Chapter 123: You're a Little Green on the Head
The human skin was clean, without a trace of resentment.
Jingwu frowned, sensing something was wrong. She looked around but didn't see any ghosts.
Could it be that it went to be reincarnated?
Logically speaking, people who die such tragic deaths are usually not so willing to be reincarnated.
Jingwu circled the secret room twice, then suddenly kicked a box covered in runes. He picked it up and frowned instantly.
This is……
"My lord, my lord, this really has nothing to do with me. I really don't know anything about it."
Yu Weiyong ordered his men to arrest the shopkeeper and his wife, intending to take them back for interrogation.
The shopkeeper immediately shouted that he was innocent.
Jingwu put the box into his Qiankun bag, then came out and immediately heard someone respond.
"This thing appeared in your inn, and you actually say you didn't know about it? Who would believe that?"
She took a close look at the faces of the shopkeeper and his wife. They were wicked and had committed many evil deeds. Although they had never killed anyone, they had indirectly caused the deaths of several people.
Jingwu did some calculations and then said, "Your name is Ding Xuan, and you are from Dingjia Village in the capital. You were poor since childhood and often went hungry. When you were eighteen, you met a man. He gave you five hundred taels of silver to take over this inn and promised that as long as you worked for him, he would guarantee you wealth and honor."
Ding Xuan's expression hardened upon hearing what the person in front of her said. How did she know all this?
Jingwu ignored him and continued, "The person behind the scenes also sent you a beautiful woman, asking you to marry her. She's the one next to you, isn't she? She also brought a younger brother named Ningyi. Ningyi is handsome, but he has a peculiar habit: when he sees someone good-looking, he'll try every means to skin them alive."
Upon hearing this, the shopkeeper's wife could no longer sit still. She wanted to speak, but was stopped by the person in front of her.
"When you first stumbled upon it, you stopped it, but the person behind you told you not to get involved and even asked you to help Ning Yi do such a heinous thing. After that, you built a secret room for him here. Am I right?"
Ding Xuan's expression changed repeatedly; she wanted to explain, but didn't know what to say.
His mind raced, and he finally decided to pin all the blame on Ning Yi.
"No, this has nothing to do with me. It was all Ning Yi's doing. I have never harmed anyone. He did everything. It has nothing to do with me!"
"Ding Xuan!" The shopkeeper's wife's eyes widened instantly, and she slapped him hard: "How could you push everything onto Ning Yi?"
"Now that things have come to this, you're still protecting him? Confess now, or we'll all die!" Ding Xuan grabbed the hand of the person next to her and said fiercely, "I don't care how you usually help him, but now you want me to die with him? That's impossible!"
A flicker of panic crossed the shopkeeper's wife's eyes. This was her only brother, her only family member in the world.
Even if he himself dies, he cannot die.
She quickly explained to everyone, "This has nothing to do with Ning Yi. I did it all. I lured him into the inn, I put the drug in his drink, I skinned him, I did everything!"
The shopkeeper couldn't believe his wife would be willing to die for her brother. He reached out and pulled her back, saying, "Are you crazy?"
"Oh, right, there's one more thing." Jingwu coughed lightly as he looked at the scene and pointed at the shopkeeper, saying, "You're being cuckolded, aren't you? Your children aren't yours."
"What!" Ding Xuan jumped to her feet, her eyes blazing with anger. "Little girl, what nonsense are you spouting? How could it not be my child?"
"That's right, whose children are those if not my husband's?" A hint of panic flashed in the shopkeeper's eyes as she pointed at the person in front of her and angrily shouted, "You're making baseless accusations and defaming my reputation! I will never let you get away with this!"
Jingwu raised an eyebrow, looked at her flustered face, yet still trying to pretend to be calm and loudly defend herself, and laughed out loud.
"You and your younger brother grew up together under the abuse of your stepmother, and developed a special bond. After your marriage, you two got drunk and had sex, which broke the ice. You had secret trysts in secret rooms time and time again, and then you got pregnant."
Those around were stunned speechless upon hearing this. They had been worried about why they couldn't get out, but now they just wanted to stay there and listen to this gossip.
"No!" the shopkeeper's wife shouted immediately, intending to rush forward and tear her mouth apart, but she was firmly held down by several guards: "You're talking nonsense! Who are you? I have no grudge against you, why are you trying to harm me like this?"
Hearing this, Jingwu wasn't angry. He turned to look at Ding Xuan, who seemed to be deep in thought, and said, "You've suspected more than once that the two children look a bit like Ning Yi, but your wife says that it's normal for nephews to resemble their uncles, right?"
Ding Xuan carefully recalled the appearances of the two children, and they did indeed look very much like Ning Yi, not at all like herself.
Once the seed of doubt is planted, it will sprout endlessly.
He recalled that he had once caught his wife rushing out of a secret room in the middle of the night, her cheeks flushed and her hair slightly disheveled.
The wife explained that she was frightened by the human skins in the secret room.
Ding Xuan had never suspected anything before, but upon hearing this, she immediately realized it.
He reached out and grabbed the woman next to him by the neck, asking viciously, "Why are you doing this to me?"
“It’s your child, my husband, how can you not believe me?” The shopkeeper’s wife, her face streaked with tears, gasped for breath as she was being choked. “How can you believe a stranger? She’s just here to sow discord between us.”
Ding Xuan desperately wanted to disbelieve the person in front of him, but he had already decided in his heart that the two children were not his.
He didn't let go; instead, he pinched harder and harder.
Only three people know about the secret room incident. If his wife dies, he can pin everything on Ning Yi and perhaps save his own life.
Thinking this, Ding Xuan increased the pressure on his hand, determined to strangle the person in front of him to death.
The next second, a beam of blue light struck his wrist, causing him to immediately release his grip in pain.
He was about to turn his head to see who it was when he met Jing Wu's eyes, which seemed to be smiling but not smiling.
Before he could speak, the girl spoke.
"Lord Yu, the real murderer is in the woodshed in the backyard."
Upon hearing this, Yu Weiyong immediately sent men to the woodshed in the backyard to arrest the person.
A moment later, the guards brought over a man.
His hair was disheveled, obscuring his face, and his body was stained with blood.
Yu Weiyong looked at him coldly and said, "Raise your head."
Ning Yi quickly covered her face with her hair: "No, don't."
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