Chapter 486 Survival
Driven by Zhou Zerui's desire to survive, he said everything that followed in one breath.
Zhou Zerui said: "I just pinched my sister-in-law and didn't kill her." He didn't expect that my sister-in-law, a woman who she usually looks so weak, was so powerful.
He thought his sister-in-law had no protection from her brother, and maybe she would be reluctant to do so after being persuaded by him. If he didn't do it, he would be able to do it, and his sister-in-law would not dare to say anything due to her reputation.
A woman who has no family and her husband dies and still has to take care of her young daughter, her eyes firm and sharp, which makes him look a little scared.
When he pinched his sister-in-law's throat, she struggled desperately, and was kicked hard in the crotch, and he stopped in the pain.
Immediately afterwards, the eldest sister-in-law scolded him sternly: "Your brother is watching behind you, you beast."
Zhou Zerui said: "After my sister-in-law broke free, she lied to me and said that my brother was behind me. When I was so scared that I turned to look, my sister-in-law stood up and handed a dagger in her hand. In this case, why did I dare to step forward? So she ran out of the house in shame. I was afraid that my sister-in-law would tell me, so she told her sister-in-law that for Ajun's future reputation, it would be better for the sister-in-law to not have happened tonight."
After Zhou Zerui said this, he saw the Punishment Feng Tong walked up to him. Zhou Zerui struggled excitedly: "Sir, what I told the truth is that I didn't kill anyone."
Feng Anping said coldly: "Then why do you say that Xu Gui killed someone?"
Zhou Zerui said: "I ran out of my sister-in-law's house and found Xu Gui in the yard. Xu Gui was the yard of the Zhou family. I guess he heard the news and came over. I was afraid that Xu Gui would make a bad thing and wanted to intimidate him. Unexpectedly, Xu Gui took the initiative to say that he would never tell what he saw today, and was also worried about me. What if my sister-in-law spread the matter?
I was also panicked, but now that things have come to this point, there is no other way. Xu Gui said to help me go to my sister-in-law's yard to listen to the wind, and if there is any movement, report to me immediately."
Zhou Zerui took a few breaths, his lower body and knees were in a scorching pain, but he was now tied to the torture frame and could not move at all. The pain was like a small needle that kept piercing from the wound, penetrated into his heart, making him almost unable to bear it.
Zhou Zerui continued: "Before I got back to the house, Xu Gui caught up with me again. Xu Gui said that his sister-in-law had hanged herself."
"Xu Gui returned to his sister-in-law's yard and heard another movement in the room. He opened the window and looked inside, and saw his sister-in-law hanging on the beam of the house. At that time, his sister-in-law's body was still struggling, but he did not go into the house to rescue the person, but came to ask me if I wanted to save the person?"
Zhou Zerui hurriedly defended himself: "Xu Gui wasted so much time this time, and he had already died. Even if I went there, it would be useless. And how should I explain to others when I appeared in my sister-in-law's room? Thinking of this, I went to find my mother and asked her to come forward to deal with it.
So I said that the person who killed his sister-in-law was Xu Gui, and that was him. If he went in to save his sister-in-law, he would not die.
That’s all Mr. Feng, I said it all, these things really have nothing to do with me.”
Now that the yamen has written his confession, he will not be punished until he dies. Can Zhou Zesheng be allowed to revenge and kill him?
Zhou Zerui looked at Punishment Feng Tongrui expectantly, hoping that Punishment Feng Tongrui could believe what he said. From beginning to end, he was innocent and had no benefits, but ended up in such a situation.
Feng Anping said: "Besides pinching Mrs. Zhou, have you done anything to hurt Mrs. Zhou?"
Zhou Zerui recalled carefully: "I... I should have restrained my sister-in-law in the chaos, and there is nothing else. If my sister-in-law hadn't struggled too hard, I wouldn't have hurt her."
Feng Anping controlled himself and did not imprint the hot soldering iron on Zhou Zerui. No matter how he was a magistrate, he could not make mistakes in front of others.
"Is there anything else?"
"No...no."
"Has Mrs. Zhou suffered other injuries?"
"No, really not."
Feng Anping said: "Just just now, Mrs. Zhou was injured behind her head."
Zhou Zerui hurriedly defended: "That has nothing to do with me. When I ran out, my sister-in-law was still fine..."
Feng Anping finished asking, but he had to find out whether what Zhou Zerui said was true or not. He would ask the case from beginning to end again. Before that, in order to avoid Zhou Zerui playing tricks, he naturally had to use some means of asking the case.
