In the main hall, Heng Youyi stood in the main seat, and Mrs. Zhao stood at the bottom, with her head lowered in repentance. Her attitude was as humble as possible, not at all as arrogant and domineering as she was in the Marquis' Mansion, and she did not take Heng Youyi, the mistress of the house, seriously.
"Mother Zhao, you are also an elder in the Marquis' Mansion, and you serve the old lady. If you are sent to the government office, it will hurt the old lady's heart." Heng Youyi spoke softly, neither hurriedly nor slowly.
When Mrs. Zhao heard this, she was overjoyed. She put away her panic and calmed down. She probably understood that the lady would let her go for the old lady's sake.
As soon as this thought came to his mind, the panic he had just felt disappeared instantly. When he looked at Heng Youyi again, his attitude unconsciously changed and he was no longer humble.
I was so anxious just now that I forgot I was the old lady's servant.
Even if the old lady spoke up, she probably wouldn't dare to send herself to the authorities.
If she were to be sent to the authorities, wouldn't that be a loss of face for the old lady? And then how could the old lady give her a good life?
If she had been smart, she would have let her go.
After figuring out the key, Mrs. Zhao straightened her back unconsciously.
Heng Youyi keenly noticed the change in Mrs. Zhao's attitude after he said that, and a hint of coldness flashed in his eyes.
Everyone in this marquis's mansion depends on her for their livelihood, but they all try to step on her and don't take her, the mistress of the house, seriously at all.
Heng Youyi sneered in his heart, but he still maintained a gentle attitude on his face, "But if I don't deal with you, I'm afraid everyone in the Marquis' Mansion will follow suit. No matter how rich the Marquis' Mansion is, it's not enough for you parasites. I will talk to the Marquis about this matter, and I think he will definitely agree to hand you over to the government."
"Of course, you can go and ask the old lady to suppress this matter. If you go and ask her, don't forget to tell her one thing. If she dares to protect you, the whole Shangjing City will spread that everything the people in the Marquis' Mansion eat and use comes from the Marquis's wife's dowry."
"Oh, by the way, by then the old lady will hear that not only everyone in the Marquis's mansion took advantage of her daughter-in-law's dowry, but she, the old lady, also allowed the servants around her to embezzle her daughter-in-law's dowry."
After hearing what Heng Youyi said, Mother Zhao was stunned. She looked at her in disbelief with her mouth slightly open.
Is the lady crazy?!
What is she going to do?
Don’t you want the reputation of the Marquisate anymore?
Heng Youyi seemed to see the doubts in Mother Zhao's heart and spoke bluntly, "The Marquis' Mansion has bullied me like this, why should I care about the reputation of the Marquis' Mansion. What do you think, Mother Zhao?"
Crazy, crazy!
This was the only thought in Mrs. Zhao's mind.
Mrs. Zhao stared at Heng Youyi intently, and finally determined that the lady was really disappointed with the Marquis's Mansion and wanted to perish along with her.
She knew very well how everyone in the Marquis's Mansion treated the lady, from the old lady to the fire-making maid.
Now the lady is using herself as a scapegoat to establish her authority in the mansion.
"Madam, I dare not."
After realizing that Heng Youyi was serious, Mrs. Zhao didn't dare to have any other thoughts.
"I only beg Madam to forgive me this time. From now on, if Madam tells me to go east, I will never dare to go west. If I dare to disobey Madam, Madam can just hand my whole family over to the government."
Now the only way to survive is to rely on my lady.
Heng Youyi raised an eyebrow, "Are you telling the truth?"
"nature."
"Well, let me ask you, why did the Marquis' Mansion want to marry me in the first place? What did the Marquis' Mansion do in that incident when I fell into the water?" Heng Youyi stared at her with cold eyes.
Mother Zhao was the most capable maidservant around the old lady, she had great power and was deeply trusted by the old lady. Many matters of the old lady passed through her hands, if the Marquis's Mansion had done anything in it, she would definitely know something.
Before, when she took her jewelry, she turned a blind eye.
Now it is convenient for her.
She only needed to use a little trick to make Mrs. Zhao's good-for-nothing son owe gambling debts. Given Mrs. Zhao's personality of treating her son like the apple of her eye, she would certainly not sit idly by and would definitely attack her dowry again.
If she catches her red-handed, and finally threatens her with the lives of her son and his entire family, she will surely be able to pry her mouth open.
When Mrs. Zhao heard Heng Youyi's question, her heart skipped a beat and she knew something was wrong.
"I'll only give you one chance." Heng Youyi blocked her mouth in advance.
Mrs. Zhao understood what she meant. She knew something. If she lied, she was afraid that she would really turn around and hand her whole family over to the government.
No wonder she could say all that just now, I'm afraid she knows a lot.
After weighing the pros and cons in her mind, Mrs. Zhao confessed honestly, "The Marquis's Mansion is running out of money, and the Marquis has no money to manage it, so he is not appreciated by the higher-ups. So the Marquis chose the wife's family. The Heng family is very wealthy, and the Marquis wants to use the Heng family's financial resources to help him get into the official career. But the Marquis doesn't want outsiders to think that he is marrying the wife for money, in order to avoid being laughed at by the powerful in the future."
"The Marquis designed to get to know your half-brother, and called him a brother. He promised your half-brother that he would help him take charge of the Heng family, and he would help the Marquis to marry you. The two of them then designed to make the lady fall into the water, and the Marquis would go to rescue her."
"In this way, the Marquis will have a reason to marry you, and he can naturally use the Heng family for his own benefit."
It is true!
"Was this all planned by Fu Wenlin, or by the mother and son alone?"
"Yes, it was the old lady who chose you because she thought you were able to personally provide porridge to the poor people and that you were kind-hearted and must be easy to control, so she chose you. In fact, the Marquis also planned to do so, but he was hesitant to make a decision because he had Miss Xu in his mind."
"Does Xu Lanzhi know about this?" Heng Youyi asked.
Mrs. Zhao nodded. "Ms. Xu knew about it a long time ago, and was very considerate to let him do it. After the old lady knew about it, she praised Miss Xu for being a sensible person."
In other words, Fu Wenlin and Xu Lanzhi, this pair of dogs, shamelessly took advantage of her guilt and squeezed her.
Every time Xu Lanzhi quarreled with Fu Wenlin, Fu Wenlin shamelessly put all the blame on her, and always asked her to apologize to Xu Lanzhi and gave her her favorite head ornaments and jewelry as a token of atonement.
At that time, she really thought that it was because of her that the two people who obviously loved each other could not be together. Whenever she saw them quarreling, she felt guilty and thought it was her fault.
Therefore, every time Fu Wenlin asked her to send something to apologize, she had no complaints.
There were even a few times when Xu Lanzhi deliberately picked out her favorite headwear and jewelry, and she just thought that Xu Lanzhi was unhappy and had a grudge against her, so she gave them to her with reluctance.
But now tell me, whether it was Xu Lanzhi or Fu Wenlin, they were insiders from the beginning to the end and were also the planners.
She was kept in the dark about the whole thing and was played around by these people.
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