Raising a wife? The mistress of the Hou family divorced and remarried her younger uncle

Chapter 84 Dog bites dog

Li Xueying gnashed her teeth in hatred. Just as she was about to say something, Chuntao, who was waiting outside the palace, was called in. She knelt on the ground, not daring to look up at the emperor.

The eunuch reminded her, "If you dare to tell a lie, you will lose your life."

Chun Tao was terrified, her body trembling, her voice unsteady, "Your Majesty, a year ago, I did see the young lady kill Xie Zhaolan and slash her face with a dagger. I also waited at the foot of the cliff until the Lu family sent someone to collect the body. Xie Zhaolan was dead, there was no mistake."

Su Qingwan sneered and said, "You are Li Xueying's slave, so of course you have to say whatever she wants you to say. After the carriage fell off the cliff, my maid Qiuxiang and I were both seriously injured. The Li family's assassins chased us down the cliff, and Qiuxiang put on my clothes to lure away the assassins, and risked her life to make a way for me to survive. After she was caught by you, Li Xueying interrogated me about my whereabouts. Qiuxiang refused to comply, and was disfigured by Li Xueying with a dagger. I saw it all clearly. The person you killed was my maid Qiuxiang. In order to marry Lu Feng, you used Qiuxiang's body to impersonate me. You are the liars who deceived everyone!"

Li Xueying was furious. "You are talking nonsense. The person I killed was Xie Zhaolan. You impersonated her and stirred up trouble. Lu Feng, she is obviously not Xie Zhaolan. Why did you admit it?"

"Xueying, please stop making the same mistake over and over again. You killed innocent people and deceived me so much!" Lu Feng's eyes turned red. "I didn't expect you to be so cruel. You sent someone to kill Zhaolan just to marry me. You... you are so vicious."

Li Xueying's blood turned pale and her heart ached. Was this the man she loved so much and wanted to spend the rest of her life with? In order to marry him, she had killed someone and disobeyed her father's orders.

He once said that he would love her, protect her and never betray her in this life.

The oath is still vivid in my mind and ringing in my ears.

But when the Li family fell into trouble, he betrayed her. She had vowed to her mother that Lu Feng married her not for the power of the Anping Marquis's Mansion, but because he loved her.

Her mother laughed at her naivety, but could only wish her all the best.

Li Xueying burst into tears, her heart aching, "I'm vicious? Lu Feng...it was clearly you and I who conspired to murder my wife, yet you said I was vicious. It was clearly your idea to kill Xie Zhaolan!"

Everyone in the palace was shocked, including the emperor.

Lu Jing's back stiffened, and he couldn't help but look back at Su Qingwan with a complicated expression.

After three years of love, her husband murdered her.

She must be...very sad.

"Don't slander me. You are cruel and merciless. Everyone in Beijing knows it. Zhaolan and I have been in love for three years. How could I kill her? You killed innocent people and now you want to drag someone else down with you. We are husband and wife after all. How can you be so vicious?" Lu Feng suddenly knelt on the ground and kowtowed heavily. "Your Majesty, please don't believe what this vicious woman said. I have never thought of killing my wife. Zhaolan and I have been married for three years. We have a deep love and loyalty. I have never intended to harm her."

The emperor thought to himself, how can he have the nerve to say that he is deeply in love with his wife when he has just finished mourning for her?

Li Xueying was angry and desperate, as if she had never known Lu Feng before. "Lu Feng, I was really blind to like you. You are such a hypocritical, cowardly, irresponsible coward!"

Li Xueying laughed like crazy, tears streaming down her face. "Mother, I was wrong. I shouldn't have believed a man's sweet words. I was blinded by love and failed to live up to your years of upbringing. I brought such a disaster to the Li family. It's all my fault."

Lady Anping looked at her daughter's heartbroken appearance, feeling grief-stricken and distressed, and looked at Lu Feng with hatred.

