frightfiction Chapter 530 Interrogation
Chapter 530 Interrogation
Housekeeper Yu asked, "Why is your Majesty asking this?"
Cheng Lu, who had been standing behind her, said, "Butler Yu is forty-three this year."
"Forty-three. That's considered an old age child."
When mentioning his precious son, the usually calm and composed Yu Butler's expression immediately changed!
"what are you up to?"
"Is your son cute?" Lu Shian smiled faintly and asked instead of answering, "Master Qin's little son is over three years old and very playful. Isn't he, Master Qin?"
Qin Qiubai, who had been standing behind Lu Shian, responded calmly, "Yeah, every time he sees me, he calls me daddy and likes to eat with me. Although he is young, he is very sensible!"
Lu Shian said meaningfully: "So Lord Qin likes the age so much!"
"How could I not like my own son?"
Lu Shian turned his head and said to Steward Yu: "Standard Yu, where is your son? Will he call me dad?"
The happier Lu Shian looked, the more uncomfortable the butler felt!
"Stop talking, stop talking! Don't you just want to threaten me with my son? I'm telling you, I, Yu Qiang, won't fall for it!"
Lu Shian clapped his hands and cheered: "Okay, okay, I won't fall for it! Well done, Steward Yu, you are worthy of being the steward of the Duke's Mansion, but..."
Lu Shian smiled slyly: "You said, I will lock you up here, serve you with good food and drink, and then in a few days, I will send you to the Duke's Mansion in one piece, what do you think the Duke will do?"
"you……"
If he leaves here safely, the Duke's Mansion will definitely think that he has informed on the secret. By then, even without Concubine Xian's intervention, the Duke's Mansion will not leave him a complete body!
"Your Majesty, what a trick!"
"Butler Yu liked it immediately!"
Lu Shian looked at Butler Yu with great satisfaction as he was so angry that his teeth were itching!
"Master Qin!"
"The subordinate is here!"
"I told you to remember!"
"Yes!"
"There are three gambling houses in the north of the city, each making tens of thousands of taels of profit every month!"
Butler Yu looked at Lu Shian in shock. The north of the city was not big, but there were three gambling houses. These three gambling houses were indeed owned by the Principality.
As for the profits, it is definitely not tens of thousands of taels every month. At the beginning, business was the best, but then it gradually declined. Fortunately, their gambling house does not rely entirely on gambling to make money.
"In the twelfth month, Steward Yu came to the north of the city to take over six women. Add them together, um..."
Lu Shian was a little embarrassed and didn't know how much to fill in.
Qin Qiubai picked up the pen and looked at Lu Shian, waiting for Lu Shian's next words.
Su Ziming, who had been dismissive all along, said impatiently: "Isn't this just fabrication? When the emperor sends someone to investigate, won't it be easy to find the flaws?"
"shush"
Lu Shian made a silencing gesture to him, signaling him not to speak.
Su Ziming was so angry that he just left the dungeon. The dungeon was not cold, but it was very depressing and the ventilation was not good. The smell inside was even more exaggerated than that of a pigsty.
When he got outside the dungeon, he gasped for breath. When he felt that he had breathed smoothly, he couldn't help but complain about Lu Shian.
"This matter really cannot be handed over to a woman. If she cannot get any information from him, she will just make up a story. This is nothing but deceiving the emperor."
In the dungeon, Butler Yu was completely unable to hold back.
"What's the point of a false confession like this, Madam? I will not admit it."
Lu Shian smiled and said, "It doesn't matter, I just need to admit it."
Lu Shian tilted his head and continued to think: "Ah, I got it. His concubines, those beautiful concubines were also captured from the north of the city. It's written about the housekeeper forcing a decent girl."
"And Housekeeper Yu also stole two chickens from Aunt Wang next door."
Qin Qiubai knew that Lu Shian had probably guessed what she was going to do, but when he saw the "unforgivable" charges she had racked her brains to come up with, the corners of his mouth twitched. This virtuous concubine really had never seen the dark side of society.
Stealing chickens is an unforgivable crime.
Butler Yu was also frightened at first, but the more he listened, the less he felt it.
Even if he were to list a hundred such petty thefts, it would not cost him his life.
Lu Shian was making a fuss when a servant hurried into the dungeon, followed by another man who was holding a child in his arms. The child was sleeping peacefully in the man's arms.
"Master, the child has been caught."
Lu Shian looked up and asked in a low voice: "What's going on? Why is it so quiet?"
"It's just that he was poisoned by the incense. He will wake up soon. Don't worry, madam."
Lu Shian nodded with satisfaction: "Take her away first."
Lu Shian spoke in a low voice, but people in the dungeon could still hear it if they listened carefully.
Hearing the word "child", Butler Yu, who was kneeling on the ground, sat up straight.
He stretched his neck to look outside, but the two brothers Cheng Kuan and Cheng Lu held him down tightly, not letting him move.
"what have you done?"
Butler Yu seemed to be crazy: "What did you do?"
Lu Shian frowned unhappily: "How dare you, I am the virtuous concubine, how dare you question me."
"My Lady, I beg you, if you have anything to do, please come to me, and don't harm the lives of innocent people."
"Innocent? Where did you get that from, Steward Yu? Didn't you insist that you were innocent?"
"I am innocent, but Your Majesty wants me to be the most heinous person. I am the most heinous person. I only ask Your Majesty not to hurt the child. He is still young and doesn't understand anything..."
Lu Shian put away his fake smile, stood up and walked to Butler Yu.
"Do you know why I am here?"
Butler Yu was stunned. It's not that he hadn't thought about this question before, but he really couldn't figure it out. Even if the emperor doted on her to the sky, he would never let her come to the north of the city alone.
"I'm telling you the truth. The truth is not important. What's important is the Emperor."
"What's important is the Emperor..." Butler Yu repeated this sentence in a low voice.
"According to the laws of the Great Abyss Kingdom, the harem is not allowed to interfere in government affairs, but the emperor still let me come. Do you know what this means?"
"What does it mean?"
Lu Shian sneered: "The charge is not important, and it doesn't matter whether you cooperate or not."
Butler Yu's confused eyes slowly focused, and fear emerged from the deepest part of his heart.
"What the empress means is..."
Lu Shian pretended to be mysterious and deliberately didn't tell the whole story, leaving the rest to Butler Yu to guess freely.
"If you cooperate today, I can keep your whole family safe, but it's obvious that you want to die. You don't care about your own life, nor the lives of your family, so I can't save you."
Butler Yu was persuaded. He sat on the ground in a daze, not knowing what to do.
"I, I want to see my son."
"no problem."
Shen Cuo was so shocked that his jaw almost dropped. He never expected that Lu Shian, with his nonsensical nonsense, could actually convince Butler Yu.
He followed Lu Shian out of the dungeon, and his first words were: "Was that really Steward Yu's son?"