Chapter 24: Let's Die Together
For a while, the crowd was in an uproar, and the pointing at Yun Zhaoyue became more and more powerful.
"Princess, I don't ask for anything else, just to prevent my mother from dying unjustly, even if you are a noble princess of Ning, I dare to beat the drum and ask for justice for my mother!"
Yun Zhaoyue looked at Lai Da and said indignantly, spat flying, and sneered.
"It's okay to report to the official, but remember to tell you all about the usury you owe to the gambling house and embezzle the public funds of the royal government."
Lai Da's face changed abruptly, and his voice instantly stiffened: "What...... What ......"
"It's useless to pretend to be stupid," Yun Zhaoyue smiled more and more brightly, "Look at the time, the people from the gambling house will come to collect debts in two days, do you think of any way to escape, or ......?"
She paused slightly, "Someone asked you to make a big fuss in the palace, and promised to help you settle your debts?" ”
"What nonsense are you talking about?"
Lai Da turned white and shouted at Yun Zhaoyue; "Princess, you don't want to admit your mistakes, how can you slander people's innocence without evidence?"
Yun Zhaoyue laughed, "Innocent? ”
She suddenly raised her voice and shouted to the crowd, "Has anyone seen Lai Da in the gambling house?" ”
A sentence was like a drop of cold water thrown into boiling hot oil, and in an instant, sparks flew and evidence was shouted out of the crowd.
"I've seen Lai Da knock pai gow several times, and the silver ticket is too big, but I just lose it all back!"
"Yes, yes, I've also seen the casino owner throw Lai Da out and ask him to bring money to pay off the debt!"
"Yesterday, I saw him gambling on crickets over there!"
Sweatdrops of bean size slid down Lai's forehead in an instant.
Yun Zhaoyue looked at him coldly, "You are a young man in the accounting room, your monthly salary is only two or three dollars, where did you get a large amount of silver tickets to gamble and scatter silver?" I've heard that the lowest points in the banker are a penny. ”
Lai's eyes turned left and right, and he shouted with little confidence for a long time: "I came to seek justice for my mother, princess, what attention did you say I would divert from it?" ”
"Okay, then let's talk about your mother."
Yun Zhaoyue became more and more indifferent, and folded her fingers to Lai Dasuan: "Your mother is a kitchen assistant in the kitchen, a large mansion in the suburbs, two sets of small bungalows in the east gate, and a set of courtyard houses in the west gate, I heard that there is also a house in the north gate." ”
She glanced at Lai Da lazily, "Is there such a generous grandmother in the capital?" ”
Lai Da was in a cold sweat, and he couldn't speak: "It's all ...... It's all ancestral property, what does it have to do with my mother's death? ”
"Don't pretend to be confused there, how much do you want me to say in the house, I'm afraid that the master is not as big as her, and she is about to commit suicide because of a few random words, is she willing to give up the gold and silver treasures she covets?"
Yun Zhaoyue's eyes were like eagle falcons, staring at the prey, staring straight at Lai Da.
"You said that your mother committed suicide by taking poison, what kind of poison did you take?"
Lai Da was stunned, he only knew that he was making trouble according to the words taught by the side concubine, how did he know what kind of poison it was?
I just made up one at random: "Arsenic!" ”
Left and right are dead people's medicine, which is the same!
"This corpse's arms are blue, and the eyes are black, obviously it is poison in the blood, and the arsenic hurts the five internal organs, how can it be that he died of drinking arsenic?"
Lai Da was stunned for a moment, stumbling and retorting: "That...... That's not arsenic...... Yes, yes, how do I know what the medicine is?! ”
He was forced to be anxious, and pointed at Yun Zhaoyue and scolded.
"Anyway, my mother was forced to death by you, I don't care what medicine she takes, you don't want to get rid of suspicion, everyone sees it, it's you who insult my mother, you kill her, I want to report to the official!"
Seeing that Lai was in a hurry and looked like he was threatening himself, Yun Zhaoyue didn't even change his expression.
Slightly sideways to look at Lingxi behind him, "You go to the account room now and bring all the expenses for half a year." ”
Lingxi was stunned for a moment, and couldn't figure out what Yun Zhaoyue was mentioning at this critical juncture.
She lowered her voice and said, "Master, what will you do with the account book, or I will go to the prince and see if he can ask the saint to come forward......"
"Of course, I want to count how much public money we have embezzled in the government over the years!"
Yun Zhaoyue sneered and looked at Lai Da, "The law says that if a slave embezzles the master's public funds, he can be imprisoned for ten years if he exceeds one hundred taels, and if he exceeds two hundred taels, he can stay in inner prison for a lifetime, and if he is more than five hundred taels, he will be ......."
"That's a big sin to cut off your head!"
She shrugged her shoulders, "You can sue me as much as you want, but I didn't kill anyone, and secondly, I taught the subordinates who did something wrong, who hasn't done it in the capital, I want to see what crime I can be sentenced to." ”
"But you are a big man," Yun Zhaoyue smiled at the corner of her mouth, "Whether I go to prison or not, your head is broken!" ”
Lai Da panicked instantly, his body was shaking and he couldn't wait to find a place to hide.
Yun Zhaoyue's eyes moved to Mama Liu, who was trembling on one side, paused, and suddenly laughed, "I remember Mama Liu's son, is it going to marry in the next two days?" ”
Mama Liu was stunned and suddenly raised her head to look at Yun Zhaoyue.
"I don't want to go to prison on the day I get married!" The more Yun Zhaoyue spoke, the brighter her smile became, "I have made a lot of money with Mama Lai over the years, and when the time comes, the official will be able to take a trip to the house, and I should be able to catch a lot of good things." ”
With a "plop", Mama Liu knelt down and kowtowed directly, "I beg the mother to let it go, the slave knows that it is wrong!" ”
Yun Zhaoyue walked two steps to Mama Liu, and pinched Mama Liu's chin, her voice seemed to be mixed with ice.
"Listen to me, my mother is better than sad and will live for half a year, compared to you who still have decades to live, I don't feel happy, it's a big deal for everyone to die together!"
"The slave doesn't dare!" Mama Liu raised her head and cried profusely.
"It's all Lai Da who told me to say it, gave me two hundred taels of silver, and asked me to arrange my mother, I was forced!"
In order to prove her loyalty, Mama Liu became more and more energetic the more she spoke, "We all saw it in the kitchen that day, it was Mama Lai who was disrespectful to Niangniang first, and then let us be opponents of Niangniang, so that Niangniang was forced to fight back, and the water was obviously accidentally sprinkled on her own body!" ”
"She shows off her power in the back kitchen all day long, ignores the money she buys, and steals all the good things rewarded by the saint home, we have long seen her unpleasant, and the mother has taught her a good lesson!"
As soon as these words came out, the crowd was in an instant uproar, and their eyes were also full of disdain when they looked at Lai Da.
Yun Zhaoyue was about to speak, when she suddenly saw the gate of the palace open, and An Rongrong pounced on Mama Lai like a butterfly, crying loudly.
"Mama Lai, why can't you think about it so much? If it weren't for me, the princess wouldn't have killed you! ”