But, how will Master Liu solve it?
After Tao Yaoyao and Xiao Shuo looked at each other, they decided to go over there and take a look first, and then act accordingly.
At this time, Zhang Jing led people to the western suburbs. Mr. Liu was sitting under a big tree, with his legs crossed and his eyes closed. He raised his head when he heard the noise, and frowned slightly when he saw the person coming.
"Master Zhang, didn't I tell you 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, he was sweating profusely, his face was pale, he was panting, and he looked very bad.
I didn't even have the strength to call for help when I saw him coming.
Zhang Jing turned over and dismounted, "Mr. Zhou can't hold on anymore, you'd better put him down first. If anything happens, let's talk slowly."
"It would be better if he died. If he dies, he can pay off my wife's guilt." Mr. Liu said nonchalantly.
Zhang Jing frowned, "But what if Mrs. Liu is not dead?"
Mr. Liu looked surprised at first. After thinking of something, he immediately retorted, "It's impossible. My wife died in my arms. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this."
After saying that, he looked at Zhang Jing suspiciously, "Master Zhang, you don't want to save Zhou Ping, so you deliberately deceive me." After saying that, his face suddenly changed, "Zhang Jing, I thought you were a court official. A breath of fresh air, I didn't expect that you, like everyone else, would also follow the trend.
Why, seeing that the Zhou family is helping you, do you want to protect him? It's a pity that if you don't bring Mrs. Zhou here today, Zhou Ping will die. "
In anger, Master Liu stood up and started to pull the rope on the tree. This rope controlled the tightness of the rope on Zhou Ping's body. Master Liu kept pulling on the rope. Soon, Master Zhou would be strangled to death.
Zhang Jing saw this and hurriedly stepped forward to stop him. At this time, the yamen who went to bring Mrs. Zhou back came back. Mrs. Zhou saw this scene as soon as she came over, so she hurried forward and shouted loudly, "Mr. Liu, what are you doing?" What? You have to pay with your life for killing someone."
"Hmph, you and your wife killed my wife, and I just retaliated with tooth for tooth."
Mr. Liu became angrier as he spoke, and the force on his hand became stronger. At this moment, a flash of silver light flashed, and then the rope was cut off by a dagger. Mr. Zhou's body fell quickly after being freed, and then fell to the ground with a bang.
Upon seeing this, Mrs. Zhou rushed forward and said, "Master..."
"Who?" Mr. Liu looked around dissatisfiedly. A man walked out to his left and right. When he saw the man's appearance clearly, his expression became tense. "King Dingbei, I am here to help." You, aren't you also doubting the Zhou family?"
"I am doubting the Zhou family, but what I want is for them to make the truth known to the public, instead of dying quietly here."
Xie Lan stepped forward and looked at Master Liu with a dark look of displeasure, "You, on the other hand, know more than I think."
After Master Liu heard something was wrong, he quickly explained, "I have a personal feud with the Zhou family. I have been keeping an eye on their family for these years. I naturally know what their family is doing." After a pause, he added, "If the prince wants to know What, even the lower official knows everything..."
"No need, I am the king, so I will focus all my energy on my own family's affairs."
Master Liu wondered what King Dingbei meant by this sentence.
What happened to their family? His wife was killed by the Zhou family, shouldn't he seek revenge from him?
"Your Majesty, it is obvious that the Zhou family has been bullying others too much. Twenty years ago, they caused me to lose the person I am closest to, and now they have killed my wife. I have sworn hatred with them."
"Master Liu, you are wrong. Mrs. Liu is not dead, so naturally there is no place for her to be killed."
Tao Yaoyao and Xiao Shuo came over in a carriage. Xiao Shuo got off the carriage first, followed closely by Tao Yaoyao. When she saw Xie Lan, she was stunned for a moment, and then followed Xiao Shuo to Master Liu.
"Impossible." Mr. Liu still said the same thing. Mrs. Liu died in his arms, so this must be true.
"Master Liu, do you still remember the palace maid who took the fake death medicine at the birthday banquet of Miss Wang?" Tao Yaoyao reminded Master Liu.
Master Liu said in disbelief, "You mean, my wife also took the drug to fake death?" After saying that, he subconsciously denied it, "Impossible, my wife has no reason to do this."
