Every time Lord Wang lectured Fatty Wang, he would tell him about how impoverished and desolate the first place he ever went to was, how he almost died at the hands of bandits…
Anyway, it was all kinds of hardship. For more than 20 years, he had been working hard and cautiously to become the prefect of Tongzhou. His ultimate goal was to go to the capital and become a government official. He had no ambition to enter the cabinet or anything like that. He just wanted to stay in the officialdom for a few more years and encourage Wang Pangzi to make progress. He, as the father, could not bring glory to the family, so he pinned his hopes on his son.
What he meant was, "I've made you suffer, and you're starting much better off than I was back then. Yet you still don't strive for improvement. Who are you trying to drive to your death?"
Wang Pangzi used to let things go in one ear and out the other, never really paying attention to where his father first became an official. But now that he heard Lu Zheng mention Langzhou, he remembered the things his father used to say to him.
Originally, he thought that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had nothing to do with the deaths of his family members; one was mentally challenged, and the other was just an ordinary village woman.
But after Lu Zheng asked that question, Fatty Wang began to have doubts.
He didn't doubt what Lu Zheng said. Anything Lu Zheng said had basically been verified. He wouldn't speak carelessly about things he wasn't sure about or hadn't investigated.
Zhang Liu was completely stunned.
Even the villagers didn't know where her ancestral home was, so how did General Lu find out?
She also knows how to make incense.
Everyone in the village knows about her cooking skills, but no one really knows about her incense-making skills.
She was a widow who raised her son alone, and later she brought home a mentally challenged daughter-in-law.
One person in the family is sick, and the other is mentally challenged. Many people in the village consider their family unlucky and don't like to enter their house. She also doesn't usually bring people home, so no one knows about it.
Her son needs to take medicine, and the daughter-in-law she picked up has a big appetite. She also needs to save some money for these two children, so she has to think of ways to make money. She knows that she shouldn't flaunt her wealth, and she hasn't shown off her skills at all.
When she sold incense, she always entrusted it to someone her husband knew before his death, someone he was very familiar with and trusted. That person pitied her and her child, so he helped her conceal the truth and also helped her sell the incense.
As it turned out, General Lu, whom she had never met before, actually knew about it.
At that moment, what was there for the people present not to understand about her expression?
But no one could connect this case with the woman in front of them. This woman clearly didn't know martial arts and there was absolutely no way she could enter the temple in the middle of the night, commit such a bizarre murder, and escape unscathed.
"So, Zhang Liu, who is your accomplice?" Lu Zheng asked.
"General Lu, what are you saying? I don't understand. Even if I know how to make incense, you can't say I'm a murderer! General Lu and Princess Xinxin aren't the kind of people who would arbitrarily frame others." Zhang Liushi calmed down and stubbornly refused to admit it.
"Then let me ask you a question. More than twenty years ago, when Lord Wang first arrived in Langzhou to take office, he was captured by bandits. Later, Lady Wang led a group of officials to storm the mountain stronghold and rescued Lord Wang and a village girl. Was that village girl you?" Lu Zheng asked again.
“I am from Langzhou. I was once kidnapped by bandits and taken to their stronghold. Thanks to the county magistrate at the time, I was rescued. General Lu is right. However, I had no idea that the Prefect of Tongzhou, Lord Wang, was the same Lord Wang who was the county magistrate at the time,” Zhang Liu said.
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