Chapter 796 - 169: I Did It_2
"Thinking of pinning Pei Wensheng’s death on us? Hmph!" Pei Qian snorted in anger and immediately had someone spread the news that indeed, someone might be playing the ghost to conceal their true intentions. After all, Pei Wensheng died while Pei Zongli and Qian Wanxiu were together, and it was when Qian Wanxiu was about to mount the mule that Pei Wensheng fell and drowned in the well.
Daring to blame the guilt of Pei Wensheng’s death on them and tarnish their name, they couldn’t expect her to be polite!
With such news being disseminated, the people suddenly realized that Pei Wensheng indeed drowned in the well when Pei Zongli and Qian Wanxiu went to retrieve him. Was his death the claim of a vengeful ghost, or was it deliberate?
If it was truly deliberate, then it was too horrifying. Pei Wensheng was their own flesh and blood; even if they had to disown a relative for justice, they couldn’t lay a hand on their son!
Then some people analyzed it rationally—turning out like that, Pei Wensheng was nothing but a burden and disgrace to Old Pei’s House. If he were dead, not only would there be one less burden, but they could also frame Sister Peiqin and her brothers. Don’t believe it? The talk of vengeful ghosts claiming lives has been suppressed by rumors saying that Pei Wensheng was killed by someone playing the ghost, right!?
When Qian Changdong saw how quickly they counterattacked and even slandered Qian Wanxiu for killing her own son, he thought it downright insane!
"A tiger wouldn’t eat its young; how could anyone believe such rumors!?"
And believe it or not, although people were reluctant to believe it, the majority couldn’t help but want to believe the more incredible the story, the more it spread. If Pei Wensheng could smother his own brother, then they killing their own son to protect their reputation and frame Sister Peiqin and her brothers with a "two birds with one stone" scheme was not beyond belief!
With the precedent of Pei Wensheng killing his brother, it was no longer surprising for Pei Zongli and Qian Wanxiu to kill their child.
Within two days, news of Lady Chen’s death by suicide had spread.