OMG! Tyrant's Pampered Baby Is a Valued Princess-Chapter 995: She Brought It Upon Herself, She Deserved It
The deception by the Third Old Lady and Liu Yingnan was quickly unraveled.
It turned out that the Third Old Lady was a notorious "swindler" in the local village.
Her usual method was to drug people with hallucinogens and then give them water to counteract the effect.
In the eyes of the villagers, they thought this was an exorcism.
Yet the existing problems still weren’t solved.
If they went to find the Third Old Lady again, she would claim that "this time the demon is very powerful and hard to dispel" and demand more silver than before.
The average common folk simply didn’t have that much money for her.
Over time, people could only give up.
The villagers all said that the Third Old Lady would eventually face retribution for earning money unjustly.
However, the Third Old Lady was very cautious in her actions and never left any evidence for others to use against her.
Some people felt they had been cheated and wanted to report it to the authorities.
But when they investigated the Third Old Lady’s home, there was nothing there.
And so, the Third Old Lady lived leisurely for decades, surviving on her deceitful tricks.
She probably never expected that her greed, leading her to collaborate with Liu Yingnan, would eventually land her in jail because of Liu Yingnan!
The Xiuluo Guard eventually found out that the Third Old Lady had swindled nearly one thousand taels of silver over the years.
But the Third Old Lady was not the most serious offender.
After being sent to the manor by the Liu Family, Liu Yingnan used the hallucinogenic powder purchased from the Third Old Lady to repeat the trick.
First, she extorted money from the manor’s servants, claiming they were haunted by ghosts.
The servants, who had never been educated, believed the hallucinations they saw and revered Liu Yingnan as if she were a goddess.
Gradually, Liu Yingnan’s reputation spread in her hometown.
Everyone believed that this young lady, who returned from the Capital, was not driven out by her family.
Instead, because of her great skills, she was hidden away by her family in the manor.
More and more people came to seek Liu Yingnan’s help.
Liu Yingnan managed to cheat five thousand taels of silver.
According to the laws of Great Chu, if someone defrauds over three thousand taels of ill-gotten gains, not only is the money confiscated, but they must also be publicly displayed and flogged three hundred times.
Thus, ultimately, all the Third Old Lady’s possessions were confiscated, and she was also flogged fifty times and demoted to slave status.
As for Liu Yingnan, she was publicly displayed, and after the display, according to the law, she was to be flogged three hundred times.
The majority of the silver she had previously obtained was used to package herself and bribe commoners to spread her reputation.
Therefore, little was left, only a bit over five hundred taels.
The remaining money needed to be covered by the Liu Family on her behalf. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞
After all, Liu Yingnan was Master Liu’s daughter, and if Master Liu did not deal with her, he himself would be punished.
The Liu Family, unexpectedly needing to pay over 4,000 taels of silver, was already deeply resentful of the trouble Liu Yingnan had caused.
Moreover, Master Liu’s promotion this year was also canceled.
Liu Yingnan sat in the wooden cage, being paraded through the streets with the Third Old Lady.
When people heard that this female swindler even tried to poison the academy students, they came to jeer at her.
Their mocking voices reached Liu Yingnan’s ears —
"Still pretending to be a disciple of the Kunshan Goddess, yet only learned some tricks from the old swindler to dupe people!"
"Pah, what disciple of the Goddess, not even as good as a juggler."
Hearing their words, Liu Yingnan screamed madly, "I’m not a swindler! It was the Princess who couldn’t tolerate me, she was jealous of me!"
As soon as she finished speaking, someone threw a rotten egg at her head.
Liu Yingnan collapsed in the cage, countless vegetable leaves thrown onto her.
Not far away, in a teahouse, Liu Jiru, dressed in pure white, stood by the window.
Watching Liu Yingnan meet such a fate, there was no emotion in his eyes.
This person he once considered family had once wanted him dead.
Lei Hu, standing beside him, asked, "Will you go and watch when Liu Yingnan is flogged at the government office later?"
But Liu Jiru shook his head and reached out to close the window.
"No, to me, my sister is already dead in my heart."
Let the past be the past.
Yet, as if Liu Jiru’s words became true.
Liu Yingnan died before taking all three hundred strokes.
When Liu Jiru heard the news, his gaze just dimmed slightly.
In the end, he only said, "She brought it upon herself, she deserved it."
