Chapter 52 52 Xiyue Town

Xiangyun pleaded guilty, and the truth seemed to have been revealed.

Su Yan did not feel relieved at all. She walked forward to help Xiangyun up and whispered, "Miss Xiangyun, I'm afraid you have to say it again in front of everyone."

Xiangyun said calmly: "Even if I say it ten times, it will be the same."

Su Yan brought Xiangyun to the main room.

Yunxing had already informed the constables, and the two young ladies of the Li family had been waiting for a long time, and Xiangxiu and Mu Tou were also there.

When everyone was present, Su Yan said to Xiangxiu, "Miss Xiangxiu, your sister has confessed her guilt."

Xiangxiu's eyes flashed with surprise, and she immediately knelt down, "Xiangyun can't possibly kill the master, she doesn't have the courage, Miss, Xiangyun really won't do that."

Between Li Chan and Li Yuan, it was clear that Li Chan's words carried more weight. She hesitated for a moment and said, "Miss Su must have made a mistake. Sister Xiangyun has been in my family for many years and has worked diligently. My family is not a wealthy family, and it is thanks to them that we can live comfortably. She is very afraid of my father and does not have the courage to harm him."

Su Yan said meaningfully: "We are looking for the murderer who killed Li Ji. Xiangyun has clearly confessed her guilt, but Miss San is still trying to protect her. The relationship between you two, master and servant, is really deep."

Li Chan said word by word: "After all, this is my Li family's family affair."

"I understand." Su Yan looked at Lin Bo and the other detectives. "My judgment may be wrong. Miss Xiangyun may have confessed because I frightened her. Can you guys step aside first?"

The detectives were still hesitating, but Lin Bo responded positively, "Of course, of course, we'll go now."

He pulled and dragged several constables out together.

Yunxing closed the door.

Su Yan said again: "I know that Miss Xiangyun is not the only murderer. The murderer first knocked Li Ji unconscious and killed him, and then hung him up. It is impossible for a girl to do it with her strength, not to mention doing so many trivial things. Moreover, the two young ladies' rooms are right next to the main room, and they will be discovered if they are not careful. Therefore, the murderer is actually the Xiangyun sisters. Mu Tou gave false testimony, and the two young ladies are not unaware of it. You heard the noise, but you don't want to expose the two, right?"

Yun Xing frowned.

Li Chan looked confused.

Xiangxiu knelt down, "Miss Su, I admit that it was Xiaoyun and I who killed the master. We were fed up with the master. Madam treated him sincerely, but he spent the money earned by Madam on wine and women. Madam was angered to death by him. The master stopped us from asking for a doctor, and it was Mu Tou who risked being punished by the master to find a doctor, but it was still powerless to save the patient. Because of this, the master almost beat Mu Tou to death. How can we not hate such a person?"

"But the two young ladies were absolutely not involved. They are innocent. Please don't wrongly accuse them, Miss Su."

Su Yan had already seen that they were biased towards each other, so he asked them to get together and talk things out directly.

Su Yan said: "If you want to find out whether Li Chan and Li Yuan knew about it, you just need to stay in the west wing and reenact the scene of the crime. You can't shirk this."

"That's enough," Li Chan stood up and said arrogantly, "We did find out, so what? He wanted to kill my mother, he deserves to die! I want to kill him too!"

Li Yuan grabbed Li Chan's hand worriedly.

Li Chan said: "Second sister, we have nothing to be afraid of. What can they do to us? At worst, they can chop off our heads and we can reunite with them! What's the point of living!"

Su Yan smiled and said, "Second Miss just said 'they'."

Li Chan's breathing stagnated, and her stern expression relaxed a little. She hurriedly made up for it, "I just said it casually."

Su Yan shook his head and said, "You don't want to reunite with Li Ji. Besides Madam, the other person who would want to reunite is... the eldest lady, right?"

The three words "young lady" seemed like a code, and the chaotic voices suddenly disappeared. Xiangyun and Xiangxiu, who were kneeling on the ground, seemed to have lost their energy and spirit, staring blankly at the ground. Li Chan and Li Yuan were speechless and depressed.

Su Yan guessed something, "I just asked the detective to go find the young lady. If it's not convenient..."

"I can't go!" Li Chan said hoarsely, choking with sobs, "Eldest sister, she, she..."

Li Yuan held Li Chan's hand and said softly, "Now that things have come to this, there is no need to hide anything."

She looked at Su Yan and said calmly: "Miss Su, the eldest sister has passed away."

This was something Su Yan had not expected.

Li Yuan said: "My eldest sister is older than us. It was around when she was thirteen that my mother accidentally made a popular spice. Before that, my family had always been very poor. But my father was a man who could not sit still. Without money to pursue prostitutes, he set his eyes on..."

"Later, when my eldest sister got married, her husband's family found out that this was not her first time, and they treated her extremely harshly, humiliating her every day. They even wrote a letter saying they wanted to divorce her. The man didn't want this to be discovered, so he gave her a sum of money as a consolation, but no one in her husband's family was willing to treat my eldest sister well. My eldest sister wrote many letters home, saying that she wanted to go home and get a divorce, but the man wouldn't allow it. Later, my eldest sister... committed suicide."

"Before she committed suicide, she wrote a last letter home, which was hidden by my father. We only found out about it a few days ago. We wanted to bring back my eldest sister's body, but my eldest sister's husband's family said that my eldest sister had eloped with a strange man. Only then did we know that my eldest sister did not commit suicide at home. We don't even know where her body is."

"The eldest sister is like a mother. She has always treated us well and left all the good things to the two of us. But that person ruined her life. Such a person does not deserve to live."

Li Yuan calmly stated their motives, but Su Yan's heart began to beat violently.

Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs, but Li Ji did...

Su Yan whispered, "Where is the letter you mentioned?"

"We don't want people to know about my eldest sister's experience. They won't sympathize with her, but will laugh at her for losing her virginity. They will burn all the letters after finding them." Li Yuan took out a folded envelope from her waist. "I left the last letter my eldest sister sent home. You can read it at will. I left it here just to remind myself to put an end to that person."

Su Yan took the letter from home.

In the letter, the eldest lady's tone was extremely calm.

She greeted her two younger sisters gently, Xiangyun, Xiangxiu, and even Mu Tou. She told them to take good care of themselves and not to listen to Li Ji completely. Before she died, she was still planning for her two younger sisters, hoping that they could marry good men.

"Looking back on this life, it's like standing on the edge of an abyss, walking on thin ice, and I've already exhausted myself. Recently, my mother often appears in my dreams. I relive my old dreams, and I can only feel peace when my mother is alive. If my mother knows and meets me in the afterlife, then my life will not be in vain. I am very happy to make this decision, don't worry."