Chapter 578 Everything Has a Reason

Di Renjie, sitting at the head of the table, nodded as he listened to what Li Sanniang said, while Wang Jian, the registrar of the Dali Temple, was also taking notes on what Li Sanniang was saying.

A little while later, Li San Niang stepped aside and stood there. Su Qi asked Qiu Xiang some questions as usual, and Wang Jian was also taking notes.

Li San Niang thought that this should be the end of it, and that she and Qiu Xiang could go back and wait for the matter to be resolved, find Gao Da Sao and Gao Ya Hui, and then take Lu Zhu'er out of the Song family and go home.

To everyone's surprise, Di Renjie, sitting at the head of the table, stroked his beard and smiled at Li Sanniang.

"I never expected to run into Doctor Li again at the crime scene."

Di Renjie's words surprised the officials and constables of the Jingzhao Prefecture sitting to the side. They had not expected that Li Sanniang, a young woman, would know Di Renjie, one of the most promising people in the Dali Temple.

Li San Niang had questions in her heart, but she didn't show them on her face. She simply bowed to Di Renjie and stood aside without moving. She didn't deliberately take advantage of knowing Di Renjie to say anything more.

"We will not speak falsely to Dr. Li, and the case is now quite clear."

Aside from the poisoning, there are still some minor questions surrounding the case, and since Dr. Li is here, I'd like to have them clarified.

Su Qi's words made Li San Niang raise her head and raise her eyebrows. "I knew it. He suddenly brought up getting to know me and talking about our friendship."

"So they really do need my help."

Someone with good sense quickly moved a chair over for Li San Niang. After thanking them, Li San Niang sat down without any hesitation.

"I would like to hear the details."

After receiving Di Renjie's approval, Su Qi began to explain to Li Sanniang the details of the poisoning incident that had resulted in the deaths of more than ten people.

Just as Madam Song said, everything has a reason.

Previously, Su Qi had not learned from Madam Song about the relationship between the man who injured someone among the male guests and Liu Sanlang and Sun Qilang. Now, Su Qi explained everything to Li Sanniang.

"The one who poisoned the cups of the deceased was Wang Jia Silang. According to the information we got from him, it all stemmed from an affair."

It turned out that Liu Sanlang and Sun Qilang were among the dozen or so dead. Wang Silang knew Liu Sanlang, Sun Qilang, and the others who had already died. They all studied at the same academy, Langya Academy in the suburbs of Beijing.

According to Wang Silang, his wife committed suicide by jumping into a well half a year ago.

But Wang Silang said to the people of Dali Temple: "My wife is kind-hearted. Although she is a bit weak, she is definitely not the kind of person who would kill herself because she couldn't think straight."

Unable to accept Wang Niangzi's death, Wang Silang, while sorting through Wang Niangzi's belongings after the funeral, discovered a note with Sun Qilang's handwriting in one of the books Wang Niangzi used to read.

The note contained only a few words, an agreement to meet at a strange rock behind the academy.

Wang Silang couldn't believe that his wife would be involved with someone like Sun Qilang. So, in order to find out the truth, Wang Silang deliberately approached Sun Qilang in the academy and also took the opportunity to stake out the strange rocky area behind the academy.

This contact and stakeout took Wang Silang almost three months, and he did discover some problems.

It turns out that more than ten people in the academy who were friends with Sun Qilang, including Liu Sanlang, were having a group of people engaging in lewd acts at the strange rocks behind the academy!

That time, Wang Silang saw Liu Sanlang's wife, Zifenniang, among the crowd.

a bolt from the blue!

Wang Silang truly never expected such a sordid thing to happen!

At this moment, Wang Silang couldn't help but think, "Could it be that my wife became close to Fen Niang and discovered Fen Niang's affair with these scoundrels, which forced her to commit suicide?"

The thought of his wife being forced into this position filled Wang Silang with rage, and he wanted to take a knife and kill these scoundrels.

Wang Silang was just one of the three sons of the third branch of the Wang family. He was neither good nor bad at studying. He couldn't compete with his father's connections, and in terms of family background, the Wang family couldn't compare to the Liu and Sun families, whose members held high-ranking official positions in the imperial court.

Therefore, Wang Silang wanted to proceed step by step, to continue making contact, to find evidence, and then to turn himself in. He wanted to beat the petition drum to expose the filthy deeds of these scoundrels and clear his wife's name.

However, despite Wang Silang's efforts to curry favor with Sun Qilang and Liu Sanlang, and despite spending a considerable amount of money and accompanying them to Pingkangfang multiple times, he still failed to find a breakthrough.

The turning point came when Wang Silang happened to run into Qingniang outside the academy. Qingniang was there to deliver clothes to Sun Qilang. The two met briefly, and whether it was divine intervention or coincidence, Qingniang called out to Wang Silang as they passed each other.

"Young master, do you recognize my son-in-law, Sun Qilang?"

After a few words, Wang Silang intended to leave immediately, but Qingniang's words made him stop in his tracks.

"Young master, have you ever seen Liu Sanlang's wife with my son-in-law?"

At that moment, Wang Silang was thinking, "She knows!"

Actually, Qingniang had already sensed something was wrong at home.

Even though she was a woman who valued her husband above all else, how could she not care when her husband, Sun Qilang, repeatedly brought up other people's wives (Liu Sanlang's wife, Fen Niang)?

After learning that a student's wife had committed suicide by jumping into a well, Qingniang inquired about it. When she learned that Wang Silang's wife had been on good terms with Fenniang, Qingniang decided to meet Wang Silang.

At this point, Wang Silang and Qingniang made contact.

Later, the two met privately several times. Just as Wang Silang had guessed, Qingniang, as Sun Qilang's bedmate and with her maidenly intuition, instinctively sensed the problem between Sun Qilang and Liu Sanlang's wife, Fenniang.

When Qingniang learned from Wang Silang that not only Fenniang, but also Sun Qilang had affairs with many students and their wives in the academy, Qingniang almost went mad.

Persistence pays off. With Qingniang's help, Wang Silang finally managed to learn about his wife's situation from Sun Qilang a little over a month ago while hiding in the shadows.

Sun Qilang, who had been forced to drink, could barely open his eyes and slurred his words, "Hey, wife, you mean that young lady from Wang Mutou's family?"

It was Fenniang who found it for us.

We are not the kind of libertines who force others; everyone in our group is there voluntarily.

Fen Niang was willing to have sex with us, but she brought it up herself; we didn't force her.

It was she who brought Wang Mutou's wife to the back mountain to find us, and that's when we started the fight.

It was only later that they learned that the woman had discovered Fenniang's shameful affair and had been drugged and forced to come by Fenniang.

As soon as she turned around, the woman threw herself into the well.

"This isn't our fault; the woman threw herself into the well."

Only then did Wang Silang finally find out the whole story of his wife's suicide by jumping into the well, and he also learned that the culprits, besides Fen Niang, were all these scoundrels who were executioners.

Therefore, Wang Silang and Qingniang plotted a revenge.

This led to the poisoning and assault case at the Song family's flower-viewing banquet.