Ning Wen nodded and said, "It is true, but few people in Shengjing City knew about this matter at the time. After all, Madam Huang is the niece of the Queen, so no one dared to talk about it."
Qi Yuning was disgusted with Jiedushi Huang, who had an affair with Qin's daughter while his wife was pregnant. "It really proves the saying that all men in the world are unfaithful!"
Shen Nian sighed softly, looking at the child in her arms, her eyes full of sadness.
Qi Yuning asked: "How did your husband die? Why do they all say that you committed adultery and made him die of anger?"
Shen Nian said: "I don't know how my husband died. Since I became pregnant with Han'er, my husband has had a beautiful concubine named Manniang.
Manniang was born in a brothel. I am angry that my husband has chosen such a concubine, so I simply don’t allow my husband to enter my room again.”
Shen Nian looked down at the soft child in her arms and said, “After the child was born, I was already satisfied with having Han’er, and I only wanted to raise my Han’er well, and not let my husband enter my courtyard.
Three days ago, when I returned to the courtyard, I did not see any servants. When I entered the bedroom, I saw my husband lying on the ground, his body stiff.
My maid and I were shocked. We didn't expect a man to come out from inside, knock my maid unconscious, and tear my clothes into pieces. Not long after, my wife came with her people. They believed that I had committed adultery and angered my husband to death...
Because I had driven my husband out of my room many times before, they were sure that I had already had feelings for someone else. I really didn't do such a shameless thing. I had just given birth to a child a hundred days ago, how could I have committed adultery?"
Seeing Shen Nian full of tears, Qi Yuning stepped forward to comfort her: "Don't cry, we will definitely give you justice."
Ning Wen supported Shen Nian and said, "Nian Nian, you must take good care of yourself now."
Shen Nian choked up and said, "Stepmother, I'm not afraid of myself. I've been disheartened for a long time. What I'm afraid of is that they will do something to Han'er. They forcibly took Han'er to the blood test, and that man actually said that my Han'er is his blood..."
Shen Nian reached out and touched the child's face, feeling extremely sad and grief-stricken.
…
In the mourning hall.
The Huang family has invited monks to come and perform rituals for the deceased.
Lu Ze walked inside and approached the coffin. He took one look at the corpse and made a preliminary assessment of the cause of death.
Lu Ze held the Buddhist beads and turned them over the corpse, then pretended to be mysterious and said, "Amitabha, Mr. Huang, your son has a big grudge. I'm afraid it will be difficult for him to reincarnate with the grudge. We need to find the real culprit and bury him with him. Only then can your son's grudge be dispelled and he can be reincarnated into the underworld."
Huang Tao frowned and looked at Shen Qian. Although Shen Nian was only an adopted daughter of Shen Qian, she was at least a girl who was recorded in the family tree of the Shen family and had changed her surname.
Previously, the madam had said that she would beat Shen Nian to death to pay for his life, but Huang Tao knew how powerful the Shen family was in the Shuofang area.
What’s more, there is the Ning family, so Shen Nian was not beaten to death.
But now, hearing that his son was still angry, Huang Tao clenched his hands and said to Shen Qian: "Brother Shen, you also heard what the monk said. My Rui'er is still angry, and the real murderer must be buried with him! Shen Nian, that bitch, must die!"
Chen Qian said: “Brother Huang, my Nian’er can’t be the real murderer!”
Huang Tao said angrily: "There are witnesses and evidence. When Shen Nian was having an affair with her adulterer and angered Rui Er to death, my wife caught him on the spot. Do you still want to make excuses for that bitch?"
“Amitabha.” Lu Ze clasped his hands together and said, “Young Master Huang didn’t die of anger. He died of suffocation because someone covered his mouth and nose.”
Huang Tao frowned and asked, "What did you say?"
Lu Ze pointed at the corpse and said, "Young Master Huang's face is cyanotic, his lips are blue and purple. If nothing unexpected happened, there are blood spots in his eyes, and his pupils should be dilated. I wonder if Young Master Huang was like this when he died?"
"Yes." Huang Tao said, "Isn't this the symptom of being pissed off to death?"
