vstars Chapter 128 General's Concubine 2
Chapter 128 General's Concubine 2
"After all, this slave dared to accept someone's orders to drug the old lady. She must have received a large sum of money and used her life to give her family a good life. If we don't kill her to scare the monkeys, then the person behind it will be very easy to bribe the servants to drug the old lady in the future."
"Oh!" Nanny Sun sneered, "So this old servant really can't understand why the young lady would be soft-hearted towards this slave. Could it be that the young lady is hoping that the old lady will be drugged again?"
"How dare you," Liu Yaozhu glared angrily, "Madame Sun, don't take advantage of the fact that you are an elder in the general's mansion and have grandma to back you up and disregard me as the young lady. What is your intention in slandering me as the young lady? Is it because of Aunt Jiang?"
"Heh!" Liu Yaozhu laughed sarcastically, "That's right, Aunt Jiang is from the old lady's courtyard, and I think she has a different relationship with Nanny Sun. That's why Nanny Sun slandered me, the young lady, and she was planning to support Aunt Jiang to take the position, right?"
"But don't you think about it? Aunt Jiang is just a lowly concubine. Even if I, the young lady, were not here, she would not be able to get promoted. A concubine is just a concubine. It is simply wishful thinking for a concubine to dream of being promoted to the position of a concubine."
"Young Madam also said that it was a fantasy. Then let me ask you, would I be so foolish as to promote a concubine?" Nanny Sun was not afraid to fight back, "General, I have been in the General's Mansion for decades. My loyalty to the General's Mansion is evident to all. I have a reason to say that. It is all for the safety of the old lady."
"This time, it was because I discovered it in time that the old lady was not killed. But what if it happens again? I'm afraid the old lady won't be so lucky to escape."
"So I think that not only should we not let this slave girl go, but we should not let her family members go either. That way, we can deter the servants in the mansion from being easily bribed."
In fact, Yue Zhen already had an idea in his mind, and he very much agreed with Nanny Sun's opinion, but he didn't expect Yaozhu's reaction.
Yue Zhen didn't want to doubt anything, but Yaozhu's reaction made him unable to help but doubt. However, he couldn't figure it out. If the person behind the scenes was really Yaozhu's shadow, then what was Yaozhu's purpose in doing this.
After all, harming her grandmother would not do Yaozhu any good. What's more, Yaozhu has always been filial to her grandmother, so how could she possibly harm her grandmother?
"A Zhen..." Liu Yaozhu looked at Yue Zhen with anxious eyes.
"Yaozhu, don't you think what Nanny Sun said is unreasonable?" Yue Zhen looked directly at Liu Yaozhu, "This slut was bribed to poison grandma. If she is not severely punished, the person behind the scenes can bribe the servants in this mansion once, and he can bribe them a second time. So I think Nanny Sun's suggestion..."
"But this slave girl didn't poison grandma because she was bribed!" Liu Yaozhu interrupted Yue Zhen quickly, "This slave girl just confessed that she just hated grandma for not choosing her as your concubine, so she poisoned grandma out of resentment."
"Everything I just said is true. No one instructed me to drug the old lady. It was because I hated her that I had the guts to poison her."
"Ah Zhen..."
"Okay, you don't have to say any more," Yue Zhen interrupted Liu Yaozhu with disappointment in his eyes, "Someone, go and send this slave's family to Shuntian Prefecture."
The family of this lowly maidservant are not servants of the general's mansion, so the general's mansion naturally cannot just kill them at will.
However, since the old lady of the general's mansion was poisoned, even if Yue Zhen didn't say hello to Shuntian Prefecture, the family of this slave girl would never be able to leave Shuntian Prefecture alive.
"Young Madam, please save my family," the maid finally said anxiously, "I gave the old lady the medicine according to your instructions. The medicine was given to me by Miss Birou beside you."
"General," the maid looked at Yue Zhen and said, "It was all Young Madam's orders. If Young Madam hadn't given me two hundred taels of silver and threatened me with my family, I wouldn't have dared to drug the old lady even if I had the guts to do so! General, please spare my family! They don't know anything!"
"How dare you," Liu Yaozhu said angrily, "Tell me, who instructed you to slander my wife, you slut? My wife just spoke up for your family, but I didn't expect you to dare to slander my wife."
"I didn't slander the young lady," the maid retorted, "It was Miss Birou, who was beside the young lady, who came to me and gave me two hundred taels of silver. The silver is still hidden in my room."
Liu Yaozhu immediately looked at Birou with an expression of disbelief: "Birou, is what this slave girl said true? Was it really you who ordered this slave girl to drug the old lady?"
From the very beginning, Birou knew that she was doomed, so when she saw the young lady say this, she knew what she should do.
"Yes, I did it," Birou knelt on the ground and said, "I saw how much pain the young lady suffered because of the general taking a concubine. I have served the young lady since I was a child. Seeing the young lady in so much pain, how can I not hate the old lady? After all, if the old lady hadn't forced the general to take a concubine, the young lady wouldn't have to endure the pain caused by the general taking a concubine."
"That's why I was so angry. I used all my savings to buy poison without telling the young lady, bribed the maids in the old lady's yard, and took advantage of the old lady's cold to kill her. I wanted to kill her and vent my anger on behalf of the young lady."
"Also, the old lady caught a cold because I bribed the maid who was on night watch to secretly open the window, which caused the old lady to catch a cold."
Birou's family were all in the Liu Mansion, so she naturally had no way to resist. The young lady wanted to push her out as a scapegoat, and she couldn't resist no matter how unwilling she was.
But despite this, she also had to fight back. From the old lady catching a cold to giving her medicine, such a series of plans, who would believe that it was planned by a maid like her!
Of course, even if Birou didn't say so, the general would not believe that the young lady was innocent. After all, it was obvious that the person behind the scenes was the young lady. She, as a maid, took the blame on herself and was just taking the blame for her master.
"Birou, you are so stupid!" Liu Yaozhu looked at Birou with great sorrow, "How could you do such a stupid thing? Fortunately, the old lady is fine, otherwise, how can I, as the master, continue to be the granddaughter-in-law of the Yue family?"