Lu Zheng, Tang Min and others saw this scene when they pushed the door open. Tang Min immediately ordered the police to arrest Yan Huanniang. Lu Zheng rushed over and knocked the porcelain bottle out of Yan Huanniang's hand, then shouted, "Quick! Call the doctor!"

But when the doctor came, it was too late. The maid's face was blue-black and dead, and it was too late to save her. This was not the first time Lu Zheng saw a dead person, but the first time he saw someone die in front of him.

Yan Huanniang confessed to what she had done. Tang Min was about to ask the police to take her back to prison, but Lu Zheng came over. His eyes were cold, and he looked straight at Yan Huanniang: "Seventh Aunt, this is the last time I will call you like this. I hope you can tell me the truth."

Yan Huanniang smiled slightly: "Every word I said is true."

"Then why did you kill your eldest uncle and your eldest cousin's wife?"

"Of course I have a grudge."

"Then your aunt who drowned, your eldest cousin who died of a sudden illness, and my nephew who died of a worsening cold, do they also have a grudge against you?"

Yan Huanniang said nothing. Tang Min was surprised by Lu Zheng's words and asked, "What do you mean?"

Lu Zheng ignored her and just stared at Yan Huanniang tightly, "To this day, the real cause of their death is no longer known, but if you feel guilty about them, you can at least admit that you killed them."

At this time, Tong and others who received the news also hurried over, but they heard this sentence. Tong's eyes widened, "Impossible, they clearly..."

"Yes, I killed them all." Yan Huanniang admitted.

Everyone looked at this weak woman with a different look. If she hadn't been discovered poisoning the maid this time, how long would this serpentine woman hide?

She admitted all these things, but Lu Zheng did not feel happy. He understood Yan Huanniang's mood at the moment better than anyone else. She wanted to take all the blame by herself, but let the real vicious criminal go unpunished.

"You have lived in the Lu family for so many years. If you really have a grudge, with your ability, why wait until now?" Lu Zheng said, "You can make it look like an accidental death, so why use poison now?"

"Who are you hiding for?"

Wu, who was in the crowd, shrank when she heard this, and then she looked at Yan Huanniang like everyone else, but there was an unconcealable panic in her eyes.

Yan Huanniang did not look at Wu, but Lu Zheng saw her at a glance, which made her even more panicked.

"Auntie, why don't you answer this?"

Mrs. Wu panicked immediately, but she still said sternly, "What do you mean? I'm innocent, don't try to frame me!"

"I looked through the case files. On the day that cousin died, you appeared by the pond where the accident happened. But it was because my seventh uncle was offering sacrifices at that time, so there was a lot of chaos in the mansion, and there were shoe prints on the moss by the pond, so we didn't investigate in detail and just closed the case as an accident." Lu Zheng's tone was neither hurried nor slow, but he pressed on step by step, "Seventh aunt was not in the mansion that night, and I don't know how she committed the crime. Why don't you tell me how you pushed my cousin into the pond? "

After meeting Zhiyun, Lu Zheng realized that something must have happened that night that stopped Yan Huanniang from killing. Therefore, during the investigation, he found that the cousin died on that night, and found something unusual when reading the case file. This made him have a bold guess, so he deliberately said it to deceive Wu. Wu was obviously not a scheming woman, and she was exposed after being deceived.

Yan Huanniang looked at Wu quietly, and she admitted with tears that she just made a mistake for a moment, and the other things were taught by Yan Huanniang, and she was innocent.

Lu Zheng looked at Yan Huanniang: "Are you going to continue covering up for such a person?"

Yan Huanniang looked at Wu's pleading eyes. Every time she looked at her with such eyes, she wanted him to kill people for her, one after another. She was covered in blood and couldn't wash it off, but she couldn't refuse her. Yan Huanniang vaguely knew that she was wrong, but if even Yue Niang no longer needed her, then what was the value of her existence? Wouldn't she be like a lonely ghost?

Yan Huanniang closed her eyes and said softly: "Yes, I did it all."

Wu breathed a sigh of relief and collapsed to the ground.

Lu Zheng clenched his fist and hammered the wall hard. Seeing Yan Huanniang about to be taken away, he reluctantly asked, "Why!"

She turned you into a demon, she made you full of sin, she easily abandoned you, why did you still help the tyrant, why did you still take all the blame for her!

Yan Huanniang did not say anything, but a tear silently slid down her cheek.

The case was solved, but Lu Zheng did not feel a sense of accomplishment at all. He always felt that Yan Huanniang deliberately revealed her flaws, otherwise, according to her meticulous thinking, she should not be caught so easily by them.

Yan Huanniang deserved to be executed, and Lu Zheng did not sympathize with her, but the real culprit did not receive the punishment he deserved, which made him feel uncomfortable.

At this time, the main wife sent someone to tell him that Madam Yun was going out to look at houses, and asked Lu Zheng to accompany her.

Lu Zheng was stunned for a moment. He didn't know why, but recently his mother liked to ask him to go out with her more and more. However, he was always dragged out by his mother to go shopping in modern times, so he didn't think much about it. He asked Liuzhi and the others to help him change his clothes and went out. Yun

was waiting beside the carriage. Seeing his hurried look, she couldn't help but straighten his collar for him and scolded him: "Mother didn't urge you, why are you in such a hurry?"