"I am also curious about why Mrs. Liu did this, so when I came over just now, I told the servants of the Liu family that you have killed Mrs. Zhou."
Master Liu didn't understand the meaning of Xiao Shuo's words for a while, but Zhou Ping understood and helped Mrs. Zhou step forward, "I will cooperate with Dali Temple in handling the case."
Then he winked with Mrs. Zhou, and soon Mrs. Zhou was carried back to Kyoto City.
The servants of the Liu family have been watching at the city gate, confirming that Mrs. Zhou is dead and being carried back, they immediately go back to recover.
Xie Lan and Master Liu hid in the dark and watched this scene. Even now, Master Liu still couldn't believe that the Liu family, including Mrs. Liu, was plotting against him.
"Let's go and have a look at Liu's house."
Master Liu was a little scared and was reluctant to move forward. Seeing this, Xie Lan took the first step.
"What is true cannot be false, and what is false cannot be true. It does not mean that the truth will not exist if you don't face it."
In the end, Liu Dare returned to the Liu family. He and Xie Lan hid in the dark and saw with their own eyes that Mrs. Liu opened her eyes and whispered something to the servant.
"Mrs. Zhou is really dead. Madam, I saw it with my own eyes. Master Zhou followed beside me, looking very sad."
"My servant didn't see the master. Probably the master was worried about the Zhou family's revenge, so he hid for the time being. Madam, what should we do next?"
Master Liu saw with his own eyes the woman who had been sleeping with her for many years, and who just now wanted to risk his life to avenge her, and he said heartlessly, "I will lie here for two more days, and wait until the Zhou family doesn't come looking for her." After the trouble, you will send this lady away and find a similar woman to bury her."
The servant nodded and left. After the room became quiet, Mr. Liu couldn't bear it anymore and walked out.
He stood in front of the coffin, unable to accept it, "Why?"
Mrs. Liu in the coffin panicked when she heard Mr. Liu's voice, but quickly kept calm. She was dead now, and nothing he said had anything to do with her.
But soon she realized something was wrong, because there was a dagger on her neck.
The biting pain forced her to open her eyes. After she saw the situation clearly, she sat up in fear, "Master, what are you doing?"
"Madam, aren't you dead? Why did you open your eyes again and start doing it?" Master Liu asked knowingly, "Is it a fake corpse?"
Mrs. Liu didn't know how to explain it for a while. After hesitation, she pretended to be helpless and said, "Master, listen to me, in fact, there is nothing I can do.
I knew that the master wanted to take revenge, but he couldn't let me go, so I thought of such a way.
Facts have proved that I did the right thing. You see, the master has avenged his mother-in-law and father-in-law so quickly. They are in heaven, and they can finally close their eyes now. "
Mrs. Liu acted like she was doing all the good for Mr. Liu. If it were in the past, Mr. Liu might have believed it, but today, just now, he heard his plan with his own ears. If he still believed him now, then She is a fool.
"Even now, you still refuse to tell the truth?" Master Liu exerted a slight force, and blood quickly flowed from Mrs. Liu's neck.
Mrs. Liu frowned in pain and tried to hide away, but Mr. Liu pressed forward step by step. In desperation, Mrs. Liu became displeased, "Master, what on earth do you want to do?
I've done this for you, even if you don't appreciate it, do you still want to kill me? If that's the case, then just kill me. This way, I won't have to worry about the Liu family.
Haven't I worried enough about this family these years? I didn’t expect that in the end I would rather die to fulfill your wish, but you still doubt me..."
"That's enough." Master Liu lost his patience, "Do you really think I am a fool?"
Mrs. Liu was stunned. A farm boy has been able to reach where he is now step by step through studying. How would he be able to achieve what he is today if he is not smart enough.
Mrs. Liu has been telling the truth in the house over the years, and Mr. Liu has obeyed, so she has become accustomed to whatever she says, so much so that she has forgotten that the person in front of her was the second best person twenty years ago.
Now after his reminder, she began to be afraid. "Master, even if you kill me today, I will still say the same thing. I really didn't harm you. I did it all for the Liu family."
"In that case, then go to jail for me." Mr. Liu was too lazy to talk to him anymore, let alone listen to these lies, so he called the guards.
