Chapter 093: The Old Man Said
It's just that, how is Lord Liu going to solve it?
After Tao Yaoyao and Xiao Shuo glanced at each other, they decided to go over there first to take a look, and then act at the opportunity.
At this time, Zhang actually led people to the western suburbs, Lord Liu sat under a big tree, his legs were crossed, his eyes were closed, he looked up after hearing the movement, and when he saw the person, his brows were slightly furrowed.
"Master Zhang, didn't this official tell you very clearly before? If Mrs. Zhou doesn't come, you don't have to come. ”
Zhou Ping was tied to a tree, because he had been hung up for too long, and at this time, the whole person was sweating, pale, panting, and the whole person looked very bad.
I didn't even have the strength to call for help when I saw him coming.
Zhang turned over and dismounted, "Lord Zhou is about to hold on, you better put him down first, if there is anything, let's talk slowly." ”
"It's better if he dies, and if he dies, he can atone for my wife's guilt." Lord Liu said indifferently.
Zhang Jing frowned, "But what if Mrs. Liu didn't die?" ”
Lord Liu was surprised at first, and when he thought of something, he immediately retorted, "Impossible, my wife died in my arms, and there will be absolutely nothing wrong with this matter." ”
After speaking, he looked at Zhang Jing suspiciously, "Master Zhang, you probably want to save Zhou Ping, so you deliberately came to deceive the official." After speaking, his face suddenly changed, "Zhang Jing, the old man thought that you were a clear stream in the court, but I didn't expect you to be the same as everyone else."
What's the matter, seeing that the Zhou family is helping you, you want to protect him? It's a pity that if you don't bring Mrs. Zhou over today, Zhou Ping will die. ”
Lord Liu was angry, got up and began to pull the rope on the tree, this rope controlled the tightness of the rope on the body of Zhou Ping, Lord Liu kept pulling this rope, and it wouldn't be long before Lord Zhou would be strangled to death.
Seeing this, Zhang Jing hurriedly stepped forward to stop him, and at this time, he went to bring Mrs. Zhou's official back, and Mrs. Zhou saw this scene as soon as she came over, so she hurriedly ran forward and shouted loudly, "Lord Liu, what are you doing?" Murder pays for life. ”
"Hmph, you two killed my wife, I'm just a tooth for a tooth."
The more Lord Liu spoke, the more angry he became, and the force in his hand became more and more forceful, at this time, a silver light flashed, and then the rope was cut off by a dagger, and Lord Zhou's body landed quickly after being free, and then fell to the ground with a bang.
Seeing this, Mrs. Zhou hurriedly ran forward, "Master......"
"Who?" Lord Liu looked around dissatisfiedly, and a person walked out to his left and right, and after he saw the person's appearance clearly, his expression tightened, "King Dingbei, this official is helping you, aren't you also suspicious of the Zhou family." ”
"This king is suspicious of the Zhou family, but what this king wants is for them to make the truth public, not to die here so quietly."
Xie Lan stepped forward and looked at Lord Liu with dark displeasure, "It's you, you know more than this king imagined." ”
After hearing that something was wrong, Lord Liu hurriedly explained, "This official and the Zhou family have a personal vendetta, and they have been staring at their family all these years, and the official naturally knows what their family is doing. After a pause, he added, "If the prince wants to know something, the lower officials also know everything......
"No need, this king is you, and you will put all your energy into your own family's affairs."
Lord Liu wondered what King Dingbei meant by this sentence.
What's wrong with their family. His wife was killed by the Zhou family, shouldn't he seek revenge on him?
"Lord Wang, it's obvious that the Zhou family deceived people too much, twenty years ago, they caused the official to lose his closest person, and now they have killed the official's wife, and the official and they don't share the same hatred."
"Lord Liu, you are wrong, Mrs. Liu is not dead, so naturally there is no place for being killed."
Tao Yaoyao and Xiao Shuo came over in a carriage, Xiao Shuo got off the carriage first, Tao Yaoyao followed, when she saw Xie Lan, she was stunned for a moment, and then followed Xiao Shuo to Lord Liu's side.
"Impossible." Lord Liu still said the same thing, Mrs. Liu was in his arms, and this matter must be true.
"Lord Liu, do you remember the palace maid who took fake death medicine at Wang Mei's birthday banquet?" Tao Yaoyao reminded Lord Liu.
