I fought back after reselling my engagement

Obviously, the Grand Commander's words and methods were more gentle, which at least made people think that the Seventh Girl was young and listened to the instigation of others. No one would blame a child for doing something wrong.

But the lady's action made it clear that both Seventh Miss and the other girls in the Mao family were wrong.

Su Jingzhai led his men to the front door of the Mao residence. He raised his hand and a steward took the list and read it aloud: On a certain day of a certain month of a certain year, the second daughter of the Mao family instigated Su Qiniang to use a pair of pearl hairpins to coax Su Qiniang to steal four manuscripts of Su Jingzhai from home in exchange; on a certain day of a certain month of a certain year, the eldest daughter of the Mao family used a pair of bracelets to instigate Su Qiniang to steal the calligraphy collection of her father, Master Su San, in exchange...

Every girl who studied in the Mao Family Girls' School was on the list, and the names of the hairpins and jewellery they used and what they exchanged for were all recited out.

Not far away, there were servants from noble families and officials, as well as many ordinary people, who were watching the fun.

The eldest master of the Mao family heard the servant's report and rushed out, clasping his fists and saying, "Master Su, we are sorry for not coming to greet you!"

Su Jingzhai said, "Earlier, I respected the Mao family as a Yueyang family, but I didn't expect that your daughter would instigate my granddaughter to steal the manuscripts, books, calligraphy and paintings of her ancestors. Now we have brought all the hairpins and jewelry that the children traded privately. Please return the manuscripts, books, calligraphy and paintings that Master Mao took away to my family!"

The literati felt that the Su family was really unlucky to have such a useless granddaughter.

How much do rare books, calligraphy and paintings cost? These common things are not as valuable as calligraphy and paintings.

No wonder the Su family is so powerful, now it is exposed.

Behind Master Mao were the second, third, and fourth masters of the main house. At this moment, they said, "Master Su, these are just children playing around. It's a bit too much for you to make such a scene!"

"Am I being too much? Your Mao Yuanniang is seventeen this year, right? Your Mao Wuniang is twelve too. Which one of them is not older than my Su Qinniang? They rely on their age and knowledge to harm my Su family like this?"

Master Mao Er laughed loudly. "What a joke! Rare books and paintings are fine, but why do we need your father and son's manuscripts? Even if my Mao family collects famous paintings and calligraphy, we can only collect two or three."

The Third Master said, "You can always find a pretext to accuse someone of something. Sir Su, are you relying on your position as the Grand Commander of Hunan Province to accuse my Mao family of something?"

Su Shao was about to refute.

Su Wulang said in a loud voice: "The girls of the Mao family instigated and tricked Su Qiniang into stealing our family's calligraphy and manuscripts of our father and grandfather. Now I am exchanging all the jewelry and hairpins I have bought over the past three and a half years to return them to the Mao family, and I ask the Mao family to return the manuscripts and precious books, calligraphy and paintings of Lord Su and his son!"

Master Mao Wu said: "The deal between the children has already been made. Your child was not taught well, but you blamed my Mao family for instigating and dragging my daughter into the water. This is too much!"

The reason why Mao Yuanniang had not married yet was that her fiancé had to observe a three-year mourning period for the death of his biological mother. Before the mourning period was over, Princess Changle came to Yueyang Prefecture to assess talents and select noble ladies for the Mingzhu Society.

The second master said, "Fellow villagers, we are from Yueyang Prefecture. The higher-ups have said this hundreds of times. Do you believe it? Even if Su Jingzhai's calligraphy is valuable, what is the point of us accepting and giving away their manuscripts for a long time? This is clearly a false accusation!"

If you want to collect them, a few are enough, but collecting hundreds of manuscripts is a bit unreasonable.

Is there anyone nearby who expressed doubts?

Su Shao had no intention of dealing with such a person, so he asked, "Why, you don't recognize me now?"

"You have listed the charges you want to accuse us of, why should we admit it?

