Miss Bai's smug attitude as she watched the spectacle made Zhao Rushuang suddenly realize that she was the one who first tried to frame the Bai family, only to be outmaneuvered by them. She didn't know how she lost, nor did she know when the Bai family had made this move.
Just when she thought victory was assured, the situation changed silently, and she was like a fool, being played.
Her heart was filled with fear and resentment. She wanted to clench her teeth and curse, but she knew she was in the wrong and couldn't utter a single word. In the end, she could only break down and say, "You will go to the eighteenth level of hell. I will haunt you even as a ghost."
Miss Bai raised an eyebrow: "If you really become a ghost, I have my own way of suppressing you. You can't defeat me even when you're alive, let alone when you're dead."
Zhao Rushuang suddenly screamed, spat out a mouthful of blood, and collapsed to the ground.
The Second Young Master Bai stood nearby, staring blankly at the scene, feeling his worldview being shaken.
"Second brother, do you see that? With your dissolute behavior, other families will start by targeting you if they want to scheme against our Bai family."
"Otherwise, if we find that packet of medicine under your bed, you'll have a hard time getting away with it."
Miss Bai brought Young Master Bai along on a special occasion. He believed that people could not understand what others taught them, but they could understand it after being taught it only once.
Young Master Bai nodded.
With conclusive evidence, the Zhao siblings' crimes were quickly confirmed. Both claimed they acted on their own initiative and the Zhao family was completely unaware. In such a situation, they could only try their best to protect the Zhao family's interests from harm.
Zhao Ruye was sentenced to three years of exile in the northern frontier, and Zhao Rushuang was punished by being sent to the palace to do hard labor such as pounding rice and washing clothes, also for three years. The Zhao family compensated Mu Xinghe with 10,000 taels of gold and the Bai family with 3,000 taels of gold. Old Master Zhao was demoted one rank and fined one year's salary for failing to properly educate his descendants.
Ten thousand taels of gold were delivered to the Qiao family.
Qiao Lian'er sighed, "If they had come to apologize and make compensation sooner, the Zhao family wouldn't have ended up like this. People always take chances. They do something wrong and don't want to make amends or suffer any loss. How is that possible?"
"Butler Chai, take the box over there."
"I don't want the compensation." Mu Xinghe entered the hall: "It was the Qiao family that protected me and saved my life. It was also the Qiao family that resolved this crisis. This box of compensation should go into the public treasury. What right do I have to take it?"
“Xinghe, you were thrown from the carriage and almost didn’t survive,” said Grandma Qiao.
"Yes, I almost died. It was because of the Qiao family that I survived." Mu Xinghe said firmly, "In the end, I was not of much use. What I care about is not this box of gold, but to contribute as much as possible to the Qiao family. I can't do it now, but I hope I can in the future."
Luckily, he often stayed at the Qiao family's house, so they delivered him directly there. If they had delivered him to the small courtyard, he would have been so embarrassed and would have had to return him.
Everyone was very moved to hear him say that.
Qiao Xi'er firmly stated that she did not want it, and she didn't even glance at the box of gold.
In her heart, the most important thing was that the Qiao family was safe and sound, and that her husband was alive and well.
"Then let's keep it in the public fund for now, and use it for everyone's needs," Qiao Lian'er said.
Old Mrs. Qiao pulled Qiao Lian'er into the warm room.
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