Favoring the concubine and killing the wife? She divorced the concubine and lived with her concubine

"Sir Liu, I'm afraid that Sir Su can't explain it to you in detail now. Why don't you go back first, and I will ask you to come to your house in person to explain it to you in detail later?" Master Cui looked respectful and spoke in a timid manner, for fear of upsetting Captain Liu.

Liu Yu glanced at him and said, "No need!" Then he strode out of the yamen.

"What is your intention? No matter how great the injustice is, what's the point of suing a few dead people?" Su Ze was puzzled. He looked carefully at the maid named Cuizhu. She was pretty, fair-skinned, and her clothes were neat. She didn't look like an ordinary maid.

"Yes! Please come to the court, sir. I can confront Wang Zhi face to face!" Cuizhu's voice was not loud, but her eyes were firm.

"Did anyone force you to come?" Su Ze found it odd that Cuizhu would show up at this hour to sue a few dead people. Then, thinking back to what Xue Wu had said about Xiao Lan's experience at the Sun family, he felt there must be some reason behind it. Perhaps Xiao Lan had forced her to come and file a complaint, threatening to harm the servant. It was clear that Xiao Lan cared deeply not only about her own daughter that day, but also about the servants and maids around her. To have such a clever servant risk her life to save her, she must not be someone who would normally be harsh on her servants.

Cuizhu shook her head. "No one forced me to do this. I was injured a few days ago and couldn't go out. I just came here today to report it as soon as I was able to walk again. Even though they are dead, what they did cannot be forgotten."

"You know, now that there is no evidence, many things can no longer have answers. In the end, the lawsuit may just end in nothing!" Master Cui has been observing Cuizhu carefully. The person is neatly dressed, but on the exposed skin of her neck, there are some hideous wounds that are still scabbed and have not healed.

"Please come to the court, sir!" Cuizhu said no more, knelt down and kowtowed, shouting, attracting passers-by to watch.

Su Ze looked at the crowd that slowly gathered around him and suddenly thought of the rumors circulating on the street recently, all of which were unfavorable to Xiao Lan. He wanted to intervene, but he had no reason to do so. He didn't even know where the rumors came from, he just knew that they were getting worse and worse.

He had heard about the incident at Miweixuan a few days ago, saying that the proprietress had made Xiao Lan so angry that she ran back to the house in tears. Fortunately, the constable reported back that she was fine and had no intention of committing suicide. Only then did he... No, Xue Wu finally felt relieved and stopped nagging Xiao Lan about her pity in front of him every day.

perhaps……

"Then you will wait here. I will go change into my official uniform and come to court immediately! However, I must remind you that if you lie in court, you will be severely punished!"

"The slaves dare not!"

A fence had been erected at the entrance to the county government office, and the crowd of onlookers had already blocked the place. Su Ze, dressed in official uniform, clashed loudly with the gavel, and everyone fell silent!

"Who is here in the court?" Su Ze usually has a voice as gentle as jade, and he is full of energy once he arrives in the court.

"I am a maidservant of the Sun family, my name is Cuizhu!"

"Who are you accusing, and what is the matter?"

"I want to sue the late old lady of the Sun family for assigning her personal maid Yu to work together with the doctor Wang who is good at curing all diseases to poison the mistress of the Sun family, Xiao!" Cuizhu spoke every word clearly, which made the people watching behind her drop their jaws and started talking about it.

Su Ze banged the gavel three times before everyone quieted down.

"You are not the victim, so why are you here to sue? Was it Xiao, the mistress of the Sun family, who sent you here?" Su Ze knew about that incident because Xue Wu had said it, but now that he heard it from the other witnesses, he still found it unbelievable.

"Your Excellency, I came here on my own! Madam is the mistress of the Sun family. Suing her own mother-in-law is sheer treason. She has grievances but cannot speak out, so I am here to speak for her!"

Cuizhu had made preparations when she came this time. Although she was unwilling to be used by Xiao Lan, Xiao Lan was her only way out now, so she had no choice but to obey.

Just as Xiao Lan said, one of her arms was already broken. Even with all the medicine she'd applied, it couldn't bend anymore. No one would be willing to hire her as a laborer. Her body was broken, so no one would buy her as a concubine. If she were sold to a brothel by a trafficker, she'd be living a life worse than death.

Now she only hopes that Xiao Lan can do what he says and keep his promise!

"Why are you so protective of the Xiao family?"

"That day when the robbers broke into our house, it was Madam who used all her property to protect me. If Madam hadn't taken the initiative to open the storeroom, the robbers' knives would have chopped off my head first!"

The whole place was in an uproar...

