Chapter 29: The Scapegoat
The scorching sensation burned the skin like a rolling flame, and every inch of the scar was like a knife into the heart, Lou Yunxiao frowned, and the sweat on her forehead kept pouring out.
Lou Yunxiao's ears seemed to hear the sound of worry-free crying, as well as the busy footsteps of the maidservants, and the worried conversation between Brother Ah and Mu Lingci.
Is all this a dream? I, am I going to die again?
Suddenly, her back was covered with ointment, and it felt as if the wound had been cut open and salted, and the sharp pain instantly brought her to her senses.
"Ahh
Mu Lingci and Lou Xuanyi, who were outside the door, hurriedly broke in when they heard her shouting, and looked through the screen, Lou Yunxiao was lying on the bed, struggling in pain, and her arms and legs had been firmly tied up with soft silk cloth to prevent her struggle from tearing the wound.
"It's all my fault that made Xiao'er suffer so much." Lou Xuanyi blamed himself, he couldn't wait to suffer for Xiao'er.
"Xuanyi, someone in the mansion wants Xiao'er to die. Imperial Physician Chen ordered to see the rattan, which was smeared with poisonous powder, and every time he hit it, Xiao'er's wound would be stained with poisonous powder, and the poisonous powder would penetrate into the wound, and Xiao'er would be dozens of times more painful. If it weren't for Xiao'er's strong will, with her weak body, I was afraid that she would have died of pain at this moment. β
Mu Lingci didn't know who wanted to kill Xiao'er with such a vicious method, but no matter who it was, he would never spare it.
"This person is really vicious, poor Xiao'er has suffered a lot since she was a child, even if I come back now, I can't protect her." Lou Xuanyi said indignantly.
At this time, Le Ji arched his hand outside the door and said, "General, I found it." β
The two walked out in unison and closed the door, and there were three people tied up in the courtyard, Bao Mama, Mr. Chengnan Wang and Lou Qiren.
"Back to the general, his subordinates interrogated Lou Qiren, he said that two days ago Fu found him and said that he wanted to get rid of Liu, he didn't want to, but after returning to the side courtyard, Liu beat him because of some trivial matters, so the next day he agreed to Fu's idea. The poisoned medicine and the poison powder on the rattan were all purchased by Bao's mother from Mr. Wang in Chengnan, and the two confessed the same. β
Lou Xuanyi was furious when he heard it, "It's her!" β
"According to my speculation, Ling Tang was framed for personal affairs in the past because of the partnership between Fu and Liu, and Liu used this to blackmail Fu, and Fu was murderous, and it happened that Lou Qiren also wanted to put Liu to death, so he hit it off with Fu. And Fu Shi also wanted to eradicate Xiao'er's thorn in the eye, so he acted in a play with Lou Qiren, framed Xiao'er, and then killed Xiao'er and the invisible with the family method. β
Mu Ling speculated for a while, and the whole thing could be connected. It's easy to kill Lou Qiren, but Fu Yuewei also has a younger brother who is a military attachΓ©, if she dies quietly in Loufu, I'm afraid that Fu Ziheng won't give up, and then the entire Loufu will be criticized, and Xuanyi and Xiao'er will also be implicated.
"Fu Shi is really a femme fatale." Lou Xuanyi didn't expect this woman to be so deep in the city, and he was angry when he thought that Xiao'er almost died.
"Leji, go and invite Dr. Lou and Mrs. Fu to come, remember to take the rattan too, be careful, don't rub off the poisonous powder on it." Mu Lingci commanded with an indifferent face.
"My subordinates understand."
A moment later, Fu Yuewei took Lou Qihuai's arm and walked into the guarded Canglan Zhai. As soon as they entered the door, they were forcibly separated by the Xuanjia Army.
"What are you doing! This is a mansion, not your barracks! Let me go! Fu Yuewei struggled, but no matter how much she struggled, it was in vain.
"General Mu, what do you mean by this?" Lou Qihuai is also a little unclear.
"Someone! Call me! Mu Lingci said coldly, every word was loud.
Lou Qihuai and Fu Yuewei didn't understand what he meant, so they saw Le Ji walking towards Fu Yuewei with the rattan smeared with poisonous powder.
"Mu Lingci, what are you going to do here?" Fu Yuewei panicked, and her body unconsciously retreated.
"The evidence of Fu's conspiracy to frame Xiao'er for murder is conclusive, and he should be punished for his guilt, does Fu Niangzi have any opinions?"
"You talk nonsense!"
