Favoring the concubine and killing the wife? She divorced the concubine and lived with her concubine

Among the onlookers...

"Did you hear that? He only said that he confiscated the gold, but he didn't deny that it was that Yu who asked him to make the medicine!" Fang Qingqing said.

"Yes, he also said that he was the first one to run out, so he was there!" Jasmine also followed up with a sentence!

"Wang Zhiquan confessed!" Fang Qingqing pretended to be surprised.

"What do you mean?" a curious person came over and asked.

"When you're in a hurry, you only make excuses for things you didn't do, and ignore the things you did do!" Jasmine explained.

"You're awesome!" Fang Qingqing agreed.

"I often read books, and what the books say..." Jasmine smiled secretly.

"What book..."

"Come to my place later and I'll show you."

"Can you lend it to me?" Everyone was curious.

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"Cuizhu, what you said is inconsistent with what Wang Zhi said! How did you know whether to accept the gold or not?" Su Ze pointed out the doubts.

"I heard what Mama Yu said. If it is not true, then Mama Yu must have deceived me!" Cuizhu responded calmly.

The saying "no evidence after death" is used to the extreme here!

"Then who will leave the house first, you or Wang Zhi?"

"When I saw Mama Yu coming in, she started to insult Madam and even forced her to take poison. I had never seen anything like it before and was terrified. I hurriedly ran out and hid at the door. Perhaps I didn't notice Wang Zhi following me out!"

"Why don't you run away and call for help?"

"I rely on my mother at home and dare not run away!"

"Then why are you suing now?"

"Since that day, I haven't been able to sleep day or night, and I've been plagued by nightmares. I'm in excruciating pain! After Madam woke up, she didn't vent her anger on me. She even thanked me for not telling anyone that she had vomited the medicine! I feel guilty..."

"Madam Sun, of everything Cuizhu said, except for the fact that Old Madam Sun ordered it, which you cannot talk about, are all the others true?" Su Ze finally had to look at Xiao Lan again. The resentment in Xiao Lan's eyes had disappeared, and what was left was sadness and misery, but it didn't seem real.

"I don't know whether Mrs. Yu gave Doctor Wang gold, and the rest..." Xiao Lan looked at Mother Xu with inquiring eyes. In the eyes of everyone, this poor lady relied on the spiritual support from the accompanying old woman to be able to still sit here and review the terrible scene.

Mother Xu nodded to her, her eyes full of heartache. Her voice was trembling but firm, "Madam, you can talk about this. We won't talk about Madam Sun, but you can talk about the old woman and the murderer Wang Zhi!"

"...Wang Zhi said, 'A doctor's heart is like a parent' and walked out! He was definitely not there when Mother Yu fed me the poison." Xiao Lan seemed to have mustered up a lot of courage. "Everything else he said is true! If Cuizhu hadn't spared my life, I'd be dead by now!"

"What a great saying: A doctor is like a parent!" Su Ze's voice was low, as if he was suppressing his anger.

The crowd was talking about it again. This time, Su Ze slammed the gavel even harder! Master Cui glanced at Su Ze and thought that he should prepare a few more of these gavels!

"Sir! These are the pills I left behind that day. You can compare them with Wang Zhi's!" Cuizhu said, taking out a piece of oil paper from her arms, with a few pills wrapped inside.

Xiao Lan looked at the pill, which had melted slightly from being held in her arms. She had found it after searching the house for it after waking up.

Wang Zhi had come to his senses by now, realizing that Cuizhu's lies were all meant to set him up. Now he could only ask for a chance to avoid death! After all, he hadn't stuffed the medicine into Madam Sun's mouth, and he was actually the first to leave!

"Sir! Sir! I confess! I confess everything!" Wang Zhi rushed forward, but was pulled back by the bailiff. He knelt obediently in the hall, wiping away his snot and tears with his sleeves.

He now understood that Cuizhu's presence here to help Madam Sun file a complaint only meant she had completely turned against him. Madam Sun had accepted her as her own, otherwise she wouldn't have let her clear her name in front of her! He had met Cuizhu several times, and she had always been so arrogant, as if she was about to become a mistress. It seemed that now that Mother Yu and Butler Wang were dead, Cuizhu could no longer survive with Master Sun, and had no choice but to seek refuge with the real mistress of the house!

"Say!"

"Mother Yu asked me to buy rat poison, so I gave her this pill. I didn't expect its effect..."

"Give me twenty lashes before you answer!" Su Ze said as he was about to take out the stick. Wang Zhi was so scared that his eyes rolled around and he couldn't say anything else.

"I was wrong, I was wrong, sir! I said, I said..."

This time, Wang Zhi didn't even dare to raise his head and finally told the truth.

"Butler Wang is my cousin. He arranged for me to work as a consultant at the Hundred Diseases and Elimination Medicine Shop, and he also gave me the job of family doctor for the Sun family! I was fine when I first started, but then Mother Yu told me that Old Madam Sun looked down on the current Madam Sun and told me not to put expensive herbs in Madam Sun's medicine. I should just keep doing it!"

"As a doctor, how could you agree to such a ridiculous thing?" Su Ze's fingers turned cold with anger. He couldn't bear to think about how a woman would live after marrying into her husband's family and being schemed against by her mother-in-law.

"I……"

"Say!"

