Chapter 165: Questioning in the Face (4)
Translator: Antonia
Seeing it was Mr. Wang, Mo Qianxue smiled and stood up to welcome him, “Don’t be laugh at me. I’m sorry that I have to ask you to take the trouble of coming in person.”
Mr. Wang greeted back, “Don’t think this way. It’s my duty to maintain order in the capital.”
Feng Da had been captured by several officers. He looked up, finding that man was really Mr. Wang the mayor who seemed to be acquaintances with lady, and woke up utterly.
This…was the last straw that crushed the camel.
“Lady, please forgive me.” After realizing the fact, Feng Da somehow got so powerful that he struggled off the officers catching him and climbed to Mo Qianxue, “I was wrong. I’ll confess. Please, lady, forgive me and my families.”
Embezzling wasn’t a crime of death, nor was offending a noble lady, but the two together was!
Mo Qianxue wasn’t a bit moved, her face stern, “Now you are afraid? Shame that it’s too late! Mr. Wang is most upright and just. He will do your ‘justice’.”
“Lady, I confess. There is another set of ledgers with a balance of a dozen thousand taels. The bill is kept by my wife… Please show mercy, for the sake of madam. Please don’t punish my families. I’ll do whatever to pay you back…” He believed, at this moment, probably there would be a silver lining if he presented the second set of ledgers and the money.
However, although he was kowtowing while crying, there wasn’t tears in his eyes expect for malice. He regretted that he hadn’t listened to others’ suggestion to pay some money and have her murdered, which would be a neat end.
Mo Qianxue looked at him and felt pitiful. At this time, he still tried to deceive and frame her! What on earth a coward Xue used to be that he could become so crazy!
He remembered his families now? Too late! When he mentioned that the bill was kept by his wife, this matter would never be possible.
It proved that his wife and him were the same kind of malicious trash who had long betrayed her mother. Even though his wife didn’t know everything, she knew at least their stance.
Turning around, Mo Qianxue didn’t look at him and only said, “Get out…”
Feng Da understood what this meant, shock and scared, and crawled a step forward, “Lady…I…” Mo Qianxue didn’t give him a look, but nanny Mo squatted down and said gently, “No. 85, Yuda Alley.”
Upon hearing this address, Feng Da felt being struck by lightning, spat out blood and collapsed onto the floor. Yuda Alley…was exactly… He was done!
Afterwards, Mo Qianxue politely requested Mr. Wang to deal with the case and left after claiming that she was tired. The rest would be handled by the butler.
Mo Qianxue was an unmarried lady, so it was reasonable that she wasn’t too hospitable to Mr. Wang. He wouldn’t find it improper.
Previously, she had questioned Feng Da, not to let him submit, but to buy time.
Just now a messenger sent by Mo Yan brought back the news that there was hidden door connecting the house the prostitute lived and the neighboring mansion, which was bought in the name of Feng Da.
In that mansion, there were boxes of ledgers, silver, gold, and other treasures.
During those seven days, he had visited the good concubine once and left soon.
However, he had been to the prostitute’s place three times and stayed very long each time. Yet, there wasn’t sound of making out. Judging from Feng Da’s way of doing things, there must be a trick. Hence, Mo Qianxue had ordered Mo Yan and Mo Xing to make a good investigation.
She knew it!
Now she didn’t need to say more. The boxes were already on the way back to the Founder mansion.
With iron-hard evidence, Mr. Wang would confiscate all of his properties in those houses and gave back the bill. Nanny Mo and others walked Mo Qianxue back. The butler found a proper time and tucked a purse in Mr. Wang’s hand and then said matter-of-fact and respectfully, “Mr. Wang, please randomly draw out a book and check the copy against the original one. It’s all the same…”
After Mr. Wang and the group of officers left capturing Feng Da and the other managers, the butler came with joy and reported that Mr. Wang had promised to register the case and then report to the Criminal Department tomorrow.
