Chapter 61 Sophistry
"Bold slave actually
dare to call injustice. Weren't you the one who scared Xin ge'er last
night by pretending to be a ghost?" Zhao Shi was so angry that she gritted
her teeth. If she didn't still care about her image, she really wanted to rush
up and kick this vicious slave a few times.
"Yes, yes,
it was nubi who frightened the Second Young Master last night, nubi
is guilty. But nubi didn't do it on purpose." Although Hua pozi
confessed, she still made a dying struggle and started to slyly argue "nubi
has even less thought of framing the eldest xiaojie, nubi also
didn't expect that what she casually stole was actually such a precious
object." Saying that, she began to kowtow again and again, " nubi
didn't mean to, nubi really didn't mean to ah..." At the end of the
sentence, she almost howled her voice, as if she was singing a big opera.
Zhao Shi almost
laughed: "You slave stole something, and you dare to blame it for being
too precious? How dare you say it wasn't intentional?!"
Nangong Yue was
thoughtful and said, "In that case, Hua pozi, what you originally
wanted to steal was just the usual fabric used in the house, but you stole the
wrong thing because you didn't know the goods and exposed yourself
instead." Saying that, she glanced at the shredded fabric,
"Otherwise, there wouldn't be such a piece of evidence left behind."
Hua pozi
prostrated herself on the ground in fear, begging for mercy: "Yes, yes, nubi
is guilty, but nubi really didn't mean to scare the Second Young
master."
Nangong Yue brimfully
came forward and said to Su Shi: "Grandmother, since she has confessed her
guilt, let's do it according to the rules of the house!"
Hua pozi
looked pale when she heard this, and she collapsed to the ground as if she had
been drained of all strength. She never expected that the Third Guiniang would
react in such a way. She didn't ask why she had to wear a ghost face and white
clothes. Instead, she directly asked Su Shi to punish her and she didn't
even ask her if she was instigated!
Su Shi was also
a little surprised: "Yue jie'er, don't you want to ask anything
more?"
"That's
right." Zhao Shi said with hatred. "How can it be? We also need to
ask who instructed her."
"No, no one
instructed me." Hua pozi shook her head repeatedly.
"Eldest
aunt, Hua pozi was originally grandmother's dowry servant, and was later
assigned by grandmother to serve in the elder sister's courtyard. Inside the
mansion there seems to be some fame. If there is really a mastermind behind who
can instruct her to do this theft, or even murder my brother, then there must
be some handle in the hands of that mastermind. It may not be easy to make her
speak." Nangong Yue methodically analyzed. As for Hua pozi shouting
that it was not intentional. Nangong Yue scoffed at this, simply too lazy to
argue with the chaos.
Su Shi's face
was as black as the bottom of a woe, and what Hua pozi had done had
caused her to lose face.
Hua pozi
hung her head, a trace of fear flashed in her eyes, thinking: How did the Third
Guiniang know, just a guess?
Zhao Shi's
heart was hard to calm down, and she said with hatred, "Then beat her to
death, I don't believe she won't confess." Although Hua pozi denied
being instructed by anyone, Zhao Shi did not believe her. She was determined to
find a result.
Hua Pozi's
face was ashen, fear like a vine wrapped around her limbs and bones,making her
unable to move. In fact, as early as the moment she was pulled out, she
understood, even if she didn't die, that a layer of skin will be taken off, but
now the situation seems that she cannot live.
But when she
thought of dying, Hua pozi felt reluctant, really reluctant. She didn't
want to die, she really didn't want to die. She looked at Su Qingping for help,
and her lips moved twice.
Su Qingping was
twisting the handkerchief in her hands, and she was very annoyed with Hua Pozi.
This Hua Pozi is really incompetent, actually made such a big mistake, leaving
the ready-made evidence until now, really looking for death! But if I do not help
to say a few words of pleading, in case this dead woman ignores the trouble,
the unlucky one will still be me.
"Gumu ,
this Hua Pozi said that no one instructed her, so why did she do this for no
reason?" Su Qingping looked confused, then she went towards Hua Pozi and
persuaded her nicely, saying: "Hua Pozi, you should say something! If you
tell the truth, maybe Gumu will be lenient, and maybe you can even save
your life."
A glimmer of
hope flashed in Hua Pozi's eyes. "Nubi confesses, Nubi
confesses." She cried and said, " Nubi is thinking of Nubi's
grandson, Changming, my heart is resentful, that's why I had a bad intention to
scare the Second Young Master to relieve my anger. But Nubi really did
not expect to scare the Second Young Master into illness!"
Su Qingping was
surprised and asked: "You have another grandson, but what does this have
to do with Xin Ge’er?"
"Back then,
the Second Young Master fell from the rockery ...... My Changming also fell to
his death." Hua Pozi had a sad face and tears were falling down
like rain.
"So that's
how it is." Su Qingping looked sympathetic and politely said to Su Shi:
"Gumu, although what Hua Pozi did is indeed disgusting, but when you look
into it, it is also compassionate. Let's spare her life."
"How can
this be done?" Zhao Shi was the first to object, and her usual dignity
could no longer be maintained. "This cheap maid stole things from Zheng Jie’er,
and then wanted to blame it on Zheng Jie’er. It’s not an exaggeration to
have her tendons pulled and peeling skin!"
"DaBiaosao,
I think this Hua Pozi did not have the intention of framing Zheng Jie'er."
Su Qingping softly said, "Otherwise, she wouldn't have left the scrap of
fabric behind, and it would have become evidence for nothing."
"Ping Biaogu's
words seem to be very reasonable." Nangong Yue deliberately came to a
retreat first and then raise: "But can Ping Biaogu just guarantee
that when we find out that it is Eldest Jiejie's Songjiang fine cloth
that is missing, when everyone puts the suspicion on Eldest Jiejie, will this
Hua Pozi be first to come forward to clarify for Eldest Jiejie?"
She asked coldly and rhetorically questioned. Those dark eyes staring at Su
Qingping without a second glance: "What's more, after all these yearsHuo Pozi
had never made a move because of resentment, how come she is now
uncontrollable, could it be that she has been encouraged by someone?"
"I......"
Su Qingping's heart shuddered, only to feel an invisible pressure coming over
her head. Naturally she can not guarantee, and who is she to guarantee? There
is no need to really get yourself involved.
"Hua Pozi,
why do you have anything to be upset about!" Nangong Yue said slyly:"
The reason why brother would go to the rockery Mount back then, wasn't it your
Changming who encouraged it?"
Hua Pozi's body
trembled, and her lips trembled twice. Next, she couldn't speak anymore, she
could only look at Su Qingping again expectantly.
Su Qingping
gritted her teeth and said in embarrassment: "So something like this
happened back then. It was my fault for not being reasonable and asking favor
for the wrong kind of love." Then said with a sigh of relief, " Hua Pozi
did this series of wrongdoing because of her grandson Changming's
death. It also looks really detestable, pitiful and sad......" Later
on, her tone reveals a little sympathy, " Speaking of up, actually she is
also a pitiful person."
