Chapter 6 — Judge's Debt Book

"You... you're so bold! I've been taking care of this family for twenty years, no merit, no hard work! A bad-mouthed girl like you, just based on a few sentences, wants to kick me out of my position? When I was the boss, you weren't yet..." "You're the 'boss'?" I laughed. A light laugh echoed in the quiet shrine hall, making people even more frightened than the cries. "When did you become the mother?" "Your name has never been recorded in the family tree, your identity has never been posted on the jade scroll. Even when you die, you cannot be buried with the Shen family's ancestors." "Do you think that over the years people in the palace have called you 'wife', have you really become a wife?" "That's because the servants respect the national princess." family." I retracted my smile and said each word clearly: "Now, I will take back that bit of dignity." Concubine Liu staggered back a step, knocking over the tea table behind her. The tea cup fell to the ground, broke into pieces, and the tea water splashed onto her skirt. She no longer had the mind to pay attention to those things, panicked and turned around to look at the group of subordinates standing next to her with their heads bowed. "You... are you just going to stand and watch this vile treat me like that?" No one answered. The slaves who once bowed their heads to her, now each bowed their heads, as if they had all gone deaf. "On what basis do you treat me like that? Even though I am the stepmother, I have never caused you any trouble in all these years!" "Based on what?" My voice suddenly turned cold, like a knife that had just been pulled out of ice. "What is the basis for you asking me?" "What happened in the past, have you forgotten?" "Is there a need for it?" Can I help you remember?" Concubine Liu's pupils suddenly shrank. "Ten years ago." I said every word clearly: "Just because the nanny casually said a sentence 'it's like being pregnant with a boy', she took advantage of my father's entrance into court, ordered someone to drag my mother out into the middle of the yard, and used a stick to beat her to death." In the main hall, suppressed sounds of deep breathing rang out. This is a taboo that no one has dared to mention in the palace for the past ten years. "My mother was nine months pregnant, and she beat her to death right on the blue tile floor. Her blood was all over the ground, but she only hated the blood that tainted her flower-viewing pleasure." "I was six years old that year." "Do you think a six-year-old girl doesn't understand anything? Think that after she grows up, she will forget everything?" I pressed closer to her step by step. "I have never forgotten. Every night, every day. All the time, I've been waiting for this day." "On what basis do you ask me?" "Based on the fact that I am the daughter of the woman who was beaten to death by your stick." "Based on the fact that my younger brother, who has not yet been born, is looking at you in the sky." The blood on Concubine Liu's face completely disappeared. Her whole body sat down on the ground, her lips constantly trembling, wanting to say something but unable to utter a word. The wind blew in from the window, causing the white flags filling the hall to flutter. The stacked strips of white fabric looked like countless pale hands, silently waving in the cold wind. I looked down at her, crouched down, lowered my voice very low, so low that only the two of us could hear. "In the past, you beat my mother to death, one body, two lives." "You covered the sky with one hand, thinking that this palace would forever be yours." "You thought that no one could control you." I stood up straight, looking down at her from above. "Now, the person covering the sky with one hand should have changed to me." Concubine Lieu sat on the ground, like a torn bag. His bones were stripped, his whole body trembled like sifting rice. She opened her mouth to speak, but only a choked sound came out. I didn't look at her again. I turned around and said to Lam Bach: "Pull her out." "From today, she is no longer the concubine of this palace. She is the lowest servant.

in the government. Washing clothes, chopping firewood, emptying compost bins, all the dirtiest and hardest jobs in the palace are entrusted to her." "Let her live in the most remote hospital, eat the worst food." "Without my order, you are not allowed to step even half a step out of the palace gate." Lam Bach held his fist: "Yes." "More." I called him back: "If she dares to be lazy..." I tilted my head to look at the woman sitting on the ground, her voice was not loud, but enough to let everyone know. Everyone present heard clearly. "Go ask the ladies who served my mother in the past, ask how she sent someone to beat my mother." "Retaliate in the same way." The corner of Lam Bach's mouth moved slightly, as if a faint smile flashed. "I understand." The two families stepped forward, one on the left and one on the right holding Concubine Lieu's arm, pulling her out. Only then did she regain her composure, her shrill voice tore through the silence in the main room hall. “Than Lan Thu, you will not die properly! Ugly people! You dare to treat me like that…” “Let me go! The old man just left, are you already planning to rebel? Even if I were a ghost, I wouldn't forgive you..." "Tham Lan Thu! You will meet retribution! You will meet retribution..." Her voice became farther and farther away, finally disappearing at the end of the hallway. I stood in the spiritual hall, in front of me was my father's tablet. The spiritual tablet of the Duke of Tham.