The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law-Chapter 1631 - 1634: How Was He Killed?

Madam Lin was originally from Qingshui Town and was familiar with the people from Lotus Village. Given that the Lin Family was well-known back then, Madam Lin’s reputation was also widely known.

After taking a few glances, Madam Lin recognized the village chief and said, "Aren’t you the son of the village chief from Lotus Village?"

The village chief looked up and didn’t recognize Madam Lin; he only noticed that this old woman was dressed luxuriously, clearly someone important from Beijing.

"You are...?"

"Oh dear, you don’t recognize me? Ning Prince, quickly tell him who I am."

It was Jin Zijin who informed him.

"That’s Youyou’s grandmother, the mother of Lin Xingyi. Do you remember?"

The village chief suddenly realized and said, "So you’re the wife from the neighboring village’s Lin Family. Oh dear, everyone knows your son Xingyi is ambitious; he’s become a high official in Beijing. After you all moved to Beijing, we seldom heard news from you. How unexpected, meeting you in this lifetime. By the way, where is your son Xingyi, Madam Lin?"

"Look, there he is!" Madam Lin pointed to Lin Xingyi.

Prime Minister Zhang couldn’t watch anymore and snorted coldly, saying, "If you want to reminisce, don’t you see where you are? Are you planning to have the emperor and the entire court wait while you chat?"

Only then did everyone realize the conversation had veered off course, and they hurriedly fell silent.

However, this reminiscing served to calm the village chief’s nerves, and he didn’t tremble as much as when he first entered.

Jin Zijin said to the village chief, "I need you to recount the events of the day Grandpa Gu Feng passed away."

The village chief glanced at the sly-looking Gu Wu, snorted, and nodded.

But Gu Wu said, "Why bring up irrelevant things? I only have one question for the village chief—what was my relationship with Sister Lin back then?"

The village chief was about to say something when Eunuch Wan, standing beside the emperor, shouted in his shrill voice, "Don’t speak until you’re asked to! Do you understand the rules? Dare you babble in front of the emperor—we’ll see if you stay silent if we give you a beating."

With that shout from Eunuch Wan, Gu Wu quieted down. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

But the village chief didn’t dare speak either. Only when everyone was looking at him did he turn back to Jin Zijin and ask, "Can I... can I speak now?"

"You may!" Jin Zijin said.

Only then did the village chief dare to slowly recount the affairs of the Gu Family during the time of Gu Feng’s death.

This included the childhood experiences of Gu Youyou and how the Gu Family’s second and third sons successively sold Gu Youyou for money.

And what drove Gu Feng to death was being told that Old Third Gu killed Old First Gu and his wife. Brother killed brother and sister-in-law, which was a blow too much for Gu Feng.

But Gu Wu shook his head loudly, saying, "No, I didn’t kill my brother and sister-in-law for money. It’s because my sister-in-law was the woman I loved, yet my brother took her. I was overwhelmed with anger which is why... why I killed my brother. I didn’t kill my sister-in-law; she drowned herself."

The village chief snorted and said, "You truly fancied your sister-in-law, but how can you say your brother took her? Everyone knows that they were engaged since childhood, arranged early by your grandfather."

"My sister-in-law loved me too. We even had a daughter together; Gu Youyou is Lin Lian’s daughter with me!" Gu Wu had decided to spill everything. Even if he had to admit to murder and face death, he wanted to drag Gu Youyou down with him.

He wouldn’t survive, and neither should Gu Youyou have an easy life.