Chapter 366 Reversal
"What the Cao family's mother and son said that Mrs. Cao went to the temple is false."
"I spent those days fixing leaks on the roof, and I never saw Mrs. Cao go out. However, I did see Cao Zian and Mrs. Cao going to the woodshed occasionally, and sometimes they would bring a bowl of water in."
"That's a firewood shed. Who's going to bring water in there?"
"It must be that Mrs. Cao is still locked in the woodshed by her mother and son."
"Although Mrs. Cao is a little unreasonable, she is still a human life. I am also worried that something will happen, so I use the excuse to fix the leak and climb on the roof to stare at the Cao family every day."
"A few days later, I saw the Cao family's mother and son carrying a sack out of the woodshed."
"At that time, the sack moved a few times. I took a closer look at the shape and saw that there was clearly a person inside."
"I was frightened. I wanted to report it to the official, but then I saw the Tofu Xishi of the Zheng family chatting happily with the Cao family's mother and son, so I thought, it's better to ignore this matter, otherwise, the Zheng family will be unreasonable, and Cao's family will be unreasonable. My mother and son are cruel, and I will always hate anyone I provoke. It’s better to do less than to do more, so I still don’t care.”
"I don't want to get into this trouble."
"After the Zheng family's Xi Shi left, I saw Mrs. Cao sneaking away from the back door."
"Afterwards, I never saw the Cao family and their son again. When I saw them again, it was reported that Mrs. Cao had smallpox."
"Smallpox is an infectious disease. Whoever catches it will die."
"I don't dare to take care of this matter anymore."
"But, yesterday, I had a nightmare, dreaming about Lady Cao."
His body trembled uncontrollably, his face full of fear, recalling what he saw in his dream last night, "Her face was covered in blood, there was a big hole in her forehead, and there were several maggots as thick as chopsticks at the entrance of the hole. Climb in and out, vomit..."
Unable to stop, he covered his mouth and felt disgusted. His face turned pale. He didn't want to continue, but when the official glared at him, the man continued subconsciously.
"One ear was cut off with scissors, and half of her body was stained red with blood. One of her eyeballs was gouged out, but it was not broken. It was drooping on her cheek. She looked very scary. She scolded me fiercely, why didn't I do this? She redressed her grievance, saying that she died unjustly and miserably. She also told me that if her grievances were not made known to the world, her grievances would remain in the Cao family forever. "
"I was scared, so I woke up."
"I'm afraid that Mrs. Cao's wronged spirit is really in the courtyard of her arm and won't leave. I'm afraid that she will come to me again. So early this morning, I came here specially to testify for her grievance."
"Master Guan, every single thing I said is true. If one sentence is false, I will let the sky strike me with lightning and I will die badly."
He swore a poisonous oath sonorously and forcefully, with such a posture that if he didn't believe him, he would fight for his life.
Mrs. Cao and Cao Zian had already collapsed on the ground with pale faces. At this moment, they could no longer shout the word "unjust".
Before Lady Cao died, one of her ears was cut off. It was Cao Zian's masterpiece.
He hated Madam Cao for beating and scolding him and ruining his life. He wanted to eat Madam Cao's flesh, drink Madam Cao's blood and gnaw on Madam Cao's bones.
If he didn't hate her so much, he wouldn't have wanted to poison Mrs. Cao before.
It was because of his excessive hatred that Cao Zian tried to kill Lady Cao over and over again.
When Madam Cao was about to die from his torture, he cut off Madam Cao's ears like a vicious lunatic. Madam Cao glared at him angrily. He couldn't get angry, so he dug out one of her eyes and held it next to her. The teapot hit her hard on the forehead.
A big hole was made.
While Cao Zian was torturing Madam Cao, Madam Cao was watching from the side, watching everything in the room.
But she didn't stop it.
In her heart, an ugly fat woman like Lady Cao was not worthy of her good son. She wished that her ugly daughter-in-law would die early and be born early.
Anyway, Mrs. Cao owes her family. When the time comes, let Mrs. Cao make the decision to marry her son a beautiful little wife.
However, if you think about it this way, after Lady Cao died, the mother and son were not without fear.
Fortunately, Cao Zian was smart and used the excuse that Lady Cao had smallpox to recuperate in Zhuangzi, so that no one in Zhuangzi dared to approach the house where Lady Cao lived.
After Lady Cao died, Cao Zian burned the body, quilt, and even the wooden bed in a fire.
At the same time, all evidence was burned clean.
I thought that without real evidence, as long as the mother and son refused to admit the murder of Mrs. Cao, the official would be unable to do anything to them.
Unexpectedly, Mrs. Cao would entrust her dream to her neighbor.
And everything they did at home before was watched by the neighbors next door.
Now, with real evidence in front of them, they can no longer tolerate their claims of injustice.
"Now, what else do you have to say?" The official slapped the wood on his hand hard and said sternly, "I have sent people to investigate the temple you mentioned. During that time, there was a Madam Cao went to fast, but that Madam Cao is not that Madam Cao. If there are no ghosts, why do you need to lie? "
Tang Mu slapped her hard again, which frightened the Cao family's mother and son so much that they trembled and fell to the ground begging for mercy.