Lu Ze said, "It's hard for a person to be pissed off all of a sudden. There's a difference between dying from suffocation and dying from anger. Only when someone suffocates will there be blood spots in their eyes."
Huang Tao looked at the monk in front of him and felt that he looked more and more familiar. "How can a monk like you know all this?"
Lu Ze clasped his hands together and said, "I used to be a coroner before I became a monk."
Chen Qian also said, "Before he became a monk, this monk was a famous coroner in Lingzhou City. He found many murderers by performing autopsies in Lingzhou City. Brother Huang, why don't you give us three days to find the murderer and clear Nian'er's name and give Huang Rui justice."
Huang Tao narrowed his eyes and said, "Okay, I'll give you three days. After three days, if you can't find the murderer, I will kill Shen Nian and that evil creature!"
Chen Qian also agreed and said, "Okay."
Lu Ze chanted a Buddhist name to Huang Tao, then walked up to the corpse, picked up the corpse's hand, and looked at his nails carefully. He smelled an indescribable smell from his nails.
Lu Ze put the stuff from under his fingernails onto the silk handkerchief and handed it to Lu Yun who was standing beside him.
Lu Yun didn't want to take it at first, but he still took it while suppressing his nausea.
Huang Tao stepped forward and asked, "What is this?"
Lu Ze said: "We need to investigate carefully to find out. I want to meet the eldest young lady. Is it convenient?"
Huang Tao said: "It's convenient. Someone take the master to see the eldest young lady."
Huang Fei stepped forward and said, "Dad, I'll take the master there..."
Huang Tao glared at Huang Fei and said, "Shut up!"
When Lu Ze passed by Huang Fei, he smelled a familiar sweet fragrance, raised his eyes to glance at Huang Fei, and then went to Shen Nian's courtyard.
In the Chen Nian courtyard, Qi Yuning saw Lu Ze and Chen Qian coming, and walked up to Lu Yun, watching him holding a handkerchief with great disgust.
Qi Yuning asked curiously: "What's inside this handkerchief?"
Lu Yun said: "I took it out from the cracks between the nails of the corpse. It's disgusting."
Lu Yun wanted to throw away the handkerchief.
Lu Ze took the handkerchief from Lu Yun, picked out the things inside, opened the tinder he carried with him, and used the tinder to light the things he had taken out from the fingernails. A sweet fragrance wafted out.
Qi Yuning asked: "Is it opium?"
Lu Ze nodded and said, "It's opium. And Young Master Huang also has a strong scent of opium."
"What is opium?" Shen Qian asked.
Lu Ze said: "Opium is a Persian poison. Smelling its fragrance can make people feel like they are in heaven and die, forgetting all their worries and pains. However, it is very addictive, and once you become addicted, your body will be damaged and you won't live for many years."
Lu Yun repeatedly covered his nose and asked, "Brother, you're going to inhale something this dangerous?"
Upon hearing this, Shen Nian, who was standing by, also covered her child’s nose.
Lu Ze said: "This amount won't cause any trouble."
Qi Yuning said: "It would not be surprising if the Huang family used opium. This is also the only way for Persian merchants to go to Shengjing City. I think the Qin family can get opium, perhaps it is inseparable from Longzhou."
Lu Ze asked Shen Nian again about what happened on the day Huang Rui died.
After answering all the questions one by one, Shen Nian said, “That day, my clothes were torn by that man, and I don’t know anything else. My husband and I no longer have any feelings for each other, and he definitely didn’t die of anger.”
Lu Ze said, "So it was your mother-in-law who came in and insisted that you and your adulterer angered Huang Rui to death?"
Qi Yuning heard this and said, "Oh, there is one more thing. I just found out that Madam Huang is not Huang Rui's biological mother. When the former Madam Huang was pregnant with Huang Rui's biological mother, Huang Tao hooked up with the current Madam Huang."
Lu Ze asked Shen Nian, "Do you know the identity of that adulterer?"
Shen Nian shook his head and said, "I have never seen him, and I don't know how he got into the backyard." (End of this chapter)
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