“You don’t need to think about it, it’s not hard to guess. I heard that the scholar’s wife caught up with him halfway and insisted on going to the capital with him, saying that she wanted to take care of her husband’s daily life. She even sent the scholar’s servant back.” Zhou Sanfu secretly inquired about a lot of things.
The reason they knew so much was because the scholar had classmates traveling with him. The scholar who died suddenly the night before last had a bad relationship with his wife, although they were very close in the first few years of their marriage.
More than ten years after marriage, as the years passed, the woman gradually grew old and still had to manage household affairs. Her beauty faded and she was no longer favored by her husband, while the scholar had gone from being a child student to a successful candidate in the imperial examinations.
His status and identity had improved several times over, and his family arranged for him to take in two concubines, each one younger and more beautiful than the last.
The original wife had long lost her status in the family. This scholar was also confused. He actually wanted to favor his concubine and neglect his wife. He planned to demote his original wife to a concubine after passing the imperial examination and promote his most beloved young and beautiful concubine to the position of wife.
He was truly blinded by lust.
The first wife probably sensed her husband's intentions. Unable to bear the humiliation, she harbored resentment and conceived the idea of killing him. Since he wanted to make his concubine his official wife after passing the imperial examination, she would make sure he failed.
However, there's nothing to miss about a man like that. Rather than watching him be all lovey-dovey with someone else and plotting to harm her and her children, she might as well strike first and kill him.
Of course, all of the above are just speculations. The truth will have to wait for the government to investigate. The deceased was a scholar with official rank, so the government will naturally take it seriously.
However, Zhu Lin and his group didn't care, and Tie Qingfeng and his group didn't care much either. Apart from listening attentively to Zhou Sanfu's logical analysis, they didn't react much.
They clearly treated this as a story, and the long journey was a good way to pass the time.
“I saw it. It was that scholar’s wife who killed him. She added something to his medicine. The scholar caught a cold, drank the medicine, and died suddenly. I doubt even the coroner could find the cause of death unless someone knowledgeable in medicine helps.” Xingxing said this very softly.
"Sigh, do you think I, as someone who knows the truth, should reveal it to the world?" Xingxing was very distressed. "But even if I know the truth, how can I respond to others asking how I know it? I'd be doing a good deed and end up getting myself into trouble. Oh well, never mind."
The little girl didn't need anyone to explain things to her; she figured it out on her own.
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