The old lady had a headache from Mrs. Li's quarrel. She slammed the table and scolded her fiercely:
"That's enough! You are the second wife of the general's palace, not a scoundrel on the street.
If you still want to save some face for your son and daughter, don’t bring your unspeakable tricks here and make people laugh!"
Mr. Li choked and looked extremely ugly.
She looked at countless pairs of eyes falling on her body, and it felt like she was being stripped naked and humiliated.
She wiped the tears on her face with a handkerchief and said, "Mother, you have to make the decision for me. My eldest brother framed me for no reason. Am I still not allowed to complain?"
"Okay, since you are complaining, let everyone see if you are wronged or not. If you don't want the face I gave you today, then don't blame me for being rude!"
Mu Rufeng stood up, took out a stack of banknotes from his arms, put them on the table and said:
"This is the money you used to bribe Taoist Yuxu. The seal on it belongs to your Li family. Who doesn't know that you were born in the Li family of Pingyang and your family was once rich?
When you married into our General's Mansion, you brought a lot of dowry. If I remember correctly, the Li Ji Bank in the capital was your dowry, right?"
Li's mother's family was once the richest man in Pingyang City, and it was the Li family's wealth that Mr. Mu Er also valued when he married her.
In fact, as the daughter of a merchant like Li, she was not qualified to marry into a powerful family. However, because Master Mu was a commoner, she had the opportunity to become the second wife of the General's Mansion.
After all, she still married high!
When Mrs. Li saw that Mu Rufeng had taken out the banknote she had used to bribe Taoist Yuxu, she panicked.
She wrung her fingers and her voice was trembling: "It's just a few banknotes. Even if it's from our Liji Bank, it can't prove anything?"
Mu Rufeng saw her tough mouth and sneered: "Bring the people up!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Liang escorted Nanny Qi in.
Many people were shocked when they saw Aunt Qi, but Mrs. Li's face turned ashen when she saw her.
Mu Rufeng sat on the chair and said in a cool voice: "It's not enough to bribe Taoist Priest Yuxu alone, you also need someone to help you seduce you in front of your mother. You know that your mother has always trusted Aunt Qi, so
Bribed her and asked her to lead her mother to Xuanqing Temple!"
Aunt Qi knelt on the ground and cried bitterly: "Old madam, I was wrong. I was obsessed with money. I thought this was a trivial matter, so I agreed to the second madam to do things for her!"
Mrs. Li has money, and no one would have trouble with money. She agreed to it thinking it was a small matter. Who would have expected that such a big fuss would be caused?
She regretted it to death.
The old lady never expected that Aunt Qi, whom she trusted, would be involved, which made her heartbroken and regretted that she didn't understand people well.
She turned away and didn't say a word.
Mu Rufeng stared at Ms. Li with a gloomy face and asked, "Ms. Li, what else do you have to say?"
Li Shi trembled violently, but could not utter a word.
At this time, Mu Yun'an, who had not spoken for a while, said: "Dad, with Second Aunt's brain, I guess she can't think of such a way. Someone must have given her the idea."
She looked at Mrs. Li and said, "Second Aunt, you'd better take the punishment now. Maybe my father will take a lighter sentence for the sake of the fact that we are all a family."
When Mu Yunhuan, who was sitting next to Mrs. Li, heard this, her expression changed, and she was very frightened because the idea was hers.
She wanted to help her eldest brother get rid of Xiao Chengyi, and knowing that the old lady quickly believed in gods and Buddhas, she came up with such an idea.
And her mother just followed her instructions.
Mu Yunhuan was very afraid that she would also be involved. Once she was involved, her second wife's legitimate daughter would be infamous and her future would be ruined.