The princess is beautiful and Ziye

Chapter 164
After a stalemate for a while, Mammy Lu grinned dryly.

"I'm the one in a hurry. Sister-in-law, don't blame me for offending me. I'm really sad because of my daughter."

Grandma Lu wiped her tears and said.

Mother Ye was soft-hearted and went up to persuade her, and the two chatted together.

Zhao Zhi looked at his mother-in-law's back worriedly, for fear that she might say something inappropriate.

The woman in front of her looked so weird. It was only a few days after the incense pavilion was opened. She, a villager from outside, could not comfort her distressed daughter at home. She came here alone to find a benefactor. It was illogical to think about it.

If she wasn't from the capital, it would take her three days and three nights to drive a bullock cart to the state capital closest to the capital without sleep, so why did she come in such a hurry.

Zhao Zhi thought to himself, this person probably has something to do with Dianxiang Pavilion, he wanted to find out who was behind their backs, and wanted revenge.

Zhao Zhi pretended to help Ye Yu sit down, but in fact he wanted to take the opportunity to stay here to prevent Ye's mother from saying the wrong thing.

With Zhao Zhi's interruption just now, Mammy Lu really hoped that this unsightly scholar would stay away, for fear that he would see the clue, and Mammy Lu would not be easy to say anything.

At this time, Mother Ye suddenly asked her: "By the way, sister, how old are you this year? Blame my poor eyesight, why do I think you are older than me..."

Grandma Lu's face froze for a moment, and she said hastily, "Where are we, we do farm work every day, and our faces are a bit rough... Actually, I've just passed my thirties."

"Really!" Mother Ye looked very surprised, and asked again: "Then how old is your daughter this year?"

"Eh... she, she probably... oh no, she's ten years old..."

Mother Ye smiled and said: "Ah! That sister, your daughter is the daughter of Geng Yinnian. It's really good, and she belongs to the snake."

Nanny Lu nodded sullenly, and said, "Yes, she is the lifeblood of my family. Sister-in-law, you don't know how much I worry about her being abducted these days."

Nanny Lu wanted to hold Mother Ye's hand, and continued to pretend to be pitiful with her.

Unexpectedly, Mother Ye suddenly changed her face, raised her hand and shook her off, and stood up abruptly.

"Who the hell are you! Pretend to be the mother of an abducted child asking what you're doing! Did that bastard from Xiangge send you here?"

Mother Ye grabbed Nanny Lu's clothes and shouted to Father Ye at the top of her voice, "Go to the village chief! Call more people over here! Take her to the officials! She is not a good person!"

Mother Lu was terrified, and said while struggling, "Sister-in-law, what are you doing! I didn't lie! What I said is true!"

"Oh, you're still not telling the truth. You should do the math yourself, why is your ten-year-old daughter born in the year of Geng Yin in the zodiac of the snake!"

Grandma Lu froze.

No wonder this person suddenly mentioned her daughter, Mother Lu thought she was just asking casually about family affairs, but she didn't expect this kind of peasant woman to think of so many things!
Seeing that Father Ye was about to call someone, Mother Lu panicked.

She struggled hard, reached out to reach the dishes on the table, and threw them towards Ye Yu!

Mother Ye was startled, she let go of her hands, turned her head and shouted anxiously: "Be careful, fish!"

Nanny Lu was like a loach, the gown outside was dragged by Mother Ye, so she simply took off the gown, covered her face with her sleeve and rushed out.

Mother Ye chased her out, but Nanny Lu ran too fast, and soon disappeared.

She stomped her feet angrily, "What a despicable guy! I almost caught her!"

Father Ye led a group of villagers back out of breath, but he didn't know until he got to the door and told that person to run away.

Among the people who came, there happened to be a few peasant women who showed the way to Madam Lu, and they felt guilty.

"But we've all seen the man's face, why don't we go to Beijing to report to the officials and arrest that man!"

The village chief said: "After this incident, we can't leave the village! The group of people might have sent not only the woman, but also other people to inquire about the news. Don't let others tell the truth. Zui, everyone has been observing the village carefully these days to see if there are any suspicious outsiders."

The village chief looked at Ye's father and Ye's mother, "As for the matter of reporting to the official, I will trouble you to pass it on to that nobleman. The nobleman's connections are deeper than those of us villagers. If we catch someone then, we will go there and testify."

Zhao Zhi nodded in agreement, "The village chief makes sense."

Returning to the yard after we left, Father Ye said: "Then tomorrow morning I will take Lao Li's ox cart into the city and tell the nobleman what happened today."

"Don't go. You are clumsy, I'm afraid you can't even speak clearly, and you won't be able to catch anyone then."

