Chapter 231: Beauty and Rouge (28)
"I have a question here, and I would like to ask Mr. Bai to help answer it." Gao Zhan, who had been silent and had never spoken, suddenly said, "Where did Mr. Bai hear all this?" Did Mr. calculate it, or did someone tell him? Where did Mr. know about this matter between Wu Quan and Miss Chu, and what does they have to do with Cheng Zijun and this Li Chang? β
"Gao Zhu don't ask, I'm going to talk about it too, since you asked, let's take a look at this thing first." Bai Ze handed Gao Zhan a stack of papers: "This is an old note, written by Miss Chu's personal maid Xiaoxiao, but because I couldn't find this handover Xiaoxiao afterwards, the matter will be over." β
Gao Zhan gave Xiao Zhan a look, and Xiao Zhu immediately stepped forward to take the piece of paper from Bai Ze's hand and carefully put it in Gao Zhan's hand.
Gao Zhan spread out the form, only to see that it was bloodstained with blood, and it was actually a blood-like letter. Those words are written crookedly, and there are many errors in them, which at first glance were written by people who don't read much. The words written on the paper are shocking and unbearable.
It turned out that after Wu Quan deceived Miss Chu of all the silver taels she brought, he did not drive Miss Chu away again, but had a murderous intention. At that time, Miss Chu was also pregnant with Wu Quan's child, Wu Quan thought about it and thought of the most vicious, the most convenient, and the most convenient way to kill himself afterwards.
Pregnant in October, once delivered, Miss Chu gave birth to a baby boy for Wu Quan. But Wu Quan didn't even look at it, and after holding the child away from Miss Chu's side, he covered him to death with his hands. After that, he took advantage of the fact that Miss Chu was weak after giving birth, threw her into the cold water, and then scooped up Miss Chu, who had been tortured to the point of coma, from the water, changed into clean clothes and let her lie back on the bed.
Miss Chu gave birth on the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, on a snowy day, a woman who was weak after giving birth was soaked in cold water by her beloved man under the pretext of purification, how could nothing happen? Miss Chu fell into a coma and never woke up.
In order to cover up the cause of Miss Chu's death, Wu Quan hurriedly buried her and her child. Speaking of rhetoric, Wu Quan has already thought about it. It would be better if no one found out about this Chu girl and the child, and if she found out, she would generously admit that Miss Chu was the concubine she kept outside. Miss Chu's death was due to a postpartum avalanche caused by dystocia, and the child she gave birth to was originally a stillbirth.
"This Wu Quan is really vicious, poor Miss Chu, she doesn't know people clearly, she actually knows such a white-eyed wolf." Bai Li said hatefully: "Not to mention that no one knows about Miss Chu and the child, even if they do, it is difficult to guess the real cause of death of the mother and son." Who would have believed that Wu Quan would kill his newborn child with his own hands, and who would have thought that he would ruthlessly stuff a woman who had just given birth to a son for him and who had always been in love with him into cold water, and the purpose was to kill her. People are more terrible than any demons and monsters. β
"May I ask Mr. Bai, but the death of this Chu girl has something to do with Cheng Zijun?" Gao Zhan asked with a frown.
"This Cheng Zijun and Li Chang, on the surface, do not have anything to do with Miss Chu's death. But the things they did later were more or less related to Miss Chu's death. Bai Ze's facial expression was slightly entangled: "Gao Zhu, don't worry, listen to me, you will understand." β
"Mr. Bai, please!"
"This Wu Quan is indeed thoughtful in killing Miss Chu's mother and son, but I'm afraid even he didn't expect that there was a mistake here, that is, Miss Chu's personal maid was small. Miss Chu's son was killed by Wu Quan, and Miss Chu was also carried by Wu Quan to the bathtub, and then forced into cold water. He thought that he knew all these things he was doing, but he never expected that he would let Xiaoxiao see them. Xiaoxiao knew in her heart that this Wu Quan was going to put her young lady to death, she was a maid, even if she forcibly came forward, it was just Wu Quan's extra life. So, this little one took advantage of the mess in the yard and fled. β
"And then?" Bai Li's heart lifted again.
Xiaoxiao, who escaped from Wu's house, accidentally met Li Chang, who was still a cook at the Spring Banquet at the time. This Li Chang is not a well-behaved person, when he saw the young and beautiful Xiaoxiao, even if he saw it, he tricked her home and locked her up on the grounds that he was willing to help Xiaoxiao find a place to settle. This Li Chang is the cook of the Spring Banquet, and Cheng Zijun is the son-in-law of the Shen family, a wealthy merchant in Huaxi Town. This Cheng Zijun often complained to Li Chang about his dissatisfaction, so Li Chang took the opportunity to comfort him, and also took Cheng Zijun home and invited him to torture Xiaoxiao with him. β
"I really can't imagine that this Cheng Zijun and Li Chang are still doing this kind of thing in private." Bai Li clenched his fists: "This little girl was imprisoned by Li Chang, how did she write it, and how did she hand it to Master Xin." β
"That's thanks to one person." Bai Ze half-squinted his eyes and said: "Cheng Zijun has a good friend named Chen Ajiao, and this Chen Ajiao also met through Li Changcai. Chen Ajiao was not originally surnamed Chen, but the child daughter-in-law of the Chen family, and deep down she didn't want to marry the kid of the Chen family. After meeting Cheng Zijun through Li Chang's introduction, her heart was all on this Cheng Zijun, but she knew in her heart that Cheng Zijun was just the son-in-law of the Shen family, and she would not be able to enter the door of the Shen family without Miss Shen's permission. Therefore, her relationship with Cheng Zijun is only a private relationship. One day, Chen Ajiao searched for Cheng Zijun to no avail, and she didn't dare to go to Shen's house to find someone, so she could only go to Li Chang's house to find Li Chang for help. β
"This Chen Ajiao has met Xiaoxiao?"
"Yes! When Chen Ajiao arrived at Li Chang's house, she did not see Li Chang, but saw Xiaoxiao who was imprisoned in Li's house. Xiaoxiao begged Chen Ajiao to rescue herself, but Chen Ajiao thought about it again and again, but still refused. But before leaving, she told Xiao Xiao that she could do something for her. Bai Ze glanced at the shape that was still held by Gao Zhan: "That shape was sent to the government by Xiao Xiao asked Chen Ajiao to help." Chen Ajiao is literate, and she has also read the content of the form, and saw that it was written about Wu Quan and Miss Chu, and it did not involve Li Chang and Xiaoxiao herself, so she sent the letter to the government office. But she was a girl after all, she was scared, and she couldn't put things aside, so she quickly told Cheng Zijun about it, and Cheng Zijun told Li Chang again, Li Chang assassinated Xiaoxiao in order to clear himself, and buried the bones in the backyard of this Huayuan Temple. β
Bai Ze and Gao Zhan, as well as those who caught it, all looked at the strange tree growing in the rubble.
"Those annattoβ"
"This annatto tree is actually the embodiment of human resentment, so it is also called the ghost tree. Although the ghost tree is born in the soil, it feeds on the body of the dead, and uses the whole body of the resentful person as fertilizer to nourish itself, and one day, when the flesh of the wronged person is completely sucked dry, a ghost tree will burst out of the rotten body. β
"Sounds a little crazy!" Bai Li subconsciously rubbed his arm.