Chapter 1073: A good kill!

The young man discussed two plans with his mother: one was to announce to the outside world that Lady Lu was in poor health, falling ill and taking medicine every day, and after half a year, she would simply "die of illness"!

The other plan was to take Lady Lu out and stage an accident, causing her to die an unnatural death.

In this way, he could silence her without anyone knowing. The Lu family's estate, as well as Lady Lu's dowry, would all become the young man's private property. From now on, who would remember that he had built his fortune relying on his father-in-law, or that he had been a kept man until today?

As long as Lady Lu died, his past—his most sordid past, the past that had been mocked by others, the days of living under someone else's roof—would all fade away.

Great kindness is like a great enmity!

The old saying does not deceive.

Not everyone is devoid of conscience and completely without a bottom line.

There were a few loyal servants in the mansion who simply could not bear to watch any longer. What the young man and his mother had done could no longer be described as returning evil for good. It was clearly malicious!

Malice that breaks through the boundaries of human nature!

They quietly told Lady Lu the truth.

Only then did Lady Lu realize that her repeated concessions had not brought peace; instead, the other party wanted her life.

Even more cruel was that it wasn't that she couldn't conceive, but that her mother-in-law had drugged her, causing her infertility. The mother and son viewed those years, the more than a decade of being helped and taught by Master Lu, as a supreme humiliation. From the very beginning, they had never intended to let her bear children.

Even more terrifying was that long before they were married, the young man had been dallying with a woman outside and had already fathered a child.

The young man's proposal to marry her had been a scheme from the start. When the young man went to the capital for the imperial examinations, he saw power and wealth and realized that relying on his own solitary efforts, even if he passed the examinations, he would spend his whole life wasting away in a remote little county.

After much thought, only by marrying Master Lu's daughter would Master Lu help him wholeheartedly and be willing to hand over all his connections and resources. With the Lu family's connections and resources, his official career would be visibly smooth.

Therefore, he shamelessly begged to marry her. Because he acted well in his daily life, no one saw his wolfish ambition, and the proposal went incredibly smoothly.

Even Master Lu's death halfway through from a cold had the young man's hand in it.

Upon learning the truth, Lady Lu was heartbroken, suffering every moment of every day. She never imagined that the childhood sweetheart she thought she had was viewed by her husband as a humiliation. Her marriage had been calculated. Even her father's death was caused by her husband, who was the culprit.

As for her mother-in-law's mistreatment, drugging her to cause a miscarriage, and her infertility... and now plotting to take her life, hahaha...

What kind of sin had she committed to encounter this pair of mother and son in this life? Both father and daughter had fallen into the hands of this pair.

A wretched fate!

Lady Lu harbored a heart full of hatred.

As the saying goes, he who strikes first gains the advantage; he who strikes later suffers.

Under normal circumstances, an ordinary woman encountering such things would either accept her fate and die in the backyard, or seek help outside, or if all else failed, report it to the authorities. However, even reporting it to the authorities wouldn't solve the problem and would only alert the enemy. She had no evidence, and her husband was also an official; as the saying goes, officials protect each other.

Thinking of the Lu family's hatred, her father's vengeance, and her own tragic half-life, Lady Lu gritted her teeth and hardened her heart, directly poisoning the mother and son to death.

She was usually virtuous and obedient, and because of this, the poisoning went exceptionally smoothly.

Until they died, the mother and son could not believe she had the guts to poison them! She had actually beaten them to it.

Later, Lady Lu was reported by a concubine in the mansion, and this matter was exposed.

A wife killing her husband and mother-in-law is rare in the world.

The case was sent to the Ministry of Justice, and Lady Lu was arrested and thrown into the female prison of the Heavenly Prison.

Master Lu had spent his life teaching and educating people. In these times, the imperial examinations were difficult, and those who could succeed were few. Upon learning of Lady Lu's case, many disciples who had received Master Lu's kindness wanted to overturn the verdict for her, but they were willing yet powerless.

After all, it was a fact that Lady Lu had killed people.

Su Xuezhi was also a disciple of Master Lu and had received his kindness. He was one of the few among the many students who had succeeded through the imperial examinations. It was a pity Master Lu died too early; otherwise, Su Xuezhi's official career would certainly have been smoother than it was now.

Back when he was studying, he couldn't stand Wen Huairen.

Wen Huairen was Lady Lu's husband, the man who wanted to climb the social ladder and planned to kill his wife.

He sensed that Wen Huairen was a person with a dark heart, but he had no evidence, and no one believed him. Everyone was deceived by the gentleness, kindness, and humility Wen Huairen displayed. Only Su Xuezhi keenly saw through the mask of the man surnamed Wen, saw through his essence, and saw the darkness in his heart.

Alas, his words carried little weight. Master Lu even taught him not to be jealous of his fellow students.

Sigh!

Master Lu always thought the best of people.

When Master Lu died, Wen Huairen finally revealed his wolfish ambition and his vicious, sinister side. Even Wen's mother was just as vicious. They were worthy of being mother and son, cut from the same cloth.

After reading the case file, added to Su Xuezhi's supplement, Chen Guanlou's mood could not be calmed for a long time.

He wondered, if his eldest sister Chen Xiaolan had married a man like Wen Huairen, what would he have done?

If his niece Su Rongrong were to marry into a family like the Wen mother and son in the future, what then?

Only killing!

Only killing!

"A good kill!"

Lady Lu did a beautiful job!

She should have killed! Killed ruthlessly! It's just a pity she didn't manage to kill all the Wen family members.

When encountering trouble, she didn't cry, didn't wallow in self-pity, didn't naively seek help outside, but directly poisoned them, eliminating the enemy on a physical level. Excellent!

Even if it cost her life, it was worth it!

Rather than being killed by others, it was better to let the law kill her.

However, Chen Guanlou did not rush to agree to Su Xuezhi's plea.

"I still need to look at this case again and evaluate it."

"That is only right." Su Xuezhi was not disappointed. He could see that Prison Warden Chen was on his junior sister's side, not the Wen family's. With this stance, the matter should be doable.

"Let me understand, are you looking to overturn the verdict for your junior sister, or what? I can tell you clearly, Lady Lu's case has ironclad evidence; both human and material evidence are complete, and the people are dead. The key is that the ones who died were her husband and mother-in-law. Wanting to overturn the verdict is basically impossible! The Ministry of Justice cannot publicly condone such cases to prevent others from imitating them."

Upon hearing this, Su Xuezhi looked distressed. "My junior sister was avenging her father and was forced into a corner. When the Ministry of Justice passes judgment, they should consider that a child avenging a father is a situation worthy of sympathy!"

"You are right. Under normal circumstances, if Wen Huairen were not an official, Lady Lu's case would not necessarily be sentenced to death. But, it just so happens that Wen Huairen is an official. Many officials in the imperial court are on the Wen family's side, demanding Lady Lu's execution. The Ministry of Justice is under great pressure. Therefore, there is no hope of overturning the verdict."

Su Xuezhi suddenly became agitated. "If the verdict cannot be overturned, then what else can I do? How can I get her out? Can I only watch my junior sister go to the execution ground and pay with her life for that vicious mother and son of the Wen family?" ===== CHAPTER 1074 =====