Feng Da would be sentenced to death. The other eight managers, their properties confiscated, would be expelled to the army; Feng Da’s belongings would be transferred to the Founder mansion, and his families reduced to slaves with tattoos.
Slaves with tattoos were the lowest level and had no chance to get rid of slavery forever.
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Checking the boxes that Mo Yan and Mo Xing brought back, Mo Qianxue smiled. Some of them carried ledgers books. As for the others, two carried silver, one gold, and another one antiques.
By estimation, these things worth at least a million taels of silver.
After finishing this big matter, Mo Qianxue began to draw cute portrait of Su Qi in the study in a good mood. This was the last one towards completing a full set. She could promise that the playful lord would laugh his head off seeing this hilarious pictures!
Nanny Mo walked over lightly. It wasn’t the first time she saw lady drawing these, but every time she saw the cute-version Su Qi, she burst into laughter.
She wondered how lord Su Qi had offended lady that lady was so mean to him. What a poor pretty lord that turned into such hilarious images by lady’s pen!
She found it amusing, but it was improper after all! Even she drew him like that, it was drawing a man anyway. Lady, on the surface, was unmarried, but she already had lord Ning. If he found this out…! Even if he didn’t, it damaged lady’s female virtues!
However, every time she saw lady was so happy while drawing, nanny Mo drove away her own worries and dissatisfaction. Alright, here in the Founder mansion, lord Ning couldn’t know it.
Lady didn’t tell her but she bet lord Ning didn’t die. Otherwise, so deep was lady’s emotion towards lord Ning, how could she laugh and make fun of another man by drawing hilarious pictures? Yet, if lady didn’t mention it, she wouldn’t ask.
Covering her mouth to hold back the laughter, nanny Mo said softly, “Lord Chen is here again.”
Mo Qianxue stared at the picture without looking up, and replied casually, “Okay, I see. Let him wait for me in the front hall. I’ll be there after completing this one.”
Since she was grounded, Feng Yuchen came to visit her every day at five o’clock, but she never met him and sent him away by various excuses.
Tomorrow would be the peach blossom party. It’d be better to make things clear now.
It wasn’t a solution if things kept going like this.
Nanny Mo paced to the front hall, gestured Zhi Qiao over, asked her to pass lady’s words to him, and returned to the room. Zhi Qiao only glance at the room curiously and took the order with a smile.
When lady was paining, nobody except for nanny Mo was allowed to get inside. This was a rule that nanny Mo had set.
Finishing the last stroke, Mo Qianxue picked up the paper, blew slightly and nodded with satisfaction. This one depicted lively the playful lord that Su Qi had been.
She put it down, and nanny Mo took over a coat, put on for her and then was going to put away the picture.
Mo Qianxue quickly held her hand and played cute, “Nanny, just put it here. If the ink blurred, I’ll have to draw another one again. Shiwu will keep an eye. Nobody dares to come in.”
Last time, nanny Mo hurriedly put the picture away as soon as Mo Qianxue finished and it was a little damaged. Then, she had to draw a new one. Seeing nanny was hesitant, she added, “I promise this is the last one…”
Hearing this promise, nanny Mo gave in, “Alright…”
She put the picture on the desk, hesitating for a while, and suggested mildly, “Lady, if you really enjoy painting, then why not draw lord Ning? Then, nobody could pick a fault even the pictures were seen by others…”
“Haha…” Mo Qianxue couldn’t help laughing before nanny finished.
Cute version Ning Shaoqing?! How could she draw? This man was always gentle. Even in rage, he only pressed his lips, eyes shooting flames that daunted people from looking into. But he was still beautiful like a great scenery and a real master piece.
How could she paint a master piece in the cute version. Nanny was so funny…
Before she entered the front hall, Feng Yuchen was standing facing the other way. His back looked lonely and sorrowful, thinner than she met him last time. It made her heart soft at once.
Alas! What was love on earth? Why did it make people desperate to pursue?