Chapter 1894 Who is the adulterer?
Pan made his point very clearly, the timing matched, and his reasons were very convincing.
Chen Bing's veins bulged as he listened. His wounds ached so badly his face turned blue. He raised his head, his teeth bleeding from clenching them, and asked, word by word, "Who is it? Who is that man—"
“The Pan family’s steward,” Madam Pan said, turning her head.
Pan the eldest was taken aback. The Pan family's... butler? Yes, the Pan family's butler was hired after the family became wealthy, but he was just a servant. Had his sister gone mad, having given birth to two children for a servant?
Not only him, but Chen He and Chen Qiu were also stunned. Although they were not Chen Bing's sons, they were the sons of servants? Were they of low social status?
Chen He slumped to the ground, utterly exhausted. He only knew that he wasn't Chen Bing's son, but he didn't know who his biological father was. At this moment, he was caught between accepting and denying it, feeling nauseous as if he had swallowed a fly.
Chen Bing suddenly collapsed to the ground and burst into laughter, his expression manic. "You bastard, hahahaha, you bastard!"
He remembered, and finally understood some things.
Why did the accounts at the general store frequently go wrong after Madam Pan gave birth to her daughter? Why did she take her daughter to the prefectural city from time to time during that period, saying she wanted to repair relations with her maternal family?
It turns out she went to meet her lover. It turns out the grocery store's accounts were unclear, and she spent the money on her lover.
If he hadn't hired Guo Zhenglai as his accountant, would she have given away the entire grocery store back then?
"You betrayed me! Hahahaha, you bitch, you slut, you'll die a horrible death!!"
Chen Bing's shout made Pan Shi take two deep breaths.
She'd already gone all out; she'd said everything she should and shouldn't have said, so there was nothing to be afraid of.
Pan turned her head and sneered at Chen Bing, "I'll die a horrible death? Back then, you divorced your first wife because she couldn't have children, using despicable and underhanded methods. What, you can't have children yourself, and you won't admit it, but you won't allow me to have children with someone else? You can do it, but others can't?"
"No!!" Chen Bing shouted, his eyes bloodshot. "I'm going to divorce you! I'm going to divorce you!"
"Pah! I'm the one who wants a divorce. If anyone's going to divorce, it'll be me, you piece of trash."
With a 'poof' sound, Chen Bing suddenly felt a surge of anger and coughed up a mouthful of blood.
Pan was startled, fearing that she might anger someone to death in court, which would make her a murderer.
Qi Lie was a little disappointed; he wanted to hear more of the two arguing and see if he could uncover something even more explosive.
Since you've stopped arguing, then let it go.
Qi Lie slammed his gavel. "Enough! No noise is allowed in the courtroom. I have heard what Madam Pan said. Madam Pan, do you know that according to the laws of Da Su, this kind of adultery is punishable by two years in prison?"
Madam Pan was taken aback; she truly didn't know anything about this.
Qi Lie was speechless. The laws of Da Su were relatively lenient. In the previous dynasty, any case involving a woman committing adultery would have resulted in the death penalty.
While the situation wasn't as severe in Dasu, in some villages, women caught having affairs would still be drowned in pig cages and lose their lives. In such cases, the authorities wouldn't investigate unless the people reported it.
Now that Pan has been accused of adultery in court, she is actually able to save her life.
"Of course, you can also reduce the sentence by caning or flogging."
(End of this chapter)
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