Fude hurried home, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw several people standing in the yard as Wang Quan had said. His wife and children were kneeling on the ground, and a woman was sitting lazily on a chair in front of them.

This person is so arrogant!

Fugui saw him first. His eyes lit up and he kept shouting, "Dad, you're back! Dad, you have to make the decision for us." After saying this, he stopped kneeling and stood up tremblingly, holding his still aching abdomen.

Seeing this, Yunshan picked up a stone and threw it lightly, hitting Fugui's knee. He immediately knelt down in pain.

"You are going too far!" Ford strode in with his body as heavy as a bucket.

Jiang Muyu looked at the middle-aged man who appeared in front of him. He was short and fat, with big ears and a brocade dress. He wore a round hat and two golden front teeth showing from his mouth. He looked exactly like a landlord.

"I just bullied you, so what?" Jiang Muyu supported his chin with one hand and looked at him with a smile. Although he was sitting on a chair, his aura was overwhelming him.

When Fude saw her, he was stunned for a moment. Why did this woman look familiar? But he couldn't remember it for a moment, but looking at the woman's clothes, he knew that she was either rich or noble.

"Oh no!" he said secretly in his heart. No matter who the other party was, he didn't dare to offend him easily.

Then he put on a seductive smile and said, "I am the manager of Zao Manor. My last name is Fu. I wonder why you are visiting Zao Manor?"

This man is a man of good sense, much more sensible than his vulgar wife and stupid son.

Jiang Muyu said, "Manager Fu, I came to inspect my farm today and I have gained a lot."

Hearing this, Fude was shocked, his legs went weak and he knelt down, panicking and saying, "I am blind and did not recognize the princess. I accidentally bumped into you. I hope the princess will forgive me."

Upon hearing that the woman was actually the princess, Fugui and his mother were terrified. They both prostrated themselves on the ground and begged for mercy, "Princess, please forgive me, please forgive me..."

Jiang Muyu found this scene really ironic. Just now, these two people were so arrogant that they were not convinced even after being beaten up by Liang Jinghe. But now that they knew her identity, their attitudes changed immediately.

Jiang Muyu didn't let them get up, but told Yun Xuan to take out the account book he brought with him, threw it in front of Fude, and said, "Take a look at this first."

Fude picked it up with trembling hands and flipped through it. The more he flipped through it, the more sweat came out of his forehead. He knew that the princess had come to call him to task.

"You should know that this estate has been registered in my name as my dowry since I got married. I rarely asked about it in the past, but now I have checked and found that someone has been embezzling money from it."

Ford's hand trembled, and the account book fell to the ground. His fat body couldn't stop shaking, and he crawled on the ground like a turtle. "You don't know, Princess, the income of the date farm has been getting worse and worse in recent years. There was a drought two years ago, and the farm had almost no harvest. More than 20 tenants on our farm have to survive, and the money that can be handed in is all scraped together by everyone."

"Really?" Jiang Muyu looked at him with interest.

If he had admitted at the beginning that he had embezzled money, she might have spared his life. But now he dared to play tricks on her, so don't blame her for being rude.

"Guardian Deng, bring the person up."

"Yes." The guard standing by the door went out upon receiving the order, and came back soon with a man who was tied up and covered in wounds.

Jiang Muyu said: "Fude, look at this person, do you recognize him?"

Fude looked up and his eyes immediately widened.

Jiang Muyu saw his expression, what else was there to not understand? So he said: "It seems that he recognizes me, then it's easy to deal with."

Guard Deng took the rag out of the man's mouth, and the man immediately knelt down and begged for mercy: "Princess, please spare my life. I will never dare to do that again."

"Stop!" Jiang Muyu pinched his ears. "You're making my ears hurt. Tell me everything you told me last night."

"Yes, yes." The man said, "I am in charge of collecting the accounts at the farm every month. I have a close personal relationship with Fude, so we conspired to supply part of the harvested crops to the shop and sell part of them. I provided the connection, and Fude provided the crops. I took kickbacks and split the profits 70% to 30%. I was also responsible for making false accounts to cover it up so that Your Majesty could not find out. Unfortunately, Your Majesty has great powers..."

"Okay, there's no need to flatter me." Jiang Muyu still stared at Fude and said, "What else do you want to say?"

Fude was about to bury his head in the ground at this time. He was shaking like a sieve and stammered, "Little...little..."

"I am too lazy to listen to your nonsense. If you have anything to say, go to the Dali Temple and speak."

As soon as these words came out, the four people kneeling on the ground were frightened out of their wits and cried out for mercy: "Madam, please spare our lives! Madam..."

Jiang Muyu frowned because of the noise.

Upon seeing this, Yun Xuan gave the guards a wink, and several guards stepped forward, tied up the men, and stuffed their mouths with cloth strips.

Jiang Muyu was satisfied now, and instructed Yun Xuan: "In addition to investigating Zhongsheng's embezzlement, let the people from the Dali Temple investigate the dirty deeds done by Fugui and his mother."

"yes."

Hearing this, the two men wanted to speak anxiously, but because their mouths were blocked by cloth strips, they could only make whimpering sounds, and their eyes were bloodshot.

The guards didn't give them any chance and escorted the people out of the yard.

At this time, there were a lot of people gathered outside the yard. They all came to watch the show after hearing Wang Erya's mother say that Fugui was beaten. They didn't expect that things would develop to this point. Seeing that Fude's family was tied up and taken away, they were so scared that they didn't know whether to leave or stay.

Jiang Muyu stood up, walked out of the courtyard, looked at the tenants outside the door, and said: "I can distinguish right from wrong. If what Fude did has nothing to do with you, I will not implicate the innocent. But if someone else is involved, I will not show mercy."

The tenants looked at each other in bewilderment and knelt down, "Your Majesty, your judgment is clear."

Wang Quan was at the front, and he said, "Madam, we are all ordinary people, and we are usually forced to work by Fude. He made dirty money and bought houses and real estate. We, his subordinates, have never received a penny more from him, and our wages are deducted every month, so we are not active in working on the farm."

So that's why she saw so few people working in the fields when she got here just now.

Jiang Muyu saw the little girl behind him, the one she had called to look for, so she asked, "Little girl, what's your name?"

The little girl said timidly, "My dear Princess, I am Wang Erya."

"Uh..." Jiang Muyu said, "Could your sister be called Wang Daya?"

"That's right, madam, how did you know that?"

"Uh..." What a name... Jiang Muyu was speechless for a moment.

She looked at the tenant farmer again and asked, "What's your name?"

"My dear lady, I am Wang Quan."

"Oh, I saw you working in the fields when I came here just now. How long have you been here?"

"Fifteen years."

"It's been a while. You should be very familiar with this farm. Have you ever thought about doing something else?"

Upon hearing this, Wang Quan immediately kowtowed and said anxiously, "Please Your Majesty, I swear to heaven that I have never participated in Fude's embezzlement of money. I have come to the manor to work since I was sixteen. I have worked diligently over the years. Even if I have no merit, I have worked hard. My family of four depends on this job to make a living. Please, Your Majesty, leave a way out for my family and don't chase us away."

"Who said I want to chase you away?" Jiang Muyu smiled and said, "What I mean is, are you willing to be the new manager of this Zaozhuang?"

Wang Quan was stunned, and Wang Erya was so surprised that she raised her head, but when she saw the princess' smiling face, she immediately lowered her head and dared not look again.

"Why? Don't want to?"