She had long seen through Lu Feng's hypocrisy, but could not change her daughter's insistence.

What a wrong step, wrong step!

She hugged Li Xueying, "It's mother's fault. You don't know people well. Mother should have tried her best to stop you." Lu Feng's back was soaked with cold sweat, "Li Xueying, everyone in the capital doesn't know that you are cruel and ruthless. Killing Zhaolan was obviously your own selfish desire."

"I am cruel and ruthless, but how can you be any better? You covet the power and wealth of the Anping Marquis's Mansion, and you want my father to help you rise to prominence. You despise Xie Zhaolan because she is a merchant's daughter, so you want to kill her."

"Ridiculous. When I married Zhaolan, I knew she was a merchant's daughter and never minded her identity."

"It was a different time. When you married her, you had not yet passed the imperial examination and had never entered the officialdom. The Lu family was just a poor family. After marrying Xie Zhaolan, the Lu family relied on her dowry to supplement their lives and lived a more luxurious life than the dukes and nobles. Naturally, they were more arrogant than the sky. Lu Feng, no matter how you quibble, you can't cover up your hypocrisy and viciousness."

"Li Xueying, that's enough!" Lu Feng's eyes were red and ready to burst. He had always cared about his reputation, but now he was being crushed to the ground by Li Xueying. "Do you have to destroy something you can't get?"

"Don't be so sentimental. I only hate myself for being blind. There were so many talented young men in the capital for me to choose from, but I was deceived by your appearance and stepped into the abyss step by step. I sent someone to kill Xie Zhaolan. I dare to admit it. You are a grown man, but you dare not take responsibility for it. I really look down on you!"

Lu Feng, "..."

Su Qingwan felt happy watching them fighting each other.

From the corner of her eye, she saw the emperor drinking tea lazily and comfortably, with an expression as if he was watching a show, and she understood what was going on.

It is a great show when a loving couple turns against each other. Everyone in the world loves to watch such a show, and the emperor is no exception.

"Enough!" Lu Shaoqing could no longer bear it and scolded in a low voice, "Lu Feng, shut up, where is this place, how dare you be so presumptuous!"

Lu Shaoqing also absolutely did not want to see Li Xueying drag Lu Feng into the water. This was his eldest son, his pride since childhood, and he had high hopes for him.

He really regretted it so much. Why did he agree to the marriage between the Lin and Li families in the first place? It was a road of no return.

"Your Majesty, Li attempted murder and slandered Xie's identity. She also accused Lu Feng. It is obvious that she is desperate and will bite anyone she sees. She is deliberately trying to bury others with her. Your Majesty, please do not believe her nonsense."

The emperor looked at Lu Shaoqing who was kneeling on the ground, and then looked at Lu Jing and Su Qingwan who were standing in the palace. They were calm and composed. The emperor asked, "Li Xueying, you said that Lu Feng conspired with you to murder your wife. Do you have any evidence?"

Li Xueying was speechless. Lu Feng was smart in doing this. He was the only one who did it from beginning to end. His hands were clean without a trace of blood.

He was prepared to distance himself from the matter even if it came to light.

Li Xueying has no evidence.

Earl Anping cursed in his heart that his daughter was foolish, as Lu Feng had played her around.

She was the one who did all the dirty and ugly things, while Lu Feng was innocent and clean, and he just sat back and reaped the benefits.

"You accused Xie of impersonating someone else, but there is no real evidence except your maidservant and the assassins." The emperor sneered, "Without any real evidence, you are just making random accusations. Who would believe you?"

An Pingbo said, "Your Majesty, my daughter was raised to be spoiled and simple-minded, but she is a person who dares to take responsibility for her actions. She has never denied that she killed Xie Zhaolan. She must have been used by someone to kill someone with someone else's knife. I dare to guarantee with my life that everything she said is true and she will never lie. If Your Majesty wants the truth, let the Dali Temple detain and interrogate them, and they will definitely find out the truth."

(End of this chapter)