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Chapter 768: Vengeful Spirit Seeking Vengeance (1)_1

The townspeople were all speculating and discussing; those who had gone to Yuanyang County to fetch a cart returned, and soon the news that Pei Zongli's concubine's son had been smothered to death spread back, "…they say it was the wet nurse who smothered him, and that wet nurse acted under Pei Qin's orders, which is why the Master County came here to arrest people for questioning!"

The villagers suddenly burst into an uproar, "Pei Qin ordered the wet nurse to kill Pei Zongli's concubine's son!? Impossible! If she wanted to harm anyone, it would be Lady Qian's son! If it wasn't for Lady Qian, Pei Zongli and Old Pei's House wouldn't have driven Pei Qin and her mother to their deaths."

"Could it be that Lady Qian herself couldn't stand the sight of the concubine and, fearing her son would later vie for the inheritance, killed her own son, and then framed Pei Qin!?"