Chapter 289 At this point, the truth is revealed

"Don't sell me, I will be good, I already know how to wash clothes." The little girl shrank back, looking extremely pitiful.

【This Wan Qingqing is too bad! 】

[In all these years, I only cooked delicious food for this sister once and bought her beautiful clothes once, but the purpose was to sell her to someone else as a child bride.]

[If that idiot Zhang Gong hadn't just happened to show up, this sister would have been sold. ]

Lu Li saw this scene through the melon-eating system and was so angry that her cheeks puffed up.

No wonder this sister gets scared when she hears about delicious food and beautiful clothes.

It turned out that he was afraid of being sold out again.

When Lu Yanshi heard this, he couldn't help but frown.

This woman named Wan is so vicious.

Not only do they replace someone else's offspring, they also sell someone else's daughter.

Unforgivable crime!

Cang Ruoyin coaxed her daughter to tell her the whole story, and from her fragmented narration, Cang Ruoyin pieced together the truth.

She flew into a rage and turned around and slapped Wan Qingqing twice.

"How dare you sell my daughter, you bastard."

Not satisfied with just two slaps, Cang Ruoyin continued to hit her.

Zhang Gong standing by didn't even dare to fart.

I lowered my head, afraid of being remembered by them.

"You are not allowed to make noise in the court. Please don't mess around." Wan Qingqing covered her face and hid from place to place.

"Husband, please save me!" She rushed towards Zhang Gong.

In a rage, Cang Ruoyin had lost his mind and started beating Zhang Gong as well.

Seeing that Zhang Gong was about to fight back, Lu Yanshi raised his eyebrows and made a gesture to the guards.

"Take them out and beat them outside."

The guard immediately understood that the emperor wanted him to take sides and help Madam Cang so that she could have a good fight.

"Father, I'm going to accompany that sister." Lu Li volunteered to run to the little girl and took her to the back to wait.

"Don't be afraid, sister. Your mother will be here to pick you up soon!"

The little girl looked at Lu Li's smiling face, shed tears, and nodded.

Only Ye Zhenniang and her son were left in the court.

Seeing Lu Yanshi's eyes set on her, Ye Zhenniang was frightened and quickly pushed the child out of her arms.

"Your Majesty, please spare my life. I did not steal this child. I picked him up."

Lin Tianci looked at his mother in confusion.

Why doesn't mom want him anymore?

"At this point, you still dare to make excuses?" Lu Yanshi looked at her coldly.

"If you don't tell the truth, I don't mind torturing you. I'll give you thirty strokes of the cane in front of everyone and see how long you can hold out before you tell the truth."

Ye Zhenniang was so frightened that her face turned pale. She fell to her knees and kowtowed repeatedly begging for mercy.

"I said, I said it all."

It turned out that Ye Zhenniang returned to her parents' home because her son died young.

But her parents-in-law came from their hometown to visit their grandson soon. Ye Zhenniang was afraid of being scolded by her parents-in-law, so she returned to her parents' home to hide.

Unexpectedly, the Zhang family next door was holding a birthday party. She looked at Zhang Bao, who was only half a year younger than her son, and immediately had evil thoughts.

Anyway, her parents-in-law had only seen their son once, when he was one month old. Maybe she could steal Zhang Bao back and get away with it.

The two houses were separated by a wall. There was an abandoned dog hole in the backyard. Ye Zhenniang crawled through it and entered the Zhang family.

Coincidentally, the maid who was taking care of Zhang Bao went out to hang out with a servant boy.

Ye Zhenniang took the opportunity to steal the child away.

She brought a knockout drug and knocked the child out directly, without giving him a chance to cry out.

After bringing the child back to her parents' home, she immediately called a carriage to rush back to her husband's home.

Her husband loved her to death. When he found out that she was going to use Zhang Bao to impersonate his own child to deceive his parents, he was hesitant at first, but in the end he helped her to deceive them.