Lord Liu said in disbelief, "You mean to say that my wife also took fake death medicine?" After speaking, he subconsciously denied, "Impossible, my wife has no reason to do this." ”
"The official is also very curious about why Mrs. Liu did this, so when the official came over just now, he told the Liu family that you had killed Mrs. Zhou."
Lord Liu didn't understand the meaning of Xiao Shuo's words for a while, Zhou Ping understood, and helped Mrs. Zhou to step forward, "This official will cooperate with Dali Temple to handle the case." ”
Then he made eye contact with Mrs. Zhou, and soon Mrs. Zhou was carried back to Kyoto City.
The people of the Liu family have been staring at the city gate, and after making sure that Mrs. Zhou is dead and has been carried back, they immediately go back to restore their lives.
Xie Lan took Lord Liu to hide in the dark and watch this scene, even now, Lord Liu still couldn't believe that the people of the Liu family, including Mrs. Liu, were calculating him.
"Let's go, let's go to Liu's house and have a look."
Lord Liu was a little scared and refused to move forward, Xie Lan saw this and took the first step.
"It can't be fake, it can't be fake, it's not that if you don't face it, the truth doesn't exist."
In the end, Liu Dare still returned to Liu's house, he and Xie Lan hid in the shadows, and saw Mrs. Liu open her eyes and whisper something to her subordinates.
"Mrs. Zhou is really dead, Madam, I saw it with my own eyes, and Lord Zhou followed aside, looking sad."
"The slave didn't see the master, probably because the master was worried about the Zhou family's revenge, so he hid for the time being. Ma'am, what are we going to do next? ”
Lord Liu looked at this woman who had shared the bed with her for many years, and just now he wanted to give up his life to avenge her, and said heartlessly, "Mrs. Ben will lie down for two more days, and when the Zhou family doesn't come to find trouble, you will send Mrs. Ben away and find a similar woman to bury." ”
The servant nodded and left. After the room was quiet, Lord Liu couldn't take it anymore and walked out.
He stood in front of the coffin, unable to accept it, "Why?" ”
Mrs. Liu in the coffin panicked the moment she heard Lord Liu's voice, but quickly kept calm, she was now a dead person, and whatever he said had nothing to do with her.
But she soon realized that something was wrong, because she had an extra dagger around her neck.
The piercing pain forced her to open her eyes, and after she saw the situation in front of her clearly, she sat up in fright, "Master, what are you doing here?" ”
"Madame, aren't you dead? Why did I open my eyes again and do it. Lord Liu asked knowingly, "Could it be a deception?" ”
Mrs. Liu didn't know how to explain for a while, and after hesitating, she pretended to be helpless and said, "Master, you listen to what the concubine said, but in fact, the concubine can't help it."
The concubine knew that the master wanted revenge, but she was reluctant to take revenge, so the concubine thought of such a way.
It turns out that the concubine did it right, you see that the master avenged his mother-in-law and the public so quickly, they are in the sky, and now they can finally close their eyes. ”
Mrs. Liu looked like she was all for Lord Liu's good, if it was in the past, Lord Liu might have believed it, but today, just now, he heard his calculations with his own ears, if he still believes in him now, then she is a fool.
"Even now, you still won't tell the truth?" Lord Liu exerted a slight force, and Mrs. Liu's neck was soon dripping with blood.
Mrs. Liu frowned in pain, wanting to dodge, Lord Liu pressed step by step, and in desperation, Mrs. Liu began to be displeased, "Master, what do you want to do?"
I'm doing this for you, if you don't appreciate it, don't you want to kill me? Since this is the case, then you can kill me, so that I can save myself from worrying about the Liu family.
Haven't I been worrying about this family all these years? I didn't expect that in the end, I would rather die than fulfill you, but you still came to doubt me......"
"That's enough." Lord Liu lost his patience, "Do you really think this official is a fool?" ”
Mrs. Liu was stunned. A peasant boy can get to the present step by step through reading, how can he have today's achievements if he is not a little smart.
Mrs. Liu has been saying everything in the mansion all these years, and Lord Liu is also obedient, so she is used to saying whatever she says, so much so that she forgets that the person in front of her is still the same as twenty years ago.
It was only after his reminder that she began to be afraid. "Master, even if you kill me today, I will still say those few words, I really didn't harm you, I did this for the Liu family. ”
"In that case, then you should go to jail for the old man." Lord Liu didn't bother to talk to him more, and he didn't want to listen to these lies, so he called in the guards.
