The grass in the factory should be plucked

A team of Jinyiwei rushed into the hall, gagged the Yu siblings and dragged them aside, then placed various torture instruments on the court.

Zhu Mingyuan, Jiang Xiuyuan and others were so frightened when they saw him suddenly turn hostile.

"Bring the people up."

Two Jinyiwei dragged a fat woman into the room.

"This person is Ma, Yu's personal nanny. She was just captured outside the gate of Shuntian Prefecture. The Jinyiwei has not had time to interrogate her yet."

Xie Changan sneered, "Master Zhu, you can start questioning."

This evil star suddenly turned hostile, while Lord Liao and Eunuch Yuanbao who were sitting in the hall seemed to be happy to see it happen. Zhu Mingyuan was so frightened that he had to calm down and slam the gavel.

"Is this Ma? Do you recognize these three people?"

Ma Ma saw that the Madam and Master Yu were both detained aside, and saw the three fake masters. She knew that the truth had been revealed. Without waiting for the Jinyiwei to torture her, she burst into tears and wailed, "It has nothing to do with me. It was all Madam's orders!"

Mammy explained everything in detail, how Yu had instructed her to find someone to pretend to be a master, how she had asked her to bribe Li Wenpo, and how she had asked Doctor Liu to tamper with the medicine of Madam Jiang and Fang Yi...

Even the time, place and amount of money spent were explained clearly.

Yu's eyes were bloodshot and she struggled desperately, but she was restrained and unable to move.

When she heard that Ma Ma had confessed everything, her face turned pale and she collapsed to the ground.

Jiang Li said calmly, "During the Chinese New Year, Yu proposed marriage to the Longmen family. Did you find the matchmaker? What did Yu tell you?"

Mammy Ma cried and wailed, "My Lord, please allow me to report this. Madam said that we should not be afraid of getting old, as long as it is useful. We can imitate what happened to Fang Shi back then..."

Liao Dugong slammed the table and said angrily: "You evil woman, how dare you murder my daughter again and again!"

Jiang Xiuyuan had a heart attack. That’s my daughter, okay?

Xie Changan said, "Please ask Master Zhu to take this woman away and interrogate the second witness."

Zhu Mingyuan had no choice but to do as he was told.

The Jinyiwei dragged another middle-aged man into the classroom.

Xie Changan said, "This man is the manager of Jiang Mansion, his name is Wang Rui, he is Ma's husband, and he is also someone that Yu can use."

Zhu Mingyuan knew that he was arrested by the Jinyiwei again, and he couldn't help but complain in his heart. Why not let the Jinyiwei try the case directly? Why make things difficult for him?

Wang Rui wanted to deny it at first, saying he knew nothing. But after being put into the clamps, he screamed and confessed in a short while.

He was the one who personally found Qian Huaitong, and it was he who was responsible for Yu's seizure of Fang Yi's shops, farms, and even the Fang family's properties in Hangzhou.

It first came into the name of Jiang Li, and then was sold to the Yu family at a very low price.

Using this "left hand for right hand" trick, Yu took over the Fang family's huge wealth.

The Jinyiwei who was torturing him made a "tsk" sound. They had brought so many torture instruments in vain, but the man confessed before he could even use any of his torture instruments.

Yu Gongming's face was also pale at this time. The Yu family had seized a huge amount of Fang family's property, and he had taken advantage of them a lot. He was now filled with regret.

Zhu Mingyuan slammed the gavel and said, "Yu, do you admit what Ma and Wang Rui said?"

The Jinyiwei who restrained Yu pushed her to the front of the hall.

Yu cried out, "No, no, it's not me..."

Xie Changan sneered and said, "Come here, greet my mother-in-law."

A Jinyiwei came forward and just as he put a pair of torturers on Yu's hands, Yu collapsed to the ground in fear.

"I confess, I confess! It was all...I ordered it..."

Jiang Xiuyuan and Old Madam Jiang both looked pale, and Old Madam Jiang almost fainted.

Jiang Li sneered: "First, you killed my mother, and then sent me to the palace to prevent future troubles. What a good plan and method!"