"Even if you say so, I will still invite Mrs. Xiao to the court." Su Ze looked at Cuizhu. This maid didn't look like someone who could be manipulated. When she knelt, there was something wrong with one of her arms, so he had to ask.

"Are you injured on your hand?" Su Ze raised his hand to call a yamen runner and ordered him to invite Xiao Lan, and continued to ask Cuizhu questions.

"My Lord, I have a severe burn on my hand and cannot bend it. I was not polite when I knelt down. I hope you will forgive me!"

"Where's the injury?"

"It was Master Sun who permed it!"

Everyone was shocked again. Why would such a beautiful maid be so cruelly burned?

"Missed?"

"discipline!"

"what's up?"

"Because I want to sue Madam Sun! Master Sun won't allow it!"

……

The onlookers outside couldn't help themselves anymore.

"This Sun family is incredible! I heard that Madam Sun was tortured beyond belief. Is that true?"

"No wonder Madam Sun teamed up with the bandits to kill that old lady Sun. If they asked me to do the same, I would do the same!"

"They didn't say that Madam Sun was colluding with the bandits. That's just what they heard! It's not certain! If she really was colluding with the bandits, County Magistrate Su would have been arrested long ago!"

"That's right, this Lord Su is amazing. He killed more than a dozen bandits in one night, all of them!"

"No... maybe someone else got away! Did the bandit leader who had an affair with Madam Sun get away?"

"I think you're just kidding! Madam Sun and the bandit leader are just the nonsense that the proprietress of Miweixuan said!"

"Didn't the laundry woman say that?"

"No, it's the proprietress of Miweixuan who lost the fight with Madam Sun for the ingredients and didn't bring enough money, so she just made up a story about others!"

"So shameless?"

The noises outside were quite loud, and they thought they were just whispers, but in fact, all of it reached Su Ze's ears. Now Su Ze was more certain of his guess, why did Xiao Lan want this maid to sue a few dead people.

When the yamen runners arrived at the Sun family's house, Xiao Lan wasn't there. However, not long after the yamen runners left, Xiao Lan, accompanied by Xu Mama, Jasmine, and Fang Qingqing, arrived at the yamen gate. When the yamen runners heard Xiao Lan introduce herself, they wondered if the yamen runner who had just left was a sprinter.

"I pay my respects to you, sir!" As she was about to kneel down, her legs went weak and she held onto Mother Xu who was accompanying her.

"Don't blame me, sir. I'm not feeling well..." She said this while pretending to kneel.

Seeing her pretending, Su Ze knew that she did not want to kneel to him, just like the hasty greeting when they first met, and the quick bow when he thanked her at her door.

"Someone, bring a stool for Madam Sun!" Even though he knew she was pretending, Su Ze was too lazy to argue with her. Only women and villains are difficult to raise!

"Thank you, sir!" Xiao Lan didn't hesitate and just sat down.

"Madam, you came very quickly! I'm afraid that you came here on your own before the bailiffs even arrived at the Sun family!"

"Your Excellency, I came here because I learned that my maidservant acted on her own!"

"On your own initiative? In other words, this Cuizhu was not sent by you?"

"Sir..." Cuizhu was about to speak and explain that she had just said that she was not sent by Xiao Lan, but Su Ze did not give her a chance to speak.

"When I ask your wife a question again, please don't interrupt me!"

"Sir, if I had sent her, why would I have rushed here? It would have been better to wait until she had finished speaking!"

"What do you think she will say?" Su Ze looked at her. Although she looked frail and had to lean on the old woman to sit on the stool, her eyes were shrewd and she looked at him clearly.

"She will say things that ordinary women cannot and dare not say!" Xiao Lan said lightly, not caring whether Su Ze heard it or not.

"Now that my family is in trouble, I really don't have the energy to deal with other things. It makes no difference whether I file a lawsuit or not!"

"I'm asking you, your maid Cuizhu said that your mother-in-law ordered the servant Yu and Wang Zhi to poison you. Is this true?" Su Ze asked sternly, his voice quite majestic!

"Madam Sun, let me remind you that if you tell lies in court, you will be punished even if you are in poor health!" These words were spoken by Master Cui. Su Ze glanced at him and echoed.

"Tell it like it is!"

"I am a humble woman... Lord Su, why do you have to be a refugee woman... If I tell you, I will be guilty of the seven grounds for divorce! You are trying to force me to death!" Xiao Lan's words were so sad that everyone felt pity for her!

"You dare not lie in court, nor do you dare say that the poisoning is false, which means it is true!" Su Ze slammed the gavel, shocking the onlookers in the group before they could even whisper.

"Someone come! Bring Wang Zhi up!"