When Lin Zao summoned Li Xiaotao's personal maid for questioning, she actually had some guesses in her mind.
How could it be such a coincidence? She encountered so many men in black when she came here, as if it was a pre-arranged ambush.
She strongly suspected that the Yang family couldn't find an opportunity to deal with her, which is why they started their attack on Li Xiaotao.
Han Qingyuan, Tang Jian, and Lin Zao sat on chairs in the main hall, looking at the trembling maid kneeling below.
"Tell me, what exactly happened? Why was your wife hit by the car?"
"Reporting to the General's wife, this morning, our lady planned to go to the cloth shop to buy some soft fabric to make some underwear for the young master."
"Who knew that a man without legs and with horribly scarred faces would suddenly crawl up to the lady and knock her down while shouting."
"The lady was greatly frightened, which led to premature birth."
Upon hearing this, the three people present all felt that something was amiss.
Han Qingyuan stared at the maid on the ground with a fierce look in his eyes.
"My wife has rarely gone out since she became pregnant. Why did she suddenly go out today? Didn't you stop her?"
"And another thing! A man with both legs broken can stop the madam and even bump into her, what are you good for?"
As he finished speaking, Han Qingyuan slammed his hand on the table and stood up, glaring at the maid through gritted teeth.
Perhaps sensing Han Qingyuan's murderous gaze, the little maid was finally frightened and lost her previous feigned composure.
He stammered:
"Young master, I tried to persuade Madam, but... but I dared not disobey her. And that man... he was too frightening; I didn't react in time..."
"Please forgive me, young master. I really didn't mean it."
The maid seemed to realize what was happening and kept begging for mercy.
Lin Zao became increasingly certain that something was wrong with this maid; her initial statement seemed to have been prepared in advance.
Actually, she shouldn't have specifically explained why Li Xiaotao went out; her first sentence should have been about how she was hit by the car.
That would have been a reasonable reaction, but unfortunately, that's not what she did, which is why the others began to suspect her.
"How dare you! You still dare to hide it!"
When Han Qingyuan saw that she still dared to argue, he couldn't help but shout angrily.
"Just for your failure to protect your master, I could kill you! If you don't tell the truth, you won't leave this room alive today!"
The maid was so frightened that she banged her head against the ground, remaining silent in the face of Han Qingyuan's threats.
Seeing her seemingly giving up and letting herself be slaughtered, Lin Zao narrowed her eyes.
"It seems you're unwilling to talk. In that case, I won't hold back on your parents."
Before the maid could react, Lin Zao waved her hand, "Someone come here!"
She said with a smile:
"Arrest all her family members! Give them dozens of lashes first! I'll release them whenever I'm in a better mood."
"Yes!" Tian Bu'er, who came with Tang Jian, responded loudly.
The maidservant suddenly looked up and stared at Lin Zao in horror.
Seeing that she didn't seem to be joking, she quickly called out.
"No! This servant knows she was wrong! Please, General's wife, spare my family. This servant is willing to tell the truth!"
Now she was finally scared. It wasn't that she wasn't afraid of death, she was just more worried about her family!
The little maid looked at Lin Zao with a pale face, and finally resigned herself to her fate and spoke up.
"Someone gave me 500 taels of silver to lure the lady out today..."
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