The scholar looked at Mu Yunlan with a mocking face: "Heaven and earth are upright, and they will not favor you because of your noble status, we believe that even if Wei Guogong does not give us justice, God will definitely not let go of the wicked!" ”

Mu Yunlan's eyes were full of gloom: "You are very eloquent, and what you say is also very inflammatory, but unfortunately you are not loud, but there is a sentence that you said well, the wicked must not be let go." Where to start, oh, let's talk about this old woman who cried miserably. ”

Mu Yunlan walked down the steps step by step towards the old woman.

The scholar hurriedly stepped forward, raised his head and stood in front of Mu Yunlan: "What are you going to do?" ”

"What can I do in plain sight?" Mu Yunlan sneered, "I just want to see how dark this person's heart can be." Old woman, as far as I know, you live on Wanbao Street in the west of the city, and your husband's surname is Xu, right? ”

The old woman's face was full of anger: "Yes, the old body does live there, what's the matter, you want to kill people and kill people?" ”

"I'm not as bold as you, dare to do something murderous." Mu Yunlan's eyes were full of disgust, "Your son's name is Xu Qing, he died on the battlefield five years ago, my father remembered that there was an old mother and a child in his family, so in addition to the pension issued by the imperial court, he also gave you an additional two hundred taels of silver, but within five months, you forced your daughter-in-law to remarry for a bride price of twenty taels of silver on the grounds that there was no silver at home!" ”

The old woman began to disagree, and when she heard it, she began to panic, how could these things still be turned out after so many years?

Mu Yunlan looked at her with disgust: "Your daughter-in-law is extraordinarily loyal, on the day she was forced to remarry, she committed suicide with resentment, and left a last wish on her deathbed, saying that she wanted to be buried with your son, but you were disgusted that she couldn't earn you twenty taels of silver, and buried her in a mass grave at will, what I said is not complete, what do you have to add?" ”

The surrounding people looked at the old woman on the ground in disbelief, and many people still had tears of sympathy in their eyes, what did they hear? Didn't you say that the old woman had a dead son, and it was very pitiful that she had no one to support her? Why doesn't that sound like that now?

"Five months after the death of my son, I forced my daughter-in-law to remarry, what kind of mother-in-law is this?"

"It's not that there are still young children, and you can't force your daughter-in-law like this for the sake of your grandson......"

Mu Yunlan looked at the people who spoke up: "Of course she doesn't care, even Xu Qing's son who stayed behind was sold to Renyazi by her three years later, saying that there was no silver to continue to raise." I'm very strange, not counting the court pension, just the two hundred taels of silver my father gave you is enough for you to spend ten years! ”

"Not only ten years, but also a family of three for twenty years is enough." Some people pointed out. Now the silver taels are very valuable, and many times the buying and selling of things can be done by grain and cloth, and two hundred taels of silver is really a huge amount of money for ordinary people.

"Oh, I still said less," Mu Yunlan looked at her seriously, "This mother-in-law, tell me, what are you dissatisfied with today?" ”

"What else is she dissatisfied? The general has already done his duty. ”

"Then why did she cry so badly just now?"

Mu Yunlan looked at the middle-aged man behind the scholar who had just shouted for her life: "You...... It's Zhao Chuan's brother, when he was conscripted, you were the elder brother, and you should have go. If you don't want to go, you desperately beg your younger brother Zhao Chuan to let him serve in the military instead of you, and after that, Zhao Chuan died, and you also got a hundred taels of silver. My father also arranged for you to work in the shop for a monthly salary of one or two taels of silver......"

Zhao Chuan was named, and hurriedly hid behind the crowd, lowering his head and not daring to make a sound.

"One year, you don't go to the shop for half a year, and you are idle all day long, but you still receive the monthly money, and after receiving the money, you go to the casino.

The more Mu Yunlan spoke, the colder her voice became, and she pointed to the people gathered in front: "And you, you are Sun Da Niu's cousin, I really don't know, Sun Da Niu has serious parents, why don't his parents come, you cousin should join in the fun!" ”

"You, don't hide, it's you! You pretended to be Guo Tan's family and worked in my father's grain store for a year, Guo Qin is an orphan, there are no relatives at home, and you can't survive to become a soldier, where did you come from? ”

The people around were silent, originally thinking that Miss Mu was bullying people, but now it seems that someone deliberately came to make trouble?

Listening to the whispered discussions of the people, the scholar who was impassioned before panicked slightly, and tried his best to maintain his composure: "Miss Mu, don't avoid the important and take it lightly, what we ask you for is justice for forcing people to death, those are two lives alive, and you are directly forced to die, do you still want to deny it?" ”

"Driven to death by me?" Mu Yunlan laughed angrily, "The two people who died, one is called Qian San and the other is called Zhou Qi. Qian Sannai was born in a gangster, and he was usually a disaster in the village, and he was the younger brother of Qian Jin, a soldier who died in battle. Three days ago, he was forced to pay off his gambling debts, and two fingers were chopped off, and the gambling house had already sent a message that if he didn't pay off his gambling debts today, it would kill him. It happened that I dismissed him, he had resentment in his heart, and he couldn't live anyway, so he simply died in front of the Patriotic Mansion, and he could splash some dirty water on me! ”

"Look, that guy is missing two fingers!"

