Chapter 183: Ruffian
Chunlan told the secret that she had kept for so many years. The only thing missing was a witness to prove that what she said was true, so that the second master and the second wife could not deny it.
In fact, everyone in the room believed what Chunlan said. After all, Chunlan and Qiaohui left the house at the same time. Qiaohui was holding a food box in her hand at that time, and everyone in the house knew about it.
Besides, everyone in the mansion knew how much the Second Wife loved Chen Xi. What Chunlan wanted to say was not true. Why did the Second Master want to kill Chunlan to silence her?
What else could it be if not guilty conscience?
Thinking about how Jiang was sure she had given birth to twins, a boy and a girl, but no one believed her and she was suspected of being insane and eventually died of depression, the maids and old women in the house were all heartbroken.
The old lady's face was pale, and her hands holding the Buddhist beads were shaking. She glanced from the second wife's face to the second master, and could not utter a word.
The second wife forced herself to remain calm and said, "Mother, please believe us. The master and the marquis are brothers, how could they do such a thing..."
The old lady's eyes were as sharp as knives. The second wife dared not say a word. She only felt the chill running from the soles of her feet to the tips of her hair, and the chill coming out from her bones.
The Dali Temple was not far from the Pingyuan Marquis Mansion, and Xie Guimo's secret guards were extremely efficient and quickly brought the person into the mansion.
The servant came in and said, "My Lord, the people sent by the Second Miss have brought that thug into the mansion."
The Second Wife's face, which was already pale to begin with, was filled with only fear, and the Second Master was not much better.
Everyone was looking at the door, but the first people to come in were not the secret guards or the thugs, but Master Jiang Da and Master Jiang Er.
Seeing them, the old lady’s face turned pale.
Although Master Jiang Da and Master Jiang Er had come, they were actually a little confused. They didn't know why Chen Tang had sent people to bring them to Pingyuan Marquis' Mansion in such a hurry.
Seeing them come in, Chen Tang stood up and said, "My two uncles are here..."
Master Jiang said, "Tang'er sent someone to call us here, but what's the matter?"
Chen Tang nodded and said, "It's about the grievances that my mother suffered back then. Tang'er felt that the two uncles should be informed, so I sent someone to invite you here."
Chen Tang told Master Jiang and Master Jiang the whole story about how she replaced the second wife's daughter with her newborn second brother and almost buried him alive. Master Jiang and Master Jiang's faces were so gloomy that they even wanted to kill someone.
Their faces were so gloomy that water could almost be pinched out of them. They sat down and the secret guards brought in a group of thugs.
The thug had a scar on his eye, and one could tell from the look of it that he was not someone to be trifled with. The secret guard said, "Among the three thugs Miss Chunlan mentioned, only this tough guy is still alive."
He kicked his foot and fell to his knees, his knees hitting the bluestone floor heavily. He gasped in pain. He was a fat man, and he wanted to get up, but the secret guard held him down and he couldn't move.
Rolling Meat shouted, "What did you arrest me for?"
Chunlan looked at him, "Do you still remember me?"
Gundaorou looked at Chunlan and felt that she looked familiar, but he couldn't remember who she was. After all, fifteen years had passed, and Chunlan was in the Baihua Tower and other places of entertainment, so it was normal that he couldn't recognize her.
Chen Tang asked, "Fifteen years ago, you and two other ruffians chased a maid carrying a food box in a deserted mountain outside the city, and sold her to a human trafficker?"
Rolling Meat was surprised, "How did you know this?"
Just this one sentence is enough to prove that what Chunlan said is true.
Chen Tang said, "Tell me everything that happened that day."
Rolling Meat said, "You let me speak, and I will speak?"
How dare you speak to the future Crown Prince Consort of Jingyang Palace like that?
The secret guard grabbed the thug by the collar and slapped him twice, "Just say whatever I tell you to say!"
The two slaps from the secret guard were not light, and they knocked out two of his teeth. How could he dare to talk nonsense? He spat out a mouthful of blood and said whatever he wanted, "That day, Er Gouzi, Shou Hou and I went to the deserted mountain to see if there were any new graves and burial objects. When we went there, we saw a beautiful maid, who was alone and carrying a food box in the wilderness. We became malicious and chased after the maid..."
"The maid ran for her life and saw a carriage, trying to find someone to save her, but there was no one in the carriage. The maid put the food box in the carriage and continued to run. The two of us chased the maid, and one of us went to see what was in the food box, and when he saw it was a child, he ignored it."
"The three of us originally wanted to take that maid, but on the way we were carrying her back, we picked up another maid. We thought that maid was pretty, so we sold her to a human trafficker for a high price. We don't know what happened next."
Chen Tang asked, "Where is the maid you picked up?"
Gundaorou didn't say anything. He felt a chill coming from behind him. He was afraid of being beaten again, so he said immediately, "We wanted to marry that maid to the three of us. She had a bad temper and was very resistant to death, so we beat her up. But she was so weak that she died. We then threw her into a dilapidated temple..."
The beating that Gundaorou mentioned was not as simple as punching and kicking, otherwise Qiaohui would not have died naked in a dilapidated temple.
Mother Sun came and heard this. She rushed over to avenge her daughter and beat the rolling knife meat, but was pulled away.
Chen Tang waved his hand, and the secret guard dragged the rolling meat away.
Master Jiang Da and Master Jiang Er sat there, so angry that they couldn't speak.
Chen Tang looked at the second master and the second wife, "Chunlan told the truth about what happened back then, and you said she was instructed by the fourth aunt to deliberately slander you. Now the thugs have also come. If you still believe that it is slander, I will go to the Ministry of Justice to beat the drum of injustice and go to the lobby of the Ministry of Justice to let the Minister of Justice interrogate her clearly!"
Chen Tang called his two uncles here to not allow the second house to have any luck, nor to allow the old lady to have any favoritism.
The second branch harmed her eldest brother for the title and made the Jiang family feel guilty for fifteen years, causing her mother to die with hatred. Anyone who dares to protect the second branch will be her, Chen Tang's enemy!
Even my own father can’t do it!
The Second Master and the Second Wife knew that they couldn't escape today. The Second Master had a cold expression and didn't say anything. He looked at the Second Wife, and her heart sank to the bottom. After being married for more than ten years, how could she not know what the Second Master's look meant.
The second wife glanced at Chen Xian, clenched her hands under her sleeves, knelt down with a plop, and cried, "I know I was wrong. I was bewildered back then. I did it, and the master knew nothing..."
Second Master knows nothing?
Her second wife was truly deeply in love with the second master and would rather take on everything herself to protect the second master.
The Second Master kicked the Second Wife in the heart, "You vicious woman! You killed my eldest sister-in-law and brought unrest to the Marquis's Mansion!"
"I'm going to divorce you today!"
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