Mother Ye looked at her son-in-law, "Thanks to Xiao Zhi for this matter, if he didn't say that, I wouldn't have been prepared, and I almost revealed the young lady's affairs to her."

Zhao Zhi said with a smile: "Mother is also very clever, I don't know how to expose her, but just one word from Mother will make her reveal her true form."

Mother Ye's compliments to Zhao Zhi were very useful, and she said: "Xiao Zhi, you will go to the capital tomorrow. Tell Miss what happened today, and...give her this clothes."

Mother Ye handed the gown that Nanny Lu left behind to Zhao Zhi, and said, "Maybe Miss Xu can find clues about that person from this gown."

The next day, Zhao Zhi entered the city in the bullock cart of a villager from the same village.

After asking the people along the way, he came to the street where the Shangshu Mansion was located. Looking at the plaques and lintels under the eaves, Zhao Zhi decided to go through the back door without looking.

Xie Tinglan and Zhao Zhi met in the backyard.

Zhao Zhi simply recounted what happened yesterday to her, and then handed her the gown that Nanny Lu had left behind.

Xie Tinglan guessed that [-]% of them were from the Sheng family, she thought about it, and nodded at Zhao Zhi: "Thank you for making this trip."

"Should be."

It was thanks to Xie Tinglan's chivalry that Zhao Jianye could end up where he is now, and it was too late for Zhao Zhi to be grateful.

Yuxiu sent Zhao Zhi out of Xie's residence, when Xie Tinglan came back, she was still playing with the gown, Yuxiu stepped forward and said:

"Since many people in the village have seen that woman's face, we just need to ask them to help identify the servants of the Sheng family. Don't worry, Miss."

"I'm afraid they are in a hurry to send this man out of the capital."

Xie Tinglan said: "You need to be more agile and resolve this matter as soon as possible."

Xie Tinglan gave a yawn, and rubbed the space between his brows while rubbing his forehead.

Before she finished worrying about her own marriage, she was involved in this matter. It was really too much for her to keep going around for the past few days.

"The lady might as well tell the princess about it."

Yuxiu suggested: "This matter should have been dealt with by Her Highness the Princess. The young lady just happened to meet and do it for her."

"With Fifth Princess' connections, I'm afraid she won't be able to find anything."

Otherwise, Xie Tinglan wouldn't have exhausted his efforts to check these things.

"We have to put all the evidence on the surface and leak it to her, so that the matter can be resolved in one fell swoop."

Xie Tinglan said: "The most difficult thing right now is whether Fuzhou can prove that Ji Fu's husband is Sheng Fuqing."

These days, they have been investigating in Fuzhou for several days. The letter sent back said that Ji Fu's husband, Ji Shengping, is in poor health.

When Ji Shengping died of illness, there were even rumors that his illness was contagious, and no one rushed to offer condolences when he was still alive.

Yuxiu frowned and said: "That Sheng Fuqing is bold enough and cautious enough. He really dares to live in Fuzhou with two identities, and even dares to feign death to deceive the imperial court."

Sheng Fuqing came from Fuzhou, and coincidentally, he lived in the same village as Ji Fu's couple.

The villagers have never met Ji Fu's husband, but they know Sheng Fu Qing like the back of their hands, and they all praise him as a very diligent and humble gentleman.

Sheng Fuqing has a very good reputation in the village, many women secretly fall in love with him, but this Sheng Fuqing is very ascetic, he didn't get married for seven years, and concentrated on the imperial examination.

Leaving Fuzhou for the first time in one fell swoop, many people's minds gradually dispersed, but when they mentioned him, they still left a deep impression on them.

This is difficult.

Sheng Fuqing separated his two identities too much, it was really difficult to find witnesses.

Yuxiu twisted her chin, thought for a while and said, "Will anyone at the yamen remember? Sheng Fuqing and Ji Fu must go to register together for household registration!"

"I'm afraid I can't remember clearly."

After all, it was already seven years ago. Even if the officials who handled the household registration of the two of them were still in office at that time, they might not remember the past seven years.

"It would be great if we could get substantive evidence."

Suddenly someone knocked on the door outside the house, and the maid said softly: "Miss, someone from Shuntian Mansion is here to ask to see you."

What did Shuntian Prefecture send people here for?
Xie Tinglan replied: "Got it, take him to the front hall, I'll be right there."

After a while, Xie Tinglan tidied up and came to the front hall.

The person who came was Shuntian Fu Zhizhong, and he saluted Xie Tinglan respectfully, and said: "Girl, all the suspects in the Xiangge Pavilion have been interrogated, and Master Fucheng asked the next official to ask the girl if you want to go and see one look."

