Zhuang Li originally just wanted Wan Jun to check Yu Yuxian's recent movements to see what she was up to, but he didn't expect that the investigation would uncover a shocking case.
After receiving the information handed over by Wanjun, Zhuang Li saw the clue almost at a glance.
"She has been in frequent contact with these five wealthy businessmen recently?" Zhuang Li pointed at the file.
"Yes, these five people have been inviting Yu Yuxian to their homes recently to recite poetry and compose couplets. They often get together to drink and have fun all night long, and they've even become sworn brothers. Yu Yuxian lost all her money in business, but with the financial support of these people, she's slowly recovering. The jewelry store she opened in East City was funded by these five people."
Wan Jun concluded, "I suspect these five men have discovered Yu Yuxian's identity as a woman, and they're using this as a threat to force her into becoming their concubine. The so-called heterosexual brotherhood is just a facade."
"Be more confident and remove the word 'doubt'." Zhuang Li said nonchalantly.
Wanjun responded obediently, not even daring to breathe.
Wan Jun, who frequently traveled between the Zhuang family's residence and the Imperial Palace, naturally knew the extraordinary abilities of Master Zhuang. Now, Master Zhuang handled eighty-nine times of the Emperor's government affairs. The Emperor's greatest contribution was sitting beside Master Zhuang, helping him grind ink, massage his legs, serve tea, and pour water. Afterwards, he would take Master Zhuang to the martial arts training ground and demonstrate his swordplay for him.
Wan Jun said awkwardly, not knowing what he was thinking about. "On the way back, I received a message from the Emperor. He asked you to go back to the palace to sleep tonight. He said he couldn't sleep without you all night and had a terrible headache."
Zhuang Li was still carefully examining the information, not reacting at all. 7480, however, sneered, "Haha, the gigolo king has finally gotten ahead of himself. He's even learned how to act like a spoiled brat. He's not having a headache at all! I think he's having a pain in his dick!"
Zhuang Li also chuckled in his heart: "I don't know where he hurts, I only know that your butt hurts."
7480 quickly covered his butt and shut his mouth in grievance.
Zhuang Li pointed to the file and said, "Go check the wives and daughters of these five people to see if there is anything unusual about them."
Wan Jun bowed and asked, "Sir, have you noticed anything wrong?"
"Something's clearly wrong. This daughter of Li Dafu was first seriously ill and bedridden for half a month, taking daily medicine. Then she was sent to a nunnery in the mountains to practice asceticism. Think about the weather right now. Once the snow blocks the mountain, Miss Li won't be able to return to the capital. She'll have to spend the New Year away from home. A girl, left alone out there, with no home to return to, no family to see, what else could that be but exile?"
Zhuang Li asked in return, "Why do you think Li Dafu exiled his own daughter?"
In this world, women exiled from their families are often guilty of infidelity. Thinking of Yu Yuxian's methods of seducing his boss, Wan Jun felt a chill in his heart.
"I'll check it out right away!" he said with a gloomy face.
"You should not only check Li Dafu's daughter, but also the wives and daughters of the other four men to see if they have seen a doctor recently, if they are seriously ill, or if they are acting abnormally." Zhuang Li suggested.
Wan Jun accepted the order and left quickly. A few days later, he returned with more detailed intelligence, his face showing a mixture of relief and sinister intent.
"Sure enough." Zhuang Li sighed after just one glance.
Wanjun sent a nun to approach the daughter of the Li family and learned the horrifying truth.
Under the guidance of the nun, the unfortunate girl finally confessed the truth: she was bullied by Yu Yuxian. She was not very clear about the specific process. She only knew that Yu Yuxian came to her home to drink at the invitation of her father and secretly gave her a message, asking her not to close the window when she went to bed at night and wait for him to meet her at night.
Miss Li had long admired Yu Yuxian's talent and indeed she had not closed the window at night, but somehow she fell asleep while waiting. When she woke up in the morning she found herself lying in the pavilion outside the yard, naked, with blood all over her body and severe pain. She had inexplicably lost her virginity.
The girl collapsed on the spot and said that it was Yu Yuxian who was responsible.
Her mother went to Li Dafu to report Yu Yuxian, but Li Dafu slapped her hard and said it was impossible.
The daughter of the Li family was so ashamed and angry that she wanted to die, and she hated her father for being so ruthless. She would rather trust an outsider than her own daughter, and she hanged herself that night.
Fortunately, her mother watched her closely and saved her from the brink of death in time.
During the two days she was trying to commit suicide, Yu Yuxian stayed at her house without any hesitation or guilt. She seemed to enjoy Miss Li's suffering and often ran to her residence to observe her despair and madness.
Miss Li hated her so much that she almost stabbed her to death with a pair of scissors. That same day, Li Dafu sent her to a nunnery in the mountains and completely exiled her.
Now, Miss Li has lost all hope and has become a nun.
The homes of the other four wealthy businessmen were also not peaceful.
After Miss Li, four more girls experienced the same thing one after another. They were all the most favored daughters in the family.
Now, one of these four girls is depressed and bedridden; one is so stupid that she has gone crazy; one is in a daze like a walking corpse; and one is married off to an old man in his sixties as a concubine by her parents. She was carried away from the back door of her home in a sedan chair, and the whole process was quiet and without any noise.