The guards were shocked when they saw that Mrs. Liu was still alive, and when they knew that she was fake death, they took the person away according to the master's wishes.
Mrs. Liu was a little panicked when she saw him move seriously this time, "Master, what are you doing here?" This is a matter between our husband and wife, what are you going to do with them taking me to prison? ”
"Naturally, I killed Mrs. Zhou because of you, and you also know Lord Zhou's temperament, Mrs. Zhou is dead, if you also die, then it is naturally the old man who will be in prison.
But now that you are not dead, it is naturally you who will go to prison, after all, if it weren't for you, the old man would not have killed Mrs. Zhou. ”
Mrs. Liu was directly stunned, and when she came back to her senses, she was even more angry.
"Mrs. Zhou is dead, isn't there no dead person in my Liu family?" Mrs. Liu was dissatisfied, "Ruhua is dead, the old man knows, Ruhua was killed by the people of the Zhou family." ”
"Impossible." Lord Liu said, "The government's conclusion is that Ruhua was poisoned, and this evidence points to the third prince. ”
"No, Ruhua was killed by the people of the Zhou family, have you ever seen Ruhua's corpse, she is full of scars, and she was beaten by the Zhou family.
Master, even if Ruhua was not born by us, but she was also raised by us, do you really not care about her life and death at all? ”
Lord Liu really doesn't care, from the beginning he brought Liu Ruhua back, he was for today, since this is the case, how can he be sad for a person who will die sooner or later.
It's just that he was a little curious, "You usually don't care about the children you have born, why do you suddenly care so much about Ruhua today?" ”
Lord Liu remembered that she didn't have much to do with Liu Ruhua before, and she didn't help the children in the family when they bullied her.
Could it be because Liu Ruhua died too miserably, so she sympathized?
Lord Liu felt that something was wrong, but he didn't think about it carefully, "Okay, you go to the prison and think about it, when you want to tell the truth, and when you will tell the old man." ”
When Mrs. Liu looked at him this time, a trace of disgust flashed in her eyes, although it was very short-lived, but Xie Lan still saw it.
After Mrs. Liu was taken away, he walked out from behind the screen, "How do you and your wife feel?" ”
Lord Liu almost opened his mouth to say that they had a very good relationship, but when he thought of today's calculations, he swallowed it again and replaced it with sourness.
"I'm not afraid of the prince's jokes, now the old man doesn't know if he knows this woman. In the past, she was virtuous, virtuous, hardworking and kind, and others said that she was blessed to marry me, but I felt that it was also my blessing that I could marry her.
To be honest, when Lord Zhou was rising higher and higher because of his father-in-law's relationship, but I could only stand still, I did have other ideas.
But after seeing her, I also broke these thoughts. After all, everyone has their own opportunities. And mine, God gave her to me, there must be a reason for him.
And she's been nice to me all these years, so be it.
But today's her is very strange to me, and I feel that after so many years, I don't seem to have known him. ”
After Xie Lan stared at him for a few moments, he reminded him, "Let someone check Liu Ruhua." After speaking, Xie Lan left the Liu family.
When he came to the gate of the Liu family, he met Xiao Shuo and Tao Yaoyao.
"Lord Wang." Xiao Shuo saluted, Tao Yaoyao followed, saluted, but didn't speak, Xie Lan saw this, glanced at her, and then asked, "Why are you here?" ”
"Back to the prince, today is the five-day period agreed between Lord Zhou and Dali Temple, and Xia Guan and Lord Zhang have found the Liu family, so they came to ask Lord Liu a few things."
Lord Liu stood aside, and when he heard the words, his heart chuckled.
Xie Lan glanced back at him, then staggered around and said, "Ask." ”
Lord Liu thought that Xie Lan would help him anyway, but when he heard this, his heart became more and more flustered, "It's better to go to the study and talk about it." ”
A few people came to the study, and the next person served tea and left. After there were only a few of them left in the room, Xiao Shuo was the first to speak.
"Lord Liu, Zhou Yu's death is your doing."
Lord Liu subconsciously shook his head, Xiao Shuo didn't wait for him to open his mouth to explain, took out a few pieces of paper and put them on the table, and after he saw the content clearly, the words came to his mouth and swallowed back.
"Lord Liu, Dali Temple and the Criminal Department have found out about your past with the Zhou family, and also found out the reason why you cultivated Liu Ruhua, if you confess honestly, this matter may not harm the Liu family, otherwise it will ......"
The old man said.