Black Lotus Concubine's Case-solving Notes

"Who are you?" The governor of Jingzhao pointed at the woman in white and said, "Take off your veil and hat!"

"Sir, I am ugly and I am afraid of scaring everyone." The woman in white knelt aside.

"Forget it," Jingzhao Prefecture Governor Zhou Zhen did not want to waste time on this matter, and only said: "Why do you want to pay for the Yu family's debt?"

"Of course it's because the Yu family is my daughter's supplier."

When these words were spoken, not only Zhou Zhen and Manager Zhu were stunned, but even the three members of the Yu family who were kneeling on the side were stunned.

Cui hesitated: "Girl, you..."

The woman in white smiled and said, "Ms. Cui, you forgot. I just ordered a batch of goods from you when I was at your house a few days ago. The ingot of gold on your table is the advance deposit."

That ingot of gold?

Cui suddenly realized, and said with surprise in her eyes: "It turned out to be you, young lady, but your voice..."

The woman in white interrupted her: "Madam Cui, my family needs your batch of goods urgently, you can't delay me. Since this Manager Zhu wants you to compensate ten taels of silver, you can use the ingot of gold to pay it off first!"

Cui was not stupid, so she naturally knew that the girl in front of her was here to save her. However, what she hated most was receiving favors for no reason. She was hesitating to refuse, but then she heard what the person in front of her said.

"Madam Cui, are you really going to use that ancestral incense recipe to offset it?"

Cui was startled.

Yes, even if she was sold, she still couldn't pay back the ten taels of silver. By then, the Jingzhao Prefecture and Linglong Xiangfang would definitely collude with each other and force her to hand over the incense recipe.

Thinking of this, Cui no longer hesitated and took out the gold ingot from her purse. She had originally thought of carrying it with her and returning it to the girl if she met her that day. Unexpectedly, after many twists and turns, this silver actually became her family's life-saving money.

"The money has been paid, Mr. Zhou, can the Yu family go back and make incense for me?"

Zhou Zhen glanced at Shopkeeper Zhu and saw that he was also stunned. He frowned and waved his hand, "In that case, leave the court!"

"Wait a moment."

"Change your mind again?" Zhou Zhen frowned and looked at the woman in white who spoke.

"I'm not regretting it," the woman in white bowed, "but I'm thinking that the Yu family still owes Linglong Fragrance Shop a lot of money. If this housekeeper Zhu says today that the hair oil has problems and ruined the customer's face, and he pays ten taels of silver for compensation, and he says the same thing tomorrow, wouldn't that make him suffer to death?"

There was a burst of suppressed laughter in the crowd.

Shopkeeper Zhu's face turned red, and he said angrily, "What do you think my Linglong Xiangfang is? Do we need to blackmail the Yu family?"

"Who knows what is right and wrong?" The woman in white said, "Since we are in court today, let's calculate how much the Yu family still owes you for the goods. I will pay them back on their behalf in silver."

Shopkeeper Zhu sneered: "What Linglong Xiangfang wants is the goods, not the money!"

The woman in white sneered, "Since you accused the Yu family of ruining your face with their hair oil, what else do you want their goods for? Are you really trying to blackmail me with your goods, as I said? Pah! You are such a piece of shit!"

Yes, since telling others that their hair oil is ruining their face, why do you still want their goods? Isn’t that extortion?

The crowd immediately burst apart, and Shopkeeper Zhu suppressed his anger and said, "Don't provoke me! Anyway, my incense shop only wants the goods, not the money!"

The woman in white sneered, "I think you want the goods but you want to force the Yu family to hand over the perfume recipe. I'm afraid that the hair oil disfigurement was also a play you arranged to drive the three members of the Yu family to death!"

"you!"

"What do you mean by 'you'? You said you want the goods, and you want the goods? Who do you think you are? How dare you be so arrogant in front of the governor? Everyone knows that our Lord Zhou is the most sympathetic to the suffering of the people and is a good official who is honest and fair, right, governor?"

Are the people praising him like this now? Zhou Zhen, with a big belly, straightened his clothes and was a little flattered by the praise: "I am naturally fair!"

The woman in white gestured to Cui to take out the IOU and said loudly, "Everyone, please take a look. It is written in black and white that I owe 15 taels of silver. It is because the Yu family was short of money that they used goods to offset the debt. The Yu family delivered goods for free for three years, so 5 taels of silver have been written off. Now I will pay back the remaining 10 taels on behalf of the Yu family. What's the problem, Lord Zhou?"

Zhou Zhen was stunned: "This..."

"Then there is no problem." The woman in white took out two gold ingots from her pocket and threw them directly at the feet of Manager Zhu, saying sarcastically, "I'll return the silver to you, and the extra money will be used as alms for your incense shop!"

After saying this, he tore up the IOU in his hand, and dragged the Yu family away under the murderous gaze of Manager Zhu.

It was not until they reached the old courtyard behind the low wall of the Yu family that Cui grabbed the sleeve of the woman in white and said, "Miss, I can see that Linglong Fragrance Shop wanted to steal the incense recipe from my family. You saved my family from the dire situation. The entire Yu family is grateful, but... we really don't have that much money to pay you back."

After saying this, Cui was about to kneel down, but the woman in white immediately supported her and said in a playful voice, "Aunt Cui, look at who I am?"

The woman in white lifted her veil. She was obviously beautiful, but there were horrible scars on both sides of her cheeks.

"So it's you. I was wondering why your voice changed..." Cui's eyes lit up. "Are you the maidservant of that girl?"

"It's me, Aunt Cui." Qingshu smiled. Although she had scars on her face, she was open and frank, completely unafraid of other people's opinions.

After seeing Qingshu's face, Yu Zhao and his son were surprised at first, but soon they put on sincere and kind smiles.

Cui said: "What was said in court..."

"Of course my daughter taught me that." Qingshu still felt unsatisfied after scolding Butler Zhu in the court just now.

She smiled and said, "Aunt Cui, don't feel stressed. My daughter said that when she saw your family in trouble today, she helped them. It was the same feeling you had when you saw her holding an umbrella alone in the rain and couldn't bear to let her into the yard to hide from the rain."

"How can this be the same!" Cui's eyes were red. "I know the young lady is a kind person. She is a lady from a noble family. She doesn't care about a few dozen taels of silver, but this silver really saved the lives of the three of us in the Yu family! If it weren't for the young lady's help, I'm afraid we would have been trapped by this Linglong Xiangfang! We will remember the young lady's great kindness in our hearts! We will also raise enough silver as soon as possible and return it to the young lady!"

"That's right! Although our Yu family is not a wealthy family, we are also a reputable businessman in our hometown Langya. We will definitely repay the young lady for her kindness today in the future!" Yu Zhao said.

Yu Min bowed to Qingshu.

Qingshu had a terrible headache, thinking that his daughter had really guessed right about this family, they were all so stubborn and insisted on their own opinions!

She smiled back and said, "The girl saved you because, firstly, she was grateful to you for letting her take shelter from the rain last time, and secondly, she sincerely wanted to do business with you, Boss Yu."

"Do business with me?" Yu Zhao blinked in confusion.