Leaving these words behind, he also ran in the direction where Sister Feng had just been killed. Luo Lan hurriedly called out at this time:
“Uncle, don’t…”
As she finished her words, Shui Youcai was lying on the ground with blood all over his head, dead.
"father……"
Shui Chunhua rushed to his side like crazy, shaking his body and crying bitterly.
"Dad, if you leave, what will happen to Mom and me? Dad..."
Looking at this scene, Leng Yu held Luo Lan's hand distressedly and comforted her softly.
"Lan'er, he deserves it. Don't be too sad."
The scholar standing in front of them suddenly knelt on his knees.
"Empress, we have just understood. Everything that happened in Yilan County has nothing to do with you. It was your uncle and Sister Feng who were in charge. We, the insignificant miners, would like to ask you to spare his daughter for the sake of your deceased uncle!"
Seeing this, the others also knelt down.
"Please, Your Majesty, spare her."
"Please, Your Majesty, spare her."
"Please, Your Majesty, spare her."
Listening to everyone's cheers, Luo Lan felt very grateful.
Although she really wanted to fulfill her uncle's dying wish, Shui Chunhua was guilty after all, and she could not ask Leng Yu to reduce her punishment.
Now these victims actually knelt down and begged for her in order not to embarrass her. How could she not be grateful?
Luo Lan glanced at Leng Yu, and Leng Yu nodded to her.
"Lan'er, you make the decision on this matter."
Luo Lan pondered for a while, then slowly walked to Shui Chunhua and looked down at her.
"Shui Chunhua, your father died for you, and you still don't repent?"
Shui Chunhua looked up at her,
"If I wasn't afraid that my mother would be left alone, I would rather die with my father. If he's gone, what's the point of us living on?"
"So you want your father to die in vain?"
Her question made Shui Chunhua stunned for a moment. Yes, her father committed suicide out of fear of punishment so that she and her mother could survive. What reason did she have to say such cowardly words here?
She looked up at Luo Lan and knelt on her knees again.
"Empress, I only ask you to give me a chance to make amends. If you have any questions, just ask. I, Shui Chunhua, dare not tell a single lie."
Her words finally made Luo Lan breathe a sigh of relief.
She looked at her solemnly.
"Tell me everything you know, and I will ask the Emperor to spare your life. However, even if the death penalty is spared, the living punishment cannot be escaped. Apart from a small living allowance for you and your mother, all your property must be turned over to the national treasury. Are you willing?"
Shui Chunhua smiled bitterly with a look of dejection in her eyes, then nodded.
"Besides staying alive, what else can I complain about? Do whatever you want. As long as you don't let my mother and I starve, I'll be thankful."
Luo Lan warned seriously again:
"Also, from today on, I no longer have you as my sister, and you no longer have me as your sister. Don't talk nonsense in front of outsiders. If this happens again, I will definitely not let you off easily. Do you remember this?"
"Oh! If there's an afterlife, I don't want to know you again. If it weren't for you, our family would have lived a good life in Willow Village. Why would we end up here? How did Dabao die on the way? We did all this because you forced us to do it."
When Dabao was mentioned, Luo Lan's heart skipped a beat.
If she hadn't mentioned it, she would have almost forgotten that she had a younger brother named Shui Dabao.
When Luo Lan heard that he died on the way, his heart ached.
No wonder my uncle only pleaded for Shui Chunhua and her daughter before he died.
She breathed a sigh of relief and waved to the people behind her.
"Take her down, write down everything she knows, and find out her address. Then, according to the imperial order, search her house, but only take one-third of it!"
Thinking of her father who had just passed away and Shui Dabao who died on the way, she finally couldn't bear to kill them all.
Leng Yu had no objection to her actions. As long as she could feel at ease, he would tolerate anything.
One day later.
Shui Chunhua truthfully confessed her collusion with an official in the court. The magistrate of Yilan County, Hu Tian, was indeed an official bought from Shui Chunhua with a large sum of money. He was also the person she planted in Yilan County to monitor Fengjie.
But this Hu Tian is simply a drunkard who doesn't care about anything and just spends all his time having fun in the county government office.
This gave the legal advisor Wang Chao an opportunity to take advantage of, and this gave Feng Jie the opportunity to act lawless in Yilan County.
Hu Tian was a court official and was taken to the capital for trial. Wang Chao would be executed on a certain day.
All the casinos and brothels under Fengjie's name were closed down, and the girls also scattered and went their separate ways.
As for the gold mine, Leng Yu ordered it to be temporarily closed. Anyone who dared to mine it without his order would be charged with deceiving the emperor.
Du Xiaoyue would never have dreamed that the person who saved her would be the Queen. She knelt in front of Luo Lan, lowered her head and said:
"Empress, my mother said that it is a great honor for our family to have your blessing. I have no way to repay your great kindness. Please accept my three bows, Empress."
After she finished speaking, she was about to kowtow, but Luo Lan hurried forward to help her up.
"Xiaoyue, you are also a pitiful person. I was able to save you along the way. It can be considered that you and I are destined. In the future, there will be no more of those messy people in Yilan County. You can live a good life and find a good man to marry in the future!"
"Yes, Xiaoyue will definitely listen to the Queen. Xiaoyue has met the Queen, and this is enough for Xiaoyue to brag about for the rest of her life."
Luo Lan smiled and said to A Cai beside him:
"Her family lives in poverty. Our acquaintance is fate. Give her ten taels of silver!"
Hearing this, Du Xiaoyue knelt down and kowtowed again.
"Thank you, Queen, thank you, Queen. You are our family's great benefactor."
Luo Lan waved his hand with a smile on his face.
"Go!"
Du Xiaoyue took the ten taels of silver and left happily.
Looking at her back, Ah Cai said with emotion:
"Fortunately, she wasn't dragged into the water, otherwise, she wouldn't even be able to cry at this moment."
"Yes, those girls from Xiangyue Tower will probably move to another place and continue doing their old job. No one can stop this."
"Everyone's lifestyle is different. Your Majesty, please take a good rest today. The Emperor said that we will set off early tomorrow morning."
"I know. The Emperor told me this this morning. You should go down and rest for a while. I want to be alone for a while."
For some reason, this trip to Yilan County made her feel a little heavy-hearted.
I used to think that my uncle lived an ordinary life with his family and it was good that he was happy every day.
But when the truth came to light, she realized that it was all her imagination, and her originally kind uncle would become very different from before.
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