diskusbooks Chapter 197 Dogs Fighting Dogs, Death by a Thousand Cuts
Chapter 197 Dogs Fighting Dogs, Death by a Thousand Cuts
After a few beatings, Bai Guangyao quickly became obedient. Although he still claimed that he was forced by Chen Fang, he confessed a lot of things about Chen Fang.
For example, most of the property that was looted from the Luo family ended up in Chen Fang's hands.
Chen Fang also took control of Luo Sheng's dowry and drove away the manager of the shop, replacing him with her own people.
Then she falsified the accounts, emptied the shop, lied to the Xie family that the business could not continue, and then rented the shop out to her own people at a low price.
In this way, these shops made a lot of money, but it all became her own private property.
His explanation immediately made Madam Xie and Xie Yun very angry!
Although Xie Yun guessed that Chen Fang would embezzle the money, he did not expect her to be so greedy!
Old Madam Xie glared at Chen Fang with even more resentment. She rushed forward, grabbed her hair and clothes, and tore them apart: "It's all your fault, you vicious woman! You have such a cruel heart. Not only did you slander Sheng Niang as a vixen, you also had her wet nurse kill her and embezzled her dowry!
How could you be so vicious! If I had known you were such a cruel and greedy person, I wouldn't have let Yuner marry you!
She was really angry, and with Xie Ying's "help", she was like a chicken with blood injected, her whole body was full of strength, and she quickly tore Chen Fang's bun into a mess and pulled out a lot of hair.
Chen Fang grimaced in pain, but she was actually laughing in anger and started fighting with her without any mercy.
Seeing this, the yamen runners who were originally holding her on a fork tacitly retreated to the side to watch the show, allowing the two women to tear each other apart.
After all, it is common to see women in ordinary families tearing each other apart, but it is extremely rare to see a scene of noble ladies tearing each other into pieces.
They must watch carefully and not miss such a good show!
I can brag about it to others later.
Seeing that the two of them were fighting without caring about their image, Xie Yun hurried forward to pull them away.
Unexpectedly, he was attacked by Chen Fang and his face was scratched with blood.
When Mrs. Xie saw her precious son's face was covered in blood after being scratched by Chen Fang, she exploded with anger and rushed forward to scratch Chen Fang's face frantically.
However, Xie Yun was afraid that Chen Fang would disfigure him, so he took the opportunity to retreat and let the two women tear each other apart.
Chen Fang was tortured and ambushed by Xie Ying. She was no match for Old Madam Xie at all. Soon, a large piece of her hair was pulled out by Old Madam Xie again, and even her earrings were torn off.
She screamed in pain and was no match for Madam Xie.
Just when she seized the opportunity and stretched out her arm to pull Madam Xie's hair, she was suddenly knocked away by Luo Hongwang's butt.
Old Madam Xie looked at Luo Hongwang in surprise, not understanding why he wanted to help her.
Xie Yun was even more furious: "Luo Hongwang, what are you doing? A fight between women, why are you, a man, meddling in this fight?"
Luo Hongwang glared at him with disdain and said "Pooh" to him: "You don't care if your mother beats your wife, but I can't watch my niece's dowry being ruined by these two crazy women!"
At the end of his speech, he suddenly pointed at the kingfisher-inlaid headpiece on Madam Xie's head and said loudly, "This kingfisher-inlaid headpiece was specially made for her as a dowry by my cousin and his wife at the request of Master Craftsman Wang!
After my niece died, it was fine that her dowry ended up on your head, but now you, a vicious woman, want to destroy it. Do you think I'm dead?"
After saying this, he quickly pulled out two booklets and said loudly to Minister Zhou, "This is the list of my niece's dowry, and also the list of my cousin's property. I beg you, sir, to make the decision for me!"
Minister Zhou looked at him in surprise.
He really didn't expect that Luo Hongwang had made such complete preparations, even including Luo's dowry list and property list.
But with these lists, things will naturally be much easier.
So he immediately had two booklets presented to him. After taking a quick glance at them, he couldn't help but be secretly shocked by Xie Yun and Chen Fang's appetite.
No wonder these two people wanted to kill the entire Luo family. Although the Luo family’s wealth cannot be said to be as rich as a country, it is still wealthy in the area.
And Luo's dowry is really generous!
Xie Yun and Chen Fang were truly insatiable, cruel, and ruthless. They had gained so many benefits, yet they still wanted to take Xie Xiu's life and cuckold Xie You.
If Luo could really show his power, he would have dragged these people to hell long ago.
Minister Zhou secretly shook his head in his heart, and soon noticed that there were a lot of land properties recorded in the booklet.
It’s a pity that most of the land properties are not located in the suburbs of Beijing, but in Xie Yun’s hometown. If someone is sent to investigate, it will take a lot of time to go back and forth.
So he first sent people to search several shops in the capital and brought the people in the shops to the yamen for interrogation.
When these people saw Chen Fang kneeling, they dared not hide anything for her. They quickly told the truth and handed over the account books.
Next was a farm located in the suburbs of Beijing, which was part of Luo Sheng’s dowry.
This farm was not originally included in her dowry. It was after Xie Yun became the top scorer in the imperial examination that Luo Hongde spent a lot of money and used his connections to buy this farm in the suburbs of Beijing and added it to Luo Sheng's dowry.
Although this farm is located in the suburbs of Beijing, it takes at least an hour to go back and forth.
Seeing that it was almost noon, Minister Zhou simply sent people to search the residences of Zhao Ma and other servants, as well as the Bai family.
Then Chen Fang, Bai Guangyao and others were sentenced.
Chen Fang's crimes were numerous, and according to the law, he was sentenced to death by slicing. However, such a serious crime required a review before execution. Even if nothing unexpected happened, the execution would have to wait until the autumn.
Bai Guangyao helped her kill the entire Luo family, and was also subjected to the same torture.
But Madam Zhao's dissection of a pregnant woman was a heinous crime, so she was also sentenced to death by slicing.
Next came Chen Fang’s personal maids. As long as they were responsible for someone’s death, they would not be able to escape death.
After Minister Zhou had judged these people, Xie Xiu suddenly said, "Your Excellency, I'm sure you've heard that a few days ago, someone pretended to be a Taoist priest and slandered my daughter as an evil star who would bring disaster to her relatives. He also said he would take my daughter back to the Taoist temple.
After the lady exposed him, the student suspected that he was a kidnapper and reported him to the authorities. Unfortunately, to this day, there has been no progress on this matter.
The students requested that the adults interrogate the fake Taoist priest. This person is very skilled in pretending to be a Taoist priest and must be an old hand. I don’t know how many people he has deceived with this method.
If you can find out more about this person, you might be able to rescue many kidnapped people. That would be a great merit!"