Chapter 10 Questioning

Author: Sigui Beihong

Chapter 10 Questioning

Four firecrackers were hung in front of the gate of the Minglou, roaring, and endless smoke rose up from the crackling sound. The guests who came to express their condolences were also surprised and couldn't believe it.

"Oh! There are such strange things in the world! Wait until I go in to see He Lu's niece!" "You must be slow! My eldest daughter is still weak and cannot see outsiders."

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The noise, laughter, and firecrackers were intertwined with each other, making it a joyful experience. Even in the central hall with the doors and windows closed, it could still be vaguely heard.

Different from the excitement outside, there is a depressing and dull atmosphere in the middle hall. Mo Yunxiao is sitting on the chair at the top, Zhang Yun'er and Li Xian'e are sitting on both sides of her. Mo Yunxiang, Mo Yunze and Mo

Yunxi stood at the bottom with his personal maids and servants.

Zhang Yun'er had a serious face, holding a tea bowl in one hand and a spoon in the other. The spoon was slowly stirring in the tea bowl. The tea bowl was steaming with steam, exuding a strange and rich rose fragrance.

Look at Li Xian'e on the other side. Her eyes are filled with tears and she holds Mo Yunxiao's hand tightly with one hand. She looks extremely amiable.

Mo Yunxiao drummed in her mind: "Who are these two women? Is their relationship with me, or the relationship with the owner of this body, good or bad, close or distant? Looking at their different expressions, I am afraid that in their hearts

They both have unspeakable thoughts. Between the two of them, whose surname is Jiang and who is Wang?"

Mo Yunxiao was thinking about it in her mind, but with a "dong" sound, Zhang Yun'er dropped the teacup heavily on the coffee table, and everyone was shocked.

She put down the tea bowl, wiped the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief in her spare time, and said nonchalantly: "Miss, there is no one else in this room. Fortunately, you were safe after falling into the water, so we can talk."

She glanced at everyone and continued: "When you were unconscious, your female envoy Huan'er said straight away that it was Xiang'er who caused you to fall into the water. Now I will ask on behalf of Xiang'er whether you made a mistake.

Did you fall into the water or was you pushed? If you were pushed, did you see who pushed you?"

At this time, everyone's eyes were focused on Mo Yunxiao. She looked around timidly, then swallowed and said, "I don't remember."

"Don't remember?" Zhang Yun'er stared and smiled coldly: "Then when will Xiang'er be cleared of suspicion?"

"Well, if you ask me, we'd better call Huan'er." Li Xian'e said: "Huan'er always follows the eldest girl. We can't leave her alone when it comes to the eldest girl's affairs."

"Humph! That Huan'er has lost her mind and gone crazy." Zhang Yun'er was still aggrieved: "Call her here, and then let her act bad here? I was planning to find someone to sell her out."

After hearing this, Li Xian'e became excited and shouted: "Absolutely not!" Everyone was surprised and cast strange looks at her.

Zhang Yun'er felt even more confused and asked: "I'm selling Huan'er, so why are you worried, sister?"

Li Xian'e smiled awkwardly and said: "The matter hasn't been clarified yet, so I sold her out without any explanation. I'm afraid that if people go out and make irresponsible remarks, the reputation of the Mo family will be bad."

Zhang Yun'er also nodded and ordered the boy in front of her: "In that case, go and bring her up. If she behaves in any way that exceeds the rules again, she will be whipped twenty times immediately."

"Yes." The boy responded and left.

After a while, a woman was carried up by two boys and placed on the ground in the middle hall. Mo Yunxiao stretched out her neck and saw that the woman's hands and feet were tied up, and her mouth was stuffed with a ball of rags.

She was lying on the ground struggling constantly, shouting "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuu".

Zhang Yun'er took one look at it and sneered again, narrowed his eyes and cursed: "What a stubborn hooves, you are tied up like this and you still don't know how to restrain yourself."

"Quickly take the thing out of her mouth." Li Xian'e ordered, and the first boy leaned down and removed the strip of cloth from Huan'er's mouth.

The moment the strip of cloth was removed, Huan'er shouted loudly: "Second Grandma, you have a guilty conscience! You failed to assassinate my girl, and you want to kill me to silence me? Do you still have the law in your eyes?"

Huan'er roared angrily, like a rushing flood with tremendous power. Everyone present was awe-struck when he heard this.

Only Zhang Yun'er was so angry that her face turned blue. She slammed the table and roared in the same voice: "You are a bold and bold person, but you know that falsely accusing your elders is a serious crime! You...don't you want to live?"

