Chapter 479: Deadly Handle

Zhou Shuyi's confession, transcribed by the Marquis of Yingchuan, was roughly recorded in the form of dialogue.

However, he probably wanted to streamline, so he omitted a lot of side dishes, so that from the confession, it seems that Zhou Shuyi actually answered all his questions and knew everything, which was called a obedient and honest, but he hid those reluctant, ambiguous and prevaricating, as well as many methods such as the abduction and deception of his wife by the second master Zeng during the questioning.

But Zhen Guogong and Tu Rong don't care about this. They just need to know the truth.

Yingchuan Hou was initially more concerned about Zhou Shuyi's calculation of his son, and several questions were asked around her plan to set up a plot to murder his son in the northwest, from the time she thought about it, the process of conspiring with the Sun family, the personnel dispatched, and the follow-up steps that had not yet been realized, all of which were asked in great detail. Zhou Shuyi also answered one by one, and from her answers, it can be clearly seen that the Sun family is trying to sow discord.

As for Zhou Shuyi Xiao's desire to become the Marquis of Yingchuan, it started not long after she married into the Zeng family. The reason why she gave birth to her eldest son back then was that she kept instigating the Marquis of Yingchuan and his wife to succeed her son, and also privately spread rumors outside, saying that Mrs. Marquis of Yingchuan could not have children, which was naturally not untargeted.

She drugged Mrs. Yingchuan Hou.

She instructed the dead men she had raised in private to do it. The medicine is also a prescription quietly given to her by Mrs. Ma, and it is said to be a secret recipe handed down by Mrs. Ma's biological mother. On this point, no one present asked much. The Duchess of Qinguo had no children, only two daughters, but after the defeat of the family background, the Duke of Qinguo gave birth to a concubine and inherited the title. How many selfish methods there are here, they are all ugly clans, so the ministers don't need to be curious.

Zhou Shuyi thought that she had done it unknowingly, and there was no good news for three years after Mrs. Yingchuan Hou passed the door, so she decided that her medicine had worked. Who would have thought that Mrs. Yingchuan Hou would suddenly decide to take a concubine for her husband in the third year? Although the Marquis of Yingchuan never took care of this concubine, no one dared to guarantee that he would never spend the night in the concubine's house. Zhou Shuyi was worried that the long house would give birth to a concubine, which would be recorded in the name of his wife, which would affect the succession of his son, so she sent the dead man to do it again, this time directly drugging the Marquis of Yingchuan, so as to completely cut off future troubles.

It's a pity that the dead man was rewarded for the success of the first operation, and after a few years of comfortable life, his skills were wasted a lot, and the second operation failed. Not only did he fail to drug Yingchuan Hou, but he was also found red-handed, seriously injured, and almost failed to escape. After finally escaping, it didn't take long for him to die.

And this dead man is Zhang Pinggui's father.

When Tu Rong read the confession and read it here, Zeng Qingxi also sighed and provided some circumstantial evidence: "Back then, the Hou Ye did find that someone had sneaked into his room to plot wrongdoing, but unfortunately he couldn't leave anyone behind. But we didn't guess that the man was sent by the second wife to give the medicine, and we thought that the Sun family sent it to make it bad. During that time, Hou Ye was having some quarrels with Sun Ge, and the trouble was not very pleasant. The Hou Ye sensed the holy will and knew that the emperor did not want disputes between the important ministers in front of the emperor, so he hid this matter. If we had known that it was the second wife who was making trouble, we wouldn't have had to go out of our way to clear the traces for the people who came! ”

Fortunately, due to the failure of the second drug, Yingchuan Hou invited the imperial doctor to check his wife's pulse and help her regulate her body, and she soon had good news. The second wife, Zhou Shuyi, failed in her conspiracy, and she couldn't send the dead to drug her anymore. When the prince of Yingchuan Hou grew up, she simply attacked her nephew directly, and no longer made up her mind from Yingchuan Hou and his wife.

