Traveling through ancient times: daily life on the run

Chapter 336: Forever a Family

When all of Bai Fengchu's clothes and jewelry were presented, the registrar and the coroner compared them one by one and found that they were indeed almost the same as what Ma San said.

Based on the autopsy report provided by the coroner, it was finally proved that the bones belonged to Bai Fengchu and her maid who jumped off a cliff and died.

When the official picked out the red agate gold ring from the pile of clothes and jewelry, he hesitated for a moment, then bowed to Lord Cao and said, "Sir, this ring doesn't seem to belong to Miss Bai."

"Oh, let's take a look."

Mrs. Bai Er only took a quick glance and was instantly frightened to the point of turning pale and looking panicked.

How did this ring get here?

Qin Luohong, who was watching the show behind the scenes, raised his eyebrows. The dog-eat-dog show was about to begin.

The process was very exciting. Ma San did not admit that he had seen the ring, but the ring had the words "Miao Ran", the maiden name of Mrs. Bai, on it.

After hearing this, Mrs. Bai Er started to speak frantically: "My ring has been missing for over a year. This girl must have stolen it and taken it away."

Lord Cao snorted coldly and said slowly, "Miss Bai knew that she would be framed, so she held the ring in her hand, didn't she?"

Mr. Bai Er was still relatively clear-headed and said calmly, "If my wife wanted to harm her, why would she allow someone to take the ring she was wearing to commit the crime? This doesn't make sense. Sir, please investigate."

Lord Cao said "Oh" and said lazily, "But this ring was found in Bai Fengchu's corpse. It's direct evidence. How can it be faked? Madam Bai said the ring was lost for over a year. Maybe it was stolen by the bandits you sent out. Don't bandits kill for money? Stealing a valuable ring is not surprising, right?"

Ma San nodded repeatedly, pretending to recall the past before bowing his head and saying, "Some of the bandits did know the Second Master of the Bai family. I remember when they stopped our carriage, they said something about the eldest wife of the Bai family having bad luck and that the Second Master had sent them to take her life... They must have stolen the ring, and when they were harassing Miss Bai, she ripped it off and jumped into the ravine. Now, most of those bandits have been silenced by the Bai family, and there's no evidence to prove their wrongdoing."

"Nonsense, Ma San, you're talking nonsense..." Madam Bai Er was furious and couldn't stop talking. "Ma San, you cunning villain, you must have stolen the ring from me, and now you're trying to slander me..."

Mr. Bai slapped Mrs. Bai's arm fiercely: "Shut up! Don't talk nonsense unless the master asks!"

However, words spoken are like spilled water, and everyone heard them clearly.

"Oh, didn't Madam just say that Ma San was from the first wife's family? How could he have any connection with Madam? If he hadn't had any connection with you, how would he know about this ring? How could he have stolen it from you or from your house?"

Mr. Bai Er quickly explained, "Our first and second wives live in close proximity, and these servants often interact with each other. Perhaps Ma San learned about this from the servants of our second wife and stole the ring from Madam."

Ma San quickly denied: "I didn't steal the ring. If I had stolen it, it wouldn't have been with Miss Bai, because when the bandits were chasing Miss Bai, I had already driven away secretly in the carriage..."

Before he could finish his words, he immediately chose to shut up. After all, secretly taking away someone else's carriage's worth of property would be enough to make him suffer a lot, and he might even lose his head.

When Zhu Jinyou heard this, a faint smile flashed across his lips. The method that Miss Luo Yu came up with was really interesting. The scoundrels robbed the scoundrels and exposed each other's secrets. It would surely not take long for all the evidence to be exposed by both sides.

As expected, Lord Cao shouted, "Tell the truth! Confessions will be treated leniently, while resistance will be punished severely! Those who steal money may be given lenient treatment, but those who take lives must be executed by slow slicing."

Luo Wei glanced at Qin Bingrui and asked, "Did you teach Master Cao to say that?"

"Hey, I teach you to be lenient to those who confess and strict to those who resist. The rest is probably something this gentleman made up himself, right? Anyway, if you can trick anyone out of it, it's a good trick, right?"

Lord Cao just took office as the magistrate of Muzhou City this year. His official career cannot be said to be good or bad, but this case is a golden opportunity sent by heaven. As soon as he heard about it, he knew that it was a good chance to leave his name in history. He couldn't read so many issues of "Biography of Wenbo" in vain. Besides, the Bai family's main branch has the prince and eunuch Yao to check and approve it, so he has to perform well, right?

