Leng Yu quickly raised his hands and pressed them down.
"Everyone, I'm not the only one who helped you escape from this sea of suffering. It also includes my wife, the Empress, and his wife, a woman named Xiaoling, and her mother-in-law. If they hadn't traveled thousands of miles to the capital to file a complaint, we wouldn't even know what happened here. Today, I want to clarify one thing. The person who committed this evil act under the banner of being as close to the Empress as sisters is indeed the Empress's adoptive parents' sister. However, they were expelled from the capital many years ago, and everything they did has nothing to do with the Empress. From now on, no one is allowed to say a word against the Empress behind her back. If I hear them, I will punish them for deceiving the emperor."
He clarified the matter for Luo Lan in front of everyone, which touched Luo Lan very much. This also fully proved the position of Luo Lan in his heart.
Fengjie knelt on the ground, listening to these words, biting her lips in hatred.
How could the man she liked be the emperor? No wonder she treated him so well, yet he showed no interest in her at all. It turned out that he had never even looked at her straight in the eye.
It seems that she is too self-indulgent and too self-righteous.
And there was that woman named Lan Meng. No wonder I felt she was different the first time I saw her. It turned out that she was the Queen. This was something that no one would dare to believe. The Queen actually played music in her Xiangyue Tower.
While she was thinking about this, Leng Yu pointed at them and said to the miners:
"The people who harmed you are right in front of you. How do you want to punish them? Tell us."
After looking around for a while, the scholar boldly raised his hand and said:
"Search their homes and divide the money among those who have worked for years without receiving any salary. Also give some to the families of those who died in the mines. Then, deal with them according to the laws of Daning."
As soon as he said this, all the miners nodded in agreement.
"What the scholar said is right. Let's do it this way. We can't have worked for so many years in vain. Our wives and children are waiting for us to go back and support the family."
"The scholar is right, he is right."
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The crowd's voices of agreement grew louder and louder. At this moment, a group of women came running over from a distance. They had heard that the mine had been raided by soldiers and all the miners had been released, so they were in a hurry to find their men.
After these women and children found their men one by one, they began to hug each other and cry.
Xiaoling brought her mother-in-law to Leng Yu and Luo Lan, and they both knelt down, looking at them with tears in their eyes.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you are the great benefactors of the people of Yilan County. Without you, none of us would be able to survive. Your Majesty and Your Majesty, please accept our three bows."
As soon as she finished speaking, the women behind her pulled their children to their knees and kowtowed three times to Leng Yu and Luo Lan.
This scene made Luo Lan's nose sore and tears welled up. Leng Yu raised his hand to hug her shoulders and whispered in her ear:
"Lan'er, it's all over at last. We've got what we wanted."
"Yes, this trip has been full of twists and turns, but this result is beyond my expectations."
As she spoke, she turned to look at Shui Youcai who was kneeling on the ground, and there was still a trace of sadness in her heart.
He was her uncle after all. She still remembered the dish of fish he gave her the night before her wedding...
But now, he has done something wrong, and she is powerless to help him, and she cannot help him.
She looked at Leng Yu,
"Yilan County Magistrate and Master Wang Chao, what do you want to do with them?"
"I have already sent people to the county government office to arrest them, and have also notified the prefectural government office to send someone to temporarily replace him."
"How many of them are there?"
Leng Yu looked at her with a frown on his face.
"I want to stay here for two more days. I want to interrogate them thoroughly to see who is behind the daring sale of imperial positions. It seems I need to take charge of the government of Daning State."
"Well, everything is up to the emperor. How to deal with the crimes committed by Shui Youcai and Shui Chunhua is also up to the emperor to decide!"
Leng Yu nodded, turned around and looked at the three big words "Jingxinyuan".
"What a shame for such a nice courtyard and such an elegant name! Come, seal this place off and bring these people to the county government office. I want to personally try the case."
As soon as he finished speaking, several officials came forward and sealed the gate of Jingxinyuan. Seeing this, Sister Feng clenched her fists tightly and looked at Leng Yu.
"Your Majesty, I know I will never be able to possess you, nor your heart, in this lifetime, but my love for you is sincere. I, Feng Jie, knew this day would come sooner or later. I just never imagined that the man who brought me to justice would be the man I deeply love, the Emperor of Daning. Regardless, being able to spend so much time with Your Majesty has been worth it to me."
At this point, she wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with some emotion.
"I just hope that if there is an afterlife, I can meet you first."
Leaving these words behind, she suddenly laughed miserably, then got up from the ground, Leng Yu blurted out,
"Stop her..."
But it was still a step too late. Fengjie, determined to die, slammed hard into the stone statue at the door. Blood gushed out of her head and she died in the home she had built with her own hands.
Seeing this scene, everyone present sighed. Leng Yu instructed the guards:
"The dead are the greatest, drag them away and bury them!"
Shui Youcai heaved a long sigh of relief when he saw this scene. He suddenly looked at Luo Lan and said word by word with tears in his eyes:
"Lan'er, uncle is sorry for you. Uncle shouldn't have been bewitched by the devil. Over the years, I've been swindling people everywhere in your name, damaging your reputation. But...but all of this was really done by uncle. You know, your aunt and Chunhua are both stupid people with brains but no heart. She did all these things under my command. Can you please, for uncle's sake, spare them? Uncle kowtows to you, uncle admits his guilt, uncle was wrong, uncle was wrong."
While saying this, Shui Youcai kept knocking his head until his scalp was broken. Only then did Luo Lan breathe a sigh of relief.
"You've ruined so many families, and now you're begging me for help. What can I do? If you had known this would happen, why did you do it in the first place? Uncle, I'll call you uncle for the last time. Our relationship as uncle and nephew has come to an end. I have no right to interfere with how this matter will be handled, and I don't want to ask. You can handle it on your own!"
"Lan'er, uncle treated you badly in the past. No matter what, uncle also saved your life. Back then, you married into the palace and became the Princess of Yu. Apart from the one thousand taels of silver your aunt took, I never took any benefits from you. This is the last time uncle asks you, please spare their lives, please give them a way out, please let them live for uncle's sake. Uncle... uncle is leaving first."
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