It is impossible to punish adults

Chapter 371
"Master Liao has read a lot of poetry and books, but he knows that everyone in the world wants to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages?" Mu Liuyun asked back.

Master Liao didn't pick up on it, he naturally understood this truth, but he didn't know what Mu Liuyun wanted to say.

Mu Liuyun didn't expect him to answer: "If I tell them that they will be rewarded for what they say, it doesn't matter if they can't say it. This is tantamount to encouraging them to make up nonsense to cheat money, isn't it?"

"But you just said that if you lie, you will get twenty sticks." Master Liao felt that what Mu Liuyun said was unreasonable.

"According to Master Liao's point of view, among them, those who really remember something will naturally say something, and among those who don't remember anything, the timid ones may not say a word, and the courageous ones lie to lie to us, who knows Among these people, how many people really remember, how many people are brave, and how many people are timid?

In this way, either a lot of people say a lot of things in a hurry, and we have to waste a lot of time to distinguish which one is the truth and can be rewarded one by one, and which one is false and needs to be punished. This is undoubtedly a waste of time.

Or, there are mostly timid people here, and they would rather not get the bounty than get involved in any troubles. You don't say anything, and I don't say anything. Is it possible that I have to coax them to speak one by one?

Since your son's accident, has any of these servants ever reported anything to County Magistrate Wang or Master Liao?If they were really loyal to protect the lord, instead of having nothing to do with themselves, I am afraid that Mr. Yuan and I would not be here at this moment.

Those who refuse to speak will be hit with five boards, those who speak but lie will be given a stick of twenty, then they will naturally have to rack their brains to recall what happened that night, and because they are afraid of being punished by the stick, they dare not make up anything to fool things ,save time and energy. "

After Mu Liuyun finished speaking, he looked at Master Liao: "On the day of my eldest young master's wedding, the bride can disappear from the house without a trace for no reason. From this point alone, I am afraid that Master Liao is benevolent." The servants who came out of Deshan may not all be so loyal to the Liao family.

For a group of snobby slaves who didn't even do their job well, Master Liao still thinks that it's okay to give sweets? "

When she said this, Master Liao was also speechless. Although he still didn't agree with the practice of threatening others with torture, after thinking about it carefully, he felt that Mu Liuyun's words made sense.

Especially when thinking about Tang Wanxin being able to disappear from her home on the night of her wedding, as an outsider who just entered the house with only a maid as a dowry, if there is no one to respond from inside, the ghost will believe that all this can be done.

Thinking of this, when Mr. Liao looked at the servants in the yard again, his eyes were a little sullen, and he didn't even have the intention to help those people. He sighed: "I will do it according to the officials' wishes Come on, I only ask for the truth, so that my son will not die in vain!"

"Master Liao don't worry about this matter, beating people was never my purpose, what I want is the truth." Mu Liuyun nodded.

Seeing that Mr. Liao also let go, the servants in the yard who listened to them with their ears upright also lost their minds. You looked at me and I looked at you, with panicked faces, and anxiously bowed their heads trying to remember.

Mu Liuyun was not in a hurry to urge them, he finished a cup of tea in a leisurely manner, and then stood up.

Yuan Mu at the side gave Yuan Jia a wink, and Yuan Jia immediately followed Mu Liuyun to the door, reached out and took the water and fire stick from the hand of the yamen next to him, and stood with one hand on his hip, holding the stick at the door of the living room, Mu Liuyun behind the cloud.

Those who were furtively glaring at Mu Liuyun were now so frightened by Yuan Jia, who was like a malevolent star, that they didn't even dare to lift their eyelids.

"After so long, you should be thinking about it, right?" Mu Liuyun glanced across the crowd, "Who will talk about it first?"

Everyone looked at me, I looked at you, and looked at each other. At this moment, a young man next to him spoke first. It was the nimble man who helped them find Master Liao just now.

He looked desperate, and said loudly: "I'll come! I'll talk first! The villain was on the night when the young master got married, Tian Dong and Mu Xiang sneaked around outside the young master's new house. I don't know what they were doing. !"

As soon as he finished speaking, Mu Liuyun didn't even need to ask who was Tiandong and who was Muxiang, he could already tell at a glance - two little maids in the crowd blushed immediately, and both of them brushed each other. Brush looked at the talking boy.

"Is there such a thing?" Mu Liuyun asked the two little maids directly.

The little maid looked at her, then at Yuan Jia next to her, and knelt down with a plop in fright.

A more courageous one said in a crying voice: "My lord, this servant has no evil intentions, don't listen to the nonsense of Du Zhong! Mu Xiang and I just heard people say that the young mistress is famous all over the world. Great beauty, so the two of us are a little curious, wanting to take a peek at the bride in the new house while everyone else is busy...

As a result, we only poked our heads outside the new house to have a look. The young mistress covered her head, and I didn’t see anything, but Xi Po found out, and she sent us all away. "

"Afterwards, the two of us went to help Granny Li with the laundry, and we didn't dare to go to that courtyard again!" Another person named Mu Xiang hurriedly added, for fear that Mu Liuyun would not believe them.

On the other side, a wrinkled old woman nodded hurriedly, and testified for the two of them. It was true that he called these two little maids to wash clothes that day.

Mu Liuyun looked at the two little maids, they were both thirteen or fourteen years old, not that old, and the clothes they were wearing were more modest, and the two of them wrung their hands because of nervousness, they looked completely Not as delicate as a girl of this age should be, she looks a little rough, obviously they are two rough girls doing rough work.

Needless to say, these must be two little maids who can only do some rough work and have no chance to meet the wife and young master at home. They want to sneak a peek at the beautiful bride on the wedding day when there are many people. child only.

"Who else? Who else remembered something?" Mu Liuyun looked at the others.

"Me!" At this moment, the sallow-faced woman suddenly shouted as if mustering her courage, and then stretched out her hand to point to another solid woman, "That old Mrs. Chen was on the day the young master got married. In the evening, I ran to secretly eat, drink and have fun with Shen Po, Qian Po and the others! I saw it!"

"Are the few of them guilty of drinking and having fun?" Mu Liuyun asked.

"Others are not big, but that old lady Chen has committed the most crimes!" The yellow-faced woman gritted her teeth, "She herself will be on duty at night to guard the back door!"

(End of this chapter)