The Legend of the Farm Girl

Li Muwen led his officers to the gate of the courtyard, but he did not go out, but closed the gate with force.

Under the surprised eyes of the Xu couple, Li Muwen and the officers quietly walked to the wall of the west wing.

The Xu family couple, who understood what was going on, showed great surprise on their faces. They walked to the door of the west wing in unison, knocked on the door, and said, "Son-in-law, the master has left. If you have anything to say, please talk to us nicely. We will satisfy any request you make. Can you please let Baoer out first and don't hurt her?"

A man's low roar came from the west wing: "I don't want anything. I have nothing now. What else can I want? I just want Xu Baoer's life!"

Then there was a loud noise in the room, and the man said angrily: "Bitch, you dare to bite me?"

Li Muwen knew that Xu Baoer must have bitten Yang Di in order to seek an opportunity to escape. This was also the best time for them to rush in.

Li Muwen gave a look to his officers, and they immediately rushed to the door and pulled it down together.

The officers did not choose to push the door in because they inferred that Yang Di must have blocked the door with something. If they pushed, it would not be possible to push it in one go, and it would also make him more alert. If they were to be cruel, they might hurt Xu Baoer.

Sure enough, after removing the door, he saw a solid table blocking the door. Xu Baoer used her petite body to lie under the bed.

Yang Di was moving the bed. Seeing the officers coming in, he knew that he could not kill Xu Baoer. He could only say to Xu Baoer fiercely: "Xu Baoer, you can escape for a while, but you can't escape forever. If you kill my whole family, I will report it to the prefect and let him make the decision for me."

Then Yang Di took the initiative to walk up to the officers and surrendered. He was tied up and taken back to the prefectural government office.

Li Muwen asked Xu Baoer's parents to bring Xu Baoer back with them to the Zhizhou government office, as he had something to ask them.

Many people wanted to watch the fun, so they followed a few officers and Li Muwen to the prefectural government office and gathered outside the office.

Li Muwen was also full of doubts. Why did Yang Di say that Xu Baoer was the murderer of his family? He also wanted to know why Yang Di pretended to be murdered and disappeared before?

Without any hesitation, Li Muwen took Yang to the lobby and began to interrogate him.

Li Muwen asked straight to the point: "You are Yang Di, the son of Old Man Yang."

When Li Muwen mentioned his father's name, Yang Di choked up and replied, "Yes, I am Old Man Yang's youngest son, Brother Yang."

Li Muwen asked sternly, "Do you know that yesterday morning your parents came together to sue Xu Baoer for murdering you, and after pushing you down the hillside, they disappeared."

Yang nodded, "I know."

"Then did you know that Old Man Yang and his family were strangled to death with a rope yesterday? And they were all strangled to death after being poisoned and had no ability to resist." Li Muwen asked again in a harsh voice.

Yang Di seemed to recall some scene, with a look of despair and sadness on his face, crying, "I know, I saw their bodies."

The hall was filled with people watching the fun, and they were shocked when they heard the conversation between Li Muwen and Yang Di.

Li Muwen banged the gavel three times before the noise outside the hall quieted down.

Li Muwen asked loudly: "Then why did you pretend to be missing? Did the death of Old Man Yang and his family have anything to do with you? Why did you go to Xu Baoer's house to commit the crime?"

Yang Di raised his head suddenly, and with a pair of poisonous eyes, he looked at Xu Baoer standing beside him and said, "My parents' deaths must have been caused by Xu Baoer. She wanted to frame me. Otherwise, how could our family be killed without any grudges? It must have been her, it must have been her, my Lord."

Xu Baoer immediately scolded him, "Don't talk nonsense. I only found out about the deaths of my parents-in-law, brother and sister-in-law, and nephew when you came to my house and made up stories to pin the blame on me. I haven't left the house since I returned home from the government office yesterday. My neighbors can all testify to this."

Listening to the conversation between Yang Di and Xu Baoer, the voices outside that had calmed down became noisy again.

When Xu Baoer said this, Li Muwen kept staring at her. He wanted to use the method that Yunfang taught him this morning about identifying people's emotions through facial expressions to determine whether Xu Baoer was lying, but this seemed a little difficult.

But Li Muwen intuitively felt that Xu Baoer seemed to be blinking more frequently.

But this alone is not enough to prove that Xu Baoer is lying. We still need to continue questioning Yang Di to find more evidence.

Li Muwen slammed the gavel again and asked Yang Di loudly, "Just tell me what I asked you to answer."

Yang Di said without any hesitation: "Sir, I will answer your first question first, and also explain to you why our family members were poisoned and then strangled to death!"

Yang Di began to tell the story.

"When I was fourteen, my brother was twenty, and he married my seventeen-year-old sister-in-law from the next village. My sister-in-law was good in every way, gentle and virtuous, and thrifty. But my brother always disliked her because she was not so outstanding. But in my eyes, she was the most beautiful woman in the world."

"My brother treated my sister-in-law very badly, especially after she gave birth to my nephew. He beat and scolded her. My parents often turned a blind eye to my sister-in-law's grievances, but I was willing to listen to her grievances and sadness. Gradually, the relationship between me and my sister-in-law became better and better."

"A few years later, I didn't know what my brother was thinking, but he insisted that I marry Xu Baoer, and he even persuaded my parents. Later, after Xu Baoer and I got married, I realized from his various behaviors that he was attracted by Xu Baoer's beauty and wanted to make her his sister-in-law so that he could take advantage of her."

When Xu Gui and his wife heard this, their faces turned blue with anger. They only had Xu Baoer as their daughter and treated her like a treasure. When choosing a husband for Xu Baoer, they did not ask for great wealth and honor, but only for Xu Baoer to live a safe and smooth life. So he saw that the two brothers of the Yang family had a good relationship and Yang Tian was actively looking for a wife for Yang Di, and thought it would be good to marry Xu Baoer to such a family with friendly brothers and sisters, so he agreed to marry Xu Baoer to Yang Di. Unexpectedly, Yang Tian actually had such a dirty mind.

Brother Yang ignored the Xu family's thoughts and continued talking on his own.

"After marrying Xu Baoer, I found out more and more that women like Xu Baoer are just beautiful and have no inner qualities. After I married her, my brother tried his best to please her, and she gladly accepted it. My brother saw her smiling like a flower every day, and he treated my sister-in-law even worse, beating her up every day. I couldn't bear her to suffer this every day, and she couldn't stand this kind of life either, so we made the next plan."