"This little trick is obvious at first glance. The woman cried out how pitiful and distressed she was, but her performance was not good enough, not sincere enough. She couldn't stop crying. If she had truly destroyed a family's hope of survival, it would be like taking their lives for ordinary people. How could she do that?"
But Gao Fuyin believed that it was the rich boy's fault.
"Hey, since you said you didn't destroy it, do you have any witnesses?"
"Little man~ There was only one clerk in the store at that time, he~"
"There are witnesses and evidence, yet you still deny it. If it wasn't you who did it, why wouldn't he allow you to testify?"
"I've been wronged, it's such a huge injustice!"
"Mother Gao, the prefect, deliberately assumed that the rich boy had done it, hoping to extort money from him."
"The New Year is coming soon. Can't these people in the government get more money to celebrate the New Year? We are also sheep to be slaughtered."
"Come here, give him ten smacks first and see if he admits defeat."
"Wait, Master Gao, I have a different opinion."
Gao Fuyin had seen her coming a long time ago, but he pretended not to see her and didn't even give her a seat, treating her as if she were an ordinary person.
"Isn't this Madam Bo? Why are you here in person? I have already accepted your case. I just need to conduct a thorough investigation before retrial. After all, the shopkeeper is not a private slave, so he must be convinced."
"I certainly wouldn't dare to object to how Lord Gao wants to conduct the trial. Putting aside my wife's case, I'm just afraid that Lord Gao will be deceived by these two villains and make a wrong judgment, which will affect your reputation."
Prefect Gao's face changed, and he blamed her for being nosy. However, seeing so many people watching the fun, he had to respond.
"I rely on evidence to speak here, Madam, please don't speak without thinking."
"Of course the evidence speaks for itself. This fellow and the woman are acquainted, and their relationship is more than ordinary."
"We have never met this lady, so there is no relationship between us."
"Well, you don't see each other during the day. After all, you only see each other at night."
"You're talking nonsense~"
“This is slander!”
Both of them refuted
"Master Gao's wife is already two months pregnant. Master Gao had someone diagnose her and found out that the father of the child is the waiter."
Their faces changed drastically
"No, no, I'm here to report to the authorities, not to seek medical advice."
"We really don't know each other. I won't testify for her anymore."
As he said that, the guy tried to run away, but was kicked back by Bai Zhiyue.
Now everyone understood that the woman was probably really pregnant and that there was something fishy going on between the two of them.
"How dare you deceive me and yet still confess the truth."
This time the retrial was different. The woman confessed without being beaten with a stick. If she didn't catch the servant quickly because she was pregnant, she would be paraded through the streets, and her late husband's family would not let her go either. She could only survive if the servant recognized her and married her.
The matter was very clear. The jade was good, but it had been damaged to begin with. The two men collaborated to blackmail the wealthy businessman who had come from afar.
He was unfamiliar with the place and had no one else to testify. In addition, Prefect Gao wanted to make a profit and didn't care about the truth at all. He ruled that he was wrong and asked him to pay more money. He gave the two men a few cents to get rid of them, and the rest would belong to him.
I didn't expect Bai Zhiyue to ruin my plan.
"Humph, you made me lose money, and I'll take it all from you later."
Gao Fuyin secretly cursed
The rich young man was extremely grateful to Bai Zhiyue
"Thank you, madam, for your kind words. I am Chen Dekai, from the Jianghuai Chen family."
"The Jianghuai Chen family, the famous Jianghuai cloth merchant Chen family?"
"Exactly. I went out for a stroll today and didn't want to fall into their trap. Thank you, Madam, for your help."
"It's not really helping, I just can't bear to see them deceiving Master Gao."
Bai Zhiyue looked at Gao Fuyin specifically
"It's a great help to me, otherwise I would have been beaten."
Gao Fuyin smiles on his face but not on his heart.
"It's all those villains who deceived me. I will not forgive them."
But he felt very regretful in his heart. If he had known that it was the wealthy Chen family, he would not have judged it like this. If he had said a word for him, he would have received a lot of thank-you fees and would have also gained face.
"Madam, I have several serious cases to try today, so your case may have to be postponed. As you know, it's the end of the year, and there's a lot of things to do. Old cases also need to be closed as much as possible, so I really don't have time."
Knowing that he was trying to gain control, Bai Zhiyue didn't waste time talking nonsense and directly took out the emperor's gold medal and flashed it in front of him.
"I'm also very busy and don't have time to come to you every day. Let's see if this thing can make you spare some time."
Gao Fuyin was stunned, afraid that he had seen it wrong. He shook the gold medal a few times and wiped his face.
Where did this woman get the imperial gold medal?
"Here, the Emperor's token is here. How dare I disobey? I will interrogate you immediately!"
Damn it, he had a yellow card but didn't take it out earlier, and he had to embarrass himself and get slapped in the face. What's more infuriating is that another sum of money flew away from him.
"Didn't the emperor demote the Su family? Why did he grant them a gold medal? This is like taking off your pants to fart, bah~"
I looked around and tried to avoid letting anyone hear my disrespectful words.
"Mother, he is not on the same page with the Emperor. He is the King of Chu's man."
"Why are you bringing up the prince again? Let's not talk about it until we've finished interrogating Shopkeeper Hu. If I had known, I wouldn't have reported it to the authorities. I'm asking for trouble."
"It's hard to deal with him if we don't report him to the authorities. Hu is a civilian, so we can't kill him. We should just take his property back. If he bites back, outsiders will accuse us of robbing him."
"The emperor is also blind. He puts such a useless official in such an important position. Isn't he afraid that the people will overthrow the imperial city one day?"
"Thankfully, we have this brand. At least he doesn't dare to bully us anymore, and he doesn't dare to treat us like sheep."
The matter was resolved. The prefect returned all the seized property. Not only did he take back all the embezzled silver, but he also added interest. If there was not enough cash, he would convert the house into silver to make up for it. Prefect Gao did not collect a single cent of the fees.
People were sentenced to fifteen years of hard labor, and every year they had to build roads and bridges and do the hardest work. It was hard to say whether they could survive the fifteen years.
But this grudge was probably formed. After the trial, Gao Fuyin asked her in a sarcastic tone,
"The case brought by Madam Bo has been adjudicated. Are you satisfied?"
"Master Gao is very perceptive, honest, efficient, and enforces the law forcefully, without asking for anything in return. I am deeply grateful to you. I will not delay your investigation any longer. Farewell!"
Gao Fuyin was so angry that his face turned blue. He didn't want to talk to her anymore. He just hoped that she would leave quickly and stop making him angry.
He almost asked for it openly before, but this woman pretended to be deaf and dumb, and even accused him of being honest and not asking for anything in return, but he couldn't even fart.
Chen Dekai somewhat understood what was going on and admired Bai Zhiyue even more. No woman in the inner palace would be so disrespectful to an official. No matter how powerful they were, they would usually use soft tactics, unlike her who would use blatant force.
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