"Mrs. Jiang gave me a total of 800 taels of silver and asked me to leave the capital and hide for a few years. So I returned to my hometown, spent 200 taels to build a house, and got a wife for my son.
The rest was left untouched and was being saved as pension money, but who knew something happened." Mrs. He said dejectedly.
If someone from the Huo family comes to find her, how dare she not tell the truth?
I just hope that I can confess it happily and the Zong family will no longer pursue it, and that will be the case with Amitabha.
After all, her crime was not serious and could not cost her life, not to mention that Jiang Nuan had promised her that as long as she was willing to tell the truth honestly, he would intercede with the Zong family on her behalf.
"You damn bitch, you must have been bribed by her!" Meng was the best at biting back, "You three aunts and six wives will naturally stick to whoever is rich and powerful."
"Mrs. Jiang, you are doing yourself a disservice by saying this. The daughter of your second young lady was born by me myself.
You insist on telling me that the child is a brother, and you use money to stop my mouth." Mrs. He said, "I will go to court when the time comes, do I dare to lie?"
"As long as you are given enough money, what lies can't be told?" Meng sneered, "I ask you if you have proof? Otherwise, a red mouth and white teeth will only make the difference between your opening and closing your mouth."
"This...how dare I lie about this?! Even if I had the guts, I wouldn't dare!" Mrs. He's face turned red with anxiety.
Mrs. Meng felt proud in her heart. Mrs. He kept saying that she didn't dare to lie, but it was obvious that she had no evidence.
He himself had never fallen into her hands.
"You don't dare to lie? Then why did you say you lied in the first place?" Meng asked her, "It's best to go to court. Then all of you, the evil bastards who falsely accuse officials and noble ladies, will be punished with serious crimes!"
"Mrs. Huo..." Mrs. He looked at Jiang Nuan for help.
"You go down first!" Jiang Nuan said to her, "Just remember to tell the truth at all times."
"Uncle Zong, Aunt Zong, there are a few witnesses in the second batch, let them come up together." Jiang Nuan said.
"Okay." The Zong family couple nodded.
This time a dozen people came up, seven or eight women, and five or six children.
Except for the two mothers-in-law, the other women are not very old.
Six children, five of them girls, are about the same age as Brother Xing.
There is only one woman who leads an older child, about three years old, a boy.
It was obvious at first glance that these people were from poor backgrounds. When they arrived here, none of them dared to raise their heads. They only greeted vaguely and did not dare to raise their voices.
"Mother Tian, Mother Cong, you guys talk first." Jiang Nuan said to the two women.
"To tell you what happened, madam, in July last year, someone found the two of us and asked us to go to a yard outside the city to cook and wash clothes for others.
When I got there, I saw six or seven pregnant women there, each occupying a room.
The two of us usually take care of them, and someone else is responsible for guarding them.
I don’t know what these people do. But my employer won’t let me ask any more questions, so we can’t say anything.
One day in September, someone brought the medicine and asked us to boil three bowls of it and give it to three women to drink.
After a while, they all had stomachaches and were about to give birth.
A midwife was invited, and three girls were born. Then the three women and the children were taken away, and we don't know where they went.
The next day, she boiled the medicine again and gave it to the remaining people. This time, she was the only one who gave birth to a son." The mother-in-law pointed at the woman leading the older child and said, "Then these people were also sent away.
He left, but the boy was taken away alone."
When people hear this incident, they immediately understand that someone deliberately gathered these pregnant women together for the purpose of having a boy.
"Where is the child you gave birth to?" Jiang Nuan asked the woman who was leading the older child.
"Someone came to me and said that I would be provided with food, shelter and money. When the time came to give birth to a girl, I would raise it by myself. If the boy was born and was strong, the child would probably not be mine. But he would also give me a sum of money.
Money." The woman was submissive.
"How much did I give you?" Mrs. Zong couldn't help but ask.
"Madam, it's fifty taels." The woman didn't dare to look at Mrs. Zong, who lowered her head.
Fifty taels is nothing to a rich person, but to ordinary people who can only earn a few taels of money throughout the year, this amount of money is not a small sum of money.
"The child you brought is also yours?" Mrs. Zong asked.
"Yes." The woman nodded.
"Bring the child over and let me take a look." Mrs. Zong said.
The child was wearing coarse clothes, but he was still clean.
He was held by the maid's hand and brought to Lord Zong and Mrs. Zong.
"Master, do you think this child looks like he was cut out of the same mold as Brother Xing?" Mrs. Zong looked at the child carefully, and her features and eyes were very similar to Brother Xing's.
By this time, even if there were no other witnesses, Mr. Zong and Mrs. Zong already believed that the child had been secretly exchanged.
"Mother Tian, Mother Cong, Sister-in-law Sun, who is the person who took the boy away? Do you recognize them?" Jiang Nuan asked.
"It's a man named Song. People call him Old Dog Song. He was the one who found us." Cong's mother said.
"I also found the man named Song you mentioned today." Jiang Nuan said, "Bring him over in a moment. Do you think it's him?"
The man brought up this time was about fifty years old, dark and thin, with a scar on his eyelids.
Not only Tian Mama and Cong Mama, but other women also knew him.
"Speak quickly! Who instigated you to do this?!" Mr. Zong's eyes were full of power, as if he wanted to kill someone.
How many strong bones does that person named Song have? He dares to offend the Huo family and the Zong family.
While kneeling down and kowtow, he said: "Even villains are entrusted by others and deceived by others. Last year, a distant cousin of mine came to me and gave me money to find a few women who were six or seven months pregnant.
When I asked what she was doing, she refused to elaborate. She only said that it was not harmful to nature, but that it was a good thing to help others, not to mention that it was beneficial to everyone.
The villain believed it and helped her do it. Later, only one of them gave birth to a son, so he asked me to take that one away."
"Who is your cousin? Who gave the boy to him?" Lord Zong asked.
"My cousin's surname is Pan, and she works as a servant in Mr. Jiang's house. Everyone calls her Mother Pan." Song Laogou said, "She asked me to do all these things, and she is the culprit!"
Mother Pan, Mrs. Zong and the others all recognize her. She is the housekeeper around Meng and can be considered a confidant.
"Nonsense! We don't know where we found these poor people, and they ganged up to slander us!" Meng refused, "Jiang Nuan, you are really good at it. You won't even bribe Mother Pan."
Alright?"
Pan's mother did not come with them today. She has been ill these past few days, and Meng didn't see her either.
