At first, Wang Changfu denied it to the death, saying that he was after his uncle's money because he was the youngest son in his parents' family, and that his parents would definitely give him most of the money after he got it from his uncle.
Lord Qin is not the kind of person who can be coerced into confessing. Even if he feels something is wrong, he has no clues at the moment.
At that moment, Zheng Qiu promptly delivered an autopsy report.
The child who died in the Wang family was already two years old. These past two days, her attention had been focused on the adults, and she had only checked the child's appearance without finding anything amiss.
That morning, Zheng Qiu overheard the gatekeeper at the mortuary mentioning a family in a village down the mountain where a stepmother was abusing her child, who was not even two years old. The stepmother often didn't feed the child properly, which was heartbreaking to see. For some reason, Zheng Qiu performed a full autopsy on the child who died in the Wang family.
The first thing that came up during the checkup was that the age didn't match.
The Wang family's child should be one year and two months old, while the deceased child was almost two years old.
None of the officials had ever met the Wang family. When the deceased's identity was being confirmed, it was Wang Changfu who brought his mother and several brothers to confirm it. His father was in poor health, and after his brothers and their families died, he fell ill and was bedridden.
His mother was frightened by the deaths of the women in Wang Shunzi's family and was also afraid of seeing the baby's body, so she didn't look at it much. Wang Changfu's brothers were all honest men. Usually, Wang Zhangshi held Wang Shunzi's great-grandson, so they rarely saw him. Moreover, children change every day. As long as he was dressed in his usual clothes and was in Wang Zhangshi's room, the other adults had confirmed his identity, so they assumed that he was Wang Shunzi's child.
Since the age didn't match, Zheng Qiu immediately had someone send the information from the mortuary. He also went to Wangjia Village to find a bold woman who frequently saw the child and who was a neighbor of Wang Shunzi to identify him at the mortuary.
He's been dead for several days now, and nobody dares to go near him. But one of the neighbors said that Wang Shunzi's great-grandson had a birthmark on his body.
Zheng Qiu asked about the location and shape of the birthmark, but didn't press them. She then returned to the mortuary alone to examine the child again, only to find that the deceased child did not have a birthmark.
Therefore, this child definitely does not belong to Wang Shunzi's family.
Zheng Qiu hurriedly returned to the city to tell Lord Qin the confirmed news.
Wang Changfu denied it to the death, but Lord Qin had already sent people to find the family at the foot of the mountain near the mortuary who had abused his stepson.
Wang Changfu's forehead was covered in sweat.
By the afternoon, all the witnesses had been brought to justice, the truth came out, and Wang Changfu stopped trying to defend himself.
Wang Zhangshi's son is indeed his.
His hatred for his uncle Wang Shunzi's family also stemmed from this Wang Zhangshi.
He was the youngest son, only one year older than his uncle's eldest grandson, so he and Wang Zhangshi were about the same age. They had known each other for a long time and were in love. Just as Wang Changfu was about to ask his family to propose marriage, his uncle Wang Shunzi's family went to propose marriage to their eldest grandson. The dowry they gave made Wang Zhangshi's family immediately agree to the marriage.
Wang Changfu secretly resented that his family didn't have enough money, and also resented his uncle's family for stealing his love. Dark thoughts slowly began to grow in his heart.
He often met with Wang Zhangshi in a cave in the back mountain. After Wang Zhangshi had a child, he began to plot to take over his uncle's family's belongings and then take Wang Zhangshi and the child to a distant place.
The arrival of the Liu brothers was an opportunity, but he never expected that Liu Er would be so hot-tempered that he would also hate Wang Zhangshi, who had gone out to find the female beggar.
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