"Later... Madam Sun originally suffered from a heart disease, and was overly worried every day. She had a high fever for several days and was almost dying. But somehow she came back to life. Mother Yu said that the old lady was angry with the lady, and she wanted to teach her a lesson, so she forced me to make this medicine for her, but she really didn't feed it to her in front of me... Really, sir! I didn't see how they... how they tortured Madam Sun..." When Wang Zhi said this, he felt the gaze beside him. He glanced over and felt that it was Xiao Lan looking at him. He quickly lowered his head, and the sweat on his forehead flowed into his eyes, and he couldn't open his eyes.

"If everything you said is true, please sign and seal this confession!" Master Cui responded to Su Ze's order and went over with the red pen for the confession.

Wang Zhi stared at the confession for a long time, unable to put pen to paper. "Sir... how should we judge this..."

"If you admit your confession, please sign and seal it!" Master Cui pulled him, and finally Wang Zhi signed it.

"Now, it's clear that Yu and Wang Zhi poisoned you, but there's no evidence to prove that it was Old Madam Sun who ordered it! This maid just said that Sun Shaohua, the master of the Sun family, also knew that his mother wanted to murder you, but he kept it a secret. Is that true?" Su Ze looked at Xiao Lan, who had also stood up with the help of Mother Xu.

"Madam Sun is my mother-in-law after all. I dare not say anything more. My husband is now bedridden and his internal injuries are difficult to heal. Let me take good care of him during his final journey. Now that you have sought justice for me, it is enough!"

An autumn breeze blew through the courtyard, and the fallen leaves swirled in the yard, sweeping across Xiao Lan's clothes. Su Ze didn't know if it was an illusion, but he always felt that he could smell the unique incense scent on Xiao Lan's body.

He knew Xiao Lan's thanks weren't sincere. There was something inexplicable in her seemingly sorrowful eyes. Now that Sun Shaohua had done this, she was still willing to protect him. He didn't know if it was out of true love or just pressure from the world.

"If someone attempts to kill someone but the victim survives, the principal offender shall be hanged. An accomplice shall be caned 100 times and exiled 3,000 miles. Wang Zhi first used his medical practice to murder someone, and then created the poison. He is considered an accomplice and shall be punished for multiple crimes: 1500 canes and exiled 3,000 miles!"

"The maid Cuizhu is also guilty of accessory to the crime, but considering that you repented early, saved Madam Sun's life, and now interceded for the Lord, I will punish you with twenty strokes of the cane. Go back and reflect on your sins!"

The onlookers applauded, and some even shed tears...

"What kind of life is Madam Sun leading in the Sun family? Not only is the old lady dead, but Master Sun is also keeping the truth secret, and she doesn't even dare to say a word..."

"What can I do? A woman follows her husband wherever he goes. She has already married into the Sun family. This harmful mother-in-law is dead, and Master Sun is about to die from being beaten by robbers! She is so young and beautiful, but she is going to be a widow! How pitiful..."

"What's going to die?"

"Didn't Madam Sun say that? We'll serve him for the last time!"

"Injured so badly?"

"Who are these robbers? They can be killed with just one kick!"

"This maid is quite good-looking!"

"What's the point?"

"This shows that Madam Sun is a really good person. She even saved her daughter. If it were someone else, they would definitely kill her with the help of the robbers!"

"How are we going to live with this beautiful lady in this family..."

Fang Qingqing had already dodged backwards without her noticing. Jasmine followed her out of the crowd. Everyone else, still eager to see the beating, refused to leave and paid no attention to them.

Xiao Lan bowed to Su Ze again, her tone gentle, as if begging, "Master Su, I am deeply grateful for your impartial handling of the case, but this maid has done a great service in protecting me, and she is also injured. If she were to be beaten with the board, she might die! I beg you to show mercy and spare her punishment!"

This was the first time Su Ze heard Xiao Lan speak to him in this tone. The first time they met at the government office, Xiao Lan looked at him as if he were her enemy! The second time he saved her, she just said "I can't repay you". Now this tone made Su Ze lose his mind, and he agreed without a word!

Wang Zhi wasn't so happy. With a cloth tied around his mouth, he was beaten by several constables in turn. The constables were skilled in their use of force. They could keep someone alive with a hundred strokes of the cane, or kill them with twenty. Wang Zhi fell into the latter category. Xue Wu counted the strokes himself, and he was gone after fifteen...

That night, Su Ze took out the document that Master Cui had recorded today and carefully read it. After comparing several confessions...

"Is there anything missing?" Master Cui asked from the side.

"Don't you think Cuizhu is seducing Wang Zhi everywhere and deliberately forcing him to make mistakes in his words?" Su Ze looked at the signed confession.

"These are pretty much the facts anyway." Master Cui didn't care.

"Has anyone brought Wang Zhi to trial recently?"

When Wang Zhi was pulled out, he looked like he hadn't slept for many nights, and he was tired and dazed. Otherwise, he wouldn't have missed it right after the questioning.

"I heard that Captain Xue visits him from time to time and tells him some news about the Sun family." Master Cui poured a cup of tea for Su Ze.

Su Ze sneered and shook his head. Xiao Lan's mind was really... pretending to be weak and weak to attract sympathy, but she actually deceived many people! Today, she was using his government office as a chessboard and playing a good game...

He took the teacup, but before he could even bring it to his lips, he paused, his brows furrowed, and his eyes gradually darkened. He thought of what Xiao Lan had said in public today...

"Let me take good care of him on his last journey."