Feng Anping nodded and ordered the prison guards: "Let Master Zhou San down and put him in a cell."
The jailer stepped forward to untied the rope that bound Zhou Zerui. Zhou Zerui seemed to have finally been reborn, but the jailer ignored him when he pulled him and touched his wound, which made him scream in pain.
After finally reaching the cell, Zhou Zerui was almost tortured and fainted. After the prison guard left, Zhou Zerui barely supported himself and wanted to move to the corner to take a breath.
"I heard you were bad to your sister-in-law?"
A voice came from the darkness, and Zhou Zerui shivered and looked over.
There are other prisoners in the cell.
Zhou Zerui had a bad premonition in his heart.
"The same is true for my sister. She got married shortly after she got married, and she stayed to take care of her mother-in-law. She didn't expect that she was targeted by the elders of the same clan. Afterwards, my sister jumped into the well."
Zhou Zerui's heart trembled.
"Do you know how I did it?" The man finally moved his foot to the lamp, "I ruined him, then killed him, cut off his flesh and fed it to the wild dog."
Zhou Zerui suddenly rushed to the door of the cell and shouted: "Come, let me go, let me go..."
Zhou Zerui felt his leg being grabbed and dragged backwards.
Zhou Zerui's screams were immediately recalled in the cell.
Gu Mingzhu stood in the corner and listened to the shouts. After a while, she looked at Zhou Zesheng and saluted her uncle solemnly: "Thank you, uncle."
"Thank you to me, you treat me as an outsider," Zhou Zesheng said. "I can't repay your father's kindness to me even if he saves his life." Because the eldest brother didn't save his life, he also taught him how to be a human being and deal with things. If he didn't have the eldest brother, he wouldn't know what kind of person he would become.
Gu Mingzhu nodded.
Zhou Zesheng said: "But I don't know if what he said is true or false?"
Gu Mingzhu had already thought of several details. She turned around and walked to a secluded place, let Chu Jiu guard the side, and then whispered to Zhou Zesheng: "Zhou Zerui said that he saw his mother pulling out a dagger and holding it in his hand, but just now, Lord Feng asked Tian's mother, and Tian's mother said that she found a dagger under the corner cabinet. If her mother hanged herself, she would put the dagger and fell into the corner, which was more like she suddenly took off her hand.
My mother didn’t wear her shoes and socks when she died. Even if she was about to die, she would at least have to make up her clothes.”
Also... Before Zhou Zerui said this, Wen Po asked Tian’s mother. When Tian’s mother changed her mother’s dress, she saw it specifically. Zhou Zerui should not succeed, which is exactly the same as what Zhou Zerui said. The mother had the courage to protect herself and would not die just because her mother could not feel at ease to leave her young family in the Zhou family. Gu Mingzhu thought from her mother’s perspective that her mother should want to take her back to the Wang family.
Gu Mingzhu said: "Maybe there were other people who attacked their mother that night. The man killed his mother by using Zhou Zerui's incident. It just so happened that the Zhou family could cover it up for him."
Zhou Zesheng frowned: "Is it really Xu Gui? Xu Gui has contacts with Cui Wei, and that is the rebels who are acting in secret?"
Gu Mingzhu said: "When my mother passed away, Cui Wei was still young and he was still in his ancestral home in Shanxi. So my mother's case has nothing to do with Cui Wei. As for whether Xu Gui harmed his mother, Xu Gui still had to speak up."
"I'll stare," Zhou Zesheng's eyes flashed with a ruthlessness, "Don't worry, I will definitely find out the truth."
Gu Mingzhu nodded.
Zhou Zesheng urged: "It's dawn, you go back quickly!"
"Okay," Gu Mingzhu nodded again.
Gu Mingzhu went to the house to simply tidy up her dress and was about to walk out of the house, but found that Chu Jiu outside the house was gone, and she changed to a tall woman wearing a dress and a Mili.
The woman's dress looks very similar to her body, all of which are green cloth, and they look simple and neat.
Gu Mingzhu subconsciously said: "Nineth Festival?"
The woman lifted up Mili and showed Chujiu's face.
"Miss," Chujiu whispered, "It's not conspicuous for us to walk like this, right? No one can recognize me as the Third Master's escort." The lady was in a bad mood all night, and he looked really anxious. Suddenly, she thought... The lady liked to let him wear women's clothes very much. Maybe wearing this way would make the lady happy?
Chapter completed!