The husband who forced her to marry her couldn't keep her warm, and she didn't want him to

Qin Lang has been practicing martial arts for many years and his stature is taller than that of ordinary men. After he finished speaking, he suddenly pulled out a young man from behind him and threw him in front of everyone like a rag.

"When the Jinyiwei was searching, this person was sneaking things out..."

As he said this, he gave a hard kick to the young man in straight shirt, who instantly fell to the ground with his arms and legs spread out.

"Please understand, my name is He Rui. I am not a servant of the Gu family. I have never stolen anything as this official said. I just want to take back something that belongs to me..."

He Rui knelt on the bluestone slab, his body trembling, and spoke tremblingly.

Jiang Nansheng lowered his eyes and stared at him, then raised his hand slightly.

Two men with ferocious faces walked out from behind him, one holding a long board and the other holding a long bench.

Everyone in the courtyard couldn't help but swallow hard.

When He Tai saw his son tied to a bench by them, he was so anxious that he was sweating profusely and kept looking at the brothers Gu Huanian and Gu Huaqing.

Qin Lang laughed loudly twice, looked at Jiang Nansheng and said, "This is the way to go. Otherwise, we will have to wait until dark and waste time with these people!"

As the night deepened, lanterns were lit around the courtyard and guards held torches, making the place as bright as day.

“Pah--“

The board hit the flesh mercilessly, making a series of dull sounds.

He Rui was tied up tightly there, begging for mercy: "Sir, although I don't have any talent, I am also a scholar with a good reputation. I have never done anything to harm the world!"

“Pah--“

He Tai really couldn't bear it anymore. His son was even more ambitious than he was in his youth. The entire He family was counting on He Rui to bring honor to the family.

He quickly ran forward, knelt beside his son, and kowtowed to Jiang Nansheng above him, begging: "Please have mercy, sir, please have mercy."

He Rui couldn't bear such torture. After just a few blows, he could hardly hold on.

"My Lord, I have never done anything bad. I was just good friends with Qingyun from Cuihua Courtyard and gave her some thunder god vines. I have never done anything to hurt anyone's life..."

When Jiang Nansheng heard this, he raised his hand and signaled. The sound of the beating stopped abruptly. The yard instantly became quiet, and the only sound that could be heard was the sound of people swallowing their saliva.

He Rui lay there gasping for air, with more air coming in than out, and there was the sound of water dripping down his body.

Gu Yan, who was snuggling with her mother, looked at the bloodstain on the ground, lowered her head and looked at her own teeth, which were also bloody and mangled, and she actually smiled foolishly.

"Sir Qin, can you tell me what you found in the Gu family first?" Jiang Nansheng did not interrogate He Rui first, but asked Qin Lang what these evidences found by the Jinyiwei were.

Gao De walked out from behind the official and stood behind Gu Jinchu. When she looked at him, he nodded slightly.

Gu Jinchu withdrew his gaze from him and looked at the evidence placed on the bluestone slabs in the courtyard. Those evidences seemed messy but seemed to contain hidden stories.

After his men had arranged the items one by one, Qin Lang pointed at them with the Longquan Sword in his hand and said:

"These are the blood-stained clothes found in Tingyuxuan, and the suspicious oil-paper packages. These are the bones found in the bamboo forest by the lake. These are the private letters found in Biluozhai..."

Jiang Nansheng slowly stood up, then slowly walked to the piles and piles of items, examining them carefully.

At this moment, the crimson official uniform he was wearing emitted a dazzling glow under the orange-yellow light.

This light was so dazzling that no one in the Gu family dared to look up at him.

With their heads lowered, they listened quietly to Jiang Nansheng's slow and steady footsteps, and the fear in their hearts grew stronger and stronger.

Suddenly, Qingyun rushed out from among the servants and knelt on the ground.

The bun on her head was tilted to one side because of running, and she looked very flustered and anxious.

"My Lord, you are wise! It was He Rui who said that he would marry me as his principal wife in the future, so I put the thunder god vine into Madam Ru's medicinal materials! I really only did this one thing..."

After the first person came forward and confessed, others followed suit.

One after another, they came out to admit the mistakes they had made and explained in detail what they had done before.

The bodies buried in the bamboo forest by the lake were the remains of the concubines and illegitimate children that Zhou had killed over the years, including those of the eldest master Gu Huaqing and the eldest son Gu Jinhui...

The blood-stained clothing in Tingyuxuan was Li Xianglian's dirty underwear after her period. She buried it under a tree in the yard for fear of being discovered...

What is most difficult for Gu Huanian to accept is that his only remaining concubine, Chun Xing, is pregnant with a child from her affair with Gu Jinhui.

The letters in the hands of the Jinyiwei were the evidence of their affair.

All the tonics he had taken over the years, the prescriptions his mother and cousin had obtained by all means, and the soup with thunder god vine all went into his stomach, pushing him step by step towards infertility.

After hearing the servant's confession, Li Xianglian's face turned pale as paper and her body trembled uncontrollably.

She slowly climbed up to Gu Huanian's side, tears pouring out like a broken dam, and she choked up and said, "Husband, cousin, that prescription is really just for nourishing the body! The matter of Tripterygium wilfordii has absolutely nothing to do with me!"

Then, as if she suddenly remembered something, she rushed towards Gu Li again, grabbed the corner of her clothes tightly, and shouted at the top of her lungs:

"Aunt, my cousin is also your biological son! How could you have the heart to harm him? Why on earth would you do that?"

Gu Li was so frightened by the scene before her that she was stunned. Her eyes were empty and her lips were trembling slightly. She muttered to herself:

"How could this happen... I raised my second son with great difficulty. Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs, so how could I bear to hurt him..."

Turning to look at his eldest son Gu Huaqing, he said with tears in his eyes: "Boss, how can you be so cruel..."

At this moment, the Gu family was in chaos. People were cursing or fighting, and the whole courtyard was drowned in noise and crying, like a pot of boiling porridge.

Since no clues related to the Fuso people were found, the people from the Dali Temple evacuated from the Gu family, and the people from the Jinyiwei also left the courtyard soon after.

Before Qin Lang left, he lowered his head and whispered a few words to Zheng to comfort her.

Jiang Nansheng straightened his official uniform, walked up to the Zheng family, and bowed to the Zheng Liu couple and said, "Old sir, old lady, I apologize for disturbing you today."

Old Master Zheng tilted his head and snorted, then turned his head and looked him up and down.

During the time Wu Zizhen came to Baodi, he revealed that it was the fifth master of the Jiang family who brought him from Nanzhili to Shengjing.

At first he thought it was due to the friendship between Jiang Nansheng and Changsun Kaiji, who were classmates in the past.

What have you seen and heard today? Is there anything you don’t understand?

Zheng Liushi bowed slightly and said with a smile, "Mr. Jiang, you are too polite. You are an official appointed by the court. How can you bow to an old woman like me?"

Jiang Nansheng's sharpness subsided, and he smiled as gentle as jade, "You are the elder."

There was a faint smile on his face, and he was not as cold and hard as before when he looked at the Zheng family.

Jiang Nansheng didn't stay for too long and glanced at Gu Jinchu. "Before the princess left, she asked me to bring a message to the third young lady of the Gu family. I wonder if it's convenient for us to talk further..."