Chapter 4747 Xiyue Town
Li Chan and Li Yuan were both in the west wing, they didn't dare to go to the main room.
Hearing Su Yan's question, Li Yuan picked up the teacup and pretended to drink tea, but in fact she was observing Li Chan's reaction.
Li Chan pulled a frown on her face and dragged it out for a long time before saying, "Are you sure this is related to the case? He's dead anyway, just let him go."
Li Yuan then spoke up, "I also think it has nothing to do with the murder case."
Captain Qian followed up by saying, "Which mansion doesn't have a few empty rooms? They have money and are happy to leave them empty. We can't say anything about that."
Su Yan glanced over slowly.
Captain Qian: "..., Ladies, this is very important to solving the case, please speak frankly."
Li Chan looked at Captain Qian with dissatisfaction.
Captain Qian changed the subject and said, "But to be honest..."
He met Su Yan's gaze and turned back, "Miss San, please speak."
Lin Bo: “…”
They have no bottom line at all.
"You must know, so I won't hide it. Anyway, it wasn't my fault, so even if there's lightning, it won't hit me." Li Chan's tone became worse and worse. "It's nothing else. Two years ago, he rented a few women to give birth to children."
Lin Bo frowned slightly.
Captain Qian is well-informed. "...pawning your wife?"
Su Yan had heard about the matter of pawning his wife.
Some people would rent their wives if they had no children after getting married, or if they only had daughters and did not have enough money to support concubines. In layman's terms, they would rent a man's wife to give birth to a child. They would pay a certain amount of silver, and when the child was born, the rented wife could go home.
This behavior completely treats women as commodities to be bought and sold, and is a source of suffering for women.
They are just getting married, they can't even choose their own partner, but the other party has the right to use their bodies in exchange for money.
"But the old man has bad luck. I don't think he is destined to have a son. Among the women he rented, only one became pregnant. The doctor came to feel her pulse and said it was a girl. The other two didn't even get pregnant."
Su Yan felt something was wrong, "You don't mean to say that he found three women in total?"
Li Chan curled her lips.
Li Yuan sighed softly. She really didn't want to make this matter public. She couldn't imagine how her younger sisters would look at her after they knew about this.
What kind of world is this? It's good enough that she can live her own life in peace. Her father is still thinking about having a son.
Is having a son so important?
Su Yan was shocked again, "...the pregnant woman has given birth?"
"No, the baby fell out," Li Chan said. "I guess even God couldn't bear to see it."
"Just because you didn't get pregnant, you sent everyone away?"
Li Chan said: "I don't know either. I don't go to the backyard often, but it just felt like... no one was there overnight."
It is normal to send one away after renting a wife, but it is abnormal to rent three wives together and send them away together.
Su Yan asked: "Why did you send her away so suddenly? Didn't you have a son yet?"
"How would I know? My parents wouldn't discuss this kind of thing with me," Li Chan looked at Li Yuan, "Second sister, do you know?"
Li Yuan shook her head. "I don't agree with what my parents are doing. I've been avoiding them. I asked my mother why she agreed to do this with my father. She said that my father must have a son and she couldn't stop him."
Lin Bo stopped him and said, "This is their family background. Don't ask. It was Li Ji who did it. They are quite pitiful."
Although most wealthy men have three or four wives and concubines, pawning a wife is different from taking a concubine after all.
Su Yan looked at Xiang Xiu and insisted, "You live in the backyard, so you must know what happened."
Xiangxiu lowered her head in fear, and Xiangyun also secretly looked at Li Chan, not daring to say a word.
Su Yan winked at Captain Qian, "Captain Qian, do you think this matter is related to the murder case? In order to seek justice for Master Li, should we speak out?"
Captain Qian: “…”
He is just a weak captain.
Qian Putou kept wiping the sweat from his forehead with his sleeves, "Ladies, things have come to this, how about we just..."
Li Chan had no choice but to say, "Xiangxiu, Xiangyun, if you know anything, please tell us now."
Xiangxiu knelt down on the ground after hearing this, "Miss, I don't know either, but..."
"explain."
Xiangxiu lowered her head, "The master is not very nice to them."
Li Chan was not surprised. "He was not kind to my mother either. Without my mother, how could he have lived his current life? He doesn't seem to be grateful at all."
Xiangxiu said with difficulty: "The master treated those three people even worse."
Li Chan frowned, somewhat confused.
Li Yuan said: "Now that things have come to this, just tell me straight away. There is no need to hide anything."
Xiangxiu then said, "Every night, we could always hear the master beating and scolding them. They cried miserably. Wanying's child was aborted by the master. The master said that having a daughter was useless and that Wanying's child should be aborted until she got a son. The master was too cruel. The few times I saw them, they looked like unrecognizable people. I estimated that even if they went back, they would not survive for a few days."
When the last sentence was uttered, everyone was surprised, only Su Yan remained calm.
She subconsciously looked at Yun Xing and found that he was also listening carefully. Su Yan was a little surprised because Yun Xing never cared about such things.
Su Yan retracted his gaze and asked, "Is it because they could no longer be saved that they were sent away?"
Xiangxiu whispered, "Maybe they will no longer be here when we send them off."
The room became quiet again.
Even Su Yan's voice softened, "Li Ji beat them to death?"
"Wanying is still alive. I saw her on the street. As for the other two..."
Xiangxiu seemed to have a good relationship with them and couldn't bear to continue talking.
Xiangyun took over her words, "That day we saw that they were in a bad condition and seemed to be dying, so we reported the matter to the master. That night the master found a few people from outside and hurriedly carried them away. We never saw them again. Later, their husbands came to the door to make trouble, and the master gave them another twenty taels of silver."
Twenty taels of silver can buy two lives.
Su Yan felt upset when he heard this. Even a small family like the Li family could do such a ridiculous thing.
She couldn't help but curse Li Ji in her heart.
Li Ji was dead, so he wouldn't hear it, so Su Yan didn't restrain himself and cursed without restraint.
"You are trash, not a human being, you are just a freeloader."
"You're just eating free food and you dare to bully a woman."
"You deserve to be killed!"
In an instant, the expressions of everyone in the room became extremely strange, especially Li Chan and Li Yuan.
Yun Xing walked forward calmly, pulled Su Yan behind him, and swept a cold gaze over everyone.
Li Chan: “…”
Although she didn't quite understand some of the words, she knew that Su Yan was indeed scolding her father.
Li Chan felt that as Li Ji's daughter, she should show some respect, so she said, "...my father is still next door, stay away from me before you curse."
Li Yuan: “…”
What a good daughter you are.
Captain Qian couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
This coroner was quite good at swearing. He even started swearing in front of someone's daughter.
Everyone was so shocked by Su Yan's cursing that no one noticed that she didn't move her mouth at all.
Su Yan didn't know why Yun Xing held her back. She was so upset that she cursed him. "It's a pity that Master Li suffered such a misfortune at such a young age. As a coroner, I must seek justice for Master Li. Ladies, can you tell me where you went last night?"
Li Chan: “…”
Are you sure you don't want to enforce justice?
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