Chapter 79 Fishing Enforcement

It wasn't until Madam Lu was tired of beating her and was catching her breath with the help of the maid beside her that Xiao Yu slowly said, "Madam Lu, please don't be angry anymore. Sanshan Zhenren's cultivation was destroyed and he has fled outside the city. We captured this boy from his hands and know all the details of what happened. He is now injured and unconscious. We will interrogate him strictly when he wakes up."

Madam Lu sighed, "I'm sorry to have embarrassed you, sir."

At this moment, the wealthy businessman's brother, the eldest of the Lu family, stood up and angrily scolded Madam Lu: "Hmph, even if the mastermind is Sanshan Zhenren, it was you, woman, who let the wolf into the house! Quickly confess the truth in front of Master Xiao. Have you been secretly colluding with that old Taoist priest to steal the money and elope?"

Mrs. Lu was so angry that she regained her strength: "Shut up, you bastard! Go back and be your mother's sweetheart!"

Xiao Yu gestured for the two to stop and kindly advised, "There's no need to argue. It wasn't Sanshan Zhenren who murdered Second Master Lu. Sanshan Zhenren did send someone to kill Second Master Lu, but they were unsuccessful. The real murderer is someone else."

"Who is that?" Mrs. Lu asked in surprise.

"It's not clear yet, but he knows." Xiao Yu pointed at the servant lying on the stretcher, "I have already found the best doctor in the county to treat his injuries. He will be awake by tomorrow morning at the latest, and then we can interrogate the real culprit."

"That's good." Madam Lu breathed a sigh of relief. "Please, sir, find out the real culprit and clear my name."

"Of course." Xiao Yu nodded.

Xu Chuchu stood aside without saying a word, but in her opinion, although Mrs. Lu kept scolding her husband for being cowardly and incompetent, she was angrier than anyone else when she really knew that her husband was murdered and not died of natural causes.

Probably still have feelings.

…

Xiao Yu arranged for the "unconscious" servant to sleep in a guest room so that he could recuperate. At the same time, he asked his men to guard him for twelve hours while he went to rest.

At night, the servant still showed no signs of waking up, and Xiao Yu did not come over. The soldiers guarding the door began to become bored.

One of them suddenly pushed the other and said, "Brother, we have nothing to do right now, why don't we go play dice for a while?"

"How can that be possible?" the other one quickly refused. "The master ordered us to keep this suspect under guard, saying he's an important witness and we absolutely cannot afford to let him go."

"You're too timid. The suspect was already injured and unconscious, and was severely beaten by Madam Lu. He hasn't even woken up yet. How could he escape?"

"That's right, you lost eight strings of cash to us brothers last time, don't you want to win it back?"

"That's... okay."

As they spoke, they looked left and right, then walked away stealthily, and soon they disappeared from view.

After there was no one in front of the door, there was a commotion in the nearby bushes, and a tall and burly "woman" slowly emerged from inside and pushed the door open quietly.

Seeing that the door was not locked, the "woman" sneered and secretly cursed the officers and soldiers for their incompetence.

"She" took out a sharp knife from her sleeve and quickly chopped at the bulge on the bed -

Although the matter is troublesome, as long as the only person who knows the truth is killed and the blame is put on that woman, "she" will still be safe.

Everything still belongs to him, and him alone!

However, there was only a "bang" sound, and the imagined blood and flesh did not splatter, but instead there was a dull sound of the knife hitting the wood.

Looking at the person lying on the bed again, it was no longer the servant on the stretcher in the afternoon, but a shriveled and weird wooden man!

The "woman's" heart suddenly sank.

"I say, some people really underestimate our officials," a joking voice said from behind the "woman." "They noticed you the moment you approached. Otherwise, why would they play dice right when you arrived? I thought their acting was poor, but I didn't expect you to be so easily fooled."

As soon as he finished speaking, several oil lamps were lit, and the bright flames instantly illuminated the entire room.

The "woman" turned around in surprise, and standing in front of "her" was Lord Xiao, who was said to have been sleeping and resting, his subordinates, and the thin little girl who came back with him.

It turned out to be a huge group of people.

Lord Xiao and the girl were both wearing the clothes they wore during the day, so it was not as if they were really going to rest.

Just wait and see!

"Wow, a cross-dressing guy." Xu Chuchu looked at the "woman" in front of her who was about to commit a crime. "Didn't I think you looked pretty even in women's clothes during the day?"

Before she could finish her words, Xiao Yu smacked her on the head: "Girl, don't talk nonsense."

He resisted the urge to look at Xu Chuchu's pouting face and turned to the man collapsed on the ground. "Boss Lu, I wonder why you wore your sister-in-law's clothes late at night and sneaked into the servant's room. What's wrong with you?"

The man wearing women's clothes was Lu Wenkang, the brother of the deceased wealthy businessman Lu.

Lu Wenkang is not like his short and fat brother. On the contrary, he is tall and thin, with a handsome scholarly air. With some rouge and powder on, he does look a bit like a girl.

I think he used the same outfit when he killed his own mother, deceiving the maid who passed by at the time and thus clearing himself of suspicion.

It is hard to believe that a man who usually looks dull, honest, gentle and quiet is the real murderer who killed his brother and mother.

But the facts are there.

At this time, no matter how stupid Lu Wenkang was, he should have understood that Xiao Yu and Xu Chuchu might not know who the real murderer was, or had no evidence to identify the murderer, so they deliberately revealed the fact that the servant knew the inside story during the day, casting a fishing net to lure him out.

He actually fell for it...

"I, I'm here to avenge my brother." He tried to defend himself dryly, glancing around, looking for an opportunity to escape. "...It was this traitor who killed my brother. I wish I could kill him to vent my anger!"

"Revenge?" Xiao Yu sneered, "I don't think anyone in this world wants your brother dead more than you do."

"Your Excellency is joking..."

"I never joke," Xiao Yu said sternly. "You're jealous that your brother is more talented than you, and you resent him for not wanting to give you his best shop. You think that if he dies, all his wealth and endless income will belong to you."

"The night he died, you saw him being attacked and killed him while he was weak. While disposing of the body, your mother discovered you. Out of favoritism, she chose to protect you. She kept your brother's body a secret and quickly buried it. She also expelled your sister-in-law from the Lu Mansion so that you could monopolize everything your brother left behind."

"But you didn't realize that your brother had long been fed up with your mother's favoritism towards you and felt guilty towards his wife, so he wrote a will early on, leaving his property to his wife alone. You also didn't realize that there were people outside who had their eyes on your property. As a result, the government was involved."