Quick Wear: The Wronged One Becomes Rebellious

Chapter 290: Marrying the Mountain God 12

The criminal has been caught red-handed, and the yamen boss now only needs Lian Yunshen to confess and sign his name personally.

Even though his uncle, the jailer, secretly protected him, he was ultimately no match for the tortured confession by the county magistrate, who could not wait to close the case.

"Aunt Yu, even we, his family, don't believe him, so others will certainly not believe him!" Gu Li said, "We will go back to the village early tomorrow morning. I want to help Brother Yun Shen find evidence to clear his name."

Lian's mother paused for a moment, then cried even harder.

Gu Li was afraid that Lian's mother would cry until she went blind, so she had to pull her away to divert her attention.

"Aunt Yu, tell me everything you know about Qi Dashan's family! We are the only ones left for Brother Yunshen!"

Lian's mother wiped her tears and quickly recalled.

After all, she was just a woman, and the longest distance she had ever walked was from the village to the town. When her husband was alive, she obeyed him in everything, but after he died, she revolved around her son.

Lian's mother's social circle was only as big as the area from one end of the village to the other. She was at a loss when she encountered such a big thing.

Everyone said that her son had committed murder, and she had seen with her own eyes her son being escorted out of a blood-stained room by police. Even though she didn't want her son to be a murderer, she had to believe what others said.

Now someone finally told her that her son was wrongly accused and did not kill anyone. Lian's mother felt that what she said was right.

Qi Dashan, the only hunter in Taohua Village.

He hunted a lot of good stuff on several nearby hills, built three large brick and tile houses at home, and married a beautiful wife who was hard to find in the surrounding area.

In a month, Qi Dashan's wife was going to give birth. Qi Dashan took advantage of Lian Yunshen's rare rest at home and went to his house to ask Lian Yunshen to name his unborn child.

Lian Yunshen wrote several names for him, both for boys and girls. Each name has a unique meaning.

Qi Dashan was delighted to hear this, but was worried that he would not be able to repeat the beautiful meanings of those names when he returned, so he simply invited Lian Yunshen to his home for a drink and asked Lian Yunshen to tell his wife the meaning of each name again.

"Yun Shen and Da Shan had a good relationship when they were young, so Yun Shen followed Da Shan without much thought."

"I waited until dark at home but Yun Shen didn't come back, so I went to Da Shan's house to look for him. Yun Shen was already drunk at that time, and fell asleep on the kang in the west room of Da Shan's house. Da Shan had drunk a lot too, and he said to me in a thick voice that he should let Yun Shen stay at his house for one night and go back tomorrow after he sobered up."

"I couldn't help Yun Shen by myself, so I had to leave him at Dashan's house." At this point, Lian's mother was filled with remorse and pounded her fists on her chest. "If I had insisted on bringing Yun Shen home, this wouldn't have happened. It's all my fault, all my fault!"

Gu Li was puzzled, "How is Brother Yunshen's alcohol tolerance?"

"Yun Shen follows his father and can drink. Otherwise, I wouldn't agree to Da Shan's proposal to treat him to a drink."

That's right. Gu Li remembered that when her stepsister came of age, Fang specially prepared a table of delicious food for her and also invited Lian Yunshen to come.

At that time, Fang tried to get Lian Yunshen drunk and keep him to have an affair with Gu Jixia.

However, Gu Jiande was so drunk that he rolled under the table, but Lian Yunshen was still sitting there staggeringly. In the end, he was able to walk back by himself with the help of Lian's mother.

"Dashan loves his wife very much and never lets her work in the fields. His wife has a good skill in making wine, but I didn't know that the wine she made was so strong!"

"Aunt Yu, have you met Qi Dashan's wife?" Gu Li was curious about this young wife who had always been ignored.

Lian's mother shook her head, then nodded, "She seldom goes out. I've only seen her once or twice, but we've never met. I've only seen her profile or her back. Dashan said his wife is timid and doesn't like meeting strangers. Even if someone comes to his house, he won't let his wife come out to entertain the guests."

Lian's mother thought for a moment and added, "Not many people in the village have seen that young wife, but those who have seen her all say that Dashan's daughter-in-law looks like a fairy."

"Where is she from? How could she be so beautiful and willing to marry a hunter?"

"I don't know about that. I didn't see when she came to the village. By the time everyone knew about it, she was already Dashan's wife on the family tree."

Gu Li began to review the news she received today.

There are only a few motives for murder: love killing, revenge killing, and robbery for money.

Not even one of Yunshen’s is occupied.

Qi Dashan was one of the few childhood friends of Lian Yunshen in Taohua Village with whom he could sit and drink. There was no enmity between the two in the past, nor any resentment in the present.

The possibility of vendetta was ruled out first.

As for making money, Gu Li didn't think Qi Dashan would be much richer than the Lian family who were supported by five uncles.

Lian Yunshen, a scholar, might become a juren or jinshi in the future. How could he be so desperate as to rob a hunter in a mountain village!

The item about seeking wealth is also not true.

The last one was a murder of passion. Considering that Lian's mother had unconsciously mentioned many times that Qi Dashan's wife was very beautiful, Gu Li felt that most people would guess this was it.

But in the prison, Lian Yunshen told her that he had never seen Qi Dashan's wife before he was escorted out of the room by the brigade.

On the day he went to Qi Dashan's house, Qi Dashan's wife never showed up. To avoid suspicion, he just stood outside the window of the east room and explained in detail the poems where those names came from. There was no response from the east room, and Yun Shen didn't even say a word to Qi Dashan's wife.

If what Lian Yunshen said was true, then he had never even seen Qi Dashan's wife, so there was no question of him killing her out of emotion.

Finally, Lian Yunshen is a normal scholar, and it is impossible for him to kill people for no reason.

Then from the very beginning, Lian Yunshen’s charge of murder could not be established.

At the murder scene, there was only Qi Dashan's body parts left, Lian Yunshen who was unconscious in the west room, and Dashan's wife who was lying at the door of the west room.

Assuming that no outsiders came into the Qi family, and excluding the wrongly accused Lian Yunshen, all doubts would be attributed to Qi Dashan's wife.

Gu Li just wanted to meet the beautiful and mysterious wife of Qi Dashan as soon as possible.

"Auntie Yu, what is Dashan's wife's name?" She was obviously a very important person involved, but strangely enough, she was selectively ignored by everyone.

"I heard Dashan call her Lan'er, but I don't know her last name."

"Then where is she now?"

"I live in the village chief's house."

Gu Li frowned, "She is also a suspect, why wasn't she taken away by the police?"

Lian's mother hesitated to speak, but finally said in a low voice, "She is pregnant with Dashan's child. She is so heavy that she can't do such a thing as killing someone!"

Lian's mother wanted to say that if Qi Dashan was killed, the woman would become a widow. The husband is the sky, as long as the woman is not crazy, how could she kill her husband?

But seeing that Gu Li looked like she was thinking about her son, she firmly swallowed the rest of her words.

Gu Li didn't say anything else. She would wait until she met the woman to discuss everything.