Chapter 147 Divorce Wife
Mr. Chen squatted down beside Mrs. Wang and reached out to check the carotid artery in her neck. It had indeed stopped beating.
He shook his head at Liu Yu and Wu behind him, stood up, took the handkerchief handed to him by Liu Yu, and wiped his hands carefully.
"Sister-in-law, I heard Yu'er tell me everything that happened in the kitchen. Did this old lady Wang say anything else before she died?"
"No." Wu shook her head and told the two why Wang Po suddenly died after Liu Yu left.
In fact, when it comes down to it, Mrs. Wu still doesn't know how Wang Po died. She saw that Wang Po's face became paler and paler after being beaten, and she was really afraid that she would get frozen outside, so she asked someone to bring a stove to Wang Po. As a result, before she had been warming herself for a while, she started twitching and then died.
This happened right under the nose of the eldest lady. Liu Yu didn't believe those people were so bold. It was just a possibility.
"Third Master, do you think someone might have given her something in advance?" Liu Yu asked, expressing his guess.
Only by putting things in place in advance could they avoid noticing. The person behind the scenes was really cruel. He had no intention of letting Wang Po live from the beginning.
Mr. Chen San gave Feng Xiao a look, and Feng Xiao immediately walked out.
Now that Mrs. Wang is dead and all clues are gone, can the second lady still be cleared of suspicion?
Thinking about what Princess Xinyi said in Chenxi Courtyard just now, Liu Yu looked at the Second Madam with a bit of sympathy for her.
Although Mr. Chen San didn't like his second sister-in-law, he was the same as Mrs. Wu. As long as he could protect his family, he would not let anything happen to her.
He walked up to Chang, who had been looking a little dazed since she heard about Wang Po's death.
"Second sister-in-law, can you tell me if there is anything unusual about this old lady Wang recently?"
After hearing what Mr. Chen San said, Chang came back to her senses. She thought about it and shook her head. She really didn't expect that there was anything abnormal about Mrs. Wang.
Things seemed to have reached a stalemate, and Mr. Chen San's brows furrowed even deeper.
Chang suddenly grabbed the sleeve of Master Chen Sanye as if she had grabbed a life-saving straw, and asked hopefully: "Third brother, save me."
Before Mr. Chen San could answer, at this moment, footsteps were heard outside, followed by the voice of Princess Xinyi:
"No one can save you. You dare to murder me. Even if I chop off your head ten times, it won't be enough to relieve my anger."
Master Chen San secretly said that he was in trouble.
When I looked at the direction of the voice, I saw Princess Xinyi walking in supported by a beautiful woman, who was actually Princess Duan.
Princess Duan cast a sharp look at Chang, as if she wanted to cut her into pieces. Behind her followed people from the Li, Zhang and Hai mansions, who were the people in the mansions of the three women who were poisoned.
This time, there is really no way this can be resolved peacefully.
Chang fell to the ground in horror.
"Lord Chen, I have heard that you are a fair and strict official. I also heard the prince praising you some time ago, saying that the royal family is going to make an important use of you. Please don't let me down!" Princess Duan threatened directly.
Mr. Chen San's face was expressionless. He asked, "Then according to the princess, how should Chang be dealt with?"
"This ignorant woman had the audacity to poison the royal family and court wives at a banquet. For such a person, simply executing her would be the least of her worries. If you can't do it, leave it to us." It was Princess Xinyi who took over.
Hearing this, Wu couldn't help but continue:
"Princess, there are still many doubts about the Chang family's matter..."
"You don't want to hand over the person?" Princess Xinyi directly said to Wu: "That's fine, I will let my father report it to the emperor's uncle, and you, the Chen family, will bear the consequences!"
"I agree." At this moment, Mr. Chen walked in from outside. He didn't even look at Chang and said, "I agree with the princess's proposal. I am willing to hand Chang over to Prince Duan." He bowed to the old lady and said word by word, "Mother, Chang has a vicious mind. I want to divorce her."
As soon as the word "divorce" was uttered, Liu Yu seemed to have grasped something, but when she thought about it carefully, it seemed like nothing. She stared at Mr. Chen Er, as if she wanted to see something.
The old lady frowned and reminded him in a strong voice: "Second brother, this matter has not been investigated clearly yet, are you serious?"
Master Chen glanced at Chang, his eyes full of disdain. "What else is there to investigate? I don't know her character yet. She must be jealous of my third brother's aunt because she can help my eldest sister-in-law, so she poisoned her and wanted to frame her. But she didn't expect that Aunt Liu had a maid who could taste the poison. Anyway, the medicine has just been taken, and there won't be any problems immediately."
"Think about it, the ingredients for this mushroom soup were chosen by Aunt Liu, so why did this soup go wrong? It was because of Aunt Liu! When things went wrong, Chang dragged her personal maid to take the blame." He looked into Chang's eyes and said, "You are so vicious that you can even harm someone who has been with you all your life."
The old lady was originally prepared to fight for it, but after hearing what Master Chen said, she stopped talking and just looked at Master Chen with a look that turned three points colder.
After hearing these remarks, even Liu Yu, who knew the hidden truth of the matter, inexplicably felt that Mr. Chen's analysis made a lot of sense. His logical thinking was unexpectedly smooth, and it seemed to explain why the people who were poisoned were poisoned in no particular order. The princess, Li, Zhang, and Hai had no connection at all, and the princess and the others were poisoned purely because of their bad luck.
Not surprisingly, everyone else nodded, realizing the truth of the matter.
They began to blame Chang.
"I don't want a woman like this, even if you give her to me. She's too vicious."
"How could the Chen family, with such a good family background, find such a daughter-in-law? It's really like one bad apple spoils the whole barrel!"
"..."
Listening to the discussions and insults from people around her, Chang became numb. There is no greater desolation than a dead heart. She looked at her husband with empty eyes. More than ten years of relationship and bearing children for him seemed like a joke. In those years, he never said that she was the most innocent woman he had ever met. Since when did she become such a vicious woman in his heart?
Forget it, forget it, she closed her eyes, a line of tears flowed from the corners of her eyes. Since he wanted to die, then living would only be an eyesore to him, why not just die happily.
Suddenly at this moment, inexplicably, Liu Yu saw the shadow of his previous life in Chang.
Abandoned by everyone, the person you think is closest to you is the one who hurts you the most.
"Princess, can I talk to you about something?" Liu Yu finally spoke. As mentioned before, she could allow the Second Madam to be divorced or even die, but she couldn't do it. Watching the Second Madam, who had the same experience as herself in her previous life, die, she wished so much that someone would say a word for her when she was in desperate situation in her previous life.