The guard was shocked when he saw that Mrs. Liu was still alive. When he found out that she had faked her death, he was confused and took her away as the master wanted.
Seeing that he was serious this time, Mrs. Liu panicked, "Master, what are you doing? This is a matter between our husband and wife. Why did you ask them to take me to the prison?"
"Of course it's because I killed Mrs. Zhou because of you, and you also know Mr. Zhou's protective temperament. If Mrs. Zhou dies, and if you die too, then I will naturally be the one who goes to jail.
But now that you are not dead, you will naturally be the one to go to jail. After all, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't kill Mrs. Zhou. "
Mrs. Liu was immediately stunned. When she came to her senses, she was even more angry.
"Mrs. Zhou is dead, isn't there anyone in my Liu family who has died?" Mrs. Liu said dissatisfied, "Ruhua is dead. I know, Ruhua was killed by someone from the Zhou family."
"It's impossible." Mr. Liu said, "The government's conclusion is that Ruhua was poisoned to death, and these evidences point to the third prince."
"No, Ruhua was killed by people from the Zhou family. Have you seen Ruhua's body? There are scars all over her body. They were beaten by the Zhou family.
Master, even if Ruhua was not born by us, we raised her. Do you really not care about her life or death at all? "
Master Liu really didn't care. He had brought Liu Ruhua back from the beginning just for today. In this case, how could he feel sad for someone who was going to die sooner or later.
But he was a little curious, "You usually don't care about the children you give birth to, so why are you suddenly so concerned about Ruhua today?"
Master Liu remembered that she had nothing to do with Liu Ruhua before. In the past, when the children at home bullied her, she never helped her.
Could it be that Liu Ruhua died so tragically that she felt sympathy?
Master Liu felt something was wrong, but he didn't think about it carefully, "Okay, you go to the prison and think about it carefully, when do you want to tell the truth, and when do you tell me."
When Mrs. Liu looked at him this time, a flash of disgust flashed in her eyes. Although it was short-lived, Xie Lan still saw it.
After Mrs. Liu was taken away, he walked out from behind the screen and asked, "How is your relationship with your wife?"
Master Liu almost opened his mouth to say that their relationship was very good, but when he thought of today's plan, he swallowed the words again and was replaced by sourness.
"I'm not afraid of the prince's jokes. Now I don't even know if I know this woman. She used to be virtuous, virtuous, hardworking and kind. Others said that she was lucky to marry me, but I feel that I can marry her. , is also my blessing.
To be honest, I did have other ideas when Master Zhou was promoted steadily due to his relationship with my father-in-law, but I could only stay where I was.
But after seeing her, I stopped thinking about it. After all, everyone has their own opportunities. And mine, God must have had a reason for giving her to me.
And she has been nice to me over the years, so, so be it.
But she is so strange to me today. I feel like I have never known her after so many years. "
After Xie Lan stared at him for a few times, she reminded him, "Let someone check Liu Ruhua." After saying that, Xie Lan left the Liu family.
When he arrived at the gate of the Liu family, he met Xiao Shuo and Tao Yaoyao.
"Your Majesty." Xiao Shuo saluted, and Tao Yaoyao followed him, saluting but saying nothing. When Xie Lan saw this, he glanced at her, and then asked, "Why are you here?"
"Reporting to the prince, today is the five-day period agreed between Mr. Zhou and Dali Temple. Both Xianguan and Mr. Zhang found out about the Liu family, so they came to ask Mr. Liu a few questions."
Mr. Liu stood aside, and his heart skipped a beat when he heard this.
Xie Lan looked back at him, then turned away and said, "Ask."
Master Liu thought that Xie Lan would help him at least. Hearing this, he became more and more panicked, "Why don't we go to the study to talk."
Several people came to the study, and the servants served tea and left. After there were only a few of them left in the room, Xiao Shuo was the first to speak.
"Master Liu, Zhou Yu's death was probably your fault."
Lord Liu subconsciously shook his head. Xiao Shuo didn't wait for him to open his mouth to defend himself. He took out a few pieces of paper and put them on the table. After he saw the contents clearly, he swallowed the words.
"Master Liu, Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment have both found out about your past with the Zhou family, and also found out the reason why you cultivated Liu Ruhua. If you tell the truth, this matter may not affect the entire Liu family, otherwise..."
"I said."
