Wanjin Lady

Chapter 345 Showdown
The young lady smiled gently, two shallow dimples appearing on her lips. "These... are just my guesses, brother."

"Wen Wan, do you dare to say that you are not the murderer of my two cousins?!"

The young lady's expression froze for a moment, and she parted her lips slightly as she spoke word by word: "I swear, I didn't kill your two cousins."

"Then you dare to swear that the deaths of my two cousins ​​have nothing to do with you?!"

She smiled gently, "I have a lot of business dealings with the third branch of the Yuan family. Your two brothers are guilty of their own evil deeds, so what does this have to do with me?"

"You're still lying!" Cheng Yunzhang's chest heaved, his eyes reddened. "I thought... there was at least some friendship between you and me. I was willing to give you a chance, and you should be honest with me. I never thought that this was just wishful thinking on my part."

"I knew you were a traitor and a vindictive person, but I never imagined your methods would be so cruel and brutal!"

Cheng Yunzhang picked up the hairpin and said, "I found it near the bridge closest to my teacher's house. That night, your carriage got stuck in the mud, and the driver came to us for help. You were wearing a veil and looked very embarrassed, saying that you had fallen. But in fact, it was because my sixth cousin came back to look for you, and you two had a fight, right?"

Wen Wan's face turned pale.

She never expected that the boomerang would hit her right between the eyebrows.

"Yes, you didn't kill him."

"You are small and lack strength, and my sixth cousin has learned some boxing and kicking skills. You won't be able to cut his neck with your height."

"After my sixth cousin died, I had my suspicions about you, so I ordered someone to make a straw man of the same weight as my sixth cousin and send it downstream from where I picked up the hairpin. Finally, the straw man was found in the river two or three miles from where my sixth cousin's body was found!"

Wen Wan argued, "There were heavy rains in Ping County those days, and the river was flooded. Even a straw man of the same weight might not be able to follow the trajectory and reach the downstream—"

Sudden.

There was dead silence in the cabin.

Wen Wan's pupils shrank slightly, and her hands on her knees suddenly grasped the fabric.

Cheng Yunzhang smiled bleakly, "Only the murderer would remember the weather that day."

Wen Wan's scalp exploded instantly!

For my own stupidity, and even more for Cheng Yunzhang's sharpness!
How can ordinary people remember whether it was raining or sunny at a certain time more than a year ago?
Only the murderer.

She was careless!

"So... the one who killed him was Zhao Heng." The man's voice was soft, yet packed with immense force. "I'm guessing Zhao Heng was there that day, right?"

Wen Wan was kneeling on the mat, with her head down and her lower lip tightly bitten. Her whole body was shrouded in a gloomy aura.

Cheng Yunzhang's eyes were sharper than ever before. "This is why you killed the father and kept the son. You're worried that if the matter is exposed, the Yuan family will seek revenge on him! Right?!"

The young lady swayed and looked at him in disbelief, "Why are you..."

How do you know everything——

"Yes, I know everything. The murderer was Zhao Heng, right?" Cheng Yunzhang's breathing hitched, and he suddenly realized something. "So... he was the one who killed my fifth cousin this time? He's hiding in Bozhou City, right?!"

Correct!
This is the only explanation!
Now it all makes sense!

People who practice archery will have calluses on their fingers. He has observed the people around Wen Wan and found that even Mr. Tu was used to using a knife rather than riding and shooting. However, he vaguely remembered... Zhao Heng, the son-in-law of the Wen family, was very skilled in riding and shooting!
Maybe these two people have already secretly contacted each other!
Then Wen Wan's friend is Zhao Heng, the son who was left behind after his father was killed! !

"No!" The young lady's voice suddenly became sharp, and she shook her head, "It's not him!"

Wen Wan was terrified at this moment.

She had never expected that Cheng Yunzhang could piece together the truth in a confused manner!
Cheng Yunzhang quickly caught the loophole in her words and said, "You know who the murderer is!"

Wenwan's chest heaved violently, her eyelashes trembled uneasily, the boat shook, and her gaze seemed to shake with it.

After a long time, she slowly exhaled a breath.

The remaining light turned into a tiny dot of light in her pupils.

“Yuan Jing, Yuan Qi… I killed them all.” “Zhao Heng taught me martial arts. Especially… how to kill adult men taller than me.”

The young lady stared at him with a dark look, even mocking and challenging him, "If I can kill the bandits, why can't I kill them?"

The truth comes to light.

Cheng Yunzhang's expression changed in horror.

He had thought of countless answers, he even thought that Wen Wan was the real murderer, but this answer was too scary, every time he touched the edge of this answer, he would immediately close it.

Wen Wan can't be the murderer.

Although Wen Wan's methods are cruel, she is not so brutal.

He understands her.

Therefore, he will definitely clear her name.

Cheng Yunzhang bit his lip, and a feeling of sadness suddenly spread in his chest.

He has kept this hairpin all the time!

He had fantasized countless times that perhaps one day, God would be kind to him and he would have the chance to spend his life with Wen Wan.

but--

This hairpin is the evidence that Wen Wan killed her sixth cousin!
The hairpin he was holding was covered in his sixth cousin's blood!

Anger rushed to his head, and his heart was pierced by needles, almost making it difficult for him to breathe.

His voice trembled. "Why... Even if my two cousins ​​had business disputes with you, you shouldn't have been so cruel as to kill them!"

"You...you..." Cheng Yunzhang's hands trembled under his robe, "When did you become so hideous?!"

The man's eyes were filled with mist, and he asked her in a hoarse voice, "Why... must they die?"

The man's words seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, weighing down Wenwan's shoulders.

But gradually.

Outside the boat, there was a singing girl sitting by the river, holding a pipa and singing a folk song from her hometown. Her tone was cheerful and lively, and the sound drifted away with the wind.

The water hit the boat in waves.

The moon was rising high in the distance, casting a golden glow on the surface of the river.

Wen Wan's clenched fists slowly loosened, and the hostility between her brows gradually dissipated. She slowly lifted her lips and smiled, and there seemed to be broken moonlight in her eyes, "They deserved to die."

"Genrokuro deliberately got my carriage stuck in the mud, waited for me to be alone, raped and beat me, and even tried to kill me. What's wrong with me killing him?"

A strong wind blew in, and Cheng Yunzhang's eyebrows jumped!
He looked at Wen Wan, his face full of disbelief.

"Yuan Wulang... Ha..." Wen Wan sneered coldly. She opened her eyes, and her sharp edge was revealed in an instant. "He killed my maid Lu Ping, so I killed him! An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth! What's wrong with that?!"

Cheng Yunzhang blurted out almost instantly, "Your maid Lu Ping committed suicide! How can this be blamed on my fifth cousin?"

wrong.

To be precise... he was killed by rumors!

But who is the culprit?

It’s Genrokuro!

Thinking of this, Cheng Yunzhang's face turned pale.

How could I forget that in Ping County... there was already a life between Wen Wan and the third wife!