in2ebook Chapter 182 Being Defiled
Chapter 182 Being Defiled
One night, Dou Cong had knocked Wu unconscious and was halfway through taking off her clothes when he heard a rapid knock on the door. Feeling guilty, Dou Cong didn't recognize it was the neighbor's door knocking, and thought someone was looking for Wu. He ran out with his half-taken clothes, not noticing that the jade belt had fallen from his arms.
[Because he was too nervous, Dou Cong went straight back to his room after returning and never noticed the problem with the jade belt.]
Now Zhao Wu didn't believe his wife at all. He was sure she was lying and was deliberately protecting the adulterer. He beat her violently. Fearing she would be beaten to death by the man, she took advantage of the situation and ran out of the house to seek help from Lord Dou.
[Tongzi, Dou Cong looks weak and doesn't seem like the type to climb walls. How did he manage to get into the neighbor's house?]
This wasn't a simple matter. There was a dog hole in his yard that connected to Zhao Wu's house, and Dou Cong had slipped through it. Zhao Wu and Wu thought there might be some bad guy in the Dali Temple's house, and the dog hole didn't look big, so it hadn't been blocked, which gave Dou Cong an opportunity to take advantage of it.
[Unfortunately, the Wu family was harmed by this bastard.]
After Gu Jianchu reacted, she found that she was holding Xie Ci'an's hand tightly. She turned her head and secretly glanced at Xie Ci'an, but seeing that Xie Ci'an looked lazy and had no extra emotions, she felt relieved and quietly let go of Xie Ci'an's hand.
When the housekeeper returned, he was accompanied by a disheveled Wu, with a clearly visible slap mark on her face. Seeing Dou Wen, she threw herself before him and knelt down, "Master Dou, you must save me! Guo Wu has gone mad and is determined to beat me to death."
Dou Wen was completely confused. He frowned and looked at the woman kneeling in front of him. "Get up first. If it's Guo Wu's fault, I will definitely take care of it for you."
"Butler, please go and find out what exactly happened." Dou Wen has been solving cases for so many years and knows that there are reasons behind everything, so he naturally won't make arbitrary decisions.
Before the housekeeper could find out what had happened, Guo Wu chased after his wife, holding a jade belt in one hand and an axe in the other. He looked ferocious and terrifying.
Cheng Song and Chong Feng stood in front of the emperor and empress on the left and right.
When Wu saw the axe in Guo Wu's hand, she was so scared that she shrank behind Dou Wen.
Not to mention Wu, even Dou Wen was frightened by Guo Wu's appearance. After reacting, he shouted sternly, "Guo Wu, what are you doing? Are you trying to commit a crime in front of me?"
Guo Wu was so angry just now that he did that. Now he came to his senses and dropped the axe.
Seeing this, the housekeeper hurried forward and took the axe away to prevent anyone from being killed.
Guo Wu knelt down in front of Dou Wen with a thud. The man who had been ferocious before suddenly burst into tears in front of Dou Wen, and everyone was unable to react in time.
[This person's crying was so loud that it was definitely the same person who had the axe.]
Not to mention Gu Jianchu, even Dou Wen and Xie Ci'an were shocked by Guo Wu's action.
Guo Wu cried loudly, but after a while, he finally sobbed and burped. "My Lord, you must help me. It hasn't been half a year since I married Wu, and she took advantage of me being away on the boat to have an adulterer and have a child. Now the doctor has diagnosed it, but she still refuses to admit it. If you don't tell me who the adulterer is, I'm done with you."
Dou Wen was shocked and glanced coldly at Wu behind him.
Wu cringed and knelt before Dou Wen, "Your Excellency, I have observed that since I married Zhao Wu, I have always behaved well at home. I have never done anything out of line, let alone hooked up with any other man. The neighbors around here can all vouch for me."
Guo Wu turned his fierce gaze towards Wu again, "If you didn't have an affair with another man, then where did the child in your belly come from? You're kidding me! I've been sailing away for the past two months and haven't had the chance to touch you. And the doctor said you're only pregnant for a little over a month."
Mrs. Wu looked confused. "I can swear that I have never done anything to offend you. Maybe the doctor made a mistake in the diagnosis."
As a neighbor, Dou Wen knew the two of them. Since Wu married Guo Wu, she had been honest and dutiful, and did not seem like someone who would cheat on her husband. Guo Wu was also hardworking and often went out sailing with the captain, hoping to earn more money to support his wife.
Maybe it was really a misdiagnosis by a quack doctor that caused the rift between the two people.
Dou Wen looked at Gu Jianchu and said, "Empress, could you ask Imperial Physician Lin to take Madam Wu's pulse?"
When Guo Wu and Wu heard this name, they were shocked and looked over immediately.
Only then did I realize that there were two other people in the room. The woman was beautiful, and her aura was unmatched, while the man was handsome, and he exuded the aura of a superior, making people dare not look directly at him.
The two of them saluted after realizing it.
But he didn't dare look at the two of them for too long.
"Agreed." The moment Gu Jianchu finished speaking, Doctor Lin was brought over by Yunhe.
Doctor Lin didn't expect that the Dali Temple would be so busy that day, with so many cases every day.
Doctor Lin naturally walked over to Mrs. Wu and took her pulse.
After a moment, Doctor Lin withdrew his hand, looked at Gu Jianchu and reported, "The pregnancy pulse is showing, and the pregnancy has been over a month."
"Are you sure?" Guo Wu asked with a cold face.
"Of course." Doctor Lin nodded with certainty.
Mrs. Wu looked at Doctor Lin nervously, "Could you have made a mistake?"
Guo Wu slapped Lin in the face. "I'm the imperial physician, treating the Emperor and the Empress. How could I have made a mistake? It's obvious that you've been cheating on me with another man, and you refuse to admit it. Tell me who your adulterer is, or I won't forgive you."
Dou Wen frowned and slapped the table, "How dare you commit violence in front of me."
The moment Guo Wu was yelled at, he shrank back like a quail.
Doctor Lin explained, "I can't be wrong. Your pulse is weak and fluttering, which is only seen in a month of pregnancy. If you don't believe me, you can ask a few more people to take a look. They probably can't tell the pulse of a woman who's only two or three months pregnant."
"You still don't tell me whose child it is. Do you want me to be the scapegoat and raise the child?" Guo Wu jumped up again, but with Dou Wen's warning, he did not jump up to hit anyone.
Wu cried bitterly, shaking her head, "My husband, you have to believe me. I haven't been cheating on anyone else. I don't know how this child came from. If I've been cheating on you and had a child, you can just beat me to death."
Wu didn't look like she was lying, but the child was real. Guo Wu was confused for a moment. "How can I believe you when there is irrefutable evidence?"
Wu didn't know how to refute it.
Gu Jianchu interrupted at the right time and said, "Could it be that, like what happened to the Wen family, the Wu family was defiled without knowing it?"