The mother of the dead maid Luliu was dragging Luliu's younger brothers and sisters to the Wu family to cry.
Luliu was just a third-class maid. She couldn't even enter the Wu family's house. She was just serving in the outer courtyard. How loyal could she be to Zhang Jie, the son of the Wu family?
She said that she was not angry with Huo Nian for taking Zhang Jie's position, and she was so angry that she poisoned people. Even the British government officials didn't believe it.
Wu just sent five taels of silver and had the bones sent back to Luliu's house.
A life was lost in vain, and Luliu's family would never give up.
The family was just the lowest servant in the village, relying on one tael of silver a month from Lvliu and some rewards from time to time. This time they were all gone.
How can five taels of silver be spent?
"Madam, my Luliu is working for you. She is loyal to you. You can't just send us away."
Mrs. Luliu cried with snot and tears all over her face.
People's hearts are made of flesh. It took a lot of effort to raise a daughter to such a big age. How can we not be sad when she suddenly loses her? And she only got five taels of silver, which is even more heartbreaking.
Wu left the person hanging in the courtyard and didn't want to pay attention to him, he was just a minion.
Unexpectedly, Mrs. Luliu cried louder and louder, so she had to come out and scold her.
"She treated me unfairly, but I was too lenient to hold her accountable. How dare you come to ask me for money?" Mrs. Wu was very angry. Once the tiger fell, even the dog came to bully her?
But a servant who can be sold at any time dares to question her, a princess of the country?
"Madam, my Luliu will get married in two years. How could she do such a thing? If no one told her, how could she do such a thing?"
"You go to whoever orders her, so why bother bothering me! She made her own opinions and put me in an unjust position. I haven't asked her about her crime yet, but she was good, she didn't even come up, she kicked off and left immediately.
, but it makes me unable to defend myself!"
"Madam, how could this be Luliu's own decision? It's clearly..."
"Shut up! You don't even look at where this place is and you dare to come and bite Madam. Is Madam someone you can bite?" the nanny next to Wu yelled.
Not allowing them to argue, they blocked the mouths of the three mothers and ordered people to drag them out.
Being thrown at the back door by several servant girls, the mother and son were disheartened and couldn't hold back their tears. Seeing the approaching footsteps, the mother and son huddled together in fright and raised their heads to look at the person coming.
"Don't be afraid. My girl has a few words to ask you. Please come with me."
The visitor couldn't help but put the three of them into a carriage. The carriage didn't stop, and drove slowly away from the back door of the British Palace.
Two hours later.
"Girl, we're back!" Hu Hu and Ma Ma came in from outside.
Vanilla and others looked at them: "How?"
Hu Bo raised her eyebrows proudly, and Mother Ma walked towards Huo Xi with a smile, and handed a few pieces of paper to Huo Xi: "I gave them twenty taels of silver. I asked them all. Girl, their whole family has done their fingerprints."
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Huo Xi looked at the confession on the paper, and it was recorded on it that Mrs. Luliu said something.
"Girl, I didn't expect that we had some other gains."
Mother Ma explained to Huo Xi that she didn't expect that the girl just wanted to get the fact that Wu ordered someone to assassinate the young master. Unexpectedly, not only did she get it, but she also got an unexpected gain.
"I didn't expect that the seventh young master's biological mother, He, was also killed by the Wu family. According to Luliu's account, she and the He family were originally from the same village. The two families sold themselves to the Zhang Mansion, and later followed the old man to the capital from the north. He
I went to serve the Duke, and she went to the kitchen..."
Luliu's mother's surname was also He, and her ancestors were from the same village as Zhang Mao's biological mother He. The two families fled the village due to the war and joined the Zhang Mansion in Peking as slaves.
Luliu's mother was a few years older than Zhang Mao's mother. Because of her unattractive appearance, she had been working as a handyman in various places. Because of her good birth, Zhang Mao's mother was arranged by the dowager to be a maid in Zhang Fu's courtyard.
No one knows that the two have a very good relationship in private.
According to Luliu's mother's confession, the reason why Wu was able to climb into bed successfully was because of He's help.
Later, in order to repay her, Mrs. Wu promised to let her become her aunt. Unexpectedly, Mrs. He only proposed marriage and died of severe bleeding the day after giving birth to Zhang Mao.
Huo Xi didn't expect that there was such an inside story.
"No one in the house knows about the relationship between Luliu's mother and the He family?"
"The previous generation of them all died long ago. Moreover, one of them was in the master's courtyard, and the other was working as a handyman. Later, Luliu Niang married Zhuangzi, and no one knew about their relationship."
Some of the things Wu asked He to do, He told Luliu Niang. Luliu Niang would often accompany the men in Zhuangzi to deliver things to the house, and she would occasionally see He.
The two were dating secretly, but no one knew about it.
Later, before he gave birth, he probably expected that he would not have much time left, so he gave his few jewelry to Luliu's mother for safekeeping, saying that if he died, the jewelry would be given to her.
Luliu's mother also comforted her, thinking that she was overthinking.
Unexpectedly, she suffered massive bleeding after giving birth to Zhang Mao and died on the same day.
Zhang Maoyuan also couldn't survive. Unexpectedly, Zhang Fu returned to Beijing from Peking that day and failed to save the older one. However, the younger one was saved alive by the imperial doctors with all their strength.
"This Luliu's mother is also strange. Wu killed her friend, but she didn't think about taking revenge on He?"
"How can she, a village woman, take revenge? There is only a few words from He and no evidence. The most important thing is to get real benefits. Look, didn't she send Luliu to Wu's courtyard?"
"What kind of benefit is that? It hurts my own daughter."
Several maids were discussing on the side, and Huo Xi read the confession and the signature in his hand.
After a moment of silence: "Where are the people? How did you arrange them?"
Mother Ma responded: "Send the person to the girl's village."
Huo Xi nodded, "Very good. In a few days, the Duke and I will bring over the body deeds of their family."
"Won't the Duke ask?"
"What are you asking? He gave me and Nian'er a village each. Aren't we in need of people? What's the point of asking for a family of servants?"
"What about the Wu family?"
"I'm not afraid that she will know. This time she clearly harmed Nian'er. How could she not know that the Duke and I can find out? She just feels that there is no proof. If she wants to know, I will make it clear to her that I have
Who is it? Just wait for her to take action. The more panicked and confused she is, the better."
It's more beneficial to her.
Mother Ma nodded, "Yes, don't be anxious, girl, you need to stay steady. It's not us who are anxious now."
Seeing Huo Xi nodding, he added: "Just now Ting Lei and Mu Yu went with us. If they hadn't pried open Old Madam Luliu's mouth, she probably wouldn't have been able to explain so much. I'm afraid she still had the extravagant hope of holding the Wu family.
I want to take advantage of the Wu family."
Huo Xi nodded, and the four of them were good at hiding and tracking, and they were also good at torture.
"So, girl, it's better not to let them go to Japan early next month. Now the girl and the young master feel more at ease with them by their side."
"That's fine." Huo Xi nodded, turned around and ordered again: "Have someone prepare the carriage."