The fact is that Zhang Mengtian and his original wife's cousin killed his original wife together, and then he married his cousin.
If he had killed a concubine, the government would not have held him accountable because concubines had no social status in any era.
You can beat and kill, and you can buy slaves from the gang, which is a bit better.
But it is different for the legitimate wife. Her husband can ignore her, but he cannot kill her at will.
The wives that the sons of great families marry are all ladies from large families, and family marriages are not just marriages between two families.
It also means forming an alliance, so the status of the wife cannot be underestimated.
The Zhang family was in chaos, and all the clan members demanded that Zhang Mengtian be handed over to the authorities. In this way, the Zhang family might be able to avoid being implicated.
After much reflection, the head of the Zhang family finally decided to abandon his own son.
So, when the government office was planning to arrest Zhang Mengtian, the head of the Zhang family simply knocked him out and then tied him up to the government office.
What this means is that the death of the late daughter-in-law was the personal behavior of the son and Wang, and had nothing to do with the Zhang family.
When Zhang Mengtian woke up, he had already been thrown into prison, and he would be executed in the autumn.
In this society, the crime of killing one's wife is not actually serious enough to warrant beheading.
If no one reports it, just kill him.
If someone reports you, you can use money to bribe them and get out after serving a few years in prison.
But after Zhang Mengtian was put in jail, no one tried to help him because his father was afraid of being implicated and had given up on him.
Later, the Wang family also intervened and was determined to kill him.
Because both daughters of the Wang family were killed by him, they wanted to settle the new and old grudges together and make him pay with his life.
A few days later, Zhang Xin's maternal family actually came to Bai Chen's store to recognize their relatives.
Grandpa and grandma, uncle, aunt, cousins, all showed up.
Bai Chen was very cold to them. He said they could sit down and drink tea, but they had to queue up to buy pills. Nothing else was negotiable.
After Zhang Xin was deemed useless, her in-laws also ruthlessly abandoned her.
They never visited her in all these years.
He suddenly comes to claim to be a relative, it's just because he sees the value of the alchemist.
Seeing that they couldn't gain any advantage, the Wang family left unwillingly.
Some members of the Wang family were cursing when they left, saying that Zhang Xin had forgotten her roots once she became successful and even disowned her in-laws.
Bai Chen didn't pay much attention to those irrelevant people and pretended not to hear them.
Because none of them are the ones who caused the client's tragedy.
A few days later, I heard that the head of the Zhang family was implicated because of his son's affairs. Not only was he collectively driven out of office by his brothers and clansmen, but he was also expelled from the Zhang family.
It is unknown where he went afterwards.
The following days were relatively calm. In order to buy top-quality elixirs, some warriors would line up in front of the store before dawn.
What surprised Bai Chen was that one day, Cui Mingyan was among the people in the queue.
In the morning light, he looked so desolate and decadent as he leaned on his cane. His once robust body had become skinny.
When the robe was on him, it looked as if it were hung on a dry rack.
His eye sockets were extremely sunken and he had dark circles under his eyes, like a drug addict.
His eyes were originally empty and lifeless, but when he saw Bai Chen, they suddenly brightened up.
Bai Chen looked at him as if he were a stranger, and actually saw attachment and reluctance in his eyes.
In Cui Mingyan's eyes, the woman in front of him became even more beautiful and more radiant.
Looking at himself again, Cui Mingyan forced out an extremely ugly bitter smile. This person looked like neither human nor ghost. Even he himself felt disgusted and looked down on himself a little.
She would definitely be even more disgusted when she saw me like this.
However, even if he knew, she would definitely be even more contemptuous and disgusted with him after seeing his face like this.
But he still wanted to see her, to take one last look at her.
"How are you?" Cui Mingyan seemed particularly reserved and at a loss, with two abnormal blushes on his originally pale face.
"What do you think?" Bai Chen smiled faintly, his heart felt infinitely open. Looking at his unlucky look, a lot of resentment in his body dissipated.
"Xin'er, I, I."
Cui Mingyan's old face turned red, and he really wanted to tell her that he had fallen in love with her a long time ago.
He missed her so much, every moment!
But he couldn't say it.
I am no longer worthy of her. She is so outstanding, but I have become a cripple again.
And it's even bumpier than before.
As I am now, I am not even qualified to look up at her.
"Take care of yourself!" Cui Mingyan's lips trembled and it took him a long time to utter these words. Then he fled in a panic, leaning on his crutches.
While running away, I was crying madly.
While running in a panic, he had lost the courage to live.
Rather than living like this, it is better to die early and be reborn.
A warrior's life is so long, and he has had enough of his crippled body.
Cui Mingyan somehow came to the Xuanning River. Standing on the bridge, looking at the rolling river water, he seemed to see paradise.
Jump down. After jumping down, you will be free. After jumping down, you can start over.
Cui Mingyan closed his eyes, hypnotized himself over and over again, and finally jumped into the middle of the river.
But as he slowly sank to the bottom of the river, he seemed to see scenes from his previous life.
He saw that he became a cripple because of an experience.
Later, he married the good-for-nothing daughter of the Zhang family, and on the wedding night, he beat her until her skin was torn.
It was a month later that she was able to get out of bed.
In the days that followed, he treated her very badly.
He looked down on her, abused her, and always called her a waste.
And when she saw him, she always shrank into a ball like a mouse seeing a cat, with pleading in her eyes.
Begging him to stop hitting her.
Two years later, his leg healed, and of course he ruthlessly kicked her out of the house, leaving her penniless. He then couldn't wait to marry Pang Juanjuan.
But later, he actually saw her in a brothel.
He was very angry at the time and felt that she had brought shame to the Cui family, so he spent money to redeem her, then dragged her to the river, killed her, and threw her into the river.
He was having a successful life and was in high spirits. Twenty years later, he advanced to the level of Xuan Huang and was hailed as the number one genius on the continent, but she had been staying in the cold river.
Ever since he threw her into the river, the originally clear water has gradually become turbid.
The river water, which could have been drunk directly, was always surrounded by black air. People and animals who drank the river water gradually became crazy.
He felt a little uneasy and suspected that the change in the river water might be because he threw that good-for-nothing girl into the river, polluting the water source.
The river runs through the entire continent. The river water is undrinkable, which means that the entire continent has lost its source of life.
Later, more and more people fell into the river and drowned.
The living people gradually lost their cultivation, and later even became plagued by strange diseases and eventually died.
And they died in a very tragic way.
The world's population is declining dramatically.
The same thing happened to him. He was tortured by the strange disease and eventually died of his whole body rotting away.
He finally understood that her hatred and resentment had spread to every corner of the world through the mother river of the entire continent.