The Ace Bigshot Becomes A Farmgirl

Chapter 1529: Chapter 1529: Monarch Lu Xiang and Scholar Meng Are So Impressive

”No?” Meng Yunzheng chuckled lightly, ”Then why did you have a midnight snack at the second quarter of the Xu hour yesterday? Did you suddenly get hungry or crave something?”

Scholar Chen slowly regained his composure under Meng Yunzheng’s calm yet indifferent expression. He swallowed and thought for a moment before saying, ”Perhaps, I didn’t eat much during dinner.”

”Why didn’t you eat much?”

”Because, because Aunt Jiang’s cooking last night was too bland.” Aunt Jiang is the old woman who helps with cooking at the Chen family’s house.

Meng Yunzheng hadn’t finished asking, ”Since that lady has worked in your house for many years, she should know what your father likes to eat. How could the dishes suddenly not suit his taste?”

”I, I don’t know.”

Meng Yunzheng looked up at Lord Xie, who blinked and suddenly realized, immediately instructing the constables, ”Go, bring Old Lady Jiang here.”

”Yes, Lord.”

The constables soon left, leaving the others looking at each other, while the gathered people watched Shu Yu and Meng Yunzheng with wonder, beginning to whisper among themselves.

”I don’t know why, but just listening to Monarch Lu Xiang and Scholar Meng’s questions one after another makes me feel they are particularly formidable.”

”Aren’t they formidable? I think the truth is about to be revealed.”

”Could it be that there’s about to be a third suspect?”

”It’s possible, that Aunt Jiang could have had the opportunity to poison too.”

Outside, the murmur of discussions was incessant, but inside the hall, it was extremely quiet.

Shu Yu glanced at the few still kneeling on the ground. Dongmei’s gaze was firm, seemingly having great faith in her mistress.

Zhiyou no longer looked as resentful and hopeless as she did earlier, her back was slightly straightened, with her head half-lifted looking towards Shu Yu, her eyes complex.

But Qiuju’s head hung low, her body trembling slightly, a drop of sweat falling from her temple to the floor.

Shu Yu squinted slightly, clicking her tongue, the murderer was most likely her.

But there was one question she couldn’t figure out, according to what they said earlier, both Scholar Chen and Chen Ji sided with Qiuju to protect him. Why would he kill his own supporter so senselessly? Surely it wasn’t just to frame Zhiyou?

Rather puzzling.

She pondered this in her mind as the constables had already brought Old Lady Jiang over.

The latter seemed not to have expected such a scene; when her employer died, she only sighed a couple of times, not anticipating that this matter would involve her, making her extremely flustered.

As soon as she entered the main hall, she immediately knelt down and shouted her innocence, ”Lord Justice, I am innocent, it has nothing to do with me. I really don’t know how Old Master Chen died, I know nothing.”

Lord Xie slammed the gavel, ”Silence, no noise in the courtroom.”

Old Lady Jiang abruptly shut her mouth, extremely nervous.

Then Lord Xie began, ”Old Lady Jiang, I have a few questions to ask you, just answer honestly. If you have not committed a crime, naturally I will not wrong you.”

”Yes, yes, yes, I will answer honestly.”

Lord Xie then asked, ”I ask you, were yesterday’s meals prepared by you at the Chen family? You’ve worked at the Chen family for so many years, you should know Old Master Chen’s preferences, yet why did yesterday’s food make him lose his appetite?”

Old Lady Jiang was stunned for a moment, quickly saying, ”Because, because yesterday while I was cooking, Concubine Qiu was in the kitchen.”