Huan'er smiled foolishly and said, "According to the laws of the Song Dynasty, you are a concubine and I am a maidservant. We are all slaves of the Mo family, so how can we talk about false accusations or not?"

"Presumptuous! Presumptuous!" Zhang Yun'er jumped up and said through gritted teeth: "Come here, drag this guy out and beat him! Beat him hard!"

Li Xian'e also stood up, held her handkerchief and said, "Let's ask questions first. See if she is..."

"What else are you asking?" Zhang Yun'er suddenly turned around and yelled at Li Xian'e. Her face was red, and the veins on her forehead were exposed, obviously she was extremely angry.

Mo Yunxiang and Mo Yunze hurriedly came over to comfort her: "Mom, don't get angry, or you may hurt yourself."

The two siblings comforted one and poured tea for the other. Zhang Yun'er took a sip of the tea soup handed over by her son, and her anger calmed down a little.

Zhang Yun'er's hand holding the tea bowl was still shaking violently. She suppressed the anger in her heart and said: "This servant is so rude. If I don't punish her severely, wouldn't it be a joke? How will my Mo family discipline their servants in the future? Come here.

, go out and beat him, give him fifty lashes first."

"Yes!" The two boys were about to take the ring out, but Mo Yunxiao, who had been silent for a while, stood up and said, "Wait a minute!"

The two young men were stunned for a moment, and their eyes fell on Zhang Yun'er. Zhang Yun'er's blood surged, and she turned to look at Mo Yunxiao and asked, "What's the matter? The eldest lady wants to protect this servant?"

Mo Yunxiao rolled her eyes, then smiled and said: "No matter how you say it, she is also mine. Even if she makes rude remarks and asks for help from the family, it will be my request. Second Grandma, I'm afraid it's inappropriate for you to overstep your bounds."

Zhang Yun'er was stunned and asked: "What do you mean by Miss Yi?"

Mo Yunxiao looked at the furious Zhang Yun'er, then turned to look at the anxious Li Xian'e. She had already judged that the two sisters seemed to be inseparable, so she said with a smile: "Didn't I ask her to come for questioning? I want to kill or fight.

You have to finish asking before talking."

She sat down again. Seeing this, Zhang Yuner and Li Xian'e had no choice but to sit down again.

"Big girl! It turns out you are really not dead!" Huan'er looked happy, and then shed tears: "Big girl, I will never believe that you fell into the water by mistake. Someone must have harmed you, right?

wrong?"

Mo Yunxiao said with a straight face: "Tell me, who is the person who harmed me?"

Huan'er cast her eyes on Mo Yunxiang who was behind Zhang Yun'er. Mo Yunxiang felt anxious and stamped his feet angrily, saying, "You are chewing your tongue, I didn't harm my female brother!"

Mo Yunxiao slowly turned his head and looked at Mo Yunxiang with a stern gaze. When Mo Yunxiang met her eyes, the hairs all over his body stood up, and he hurriedly lowered his head and stopped talking.

"Eldest girl! That day, the second girl said that she would throw you into the Jinming Pond and drown you. You and I heard it with our own ears." Huan'er said, "If something happens to the eldest girl, and the second grandma has a son by her side, we will

There is a good chance that she will be promoted to mistress. It is not surprising that the second girl would do this."

"Absurd!" Zhang Yun'er angrily shouted: "You are purely conjecturing. Do you have any real evidence?"

"Hmph! Killing people and silencing them, destroying their bodies and destroying their traces, how can there be any evidence?" Huan'er shook his head disdainfully and looked to the other side.

Zhang Yun'er laughed coldly and said: "There is no evidence or witness, so you are just slandering! Let's go to Kaifeng Mansion to reason!"

"Second Grandma, please be patient." Mo Yunxiao turned sideways and gently pressed her hand on Zhang Yun'er's hand.

She smiled and said to Zhang Yun'er: "As the saying goes, a family's scandal should not be made public. There is no need to go to Kaifeng Mansion. The person who harmed me is not Xiang'er. I have already guessed who he is."

As soon as this statement came out, everyone was shocked. "What?" Everyone's eyes widened, and their gazes shot towards Mo Yunxiao like sharp arrows.

Zhang Yun'er couldn't help but look at each other and Mo Yunxiang, and then asked softly: "Who is the murderer?"

Mo Yunxiao looked around again and said with a smile: "I know this person well, but it's not appropriate to say it here. In short, I can handle this matter myself, so you don't need to worry about it."

"Ouch! That won't work!" Li Xian'e said with concern: "In this month when the cold wind is strong, pushing people into the lake is with the intention of killing people. You must be careful. He Lu, you need to know who it is, let's

Just go to Kaifeng Mansion and file a complaint, it will be safer for the government to make the decision for us."