Fu Yuewei struggled more and more, but she was still pressed to her knees on the ground, "Mu Lingci, you are lynching in someone else's house, be careful that I go to Dali Temple to sue you!" β
"Fu Niangzi will go, but when the time comes, I am afraid that it will be Fu Niangzi who will be in prison. Today, for the sake of Xiao'er and Xuanyi's face, he doesn't want to publicize it to the outside world, but if Fu Niangzi wants to make a big deal and even implicate the whole building, then he has nothing to say. Mu Lingci turned his head to look at Lou Qihuai, "Doctor Lou, the execution will be carried out later, this time you have to keep your eyes open and watch carefully!" β
Lou Qihuai was already dumbfounded, he never thought that the mastermind of everything would be Fu Yuewei, this weak and kind woman in his eyes could do such a vicious thing, could she have been acting for so many years?
"Yuewei, is it really you?"
"You doubt me too!" Fu Yuewei looked at Lou Qihuai with resentment, "Lou Qihuai, I have been married to you for so many years and have suffered so much, you actually doubt me!" β
"Wait!" Mu Lingci raised his hand and said, "Everything will wait until the execution is over, Xiao'er has received eighteen rattan strokes, so Fu Niangzi will come twenty strokes first." β
"Twenty!" Fu Yuewei's eyes widened, thinking that she had misheard.
"That's very little, after all, your sins can't be atonemented with twenty rattans." After Mu Ling finished speaking, he glanced at Leji.
At this moment, Le Ji was already standing in front of Fu Yuewei, and before the execution, he did not forget to stuff a big piece of fresh and hot socks into Fu Yuewei's mouth.
The mournful whimper resounded all over Canglan Zhai, and Wu Wu held Lou Yunxiao's hand tightly in the inner room, and the sound of every rattan whipping his skin outside the door was crisp and loud.
After the twenty rattans are over, Leji is much more ruthless than Bao's mother, but his subordinates are holding the proportions, and they will not let Fu Yuewei die easily. Fu Yuewei was tortured and fell to the ground like a dead corpse, her back skin was open, and her injuries were no lighter than Lou Yunxiao's.
At this time, Mu Lingci put all the evidence found in front of Lou Qihuai.
"It's really her!" Lou Qihuai sat paralyzed on the ground, it turned out that the woman he had loved for many years was such a femme fatale woman behind his back.
"As for Lou Qiren, I also asked Dr. Lou to hand him over to a certain person, today's Xuanjia Army's invasion of Loufu must have been known to everyone, and Loufu must hand over a scapegoat to protect Loufu's reputation." Mu Lingci said unhurriedly, "Even if the Fu family does a lot of evil, there is a loyal general behind her who is about to return to the capital in the near future, if she dies in the Lou Mansion, I am afraid that it will not be beneficial to the Lou Mansion." β
"What does General Mu mean?"
"How to choose is Dr. Lou's business, the night is already dark, and I will leave first." Mu Lingci said that, and left with the Xuanjia Army and Lou Qiren, who was tied up with five flowers.
On the second day, Mu Lingci handed him over to Dali Temple on the charge of Lou Qiren's murder of his wife, nominally to let Dali Temple deal with it, but in fact, Mu Lingci changed to a regular place to end him.
In the next half month, Fu Yuewei was placed in the small courtyard on the east side that she had prepared for Lou Yunxiao, and no one was allowed to visit. Lou Qihuai signed a death contract for all his subordinates to prevent the affairs of the inner house from leaking out. And Lou Xuanqi also moved out of the Loufu with the half-dead Liu, and he was also polarized by public opinion because of this incident, some people said that he was pure and filial, and some people said that he was as kind and ruthless as his father.
Mu Ling came to deliver fresh ointment to Lou Yunxiao every day, but he just left at the door in a hurry. After recuperation, her injuries were almost healed, but there were still terrible and ugly scars on her back.
On this day, Lou Yunxiao was barebacked, with her back to the bronze mirror placed on the dressing table, and the other copper mirror was pointed at the one on the dressing table, and the scars on her back were like centipedes, even Lou Yunxiao, who has been a doctor for many years, felt extremely ugly.
"Three ladies, don't look at it." As he spoke, he snatched the bronze mirror from Lou Yunxiao's hand, and then put on her dress.
The woman's appearance is very important, and Wuwu feels that Lou Yunxiao must be sad about the scars on her back, but she doesn't know what medicine Lou Yunxiao thinks about to remove the scars.
Lou Yunxiao saw Worry-free's worry, grabbed her hand, looked up and said to her with a smile, "Worry-free, help me make up, I'm going to a place." β
In the past half a month, although she can only lie on the bed to recuperate, she has been thinking about some things in her mind. The real Lou Yunxiao has died a long time ago, but who killed her, if it was really Fu Yuewei's doing, she must pay for her blood debt.