jdhmnovel Chapter 183 Ruffian
Chapter 183 Ruffian
Chunlan revealed the secret she had kept for so many years. All she needed was a witness to prove that what she said was true, so that the second master and the second wife would not be able to 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 Shen 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 going insane and eventually died of depression, the maids and old women in the house felt very distressed.
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 say a word.
The Second Wife forced herself to remain calm and said, "Mother, please trust us. The Master and the Marquis are brothers, how could they possibly do such a thing..."
The old lady's eyes were as sharp as knives. The second wife didn't dare to say a word. She only felt the coldness running from the soles of her feet to the tips of her hair, and the coldness 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 brought the person into the mansion quickly.
The servant came in and said, "My Lord, the people sent by the Second Young Lady have brought that ruffian into the mansion."
The Second Wife's face, which was already pale to begin with, was now filled with fear, and the Second Master was not much better off.
Everyone looked 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 Shen Tang had sent people to Pingyuan Marquis' Mansion in such a hurry.
Seeing them come in, Shen 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?"
Shen Tang nodded and said, "This is about the injustice that mother suffered in the past. Tang'er felt that the two uncles should be informed, so he sent someone to invite you here."
Shen Tang replaced the second wife with her own daughter, and even nearly buried her second brother alive. She told the whole story to Master Jiang and Master Jiang Er. Master Jiang's face was so gloomy that he wanted to kill someone.
Their faces were so gloomy that you could almost pinch water out of them. They sat down and the secret guards brought in a gang of thugs.
The thug had a scar under his eye, and it was clear from looking at him that he was not someone to be trifled with. The secret guard said, "Of the three thugs Miss Chunlan mentioned, only this tough guy is still alive."
He kicked and the man fell to his knees, his knees hitting the bluestone floor hard. 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 that place called Baihualou, so it was normal that he couldn't recognize her.
Shen Tang asked, "Fifteen years ago, you and two other ruffians chased a maid carrying a food box in a barren 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.
Shen Tang said, "Tell me everything that happened that day."
Rolling Knife Meat said, "If you let me speak, I will speak."
How dare you speak to the future Crown Princess of Jingyang Palace like that?
The secret guard grabbed the thug's collar and slapped him twice, "Just say whatever I told 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 desolate mountains to see if there were any new graves and burial objects. When we went there, we saw a beautiful maid, alone, 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. She wanted 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. One of us went to see what was in the food box, but saw it was a child and ignored it."
"The three of us originally wanted to take that maid. On the way back with her, 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."
Shen Tang asked, "Where is the maid you picked up?"
Gundaorou didn't say anything. He felt a chill coming from behind him. Afraid of being beaten again, Gundaorou immediately said, "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 just a simple beating with fists and feet, 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.
Shen 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.
Shen Tang looked at the Second Master and the Second Mistress, "Chunlan told you the truth about what happened back then. You said she was ordered by Fourth Aunt to slander you. Now the thugs have found you. If you still believe it's slander, I will go to the Ministry of Justice and beat the drum to complain. I will go to the lobby of the Ministry of Justice and let the Minister of Justice interrogate me clearly!"
Shen Tang called his two uncles over not to allow the second house to have any luck, nor to allow the old lady to show any favoritism.
For the sake of the title, the second branch harmed her eldest brother 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, Shen Tang's, enemy!
Not even my biological father!
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 the Second Wife's 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 Shen Xian, clenched her hands under her sleeves, and knelt down with tears in her eyes, "I know I was wrong. I was bewitched back then. I did it. The master knows 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 sister-in-law and brought unrest to the Marquis' Mansion!"
"I'm going to divorce you today!"