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Chapter 71 Private Transfer [Monthly Ticket Plus]

Mr. Zhang never expected that Lu Qing would respond with such a sentence, and was speechless for a moment.

Zhu Yu was behind Lu Qing, with her eyelids drooping and her head slightly lowered to avoid being seen by others trying to hold back her laughter.

"My Lords, while my daughter's secret meeting with a man is inappropriate, it is by no means as immoral as you all claim! It was the man who promised to marry my daughter, and she was deceived!"

Zhuang Zhi's face was filled with grief and indignation, and he took the opportunity to explain, "My daughter's personal maid said that the man once told my daughter that he came from an extraordinary family and that his family wanted him to concentrate on preparing for the military examination. Everything else should wait until he wins the title.

Although my daughter is beautiful and her family is well-off, she is the daughter of a merchant after all. Before he has achieved success, she cannot reveal their affair under any circumstances.

He also repeatedly promised my daughter that as long as he passed the martial arts examination, he would immediately confess to his family and marry my daughter.

My silly daughter was fooled by him, so she couldn't resist him and he got what he wanted! "

As soon as Zhuang Zhiyi mentioned something like "extraordinary background" and "preparing for the military examination", other people's eyes couldn't help but secretly glance at Cao Tianbao.

Cao Tianbao's face had become as black as the bottom of a pot.

In what Zhuang Zhi said just now, he did not mention his nephew Cao Chenfeng at all, but it seemed as if every sentence involved him. Whether it was tall and mighty, or his extraordinary background, every one of them could be applied to Cao Chenfeng.

"What you've said only proves that there was indeed a man who had an affair with your daughter, but it doesn't prove that man was General Cao's nephew, Cao Chenfeng." After listening for a long time, Lu Zhang felt he had found the key. "Every time there are martial arts examinations, there are many men from good family backgrounds who come to Beijing to take the exam.

Those who can take part in the martial arts examination are all tall, strong and powerful. If we only rely on what you just said, doesn't it mean that every person who took part in the martial arts examination could be the murderer of your daughter?"

When Zhuang Zhi was asked this question, he did not rush to answer. Instead, he turned around and clapped his hands at the big men behind him.

Several big men rushed over to open the lid of the coffin that was carried in. The guards of the General's Mansion nearby held the hilts of their swords, fearing that those men would drag out something incredible from the coffin.

In full view of the crowd, a woman with disheveled hair was dragged out of the coffin. The woman must have been very frightened before, as the tear marks on her face had not yet dried, and her body was shaking like a leaf in the cold wind of late autumn.

Judging from the style of the dress she was wearing, she should be a little maid. It was not difficult to guess that she was originally from Zhuang Lanlan's side.

As expected, the strong men dragged the little maid out and threw her on the ground. Without waiting for her to kneel tremblingly, Zhuang Zhi said to Lu Zhang, "This noble man is absolutely right!

This maidservant used to serve my daughter. Her name is Xiao Taoer. She has always known about the private relationship between that man and my daughter, and she helped my confused daughter to conceal it.

After the incident, I wanted to beat her to death or sell her to a trafficker as punishment, but my daughter's death was unclear, and Xiao Tao'er was the only one who had seen that man, so I could only swallow my anger and keep her at home. "After saying this, he pulled out a piece of paper from his arms and carefully unfolded it, revealing a portrait sketched in simple brushstrokes.

The artistry of this portrait cannot be said to be good. It looks like the work of a poor scholar who sells his writings and paintings for others in the street.

However, although the brushstrokes are not detailed, they are enough to outline a person's main features in just a few strokes.

Zhu Yu judged from the sudden change in the expressions of the people around him when the portrait was opened that the man in the painting should be at least 60% similar to Cao Tianbao's nephew Cao Chenfeng.

"I hired an artist from outside to paint this portrait based on what Xiao Taoer had described!" Zhuang Zhi stretched out his arm and held the portrait high. "I even took this portrait to ask the boatmen along the river. One boatman recognized the man in the portrait and said that this young man often hired him to row across the river at night. After so many times, he recognized him!"

I didn't recognize who this person was at first, but fortunately Xiao Taoer said that this person had a dispute with my daughter before, and my daughter got angry and scratched his cheek. So I asked the painter to draw a few more pictures like this and distributed them to the servants in the winery, asking them to go out and ask around.

It didn't take long for my people to come back and tell me that someone recognized the person in the portrait as Cao Chenfeng, the nephew of Cao Tianbao, the general who supported the country at that time.

At first I couldn't believe it. General Cao's reputation was so well-known that even a small businessman like me was familiar with it. I didn't want to believe that there would be such a murderer among the Cao family's children, so I could only take the portrait and secretly go to take a look. As a result, I saw that he was exactly the same as in the portrait.

When I saw him, the scar on his cheek had not yet faded and the blood scab had not yet faded, and I was even more certain that he was the one who killed my daughter. "

Zhuang Zhi was overcome with grief and started crying again as he spoke: "I went over to confront him, and he wanted to hide out of guilt, but I grabbed him and pushed him hard. I fell to the ground and couldn't get up. I lay in bed at home for two days, and only today did I manage to get up.

I didn't know in advance that today was General Cao's birthday. It's just that my daughter has been dead for a few days. When the government learned that I wanted to sue General Cao's nephew, they evaded the issue and refused to pay any attention.

I had no way to appeal, so I had to come to General Cao to seek an explanation.

I came here with the determination to die, so I prepared a thin coffin for myself. I didn't mean to bring bad luck to General Cao on my birthday!

If the general is willing to handle this matter impartially and give my daughter an explanation for her unjust death, even if he gets so angry that he wants to beat me to death, I will have no complaints!

When Cao Tianbao saw the portrait in Zhuang Zhi's hand, he was stunned at first, and then his expression became increasingly ugly.

The person in the portrait looked very much like his most favored nephew, which made him feel not only angry but also uneasy.

But if Zhuang Zhi had not been asked to speak just now and he had not taken out the portrait, this matter would have been easy to deal with. Now that it has come to this, we can only ask thoroughly and make it clear. Otherwise, people's words are scary. Everyone present today will definitely be gossiping. If the news gets out without clear information, the reputation of the Cao family will be lost.

(End of this chapter)