He was quite familiar with this maid, the most useful person around Liu Ru.
He looked up and saw that Liu Ru's eyes were red, as if she had just cried, so he asked, "What happened?"
Tao Liu looked angry and sad, and pointed at the maid on the ground, "Do you know what she did?"
"She actually wanted to harm our daughter."
"She secretly brought back clothes from a child stained with smallpox, and today she wanted to put them on our daughter while the nurse wasn't paying attention."
"If I hadn't happened to see and discovered something was wrong, our daughter would have been gone."
"The court doctor has examined the clothing and confirmed that there is a problem."
She couldn't help crying again, "Wow, Deputy Governor, you have to make the decision for us mother and daughter!"
At this moment she was really angry and scared. After receiving the news from Xiao Hanzheng, she had people keep an eye on this maid.
In fact, she still had some expectations in her heart. After all, she was really good to this maid and even paid to save her sick father. She hoped that she would not betray her for that little bit of money.
But today, the people sent by Xiao Hanzheng discovered that the maid had secretly brought in a small piece of clothing.
Just when I was about to put clothes on the child, she rushed out and pushed me away.
Otherwise, I really can’t imagine what will happen to her daughter.
If Xiao Hanzheng hadn't brought the news, she would never have discovered this matter, and her daughter would have died of smallpox.
How could these people be so cruel that they could do such a cruel thing to a baby who is not even a month old?
Her eyes were full of hatred, and she would never let these people go.
Xiao Yuanshi was stunned, obviously not expecting this to happen.
Although he was disappointed that Liu Ru gave birth to a daughter, this was his child after all, and he would not allow anyone else to harm her.
He walked over and sat down, staring sharply at the maid on the ground, "Tell me, who ordered you to do that?"
The head maid didn't expect the lady would find out, and she was shaking all over.
"Your servant, your servant didn't know there was smallpox on this dress."
Xiao Yuanshi snorted coldly, "It seems you are going to be tough."
He ordered the people around him, "Drag him away for interrogation."
His attendant nodded and immediately dragged the man away.
Xiao Yuanshi comforted Liu Ru for a while, and after an incense stick of time, his personal attendant came in dragging the half-dead maid.
"Master, she confessed everything."
"It was Concubine Ge who bribed her to do this."
"The little dress with the smallpox dye was also secretly given to her by Concubine Ge."
"As long as she accomplishes this, Concubine Ge will give her brother 500 taels of silver to build a house and marry him off."
The attendants did not expect Ge Chunru to be so vicious that she would actually attack such a young child.
The key point is that she is just a legitimate daughter, not a legitimate son. Is it that serious?
In fact, Xiao Yuanshi already had a guess in his mind that the only person in the entire deputy capital who would do such a thing and could bribe the maidservant beside Liu Ru was Ge Chunru.
He waved his hands, "Drag him away and beat him to death."
The maid's face changed and she suddenly crawled in front of Tao Liu and kowtowed to beg for mercy.
Xiao Yuanshi was disgusted and wanted to have someone drag him away, but Tao Liu spoke first.
"Being beaten to death would be too easy for her."
Tao Liu looked at Xiao Yuanshi and said, "Commander-in-chief, I want her to get smallpox and die."
These people can infect children with smallpox. She believes that Xiao Yuanshi's people naturally have a way to infect this person with the smallpox that adults get and kill him.
Xiao Yuanshi was surprised. He didn't expect that Liu Ru, who was kind and gentle to him, would want to take revenge in this way.
But he didn't feel disgusted. Instead, it reminded him of Kong Yuelan in the past.
Such a weak and vulnerable person was willing to divorce him for the sake of her three children.
In order to plot against others, Ge Chunru would rather sacrifice the baby in her belly.
Because she was so concerned about her younger brother from her mother's family, she neglected the baby in her belly, which resulted in two miscarriages and she lost hope of having children.
Sure enough, he was once really blind.
He agreed with this method of giving people a taste of their own medicine.
He instructed his attendant, "Do as the madam says."
The attendant immediately brought people to drag the maid away, "Yes!"
The head maid stared at Liu Ru with wide eyes, she didn't expect the lady to be so cruel.
She was wrong, she was really wrong. She shouldn't have listened to her parents' instigation and harmed others for her brother.
She wanted to beg for mercy, but Xiao Yuanshi's followers covered her mouth and dragged her away.
After being dragged away, Tao Liu threw herself into Xiao Yuanshi's arms and cried, "Commander-in-chief, you have to make the decision for me!"
"I have never done anything wrong to Concubine Ge, and I have never treated her harshly after becoming my wife. I have still provided her with food, clothing, and monthly allowance as before."
This was intentional. The original intention was to create a contrast so that he could find a chance to deal with Ge Chunru in the future, but now he has used it.
She cried out of breath, "I never thought she would actually do that to my daughter."
"If anything happens to my daughter, I don't want to live anymore."
Xiao Yuanshi reached out and gently patted her back, "Okay, I'll give you an explanation."
Ge Chunru really crossed his bottom line this time.
She can't even tolerate a legitimate daughter, so who can she tolerate in the future?
After comforting Liu Ru and looking at his daughter, Xiao Yuanshi left.
He was originally planning to look for Ge Chunru, but one of his subordinates came to find him with urgent official business to attend to, so he followed the subordinate out of the house.
After three busy days, he finally returned home.
At this moment, the anger in his heart was not as strong as before.
Therefore, he did not go to Ge Chunru's yard immediately, but went to the study instead.
He was thinking about how to punish Ge Chunru, and while he was thinking, his eyes inadvertently fell on a vase not far away.
Then his face changed, he hurriedly stood up and walked over, took out the scroll, and reached in to touch it.
Sure enough, I found that the map inside was missing.
He had previously placed maps in vases and arranged the size and color of the scrolls.
As long as someone moved, he would be able to detect it.
His face darkened and he asked his attendant to come in. "Who has come into my study these days?"
Seeing that he looked very unhappy, the attendant thought carefully and said, "Besides you, the only person who was alone with you was Concubine Ge when she had a quarrel with you three days ago, and she even smashed the study."
Xiao Yuanshi took a deep breath and clenched his hands into fists, "Very good, she is really great."
He had roughly determined that the map was taken away by Ge Chunru.
She came to quarrel with him on purpose that day, calculating that he would be annoyed with her and leave first.
She had been with him for so long, she should have observed some of his little habits.
Therefore, the spies from Prince Jin's Mansion and the previous dynasty only found the secret compartment in his study, but never thought of looking in the vase.
But Ge Chunru thought of it.
No wonder the people from the gambling house, who were so powerful, would let Ge Chunyi go.
He talked about asking Ge Chunyi for money, but the gambling house didn't even give face to him, the deputy governor of North City, so how could they give face to the second prince who was far away in the capital and didn't have much real power.
He had felt something was wrong before, and it turned out that this was the place.
(End of this chapter)
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