Chapter 118: Wife-killing
"Minsi is already thirty years old this year, and he has become a father twice now."
Xu Zhao: “!!!”
I didn’t expect that at the age of 30, he was already a remarried man!
She looked at Wang Xingrui in disbelief, and looked him up and down. She was impressed and said, "Such a wicked man can actually find two wives. It must be that a good family background was popular in ancient times!"
Xu Zhao spoke in a very soft voice. Apart from Shen Yu who had good hearing, no one else could hear it.
Hearing Xu Zhao's words, Shen Yu chuckled and glanced at his nephew's face, which looked indeed like a monster.
Wang Xingrui's hair stood on end as the two of them looked at him as if he were looking at merchandise.
"Don't look at me like that!" To be honest, the looks in these two people's eyes can be described as extremely weird.
"And then what?" The two marriages immediately aroused Xu Zhao's curiosity.
In this era, the system of monogamy and polygamy was practiced. The only way to remarry was to divorce one's wife, or to remarry if one lost his wife at a young age.
No way! Xu Zhao seemed to have thought of a possibility.
"Then, my cousin is unlucky in marriage."
Ahhhhh! Wang Xingrui roared inwardly!
“Shen Wujue, you!”
"His first wife was the eldest daughter of the Minister of War. The couple loved each other very much, but unfortunately his wife was injured during childbirth and passed away within a few years."
It's a tragedy.
"Because she was his second wife, her family was not as good as his first. Her father was the daughter of the chief minister of the Dali Temple. The couple treated each other as equals, but unfortunately, she fell ill a few years later and passed away."
"Is it because your two wives passed away one after another that you have the reputation of being a wife-killer?" Xu Zhao was curious. Birth, aging, sickness and death are common things. Even if they happen to the same person one after another, it should have nothing to do with him.
The world is cruel to everyone. It ties the life and death of a couple together. If something happens to one of them, it means the other's fate is bad.
Thinking of the two wives who lived with him day and night, Wang Xingrui felt lonely. After the death of his first wife, he was sad for a long time.
Later, his parents found another girl for him. She treated him like her own child and took extra care of him. Gradually, he accepted his second new wife. He thought their family could live a happy life, but he didn't expect fate to come to him again.
"Three guests, your dishes are here!" The waiter dragged a tray with three dishes on it.
"Quan crystal sashimi, braised crab meat and steamed duck with rice wine," the waiter placed the dishes on the tray on the table one by one, "Please wait a moment, the rest of the dishes will be served soon."
The waiter's interruption and the serving of the exquisite dishes made Wang Xingrui forget everything.
It has been so many years, he has let it go long ago, and only shows a bit of loneliness when he occasionally thinks of them.
Chen Yu used the chopsticks that had not been used yet to split the lion's head in half and put one half into Xu Zhao's bowl, "Try this."
He had eaten dishes cooked by the imperial chef before. This stewed crab meat and lion's head was his and his mother's favorite dish when they were children. Now it was most appropriate for him to share it with the person he loved.
"Thanks."
Xu Zhao always eats as she pleases. Even half a lion's head is very big. She directly inserts the chopsticks into the lion's head, holds the tail of the chopsticks, lifts it up and bites it directly, without caring at all that she is eating outside at the moment, nor does she care about Wang Xingrui, an outsider.
Wang Xingrui quietly leaned close to Shen Yu's ear and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Uncle, the girl you like is really extraordinary!"
Nothing of their actions escaped Xu Zhao's eyes, but she didn't care.
Chen Yu pushed Wang Xingrui, who was standing very close to him, away and continued to talk to Xu Zhao: "That's not how he got his reputation of being unlucky in marriage."
"Oh, where did that come from?" Xu Zhao still had meat in his mouth and his speech was a little slurred.
Shen Yu was ruthless when it came to exposing other people's past. He was about to give up, but who would have thought that Wang Xingrui was so bold and spoke ill of Xu Zhao to his face, so he naturally didn't hold back.
Wang Xingrui jumped up from the bench and tried to cover Shen Yu's mouth, but before he could even lift his buttocks even a little, Shen Yu pressed his shoulders down.
"He was once ambushed while on a business trip and had sex with an innocent girl."
Afraid of being misunderstood, Wang Xingrui immediately explained, "When I woke up, the first thing I did was promise the girl that I would marry her."
Even if he passed the imperial examination and had a chance of becoming a high-ranking official in the future, he had lost his two wives in succession, and no prominent family in the city was willing to marry their daughter to Wang Xingrui again.
After learning about their son's affairs, Wang's parents did not try to stop him. Instead, they privately investigated the girl's character. They did not require her to be well-educated, but only hoped that she could take good care of the children at home. After confirming that the girl was honest and kind, they immediately sent a matchmaker to propose marriage.
Since the third girl was mentioned, Xu Zhao probably guessed, "Could that girl have also met with an accident?"
"Yes, the girl lost both her parents when she was young. After getting engaged, she went out of the city to pay respect to her parents. On her way back, she was killed by a group of bandits."
Even the girl he had just been engaged to died. The label of being a wife-killer was firmly fixed on his head.
"Have you found out which gang of bandits that was?"
Wang Xingrui shook his head. There were only horse footprints left around the body. All her belongings had been looted, and there was no other trace.
When the bandits commit murder and robbery, they are very skilled and orderly, and it is indeed difficult to find evidence.
Xu Zhao ate the melon with great clarity and was very satisfied.
The waiter brought another soup and two vegetarian dishes, which looked very good.
"Have you ever thought that this might not be a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster?"
"Man-made disaster?"
"Yes, have you ever thought that your two wives and that girl might not have died accidentally?"
Wang Xingrui lowered his eyelids. "I also thought everything was too strange before, and I investigated privately, but I didn't find anything, not even a suspect."
After so many years, he can only accept his fate.
"Didn't we kill a bandit when we came back? I guess there aren't many bandits in this area, and we seized a lot of stuff at the time. Maybe we'll find some evidence."
What if they find out?
The bandits would take money to kill people, but in order to control the buyers, they would sometimes leave evidence to drag the buyers into the crime. They were bandits who had killed countless people and did not conduct business with integrity at all.
Xu Zhao didn't expect that the possibility she casually mentioned would actually be verified later.
"Since Minsi is my cousin, as his uncle, I naturally have to show some concern for him. I'll ask someone to look for him when I get home tonight."
Xu Zhao enjoyed this meal very much. He got to eat melon and dishes that satisfied him.
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