He suspected Xiao Hechuan, but did not dare to conclude, because at this time Xiao Hechuan was just a student at Baiyun Academy. He might be talented and strategic, but he was just a student with no power!
But when he was still in doubt, he didn't know that he had already fallen half into the trap set by others. He was still worried about the matter of Prefect Wei, fearing that he would betray himself, but one after another, things that gave him more headaches came.
Suddenly, a rumor spread in the market town about Su Yanli.
The people speculated that Su Yanli's concubine did not die of an acute illness, but died an unnatural death.
Because the incident at the government office was suppressed by Governor Xue and it would take time to submit it to the court and wait for the emperor's decision, the news had not yet spread among the people, and the common people did not know that Governor Wei had been imprisoned for corruption and bribery.
However, because of Su Yanqing's operation, the most talked-about thing now is the male corpse found at the bottom of the cliff outside the city.
Someone found out that the male corpse's name was Wu Da, and many people who frequented the gambling house knew him.
Then Wu Da had not returned home for several days. The news reached Wu Da's wife, who brought her children to identify the body. Wu's wife was sure that it was her gambling husband.
Although Wu Da was a compulsive gambler, his wife still found it hard to accept the moment she saw his dead body. In ancient times, a husband was a woman's heaven. Now that Wu Da is dead, what should she do with her two children in the future?
Su Yanqing hired people to spread rumors everywhere, guiding the rumors to link Wu Da's accidental death and Su Yanli's concubine Luo's death from an acute illness, which happened at the same time.
Then Su Yanqing's people took the opportunity to reveal that Wu Da and Luo were from the same village and were childhood sweethearts. Before Luo became Su Yanli's concubine, she and Wu Da's families had discussed marriage, and the two had actually been in love for a while.
The Jeju government office is currently under the temporary management of Jeju Sima, who happened to take over Wu Da's case after he arrived. The coroner performed an autopsy and overturned the previous theory of accidental death by falling off a cliff, and ruled it as murder. The deceased had multiple fractures, bruises, a severe blow to the head, and the injuries on his face were also caused by external force.
Moreover, if he fell off a cliff, there would be no wounds on his body caused by friction from that height. If he fell directly to the ground, he would probably be smashed into a pulp and there would be no chance of his body being intact.
Somehow, this matter spread out immediately. Everyone speculated that Wu Da and Luo were discovered to have secretly exchanged things behind the back of the eldest son of the Su family, so the eldest son of the Su family killed someone in rage to vent his anger, and then fabricated the illusion that Luo had died of a sudden illness, and then left Wu Da's body exposed in the wilderness.
It is difficult to stop the gossips, and the rumors are getting more and more intense. People's speculations are getting bolder and bolder. Some people even say that Su Yanli's only daughter is also born to Luo. They are afraid that this child is not Su Yanli's biological child. Not only has he been cuckolded, but he has also become a father.
Now the rumor spread widely and soon reached Su Yanli's ears.
Even the servants in the mansion were talking about it, and Su Yanli thought that it was the servants in the mansion who spread the news, so he interrogated all the followers who were present and participated in these things that day.
These servants suffered an unexpected disaster and each of them was beaten with twenty boards.
However, when Su Yanli thought about it the other way around, he felt something was particularly wrong, because this incident had not happened for long at all, but it had already spread to this extent. Almost everyone in Jeju City knew that he was being cheated on.
The same thing about the child, it was as if it was all planned. As soon as something happened on his side, he had just dealt with the matters between Luo and Wu Da, but right after that, Wu Da's body was found and sent to the government office. Then he had just taken care of the government office, and then even Prefect Wei was investigated and imprisoned. The Sima of Jizhou took over the government office and took over all the cases. If he went to take care of things at this time, it would be like committing a crime against the wind, which would be the most foolish behavior.
Su Yanli thought about it again and again, and traced back further, it was Liao who discovered Luo's adultery. Doesn't this mean that Liao was also framed and made a wedding dress for others?
It was really a huge game of chess that had completely involved him. What he cared about the most was his own face. His status as a bastard already made him inferior to Su Yanqing. Now that the scandal in his family had been made public, wouldn't it be even more disadvantageous to him?
Liao was still ill, and he went to see her not to visit her, but to ask her why she suspected Luo. Liao, of course, told the truth and said that someone sent her a message a few months ago, and she began to suspect Luo, and thought that Luo's mortal enemy was targeting her.
Su Yan was extremely polite. He called Liao a fool and left mercilessly without saying a word of concern. Liao felt as if she was falling into an ice cellar, but she was already used to it.
He is now too embarrassed to accept some invitations as everyone in the circle is laughing at him. Even when he went to the Jishan Hall, he felt that everyone was looking at him with contempt and sympathy.
It's bad enough that his own woman cheated on him, but his only child is not his own.
He now had no intention of interfering in the affairs of Jishan Hall, because he was worried that if Prefect Wei betrayed him, that would be the most troublesome thing.
But these rumors were not enough to defeat Su Yanli, so Xiao Hechuan asked Su Yanqing to add more explosive information.
However, within one night, new rumors spread in the streets, saying that Su Yanli might be childless. Otherwise, how could he have been married for so many years without his wife and two concubines having any children? If he only had one woman, one could suspect that she was infertile. But none of his three women gave birth to any children for him. Isn't that a bit strange?
It is impossible that Luo had any physical problems, as she was able to give birth to a child. Although the child was not his, it was not ruled out that Luo wanted to consolidate her favor, so she asked someone else to lend her sperm to give birth to the child.
All of this reasoning is well-founded and the story is well-organized.
Su Yanli was already doubting himself because of what Luo said before he died, and now the rumors were getting more and more intense, and he was almost angry to death.
How unlucky must a man be to be cheated on, have a child that is not his own, and have no family line?
In their circle, they would be laughed to death. I don't know how long they will talk about this matter behind their backs.
Su Yanli was really upset. He angrily went to find Su Yanqing and asked him if this was the only way to deal with him?
Doesn't he claim to be a gentleman?
As a result, just as he left the mansion, the constable from the government office came and said that Sima asked him to go to the government office. There was a case related to him and he hoped that he would cooperate in investigating it.
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