These little girls’ jewelry were originally gifts between little girls as a token of friendship and goodwill.”

"The calligraphy of Mr. Wang from the previous dynasty and the poems of Mr. Li were the coming-of-age gifts that your daughter Su Qinniang took the initiative to give to my daughter Yuanniang and Sanniang. Just because she gave them without permission, you are going to accuse me of instigating her to steal the precious books of the elders in our family?" Master Mao Wu would never admit to this crime.

Master Mao San said: "Your Su family is also a noble family. In order to ruin the reputation of my daughter from the Mao family, you actually framed your daughter as a thief. It seems that..."

Before he could finish his words, he heard someone shouting at the end of the street: "Oh no! The mighty general and the Hunan Provincial Guards are here! The officers and soldiers are coming!"

what happened?

There was the sound of boots and horses' hooves, as well as people shouting and yelling. A cloud of dust rose up around the entire Mao family's territory, and the sounds of horses neighing and crying could be heard.

The four masters of the Mao family looked pale.

Everyone held their breath.

At the end of both sides of the street, a group of soldiers were approaching from the west, and a general on horseback was coming to meet them from the east. Lu Yan was riding on a chestnut horse, and beside him was a woman wearing a silver fox mask, still wearing the robe of a fourth-rank inspector. Following him were twelve inspector guards wearing faceless masks.

The lake-patterned clothes, the embroidered spring sword, and the faceless mask are the unique symbols of the Supervisory Guard.

There are no fish in clear water. The existence of the Supervisory Office and the Supervisory Guard is to ensure that the court is clean and the people can get justice.

The female official wearing the silver fox mask and Lu Yan quickly approached.

The female official handed an official document to the supervisory officer who came with her: "After investigation, it was found that the Mao family of Yueyang Prefecture was extremely evil and had committed eighteen major crimes: First, they imitated the handwriting of Su Jingzhai, a first-rank official, and pretended to be an important official of the court. They recommended the children of the Mao family to serve as officials in violation of the law. This is a first-class crime that has brought disaster to the entire family; second, the second master of the eldest branch of the Mao family has forcibly taken away women from the people. In the past twenty years, he has killed eighteen women who are recorded in the government..."

The scholars around them suddenly realized that it was no wonder that the Mao family collected the manuscripts of Su Jingzhai and his son. It turned out that they imitated other people's handwriting and forged recommendation documents to allow the Mao family's children to enter officialdom.

My God, this is a capital crime punishable by death and extermination of the entire clan.

They had previously denied it, but are now being investigated.

Lu Yan said loudly: "Protect the Mao family. Not even a fly can fly out."

There was chaos inside the Mao Mansion, and the entire Mao clan was surrounded by the three thousand soldiers and officers brought by Lu Yan.

There were eighteen charges, including forcibly taking women, killing several members of a family in order to steal other people's heirlooms, colluding with officials, causing harm to the people, etc. All of them were punishable by death.

Forging the handwriting of a top-ranking official of the dynasty and recommending Mao's children to enter officialdom in violation of the law was a capital crime and a crime that could lead to the extermination of the entire family.

The fox envoy took out a golden token and said, "I am the fox envoy of the Supervisory Department. Anyone who resists or escapes from the Mao family will be killed on the spot!"

The twelve envoys of the Supervisory Office all have the power to execute first and report later, and they represent the imperial power.

He forged the handwriting of an important official and appointed nine of his own sons to official positions. What a face he had. Among them, one of them even became a prefect, one became a sixth-rank co-prefect, and there were three county magistrates and four county assistants. This was a shocking case in Hunan Province.

The Mao family is so bold and presumptuous that if they get the emperor's manuscript, they will dare to forge an imperial edict.

If Envoy Feng had not ordered a thorough investigation this time, we would not have known that the Mao family collected Su Jingzhai's manuscripts. The Ministry of Personnel thoroughly investigated the officials recommended by Su Jingzhai for official positions over the years and actually found nine of them who had imitated handwriting.