Chapter 1269 - 1275: The Truth Revealed (4)
Nanny Wang knelt in the center of the courtyard, before Young Master Mo Zili, and produced a purple jade pendant, saying, "Reporting to Young Master Li, Wang Cai’s words are entirely true. This is the jade pendant Miss Du bribed me with. She also gave Nanny Zhang a pair of purple jade earrings, which Zhang has given to her daughter-in-law. You may search for them."
Mo Zili turned his face, eyeing Du Wanqing with a venomous gaze filled with loathing, and said coldly, "We’ve come to this point, what more do you have to say?"
Seeing this, Du Wanqing knelt down, crying, "Zili, I’ve always been generous with the servants when I was at home. Even if I gave them a few pieces of nice jewelry, how does that prove anything? Could giving them a little something count as bribery, as evidence of my engagement in criminal acts? If you want to convict me, you need to produce some decent evidence at least!"
"I have evidence!"
An elderly yet authoritative voice came from outside, and everyone looked in its direction. At the door, four maids carried in a sedan chair; the Old Madame sat within, her face thin with anger.
Behind the sedan chair followed a smaller chair carried by two people, with Lady Wu, the Eldest Madam, sitting in the middle, and behind her a dozen maids and nannies flooding into the Cool Autumn Pavilion.
Mo Zili, seeing his grandmother and aunt had arrived, dropped the malevolent look on his face, rose to greet them, as Yingyu hurriedly led a little girl into the room to move chairs for these two influential figures to sit.
Wang Cai, seeing the Old Madame, cried loudly while crawling over, kowtowing continuously, "Grandmother, I know you are a devout Buddhist, I beg for your kind and merciful leniency on my behalf, I know my mistake, and I dare not do it again..."