Chapter 87: Wen Yan is the murderer

"Still quibbling! Wen Yan, how did you become like this! You used to be well-behaved, obedient and sensible. Now there is no trace of a lady from a noble family in you!" Wen Zeduan showed a disappointed expression.

In the past, as long as I said this, Wen Yan would obey me obediently.

However, today Wen Yan didn't even look at him.

Wen Zeduan felt disappointed: "Are you still holding a grudge against your parents because of getting married?

Marriages are all arranged by matchmakers and parents. Your parents had their own reasons for marrying you off to the countryside, and as a child, we should just obey. Yet, you hold such a grudge against them.

How did you become so narrow-minded?"

This sister, no matter how glorious he once was, now makes him as embarrassed as ever.

Whether it was the dowry or the wedding dress, he was ridiculed by his classmates and could not hold his head up.

Wen Yan was not disappointed, she just found it funny.

In her previous life, she was married to Huo Yaoxing.

Wen Zeduan has always been as kind and approachable as the spring breeze and drizzle in front of him.

Even if he asked her for something, he would first act out an act of brotherly love and then reveal a sullen and forbearing expression.

Let Wen Yan take the initiative to ask and guess.

Finally, in order to take care of his fragile self-esteem as an older brother, he placed money and official positions in front of him and begged him to accept them.

Later on, he asked for more and more, and she could no longer afford it.

He then revealed his true colors.

In this life, I married a country scholar, probably because I felt that I could not help at all, so I directly exposed my true nature.

really.

Money and power are the best illusions.

Wen Yan looked outside the courtyard gate and said loudly, "Father, you still want to hide outside? How long will you hear?"

Wen's father walked in with an embarrassed look on his face.

"Father, my eldest brother said that I made Mother sick. You were there at the time. Please tell me the truth yourself."

Father Wen thought of the real reason why Jiang Xinkui fell ill, turned around and glared at his eldest son: "That's not the case at all. Who is gossiping about it in front of you?"

Father Wen still needs Wen Yan's clarification and doesn't want to make things look awkward now.

So he forcibly took Wen Zeduan away.

"Brother! Remember what you just said." Wen Yan reminded.

She will let him understand what it means to be married with the true will of parents and matchmaker!

The yard returned to silence, and Wen Yan turned around and went back to the house to rest.

The maids in the courtyard looked at each other in surprise. The second young lady had changed a lot!

**

Meng family.

Meng Chifei and his sister finished their sparring and were about to go back to the courtyard to rest.

Brother Chen Yi suddenly appeared.

Meng Xiyan asked, "But has the murderer who assassinated Sun Rulan been caught?"

Brother Chen Yi glanced at Meng Chifei and said nothing.

"Chi Fei, go back and rest first."

"You're trying to get rid of me again! If you don't tell me, I'll keep following you."

Meng Xiyan nodded helplessly to Brother Chen Yi.

Brother Chen Yi then said, "The assassin's technique wasn't particularly sophisticated, but they were very cautious and skilled at hiding their tracks. If it hadn't been dark when they escaped, preventing them from concealing their tracks, I might not have been able to find this evidence at all."

As he spoke, he placed a thick beef tendon on the table.

"I found the beef tendon at the crime scene. When we got there, it was still tied between two tree branches."

"It turns out that tree branches and cow tendons are used as slingshots. I remember that you, Chi Fei, also loved to play like this when you were a child..." Meng Xiyan's words suddenly stopped.

Meng Chifei's heart was also pounding.

Brother Chen Yi took out two more porcelain bottles and placed them on the table.

"We followed the folds of the weeds and found these two porcelain bottles under a tree. They had just been buried.

A bottle of knockout drug and a bottle of poison.

The poison is called "Jiahe Xiqu" and is very common in the black market throughout Dayong.

As for this bottle of knockout drug, it's extremely potent. It's commonly used in our military camp for amputating wounded soldiers and cleaning up rotting flesh."

Meng Xiyan frowned, "This medicine is extremely precious. The old doctors in the camp are very frugal with it. How could it have been leaked out?"

Brother Chen glanced at Meng Chifei and said, “Chifei provided several rare medicinal herbs, and the scholar-official gave her a bottle.

She gave half to Wen Yan.

Therefore, the murderer is either Meng Chifei or Wen Yan.

But in the past few days, Meng Chifei has been under Meng Xiyan's nose and has no time to commit the crime.

and.

If Meng Chifei took action.

There's no need to go through so much trouble.

One arrow can pierce Sun Rulan's head.

Then, the murderer can only be Wen Yan.

Why did Ke Wenyan want to kill Sun Rulan?

They haven't even met.

Meng Chifei also frowned.

She remembered Yanyan's premonition.

The Meng family was destroyed.

Not only did he not contribute anything, he didn't even show up.

Yanyan said that it was because she married far away and her mother and brother kept it from her.

Thinking about it now, it was not right.

My mother and brother are not the type to keep things from you for your own good.

Moreover, she would blame herself for the rest of her life for not being able to see her father off to his final journey.

The mother knew her character and would never do that.

Then, you have married the wrong person.

Even when her father was critically ill, she was not allowed to return to her parents' home.

Given his own fighting power, he must have used extreme measures to stop me from returning to my parents' home.

Wen Yan foresaw all this, and in order to protect himself, he wanted to kill Sun Rulan, the source of the trouble!

Think it all through.

Meng Chifei's brows suddenly relaxed.

Facing the questioning looks of his two brothers.

Meng Chifei spread his hands indifferently: "Don't guess, I sent Yanyan."

"Sun Rulan is your fiancé and you are going to get married soon. Why are you doing this?" Meng Xiyan asked calmly.

"Why else? Because he's weak!" Meng Chifei couldn't think of a specific reason, so he made up one.

"He's not as tall as me, not as strong as me, and he talks nonsense all day long. I'm so fed up with having to spend the rest of my life with someone like him, so I asked Yanyan to destroy him."

"That's just ridiculous!" Meng Xiyan slammed the table in anger. "Human lives are at stake, how can you be so careless! Fortunately, Sun Rulan is fine. If he had been injured a little more seriously and the matter had become a big deal, do you think you and Wen Yan would have been able to escape?"

"It's because you guys insisted I get married! I already said I'd rather spend my whole life on the battlefield than get married, but you guys insisted on forcing me. I had no choice but to resort to this desperate measure!"

Meng Chifei pouted and snorted arrogantly.

Meng Xiyan: "..., I can't control you. When mother comes back, someone will take care of you."

Thinking of his mother's gentle knife, Meng Chifei shrank his neck.

Brother Chen Yi: "Then...how do you respond to Young Master Sun?"

"Just say they're still investigating. Hold off for a couple of days. I'll make a decision after I've interrogated Wen Yan."

"Okay." Brother Chen Yi said and returned to his yard.

**

Meng family guest room.

When Sun Rulan heard the news that Chen Yi had returned, he sent his servant out to investigate.

After a while, the servant came back in a hurry.

He asked, "What's going on? Have you found the murderer?"

"No news came out of the martial arts hall. However, the guy named Chen Yi returned to his own courtyard after leaving the martial arts hall."

"He didn't go out again?"

"No." The servant said affirmatively.

Sun Rulan's face darkened. "It seems they've found the murderer. But they won't tell me. Could it be that the murderer is related to the Meng family?"

Good for you Meng family!

Good for you, General’s Mansion!