Chapter 117: The Kinship Line is So Strange
Lu's mother didn't hear any noise, but saw her son standing outside the curtain. She got up, got out of bed, and went outside.
"What's wrong with not sleeping so late at night? Are you still thinking about not marrying into the Du family? Let me tell you, that's absolutely impossible!"
She looked at her son's blank face and unfocused eyes, and frowned.
"Sheng'er, what's wrong?"
Lu Sheng, as still as a wooden statue, slowly raised his head and walked towards her. Then, he took out the knife beside him and plunged it into her body with a thud.
"Ah!" Mother Lu's eyes were filled with terror, and she pointed at the person in front of her for a long time without being able to utter a word: "You...you, how dare you..."
Without a moment's hesitation, the person in front of her numbly raised the knife and plunged it into her body again.
Lu's mother was stabbed again, her face contorted in pain, her eyes filled with disbelief.
Then, she saw her son's expressionless face and stammered, "You...you're not my son. Where's Sheng'er?"
Lu Sheng remained silent, his numb eyes not looking at her, but staring at a corner.
Lu's mother was bleeding profusely. She desperately wanted to shout for help, but she couldn't make a sound.
She noticed something was wrong with her son; he was moving haltingly, like a puppet on a string.
"Son……"
When Lu's mother reached out to pull at her son's clothes, she saw him turn around numbly and walk towards the door.
She crawled forward a few steps and spotted the two small teeth marks on her son's neck. She wanted to say something, but before she could even crawl out of the house, she breathed her last.
...
Jingwu snapped out of her reverie; from just that one fragment, she was certain that it was snake gu.
Without further hesitation, she immediately used a tracking technique following the aura on the soul.
The next second, she teleported to Lou Xuezhao's villa.
Jingwu landed in the main hall of the courtyard. She looked up at the woman in front of her dressed in a wedding gown and frowned in confusion.
"You've arrived."
Lou Xuezhao wore a ceremonial crown and had exquisite makeup on her face. She sat dignifiedly with a smile on her face.
Beside them, a mother and child knelt, their eyes blank and unresponsive.
Just as Jingwu was about to speak, another person fell beside him.
Turning her head, she saw that Yue Huai was still holding the county magistrate in his hand and nodded at her.
Jingwu looked at the magistrate's pale face, which was pale from moving too fast, and said, "Magistrate, please prepare paper and pen."
The magistrate, reminded of this, immediately agreed and took out paper and pen to record it.
Jingwu looked at the woman sitting above and took out the letter he found at the Lu family's house: "This is what you wrote to Lu Sheng, isn't it?"
"You don't need to trick me anymore, I did it." Lou Xuezhao had a faint smile on her face, playing with a small snake in her hand: "I used snake gu to control Lu Sheng and make him kill his mother."
“I was rebellious from a young age. In order to discipline my temperament, my mother sent me back to my maternal grandparents’ home in Miao country. But when I was fifteen, I ran away. I came back here and met Lu Sheng by chance. I thought he was very talented and handsome, so we had a very pleasant conversation. Gradually, we fell in love.”
Lou Xuezhao ignored the expressions on the faces of the people in front of her and continued talking to herself.
"That day, he passed the imperial examination and became a scholar. We agreed to drink together in the suburbs, and naturally we became intimate. He hugged me and said he would marry me, and I believed him. But a month later, he told me that he could not marry me because his mother threatened to kill herself and forced him to marry a girl from the Du family."
Lou Xuezhao scoffed and touched the snake in her hand: "He's a heartless man, a treacherous and faithless man. Of course I was furious, especially after he found out I was pregnant. I told him, but all he did was keep apologizing and telling me to abort the child."
As soon as she finished speaking, the three people in the room looked at her, unable to hide their shock.
"When I learned that his mother had threatened suicide to force him to marry a woman from the Du family so that he could advance his career, I found it laughable. To get revenge on him, I put a snake poison on him while he was drunk. Then I manipulated him to go home and kill his mother."
Lou Xuezhao's face was covered with a maniacal smile, and his eyes were filled with tears: "Hahahaha, matricide is a serious crime. His future career is ruined."
"He's gone mad, he's really gone mad." The magistrate's hand trembled slightly as he put pen to paper, and he muttered to himself.
"I'm insane. I went insane more than ten years ago. If it weren't for them and their child, how could I have possibly married him!" Lou Xuezhao looked at the man kneeling beside her, a hint of disgust flashing in her eyes.
Then, her gaze fell on the girl, and she raised an eyebrow: "After you came to my door that day, I knew you would come again."
Jingwu looked at the person in front of him, his eyes revealing no emotion: "You could have easily destroyed Lu's mother's soul and wiped away any remaining traces of her, so why did you allow her soul to linger in this world?"
Lou Xuezhao paused upon hearing this, then sneered, "Because I want her to watch her son go to jail, completely unable to hold office, to make her despair, to make her anxious but powerless to stop it all."
“Lu Sheng…”
“Lu Sheng is such a smart person, he should have realized that I was the one who did this long ago.” Lou Xuezhao’s eyes softened as she mentioned the name. “If it wasn’t him, how would you have found this letter? After all, you’re so stupid, how could you drag out a case for so many years?”
She said this to the county magistrate.
When the magistrate noticed this, he felt offended and was about to speak when he saw the person sitting up.
“Little girl, the kinship line on your body is quite strange.” Lou Xuezhao walked to the girl’s side and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear.
A ripple flashed in Jingwu's eyes, but he quickly returned to normal.
She looked at the man and said, "Since you've already admitted it, come with us back to the county government office."
"Heh." Lou Xuezhao chuckled as she saw that she had changed the subject. "I won't go back to the county government with you. I admit that I did it, but I'm not wrong. If I'm not wrong, why should I go back with you?"
She touched the snake in her hand, and the next second, she suddenly crushed it to death.
"No!" In that instant, Jingwu understood what she was about to do and immediately stepped forward to stop her.
But it was too late; the snake died in her hands, and she suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood.
In the Miao Kingdom, there is a type of Gu worm that requires its owner to feed it with their heart's blood over a long period of time, forming a symbiotic relationship of life and death.
If the Snake King dies, she cannot live either.
Lou Xuezhao, barely holding on, sat back down in her chair; she was finally relieved.
She gazed out the window in one direction, a smile spreading across her face.
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