manynovel Chapter 698 Marriage Fraud
Chapter 698 Marriage Fraud
"Who wouldn't envy me for having a good marriage when I got married? I didn't feel anything unusual on the wedding night, but I realized something was wrong when I returned home the next day. My husband didn't go back with me, and I haven't seen him since that day." Li Yue said gritting her teeth.
Everyone was puzzled and wondered where this child came from since they had never seen him before.
Li Yue knew that everyone was puzzled, she smiled bitterly and said: "You really can't imagine that I can't see my husband during the day. The servants always say that the young master is busy and rushes around every day to make money. Later, my husband would only come back on the first and fifteenth day of every month.
And every time he came back at night, he was still wearing a mask. I asked him about it in surprise, but he ignored me. He never took off the mask when we slept together at night.
"Don't you find it strange? Could it be that someone has been replaced?" Zhu Zhimin couldn't help but ask.
"I naturally felt strange and suspected it was a marriage fraud. The husband I married that day was a hired hand, and the real husband was ugly. But I had already married him, so I could only follow him wherever he went. I thought I could tolerate him no matter what he looked like."
"Then have you seen his true face?" Jiang Youzhen asked.
Li Yue shook her head. "After he slept with me, he didn't stay overnight and left immediately. I tried to take off his mask halfway through, but he grabbed my neck and almost strangled me to death that time.
I saw his eyes, which were very fierce and frightened me. He also warned me that if I looked at his face, he would kill me. I was scared and didn't dare to be curious anymore. "
Everyone frowned, which meant that Li Yue didn't know much.
"I asked him why he treated me like this, and he just said that he married me in order to have children. As long as I was obedient and didn't tell anyone, I would be well fed and well clothed, but I couldn't tell anyone else."
After that, Li Yue lived in a daze. Except that her son-in-law did not go back with her to her parents' home, there was nothing wrong with her.
Because they were truly well-fed and well-dressed, never worried about food and clothing. They wore silk and satin, ate delicacies from land and sea, lived in a large house, and had servants to serve them.
Even when she took the big and small bags back to support her parents, her husband did not ask. The housekeeper was in charge of all the expenses of the family, and the monthly allowance of 20 taels of silver was taken care of.
But when she asked the manager about her husband, the manager denied knowing anything.
This lasted for half a year until Li Yue became pregnant. Since then, her husband also came to visit her on the first and fifteenth day of the month. She was treated better than before, and a maid who knew medicine was specially hired to take care of her.
"He was very attentive to the child and took good care of me, but he took the child away. I had just finished my confinement when the child disappeared. Overnight, the house was deserted, and only Cuihong, the maid I bought myself, was with me."
The tears on Li Yue's face had not yet dried. "Cui Hong said that she overheard the conversation between the steward and my husband. They are both at Fangyuan Inn and will send the child to the capital at night. Cui Hong also told me that this house is rented and I am going to be abandoned."
Li Yue ran to the inn to ask for the child. Probably because those people wanted to avoid any complications, they had no choice but to take Li Yue with them to the capital.
"They lied to me that I was a concubine. In fact, my husband had another family in the capital, but his wife couldn't have children, so they tricked me into marriage and gave birth to a child. I didn't have time to think about it, and I was tricked into going to the capital."
"Then why did you go to Tianxiang Tower?" Qin Yandong just felt like he was listening to a story. This woman was actually a pitiful person.
"She was simply tricked into going to the capital and sold. Those people probably wanted Li Yue to be their link. And because her child was under their control, Li Yue had no choice but to obey them."
Jiang Youzhen could guess it, but that man was really a piece of shit.
No matter what, she was the woman who followed him. He could abandon her or sell her at will, and even sell her to such a vile place.
Everyone clicked their tongues and cursed at him.
Li Yue nodded, "Yes! They sold me to Tianxianglou just to let me pass on messages. But I don't know the people who came to pick up the letters, nor do I know the contents of the letters, because they are all sealed.
They threatened me with the child, saying that I could only look after the child on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month. If I didn’t obey, the child would suffer, and they would not let me look after the child in the future.”
"The place where you take care of the child is Farong Temple?" Jiang Youzhen asked.
Li Yue responded, "That family would come to pay homage every first and fifteenth day of the lunar month. When the child was a little older, they would bring him along. I took this opportunity to go see the child. Seeing that Xiaoyun was being well taken care of, I felt relieved."
"You are relieved, just like you beat and scolded the innocent child in Tianxiang Tower." Jiang Youzhen sneered.
Li Yue's face turned pale, revealing a hint of guilt.
"The child was brought here by the chief steward. He said there was a child blocking him to prevent anyone from getting suspicious. Whenever I saw him, I thought of Xiaoyun. Sometimes I couldn't help but vent my anger on him."
"Then do you know that the Huang family's child was captured by your husband, and not only will they be threatened, but they also have to raise the child of their enemy?" Jiang Youzhen sneered, but there was no need to compare misery, as they had no choice anyway.
Li Yue's eyes were filled with tears. "We are all poor people. Who can decide? But Xiaoyun is innocent. Please let Xiaoyun go."
Jiang Youzhen didn't answer, but just smiled.
"Now describe the faces of the people you saw." She picked up the charcoal pencil and prepared to paint again.
"There are only three people, and they come often." Li Yue began to recall.
Based on Li Yue's description, a total of three portraits were drawn.
One was the chief steward, another was actually an acquaintance of mine, Wei Zheng, and the other was a thin man in his thirties.
"We need to investigate these two people thoroughly." Jiang Youzhen gave the portraits to the guards. It would be difficult to find the people this way.
"The next step is to interrogate Zhishen."
Li Yue didn’t know much, and Jiang Youzhen didn’t have any hope for Zhishen.
After leaving the room, Qin Yandong frowned.
"Those people acted too cautiously. They even wore masks. Li Yue was so confused that she knew so little."
"Li Yue was just a girl in the boudoir before, and she had little experience, so she didn't expect so much."
"The kid from Tianxiang Tower?" Qin Yandong thought of the kid, maybe he knew something.
"Send someone to bring him here for questioning! But I think he is just a poor child, and he doesn't have any special status. Seeing how Li Yue treated him, those people didn't care. It's obvious that they bought him as a shield from somewhere."
"But I have a doubt. Since that man has money, why doesn't he buy a woman to give birth to a child? Why does he have to go through so much trouble?" Zhu Zhimin wondered.
"Your Excellency is indeed meticulous. I think the same thing as you. I guess that the child needs an identity in order to register his household registration. An identity obtained in this way is legitimate and can withstand investigation. He may have used this method to deceive many people." Jiang Youzhen guessed.
Qin Yandong rolled his eyes. This was just flattery.