Just when the official wanted them to be detained, suddenly, an old woman came outside the yamen, crying and saying that she wanted to surrender.
The visitor claimed to be surnamed Wang. He was fifty-two years old and was an old tenant farmer in Cao's village. Mrs. Wang surrendered and claimed that she had killed Mrs. Cao.
She said that she had a daughter who liked Cao Zian, but was snatched away by Lady Cao. Her daughter was heartbroken and died of depression some time ago.
She hated Lady Cao, so she secretly poisoned Lady Cao.
After Mrs. Cao was poisoned, she had the same symptoms as smallpox virus, which even the doctor could not detect.
Mother and son of the Cao family were afraid that Lady Cao's disease would be transmitted to others, so they secretly took Lady Cao to Zhuangzi. It happened that it was Zhuangzi where she was, and she killed Lady Cao when the Cao family and her son were not paying attention.
Because Mrs. Cao died in an accident, the Cao family's mother and son were afraid that they would be implicated, so they decided to destroy the body and eliminate any traces.
What's more, the Cao family's mother and son thought that Mrs. Cao had smallpox and that she would be cremated if she died.
Mrs. Wang cried while talking. After telling the whole story, she cried and said she regretted it.
He also took out the poison given to Lady Cao.
The official was suspicious and sent someone to take it to the doctor for verification. The result was that, as Mrs. Wang said, once a person is poisoned, herpes will appear on the body like smallpox.
Then, a group of servants from the village also came to change their confessions, saying that something was wrong with Mrs. Wang these days.
One night, she had a nightmare and fell to her knees begging for mercy.
Everyone said that she was scared after killing someone.
A new situation has arisen in the case.
At first, all the evidence pointed to the Cao family's mother and son as the murderers. Later, Mrs. Wang surrendered and a group of servants testified.
Seeing the opportunity, the Cao family's mother and son also continued to complain.
After a thorough investigation, everything pointed to Mrs. Wang, and the official released the Cao family's mother and son, and arrested Mrs. Wang.
Half a month later, Mrs. Wang died in prison.
The case ends here.
Xia Zihan couldn't tell whether he was disappointed or looking forward to it.
Disappointment meant that she had lost an opportunity to kill the Cao family's mother and son in an upright manner.
She said she was lucky, but she felt very unwilling to let the Cao family's mother and son die so easily.
She had just tortured Cao Zian to get some interest out of her. How could she let Cao Zian die so easily?
And Mrs. Cao, her revenge has not yet begun, how can she let her enemy die happily.
Of course not.
You know, in her previous life, she lived in the Cao family for five years without humans or ghosts. She will pay back all this to the Cao family mother and son tenfold and a hundred times.
She wanted the Cao family's mother and son to live half as bad a life as her previous life.
Humph, doesn’t Cao Zian like gambling?
Then, in this life, she would let him gamble well enough.
Xia Zihan smiled sinisterly and sent He Donglin to secretly manipulate the matter.
In other words, after the Cao family's mother and son were released, they were as happy as if they had saved their lives.
The Cao family's mother and son immediately went to the Cao Mansion to thank Mrs. Cao for her life-saving grace.
Mrs. Cao looked at them with a sneer and said, "For saving you this time, I will treat it as if I have paid back everything I owed you before. From now on, you will cross your Yangguan Road and I will cross my single-plank bridge. The water in our well will not interfere with the water of the river." Don’t come to me again.”
This means breaking up the relationship.
The Cao family's mother and son were shocked, and Cao Zian cried out, "What do you mean, madam? Do you want to cross the river and burn the bridge?"
His face was sinister, "Madam also had a hand in the death of that poisonous woman. Doesn't Madam just want to blame everything on me alone?"
How can it be so cheap?
Huh, if Madam Cao hadn't made him take the blame for marrying that vicious woman, how would he, Cao Zian, be where he is today?
In the final analysis, the person who made the mistake in this matter was Young Master Cao.
It was he who accepted the vicious woman on behalf of Young Master Cao. Otherwise, the person who fell into this situation today would be Young Master Cao, not him.
Now Mrs. Cao wants to cross the river and burn the bridge, how is it possible?
As long as Mrs. Cao dares to kick him out of the Cao Mansion, he will expose the fact that Young Master Cao plotted against the head of Chu Yu County and ended up raping a stupid girl.
Humph, he, Cao Zian, is not a soft-footed shrimp who is easy to bully.
In the government office, if Mrs. Wang went out for half a cup of tea at night, she would confess to Mrs. Cao.
Mrs. Cao was partly responsible for the poisonous woman's death. Why should they, mother and son, be solely responsible for it, while the Cao family was completely responsible?
There is nothing so good in the world.
Now that the matter has passed, Mrs. Cao wants to kick him away again, huh... no way.
No, let alone the door, there isn't even a mouse hole.
There was a ferocious energy in Cao Zian's eyes. If Mrs. Cao dared to nod, he would bite her to death.
After all, Mrs. Cao was a woman, and her aura was a bit lower than that of a busy person. Under Cao Zian's threats and Mrs. Cao's tricks, she had no choice but to agree to Cao Zian's continued work as the Cao family's steward. .
(End of chapter)