Counterattack of the Cannon Fodder Chambermaid

Untitled Part 169

Due to her chaotic state of mind, Tian-Shi chose to explain things in a way that was extremely beneficial to herself. She said that the matter had been handled by her subordinates at the time, and she had merely listened to the report after. Although she gave the orders, she wasn't quite clear on the details.

These words were said after some consideration. After all, five years was quite a long time. The subordinates from back then had come and gone and had pretty much been switched out. She purposefully said that the person responsible had been someone called Matron Qu. Matron Qu was her personal aide, and would naturally know what to say at this point.

The supreme justice nodded and had someone bring Matron Qu over.

Matron Qu was brought forward.

She wasn't treated as well as Tian-Shi, and had been confined together with the other subordinates. However, since she had been Tian-Shi's trusted aide for several decades, she still had quite a good understanding of things. She was naturally on the same wavelength as Tian-Shi. These days she had solely focused on finding the old and young maids involved back then and getting their stories straight.

What story? Naturally the fact that all three maids who were sold off back then had done immoral things.

There weren't many left who had been involved back then. The only ones were Matron Rong and Xiu E. A few others knew about the situation, but hadn't been present at the time and only heard rumors.

After coming forward, she first glanced at Tian-Shi, and seeing her expression she knew what she should do.

As expected, Matron Qu stubbornly insisted that all three maids back then had crawled into the fourth young master's bed. According to the estate's rules, they should have been beaten to death. The madam had been generous and kind-hearted, and merely sold them out of the capital.

Seeing Matron Qu act as she had expected, Tian-Shi immediately let out a breath. She covered her face with her sleeves and acted aggrieved as she started crying.

Matron Qu didn't let down her role as personal aide, and played along as she also started crying. She said it was lucky that the madam was generous back then, otherwise if those people had been beaten to death there wouldn't be the senior concubine today. She also denounced the senior concubine for forgetting favors and turning on her benefactors the moment she rose up in status.

The hall was filled with the sounds of their crying. The three superiors even felt the urge to cover their faces. Eunuch Fu's face was filled with disdain and mockery.

At this time, a person walked out from behind the screen. Her expression was angry and extremely disdainful.

This was Xiao Hua's personal palace maid Chun Cao.

Chun Cao first saluted the people in the hall, and then angrily rebuked Tian-Shi for lying and Matron Qu for slander. She then said sternly: "This madam and matron, you should properly reconsider. Did things truly happened as you described?"

Tian-Shi had seen Chun Cao before and knew she was the senior concubine's palace maid.

She didn't expect the senior concubine to have sent a palace maid to the hearing, and felt angry, panicked, and sullen, but also a trace of satisfaction. Looks like the senior concubine was finally anxious. But there was no use in being anxious. The three superiors were watching, and even the senior concubine couldn't threaten her. If she had listened to her recommendations early on, this wouldn't have happened!

"Of course this madam is sure she's telling the truth!"

Matron Qu agreed on the side, "This palace maid, even if you are the trusted aide of the senior concubine, you can't threaten us in front of the court. Everything we said was the truth. The madam spared the senior concubine's life back then, who would have thought she would be so ungrateful...."