Chapter 148 Selling out Madam Sun
Aunt Zhou was shocked. "How could he be dead? If we use this as evidence against Consort Wu in the future, it might still be of some use to him."
The Third Prince's eyes flickered as he chuckled, "He is dead, but it was a fake death. Magistrate Li cut off one of his legs, and he's locked up now."
After calming down, Aunt Zhou said, "I was so scared! It was just a false alarm."
The Third Prince softened his gaze and reassured her, "Zhou'er, Ruiyuan and I will take care of these things from now on, so you don't need to worry."
Aunt Zhou nodded, glanced at the incense workshop in the backyard, and said, "Okay, I'll honestly make incense from now on."
Speaking of incense making, she used freshly picked spikenard to make new incense balls. The fragrance was even more refreshing than the previous mint dew, and she estimated that it would sell for a good price.
Du Wanchun came out of the incense shop. "Third Uncle, since it was a false alarm, don't be too nervous."
After saying that, he pointed to the kitchen and said, "Mom, I specially cooked pig's trotters today. Look, they smell so good."
Upon hearing this, the Third Prince hurriedly went to the kitchen. Seeing the braised pig's trotters that had been cooked, he frowned and looked at Aunt Zhou, saying, "You, you, I already told you, don't go into the kitchen."
Aunt Zhou smiled and said, "Okay, I won't go next time."
Du Wanchun's move did indeed distract the Third Prince. Now, all he could think about was how tiring it would be to cook braised pig's trotters. He couldn't let her suffer any more, so he quickly finished cooking all the remaining dishes.
He was afraid that Aunt Zhou would try to take over the work from him again.
Everyone had been busy all day and was hungry.
Zhou Zhao helped carry the food to the front room.
The family ate their meal in peace.
While the Zhou family was enjoying their meal, several bandits were growing impatient waiting in a dilapidated temple ten miles away.
"What's going on? Why hasn't the Zhou family brought the money yet?"
"Yes, didn't Master Sun say that the Zhou family would definitely bring the money after today?"
"Could something have gone wrong?"
A group of people huddled together, feeling melancholy.
Just then, one of the bandits on guard inside jogged over and said, "Boss, something's wrong, we've tied up the wrong person."
"What do you mean, 'tied up wrong'?" The tall bandit was completely confused and stood up to ask him.
The bandits who rushed over said in a panic, "We're not helping that woman from the Zhou family, but the lady from the Sun family!"
"What?" The tall man was startled and rushed into the dilapidated temple.
When Madam Sun saw someone enter, she cursed at him, "You bunch of beasts! You can't even tie someone up properly, and you've actually brought me here!"
At first, she had a cloth stuffed in her mouth and couldn't say a word. But when the bandits removed the cloth from her mouth and fed her water, she immediately revealed her identity.
At first, the bandit didn't believe it, but after Madam Sun told him about all the evil deeds they had done, he rushed to tell his boss.
The tall thug looked at Madam Sun, still somewhat disbelieving. "You say you're Madam Sun?"
Madam Sun glared at him and scolded, "How can you all have such dog eyes? How could a peasant woman look like me?"
The tall bandit looked closely at Madam Sun and saw that she had fair skin and delicate features, clearly not a peasant woman. He then realized that he had indeed arrested the wrong person.
"lady?!"
He was startled and quickly untied the ropes binding Madam Sun.
Madam Sun raised her hand and slapped him hard across the face. "You're utterly useless! You can't even tie a person up properly!"
The tall bandit was furious after being slapped, but for the sake of Master Sun's money, he had no choice but to endure it and apologize, saying, "Madam, I'm really sorry. We failed in our duties. You can hit me or scold me as you please."
Madam Sun was furious and kicked him again.
Just then, a henchman who had gone to the county to gather information came running up, panting, "Boss, something's happened to the Sun family!"
The tall man's face darkened, and he turned to look at his underling, "The Sun family? What happened?"
The younger brother glanced at Madam Sun, who was still arrogantly standing to the side, and replied in a low voice with his head down: "Prefect Zheng found out that the Sun family had sent someone to frame the Liu family and burned down the Liu family's shop. Prefect Zheng sent people to seal up all of his shops and houses and brought him back to the yamen."
"After being taken back to the yamen, Master Sun committed suicide out of fear of punishment!"
"Dead?" The tall bandit was shocked. "He died without even giving us the silver?!"
All the bandits present were stunned, their faces full of resentment. "That's right, we've been busy for so long, and we haven't even gotten a single copper coin!"
"No, we can't just work for nothing!"
"That's right!"
Madam Sun stood there stunned for a moment, then immediately walked up to the servant and asked again, "Is our Master Sun really dead?"
The younger brother nodded and replied, "That's right, I heard the bodies have all been sent back to the Sun family."
As if struck by lightning, Madam Sun lost her balance and fell to the ground.
At this moment, the tall bandit looked at her and said, "Your master is dead, so you have to give us that silver!"
The henchman quickly said, "Brother, the Sun family's shops and houses have been sealed off, where would she get any money!"
Madam Sun quickly looked up and said, "Yes, I have money! My family has plenty of money!"
The younger brother then said, "Madam, you may not know, but your family has also been sealed off; their entire property has been confiscated!"
In order to prevent Madam Sun from tipping off anyone, Prefect Zheng went a step further and investigated Madam Sun's family as well, finding that none of them were any good.
Upon hearing this, Madam Sun felt a wave of dizziness and fainted.
The younger brother frowned as he looked at the unconscious Madam Sun and asked, "Brother, what should we do with this person?"
The tall bandit thought for a moment and said, "Since the Sun family can't give us money, we might as well sell this woman."
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