Chapter 158: Confession

"Stop!" Magistrate Li called out to the government official, "Now confess truthfully!"

Wang Ergou, after being struck several times, kept groaning in pain before slowly getting up and kneeling down, "Magistrate, I confess, I bought the rat poison!"

"Why?"

My wife was taken by them, and I couldn't bear it; I just wanted revenge. I bought rat poison to harm them."

"Detail the process of how you administered the poison!"

"On the second day of the month, I went with my dad, my eldest brother, my third brother..."

"Second brother, you..." Wang Huzi broke in, panicking—this would implicate them all.

"Silence!" Magistrate Li banged the gavel again, and Wang Huzi dared not speak further, his eyes filled with hatred and utter disappointment towards his younger brother, believing they were all doomed.

"Continue!"