The madness and hatred in Dou Niang's tone shocked Yongchang Bo. He angrily said, "Don't lie. What have my wife and I done to you that you are so vicious to me?"

The sight of everyone on her body did not make Dou Niang panic, but made her laugh out loud: "Hahaha, even if you don't ask, I will explain it clearly, so that the world will know what a filthy person the polite and courteous Yongchang Bo is!"

"Don't insult my father!" Xie Qingyao was so angry that her pretty face turned pale.

Yongchang Bo pulled his daughter back and said, "Let her speak!"

Dou Niang wiped the tears from her eyes and said bitterly, "Seventeen years ago, the lady of the earl was pregnant and spread the word that she wanted to choose a concubine for the earl of Yongchang. At that time, many maids were eager to make a move, and I was one of them."

At this point, Dou Niang laughed at herself and said, "Everyone in the mansion knows that Earl Yongchang loves and respects his wife. He is gentle and polite to others and keeps himself clean. Besides his wife, he has never had a concubine or even a maid. How many maids would not be tempted to be a maid for such a young man with good character and noble status? But——"

Dou Niang choked up and looked at Earl Yongchang with hatred in her eyes: "But who could have thought that this Earl, who is praised by everyone, would be so despicable. He clearly deceived me and took my body, but turned around and denied it, pretending that nothing had happened and letting the Earl's wife arrange Chunmei. Haha, I was too stupid to understand when I was young. For a man, what loss is there if he sleeps with one more woman? I was unwilling to accept it, and ran to the Earl's wife to argue, but the Earl's wife accused me of using any means to get close to Earl Yongchang, and ordered people to drive me out..."

"Is this why you killed the lady of the earl and framed the earl?" Zhen Shicheng ignored the increasingly ugly face of the earl of Yongchang and said lightly, "Hatred can make people lose their reason and do impulsive things, but hatred often fades with the passage of time. You chose to take revenge after 17 years. Did something happen?"

The damselfly pursed its lips tightly, and its whole body trembled like a fallen leaf in the autumn wind.

Zhen Shicheng clapped his hands: "Yes, the accident should be caused by the death of your son and the man two years ago!"

After hearing what Zhen Shicheng said, Dou Niang couldn't help but take two steps back and looked at him as if she saw a ghost.

Could it be that this Lord Zhen has the ability to read people's minds?

At this point, Dou Niang also lost the desire to hide it. Instead, she had the urge to speak out. She sneered and said, "That's right, but the root of the problem started seventeen years ago! I was sold to the Bo's Mansion when I was young. I had no relatives or friends in the mansion. After being driven out of the mansion, I was left with nowhere to go. In despair, I chose to jump into the river. Perhaps God couldn't bear to see me die so comfortably, so I was rescued by a peddler who passed by. At that time, I was disheartened, and in gratitude for the peddler's life-saving grace, I married him and returned to my hometown, Nanhe, to live with him..."

Recalling the past, there was a glimmer in Dou Niang's eyes. It was obvious that those days with the peddler were not lacking in joy.

But soon, Dou Niang's tone changed: "Who would have thought that I would be pregnant soon after getting married!"

After hearing this, everyone couldn't help but look at Earl Yongchang.

In this situation, almost everyone's first reaction was that the child in Dou Niang's belly was Yongchang Bo's. Only Yongchang Bo had a sullen and cold face, and it was impossible to tell what he was thinking.

The bean lady trembled violently, "Although I married the peddler soon after he rescued me, the child is not his according to the date. Sure enough, I had a seizure eight months after the marriage, and finally gave birth to a son after three days and three nights of dystocia. As my son's eyebrows and eyes grew bigger day by day, he didn't look like my man at all. I couldn't deceive myself with the idea of ​​luck anymore. Fortunately, my man thought that our son was born prematurely and didn't doubt it. I thought that giving birth to children for him and caring for him for his whole life would make up for my guilt, but who would have thought that I would never get pregnant again. The doctor I invited said that I was injured during childbirth and could never get pregnant again. I hate it so much!"

Dou Niang stared at Yongchang Bo with her eyes wide open, and said in a trembling voice: "He ruined my life for the sake of momentary pleasure. Shouldn't I hate him?"

Zhen Shicheng did not comment and continued to ask: "Then what does the death of your son and the man have to do with this matter?"

Just because she cannot bear children for her husband, this hatred is not enough to make a woman who lives a relatively good life plot revenge and murder.

Hearing Zhen Shicheng's question, Dou Niang pulled her messy hair hard. The pain prevented her from going crazy when she recalled the past: "I have kept this secret in my heart for too long, too long. Watching my son grow up day by day, his appearance and personality are completely different from my man, I became more and more panicked, until one night -"

As the damselfly paused, all the birds in the yard fell silent.

Everyone wants to know what terrible thing happened that night.

"I had a nightmare that night and couldn't help but tell this secret in my dream!"

There was a burst of exclamations from the crowd, as they had obviously not expected their secret to be exposed in this way.

A strange look flashed in Jiang Si's eyes.

Although it may sound strange that secrets are revealed in sleep talking, it is actually not strange.

When a terrible secret is hidden for too long, it will become heavier in the person's heart. One day, he or she will find an outlet to vent, either actively or passively because he or she can no longer bear it.

"After hearing this secret, my husband went crazy. With red eyes, he forced me to tell him the whole story. Then -" Damselfly opened her mouth, tears streaming down her dry eyes, "he rushed into my son's room and strangled him to death in a rage!"

"Hiss——" Everyone couldn't help but gasp and looked at the dragonfly with sympathy.

No matter how you look at it, it is too tragic that the only son was strangled to death by his own man.

"Didn't you stop at that time?" Zhen Shicheng asked.

"I was stunned by his beating, and by the time I came to my senses, my son had already died. My husband calmed down, tied stones to my son's body and threw him into the river, making it look like my son had drowned for fun and didn't even pull out his body..."

Zhen Shicheng was silent for a moment, then asked, "Then how did your man die?"

Dou Niang also fell silent. Just as everyone was waiting for her answer with bated breath, she smiled and said word by word: "I killed him."

Looking at the damselfly's smile, everyone suddenly felt a chill down their spines, and no one made a sound.

"From then on, he would beat me every night, using shoe soles, burning me with flints, and any other means of torture. I knew I would be beaten to death before long, but I was unwilling to accept it. It's not that I was unwilling to be beaten by him, but I owed him this. I was unwilling to accept that I was harmed so badly by Earl Yongchang, but the person who harmed me was still living a rich and carefree life. This is not fair!"