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Chapter 386 Evidence
With a beauty in his arms, how could Jin Ge let her go? He closed his arms around her, trapping her in his embrace.

Yu Nu struggled, her fair cheeks flushed red. "Young Master Jin, please let go, or I'll call for help!"

Jin Ge laughed loudly, "Go ahead and shout, I want to see who dares to come in and disturb my good time!" As he spoke, he began to move his hands and feet erratically.

The maid who was serving Jin Ge wine tactfully withdrew.

Yu Nu was pinned to the ground by Jin Ge, and her desperate attempts to dodge were in vain.

Feeling the struggle beneath him gradually weaken, Jin Ge's eyes flashed with a smile. He reached out and tore open Yu Nu's outer garment, but what he saw was not a small and lovely bodice, but a snow-white linen mourning garment.

Jin Ge grabbed Yu Nu's chin, "Who are you going to mourn for?"

Qingyan Pavilion was the Jin family's intelligence gathering place. Everyone on the pleasure boat, from the madam and courtesan to the maids and pimps, was thoroughly investigated by the Jin family. Only those who were confirmed to be completely innocent were allowed to stay.

As a singer favored by Qingyanfang, Yu Nu's background was thoroughly investigated.

If he remembered correctly, Yu Nu's parents had died long ago, and after her grandparents passed away, the young Yu Nu had to sell her property and travel thousands of miles to Suzhou to seek refuge with her maternal family. However, her maternal family moved away, and she ran out of money. She had no choice but to sing in a teahouse, and was later spotted by Mei Niang and bought into Qingyanfang.

In Da Yu, filial piety is highly valued. When an elder passes away, one must wear mourning clothes and observe a three-year mourning period. Although Jin Ge does not know when Yu Nu's grandparents passed away, it must have been more than three years ago.

There is only one possibility for observing mourning for an elder who has passed away for more than three years—the deceased was wronged.

Jin Ge lifted Yu Nu's chin with amusement. "You've hidden it quite well!" You even managed to deceive the Jin family. But, "Why not continue to hide it?"

Yu Nu looked up and stared straight at Jin Ge, "Because I want revenge!"

Jin Ge: "Want to borrow my hand?"

Yu Nu readily admitted, "Yes!"

"What business is it of your family's injustice, my lord?" Jin Ge sneered. "Do you think I'm some kind of Vajra Bodhisattva, why should I help you get revenge?"

Yu Nu: "Just because my enemy and young master's enemy are both the Yang family!"

Jin Ge was taken aback. "The Yang family?"

"That's right!" Yu Nu's eyes were filled with hatred. "The Yang family killed my father and mother. I will make the Yang family pay for this blood feud!"

Jin Ge: "You? Do you even know the Yang family?"

Yu Nu: "I know, I know that the Jin and Yang families are at odds over the position of Dean of Hongshan Academy. I am willing to be the knife in your hand, young master, to eliminate the Yang family!"

Jin Ge narrowed his eyes, "What leverage do you have over the Yang family?"

Yu Nu said, word by word, "It's a handle that could lead to the execution of the entire Yang family and the extermination of nine generations of their clan!"

The arm supporting Yu Nu's neck trembled, and Jin Ge almost lost his balance and fell on Yu Nu. Fortunately, he managed to steady himself at the last moment. Jin Ge sat up, walked around the cabin a few times, and finally made up his mind, "Get dressed and come back to the manor with me!"

Yu Nu lowered her head to cover the corners of her mouth that were turned up, quickly straightened her disheveled clothes, and followed Jin Ge out of the cabin.

The servant, who had been joking with the maid outside the door, was surprised that his young master had come out so early. He hurriedly went to greet him, "Young Master!"

"Go find Mei Niang and get Yu Nu's indenture," Jin Ge said as she stepped off the boat and boarded the carriage.

The servant glanced at Yu Nu, who had followed him into the carriage, and hurried off to do so.

The carriage returned to the Jin family's old residence, and Jin Ge led Yu Nu directly to the courtyard of Old Master Jin. "Young Master, Old Master is already resting."

"I have urgent business to attend to with my grandfather," Jin Ge said anxiously. "Please ask Uncle Yu to pass on my message."

The butler shook his head and stood motionless in front of Jin Ge.

Jin Ge simply shouted, "Grandfather, I have urgent business to discuss with you! Please grant me a meeting, and I promise I will not disappoint you this time!"

"Young Master, how are you going to handle this situation?"

Stared at by the housekeeper with the eyes of someone who doesn't understand, Jin Ge gritted her teeth and refused to back down.

After a short while, the steward who was serving inside came out and said, "The old master invites the eldest young master in."

Jin Ge was overjoyed and pulled Yu Nu into the house. He knelt down in front of Old Master Jin and admitted his mistake, saying, "Grandson has been disobedient, but there was an emergency. Please listen to what I have to say, Grandfather. If you still want to punish me after hearing what I have to say, I will have no complaints!"

Old Master Jin sneered. He wanted to hear what urgent matter this incompetent eldest grandson had that was so pressing.

"Grandfather, I have received definite news that the Yang family is illegally operating an iron mine in Shuzhou!"

Old Master Jin's eyelids twitched. "Is this really true?"

“It’s true! I have witnesses!” Jin Ge looked at Yu Nu kneeling behind him.

Yu Nu bowed and kowtowed, "Wang family's Yu Niang greets Old Master Jin."

Wang Yuniang waited for a long time, but no one called her to get up. She maintained her bowing posture and said, "I am from Linshui Village, Xichang Prefecture, Shuzhou. My father was the village chief of Linshui Village. In the year I was born, Xichang Prefecture suffered a flood. In order to make a living, my father took the men of the village to go out and make a living."

“No one in the village knew where my father and the villagers went to work, but every three months, my father would bring back a sum of money, saying that it was money he earned working with the villagers. With this money, the villagers’ lives got better and better.”

"Seeing that the family had savings, my mother didn't want my father to work outside anymore, but my father refused. He said that he was valued by his employer and had become a manager. He believed that his future would be bright and that he would earn more and more money."

"Until one day, my father suddenly returned covered in blood and ordered my mother and me to pack our things and leave the village immediately. Only then did I realize that my father and the villagers had been mining iron ore for the Duke of Wei and the Yang family!"

"Later, when the Duke of Wei died, the Yang family, fearing that their collusion with the Duke of Wei to secretly open an iron mine would be exposed, killed all the workers at the iron mine!"

“My father was lucky to survive and managed to escape home, but he died on the way due to excessive blood loss.”

Wang Yuniang's voice trembled with tears, "My mother couldn't bear to see my father die in the wilderness, so she risked her life to send him home, only to run into the Yang family, who had come to the village to kill him and cover their tracks. And then..."

Grandpa Jin's expression remained unchanged. "Do you have any evidence to prove that the Yang family colluded with the State of Wei to privately operate an iron mine?"

“Yes!” Wang Yuniang let her tears fall to the ground. “Before my father died, he gave me an account book, which clearly recorded the amount of money and silver exchanged between the Yang family and the Wei State’s private iron mine.”

Old Master Jin's eyes lit up. "Where are the account books?"

"I buried it under a big tree by the Wusong River."

Grandpa Jin looked at Jin Ge, "I have already sent someone to fetch it."

Grandpa Jin nodded in satisfaction, but he wasn't blinded by joy. Instead, he asked, "How did you escape the Yang family's pursuit?"

There's no reason for the Yang family to let Wang Yuniang go, even if she's just a child.