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Chapter 517: Cruel Mother

This official is tall and strong, with dark skin, as if taken out of charcoal fire, and everyone calls him Dahei.

Liu Yunxiang followed Dahei around several alleys and finally arrived at the newly built house. Compared with the old houses around, this house was particularly eye-catching.

At this time, there were a bunch of people blocking in front of the door of the house, talking nonsense, and it was very lively.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way!"

Dahei shouted, and the people hurriedly made way.

Liu Yunxiang followed in and listened to the people on both sides whispering.

"This lady is wearing gold and silver, probably the wife of the official in the yard."

"Come and give the money."

"I don't know how much water I added to a jar of wine, but I even asked someone to pay ten taels of silver."

"This Mrs. Chen has never been reasonable. No one around us knows her."

Liu Yunxiang sighed. She had heard Dahei say on the way here.

The palace maid hanged herself, and there was no doubt about it from her body. Your Highness meant that she asked her family to take the body back quickly. After all, it was too hot now, and it would be delicious after a day of storage.

They found the palace maid's home in Xicheng, and there was also a mother and brother at home. They brought the news of the palace maid's death to them, but what shocked them was that her mother refused to take her daughter's body home. The reason was even more bizarre, saying that her son was about to get married, and it was too unlucky to get a dead person back at this time.

It's so serious, but I just don't accept it anyway.

The body cannot be kept for two days. After two days, the stench filled the entire Ministry of Justice's Office. Anyone who entered the door had to cover their noses. They went to look for it again, and the palace maid's mother told the government to deal with the body. However, according to the rules, if the family members need to sign the body, the body can be handled by the government. Because they were afraid that the family would cause trouble in the future, the government would be unable to explain it clearly.

But when they asked them to recognize the body and sign the signature, the mother and the brother refused.

There was no way, so Yan Mu could only go there personally. When he met the Chen family's mother prepared a bride price for her son, she didn't listen to any advice and explained, and even drove them out. Yan Mu's temper got up and directly smashed a jar of wine that gave the bride price.

Then it was cheated.

Da Hei said: We can't make up these ten taels of silver, after all, the monthly money is only two taels, but Your Highness can't even take it out.

Liu Yunxiang coughed twice when she heard this. It seemed that she really forgot to give him pocket money.

After entering the yard, I heard the wailing sounds first.

"The official is so bad... I'm too bullying... We are poor and broken families... and finally got married... and prepared this little bride price... You are so powerful... I smashed my jar of wine... Ten taels of silver... I can't raise it anymore... I can't get a wife for my son... I can't get a wife for my son... I'm sorry for the ancestors of the Chen family... It would be better to just hit the wall and die... that was also forced to death by you... Oh... I bully our orphans and widows... I can't live anymore... I can't live anymore..."

A woman in a blue-gray coarse cloth skirt sat on the ground, crying and slapped the ground, and it was even more toneful.

Yan Mu stood a few steps away, holding his shoulders with his hands, his face was already very dark and heavy. The other officials also took several steps back, one by one, and they were all at a loss and at a loss.

They probably haven't been so worried about catching the vicious prisoners.

Liu Yunxiang held back her laughter and walked over. Yan Mu's eyes lit up when he saw her.

"Do you want money or?"

Yan Mu turned her over to face the woman, "Help me reason with her."

Liu Yunxiang couldn't help laughing, and turned around and saw Yan Mu having a headache.

"It's impossible to reason with such people."

Yan Mu picked the woman with his chin, "I have hit the wall three times."

As soon as he finished speaking, the woman shouted: "You officials bully the people... everyone is watching... I'll show you..."

As he said that, the woman got up and ran into the east wall. Fortunately, the officials were experienced and hurriedly blocked the front, and the woman hit one of the officials.

The official covers his stomach, looking in pain.

"Auntie, please stop hitting me. We all have bruised my stomach."

The old lady glared at the official, sat back and continued to cry, still in that tone.

Liu Yunxiang tsk, "You guys have met a master."

She turned around and looked at the woman, her eyes narrowed. She thought that she saw this woman among the onlookers in front of Ziyun Temple that day, that day when the palace maid died.

She bumped into her and scolded her in turn. Then she asked what happened inside. After knowing that, she ran away in panic.

She was puzzled at that time, but now she understands it immediately.

Liu Yunxiang squatted down, took out a ingot of silver from his purse, and shook it in front of the woman. When the woman saw the silver, she stopped crying and reached out to get it, but Liu Yunxiang avoided it.

The woman then looked at her and looked up and down a few times, "What are you?"

"Princess Zhenbei."

"The Princess?" The woman was so shocked that she stuttered.

Liu Yunxiang raised his eyebrows, "Don't you know, he is the King of Zhenbei?"

Liu Yunxiang pointed to Yan Mu behind her, turned to look at the mother-in-law again. Seeing that she was already shocked, her face changed, she scared her again: "You are in trouble."

The old lady looked tense. Although she was shocked, she calmed down quickly, "Ha, what's wrong with the princess? I am an ordinary person..."

"You are not an ordinary person at the moment, but a murder suspect!"

"I'm killing someone? Who do I kill?"

"Chen Xuan, that is, your daughter."

"How can you swear by someone..."

"You have met before Chen Xuan died?"

"No, no!"

"The nuns of Ziyun Temple can testify."

The woman panicked, "I...I see my daughter...what is wrong?"

"There was nothing wrong at first, but why did you deny it just now?"

The old lady's eyes dodged, and she didn't know what to say to defend herself.

"And why don't you go to the government to recognize the body?"

"I'm afraid I'll get angry," the old woman said with her head down.

"Hmph, your daughter is dead, you are not sad, you don't take her body to bury her, but instead are in a hurry to hold a marriage for your son. You, a mother, are really patient."

The woman snorted: "What's the use of a daughter? When I get old, I have to rely on my son to support me."

Liu Yunxiang looked at the yard. When she entered the door just now, she heard neighbors saying that the Chen family was very poor before, and this yard was built after her daughter entered the palace.

"Your daughter is in the palace and I give you the monthly money every month. So you built this house. I'm right?"

The woman pursed her lips and said, "I raised her and raised her and gave me money. What's wrong with it?"

"But the house has been built, and the son still needs money to get married, so you go to your daughter and ask her to prepare more money. She tells you that she is just a little palace maid, and she has given you that little monthly money, so how can you still have money? You scolded her, scolded her for being heartless, and scolded her as a money-losing guy, and shouldn't have given her to raise her at the beginning, right?"

The old man looked at Liu Yunxiang in shock, "You..."

How did she know that it was clearly the only one in the room, mother and daughter, who was the daughter who told her?
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