Zhizhong paused, and then said: "Those girls who were rescued, some of them have come, I want to meet the girls, thank you personally."

"Forget it." Xie Tinglan said casually.

She didn't like to join in the fun, and she didn't need those girls to thank her.

Yuxiu stood by the side, thought for a while, then bent down and said, "Miss, you can go and talk about that person from the Sheng family with Mr. Fu Cheng. Let's not mention anything else, just take it as something really sweet." The party wants to plot against Miss, let Fu Cheng go and investigate, maybe he can follow the clues and find some clues."

If he could find something, it would be logical to push this matter to the public.

Xie Tinglan looked at Zhizhong, and changed the subject: "But when I rescued that little girl, I was still thinking about those who were in trouble together. Is it okay if I take her to meet him? I think Mr. Gu will not openly interrogate this case. .”

"Today's trial is the case of Dianxiang Pavilion, and the gate of the government office will not be opened. The case of the black workshop will be tried again in a few days, and children in distress will come forward to identify them."

In this way, some people are prevented from discussing in private that those children were once sold into the Dianxiang Pavilion.

Xie Tinglan nodded in satisfaction, stood up and said, "I'm going to change my clothes, sir, please wait for a while."

"Xiaguan wait slowly, there is still an hour before the promotion, Miss Xie, don't worry."

Xie Tinglan found Ji Shu in person and told her about it.

Ji Shu nodded obediently, "I'm also a little worried about them."

At that time, those girls disregarded their own safety and asked her to leave first. Ji Shu always kept this feeling in his heart.

Yuxiu asked: "Do you want to tell Mrs. Ji..."

"No need!" Ji Shu interrupted Yuxiu quickly.

After hesitating for a moment, he said: "My mother is afraid that she will be worried about me, so she will only come back at night. Let me tell her about this when I come back."

If Ji Fu knew that she had gone to Shuntian Mansion to 'show her face', she would definitely use the same saying that her relationship with the Sheng family would be leaked to keep her from going out.

Dieff has had enough.

Half an hour later, the two got into the carriage together and headed for Shuntian Mansion.

When the two caught up with Shengtang, Gu Fucheng was very experienced, and with just a few words, he made a few people involved in the incident show their feet. Regardless of their begging, they were all sentenced to be beheaded.

These people are the bustard mother of Dianxiang Pavilion, and there are a few tortoises, all of whom are mainly engaged in the business of buying and selling girls.

After the trial and conviction of these few people, there are a few people who did not report the knowledge and the circumstances were slightly less serious.

Basically, they are girls from Dianxiang Pavilion.

Xie Tinglan was not interested, so he glanced and was about to look away, but when he glanced, he saw a prostitute below him, and was very surprised the moment he saw Ji Shu.

Xie Tinglan sat up straight and stared at the woman for a long time.

After Gu Fucheng finished the trial of the case, those who did not report to the public were sentenced to slavery and were to be exiled to the Northwest.

There was a burst of crying in the hall.

Gu Fucheng asked the yamen servants to temporarily detain them and was about to talk to Xie Tinglan, Xie Tinglan said first:

"My lord, can you let me meet the girl named Haitang in the hall just now?"

Gu Fucheng almost said why.

He can't afford to mess with this one in front of him, she's just a prostitute, she can see her whenever she wants.

Gu Fucheng nodded, "Of course."

He hurriedly ordered the yamen servants, escorted the woman back, and took her to the side room.

Haitang hadn't recovered from the blow of exile, and was out of breath from crying.

Seeing Xie Tinglan, she kept begging for mercy as if she had caught hope. It seemed that she thought that things had turned around because she was brought back.

Xie Tinglan sat down in front of her, stared at her and asked, "Do you recognize Ji Shu?"

Haitang's sobbing voice paused for two seconds, and then she said: "Nu-nu, the little girl in the hall just now looks familiar, seems to have seen it somewhere."

"When I read the verdict just now, I heard that you are from Fuzhou."

"Yes, slaves have been doing this for several years. I was in Fuzhou before... I was introduced to the capital by someone I met."

"Think about it carefully, have you seen the little girl in the hall just now in Fuzhou?"

Xie Tinglan's subordinates couldn't help but squeeze the armrest tightly, it seemed that the turning point of the matter was about to appear in front of her.

Haitang had already stopped crying, rolled her eyes, and said vaguely: "Nu, I seem to have seen it...but, I don't remember clearly."

Xie Tinglan stood up impatiently, "It's useless. I can't even remember a little thing. Take it home and wake her up."

Haitang was dragged out by two yamen servants, her legs went limp from fright.

He said sharply: "Don't, don't! Miss, I said! I said! I'm the mother who saw that little girl!"

(End of this chapter)