eyes burning with anger, "The Eldest Young Madam failed to discipline her maid, who ruined the Jade Bracelet awarded to me by the Empress Dowager. Beating her maid to death is lenient. Don’t push your luck!" Su Jin found it amusing. She glanced at Xie Jinyu and said, "The Jade Bracelet awarded by the Empress Dowager, which could fall from the wrist to the ground, is highly disrespectful to the Empress Dowager. The maid thought it was haunted, hence she kicked the Purple Jade Bracelet away. Ignorance is not a crime, and besides, the Purple Jade was already broken before the maid kicked it." "You!" Xie Jinyu was so angry that a metallic taste filled her mouth. Xie Jinxiu asked, "How could the Purple Jade Bracelet have broken?" Su Jin glanced at the Mutton Fat Jade Bracelet on Princess Nanzhang’s wrist, rubbed her own wrist, and said, "Jade Bracelets aren’t copper or iron; when they fall from the wrist to the ground, how can they not break?" Xie Jinxiu silently looked at Xie Jinyu. This was irrefutable. Given that a Jade Bracelet hitting the ground, it’s hard to ensure it won’t break. Then, Su Jin added, "Unless someone’s head got slammed in the door, and they purposefully placed the Purple Jade Bracelet on the path and happened to have my maid see it three times; Is this the Eldest Young Madam’s scheme to use the Empress Dowager’s Purple Jade Bracelet to trap my maid?!" "I did not!" Xie Jinyu denied outright. Even if the evidence was irrefutable, she had to deny it. Trying to ’steal the chicken to only lose the rice’ is embarrassing. She couldn’t afford such disgrace. However, everyone in the room understood what was going on, and being scolded by Su Jin as having a door-slammed brain made her face flush and her anger uncontrollable. Mrs. Zhao couldn’t help but speak, "A Jade Bracelet falling in the grass doesn’t necessarily break." Indeed. The grass is soft, and a Jade Bracelet falling into it might remain intact. But unfortunately. The maid confessed. Su Jin glanced at Mrs. Zhao, "Who told Mrs. Zhao that the Purple Jade Bracelet fell into the grass? On the path here, a little maid admitted in public that the Purple Jade Bracelet fell onto the stone pavement; she accurately knew the spot where the Purple Jade Bracelet fell into the lake, which makes her testimony reliable." Mrs. Zhao’s face twitched, lost for words for a moment, inwardly furious with that maid. Su Jin turned to Xie Jinyu, "To prove that the Purple Jade Bracelet won’t break hitting the ground, just smash it in front of me; I’ll give you ten chances, and if even one remains unbroken, I’ll consider the Jade Bracelet intact before my maid kicked it." Xie Jinxiu’s mouth twitched. Breaking one Jade Bracelet would make one heartache for a year or two. The Eldest Young Madam thought it wasn’t enough and wanted Eldest Sister to break ten more. Those are Jade Bracelets, not cabbages. Princess Nanzhang’s gaze grew so cold it could freeze a person. Xie Jinyu’s fists clenched tightly. Third Madam said, "Even if the Purple Jade Bracelet got a little nicked, your maid shouldn’t have kicked it away." Su Jin looked at Third Madam, "Indeed, my maid may have been impulsive in kicking away the Purple Jade Bracelet, but it wasn’t without a reason; it was because the Purple Jade Bracelet seemed to follow her, and she got frightened. Ordinarily, who would kick away a Purple Jade Bracelet and then brazenly run back saying it was haunted?" Third Madam was at a loss. There was nothing to say. The typical person committing a wrong would hide it for fear of being found out, who would candidly confess it for the world to know? Anyone with a little sense could judge that the maid wasn’t lying. Su Jin continued, "The maids and women in this manor can’t afford to wear Jade Bracelets; damaging a young lady’s Jade Bracelet is no small matter. My maid knows that, considering how clever she is, doesn’t she?" Clever? This maid was driving people to anger, yet she praised her cleverness! Already irritated by Su Jin’s words, the fact that Xingxing was smug about being clever nearly choked everyone. Xie Jinyu’s head throbbed with anger, pointing at Xingxing, she asked venomously, "This maid ruined the Jade Bracelet awarded to me by the Empress Dowager, and the Eldest Young Madam still insists on defending her?!" Su Jin inwardly rolled her eyes, looking at her with a hint of a smile, "It seems I wanted to let this pass quietly, but Eldest Young Madam is dissatisfied. In that case, let’s continue investigating, overturn every stone; I’d like to see who ends up being punished in the end!" Having said this, Su Jin glanced at the woman standing aside, "Bring the little maid who saw the Purple Jade Bracelet being kicked, I want to question her in public. Bring her properly, if something happens to her on the way, it will mean someone behind the scenes is killing people to silence them!" "I will bring the maid’s body into the palace and seek justice from the Emperor!" Su Jin’s words hit everyone like a giant stone on the chest.

Chapter 119 Impulse

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