HLnovel Chapter 16 Someone Set Up a Scam
Chapter 16 Someone Set Up a Scam
Then, Granny Li was held down by her two servants, who said:
"Don't put on such a pretentious act, lest you offend your master's eyes."
Granny Li froze for a moment, then sat down miserably on the ground, powerless, tears streaming down her face, and said:
"I had no choice. It was my good-for-nothing brother who was tricked into gambling. If I didn't agree to their demands, my brother's whole family would be wiped out! I had no choice! Duke, I watched the eldest young master grow up. How could I bear it? How could I bear it!"
As she spoke, she pounded her chest with her hand. People around her felt both sorry for her and hateful. She said she couldn't bear to hurt the young master she had watched grow up, but she easily did so.
If the maid hadn't discovered it in time, the young master would surely be dead in this freezing winter.
Jia Daishan asked:
"Who contacted you? Who told you to do this?"
Granny Li said:
“Someone contacted me. I don’t know who he is. He just sent my brother to me and told me to do something. If I did it well, he would spare my brother’s family. If I didn’t do it, he would kill my brother’s whole family.”
"My lord, I beg you, please save my brother's family!"
As she spoke, Granny Li crawled forward on her knees, intending to pounce onto the bed, but the servants on both sides quickly pressed her down to the ground.
Granny Li, pinned to the ground, shouted:
"I'll tell you everything! I'll confess everything! Your Excellency, please, please save my brother's family!"
Jia Daishan looked at the old woman with an unfriendly expression and said:
“You’ve worked for the Jia family for so many years. If you had told them the truth from the beginning, would they have stood idly by? They would have definitely investigated and protected your brother’s family. But now that you’ve done such a thing, you still expect me to help you!”
The old woman cried even more pitifully and pleaded, "Please, Your Excellency, if you can save my brother's family, I will die immediately as atonement for my sins."
She was about to rush towards the pillar and smash her head against it to her death when the two old women on either side quickly grabbed her and held her down. Helpless, Granny Li collapsed to the ground like a lump of mud.
Jia Daishan looked at her and sighed, saying:
"Explain what happened clearly. I can spare your brother's family's lives."
The old woman immediately perked up and said:
"I'll tell you! I'll tell you everything!" said Granny Li.
"On that day, my younger brother suddenly came to me and said that he had been taken to gamble. He didn't want to go, but he was coaxed into going to broaden his horizons and not gamble. Once he got there, he was persuaded to gamble. He had been winning for the first few days, but then he suddenly lost everything. The more he tried to win it back, the more he lost, and the deeper he fell into debt. With the interest compounding, he could no longer pay off his gambling debts, so people stormed into his house and kidnapped his wife and son."
He had nowhere to turn for help. Those people told him that they had heard he had an older sister who worked for the Duke and must be rich, so they told him to come and find them.
At first, I was furious, but he's my brother, and I couldn't just ignore him. I'd saved up some money over the years, so I thought I'd give it to him to pay off the debt and redeem my sister-in-law and nephew. But a day later, my brother came to me again, his arm broken. He cried and said those people insisted on seeing me, or they'd beat him to death. I had no choice but to go out under the pretext of buying some supplies and meet with the man. He handed me a letter, saying that if I didn't follow the instructions in the letter, my brother's family wouldn't see the sun rise tomorrow.
I had no choice! I…
The old woman, having said this, began to weep again, covering her face. She then wiped away her tears and, forcing herself to remain calm, continued:
"When I returned to the Duke's mansion, I secretly opened the letter and found that it asked me to find a pretext to kill the eldest young master. I was unwilling to do it, but those people seemed to know this. They sent someone else saying that my family was sending me something. I opened it and found a finger inside. They said it was my younger brother's finger. They said that if I didn't do it, the next thing they would send would be my younger brother's corpse. I had no choice but to do it."
Jia She stood up angrily upon hearing this:
"Who is it that has such malicious intentions, just to kill my son!"
Looking at his son's furious expression, as if he were about to grab a knife and go out to kill someone, Jia Daishan said helplessly:
"Sit down first! Let's clarify things before we talk!"
Then he asked:
"Did your brother gamble before?"
Granny Li replied:
“Although my younger brother is a bit lazy, he never gambles. This time, someone had to coax him into going.”
Who was the person who took them there?
Jia Daishan asked.
Granny Li then said:
"It's Li Ergou from town."
Jia Daishan then asked:
"Who was the person you met that day? Do you remember them? What did they look like?"
Granny Li recalled:
"He claimed to be from the casino, was bald with a scar on his face, and was very tall and strong."
"I remember when you came to the manor you said that you were fleeing from a disaster and that your family had all died. How did you come to be this younger brother?"
“This servant did not know that my brother was still alive. At that time, the whole family fled together. I heard that those who fled in that direction all died, so I thought the whole family was dead.”
After asking the question, Jia Naishan waved to his servants, signaling them to take the old woman away.
"Lock him in the woodshed first, and deal with him after this matter is settled."
The old woman then kowtowed again and wept, saying:
"Thank you, Your Excellency! Thank you, Your Excellency! You saved my brother's family!"