Their flower-like lives suddenly withered in this winter.
The five wealthy businessmen didn't react at first. They just thought that Yu Yuxian was a woman and it was impossible for her to bully their daughter.
But later, as this happened more and more, they figured out the truth. Yu Yuxian didn't have that thing, but they used all sorts of tricks to play tricks on him.
Yu Yuxian can use these props on their daughter.
She's retaliating with an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
After ruining these five girls, Yu Yuxian now had leverage over these five wealthy businessmen, so she had been living a comfortable life recently. Those five men, either to protect their daughters' honors, to maintain their family's reputation, or simply out of fear, no longer dared to seek pleasure with Yu Yuxian.
They were really scared.
Yu Yuxian, in turn, extorted a lot of money from them and was now buying up shops on a large scale.
Being able to turn an absolute disadvantage into an advantage, it must be said that Yu Yuxian's methods are really cruel.
Zhuang Liqi laughed, pointed at the information, and said, "Go to the mountain and find Miss Li. Have her write a complaint to accuse Yu Yuxian. If Yu Yuxian dares to use the same method on my sister, I must kill her. If Miss Li has any concerns, tell her that I will not hold this case open to the public, and tell her not to worry about her reputation. If her father doesn't want to help her get revenge, I will do it for her."
Wanjun bowed in agreement and left in a hurry, unable to conceal the murderous look on his face.
He had already guessed what Yu Yuxian was planning to do to the boss. She was going to use those dirty and sinister means to destroy the boss, and it would be best if she could force the boss to hang himself because he was too embarrassed to face anyone.
It wouldn’t be a pity if such a person died a hundred times!
Wan Jun found Miss Li that night and asked her to write a petition.
Miss Li was indeed worried and hesitated to agree.
Wanjun then repeated what Lord Zhuang had said.
Miss Li was stunned for a long moment before she burst into tears. Heartbroken but filled with gratitude, she said, "Thank you, my lord, for helping me get revenge. I'll write it, I'll write it right away!"
A petition filled with blood and tears was thus delivered to Zhuang Li.
He didn't need to send anyone to find the other four victims, nor did he need to collect any evidence. With just this clue, he could put Yu Yuxian in jail and sentence him to death.
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That night, Yu Yuxian and Li were sitting on the couch counting their family property.
"Mom, did you see that?" Yu Yuxian pointed at the silver ingots covering the bed and sneered, "Even if I fall into the mud, I can still stand up again. Look at that loser in the west room. Even if there are ten of them, can they compare to me?"
The waste in the west room naturally refers to her half-brother.
Mrs. Li gathered the silver ingots in her arms and smiled from ear to ear: "My son is really amazing. He has earned back the family fortune so quickly. It turned out to be the right decision to raise you as a man. You are even stronger than your father."
Yu Yuxian picked up the wine jug and took a big gulp, with a smile on his face, but his pupils were dark.
No amount of money or shops could fill the void in her heart.
She needs to use the pain of others to fill her own incompleteness. She needs more fresh lives, these lives must be as beautiful as flowers and as free as birds.
Only when she could easily crush these lives could she find the feeling of being alive.
The glory of passing the imperial examination, the glory of entering the Hanlin Academy, and the pride of being a fifth-rank official at a young age can all be felt again by her when she cruelly destroys these lives.
Yu Yuxian drank wine in big gulps, and the smile on his face became more and more wild and more and more morbid.
At this moment, the officers and soldiers broke down the door of her house, rushed into her yard, pointed a big knife at her neck, and dragged her out.
Li chased after him, shouting, "Why are you arresting my son?"
Neither of them had time to put on shoes, their clothes were disheveled, their hair was disheveled, and they looked very disheveled.
The officers and soldiers were annoyed by Li's noise and slapped her hard.
Yu Yuxian was also screaming, yelling, and roaring, and the leading officer directly knocked his teeth out with the handle of his knife.
"Why are you yelling? Don't you know what you've done wrong? Five lives, do you think this is a joke?"
The officer only gave a slight reminder, and Yu Yuxian's face turned pale.
Her screams, curses, and roars were instantly trapped in her throat, turning her face blue. She hadn't expected such an ugly thing to happen. Those five bastards actually dared to report it to the police. Didn't they want to see people in the future? How could they live if outsiders knew they had lost their virginity?
If it were Yu Yuxian herself, she would never let anyone else know about this.
So she put herself in their shoes and thought that the five women wouldn't be able to speak either.
At first, things turned out just as she expected: those five people were either crazy, stupid, or forced to accept their fate by their families.
Yu Yuxian exchanged their pain and despair for his own liberation and new life.
But after less than two months of triumph, she was brought down from the clouds again. Why? Who was behind this?
Yu Yuxian struggled almost madly. In the light of the fire, she saw her mother lying on the ground crying loudly, and she also saw her half-brother hiding in the corridor and watching secretly.
That damn bastard actually had a smile on his face and a gleam of satisfaction in his eyes.
However, his smile faded in an instant, and he chased after him with a worried look on his face, asking, "Sir, may I ask what crime my brother has committed?"
"You don't need to ask what she has done wrong. I can only tell you that you can prepare a coffin for her." The officer grabbed Yu Yuxian's hair and walked forward with a very vicious tone.
Commander Wan Da directly delivered the message that the prisoner would definitely be put to death.
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