Chapter 515: A Big Deal
Xu's mother nodded and asked someone to enter Nanny Wan's room and searched it carefully inside and out. In the end, a wooden box was found in a secret compartment under the bed.
A maid tried to take the wooden box out, but she lost her grip and couldn't lift it at all. It was too heavy! She was stunned for a moment, and quickly called the nanny next to Xu's mother. Finally, she took the box out with great effort.
She brought the box to Xu's mother and opened it. Suddenly, there was a gasp in the room.
Gold ingots! Full of gold ingots! They were stacked together one by one. When the lid was opened, it seemed that the whole room was shining with golden light!
The servants around were stunned, staring at the gold ingots in a daze.
Oh my God! So many gold ingots, how much are they worth!
Where did Nanny Wan, a servant, get so many gold ingots? Did they empty the storehouse of the Duke's Mansion?
Xu's mother was also very surprised. She was stunned to see so many gold ingots. But she came to her senses and was furious.
"Great, great! I didn't expect that I really raised an ungrateful person who repays kindness with enmity!"
These are the gold ingots, Nanny Wan was bribed by these gold ingots, right?
"Madam, there is another box here!"
Another maid found a box that was slightly smaller than the one just found.
"Bring it here and open it! I want to see how many treasures Nanny Wan has hidden here!"
Xu's mother said gritting her teeth.
The maid brought the box over and opened it - sure enough, it was filled with jewellery, all kinds of jewellery. Gold hairpins, hairpins inlaid with round pearls, bracelets, all kinds of jewellery, and even a huge bead!
Xu's mother laughed out of anger, "See, Nanny Wan's property is even richer than our Chengguo Mansion!"
You can tell at a glance that these things are not ordinary items, not something that ordinary people can afford. Presumably, the person who bought Nanny Wan must be either rich or noble.
Xu Muhua stared at the various jewellery in the box, and this time she finally caught the flash of inspiration in her mind.
These things... why do they look like things from the palace?
As soon as this thought flashed into her mind, it was like the sun coming out of the clouds, and she seemed to understand something and glimpse something.
But this also made her heart sink.
If the guess in her mind was true, then...
"Mom, let's deal with the matter first!"
Xu Muhua reminded.
Xu's mother immediately asked people to block the news first, and then went directly to the dilapidated courtyard of the Duke's Mansion where servants who made mistakes were imprisoned.
Nanny Wan's hands and feet were tied, and her mouth was blocked.
Of course, she also understood that she was probably exposed. But she couldn't figure out why she was discovered?
No one had ever suspected the old lady's illness. They all thought that the old lady was greedy for coolness at night and accidentally caught a cold. She was relieved in her heart, thinking that she could escape safely this time.
She also thought that after a few days, she would find an opportunity to leave the mansion, saying that she was old and was afraid that she could not serve the old lady well, so she wanted to leave the mansion and live with her family. That person said that he would help her family get a new identity, so that she could get rid of her status as a slave and live the rest of her life as a commoner.
Unexpectedly, the truth was exposed all of a sudden!
So when she saw Xu's mother coming in, Aunt Wan didn't show any panic or surprise, but was very calm.
"Madame Wan, I don't think I have ever wronged you. Even the old lady trusts you. Why did you do such a thing? Who bribed you to attack the old lady?"
After asking, Xu's mother signaled Xu Rui to take the cloth out of her mouth. "Madame Wan, you'd better be more sensible. I am usually kind, but that doesn't mean I am easy to fool. If you dare to play any tricks in front of me, I can't say what will happen to your children and grandchildren."
Madam Wan's face was gray. "Madam, I was wrong in this matter. I did it alone. It has nothing to do with others. I can say anything, but I just ask Madam not to involve my family. They know nothing."
"Do your family members really know nothing?"
Nanny Wan shook her head. "They really know nothing. I believe that Madam has also searched my room and found those things, right? I didn't dare to take those things back, let alone tell them."
Xu's mother looked at her steadily, her eyes full of scrutiny, and after a while she said in a calm voice: "If you tell us the truth, we will naturally not implicate the innocent."
Nanny Wan exhaled, "Someone bribed me to find an opportunity to attack the old lady. But that person didn't let me poison her, but asked me to find a normal way that would not arouse anyone's suspicion, and to do it quietly and naturally."
"Who bribed you, and when did they approach you?"
Nanny Wan answered without hesitation, "It was after the eldest lady's wedding date was set. At that time... I refused. But he came a few more times, promising more and more things, and..."
She paused, staring deeply at Xu's mother with cloudy eyes, "Finally, I agreed because I once heard that there was something wrong with his voice, and it sounded very much like the eunuchs in the palace." He
was tall and looked no different from a normal man, but his posture, voice, and behavior were very different from those of a normal man.
At first, she didn't think about the palace at all, until one time, when the man saw that she had been unwilling to let go, he was probably a little anxious, and then he showed his true colors.
Although she was a servant, she had lived in the Duke's Mansion for so many years and understood that the only person who dared to come to the Duke's Mansion to bribe servants and attack the old lady was the most powerful person in the palace.
So what could she do?
If she refused to the end, the palace would find someone else, and she and her family would probably be eliminated in the blink of an eye.
Mother Xu was horrified and took two steps back unsteadily. Xu Rui quickly reached out to support her, his face was very gloomy, and he obviously understood the deep meaning of Nanny Wan's words.
"So, Madam, there is nothing I can do! After I agreed, the man never urged me. Instead, he told me to wait for news. It was not until the eldest lady was going to marry the Crown Prince that he sent me a letter and asked me to find a chance to take action."
"I kept putting it off until a few days ago, when the man sent me something again. I thought it was a letter, but I didn't expect..."
Aunt Wan's voice choked up a little, "I didn't expect that when I opened it, it was a finger! It was the finger of my five-year-old grandson!"
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