[1] After Breaking Off My Marriage, I Became A Powerful Minister's Treasure

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Chapter 21: Who did it

Shi Qingluo thought further than Mother Xiao.

She asked Xiao Hanzheng, "Did you have any enmity with that doctor or his family?"

Xiao Hanzheng shook his head. "No."

Shi Qingluo raised her hand and pointed in the direction of the old residence. "If that's the case, someone must have bribed him so that he would want to harm you. It could be someone from there."

Mother Xiao was stunned. "The Xiao family value money as much as their lives. Would they be willing to spend money to bribe the physician? And why would they want Zheng'er to die? We have already broken off our family ties."

It wasn't that she didn't believe her daughter-in-law's guess, but she was puzzled.

Xiao Hanzheng realised that his wife was too smart and sharp.

He explained to Mother Xiao, "They might be unwilling, but someone is. To that woman, as long as our family is alive, it is an annoyance to her. We have tarnished her relationship with that scum. She didn't want me, as her son on paper, to become an imperial scholar in the future. In this way, people who dig up the past will know her just as the wife of a general. We should let others know that an uncle and his niece are shamelessly committing adultery."

He did not expect that the woman would not let them go even though they had taken the initiative to break off their family ties.

Moreover, her plans were very well-hidden.

When he woke up in his previous life, he was the only one left in the family.

He remembered that he did not fall down the mountain by himself.

He also felt that something about his mother's and others' deaths were unnatural.

Therefore, he went to secretly investigate and found out about this.

On the surface, that woman looked like a delicate flower that needed a man to carefully protect, but behind the scenes, she was more ruthless than anyone else.

Xiao Hanzheng looked at his mother's pale face and felt a little sorry for her, but he still decided to expose it.

"When I was chopping wood on the mountain, I felt a pain in my calf, and then my leg went numb and became soft. I'm sure that someone hit my leg with a stone accurately, which was why I fell down the mountain."

He continued, "Erlang's drowning shouldn't be a pure accident too. Someone deliberately said that drinking fish soup could keep me alive, so he went to catch fish."

Even if Xiao Erlang's feet didn't cramp, after he went to fish a few more times, the people in the village would know and the woman would let Xiao Erlang drown in the river.

No one would be suspicious about it.

"The first and third lady of our old residence want our sister to be married to the Wu family just to be buried. They were probably involved too."

In his previous life, he had found out that it was that woman who had stayed behind to serve old madam.

She had gotten the news that the Wu family had given them a lot of money for the marriage and burial.

That was why she had instigated those two people to do it.

Mother Xiao's face turned pale again. "She has forced us into such a state, and she still won't let us go? Why is she so ruthless?"

She actually wanted both mother and son to be dead.

It was too terrifying.

Xiao Hanzheng said, "She could even use the child in her stomach to frame you. What's the big deal if she wants to harm us?"