Chapter 114 Reporter
The servant's face suddenly changed, his eyes became a little wandering, but he still refused to admit it: "What are you talking nonsense! But my house is so strict, how could abduct a person happen? Of course, I have to deny it immediately... I see if you slander like this, do you want my master to send you all to the yamen?! Go away quickly!"
Ordinary people will instinctively fear whenever they hear the yamen. However, the servant is arrogant and Ruan Mingzi is even tougher than him. Her beautiful and bright little face is full of coldness and hardness. She stepped forward and pulled the servant's arm: "Okay! Go to the yamen! Now let's go to the yamen to tell me, a good girl comes to your house to work, and is kidnapped in your house. As the master, the family does not help track down the thief, but even drives the miserable master out of the door!"
Her black eyes stared at the servant, and she looked intimidating. "Can you be so, your Zhu family is actually a thief cave, so you naturally want to hide it for the thief?"
The servant shivered slightly.
Seeing this, Ruan Mingzi confirmed her guess-the Liu family was indeed inseparable from the thief!
She made a quick decision, turned around and told Tao Ya, and said loudly: "Tao Ya, go to the street to find the yamen patrolmen, and ask them to come to this house as soon as possible!"
Tao Ya responded cleverly, and the servant's face changed drastically. Just as he was about to stop him, Ruan Mingzi blocked him. Tao Ya's body was flexible and had already slipped out.
The servant stared at Ruan Mingzi fiercely: "You!"
Ruan Mingzi was not afraid of him and was calm and composed.
She had confirmed that there was something wrong with the Liu family, so she would not have to ask the master family to help investigate. She naturally had to report it to the official directly.
Lihua's mother also noticed something was wrong. Her eyes were filled with tears and she murmured: "Lihua..."
Perhaps they were lucky. Not far from this house, there were two street patrolmen. While Ruan Mingzi and the servant were still confronting each other, Tao Ya had already brought the person back.
It is naturally a big deal for officials to come to the door.
The owner of the Liu family finally asked someone to invite Ruan Mingzi and his group and the two yamen operators into the main hall.
The Liu family's house was built a bit ancient, and it was divided into the front yard with a green high wall corridor. The front yard was a bit grand. Mr. Liu, the head of the Liu family, sat on the main seat, showing a kind and polite smile: "...I don't know why I got tired of the man to come to the door."
Lihua's mother knew that she would become weaker when she spoke unconsciously, so she just wiped her tears without saying anything.
One of the taller and thinner yamen said, "Master Liu, I heard this little girl report the case and said that a helper in your family was kidnapped from the backyard."
Mr. Liu showed a look of surprise: "What happened?" He pondered for a moment, "I really don't understand this. I'll call the butler here."
He asked the servant who had confronted Ruan Mingzi before and went to call the housekeeper over.
The housekeeper was a middle-aged man with a goatee. As soon as he entered the main hall, he called a "misunderstanding". He stood still, and swept his eyes from the corner of his eyes on Ruan Mingzi and others, but he hugged the two yamen officers: "The two slaughter men are both misunderstandings. Today, the two servants in charge of washing clothes in my backyard probably had their stomachs damaged, so I found two neat and capable girls from outside to help. Unexpectedly, one of them was a little vain. When he saw my guest being noble, he pressed it on, saying that he was willing to serve the pillow mat for his concubine and followed the guest."
Lihua's chest was so angry that her mother was fluttering violently: "You're talking nonsense! Lihua is not such a person at all!"
The goatee butler then glanced at Lihua's mother stingyly, and showed an indescribable ambiguous smile: "Who knows? Some girls can't bear the hardships at the moment, and always want to take shortcuts..."
Lihua's mother could not stand any longer, and her face was filled with tears.
Ruan Mingzi held Lihua's mother aside and asked the goatee butler: "Since that's the case, who is the guest's name and where are they??"
The goatee butler was prepared and said calmly: "That guest is a traveler, surnamed Zheng, and has only met my master once. Now he has passed by Yijin County, and my master has just invited him to have a meal at home. At this moment," he showed a meaningful smile, "It is probably already taken his new concubine out of Yijin County and leave."
Lihua's mother screamed unbearably and fainted.
If Ruan Mingzi and Tao Ya hadn't hurriedly supported them, they would have fallen to the ground.
Under Tao Ya's help, Ruan Mingzi helped Lihua's mother to the chair beside her, but she didn't rush to wake her up. She stood up, looked at the goatee's housekeeper, and sneered: "In this way, this matter has nothing to do with your family?"
The goatee-hued housekeeper looked at Ruan Mingzi calmly. Seeing that although she was pretty good, she was dressed simply, and there was no decoration on her head and body. She looked like she was a person from the bottom.
It's just that I'm too young.
But that's okay. Don't some people just love this one?
He moved his heart, but he still smiled: "This little girl is right. Although we hired people, we can't get in the way of men and women, right?"
This was a bit explicit, and a meaningful smile appeared on Mr. Liu's face.
"You're talking nonsense! Lihua was clearly captured!" Tao Ya screamed.
The housekeeper asked, "Did you see it at the scene?"
Tao Ya was stunned for a moment when asked.
To be honest, she really didn't see Li Hua being tied away. At that time, Mr. Zheng, who was so stoopy, asked Li Hua to be his eighteenth concubine. After Li Hua refused, Mr. Zheng left cursed.
But later Tao Ya went to Gongfang to go to the toilet, and when she came back, the pear blossoms disappeared. Only the clothes that had been washed in the basin and were ready to dry were scattered all over the floor. It was obvious that they had struggled and fought.
Even an embroidered shoe was left on the spot, which was Li Hua's own.
Isn't this arrested? What's this?!
Tao Ya said it urgently, then looked at the Yachao: "Master, I really didn't say a lie!"
However, based on these alone, it is impossible to convict the Liu family.
The two yamen were also in a dilemma.
The Goatee Butler and Mr. Liu looked at each other without a trace, and the corners of his mouth were faintly smiling.
Ruan Mingzi suddenly spoke, smiling and a sweet voice: "...According to this, all the abducted women, abducted children, can force themselves to say that they were elopement with others, so I should just erase the crime of abducting and trafficking."
The yamen was a little unhappy: "How could you be so bold and reckless and discuss the law of our dynasty? Conviction is not something as simple as you say!"
Ruan Mingzi nodded and agreed: "This Cash said very well. Therefore, just relying on the one-sided words of the housekeeper, we cannot simply excuse him. We need to know that my sister, who lives alone with her mother, even if she really wants to be a concubine from others, will definitely not tell her mother. Cash said that conviction is not a simple matter, so how can one simply let go of the matter of escape by just one-sided words?"
Ruan Mingzi told the story in an orderly manner, and the two yamen officers nodded repeatedly.
A trace of haze flashed through Master Liu's eyes, but he still looked like he was very cooperative with the investigation of the yamen, and there was no sign of any strangeness.
One yamen returned to the yamen to report, and another yamen went to search for evidence.
At least it was not easy to get rid of the Liu Mansion.
Chapter completed!