On her wedding night, she went into exile with her pharmacy arsenal

Old Master Wu had a bad feeling.

Looking at the angry Governor Cao, he said, "Sir, what crime have I committed? Please tell me clearly."

"Oh, you didn't teach your son well, causing him to commit serious crimes repeatedly, and you're still asking me what crime you've committed?"

"In my opinion, you knew about what your son did, and you helped to cover it up, right?"

Old Master Wu shouted, "Sir, my son did make a mistake, but I also paid back the money and resold the military rations. My son is dead, and as a father, I have never refused or delayed helping to pay off the debt. How can I cover it up?"

"My lord, you are wronged!"

"You're still crying out for injustice?" Governor Cao slammed the gavel. "Selling military rations secretly is already a serious crime. I let you off the hook and paid you money just for your sake. But this is still a crime, not the merit you boast about!"

"Besides, money can solve the problem of military rations, but can it solve the problem of human lives?"

Old Master Wu's heart skipped a beat and he looked at the corpse on the ground. "My Lord, it is unclear whether this corpse was found in my farm. Moreover, it has become dry bones. I don't know who this person is. My Lord, you should be wise and not let them slander me at will."

Yan Ruyu stood aside, looking at Old Master Wu coldly. She had heard before that this man was quite knowledgeable and had taught several good students, which was why he gradually gained some reputation.

When I met him today, at first glance, he seemed like a gentle and polite scholar, but in fact, once the false humility on the surface faded away, even his wrinkles revealed his cunning and shrewdness.

It is even more terrifying when such people study and become knowledgeable.

With just a few words, he denied the origin of the bones, refused to admit that they were found on his farm, and even suspected that someone had deliberately let them go to slander him.

No one present saw the body being unearthed with their own eyes. If he insisted that he had denied it, it would be a real problem.

But... Yan Ruyu sneered silently. If he thought everything was that simple, he was wrong.

Yan Ruyu remained calm and watched the development of the situation leisurely.

After hearing what Old Master Wu said, Governor Cao also sneered: "Wu Zhouce, you should have heard of the saying, 'The net of heaven is vast and wide, and nothing can escape it.'"

He pointed at the corpses on the ground and said, "Do you really think that once a person dies and turns into dry bones, the matter is over?"

He pointed to the sky again: "The law of nature is clear, man acts, and God is watching!"

Governor Cao slammed the gavel and said, "Come on, bring the witness!"

After he finished speaking, the lawyer whispered a few words to the two yamen runners, who immediately took his orders and left.

Old Master Wu's heart was pounding, wondering what would happen next. He glanced at Yan Ruyu and Huo Changhe standing beside him and gritted his teeth.

"The princess has good tactics."

Huo Changhe was about to speak with a gloomy face, but Yan Ruyu held his arm.

"Wu Zhouce, the case of your farm is being tried now. You sued me for buying your farm by fraud. I am here to confront you. You asked to see the bottom file, and the governor also let you see it. Everything will be done according to your wishes. Let's not talk about other things for now. Let's just talk about what you said. Did I buy your farm by fraud?"

"I……"

"Yes or no, you only need to answer this question. Solve this matter first and don't talk about other things."

Yan Ruyu's tone was calm but contained unquestionable power.

Old Master Wu's breath was slightly choked: "No."

"In that case," Yan Ruyu said, "this princess has nothing to do with your manor. Not only that, but I can also pursue your right to falsely accuse you. I don't want to argue with you because I think your family has gone through a great change and you are so sad that you did something wrong. But now you are still acting weird. What's the reason?"

Yan Ruyu looked at the people outside and said, "I followed the prince into exile in Youcheng. I don't want to be enemies with anyone. I just want to live a peaceful life. When Old Madam Wu was alive, she held a flower-viewing party and made things difficult and humiliated me many times. But she is dead now. I don't want to say more. But you, Old Master Wu, didn't think about holding funerals for your family, praying for the souls of the dead, or looking for the real culprit. Instead, you keep nagging the palace."

"You took an ordinary steel knife and said that the prince sent assassins to kill people. You took a paper and casually said that I cheated you to buy your farm. Old Master Wu, I really want to know, how did my family offend your family? Why do you still hold on to it after all your family members have died?"

As the people listened, they felt that what Yan Ruyu said made sense, and they all looked at Old Master Wu with doubt.

The bees in the crowd murmured, "It's really unbelievable. It's really weird for Old Master Wu to do this."

"If it were me, I would have cried to death at home and would not be able to get up or leave. But you are having a heated argument in the lobby. You are really brave."

"Yeah, what's going on?" Some people were puzzled. "He was not like this before."

"Oh, his son never gambled or stole food before."

"I know that the Wu family's master and his wife were bullied. I saw with my own eyes that Wu Lao San went to the master's shop to ask for money, and slapped the master in the face when he didn't give it."

"My God, even if you are a concubine, you are still the eldest brother, right? Can you do this?"

Feng Shao said at the right moment: "Is this something that a scholarly family would do?"

"What kind of scholarly family? He is the only one who studies, and the eldest son sells the four treasures of the study, but the others don't study at all."

Old Master Wu was listening in the hall, sweat oozing from his forehead.

He secretly groaned in his heart, thinking that he should not have acted on impulse and listened to the man in black, which now put him in a dilemma.

Yan Ruyu gave Beibei a look, and Beibei cleared his throat and said, "Old Master, if you don't want to sell this farm, just bring the money and settle the matter right here in the hall, how do you think?"

Old Master Wu gritted his teeth and said nothing.

Beibei hissed, "What do you mean by not saying anything? You're not saying it's a scam, do you think it's too cheap?"

Old Master Wu's face turned red, but he had no way to refute.

Just when things were awkward, the bailiff brought the two men to the court.

"Sir, Liu Erzhu and Zhang Ming are here."

"Where are you two from and what do you do for a living? Tell me everything!"

"Sir, I am Liu Erzhu, a tenant farmer at Wu's farm."

"Your Excellency, I am Zhang Ming, a tenant farmer of the Wu Family Farm. We are all from Pengzi Village outside the city."

Governor Cao nodded and held up the paper Beibei handed over: "Are the signatures and seals on this two people the same?"

"My Lord, I am a commoner."

"In that case, describe the situation in detail again!"

Liu Erzhu was a few years younger and spoke clearly. He kowtowed and said, "My Lord, it was the Mid-Autumn Festival two years ago in August. The farm had a good harvest and the owner said he wanted to sell all the grain before the festival."

"But the grain production was too much and we were too busy to handle it. Besides, it was the festival. We asked the host to give us two days, but the host said... For poor people like us, what's the point of celebrating the festival? It's good to have something to eat. If we don't obey, they will ask us to leave."

"We tenants had no choice but to go out with our entire families. Anyone who could help out went."