Chapter 1878: Chapter 1878: How Dare You Forge Official Documents
Shu Yu suddenly understood, “I see, so Miss Chen probably hasn’t explained our reasons for being here to Scholar Xun either?”
Xun Sheng shook his head, “Miss Chen came in a hurry; she doesn’t fully know yet. I wonder if the county magistrate could enlighten me.”
There was no need for Third Lu this time. The onlooking townsfolk eagerly explained the background to Xun Sheng and his classmate.
Xun Sheng and his panion were left speechless, staring at Chen Bing with incredulous expressions.
Unbelievable, is he really such a person?
Chen Bing felt a chill all over his body from the moment he heard that Shu Yu was the county magistrate, and he couldn’t stop trembling.
How could this happen?
Someone like Fang Caixia, who couldn’t have children, had been abandoned by him, was riddled with sickness, should have perished by herself long ago. Why, after all these years, did she manage to find her own sister?
Moreover, the once poverty-stricken Lu family had bee prosperous.
In fact… they even produced a county magistrate.
A county magistrate, no less. In the vast Changjin Prefecture, one would be hard-pressed to find a woman of higher status.
He’s finished, he’s doomed.
Chen Bing swallowed hard, raising his head to meet Xun Sheng’s gaze. He straightened up, determined—no, there was still a chance. He hadn’t mitted any crimes, hadn’t killed anyone; even as a county magistrate, she couldn’t take his life.
He could still save himself, and his only hope right now was Xun Sheng.
So, after hearing the townsfolk recount the immoral things he’d done in the past, he immediately denied it, “No, that’s not how it was. I had my reasons, there were underlying circumstances.”
“What underlying circumstances?” Granny Fang stepped forward angrily, pointing at him, “You’re just wicked and foolish. Back then, to make me give up hope and leave me with no support so that I wouldn’t return for help, you used forged death certificates from the authorities, telling me my parents and sister were all dead. You planned this from the start; where were these so-called ‘reasons’ and ‘circumstances’?”
“Hold on,” Shu Yu suddenly spoke up, pretending to hear this for the first time, her expression serious as she repeated, “Aunt, what did you just say?”
In line with Shu Yu’s earlier discussions, Granny Fang asked blankly, “What?”
“You just said he used death certificates from the authorities to tell you my grandmother and great-grandparents were deceased?”
Granny Fang replied, “Your grandmother’s death certificate wasn’t included; he brought the ones for your great-grandparents. I saw those death certificates and believed his words, thinking everyone had perished.”
Shu Yu narrowed her eyes at Chen Bing, “But my great-grandparents passed away four years after the flood.”
Upon hearing this, the others hadn’t reacted yet, but Xun Sheng and his classmate gasped in shock.
The classmate exclaimed, “So Uncle Chen forged the official death certificates? That’s a major crime.”
These words petrified everyone.
Yes, indeed, falsifying government documents is no small matter. How bold is this Chen Bing?
Panicked, Chen Bing was sweating profusely, waving his hands frantically, “No, no, I didn’t; she’s lying. I never had any death certificates.”
“Whether you did or not, this is no longer just a personal grudge between two families. Such a serious matter must definitely be taken up with the authorities for a thorough investigation.”
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