"That's inappropriate!" It was Mo Yunze who spoke. He stepped out from behind Zhang Yun'er, walked up to the three of them, saluted Li Xian'e and Mo Yunxiao respectively, and said, "It's inconvenient for me to state the identity of the murderer.

We have conclusive evidence. No wonder, it was Shangyuan yesterday and Jinmingchi was overcrowded. Even if the female brother knew the culprit for sure, if we reported it to the Kaifeng Mansion, they would still have room for excuse. At the worst, it would just be said that there were too many people, and there would never be a sentence.

capital offense."

Huan'er also nodded repeatedly after hearing this, and quickly added: "Master Yunze is right. It seems that this matter must be investigated secretly. 'I would rather touch Kaifeng Mansion than Mo Yunxiao'. Our girl's method of dealing with people

There are so many, there is no need to add extraneous branches to Kaifeng Mansion."

Zhang Yun'er glared at Huan'er fiercely and scolded: "You unruly bastard, you have no place to speak!"

Li Xian'e felt a little resentful and took over the conversation and said: "However, this is a human life lawsuit after all. Although our eldest girl has been blessed by God and survived, it is not appropriate for us to hide such a big matter like this.

."

"When someone asked outside, I just said that I lost my footing and fell into the lake. It makes sense." After Mo Yunxiao answered Li Xian'e's doubts, he turned to look at Zhang Yun'er and said with a smile: "Second grandma, Huan'er, this maid

She doesn't understand the rules and bumps into you several times. That's because I'm not strict in discipline. This time I will give her a scolding when I go back and won't allow her to cause trouble again. So, I'd better ask the Second Mistress to let her go."

"Let her go? How can it be so easy!" Zhang Yun'er said angrily: "Our Mo family is also an upright family, how could we have such a vicious and disrespectful female envoy? If we don't punish her severely today, others will follow suit in the future.

How to restrain it!"

Mo Yunxiao smiled lightly and said, "Huan'er has been with me for many years. If she is punished for her slip of the tongue, I'm afraid she won't be able to convince people."

Zhang Yun'er's eyes widened and she asked: "Why don't you accept it?"

"She insists that it was the second mistress who harmed me. Regardless of whether it is true or not, if she is punished for this, people will inevitably think that the second mistress is showing favoritism." Mo Yunxiao said unhurriedly: "Now the second mistress is letting her go.

, but he seems to be open-minded and not afraid of those who gossip. Haha, it is said that 'the Duke of Zhou vomits food and the world returns to his heart'. I hope the Second Mistress will give me a thin favor."

Zhang Yun'er was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly and said: "I haven't read a book, so I don't know what 'Gong Zhou spits out food'. Huan'er is right, I am a concubine and she is a maid. To put it bluntly, we are all from the Mo family."

Slave, and eldest lady, you are the master, so I have to sell this favor if I don’t want to.”

"Second Grandma's words are serious." Mo Yunxiao said and nodded slightly to show respect, and continued: "It's just that Huan'er has been with me for a long time, and I have just recovered from a serious illness, so there must be someone in front of me who can help me. Otherwise,

I will leave Huan'er to the Second Grandma."

"Haha!" Zhang Yun'er looked up to the sky and said, "It depends on the owner. I understand."

When she said this, her face darkened, and just when she was about to refute, the door of the central hall was knocked open by a boy with a "bang".

The boy stumbled on the threshold, cried out "Ouch", and fell heavily to the ground. Seeing his embarrassment, some of the maids in the hall couldn't help but laugh.

Zhang Yun'er's face turned red and she scolded sternly: "Where did you come from? You are so disrespectful!"

The boy hurriedly got up from the ground, still looking anxious and embarrassed: "Young man just got the news. The official family... the official family collapsed."

"What?" Everyone was shocked. Li Xian'e covered her mouth with a handkerchief, looking panicked; Zhang Yun'er was also stunned on the spot, with his eyes straight.

Mo Yunxiao couldn't help but stood up from the chair and asked: "Which official family is it?"

Mo Yunxiang glanced at her and said to himself: "I have a few officials in the Song Dynasty, so naturally he is the Emperor Yuan Fu."

"Yuan Fu?" Mo Yunxiao thought to himself: "Emperor Yuan Fu? Ah! Isn't that Song Zhezong? The next person to ascend the throne will be the famous Song Huizong Zhao Ji in the history books!"

Thinking of this, the handkerchief she held in her hand slipped from her fingers and slowly fell to the ground.
Chapter completed!