"Speaking of which, I've also heard of this Qian San, and I heard that he is a gangster, who steals chickens and dogs on weekdays, and is not a good person."

Mu Yunlan pointed to Zhou Qi on the side again: "As for this Zhou Qi, hehe, he is not dead at all......"

"What? Not dead? ”

Not only were the surrounding people dumbfounded, but even the scholars who took the lead in fighting the grievances were stunned.

Mu Yunlan stepped forward, raised her foot and stepped on Zhou Qi's fingers fiercely, and twisted them vigorously.

"Ah, it hurts......" Zhou Qi turned over and withdrew his fingers suddenly, constantly exhaling and blowing, and only reacted after blowing, and suddenly turned pale with fright. He originally wanted to be killed, but the moment he hit his head, he couldn't do anything to himself, so he simply lay on the ground and died.

Soon, the officials of the Jingzhao Mansion rushed over, and Yin Zhengbai of the Jingzhao Mansion personally arrived at the scene and stepped forward to salute: "The lower officials have seen the eldest prince, His Royal Highness the third prince, and have seen the Lord Weiguo. ”

The eldest prince spoke up: "Lord Zheng is exempt, we are listening wonderfully, you can also take a look." ”

Mu Jianyu's expression was no longer solemn and tense just now, watching Mu Yunlan gain the upper hand little by little, he was quite proud in his heart, and even his usual serious face eased a lot.

Mu Yunlan stepped forward and saluted Jingzhao Mansion Yin: "Lord Zheng is polite, you came just in time, this matter should have been informed to the government a long time ago, otherwise, I am afraid that there will be people who want to pour dirty water on my father's head in the future." Green sleeves, bring your stuff over. ”

Qingsleeve held a thick account book and handed it over.

Mu Yunlan took it and flipped it over casually: "Lord Zheng can check it at will, it records my father's funding for the families of the soldiers who died in the war in the past five years before his death, ranging from a few hundred taels to a dozen taels, and who each one was given to is extremely clear." My father was on the battlefield all the year round before his death, and he was honest by nature, and every year in the house, except for some daily expenses and silver taels for walking around during the New Year, the rest were used to pay for the families of the fallen soldiers. ”

Zheng Bai was stunned when he heard this, and hurriedly took the account book and looked through it carefully.

He had a relationship with Mu Zhengmin during his lifetime, and he knew a lot about his temperament, and he also knew a little about his actions of sending silver taels to the families of fallen soldiers, but he never knew that he actually sent most of the silver taels in the mansion.

Mu Yunlan turned to face the people under the steps, her expression was condensed, her voice was cold, and her bearing was as noble as a luxury:

"My Mu family has three rooms, my father Mu Zhengmin fought on the battlefield before his death, loved soldiers like sons, guarded the peace of the border, was worthy of the emperor's reuse, and worthy of the support of the people, and finally sacrificed his life for the country without regrets. When my mother was alive, she took care of her children alone, donated money to build roads, gave soup porridge to build bridges, and died for my father's martyrdom. I, Mu Yunlan, will not be troublesome and treat others harshly. ”

The people below couldn't help but look up at her and carefully look at this fourth lady of the Mu family.

Mu Yunlan's voice was sonorous: "I am in charge of the third room, run the shop, it is my right to hire whom, if I don't pay the monthly money and treat the hired workers harshly, you can go to the Jingzhao Yamen to sue me, and I just fired the people who don't work well, why can't I?" Am I supposed to keep those cheaters? ”

Mu Yunlan took out another account book from Qing Sleeve: "Lord Zheng, today I want to sue the employees of the nine shops under my father's name, a total of twenty-two people, of which the grain store Qian San has died, and there are only twenty-one people left, this account book records the work of these people, and how many things they stole from the store during the work period, please administer justice for me!" ”

After speaking, Mu Yunlan retreated directly behind Mu Jianyu, and stood with her hands folded in front of her abdomen.

She was wearing a plain blue butterfly pattern dress, holding her black hair with a simple magnolia hairpin and flower hairpin, and the breeze blew a few strands of hair behind her in front of her, making her look graceful.

She lowered her eyes, her long and thick eyelashes cast a faint shadow on Bai Yu's cheeks, just standing quietly, it was like a beautiful lady's picture, which made people look at it and feel fascinated.

The onlookers had completely changed their positions, and they all pointed to the crowd who came to Mu Yunlan to ask for an explanation.

"Insatiable, General Fuyuan and Fourth Miss have done their best to you."

"That is, if you don't work for nothing, you have to steal things in the store, just dismissing them is too cheap, and you should let the official uniform handle them."

"I didn't know that General Fuyuan had done so many good things, if it wasn't for the urgency of these wolf-hearted people, I'm afraid that the fourth lady wouldn't have taken out the account books to correct his name, people's hearts are not ancient, people's hearts are not ancient......"

The scholar who led the way before was covered in cold sweat, looking uneasy, as if he had been uncovered by life, and he wished that there was a crack in the ground that he could get into directly.