Chapter 1011: Uncle and Sister-in-law’s Murder of the Original Wife (3)
"Shut up! My son could never do such a thing! Someone must have harmed him!" The lady of the earl interrupted the officer hysterically, but when the earl of Yong'an heard the officer's words, he fainted on the ground with a bang.
"Master!" When the lady saw her husband fainted, she screamed miserably and threw herself on Earl Yong'an and burst into tears.
When Yue Shichu "heard" such a loud noise, she naturally ran out in a panic. Seeing her father-in-law fainted and her mother-in-law crying, she asked what was going on in a panic. The officer quickly told her what happened again.
After Yue Shichu heard that her husband committed suicide with his sister-in-law, she didn't believe it at first, and then angrily accused the officers of talking nonsense. But after the officers confirmed it again and again, she was devastated and began to break down and cry. She cried and refused to accept the reality and shouted: "Impossible! How could my husband commit suicide with his sister-in-law? I don't believe it, all this is fake, I must go and see it for myself..."
So Yue Shichu asked the coachman to drive the carriage and take her to the inn. Seeing this, the servants also asked the servants of the Zou family to drive another carriage and take the Yong'an Earl and his wife on board.
Yue Shichu arrived at the inn crying. At that time, the bodies of Zou Hongyi and Murong Liu had been put down. In order to maintain their dignity, the bodies were placed in the room where they "committed suicide" and were not carried out in public. However, the outside of the inn was already crowded with people watching the excitement.
Since ancient times, romantic scandals have been the most popular topic for ordinary people, not to mention such a scandal that a brother-in-law and sister-in-law had an affair and even hanged themselves together. This scandal, which combines all kinds of explosive factors such as horror, immorality, incest, and love, is even more exciting. In addition, the protagonists are actually members of a high-ranking noble family, so it has attracted even more attention from the common people.
Zou Hongyi and Murong Liu's identities had naturally been recognized long ago, and others would not cover up their scandals. Therefore, in just one afternoon, the affair between the second young master and the eldest young lady of the Yong'an Earl's Mansion had spread, and spread to the capital and nearby places at the speed of light...
Now the Yong'an Marquis's Mansion became famous, but it was a shameful name.
"Where is my husband? Take me to see him!" Yue Shichu rushed down from the carriage, crying and shouting in agony. When the onlookers heard her words and realized that she was the wife of the female murderer, they immediately looked at her with sympathy and made way for her so that she could enter the inn without any obstacles.
The officials and servants from Jingzhao Prefecture who were guarding the inn knew that she was the wife of the deceased man, so they stepped forward and said, "Is it Madam Zou Er? Young Master Zou Er is here, please follow me."
The adult who stayed behind to investigate the case led Yue Shichu into the room. Yue Shichu saw Zou Hongyi, who had already died, with a pale face and a dark purple mark on his neck. She immediately rushed over to him, "Husband!"
"Why did you die? They said that you committed suicide with your sister-in-law. Is this true? I don't believe it... Open your eyes and tell me... Woo woo..." Yue Shichu cried heartbrokenly.
The adults and servants who followed in looked at her and thought that she could not accept that her husband was having an affair with her sister-in-law, so she turned a blind eye to the obvious facts and wanted to escape the reality of being betrayed by her husband.
Yue Shichu cried for a while, and suddenly saw Murong Liu's body lying next to him. His face suddenly changed, and he rushed to Murong Liu's body, slapped her twice, and then cried and cursed resentfully: "It must be this vixen who seduced my husband! This fickle woman seduced my husband to do such a shameless thing. The ancestors of the Zou family will be ashamed of what happened to them!"
After she said this, the people around her felt that although she said that she didn't believe her husband would betray her, she actually believed it in her heart, otherwise she wouldn't have scolded Murong Liu like that.
Yue Shichu's scolding had already confirmed the guilt of the adulterous couple.
Just as she was crying and shouting, the couple of the Earl of Yong'an finally arrived. The Earl of Yong'an had regained consciousness on the way, and now he and his wife rushed in in a daze. When they saw Zou Hongyi's body, the couple cried and shouted, scolding their son for being so stubborn and leaving his parents to die. They also scolded Murong Liu for not settling down at home, for even dying and implicated her own son, and for bringing such a big scandal to the mansion...
After the three men had cried for two quarters of an hour, the officials of Jingzhao Prefecture had no choice but to make plans for them. After all, although the truth of the case had been basically confirmed, they still had to inform their families.
"Master Count, Madam Count, Madam Zou, please accept our condolences. The dead cannot be brought back to life. There are still some things in this case that need to be confirmed with you. Please cooperate." Lord Du, who was investigating the case, said politely to the Earl of Yong'an and his wife and Yue Shichu.
"Confirm what?" Earl Yong'an asked, wiping his red and swollen eyes.
Lord Du took out the "suicide note" and said, "Please check if this letter is written by your son."
When Earl Yong'an took the letter, he found that it was the letter in which Zou Hongyi stated his true feelings for Murong Liu and his decision to die together because of his inner guilt and torment.
After reading the contents of the letter, Earl Yong'an felt a sudden pain in his chest. He staggered twice before standing steadily. He managed not to faint, but his hands were shaking. This letter was clear evidence that his second son and his eldest daughter-in-law were having an affair!
He couldn't let his son leave evidence of such a scandal, so he wanted to tear up the letter after he realized it, but Lord Du was staring at him. Seeing his action, how could he not understand what he meant? He hurriedly snatched the letter and said, "Master, this letter is evidence at the crime scene, you can't tear it up!"
"This letter is forged and could never have been written by my son. It is false evidence left by his murderer in order to slander him. This letter cannot be trusted..." Earl Yong'an refuted Lord Du's words with tears in his eyes, trying to cover up this huge scandal for his son and save the precarious reputation of Earl Yong'an's Mansion.
"That's right! My son is an upright and polite person. How could he do such a treasonous and immoral thing? Someone must be targeting him and our family to set up such a vicious trap to harm him! Lord Du, you must clear my son's name. He must be wronged." Lady Bo immediately followed suit and cried for her son. She could not tolerate her proud son being vilified.
Lord Du is a bit confused now. He knows that the family members don't want to admit such a scandal, but the facts are already there. It's useless to deny it, unless there is strong evidence to prove that they are really innocent and really framed. But isn't there any? Instead, there is evidence everywhere that these two people are a pair of men and women who committed suicide after having an affair.
(End of this chapter)
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