jdhmnovel Chapter 378 Another secret
Chapter 378 Another secret
When he said this, Chen Cong's eyes flickered, with a hint of fear in his pupils.
Gu Jianchu asked lazily, "And then?"
"My mother and I didn't want to go to jail, and we didn't mean for this accident to happen. We were even more afraid that this scandal would get out and be known to the Emperor and the Empress. We would be finished. My mother and I discussed disposing of Wu Yuan's body. As we were disposing of the body, who knew that Wu Yuan was not dead at all, and she woke up."
"A pair of bloodshot eyes stared straight at me. I was terrified. Wu Yuan kept tugging at my trouser legs, asking me to save her. I only thought that if our story was discovered, my mother and I would be finished. Without much thought, I picked up a nearby brick and hit Wu Yuan on the head. Your Majesty, I knew I didn't mean to kill her. I really didn't. But after that blow, she never woke up again."
Chen Cong's frightened body kept shaking.
Gu Jianchu slammed the table in anger, "You said you didn't want to kill her. If you didn't want to kill her, why didn't you go get a doctor when she accidentally bumped into the corner of the table and begged you for help? If you had asked the doctor to treat her, Wu Yuan wouldn't have died. The second time you hit her with the brick, you already had murderous intentions. You are a murderer. You were afraid that she would tell others about what you forced her to do, and you were afraid that your evil deeds would be made public."
"What happened next?" Gu Jianchu slammed the table again, his hands shaking with anger.
Xie Ci'an noticed Gu Jianchu's trembling arms and immediately stepped forward to support Gu Jianchu's hands. He raised his hand to touch Gu Jianchu's back and said, "Don't be angry. Be careful of our child."
After being reminded by Xie Ci'an, Gu Jianchu suddenly remembered that she was still pregnant. She lowered her head and stroked her belly, sighed deeply, tried hard to calm the anger in her heart, and forced herself to calm down.
Chen Cong slowly raised his head, just in time to meet Xie Ci'an's stern eyes. He immediately lowered his head in fear, his voice as thin as a mosquito's, "After that brick was hit, I found that Wu Yuan was completely dead. My mother and I were afraid of being discovered, so we cleaned the house overnight. This morning, we wrapped Wu Yuan's body in a straw mat, carried her for a long way, and then threw her body down a hillside. Unexpectedly, the Emperor and the Empress found her anyway."
"If we hadn't discovered it, we probably wouldn't know that Wu Yuan was dead." Gu Jianchu stroked the jade pendant in his hand and couldn't help but sigh.
She turned to look at Xie Ci'an who was standing beside her, "Your Majesty, the evidence in this case is solid, and the suspect has confessed. What do you think should be done with this case?"
Xie Ci'an put his arm around Gu Jianchu's shoulders, his other hand tightly gripping the white fingers of the firmware. "He forcibly abducted a woman, brutally killed her, and then dumped her body. His methods are cruel and his actions are abominable. Dou Cong, you must immediately send someone to escort him back to the capital and execute him after parading him through the market in three days."
"As for his mother, although she wasn't the mastermind, she was an accomplice. After the incident, not only did she not stop her son's evil deeds, but she also helped kill and dispose of the body, and even concealed the truth. She is sentenced to exile three thousand miles away and will never be allowed to regain civilian status. She will also be escorted back to Beijing for punishment."
The moment Xie Ci'an finished speaking, Dou Cong immediately arranged for someone to deal with the matter.
The ministers remained silent and did not plead for mercy.
The matter had been dealt with, and just as the ministers were about to leave, Yunhe walked in again. There was a thin layer of snow on Yunhe's body, and before he remembered to shake off the snow, he entered the inner hall.
As the warm air from the inner hall rose, the thin layer of snow quickly melted on Yunhe's body. "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Guyu requests an audience."
Guyu was sent by Xie Ci'an to investigate the case of Lord Wu and his son murdering a scholar, but unexpectedly he came back in just half a day.
Although Guyu rarely appears in the public eye, the ministers still know of his existence and that he rarely goes out. The event that can make Guyu go out must be a major event in the court. The ministers who were originally preparing to leave stopped in their tracks.
Xie Ci'an loosened his grip on Gu Jianchu and sat back down. A layer of frost covered his eyes, even more gloomy and cold than the snow outside. "Let him in."
Hearing the sound, Yunhe immediately went out to pass the message, and after a while, Guyu was brought in.
Unlike Chongfeng and the others, Yunhe wore a black robe with a lifelike oriole embroidered on it. If you pay close attention, you will find that whether it is Shuangjiang or Wenzhu, different animals are embroidered on their clothes, and these animals represent their different departments.
Among them, the oriole is engaged in the work of spying and transmitting information, and a lot of information will not escape their grasp.
"How's the thing I asked you to investigate going?" Xie Ci'an tapped the table with his fingers, his eyes falling deeply on Guyu.
Guyu handed all the case files and letters to Yunhe, who then presented them to Gu Jianchu and Xie Ci'an.
"The incident at the Dali Temple where the young master of the Wu family and other young masters were provoked by a beggar, leading to a brawl that resulted in the beggar's death, does indeed have a hidden story behind it."
Gu Yu continued, "This file was found by me in the Dali Temple. Also, this is the testimony of an eyewitness I found after reopening the investigation."
The ministers had indescribable expressions on their faces.
They never imagined that the emperor and empress would be so vengeful and petty.
It was not enough to just deal with Wu Yuan's cousin and aunt who killed her, they even investigated the Wu family.
It seems that they have to be more careful in the future. Although their trivial matters will not cost them their lives, if the emperor and the empress want to find fault with them, they will not let them off easily.
Those ministers who originally wanted to jump around could no longer do so after seeing this. They were afraid that instead of bringing wealth and glory to the palace, they would lose their lives first, which would be a loss.
Instead of doing that, it would be better to learn from other ministers and start to please the queen now. After all, the emperor does not take concubines, and the child in the queen's belly is the only future heir to the prince. If you please the queen, you can still say a few good words for them. There is no need to make yourself unhappy.
Just when other ministers were rejoicing that they had not done anything stupid, only Dou Cong, the Minister of the Dali Temple, was brainstorming frantically, wondering whether he had handled the case. The Emperor and the Empress were clearly preparing to settle the score later. If he had done it, he would probably be implicated and in big trouble.
I really don’t know why this mother and son had to harm Wu Yuan. If they hadn’t killed Wu Yuan, the emperor and empress wouldn’t have brought up the past again.