Chapter 90 There is always a way to win the lawsuit

Unfortunately, neither Zhao Jingtian nor Tao were here, and Lu Xinran had no way of getting the answer from them.

Tang Quyan and Song Junyan came over to say goodbye and leave. Since the old lady had gone to bed, they bowed outside the courtyard and left.

Lu Xinran revealed too many details today. They had to report to the palace first, ask the emperor's wishes, and then figure out how to deal with the people in the Rong Enbo Mansion.

Moreover, although Lu Xinran's thoughts have been proven to be absolutely true, the court officials are still discussing whether they can be used as key evidence to solve the case and convict the criminal.

They left in a hurry, and Lu Xinran was quietly poking the system, asking it what it had gained throughout the day.

She seized upon the Rong'en Marquisate and exploited it to the death, almost stripping the Zhao family bare. She must have reaped a huge reward.

"The life value has not been calculated yet."

The childish voice was full of doubts, and the tone was full of distrust of himself.

"Don't worry, I'll check again. We're working so hard here, we're sure to get something big."

While Tongzi was examining himself, he did not forget to comfort her.

Lu Xinran rolled her big, round eyes; her thoughts were obviously different from the system's.

"You think, could it be that they haven't been punished yet, so their health points haven't been counted yet?"

If she only settled the accounts based on the melon-eating method, she would have taken advantage of all the members of the family, and the system's settlement method would give her at most ten days.

But if we settle it based on how the case was solved, first Tao killed Yun, then Zhao Kaiyan cheated in the imperial examination, Zhao Jingtian cleaned up the mess, and then Zhao Kaile directly delivered a big blow.

If these people were to receive the punishment they deserved, especially Zhao Kailuo's trump card, would it allow her to gain a year's worth of life in one go?

He has dozens of lives on his hands!

Thinking of this, her heart couldn't help but beat fast.

The whole afternoon was a feast for the spectators. After eating the melons from the Rong Enbo Mansion and watching Zhao beat the mother and daughter of Tao to the point where they were unrecognizable, everyone finally said goodbye and left with great satisfaction.

After Zhao found a room to change her clothes and wash herself, her eyes were still red.

Even though she beat up Tao and Zhao Jizhen severely, she still felt like there was a fire burning in her heart, and she wished she could engulf her and everyone in the Rong Enbo Mansion together.

When Pei saw her coming to the yard, she clapped her hands and motioned for her to sit down beside her and catch her breath before they said goodbye and left.

Zhao's chest was still heaving, her voice choked with sobs. She had never been so grateful to Pei from the bottom of her heart as she was today.

If she had not wanted this disappointing daughter-in-law back then, she would be living a miserable life somewhere now.

"mother."

She held Pei's hand and tears fell again.

Pei sighed and took out a handkerchief to wipe her eyes: "You are so old and yet you cry easily. Aren't you afraid of being laughed at by the children?"

“They wouldn’t dare.”

Zhao said something subconsciously, and when he saw Lu Xinran rolling his eyes, he realized that he had said the wrong thing again.

Tao's malicious indulgence and permissiveness left her with too many bad habits that were difficult to control.

After so many years, even if she wanted to change, it would be difficult to control her bad habits in a short period of time.

Pei simply patted her on the back of her hand, and when she saw that she had calmed down, she took the women of the Lu family and said goodbye and left.

As for Lu Jinchuan and Lu Kangde, she was too lazy to pay attention to them.

When they left, they were too lazy to ask their servants to deliver messages to them.

When Lu Jinchuan learned of their departure, they had already returned to Lu's mansion.

Zhao felt upset and wanted to talk to someone. Pei also had something on her mind, so she just took everyone to her room.

"Mother, do you think that if your daughter-in-law goes to Shuntian Prefecture to sue my father and Mrs. Tao, can she get my mother's dowry back?"

Back then, Yun brought half of the Yun family's wealth when she married into the Rong'en Marquis's Mansion. Zhao Jingtian and his father forced them to marry Yun Ting into the Zhao family.

These past events were suddenly brought up today, but the past few years were too long and some things are difficult to define.

After all, Yun Ting had passed away long ago, and Qi was no longer around. If Zhao Jingtian insisted that it was Yun Ting who took the initiative to return the dowry to the inner treasury of the Bo Mansion, they would be doomed.

"It's difficult, child. I know you feel bad, but this matter..."

It still depends on the emperor's attitude.

The Zhao family had too many problems. Compared with the murders and cheating in the imperial examinations, the embezzlement of Yun Ting's dowry became the most insignificant matter.

Zhao's eyes turned red with anger. She now wished she could die together with Zhao Jingtian and Tao to avenge her mother and grandfather.

"Grandma, mother, this matter is not unsolvable."

Lu Xinlan, who had been silent, suddenly spoke, attracting the attention of everyone in the room.

"If we can find evidence that Uncle Zhao threatened my great-grandfather, and that he used his power to force him to hand over half of his family property, there is still a way to resolve this matter. However, the prerequisite is that you, mother, cannot take the money back."

"If I can't do it, I can't do it, as long as it doesn't benefit that bastard family!"

Zhao cursed fiercely, then realized that she seemed rude again, and quickly restrained her expression and asked her anxiously.

"But why can't we take it back? If we can't take it back, won't those guys still get a bargain?"

"No, mother, don't wait for me to finish," Lu Xinran said softly, and then said calmly: "The dowry that my grandmother brought into the Earl's Mansion should be worth hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, right?"

Zhao nodded. "Not only that, but my grandfather would send money and goods to the capital every year, which would be worth tens of thousands of taels."

This continued for more than ten years, until she got married into the Lu family, and only then did the Shu region stop sending wealth to the capital every year.

"Mother, are you sure that the wealth that your great-grandfather sent to the capital every year was given to you?"

Zhao continued to nod: "I have letters. I carefully collected all the letters that my grandfather sent me every year when he was alive."

She didn't know why she put these away at the time. She always felt that they were a comfort to her biological mother. The nanny beside her always reminded her to stay close to her maternal family, so she was reluctant to throw away any of these letters.

Even when she got married, she put these letters into a personal box containing silver and brought them to Lu's house.

"It's good to have these letters. Mother, are you still able to contact your great-grandfather's family now?"

"Yes, I have your uncle's address."

Speaking of this, her heart was filled with regret and guilt again.

"That's right, I haven't had any contact with them for many years."

Since her maternal grandfather Yunhua passed away, she has stopped communicating with her uncles.

She used to... not like hearing them say bad things about Zhao Jingtian and Tao.

[If she wasn't so stupid, she probably wouldn't have survived the hands of those two ruthless people.]

[After all, catching a cold and being bedridden, becoming weaker and weaker and eventually dying early, this is a classic plot of murder and robbery.]

[If she was stupid enough and they coveted the property sent by the Yun family, how could she live in peace until she got married? ]

The familiar complaints reappeared, and just as Zhao was about to glare at them, he was startled.

She couldn't, couldn't be as impulsive and irritable as she had been before, so...stupid.