Zhu Mingyuan also felt a chill in his heart. No wonder they said women have the most vicious hearts. If it weren't for Marquis Jing'an's ability to turn things around after being sent to the cold palace, the three of them, mother and son, would have been reunited in the underground long ago!

Jiang Xiuyuan choked up and said, "Ali, I'm sorry for you, and even more sorry for your mother..."

Jiang Li said coldly: "Master Zhu, after my mother gave birth, she was bedridden, and my father ignored her and took in two beautiful concubines."

Jiang Xiuyuan felt ashamed. Old Madam Jiang and Yu stopped him from seeing Fang, saying that they were afraid of passing on his illness to him.

He also heard from the "eminent monk" that the daughter born to Fang was unlucky and would bring misfortune to her father and mother, so he didn't want to see them anymore.

Yu also took two concubines for him, who accompanied him every night with their beautiful ladies. How could he still remember Fang Yi who was lying on the sickbed?

"I was sent to the countryside for fifteen years and never saw my father. He is not worthy of being a husband, let alone a father!"

"I beg Lord Zhu to sentence my mother and father to divorce!"

Jiang Xiuyuan cried, "Ali, don't! I will make it up to you..."

Liao Wuyong laughed and said, "My daughter now has a father like me."

You, the heartless father, just go away and cool off.

Jiang Li smiled and said, "Yes, I have a father and a husband now, so I don't need my father to take care of me anymore."

Xie Changan held her hand and they smiled at each other.

Yuan Bao had been watching from the sidelines until he slowly said, "We have been listening to this for a long time. We have all the evidence, and the evidence is irrefutable. Lord Zhu can make the verdict now."

Zhu Mingyuan sighed and said, "Sir Jiang, I'm sorry. I dare not offend these great Buddhas!"

He ordered the bailiff to take the confession and have the people in the hall sign and seal it.

Yu refused to sign, and the Jinyiwei next to her reached for the big knife at her waist. Yu was so scared that she trembled and signed the contract tremblingly.

Zhu Mingyuan slammed the gavel and said, "Yu, together with Ma, Wang Rui, Qian Huaitong, Li, Liu Wenyan and three others, conspired to murder Fang. The evidence is irrefutable. According to the established law, the above people shall be sentenced to death with a pending execution."

"Behead and wait for execution" means that the criminal sentenced to beheaded will be temporarily imprisoned and executed in the autumn after the Ministry of Justice reviews the case.

When Yu heard the verdict, her eyes rolled back and she fainted from fright.

The others began to cry out, "It's unfair, sir. We were also coerced by the Yu family..."

Several bailiffs came forward and dragged them away one by one.

Yu Gongming was stunned.

Jiang Xiuyuan's face was pale and he said nothing.

Madam Jiang was so frightened that she trembled and pulled him, trembling, "Quick, divorce that vicious woman, or we will bring shame to our family!"

Zhu Mingyuan said to Jiang Li, "Marquis Jing'an, you sued Lord Jiang and Madam Jiang for colluding to defraud marriage and murdering your mother Fang. This... the evidence is insufficient. I will dismiss the case according to the law. Do you have any objection?"

Jiang Li nodded and said, "Lord Zhu handles things impartially and enforces the law strictly. I am convinced."

She also knew that with the current evidence, she could not bring her adopted father and black-hearted grandmother to justice. However, the days ahead would make them suffer worse than death!

Jiang Xiuyuan and Old Madam Jiang had just breathed a sigh of relief when Zhu Mingyuan slammed the gavel again.

"Yu's dowry and land seized from Fang, as well as all of Fang's assets, shall be returned to Marquis Jing'an in full."

"In addition, at the request of Marquis Jing'an, Fang and Jiang Xiuyuan are to be divorced."

Jiang Xiuyuan and his mother were both horrified.

Especially for Old Madam Jiang, hearing that Fang's dowry and all the Fang family's properties had to be returned in full, it was like a bolt from the blue!

Over the past decade or so, the Jiang family has been squandering money. How can they possibly pay it back?