Madam Ruan was the first to react. She reached out to touch her son’s forehead to see if he had a fever and was talking nonsense.
"Jianjian, are you feeling unwell sowhere? How could you possibly have killed your grandfather?"
"Mother, listen carefully, grandfather took my woman, he deserved to die."
"Your woman?"
"Yes, Cui Hua and I t in town. We were in love and deeply connected. If it weren’t for her reluctance to leave her seriously ill father, we would have married long ago."
Madam Ruan turned to look at the panicked woman beside her, crying as she said, "Jianjian, are you crazy? She was the concubine your grandfather married."
Mo Hengjian replied with a question instead: "Mother, do you rember a year ago, when I ca back from the private school and asked you to call a matchmaker to propose to a family in town?"
Madam Ruan thought for a mont: "Yes, that did happen."
"That person was Cui Hua. Later, I said it was unnecessary because Cui Hua couldn’t bear to leave her seriously ill father and wanted to stay at ho to take care of him, so the matter was dropped."
"Oh, so that’s how it was. I thought you were just fooling around!" Madam Ruan suddenly realized.
"So tell , didn’t that old man deserve to die? At his age, he was still competing with his grandson over a woman, he deserved to go to hell."
Upon hearing Mo Hengjian’s frenzied curses, the air in the room seed to freeze, and everyone fell silent.
At that mont, footsteps were heard outside the door...
"What’s going on, what exactly happened?"
It was the voice of the village head, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
After the village head ca in, he first checked Old Master Mo, then looked at the panicked Cui Hua, and then at Mo Hengjian, asking, "Can any of you tell what’s going on? How did a happy event turn into a funeral?"
Committing murder ans a life must be repaid. This case is different from that of Mo Xiuzhi, who drowned herself. As long as the family doesn’t go to the County Yan to file a complaint, it can be settled privately with silver.
However, Old Master Mo was stabbed to death, making it a different matter, naturally requiring it to be reported to the authorities.
Because it concerned her son’s life, Madam Ruan quickly pointed at Cui Hua and said, "It was her, this vixen spirit, she murdered my father-in-law for money. Village head, you must avenge my father-in-law!"
After speaking, she glared fiercely at Cui Hua with a threatening look.
Cui Hua was dumbfounded. She knew that murder required paying with one’s life, and she was still young; she didn’t want to die! She imdiately said, "It wasn’t , I didn’t kill him, you can’t wrongfully accuse ."
Her elderly father was still lying in bed, barely alive, waiting for her to return to take care of him; she couldn’t die.
The village head looked at Mo Hengjian, asking sternly, "Hengjian, I know you’re an honest child. Tell Uncle Village Chief, what really happened?"
Perhaps because of the murderous rage, the hostility hadn’t subsided. Mo Hengjian said without fear, "I did it, that old man deserved to die."
Upon hearing this, Madam Ruan’s mind went blank; her body went limp, and she collapsed to the ground.
The villagers present all understood that once Mo Hengjian admitted to murder, it was as if he were on the execution platform.
They all felt sorry for him, thinking that if he denied it, he might have so hope, but now that he admitted it, he had one foot already in Yama Hall, and it seed the old residence would have no heir.
Since murder is a major case, the village head didn’t dare to delay. As soon as dawn broke, he imdiately sent soone to the county magistrate’s office to report the case.
A few days ago, the county magistrate, who had just taken office for a month, was inexplicably dismissed. So insiders said it was related to a big figure living in Mo Family Village. Upon receiving the report, the newly appointed county magistrate didn’t dare drag his feet and imdiately took his people and rushed to the Mo Family Village.
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