Chapter 65: The Trick of the Trick

"What is it?" Mother Hua didn't expect that she would get a shocking secret just after she instigated Xiao He to rebel. She almost fell on Xiao He.

"She was always very secretive. One time, I happened to see it when I was cleaning the house, but before I could see clearly, the second young lady took it away. However, I was cautious at the time, as it looked like a man's thing."

Xiao He also started to act mysterious, and spoke as if she had really seen it with her own eyes.

"Are you serious?" Mother Hua looked at Xiao He suspiciously. If this unmarried young lady were to hide a man's things and outsiders knew about it, it would be a huge event.

"It's absolutely true. If you don't believe me, go and see for yourself. Since the Second Miss is not here, I'll put it under her pillow."

Xiaohe said it unintentionally, but Hua's mother took it to heart. Putting a man's stuff under the pillow, isn't that stealing a man or something?

Seeing that Hua Mama was hesitant, she struggled desperately, pulling Hua Mama's clothes, trying to get off the bed, and said while struggling: "If you don't believe me, I'll take you there."

Unfortunately, after struggling for a long time, she still couldn't get up, and instead she messed up Hua Mama's clothes.

I saw that Xiao He's buttocks were bleeding because of the big movement, and Xiao He's face began to turn pale.

"You don't have to go. You can't get up. I'll go and take a look myself." After saying that, he didn't even bother to tidy up his clothes and walked to the next room.

But what she didn't see was that Xiao He behind her was smiling triumphantly.

Su Yue's house was pitch dark, and Hua's mother could only feel her way to her bed based on her memory.

If what Xiao He said was true, and the second young lady really hid the man's things, and she told the eldest young lady about it, the eldest young lady would be so happy that she might give herself a lot of money again.

Thinking of this, a smile appeared on Hua's mother's lips. She had to make sure whether the second young lady had hidden anything of a man under her pillow.

"Mom Hua, you broke into my room without asking so late at night. What do you want to steal?" As a clear voice sounded, the room immediately lit up. The person in the room turned on the light.

And Su Yue just sat quietly on the chair in front of the hall, staring at Mother Hua with cold eyes.

Before Mother Hua could retract the smile on her lips, she saw Su Yue staring at her with a smile on his face. There was also a servant in the room, and the next moment Xiao He walked in unharmed, with a provocative look in her eyes.

Oops, I’ve fallen into a trap. Mother Hua was terrified, but she forced herself to calm down.

"What are you talking about, Miss? I just saw that it was dark in Miss's room, so I came in to help her light a lamp in advance to prevent her from getting hurt when she comes back."

There was no flaw in what she said, and Hua's mother had an expression that said, "There's nothing you can do to me."

Su Yue sneered and shouted, "Call all the servants and maids from Pingyuexuan! Also, call a few guards over as well."

Soon, more than a dozen servants were standing in a row in the yard. They were all sleepy and didn't know what was going on.

"Second Miss, I just want to light a lamp. Aren't you making too much of a fuss?" Mother Hua was obviously certain that Su Yue had no evidence, and she could do nothing about it. There was even a hint of provocation in her tone.

"Tonight, I lost a very important jade pendant. It was given to me by my father when I was very young. It means a lot to me. Moreover, this jade pendant was a royal gift from the emperor. Now I can't find it. Guards, help me search these servants."

Su Yue stood outside the door, an indescribable aura of majesty emanating from her. Several servants who had secretly looked up suddenly had their expressions changed, and then lowered their heads in fear.

When Hua's mother heard that Su Yue had lost something, she felt that this was directed at her, and she felt nervous, but she felt relieved because she had never stolen the jade pendant.

As the people present were searched one after another, none of them found anything. Finally, it was Hua Mama's turn. The guards from the Prime Minister's Mansion started searching her without saying a word.

Mother Hua looked calm. How could something she had never stolen appear on her out of nowhere?

But she didn't notice that Xiao He behind Su Yue was staring at her clothes.

Just now in her room, when he was struggling to get up, he stuffed the jade pendant into Hua's mother's arms without anyone noticing.

It was winter now and everyone was wearing thick clothes. In addition, Hua's mother was in a hurry to find evidence and did not notice her own action at all.

"Second Miss, we found it." As the guard said this, in full view of everyone, the guard took out a green jade plate from Hua Mama's arms.

Mother Hua had a fearless expression on her face the moment before, but when she saw Zhen taking the jade pendant from her, she became completely panicked.

"Guard, let me ask, this Hua Mama sneaked into my room in the middle of the night and I caught her. Now I found that this jade pendant is indeed on her.

There is both witness and evidence. How should the servant of the Prime Minister's Mansion be punished for stealing his master's things? "Su Yue glanced at the jade pendant calmly, and her tone was unquestionable.

"To answer Second Miss, ordinary theft would be punishable by thirty lashes of the cane. But you said that this is an imperial property, which is an offense to the royal dignity. If we don't punish it more severely and it gets to the emperor's ears, it would be disrespectful." The young guard answered truthfully.

"Oh~ then what should be the punishment?" Su Yue looked at Hua's mother, whose face was covered in sweat, and sneered in her heart.

"Fifty lashes of the cane and expelled from the prime minister's residence. It doesn't matter whether he lives or dies." Every word the guard said was like thunder exploding in Mother Hua's ears.

"Second Miss, it wasn't me. I didn't steal! I am innocent!" Mother Hua was so scared that she collapsed to the ground. Even young people couldn't stand the fifty strokes of the cane, let alone she was over sixty years old. Wouldn't this be the end of her life?

Su Yue turned her head and looked at Hua's mother who was lying on the ground and kowtowing. She squatted beside her and said something in a voice that only the two of them could hear.

This sentence was like a death-threatening talisman, which frightened Mother Hua so much that she collapsed to the ground in despair.

"I know you are wronged, and the one who wronged you is me." Only then did Mother Hua understand that it was a trap from beginning to end, a trap to lure her into.

Looking up at Xiao He again, she didn't look injured at all. The blood was probably just a trick.

It was a really good trick of torturing oneself and replacing the dragon with the phoenix. Even she, a maid who had been working in the prime minister's mansion for decades, fell for it.

From the beginning to the end, Su Yue's idea was not to simply find out Su Xin's spies, but to kill them directly after finding them and make an example of them.

Mother Hua knew that she was going to die, so she was dragged out by the guards like a dead pig. Soon, her heart-wrenching screams were heard, but after a while, the sound was silent.

The servants present were so frightened that they dared not even fart, and kept their heads down without saying a word.

"I don't need servants with two hearts in my yard." Su Yue stared at the servants present with cold eyes. She deliberately didn't let them see the tragic scene of Hua Mama being beaten, but only let them hear her screams. After all, imagining it was more terrifying than seeing it with one's own eyes.

"Dear Second Miss, Madam asked you to get ready and go out of the city with her tomorrow. She said someone outside the city is about to give birth." At this time, Xiaomei, Gu's personal maid, hurried in and bowed to Su Yue.

Su Yue narrowed her eyes slightly. Who else could it be but her third aunt who was about to give birth outside the city?

"Reply to mother and tell her I know."