Zhou Shuyi's drugging of the concubine and the eldest uncle, or the intention of murdering the prince of the Marquis of Yingchuan, was so that her son could be passed to the long house and become the heir of the Marquis of Yingchuan. Even if her husband has a son, he still only has a son and a daughter, once the son is passed out, his husband and wife will be extinct, she has never changed her mind, at most she just strives to let her son have two rooms. She is so obsessed with the position of the prince that even the Marquis of Yingchuan finds it difficult to understand, and when she is interrogated, she naturally will not forget to ask her this.

In the confession, Zhou Shuyi's hesitation and prevarication was skipped, and the reason she explained was directly recorded.

She admitted that before she got married, she was instructed by her mother, Mrs. Ma, that she knew that she would become the patriarch of the Zeng family in the Yingchuan Marquis Mansion no matter what, and strive to have the opportunity to enter the ancestral hall of the Zeng family and take away a hidden thing in the main room behind the ancestral hall. I don't know what it looks like, I don't know how big it is, but it must have been hidden and hasn't been found for decades. Madame Ma speculated that it was either paper or cloth, but in any case something that could be written, and that it was probably hidden in some corner or secret that no one would notice. If Zhou Shuyi wants to find this thing, it will definitely take a lot of time and energy. Considering that the ancestral hall of the Zeng family is not a place where anyone can enter, it is very important for her to become the mother of the clan wife or the heir.

It's a pity that after Zhou Shuyi entered Beijing, she lost the opportunity to marry the Marquis of Yingchuan, and after becoming his brother's daughter-in-law, she has not been able to promote her son's succession, so she has not been able to enter the hut behind the ancestral hall of the Zeng family. She had tried to set it on fire, trying to burn down the secret it had hidden along with it. It's a pity that the ancestral hall of the Zeng family is made of solid materials, the fire prevention is also very good, and there are people who guard and protect it day and night, and the fire was extinguished before it burned. She was afraid of attracting attention, so she didn't dare to set fire to it again, so she had to continue to promote her son's succession to the long house, and strive to wait until her son became the master of the Yingchuan Marquis Mansion, so that she could enter the back room of the ancestral hall to find something openly.

What is so important?

According to Zhou Shuyi's confession, Mrs. Ma claimed that the thing was quietly hidden when she was a girl, and she was quietly taken into the ancestral hall by her fiancé Pingxi Hou Shizi to tell her heartfelt feelings.

Zhou Shuyi didn't believe it, and she didn't want to take a big risk for this little thing, so Mrs. Ma had to admit frankly that she was coaxed by the negative man when she was young, and she was confused for a while, and when the negative man tried to sneak into the Pingxi Hou Mansion to steal military information, she covered up him. The prince of Pingxi Hou had a deep affection for her fiancée at that time, and secretly took her into his ancestral hall without telling her family, so that she could see the hidden escape tunnels in the ancestral hall. It was secretly dug by the ancestors of the great family in order to protect the family, and it can go straight out of the city. In the past generations of the Zeng family, only the head of the family and the heirs knew about the existence of this tunnel, and every year they had to take advantage of the time to worship their ancestors, quietly clean up and maintain the tunnel. The prince of Pingxi Hou took her in to confess her heartfelt feelings to her, but in order to help the negative man escape the arrest of the Pingxi Hou Mansion, she took outsiders into the ancestral hall of the Zeng family.

She even took the risk of stealing military information from her fiancé Pingxi Hou Shizi in order to let the negative man not take any more risks, and copied it down in her own hand, and wrote another letter explaining what happened, and even signed it. She sent the fateful letter to the guilty man, leaving a fatal handle in his hands. And when he fled the capital, he once again used this secret passage in the Pingxi Hou Mansion, and left the letter she had written to him in the ancestral hall.

Once discovered, she has no hope of turning over.

(End of chapter)