One touch and one silence

Nanzhi sat quietly on the chair above, looking at the people below with indifference, admiring their struggle before death.

At this time Liu Yue had already returned. Nanzhi whispered a few words in her ear and raised his hand to signal Yuan Wuqing to follow.

Soon, a long series of laughter and howling sounds came from the next room.

Magistrate Wu and his legal advisor could no longer control their fear and fell to the ground with weak legs.

Nanzhi looked at them coldly, "Don't be impatient! Why can't you two stand still? Someone bring a chair to Magistrate Wu, so that outsiders won't say that I am unkind."

The noise from the next door had already quieted down after an hour. Yuan Wuqing held a few pieces of paper in his hand angrily, and cursed the group of people who were arrested loudly, "Beasts! A bunch of beasts!"

When he turned to look at Nanzhi, his face was full of anger.

"Your Highness, I never thought that this government office would be filled with a bunch of beasts. It's really a disgrace to our Great Ling Dynasty."

Nanzhi glanced at Yuan Wuqing and said, "You can't stand this point, is there anything else you can't stand even more?"

"Someone, bring the old nanny and the housekeeper from the Liu residence!"

This case has to be tried one by one. Even if that poor Yang Xiaocui dies, she must restore her innocence.

Yuan Wuqing put the paper in his hand on Nanzhi's desk, and Nanzhi casually flipped through it.

These were indeed true. When she saw that Yang Xiaocui's legs were broken by County Magistrate Wu and his runners when they committed atrocities, she became furious.

No wonder she suddenly screamed when the county magistrate violated her. She thought...

That's it!

Thinking of this, Nanzhi slammed the confession in his hand heavily on the table.

"I don't think Magistrate Wu deserves to sit on that chair! Just kneel down!"

Nanzhi's cold tone made Magistrate Wu feel hopeless.

She was not looking at Magistrate Wu, but asked the two people in the lobby.

"Look, both of you. Your masters are all dead. As for what your masters did, I have already investigated it thoroughly."

"I have asked you to come here today, so tell me everything you know. If you dare to hide anything, ha!"

The cold tone frightened the two of them.

They were immediately frightened by Nanzhi's cold and majestic tone and kowtowed and begged for mercy.

Nanzhi has no idea of ​​respecting the elderly and loving the young towards these two people. How can he be a good person to stay with such people until now?

"Your Majesty, spare my life, I will speak!"

"I will definitely confess everything!"

Nanzhi stared at their timid appearance and mocked them in his heart, thinking that these two people were nothing but fools who took advantage of the situation to bully others.

He secretly bullies the maids, withholds their monthly wages, and even physically assaults them from time to time. He is not a good person.

"Which of you will speak first?"

Nanzhi looked at the two of them indifferently. When they looked at each other, the butler quickly raised his hand and said, "The younger one will speak first. The younger one will speak first."

"The young master's family makes a living by making shoes. Now they are the third generation. The previous two generations did a good job and accumulated some wealth. But by the current generation, the business has gradually declined and the styles can no longer keep up with what people like now."

"The Liu family has survived to this day thanks to the wealth accumulated by the previous two generations. Master Liu has been mediocre all his life, and even more so after marrying our wife."

"But our master loves beautiful women. All the ladies who worked for our Liu Mansion and had good skills were harassed away by our master. The ones who stayed were those who could not make a living and needed to make a living, so they gave in to our master."

"The master had only one son in his life, our young master, and no other heirs. But when our young master was ten years old, a big accident happened. The young master suddenly got excited and imitated others to ride a horse. He was accidentally kicked in the lower body by the horse, and finally became disabled."

"The young master seldom went out from then on, until one summer evening when he was fifteen, he went out with his servant and came back happily, and as soon as he came back he told his lady that he wanted to get married."

"Originally, the Madam disagreed, thinking that the family was too small, but the Young Master was dissatisfied and said that he was already in such a state, who would be willing to marry him? It would be good to marry a beautiful woman."

"This matter was done personally by the nanny beside the lady."

"Finally, the lady agreed, but she didn't expect that the country girl she married would be so stunningly beautiful."

"Madam, you've noticed that since the young master got married, he's not as diligent as before in coming to talk to you and pay his respects."

"She even stayed at home more and more. Madam became more and more dissatisfied and looked for every opportunity to find fault with the young mistress and punish her."

"That's how our master gradually became interested in the young lady."

"Every time the lady punished him, our master would go to the rockery to peek."

"Until the Madam found out about this, I thought she would make a scene or punish the young mistress, but she suddenly stayed quiet for a few days."

"Until one late night three months ago, the master was happy to take the old servant to the young lady's yard. At that time, the young lady's yard was quiet."

"The young master came out of the young mistress' room, but the old master happily went in, and even asked me to get the drugs that helped him have sex."

"But when I brought it, I saw that the door of the young lady's bedroom was wide open. The master was lying on the young lady's bed, dead. The young lady was so frightened that she was a little confused."

"I bravely turned the master's body over and found a silver hairpin on his chest, which had pierced through him."

"The old lady soon found out about what happened in the mansion. She came over in a hurry with a few maids. She beat and scolded the young mistress, and finally asked the servants to carry the master to the old lady's room. The old lady sealed the mouths of the servants in the mansion."

"That night the old lady asked me to report to the police!"

"The rest of the matter will be known to you, my Lord!"

Nanzhi nodded with satisfaction. It was indeed what she saw.

"But Yang Xiaocui is willing to marry a useless person?"

Nanzhi asked in a cold voice, but his eyes were fixed on the nanny.

The nanny was smart and quickly understood what Nanzhi meant.

"In reply to your Excellency, the young lady naturally disagreed. At the beginning, the young lady was not called Yang Xiaocui, but Hehua, without a surname."

"It was the young lady's stepmother who saw how beautiful the young lady was, and went to the neighboring Niujia Village and made a scene."

"Later, our young lady was forced to return to her own home, and her stepmother changed her name to Yang Xiaocui. She said that this was how we knew that Yang Xiaocui was from her Yang family, and that this was to prevent the young lady's mother's family from coming to bother her again."

"This stepmother is a black-hearted person. She asked for a huge sum of money from me, five hundred taels of silver, before she married the young lady to me."

"Originally, Madam didn't agree, but who knew that the young master would go on a hunger strike, so Madam had no choice but to agree."

"The young lady was drugged when she got married, so the master and his wife didn't see it at first."

When Nanzhi heard this, she understood. No wonder that old man Liu had such evil thoughts later on.

No wonder!