Fu Mingrui frowned. In the countless cases he handled, the ones related to murders for love were just like what Duanmu Qingchen said. No man would admit that he was lustful. They said that it was all women who seduced them. Even the man’s wife thought so.
In Fu Mingrui's eyes, men who are afraid to admit their mistakes are not real men.
As a person, you should be upright. As a man, you should be brave and responsible for your actions!
"Tsk, look, I admit that I am lustful, I like Sanniang and Youyou~~" Duanmu Qingchen spread out his hands, the way he opened his chest, as if his chest was also spread out for the world to see, "But I am lustful but not vulgar, right? Mingrui, you understand me, ah."
Fu Mingrui rolled his eyes, turned away, and didn't bother to pay attention to him.
But Duanmu Qingchen didn't care. He was a man who was very good at entertaining himself: "It's okay for a man to be romantic, but he must not be vulgar. Vulgar means low quality and mean. I think it's just that Bai Youcai saw Yu Pingting's beauty and got lustful. Think about it, he is an old man from the countryside, he has never seen a girl in town since he was a child. Yu Pingting is so pretty, in her twenties, well-educated, and beautiful. Then he looks at his own wife, who is so ugly that he can't eat. So, Bai Youcai's lust was moved, and he wanted to touch her little hand or something..." Duanmu Qingchen grabbed Fu Mingrui's little hand, raised his face to the sky and imagined the scene at that time, "He touched... touched..."
Fu Mingrui glared at him, pulled his hand back, and shook his head repeatedly.
When he pulled his hand back, Duanmu Qingchen turned back, made a conclusion, and shouted: "Result!"
His loud shout scared Fu Mingrui so much that he almost dropped the bowl in his hand.
Duanmu Qingchen slapped the table and spoke with a layered sense of storytelling: "His wife Chen Jinhua found out! How could Chen Jinhua say that Bai Youcai? In the Qian Dynasty, men are respected and obey their husbands at home. She definitely dared not say anything more, so she could only vent her anger on Yu Pingting and call her a vixen! Do you think I'm right?!"
Fu Mingrui picked up another stack of notes and nodded perfunctorily: "Well~~You are the prince~~Whatever you say is right~~~" He frowned slightly and turned to look at the complacent Duanmu Qingchen, "Why don't you return to the palace? If you don't return to the palace, won't the emperor blame you?"
Duanmu Qingchen's mouth was crooked, with a dandy smile on his face: "The Grand Tutor asked me to investigate human nature for three days. I was ordered to leave the palace to do a research project. My father won't tell, hahahaha."
Fu Mingrui showed a helpless and speechless expression. Throughout history, the only one who would call the Emperor "Daddy" instead of "Father" was the unruly prince Duanmu Qingchen!
Duanmu Qingchen saw Fu Mingrui start to look at another stack, so he leaned over and ate while looking at him eagerly: "Let me see it too."
Fu Mingrui turned slightly and placed the transcripts between the two of them so they could see them together.
This pile of confessions is mostly from the daughters-in-law of the village, young women, or men. There are old people, young people, and even the village chief.
One after another, people of all shapes and sizes seemed to reappear around Fu Mingrui and Duanmu Qingchen, and began to describe what they saw in Yu Pingting...
"Yu Pingting's life was not easy. How could a girl from the town do housework? She came to our village to suffer. She didn't know how to do housework, so she learned from her mother-in-law. Her mother-in-law was a famous strong woman in our village..."
"Chen Jinhua has the most vicious words! Three years ago, our fence extended a little further to their land, and she cursed our whole family to death, saying we were all bitches. I was pregnant at the time, and she even cursed me to lose my baby sooner or later! You said that we don't know much about the land in the countryside. If you think we fenced too much, why don't you say something? Why curse our whole family! That's why retribution came so quickly! Humph!"
"The villagers are uneducated, so they believe whatever Chen Jinhua says. Alas... many people are jealous that Zhan Kui became a scholar, got the county magistrate's subsidy, and married such a beautiful woman. So, they can't stand seeing their family doing well. Many of these words are slanderous and unbearable to listen to."
"Pingting's mother-in-law is the worst and most vicious! Everyone in our village knows it, just like my mother-in-law! She is so lazy that she doesn't do any work when Pingting comes. Pingting is pregnant, but she still has to cook, wash clothes, farm, feed pigs, and serve their family. That's why I don't like men who read books. The men in their family don't do anything! Seeing that Pingting is pregnant, you should at least help her out. She studies in the study all day long, and Pingting has to bring her food. She is like a disabled person. It's really hard for Pingting."
"That's right. Pingting is the eldest daughter of the town. Her physique is better than ours. Even though we grew up in a small village and can do farm work without any difficulty, we were forced to go to the fields after giving birth by our mother-in-law. Who doesn't want to lie in bed for a while? Pingting's physique is even worse. Right after giving birth, she was forced by her mother-in-law to cook and she fainted!"
"What? You ask us why we think Pingting is good? At the beginning, we also listened to the bad things our mother-in-law said, and those bad things were all said by Pingting's mother-in-law. Later, when we got familiar with Pingting, we realized that Pingting was actually a good person. The children in our village all run around, and then one day, when we went to find our own children for dinner, we found that they were all listening to Pingting telling stories by the river. Pingting told stories to the children while washing clothes, and taught them to read and understand principles. When the children came back, they were all very sensible! They always admired Pingting. But at that time she hadn't given birth to a child yet, so she had time. Later, she only gave birth to children for their Bai family. How could she have time to tell stories to us little beasts? It would be great if Pingting was alive, the children all liked her. They called her mother-in-law an old witch."
"Pingting is really good! She gave birth to three children for the Bai family in three years, and her mother-in-law is still not satisfied. And they are twin sons. Who made their family treat her badly? It's their retribution that she took the children away!"
"As for Pingting taking the child away, I think the child is innocent. Pingting is pitiful, but taking the child away is too cruel. Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs..."
"Pingting is the most patient mother in our village. Yaer cries every day, who can stand it? But Pingting still coaxes Yaer patiently. Anyway, I don't have that patience. Her mother-in-law also said that Yaer's crying disturbed her son's study and became a high official. She said that Yaer must have a terminal illness or was possessed by some evil spirit, so she asked Pingting to throw Yaer away!" (To be continued)