The maid's road to success

Chapter 154 Investigating Wu Guang

Mrs. Liu usually doesn't understand many things, but when it comes to the safety of the whole family, she doesn't care about her daughter's face and puts the powerful maids and servants in the yard over.

Five or six people were kneeling in the yard, looking at the servants holding sticks on both sides, knowing that today would not be an easy day.

There was no way he would resist. He confessed everything without waiting for his wife to ask any more questions.

"Young Master Bai, who is he?"

The maid lowered her head and her voice trembled.

"He moved here after the flood. I heard his family is very wealthy, with a lot of land and farmland. He is very handsome."

Mrs. Liu had experienced a lot, so she immediately realized that something was wrong.

"Did this person approach the Third Miss on purpose?"

The maid shook her head. On the day they first met, the young lady went out on a whim. It couldn't be that someone deliberately arranged it. Besides, the young lady was just wandering around that day and had no plans to go anywhere.

"No, I just met him when I was strolling around that day, and he didn't say much to me. Bai, Mr. Bai, yes, he doesn't have that kind of intention towards me."

Mrs. Liu frowned, thinking that her daughter and the boy from the Bai family were in love with each other, which was why all these things happened. She didn't expect it was just unrequited love.

"Mr. Bai is interested in a lady from Yufuzhai and doesn't care about you. I have already advised you not to be interested in Mr. Bai, as there are many good men in Kyoto. But the nurse has been urging you to get in touch with Mr. Bai. You have been listening to the nurse and not to us."

At this time, the wet nurse had already been arrested, and they blamed everything on her.

In fact, they themselves felt that they were not being too excessive, because they really wanted the girl to wait until Kyoto to discuss a better marriage, but the wet nurse wanted to coax the girl to stay here.

Mrs. Liu understood their trick and smashed a teacup at them.

"You guys are completely refusing to do anything at this time. Even if the young lady doesn't listen to your advice, there are so many masters in the mansion. You both regard the master and I as dead. Why didn't you come and inform us earlier? Let the young lady act recklessly?"

The maids were so frightened that their faces turned even paler and they prostrated themselves on the ground, trembling.

"These girls, who failed to persuade their masters and watched them get into trouble, will be beaten with twenty sticks and sold off."

The old women usually look down upon these pretentious little girls. They rely on the fact that they serve the young ladies personally and are pretentious and artificial, and do not take the old women, who do the rough servants, seriously.

This is a fatal move. If you don't die, you will lose half your life.

After a while, these maids and the nanny collapsed on the ground, their backs and buttocks were covered in blood.

He was dragged out like an object and thrown directly onto the cart prepared in the front yard.

These old women didn't know, but the stewards who received the orders knew it very well. In order to keep it secret, these maids and old women would be given mute drugs and sold to the lowest kind of moneylenders.

Those who are good-looking will go to brothels to vent their sexual desires for the men who do rough labor, while those who are not good-looking will be sent to work as hard laborers.

These people won’t live long anyway.

Wen Niang didn't know about these things. She just felt that the interactions between her family and the Bai family next door had suddenly become much closer recently.

The old lady from the Bai family next door hired someone who is good at making medicinal food. Although it is medicinal food, it tastes good.

Some soup was delivered every now and then, and even Anping and Ningjing liked it. Bihe thought that this calming soup was very good, and she slept much more soundly after drinking it.

Wen Niang was not very interested in these things, but her family members liked her and no one stopped her.

Seeing how their relationship improved a lot after a few interactions, she suddenly felt something was strange.

None of the four adults in the family is easy to get along with, but they all quickly fell in love with the aunt and nephew next door.

Even someone as sensitive and introverted as myself gradually felt that there was nothing wrong.

But this is the biggest mistake. Wen Niang feels that her and Bi He's guard seems to have weakened a lot.

This is not a good thing for yourself.

She began to consciously or unconsciously reduce her contact with her neighbors.

Chen Luoxi naturally noticed Wen Niang's change. An Yun turned around and looked at Chen Luoxi with a frown.

"Are your eyes too revealing and made Wen Niang realize something is wrong?"

Chen Luoxi looked at An Yun as if he were an idiot.

"She didn't notice us because she's inherently cautious. We shouldn't go over there too often. Just ask the cook to send the soup over."

An Yun pouted, unhappy.

"We were almost impressing them. I could already sense that they were starting to have a bad impression of us. Why did they suddenly become distant?"

