Chapter 430 Conclusive Evidence
Soon, Quartz brought up a dark wooden box with an expressionless face and placed it on the table in the middle of the hall.
Madam Lu's heart skipped a beat for unknown reason, and a strong sense of uneasiness gripped her.
The timing of the box's appearance and Yuan Wan's determined expression at the moment made her feel that things were far from as simple as they seemed.
Yuan Wanru stretched out her bare hand and gently opened the lid of the box.
She took out a piece of paper, glanced at it, and read in a clear and cold voice: "On the third day of the twelfth lunar month last year, Chun Xing, a maid in the Zhou Mansion, suddenly had a hemorrhage in the mansion and died. The Zhou family did not report it to the authorities, but privately gave money to her family to keep silent."
"Auntie, this matter should still be fresh in your memory, right?"
Lu Yuxiu's pupils suddenly contracted, as if she was bitten by a poisonous snake, and she denied it shrilly: "Nonsense! I don't know what you are talking about! Who is Chun Xing? I don't know her!"
Yuan Wanru's lips curled up in a faint sneer, but the smile did not reach her eyes: "Aunt has a bad memory."
"It seems that in my aunt's eyes, human life is really worthless. No wonder she raised a bastard like Zhou Jianming!"
Her voice suddenly rose, and she asked sharply, "Why did Chun Xing have a hemorrhage?"
"Because she is pregnant with Zhou Jianming's bastard!"
"Aunt, for the sake of your son's 'clean reputation' and 'bright future', you ordered someone to feed her a bowl of poisonous medicine without hesitation! This is how she ended up killing her! You have such a cruel heart!"
"You are slandering me! You are slandering me!"
Lu Yuxiu looked like a madman, pointing at Yuan Wanru and screaming, "You bitch! Don't even think about throwing dirty water on my son!"
Wang Min took a deep breath. Ever since she married into the Lu family, her relationship with Lu Yuxiu had been average.
When she was young, Lu Yuxiu was very much like Old Madam Lu, selfish, mean and ungrateful, but she didn't know how to despise human life so much.
Zhou Fang was also secretly shocked. She didn't dare to say that she was a good person, but compared with Lu Yuxiu, she seemed to be a good person.
Aren’t the lives of those maids worth anything?
Yuan Wanru ignored Lu Yuxiu's hysteria and picked up the second piece of paper steadily. Her voice was like ice beads falling on a jade plate, and every word was clear: "It seems that aunt really doesn't remember it. Then, in the first month of this year, when Qiuyue, the maid of the Zhou Mansion, jumped into the well and died, aunt must also want to say that she doesn't remember it?"
Without waiting for Lu Yuxiu to respond, she continued, "Qiuyue had a mutual affection for the young man next door, but was forcibly defiled by Zhou Jianming! Her innocence was completely ruined, and she had no desire to live, so she finally chose to commit suicide! A life was destroyed by your son's lust!"
Then, Yuan Wanru picked up the third piece of paper, which seemed to carry a heavy injustice: "This piece of paper is about a peasant girl named Caihe. Zhou Jianming coveted her beauty and abducted her in broad daylight!"
"She was released three days later, but Miss Caihe could not bear the humiliation and hanged herself on the day she returned home!"
After reading this, Yuan Wanru's heart was filled with anger.
She suddenly picked up the celadon teacup beside her and threw it hard to the ground!
“Bang—crash!”
The piercing sound of shattering made everyone's heart shrink!
The flying porcelain pieces were like her burst of anger.
Yuan Wanru pointed at Zhou Jianming, who looked ashen, and asked sternly, "Zhou Jianming! Open your dog eyes and look carefully! In this box, written in black and white, every detail records the seven or eight lives you owe! It's a huge debt of blood! How can you still sleep peacefully at night?! Is your heart made of stone?!"
"Bitch! It's all fake! You forged them all, you vicious woman!"
Zhou Jianming was completely enraged, his eyes were bloodshot, and he roared like a trapped beast. He struggled to pounce, but was held down by Xuanying.
His face was a mixture of extreme fear and crazy hatred. The crushed hand was waving in vain, the wound burst open and blood was dripping.
Yuan Wanru motioned to Shi Ying to bring the dark wooden box to Lu Bai, and said in a cold but firm voice: "Uncle, please have a look."
"These are not just empty words from me. Each and every one of them is a copy of the case file that has been verified and decided by the local government in Jiangnan. They are clearly stamped with the official cinnabar seal."
Lu Bai took the wooden box with a serious expression, took a deep breath, and then took out the thick stack of complaints, testimonies, and government approval documents one by one and quickly read through them.
The more he looked, the more gloomy his face became, his brows were tightly furrowed, and the hands holding the paper were shaking slightly with anger.
In just a moment, he had finished reading the charges in the box.
“Bang!”
Lu Bai slammed the last piece of paper on the table, his chest heaving violently. He glared at the limp Zhou Jianming, his voice trembling with anger: "Zhou Jianming! You...you are simply crazy! Worse than an animal!"
Lu Yuxiu didn't expect that Lu Bai didn't refute Yuan Wanru's words.
This shows that those papers really...
"The official seal...it's really the official seal..."
Zhou Jianming also thought of this problem, and his last bit of hope was completely crushed.
The blood drained from his face, as if all the bones had been pulled out. He collapsed and howled in despair: "It's over! It's all over! Mom! Save me! I don't want to go to jail! I don't want to die!"
Lu Yuxiu hugged her son tightly, crying bitterly: "My son! My son! No! Mother will not let you go to jail! Mother has money! Lots of money! Even if mother goes bankrupt, she will definitely rescue you! Mother will protect you... Mother will protect you..."
She spoke incoherently, as if she was holding on to her last straw, her voice was shrill and helpless.
The smug look on Madam Lu's face had long since disappeared, leaving only extreme shock and disbelief.
She tightly grasped Madam Cao's arm, supporting her shaky body, staring at Yuan Wanru, and asked sharply: "Yuan! How...how did you get these things?! Where did you get them?!"
Yuan Wanru faced her question with a calm expression, and even had a faint smile on her lips: "Old Madam, you asked a good question."
She glanced at the mother and son who collapsed on the ground, and said with a hint of cold mockery, "It's just your fault that your good grandson offended me on the first day he stepped into the gate of the Marquis' Mansion."
Her eyes suddenly became as sharp as a knife, as if they could dig out people's hearts and lungs: "His eyes are so unclean. From the first time he looked at me with that look, I wanted to dig them out."
Yuan Wanru paused, her tone returned to normal, but even more sinister, "However, I am a reasonable person, I can't just gouge out someone's eyes for no reason, right? That's why... I sent someone to go to my hometown in Jiangnan as soon as possible to give it a proper 'visit'."
She gently stroked the smooth surface of the wooden box, as if she was telling a trivial story: "What a coincidence, I just got these evidences this morning."
She said the last few words lightly, but they hit Madam Lu's heart like a heavy hammer, making her instantly understand that this entire bet was a trap tailor-made for her from beginning to end.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
