When Master Shentu's mother heard this, she cried out, "I think it's these lowly tenants!"
"They killed my son! The steward must avenge my son!"
The chief steward looked at his subordinates, his expression becoming serious. "Have you asked the son of the Meng family and the daughter of the Mo family?"
"Are they the murderers?"
The subordinate shook his head and said, "I've asked them, and they all said that they were forced into the forbidden forest by Master Shentu, and then... after Master Shentu exercised his right of virginity, he took his men away."
"They go home very late because they feel ashamed to go back."
"After running so far, I was still caught..."
The steward nodded slightly and said, "If that's the case, they're not necessarily the murderers."
The subordinate also said, "What the chief steward said makes sense. I have also checked the physical qualities of the Meng family man and the Mo family woman. They are both ordinary people and have not practiced any magical skills."
"Just the two of them can't defeat eight strong men armed with pistols."
"Not to mention that after killing them, we can hang them on the city wall."
The chief steward asked, "Do you think the murderer isn't the son of the Meng family and the daughter of the Mo family?"
The subordinate said: "Definitely not."
The steward frowned.
If these two aren't the murderers, then the real murderer might have some background...
Thinking about the trouble of continuing the investigation, and what if he offended the killer behind the scenes, what would happen if he, as the chief manager, was hated by the other party?
The opponent was so powerful, and he was old and weak, so he was no match at all.
Of course, the most important thing is that the deceased Master Shentu had no status at all in the Shentu family.
He is not a direct descendant of the head of the family, nor a direct descendant of the powerful branches of the Shentu family.
He's just a distant relative, so just fool him and that's it.
Why do we have to chase the real murderer?
Isn’t there a ready-made scapegoat now?
At this time, Master Shentu's mother cried out, "Why isn't he the murderer?!"
"I think they are the murderers!"
"My son was killed by them because he was exercising his right to virginity!"
"I want them to be buried with my son!"
The chief steward nodded and said, "Since you ask me to do so, I have no choice but to obey."
He said to his subordinates, "Take 500 guards and 5,000 slave soldiers and go to the village where the Meng and Mo families are."
"The Meng family, the Mo family, and their entire village are to be punished together!"
"Trample them all to death! Bury them with Master Shentu Ding!"
He felt reluctant, but the steward gave him a look and he had no choice but to lower his head and say, "Yes, steward."
Shentu Ding's mother finally breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Thank you, Steward, for redressing my son's grievances!"
She grinned and said, "Meng, Mo, I want your two families to have no descendants! You will die miserably!"
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Xia Chujian woke up the next morning and wondered whether she should go back to the forbidden forest, bring some of her unfinished food, and eat it with the young couple.
She simply couldn't swallow the noodle dumpling soup that they regarded as delicious.
A Ce and Xiao Mo got up early.
In the morning, Xiao Mo used some leftover flour from yesterday to make a bowl of wide noodles for Xia Chujian.
I added a little salt and a handful of wild vegetables, cooked it, and invited her to have breakfast.
Xia Chujian came to the main room and found that Xiao Mo had already prepared breakfast for her.
Thank God, it wasn’t noodle soup, but wide noodles.
The bowl that Xiao Mo used to serve noodles was a very simple wooden bowl with a chip on the edge.
But it was washed clean, and the noodles inside looked good. The soup was clear and the vegetables were green, which made her appetite a little better.
Just as she sat down and picked up her chopsticks to eat, suddenly there was a heavy sound of horse hooves whistling from outside.
I don’t know how many horses came, but the amplitude of the shaking of the earth was as if thousands of troops had arrived outside!
Xia Chujian's heart moved and he put down his chopsticks again.
Xiao Mo also looked out the door curiously and said, "What's going on? Why are there so many horses here?"
The horses they seized from Master Shentu's gang yesterday were all taken away by Lao Mo overnight.
Now no one in the village knows what they did yesterday.
Everyone thought that she and Xiao Ce had run away yesterday and were caught by Master Shentu, and that he had exercised his right of virginity...
Neither Xiao Mo nor A Ce gave any explanation, so let everyone have this misunderstanding!
They know it's not true anyway.
So when she heard the sound of horse hooves, she had no idea what was happening.
Xia Chujian did think of it, but she just didn't expect the other party to come so quickly!
This means that after the other party discovered the body early in the morning, they directly locked onto A Ce and Xiao Mo.
This also shows that when Master Shentu came here yesterday to exercise his right of first night, it was not a sudden impulse, but a fact known to his family.
So shameless!
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