Whether he gets promoted or not is not important; the key is to win the hearts of the people and seize this case to be published in the Biography of Wen Bo, which will be passed down through the ages...

as predicted.

Mrs. Bai Er was anxious.

"You're such a jerk! Ma San, you stole the ring and framed me. I only asked you to find bandits to steal the Bai family's eldest wife's carriage, not to kill anyone..."

Mr. Bai roared, "Deng Miaoran!"

Ma Sangen was anxious: "Sir, I didn't hire the bandits. They were hired by the second branch of the Bai family. I don't know those bandits at all..."

Bai Lingyi then asked coldly, "If I didn't know you, why did you take us down this small road? That road is rarely used. If you weren't in cahoots with the bandits, why would you take that road?"

Ma San was speechless for a moment.

Mrs. Bai Er immediately added fuel to the fire: "It was Ma San who stole my ring and wanted to frame me. This was a crime done by Ma San and those bandits..."

"Oh, but Madam, you did indeed instruct Ma San to do this, didn't you? You were the mastermind behind it, and Ma San did what you told him to do, but he went too far. He hired bandits to kill the eldest daughter of the Bai family and her maid, and then he took away the property of the Bai family's main house and ran away, right?"

Mr. Bai slapped his head and thought that he had really married a stupid and bad wife.

Ma San saw that his crime was more serious, so he could not let the real culprit go.

"Master Qingtian, I confess my crime. Although I stole the carriage and valuables from the Bai family's eldest wife, I really did not participate in the murder. The second wife of the Bai family was the one who actually hired the killer. Her intention was that I was the groom that the eldest wife had employed for more than ten years and that I was worthy of her trust. As long as I said anything, the wife would definitely listen, so she specifically sent me to do this vicious job.

By the way, Madam Bai Er also paid me a sum of money. I haven't withdrawn that money yet. I'll show you the banknotes I have with me later. Those banknotes can only be withdrawn at the Bai family's Tongtian Bank. I said I'd withdraw the money after the good deed was done, but I knew that even if I went to withdraw the money, the Bai family's second wife would definitely find me and kill me, so I haven't gone to withdraw it yet."

"Mr. Bai also sent people to look for me later and killed all the bandits who escaped at that time. Otherwise, if you go to look for those bandits, you will hardly find any trace of them."

"You, you, you are such a jerk! How dare you talk nonsense and slander our Bai family's second branch..."

Master Bai Er couldn't believe that the dog was really crazy. A crazy dog had no reason or fear at all.

I wonder if the Duke's Mansion has heard the news.

The case was almost over, and they were just waiting for the people to plead guilty and sign. However, Mrs. Bai was completely insane and refused to plead guilty or sign. Lord Cao had no choice but to order them all to be locked up in the cell first. He wanted to organize the case into a file and send it for trial.

The crowd watching the excitement exploded instantly, shouting: "Great Justice, our Great Justice of Muzhou!"

Lord Cao stood up, and for a moment, he felt the vastness of the world...

This is a charm that has nowhere to go.

Xia Liang slipped out of the crowd, looked at Yan Xuan and burst into laughter.

Being an extra is indeed very important.

Luo Yu breathed a sigh of relief. She had never thought that this evil man's scheming was even more powerful than she had imagined. The greed of human beings is unpredictable, and the sinister nature of human beings is beyond imagination...

Bai Lingyi finally came to his senses and faced his mother. Both of them had tears in their eyes and started crying while laughing.

Qin Bingrui walked out from behind the scenes, hugged Fang and Luo Yu, and cried bitterly.

Luo Yu wiped her tears and comforted her: "We will be able to avenge Miss Bai Fengchu soon, why are you still crying?"

"I'm just too excited. You know I'm an emotional person!"

As they walked out of the government office, all the Fang family members, young and old, rushed forward, crying bitterly and heartbroken.

Luo Yu felt a little ashamed and didn't dare to look directly at the warm and simple Fang family.

But unexpectedly, Madam Fang hugged Luo Yu, patted her on the back, and comforted her very gently: "My dear girl, no matter who you are, you are the granddaughter of our Fang family. From now on, I will still be your grandmother, and my Jiao'er will always be your mother."

Qin Bingrui came over and leaned his head on the old lady's shoulder: "Then I am also your eldest grandson? My sister and I will become your family."

Zhu Jinyou was watching them silently from a distance, a smile slowly appearing on his lips.

Luo Yu stuck her head out and saw Zhu Jinyou. She grinned and made a victory gesture to him. Although Zhu Jinyou was puzzled, he still returned the same gesture to her.

Song Si shook his head behind him. He felt that he had completely fallen.