The ghost woman was dragged in like a dog. She must have drunk a lot of wine, smelled of alcohol, and was drunk to the point of unconsciousness.
Even so, he still held on to the money bag with the brocade pattern and wouldn't let go. (This purse belongs to Yu Guming)
Ma frowned and turned his face away in disgust.
The two maids next to her were startled by the appearance of the ghost woman. After just one glance, they were too frightened to look any further.
"Idiot, why didn't you sober up and bring some good wine in?!" Ma scolded the worker, "A bunch of useless things!"
"Take him down first to sober up!" the butler said, "clean up before you come in."
It seemed that the old woman was going to vomit when she woke up. How could she dirty the eyes of the princess?
How could the people below show mercy to this dirty and ugly woman? They poured cold water on her and pricked her with needles, and finally woke her up.
When Mr. Ma saw her again, she had already sobered up from the wine. She was kneeling on the ground tremblingly, muttering: "My lord, spare your life!"
Ma Shi laughed angrily.
The housekeeper hurriedly lectured: "You old woman is really confused! There is no king here! This is the second princess of the current dynasty, why don't you say hello!"
"That's all." Madam Ma didn't want to talk about those false etiquette, "How can we expect such a person to know the rules?"
The woman didn't say anything, she just kowtowed to the ground.
"Okay, listen carefully to what I'm asking you." Mrs. Ma just wanted to get to the point quickly, "Did you deliver the baby to the emperor's eldest grandson?"
The ghost woman listened for a long time, as if she was frightened, and remained silent for a long time.
"I'm asking you a question! You idiot! Is it true or not? I tell you, if you dare to tell lies, I'll kill you!" The housekeeper went up and kicked her. He knew how to deal with poor people.
There is no need to explain the truth, and there is no need to be polite. Hitting and scolding are the most effective.
The ghost woman was kicked, and she just answered yes.
"Why should you be used to deliver babies? Are all the midwives in the capital dead?" Ma asked.
"This... I don't know." The ghost mother-in-law shook her head, "Anyway, the people from the Prince's Mansion came to my house that day. Without any explanation, they took the carriage and left."
"Then what?" Ma sat on a chair and looked at the ghost woman coldly.
"Then... I delivered the emperor's eldest grandson." After the ghost woman finished speaking, she swallowed, and she knelt there like an old dog in its dying years.
"What happens next?" Ma simply asked.
"Then...then I went back." The ghost woman lowered her head and trembled.
"Nothing else?"
"No……"
"Nonsense!" Ma slammed the table and her voice became more severe, "Then let me ask you, why did you leave from the back door of the Fifth Prince's Mansion in the middle of the night? You are the hero!"
"Mother-in-law...Mother-in-law just delivers the baby. After delivering the baby, she takes the reward and leaves..." The ghost woman defended with a guilty conscience.
"Reward? Is the reward packed in a bamboo basket?!" Ma sneered, "Tell me what's in that bamboo basket?!"
"No...it's nothing..." The ghost woman became more and more guilty, and her body stooped unconsciously, as if she wanted to find a crack in the ground and escape quickly.
"You old bitch! You are still denying it now. Do you want to be chopped into pieces on the execution ground?" Ma threatened, "Do you know that confusing the royal bloodline will kill the nine tribes?!"
Looking at her situation, it was clear that something was wrong in her mind, and Ma became more and more sure.
"I don't dare... I don't dare..." The ghost lady waved her hands in panic, "Spare my life! The second prince and concubine, spare my life!"
"Tell you the truth! Someone with knowledge of the matter has come to me to report that you, together with Li Daitao, a member of the fifth prince's concubine's house, changed the child! Is this true or not?!"
"Ah?! This...I...I don't dare..." The ghost woman became even more panicked.
"Don't you dare? Don't you dare do it or say it?!" When Ma saw her in such a panic, she knew that something was indeed happening, and she couldn't help but feel confident.
"My mother-in-law doesn't dare, my mother-in-law doesn't dare!" The ghost mother-in-law just lay on the ground and kowtowed.
"You don't have to be afraid. Now that I have found you, I just want to expose the truth to the world. As long as you are willing to tell the truth, I will protect your life and reward you double." After scaring you enough, Ma started to give benefits, " Don’t worry, it won’t be less than what they gave.”
"Really?" The ghost woman, who was scared to death, was overjoyed when she heard it was beneficial.
"As long as you are obedient and don't hide anything." Ma said proudly, "I will never treat you badly."
"They gave me a bag full of gold leaves," said the hag.
"Go and bring her two bags of gold leaves." Ma immediately ordered the people around her.
Sure enough, when the hag saw the two bags of gold leaves, she immediately hugged them tightly in her arms.
Ma sneered in his heart, poor people are like this, they are blind to money!
"Okay, tell the truth now!" Ma said, "I tell you again, don't hide anything, otherwise you will wait for wild dogs to eat your body!"
"Then it really won't be beheaded?" The ghost woman still had concerns, "Will you really intercede on my behalf? Can you really save me?"
"That's natural. Who am I? How can I not keep my word? Don't worry, I will tell you when the time comes that you were coerced by them and it was no other than a last resort." Ma coaxed her.
In fact, she just wanted to expose this matter. As for the life and death of the ghost woman, what does it have to do with her?
"Then... the old lady said," the old lady seemed to have made up her mind and said clearly: "On the 20th, someone found me and left a piece of silver behind, asking me to find it there. A newborn boy.
I asked what to do? The man said he didn't need to ask too many questions, he just wanted to find someone who was fairer, fatter, and had pretty features. He also said he would come back to me in a few days.
It happened that the next day our daughter-in-law gave birth to a boy, and I delivered the baby.
The maternal hemorrhage was gone, her husband was an alcoholic, the family was really poor, and they already had two boys.
I gave him five taels of silver and bought the child. He was originally worried that there was no one to take care of the child, but now that he had money and the burden was gone, he was naturally happy.
He didn't even ask me why I bought this child. He gave a few hundred dollars to his wife, and then he went drinking with the money.
Less than two days later, a carriage came and took the child and I to the Fifth Prince's Mansion.
I didn't know what was going on at the time. I just said that I didn't dare to deliver the baby to the noble lady, because if there was a ruthless child, it would be too much to bear.
The person who wanted to pick me up put a knife to my neck and told me to be obedient. When I get there, I will do whatever is asked of me. If I dare to have other thoughts, my head will definitely be moved.
The child was fed something they didn't know and kept falling asleep. They asked me to hide the child in my clothes and take him into the house.
When I got there, I heard that the fifth prince's concubine was having difficulty giving birth and asked me to deliver the baby. "
(End of chapter)
