The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family-Chapter 1242 - 285: Grand Finale Part 1_8

Some people just hate and are jealous, unable to harm others while alive, they would feel uneasy, only finding peace in death!

Every day, they would come to arrest Qian Wanxiu.

Pei Qian also sent people to search, "That cheap woman is cunning and venomous, capable of even faking her own death, she must have disguised herself as someone else, and she has accomplices! Search everywhere! Focus on places with chaotic populations, suspects who have moved here within the last six months should all be arrested for questioning!"

Her method was quite unreasonable and overbearing, but it miraculously turned out to be very effective.

As soon as the people in the tenement heard this, they began to suspect Qian Wanxiu.

Qian Wanxiu wanted to move away, but as soon as she acted, she would expose herself. The matter of her faking her own death had been exposed too quickly, she hadn’t had the time to hide properly.

The Jingzhao Government Officers searched the tenement, interrogating suspicious individuals, and they found Qian Wanxiu.

Qian Wanxiu cautiously replied from which town she came, which family she belonged to, her surname and name, accompanied by her daughter.

The officers were not very thorough in their investigation, they simply made notes, examined her and the young girl briefly, and then left directly.

But this terrifying interrogation did not end there.

People in the tenement had already become suspicious, and when they gathered during their leisure time, they discussed how Qian Wanxiu harmed General Pei and her scandalous family matters.

In the heat of summer, staying up late, everyone would gather in the courtyard to cool off, discussing Qian Wanxiu, either with indignant curses or with lewd and malicious laughter. freeweɓnovel.cøm

Hiding in her room, Qian Wanxiu bit her teeth in hatred, thinking about her next moves.

The following day, she took her daughter and went directly to the Wei Mansion to find Wei Shu.

However, Wei Shu did not want to get involved with her. She could help to frame Pei Qin, but her goals differed from Lady Qian’s; she wanted to save Jiu Heng and marry him! The rumors of Lady Qian’s scandalous family were already well known, her reputation seemingly reversed after her supposed suicide. But she hadn’t died, not only had she not died, but her act of faking her death and seeking revenge on Pei Qin had also been exposed. If she took in Lady Qian, her reputation would surely be stained further.

Seeing that Wei Shu avoided her and was not willing to help, Qian Wanxiu was fuming with rage. She turned around and went to the Zheng family.

As soon as she entered Zheng family’s gate, she was surrounded by Government Officers who cordoned off the entire Zheng family courtyard.

Only then did the Zheng family realize that the person who had sent messages and brought back Xie Yi was none other than Lady Qian. Now they couldn’t disassociate themselves from her.

Qian Wanxiu had bought someone’s loyalty, but being unable to reveal her identity, she hadn’t expected that after hiding for so long, just as she was about to exploit an opportunity, she was trapped.

Everyone in Zheng’s Second Concubine’s household was taken to the Jingzhao Yamen for questioning.

Seeing the crowd of people swarming outside, the Prefect had no choice but to hold an overnight court, allowing the public to watch.

Qian Wanxiu denied the accusations of framing and debauchery against her family and Pei Qin, "She framed me! Just because I’m her stepmother, she framed me for revenge!"

The people below demanded that Pei Zongli and Pei Wenchen be brought out for a paternity test, to be monitored by the Government Office, allowing no one to tamper with it.

Soon, Pei Zongli and Pei Wenchen, who had been eagerly waiting in prison for Qian Wanxiu to save them, were brought out for trial.

A paternity test was conducted in court.

Pei Wenchen resisted fiercely, firmly disagreeing, "What does it matter to the Government whether someone is their biological child or not? What business is it of yours? Busybodies meddling in others’ affairs!"

The scandal of Qian Wanxiu’s debauched family, morally corrupt, was originally a matter of ethical integrity, normally left uninvestigated unless reported by the public. But now, with accusations of her scheming against Pei Qin and involvement in an evil case, the Government’s intervention was justifiable and assertive.

"Test the blood!" The Prefect also wanted to know the truth of the matter.

Pei Wenchen, blinded in one eye by Pei Yuan without proper treatment or care, had been thrown into prison and had nearly exhausted his physical strength over the half year. The officers easily subdued him, cut his hand with a knife, collected his blood in a bowl, and then went to cut Pei Zongli’s.

They were supposed to be father and son, but their blood in the bowl did not mix.

"He’s not his biological son! He’s a bastard! This is the result of Lady Qian’s debauched family, giving birth to a bastard! It’s ludicrous! Messing around is one thing, but to give birth to such a misbegotten child!"

"Pei Zongli is wearing such a big green hat! I wonder what he feels when he sees his father-in-law!"

"Lady Qian is truly lascivious and shameless, flirting with other men, shamelessly becoming a mistress, driving her husband’s first wife to death, and yet she didn’t die!"