"My lord, I am one of the owners of this seafood restaurant, Su Yuanzhi. I am filing a complaint against this man for bringing a dead body to my restaurant for a meal."
Furthermore, they falsely accused the restaurant of serving poisonous food, which affected my business. They demanded a total compensation of 57,826 taels of silver, including business losses and restaurant renovation costs.
"What?" Lord Li picked at his ears in disbelief.
"Boss Su, are you mistaken? This young man is the one suing your restaurant."
"What's going on? I received a report from the seafood restaurant that someone is causing trouble here?"
Prefect Wang, dressed in official robes, walked in from outside. He first saw Gu Kaizhen and then Ning Bao.
Prefect Wang had met Ning Bao at a banquet at the Prefect's residence before; it was Prefect Wang who handled Gu Ying's case back then.
Ningbao had a good impression of Prefect Wang; she thought he was a good official.
Lord Li was also taken aback when he saw Prefect Wang, and then quickly went to greet him.
"Your Excellency, what brings you here? This is a minor case; I can handle it myself."
Prefect Wang glanced at Lord Li.
"Lord Li, someone has reported this to me, and I certainly cannot sit idly by."
"Guards! Take all those involved back for thorough interrogation."
Prefect Wang was decisive and took all the parties involved back with him.
Watching Prefect Wang leave with his men, Lord Li felt the situation was spiraling out of control. He walked up to Huang Weidong, his expression grim.
"Didn't you say everything was arranged?"
You're telling me you've arranged everything with so many loopholes?
You've really gotten me into serious trouble this time.
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Su Yuanzhi is the apparent owner of the seafood restaurant, so he will definitely be going back to be interrogated.
Gu Kaizhen walked up to Ning Bao.
"Little girl, would you like to come along and take a look?"
Ning Bao's eyes lit up.
"May I?"
Gu Kaizhen nodded.
"sure."
He bent down and picked up Ningbao, then looked at Bai Ming.
"Brother Bai, let's go together."
Before leaving, the group specifically instructed their servants to give a message to Shen Yuzhen and the others.
After all, someone died in the restaurant, which is a big deal. It's better to tell them in case they're worried.
Before they could even torture him at the prefect's office, the man confessed that the old lady was indeed his mother.
However, she didn't die now, but two hours ago.
The man's name was Zhao Liu, and he was usually a scoundrel.
He was worried about how to repay the debt he owed to the gambling den when someone approached him and repaid the debt directly.
He was also promised five hundred taels of silver if he helped him with something.
Five hundred miles was an astronomical figure for him, and he agreed without hesitation.
Zhao Liu's mother was already sick from angering her son. When she learned that her son was going to use her to harm others, she disagreed, but no matter how she tried to persuade him, she couldn't change his mind.
Having no other choice, he simply drank the rat poison in the house. Upon seeing his mother dead, Zhao Liu not only showed no sadness but also carried her body to the restaurant.
Because Aunt Zhao was petite and Zhao Liu was tall and strong, he carried his mother's corpse and swaggered into the restaurant.
To outsiders, it looked as if he was helping his elderly mother walk.
Following the clues, Huang Weidong was stopped at the door by officials as soon as he arrived home.
Ning Bao then offered to report the ghost to the authorities, and Prefect Wang's expression was quite varied upon hearing that Ning Bao wanted to do so.
However, having learned from the previous experience, the process was much faster this time. Originally, it was thought that the investigation into the Fu family's matter would take a long time to find evidence, since so much time had passed.
But Prefect Wang never expected that Huang Weidong's current wife would stand up and testify.
She even revealed a lot of evidence useful to the case, revealing that Huang Weidong had taken a new lover after gaining power, which greatly disappointed Madam Huang...
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