Anyway, the fact that his son died was not made public.

Zhang Bao woke up crying and Ye Zhenniang stayed up all night with him.

A one-year-old child doesn't remember much at all, and after just a few days of being confused, he becomes dependent on this woman who takes care of him day and night.

When Ye Zhenniang's parents-in-law arrived, they thought that their grandson was too attached to his mother, Ye Zhenniang. With Ye Zhenniang's husband mediating, they did not suspect too much.

After a while, Ye Zhenniang took the child out of the house and told others that the child had suffered a serious illness and had lost a lot of weight.

No one had any doubts.

Ye Zhenniang hid in her husband's home with her child for several years. This year, her mother was dying, so she had to bring her son back to visit her relatives.

She felt lucky, thinking that so much time had passed and the Zhang family must have forgotten what the child looked like.

Unexpectedly, Cang Ruoyin had been looking for her son and recognized the child she brought back at a glance.

At this point, the truth came to light.

The onlookers sighed, they never thought such a vile thing could happen.

According to the laws of Daxia, Lu Yanshi sentenced Ye Zhenniang for her crime with a cold face.

Stealing and kidnapping a child is a felony.

If the child was abducted and sold as a slave, the punishment would be hanging. However, since Ye Zhenniang took good care of the child after abducting her, she was not sentenced to death and was sentenced to three years in prison.

Her husband assisted in the deception and was also an accomplice to the crime, and was imprisoned for two years.

The child was returned to the Zhang family.

Zhang Gong was sentenced to one year in prison.

Zhang's parents, who had rushed over, heard this and stood up to express their dissatisfaction.

"Your Majesty, exchanging children is just our family matter. Why should my son go to jail?"

"I have sentenced him to murder." Lu Yanshi told the story of Zhang Gong murdering Cang Ruoyin's wet nurse and maid with a cold face.

Cang Ruoyin, who had finally calmed down, went crazy again after hearing this. She reached out and grabbed Zhang Gong.

Zhang Gong wanted to hide, but the secret guards took sides and there was no way he could escape.

So there was a long scratch on his face.

"Okay, I was wondering why they died of illness for no reason, it turns out it was you who did it. I want to divorce you, now it won't be considered a family matter anymore." Cang Ruoyin looked at Zhang Gong angrily.

The years of love between husband and wife vanished at this moment.

She hated Zhang Gong.

"You, how dare you mention divorce? If you leave my son, you will be a slut who no one wants." When Zhang's mother heard this, she was more excited than Zhang Gong himself.

"You old hag, how dare you scold my daughter like that. Your family has done so many immoral things, my daughter should divorce you!" Cang Ruoyin's mother also rushed over.

She had heard the whole story on the way here and was now furious.

"How dare you scold me?!" Zhang's mother was both angry and furious.

"I hit you too!" Cang Rongyin's mother slapped her in the face.

Lu Yanshi looked at this scene and the corners of his mouth twitched.

He finally knew where Cang Ruoyin's fierce fighting ability came from. It turned out that it was a family tradition passed down from ancestors.

"You are not allowed to hit my mother." When Cang Rongyin saw that her mother was at a disadvantage, she immediately rushed over to help.

Several people started fighting again.

The onlookers were very excited and secretly regretted that they forgot to bring pine nuts. Otherwise, it would have been so much fun to eat some pine nuts while watching the show.

This is much more exciting than going to a teahouse to listen to books.

Lu Yanshi was too lazy to stop them and just let them go.

He looked at Wan Qingqing, who was hiding aside with a bruised face and nose, and felt a little annoyed.

Her taking a concubine as a mistress is at most an improper act and abusing the child, and she can only be condemned from a moral perspective; there is no corresponding law to punish her.

Lu Yanshi couldn't help but mutter: "Let those idle ministers draft some new laws to fill these loopholes."

Just then, a flute sounded.

Everyone looked over.