I bring bad luck to my husband, you bring bad luck to your wife.

Yang Tongchuan arrived at the dungeon where Wang Xiaoyu was being held.

The jailer brought Wang Xiaoyu out.

The jailer hadn't tortured Wang Xiaoyu yet; he had simply bound his hands and feet with chains.

"Wang Xiaoyu, do you want to talk to me yourself, or wait until the county magistrate is summoned and you've been tortured before you speak?" Yang Tongchuan's voice was icy as he threw the wrapped grain spies and money bags on the ground.

The moment Wang Xiaoyu saw the object, he turned his head away.

"I'll give you a chance to explain. If you don't tell the truth, I'll have no choice but to report it as fact and let County Magistrate Zhou make the judgment."

Wang Xiaoyu remained silent.

"I've already sent someone to find the homeowner of the house where the murder occurred. He should be back soon with his wife and children to deal with this. Would you like to meet that family's youngest son? I heard he's doing very well in his studies, and his parents love him dearly, planning to let him focus on his studies and get a degree in the imperial examinations." Yang Tongchuan said, while carefully observing Wang Xiaoyu's expression.

"Don't see him, don't let him see me, don't let him see me." Wang Xiaoyu finally reacted; he couldn't see that child.

Seeing it will only cause more trouble.

That was his youngest brother, the brother he had sold himself.

The mother originally didn't plan to sell the child after giving birth, since her health was already very poor. She wanted to keep this one and raise it herself.

Wang Xiaoyu was already working at the docks at that time. Although he earned little and life was hard, his family was not going to starve.

Later, her mother died from an infection, leaving Wang Xiaoyu to struggle to survive with a crying baby and a useless father.

The father kept grumbling that the family was starving and that he wanted to sell the child.

Wang Xiaoyu initially disagreed, but later his father suffered a stroke due to drinking, and the family simply couldn't survive.

Wang Xiaoyu had no choice but to find the human traffickers who used to come to his house and sell his youngest brother.

But he kept a close eye on things and found out where his youngest brother had been sold.

The money from selling his younger brother was quickly spent by the king's father.

I don't know if it's because my conscience is bothering me.

After selling his youngest son, Wang Xiaoyu kept dreaming that his deceased mother came to ask him: Where did my youngest son go? Didn't we agree not to sell him?

Later, Wang Xiaoyu would often sneak around to the buyer's door to secretly watch his younger brother.

Compared to their family's circumstances, the other party's conditions are like heaven and earth. My youngest brother is truly living a life of luxury, being pampered like a New Year's picture doll.

Seeing this, Wang Xiaoyu felt a little better.

However, his actions were quickly discovered by the buyer.

They never wanted to have anything to do with the Wang family, so they simply moved away with their children.

At first, Wang Xiaoyu didn't know, but by the time he found out, the family had already moved away.

"I didn't mean to kill him, he brought it on himself." Wang Xiaoyu was exhausted. He hadn't had a full night's sleep in a long time and hadn't had a proper rest for a single day.

Wang Xiaoyu's older brother, Wang Dayu, is a piece of trash. He thought his older brother had died out there long ago and he would never see him again.

Who would have thought that after the Chinese New Year this year, my eldest brother suddenly came back and said that he would not leave again after returning, and that the family should live a good life together.

Wang Xiaoyu didn't believe that a scoundrel like Wang Dayu would really turn over a new leaf.

Moreover, he's been away for several years and has lost all his fingers; he must have done something terrible while he was away.

Later, he realized that Wang Dayu had returned because he couldn't make a living outside anymore, and he wanted to follow in his parents' footsteps when they were young.

He brought back a few taels of silver, intending to go to the horse market to buy a woman, and like his father and mother, have children and sell them.

"He's not even human, he has no heart." Wang Xiaoyu utterly loathed his older brother.

"Tell me, how did you kill him?" Yang Tongchuan breathed a sigh of relief; this case could finally be closed.

"After I found out he wanted to have children and sell them, I lied to him and said that I had sold my youngest brother to a rich family. I go there often and know where they hide their good stuff." Wang Xiaoyu said with a bitter laugh.

"I told him, 'You can't buy a pretty woman with that little money. Let's steal something valuable and sell it to buy him a beautiful one.'"

Wang Xiaoyu still remembers Wang Dayu's expression at the time, with that proud look that said, "He's worthy of being my brother." It was disgusting.

"He not only agreed, but also said that I could borrow the woman to play with after he bought her." Wang Xiaoyu's eyes suddenly turned sinister.

"I tried to persuade him, saying he couldn't do this, that people would die, that's how my mother died. He actually said that if she died, we'd just buy a new one." Wang Xiaoyu's words left everyone present speechless.

Even the experienced prison warden had never encountered such an inhuman creature before.

"I tricked him into going to that courtyard and told him that before this family went on a long trip, they hid all the good things they couldn't take with them in the cellar. He was stupid enough to believe it." Wang Xiaoyu laughed as he said this; his older brother was really stupid.

"We sneaked into the cellar, first opened the stone slab of the cellar, and then, while he was trying to go down into the cellar to find treasure, I stabbed him from behind, but I didn't kill him. I was afraid I couldn't beat him, so I pushed him down. He was still screaming then, so I just grabbed something and smashed it down. It seemed to be a rock." Wang Xiaoyu had given up on covering things up.

Or rather, he knew he couldn't get out.

"I knew he wasn't quite dead yet, so I covered him with the stone slab and then placed a large vat on top of it. He couldn't open it from inside." It was only because Wang Xiaoyu worked at the docks that he developed some strength; otherwise, a fifteen-year-old boy simply couldn't have accomplished all of this on his own.

"That cellar isn't big. I figured even if I couldn't kill him, I could starve him to death." After doing all that, Wang Xiaoyu didn't leave immediately. Instead, he sat there for a long time, making sure he couldn't hear anything coming from inside before he left.

"My original plan was to wait a few days until he was completely dead, then get him out and bury him somewhere. I didn't expect that the house would be rented out and people would move in, so I couldn't get in anymore."

It was a last-minute decision; Wang Xiaoyu didn't have a complete plan at all, and he hadn't even thought about how to dispose of the body afterward. Yet, the courtyard was rented out and people moved in.

"Why did you choose that courtyard?" Yang Tongchuan sensed that Wang Xiaoyu was hiding something.

"That family didn't come back for the Lunar New Year, so I guessed they probably wouldn't be back for a long time."

Wang Xiaoyu isn't a professional killer, so this method is indeed feasible.

Yang Tongchuan glanced at the yamen runner who was taking notes on the side.

"Have you memorized everything?"

"I've written it all down." The yamen runner respectfully presented the record.

Yang Tongchuan took the paper, read it carefully, and then casually remarked:

"Can't your mother give birth to daughters, only sons?"