Allure of a Country Maiden
Chapter 1139 - 1136_1

Chapter 1139: Chapter 1136_1

"Really? Even if you can’t remember, you must know how much silver you carried when you left the village and how much you spent on the way here! If you can’t even give a rough figure, it means you’re lying!" said Xiao’er, coldly.

At this point, Du Yijin also chimed in, "Exactly, since you dared to come to the Imperial Capital alone, you must have surveyed the route in advance and prepared enough silver. Otherwise, how could you have dared to set out!? You’re afraid of being scammed, aren’t you? Besides, even the most forgetful person can’t fail to answer every question!"

"That’s right, could this lady actually be someone deliberately making a scene here, full of lies?"

"I bet she is! She must have been sent to sabotage the wedding on purpose! How dare she disrupt the wedding of the Fifth Princess and the Prince Consort, that’s a capital crime!"

Capital... punishment?!

Upon hearing the words ’capital punishment’, Liao Chunyu was petrified. She didn’t want to die. She had absolutely no idea that Brother Liang was marrying a princess! Otherwise, she would never have come, even if it meant her death. Although she grew up in a village, she knew that one absolutely cannot provoke the royal family. If she did, not even the gods could save her. Liao Chunyu, frightened, broke out in a cold sweat, "I didn’t lie. I came here all by myself! I spent, spent..."

Liao Chunyu looked to the former wife of the Duke of Zhen, hoping she could give her a hint.

The wife of the former Duke of Zhen covertly stretched out two fingers.

Seeing this, Liao Chunyu quickly said, "Two taels, I spent two taels on my journey to the Imperial Capital!"

Upon hearing this, the former Duchess of Zhen almost wanted to die. Did she bring in a pig instead?

That long journey only cost two taels, did she walk all the way here?!

"Miss Liao, did you really only spend two taels of silver, and traveled on the Shi family’s passenger ship?"

"Yes!"

"You’re lying! You think you can travel from the south to the Imperial Capital on just two taels of silver and on the Shi family’s passenger ship? Do you think these many officials and ladies of decree present are idiots, as naive as you are?" Upon hearing this, Xiao’er harshly said, "Better confess, how did you come and who brought you here? If you don’t tell the truth, I will have no choice but to send you to the Dali Prefecture for a forced confession!"

"What right do you have to send me to the Dali Temple? I-, I didn’t lie, I was wrong earlier, not two taels, but twenty taels! It was twenty taels of silver!"

Hard-mouthed!

Xiao’er snorted coldly, "Miss Liao, your clothes seem a bit loose and don’t fit well. Is this your clothing, or was it given to you by someone else?"

"Of course it’s mine!"

"Oh, where did you buy it?"

"I didn’t buy it, I made it myself!" Liao Chunyu was worried that Xiao’er would ask her where she bought it, for how much silver, and was afraid she wouldn’t be able to respond. She just decided to claim she made it herself.

"Pfft!" After Liao Chunyu finished speaking, many people in the room burst out laughing.

The former Duchess of Zhen couldn’t help but close her eyes, wanting to die. She was truly a country bumpkin with no experience, hopelessly stupid!

Xiao’er also laughed, "Miss Liao, don’t you know that your outfit is embroidered with the mark of a certain shop? Unfortunately, that shop is a famous clothing store, with branches in every major prefecture city across the country, and of course, each store sells different clothes. This design of yours, is only sold in the Imperial Capital!"

Xiao’er revealed the mark on her own clothes for her to see.

After hearing this, Liao Chunyu quickly searched around the sleeves of her clothes and indeed found a mark identical to the one on Xiao’er’s clothes.

Not only Xiao’er but also many other ladies in the room revealed the marks on the cuffs of their clothes.

The face of Liao Chunyu turned red instantly, "I was wrong. This outfit was bought in the Imperial Capital. I made one just like it, so I got confused. This outfit is bought, and wasn’t made by me!"

"Miss, don’t you know that this design is from several years ago? You can’t buy it anymore!"

Liao Chunyu: "....."

Why is she so unlucky that she gets everything wrong?

"This lady, you’ve picked the wrong place to scam! This is the Duke of Zhen’s Mansion, not somewhere you can talk nonsense and disrupt the princess’s wedding! Guards, take this liar to the Imperial Clan Court and give her dozens of strokes! Let’s see if she still refuses to tell the truth!"

"Exactly, she’s full of lies, not a single word she says is true! Someone must have sent her to sabotage the Fifth Princess’s wedding. She might even be a spy from the Nangong kingdom. We can’t let such a person go, a few dozen lashes are too light, she should be tortured severely, pinch her fingers, sleep on a nail bed, then throw her into a pile of snakes."

"Right, right, right, she won’t confess unless under severe torture! It’s better to execute it directly."

Pinching fingers? Liao Chunyu subconsciously clenched her fist, holding her fingers in.

A nail bed? Is that a bed full of nails? Liao Chunyu couldn’t help but tense up!

Then throw her into a pile of snakes? When she thought of thousands of snakes crawling all over her body, she shivered. It was too horrifying!

"No, I’ll confess, I’ll confess. The dress I’m wearing was given to me by a woman from this lady’s side! The woman told me that Brother Liang was the Duke of Zhen, and that he was marrying a girl he didn’t like today. As long as I said something touching at the wedding, he would definitely take me as his concubine. I have a low status and can’t be the Duchess of Zhen, but I can become a concubine. Then, after I have children, I might get promoted!"

The former Duchess of Zhen, listening to this, angrily said, "What nonsense are you spouting? How could a woman from my side possibly say these things to you! You liar, you’re full of lies!"

Mrs. Lin, who heard Liao Chunyu’s words, also responded, "Young lady, you can eat whatever you want, but you can’t just say whatever you want. When did I say these things to you, this is the first time I’m seeing you!"

"I didn’t lie this time, I saw her hand this outfit to the woman who brought me to the Imperial Capital last night. She even said it was the lady’s orders for me to wear this dress to the mansion tomorrow. You also said that I wouldn’t be able to get through the Duke’s door in my own coarse-cloth clothes! This dress, you said, was previously worn by Princess Ling’er! I got up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night and happened to see it all."

"Now that she mentions it, I recall seeing Princess Ling’er in this dress before. I’d have completely forgotten if she hadn’t brought it up!"

"Right, I’ve seen Princess Ling’er in this dress too!"

"Even if it’s Ling’er’s dress, it can’t prove it’s the dress given by my maidservant. I threw Ling’er’s clothes away a long time ago! If you say the maid brought you here, can you identify which of my maids she was?" This maid was from her villa, and the people in the house wouldn’t know her. Moreover, she had returned to the villa early in the morning, so she was convinced that Liao Chunyu would not be able to find her!

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