Chen Luoxi looked at the letter delivered to the table.

"Wu Guang found out about me. He knew that Miss Wu San attacked those people because she was in love with Bai Yi. He even guessed that I was still in Yuzhou and has been sending people to inquire about me."

An Yun was very proud when he mentioned this.

"Heh, my face-changing pill, no matter how many people he has, he can't tell our true appearance."

Chen Luoxi glanced at her, and An Yun quickly suppressed her smug expression and sat down obediently.

"Since Wu Guang has guessed that I am in Yuzhou, he will not dare to act rashly, but the people in his backyard may not be so sure."

An Yun nodded. Yes, that Mrs. Liu was not a smart person.

She had disguised herself as Wen Niang before, so naturally no one could see her often.

Mrs. Liu insists on inviting me over every now and then. Can't you tell that I don't want to interact with her?

I heard that the only reason she was able to marry the prefect was because of her good family background. At that time, Wu Guangcai, who had just passed the imperial examination, came to her house several times to propose marriage.

But he didn't expect that he couldn't even control his concubines. The backyard was in chaos. It was not until later when the most favored concubine got into trouble that Wu Guang realized that he could not let his concubines do whatever they wanted and he suppressed them a lot.

Such people may become desperate and do something stupid.

"Recently, Zhushan found a lot of evidence of Wu Guang's crimes. He accepted bribes and opened up a large area of ​​land for wealthy businessmen. It seems that he killed someone, but he was dealt with very well. The other party's family took the money and did not make trouble again."

Chen Luoxi originally planned to let him go even if he was found to have committed corruption and bribery. After all, he had been given all the credit for the disaster and had also taken advantage of Miss Wu San. Although Miss Wu San's methods were too cruel, he remembered Wu Guang's voluntary relinquishment of the credit.

But it would be a different story if there was a life on your hands.

"Speak about human life."

An Yun took out the letter from Zhushan's investigation from a box.

"A few years ago, Wu Guang got drunk and raped a wine girl who was delivering wine to the backyard. The wine girl had a fierce temper and killed her. Wu Guang gave 200 taels of silver to his in-laws to settle the matter."

"But the wine girl's family refused to accept it and demanded that Wu Guang return their daughter's body. However, Wu Guang felt guilty and had destroyed the body long ago. The family refused to give in and said they would go to the government office to appeal for justice."

"Although Wu Guang was the prefect, he was afraid that people would know that he had raped a decent woman, so he sent someone to burn the whole family to death.

Zhushan said that when the drunkard died, she seemed to be pregnant. Her husband's family knew about it, but they took the money and remarried a new wife, and the matter was forgotten.

Chen Luoxi's eyes were as black as ink. In his opinion, Wu Guang was a good official and he managed Yuzhou well. However, he was involved in such a bad thing. Even if he made Yuzhou prosperous, he should be punished.

"Also, the wife of the prefect has killed several women, but they were all concubines in the backyard of the prefect's mansion. Girl, we can't get involved in these things."

Chen Luoxi looked at An Yun seriously.

"Why can't we do anything about it? Aren't those people human? Aren't they losing their lives? Servants are the private property of their masters, but they are not animals that their masters can abuse. Since the current emperor ascended the throne, he has promulgated new laws that prohibit masters from killing their slaves without reason, and also prohibit the slave trade."

An Yun sat there awkwardly. In this big family, countless servants were killed or injured every year. Everyone believed that servants were the property of their masters and were subject to the arrangements of their masters.

When Chen Luoxi was a young master in the Marquis' Mansion, he did not agree with this.

Their family treats servants well, and he and his ancestors treat those who used to serve them as their own family members. All the masters treat their close associates as their own family members.

Only my second brother and my second aunt were not kind enough to the servants, but they never killed anyone at will, except for the girl who got pregnant before my second brother got married.

He was killed by a strong abortion drug given by his second aunt.

"Is there anything else?"

An Yun didn't dare to comment further and continued to talk about what he had investigated in Zhushan.

"When Wu Guang went to Beijing to take the imperial examination, he seemed to be too exhausted and robbed his fellow passenger of his money, causing the man to die on the road."

As An Yun read out the details one by one, Chen Luoxi became more and more disheartened. This man looked very capable, but there were so many secrets behind him.

Even this achievement cannot save him. Wu Guang will definitely pay the price for his actions.

If such a person is promoted and becomes a high-ranking official step by step, he will only do more bad things to protect his own interests.