Lu Zheng scratched his head and smiled embarrassedly.

After they got on the carriage, Yun explained, "Your second sister and her husband will come to Yanjing in the next year. Your second sister said that she might stay for a long time. It's not good to live in her mother's house all the time, so mother thought of finding a house for them."

Lu Zheng nodded. In his memory, his second sister was very good to the original owner. When she got married, the original owner was very reluctant to let her go, and even had subtle hostility towards this second brother-in-law.

Yun also happened to mention this: "You are grown up now, so you are not allowed to be as rude as before, so as not to make things difficult for your second sister."

"I know..." Lu Zheng felt the mentality of the brother-in-law in his heart and said something that was not in line with his heart.

Yun said, "Your two nephews and nieces will come with you this time. They will go to the family school. As an elder, you should set a good example."

Lu Zheng responded with a guilty conscience. He had not been to the family school for a long time. In order to solve the case, he even did not do the writing task assigned by his elder brother for a while.

Yun knew what was going on when she saw his expression. She said unhappily, "It's okay, you, just don't bring bad things to others."

The carriage "Yiyayaya" arrived at Wuliu Lane.

When Lu Zheng saw the familiar scenery, he was stunned: "Mother, is the house you found for my second sister and the others in the Lu family's main residence?"

Yun shook her head and said lightly: "It's the Lu Mansion."

Lu Zheng was even more shocked. Yun had already walked in with the maid. The mansion was already empty. Lu Yuan, who had lost a lot of weight, was directing the servants to move things. When he saw Yun, he smiled lightly and bowed: "Mrs. Lu."

He did not call his third aunt according to her ranking, but Yun seemed very satisfied. She asked with concern: "Time is so tight, do you have enough manpower?"

"Thank you for your concern. Everything that can be sold has been sold, and the rest are just trivial matters, not a big deal."

"Several elders seem to have some complaints, you..."

"Don't worry, I have convinced them. After all, the Lu family is just a wealthy family now." At this point, Lu Yuan showed a bitter smile, "For so many years, Third Uncle has been secretly helping the Lu family. We are too ignorant."

After Lu Yuan was released from prison, he no longer pretended to be a good guy. Most of the Lu family's foundation was in his hands. He also won over several elders who had a say in the clan and became the patriarch of the Lu family. After becoming the patriarch, the first order he gave was to move the family back to their hometown. The Lu family's house was originally bought by the old British baron, and he also returned it to Lu Qing.

Lu Zheng had only heard about these vaguely, and today, when he followed Yun here, he realized that the other party was really determined to leave.

Yun signaled the maid behind her to pass over a box: "This is the sacrificial land bought when my father-in-law was alive. Originally, our family did not plan to return, so this sacrificial land has never been given to you. In addition, there is some silver. You have to manage such a large family and sell most of the property. It is always difficult."

Lu Yuan did not hesitate to take it after thanking him.

Yun wanted to ask him a few more words, but a woman with disheveled hair rushed in, mumbling something in her mouth.

Yun was startled, and Lu Zheng quickly protected her behind him. After a careful look, he was surprised and said: "Madam!"

The woman was Wu Yueniang. She raised her head and smiled foolishly, with stains all over her face.

Lu Yuan frowned, had Wu Yueniang dragged away, and explained: "After the incident, the elders felt that Wu was not innocent. She was a stepwife and had harmed her sister-in-law, so the elders discussed and decided to divorce her. However, before they could send her home, she went crazy."

He just said it briefly in a few words, but did not mention what role he played in it. Anyway, he was the one who made the decisions in the Lu family now. Whether Wu was really crazy or pretending to be crazy, if she continued like this, he would not mind raising a lunatic.

Lu Zheng did not know what Lu Yuan was thinking. He just watched Wu being dragged away screaming, and suddenly felt a little confused.

His hand was gently held by Yun. Yun looked at his puzzled expression and smiled softly: "You don't have to sympathize with her, she is not innocent."

Lu Zheng shook his head and was about to say that he understood.

Yun had already continued: "She is not the real Wu Yue Niang, she is Wu Yue Niang's concubine sister. She should have been sent to someone as a concubine, but she used a trick to destroy the innocence of her elder sister and married her instead."

"But, fake is fake, and it will never become real." Yun said this indifferently, and turned her head to look at him, "Zheng'er, don't you think so?"

Lu Zheng felt cold in his heart and unconsciously let go of Yun's hand.

The author has something to say: "The moon in the sea is the moon in the sky, the person in front of you is the one in your heart, my heart has always been that of a spectator, but I am just a character in the play." - Zhang Ailing.

This is the inspiration for this case. I originally wanted to write about a woman who was forced by fate to become a pervert, pitiful and hateful, but it seems that everyone generally thinks she is too vicious... or my writing skills are not good enough.

I don’t remember where I saw it, but men kill for desire, and women kill for survival. I personally think that Yan Huanniang was created based on this mentality, but she does not deserve to be forgiven. As for Wu Yueniang, perhaps a more dramatic and tense way to write her is that she was not punished, and it can even lay a foreshadowing for this, but I still hope that evil will be rewarded with evil, at least in my novel, I hope to do this.

Volume 3: Light and Darkness