Chapter 50 The Reason for Madness
Luo Xifeng looked at her deeply, and Chu Yangyang had long lost her previous frightened expression.
His brows were furrowed, he always felt that she seemed to know more about the Luo family.
It's much more than just about my sister.
Chu Yangyang suddenly took half a step forward, and the wet hem of her skirt swept across the toes of Luo Xifeng's boots stained with medicine.
He instinctively stepped back and knocked over the celadon pestle.
She lightly tapped his heart with her fingertips, "Now it's your turn."
She raised her eyes and looked into his, "Why do you suddenly want to kill me?"
Luo Xifeng suddenly grabbed her wrist, which was hanging in the air, and said, "You know what evil things your Chu family has done."
Raindrops from the eaves hit the window paper, and she could hear the sound of his back teeth rubbing against each other.
From this angle, you can clearly see the moisture condensing on his eyelashes, and you can't tell if it's rain or the hot mist rising from the medicine house.
Chu Yangyang smiled, "Let me guess, Zhao Yi must have woken up, right?"
The corners of her lips curled up as reflected in Luo Xifeng's pupils, and the grip he had on her wrist loosened a bit.
She looked at him and said, "Luo Xifeng, you are too concerned. Have you ever thought about falling into someone else's trap?"
Luo Xifeng grabbed her by the back of the neck, rubbing the thin skin behind her ears until it felt hot. "Chu Yangyang, no matter who is behind this, you can't change this fact. It was your father who destroyed my Luo family."
"What if I told you otherwise?" she interrupted. "You were wrong from the start."
Luo Xifeng was stunned.
He had deliberately entered the Chu family from the very beginning just to find Chu Shiyuan's sore spot. He endured humiliation again and again just for a moment of revenge.
His firm belief that Chu Shiyuan is the murderer has always been his belief and the reason why he has come this far.
He didn't believe it. "Chu Yangyang, you don't have to use sweet words here. If you want to convince me, show me the evidence."
"Then you have no evidence to prove that it was my father who did it."
"How can I not have it?"
Three years ago, Luo Xifeng accidentally found a runaway slave from the Luo family. He learned from the slave that it was Chu Shiyuan who led the officers and soldiers to raid the Luo family that day and took away Doctor Luo.
Soon, news came that Luo's father, Luo Heting, committed suicide in prison and the entire Luo family was executed.
He remembered that he was only six years old. He slept particularly deeply that day. When he woke up again, he found that he was far away from Tiantong City and had no relatives around him. He was settled in a merchant's house in southern Jiangsu.
The family was very kind to him, but he only wanted to go back and find his father, mother, and sister.
He sneaked out and the family looked for him everywhere but to no avail.
Unexpectedly, at such a young age, he was spotted by human traffickers and moved to many places. In order to escape, he lived a life of sleeping in the open every day.
I once fought with ten dogs for a rotten bun.
Until he was older, he finally returned to Tiantong City and returned to his former Luo Mansion. That familiar house had been passed on through countless hands and everything had changed.
It was also in that vicinity that he met Li Ma, a former servant of the Luo family.
Nanny Li was her mother's maidservant who came with her as a dowry. She escaped at the risk of her life. She said that she saw with her own eyes that it was Prime Minister Chu who took away Luo's father and mother.
It was also Prime Minister Chu who ordered the confiscation of property.
At that time, Prime Minister Chu's eyes were full of indifference and cruelty, and she would never be wrong.
Luo Xifeng believed it firmly.
Due to the lack of evidence and the fact that he was not an important figure in the imperial court, he was unable to obtain more information, so he set his sights on the lewd woman Chu Yangyang.
Until yesterday, he secretly hid Zhao Yi and used all kinds of expensive medicines to treat him, which made Zhao Yi wake up.
The first thing Zhao Yi did after waking up was to talk about the collusion between the Prime Minister's Mansion and Prince Jing's Mansion.
Combined with Chu Yangyang's evasive answers, he could already determine that it was Chu Shiyuan who had taken action against the Luo family.
The mastermind behind this incident was King Jing.
The time has finally come for him to make the Chu family pay back the humiliation he suffered in the Luo family.
Perhaps because the idea that Chu Shiyuan was his enemy was too strong, Luo Xifeng naturally formed a preconceived notion but never questioned its authenticity.
After being touched by Chu Yangyang today, he actually began to waver.
"Zhao Yi confirmed that Chu Shiyuan went to Prince Jing's mansion that day to discuss resolving the Luo family issue. He saw it with his own eyes."
Once he had doubts, Luo Xifeng's voice became softer and softer when he spoke this.
"Did you see that with your own eyes?" Chu Yangyang shattered Luo Xifeng with just one sentence. "Did you also see with your own eyes that it was my father who came to frame the Luo family?"
Something he once firmly believed in, now someone told him that the hatred that had sustained him all along and all the humiliation he had suffered for it were nothing but a joke.
The candlelight flickered in Luo Xifeng's eyes, and his hands hanging by his side unconsciously stroked the fabric of his clothes.
Chu Yangyang lowered her voice, "Lord Luo, don't you think Zhao Yi's appearance is too strange? Everything I told you before was true. As soon as I arrived at his cabin, he mutilated himself, and he drank the bowl of poison himself. And the assassins who were chasing us were strange in every way, as if they were afraid that we wouldn't know they were sent by my father."
"And this." Chu Yangyang took out the gold ingot she had found in the burnt wooden house today. "Do you see the pattern on it?"
He took the gold ingot and examined it carefully. After a moment, he replied with a dry voice, "This is a palace seal that can only be engraved by concubines of the third rank and above."
"Yes." Chu Yangyang said, "I found this in Zhao Yi's house."
"And this." She produced another piece of evidence. "This petal was scraped off the assassin's foot."
Luo Xifeng knew at a glance that this was the Purple Mist Iris.
He suddenly lowered his head and looked at Chu Yangyang, "This is...a flower that is only found in the Imperial Garden."
She looked back at him, and took a half step closer while he was dazed. "What did you think of?"
His voice was hoarse, unlike his own. "The person behind this might be... deep in the palace."
"You still have some sense." She placed the two important pieces of evidence in Luo Xifeng's palm.
He pinched them in a daze, and the gentle curve that had always been on the corner of his lips collapsed bit by bit.
Chu Yangyang could sense his change. She walked over and grasped his stiff wrist, the warmth of her palm penetrating his thin shirt. "Luo Xifeng, we shouldn't become the culprit's knife."
His fingertips curled up suddenly, but he couldn't break free.
The candle wick burst into sparks, and she said softly, "I will help you..."
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