Mrs.
Dong threw herself down next to the beam, and her hand trembled and gently touched the arm that was still sparking, and her body suddenly softened as if it had been stripped of its muscles and bones.
She didn't seem to even cry, only opened her mouth to "ahhhhhhhh Cheng Muyou frowned and walked to her side, ordered Jiang Xixi to help her up, and glanced at the shattered charred corpse pressed under the beam, and then asked softly, "Is he Dong Zongyuan?"
” Mrs.
Dong shook her head and smiled, nodded desperately, and said with tears in her eyes, "My lord, my husband carries a string of turquoise bracelets all year round, oh, this is it."
She pointed to the arm, and the tears that she had easily held back fell again.
Cheng Muyou looked down and saw that there was a bracelet on the wrist of the charred corpse, although the beads on it had been blackened by the fire, but there was a faint hint of emerald green in it, but it was not turquoise.
Cheng Muyou then let out a deep breath and ordered the official behind him, "Move the beams of the house and move the corpse out." ” The body was badly damaged, his limbs were burned to the size of a child by the fire, his face was completely burned, and the most terrible thing was that his waist and abdomen had been broken off at the waist, and his body was completely broken into two pieces.
The corpse smelled of burnt past, and the onlookers had to retreat and cover their mouths and noses.
What's more, one of them couldn't hold back, and vomited in front of the Dong family, eager to vomit all the overnight meal.
Mrs.
Dong didn't care, she threw herself on the charred corpse and cried in pain, crying and shouting, "Official, I knew why I had to do it now, now that you are gone, leaving me alone, how can I live alone." ” Jiang Xixi shook his head and sighed, and Chong Cheng Muyou said softly, "My lord, it seems that this Dong Zongyuan was smashed into two pieces by the beam of the house, and his death was really miserable." ” Cheng Muyou ignored her, he didn't shy away from walking to Mrs.
Dong and squatting down, and said to her, "Listening to Madame's tone, it seems that from beginning to end, I never suspected that your official was murdered, could it be that this Dong Zongyuan actually self-immolated?"
” Mrs.
Dong suddenly put away her crying, and looked up at Cheng Muyou tremblingly, her eyes flickering.
Cheng Muyou saw that her expression was different, so he then asked, "I knew why I had to do it now, so may I ask Madame, what happened at the beginning?"
Who killed this old lady Dong?
” Mrs.
Dong lowered her head and bit her lip desperately, "The people don't know." ” "I don't know?"
Cheng Muyou suddenly raised his voice, "The government opened the coffin for an autopsy, and he Dong Zongyuan set himself on fire, what is he afraid of?"
What are you afraid to face?
Don't you, his wife, know nothing?
” Mrs.
Dong's body shook suddenly, and she finally made up her mind, so she knelt down in front of Cheng Muyou for a long time, and said while crying, "My lord, if you say that the people don't know at all, the adults will not believe it, but the mother was indeed killed by the officials alone, and the people only noticed it one step before you." ” As soon as these words came out, a noisy discussion suddenly sounded behind him, and Cheng Muyou asked the accompanying officials to drive the villagers out of the courtyard of the Dong family, and then asked Mrs.
Dong, "You mean, that Mrs.
Dong was killed by her own son?"
” Mrs.
Dong sighed "hmm" and said intermittently, "The official and his mother are harmonious on the surface, but in fact, because the family business has long had grievances, the official wants to take advantage of his youth to take care of some business matters, but his mother thinks he is young and always unwilling to let go.
In the past six months, there have basically been few words between them, and the officials have even been exempted from the morning and dusk provinces, and the servants in these families all know about it. ” Cheng Muyou frowned, "But these trivial matters are not enough for Dong Zongyuan to kill people, I have inquired, his father died early, he was single-handedly pulled by Mrs.
Dong, and the relationship between mother and son is deeper than that of ordinary people." ” Mrs.
Dong snorted, "My lord, the women don't dare to agree with these words, some things seem trivial to others, but they are not necessarily in the hearts of the people concerned."
The officials complained to me many times, saying that my mother did not trust him and would rather hand over the business to others than her own.
He also said that his mother actually looked down on him and despised him from the bottom of his heart, a feeling he had since he was a child and had endured it for decades. ” Speaking of this, Mrs.
Dong sobbed softly again, and said slowly, "My lord, what is it like to be despised by the people closest to me, although the people have not experienced it, they also know that the taste of this will not be pleasant, and that person is the mother who gave birth to him and raised him, and he can't escape or avoid it, and he will have to live under this weight for the rest of his life." ” Hearing this, Cheng Muyou couldn't help but sigh deeply in his heart, he had thought of several reasons for Dong Zongyuan to kill his mother, but none of them came up with an idea.
This man turned out to be to get rid of it, to escape, to attack his biological mother, it turns out that the most unbearable pressure in this world is often imposed by the closest people around him.
"Dong Zongyuan killed Mrs.
Dong, you don't know at all?"
Cheng Muyou looked at Mrs.
Dong and asked softly.
The day before her mother's death, she had a quarrel with the official for the first time, and the official wanted to go elsewhere to set up her own door, but her mother did not allow it, so the two had a big quarrel and broke up unhappily.
It was because of the restlessness of the house, so the next day, the woman took the maid to the temple to ask for a lot, and when she returned, the official told me that my mother was unwell and fell asleep first, but in the morning, the people found that my mother's body was cold.
All of these things can be testified to by all members of the family. ” Hearing her say this, Jiang Xixi also followed and said, "My lord, that night, my subordinates sneaked into Dong's house and heard the conversation between Dong Zongyuan and Dong's family. ” Cheng Muyou nodded, "When did you find out that Old Lady Dong was killed by Dong Zongyuan?"
” Mrs.
Dong sighed and choked up, "I know the official best, he is a person, I can't hide things in my heart, I found that he looked nervous, and I already realized that something was wrong."
Later, he did not allow anyone to touch my mother's body, but only changed her into a shroud with me, and when I asked about the lump on my mother's neck, he was so frightened that he could not stand still, and then I guessed that he must have done it. ”