Chapter 968: Granny Gu Dies of Rage

Lord Lai saw Granny Gu coughing up blood and showed no pity, instead, he sneered and uttered two murderous words: "Deserved it!"

Those two words sealed Granny Gu’s fate.

When she coughed up blood, she still held a bit of hope, thinking that at least Lai Zhi had a little genuine feeling for her. But hearing those two words and seeing Lord Lai’s contemptuous, gloating face, she completely despaired.

"Ah~" Granny Gu wailed, truly heartbroken.

But Lord Lai ignored her and started eating his last meal with great appetite.

Granny Gu wailed even more fiercely.

"Stop wailing. You’ve seen him and said what needed to be said. Time to go." The prison chief motioned to two prison guards: "Hurry up and carry her back."

"Yes." The two prison guards answered, approaching to carry Granny Gu, but she coughed up another mouthful of blood and then lay still.

"What’s, what’s going on?" The prison guards were startled, looking at Granny Gu’s open eyes, unbelievingly pushing her and shouting, "Liu Shiliu, Liu Shiliu?"

However, Granny Gu had already stopped breathing, her pupils slowly dilating, truly dying with a grievance.

"She’s dead!" After checking Granny Gu’s pupils and breath, the prison guard, terrified, said to the prison chief, "Boss, she’s dead."

The prison chief was startled, quickly stood up to check, and found Granny Gu really deceased. This...

"Boss, what do we do now?" The prison guard asked fearfully, not scared of the body but afraid the Magistrate would blame them, after all, she was brought to see Lord Lai and died of anger: "This execution hasn’t happened yet."

The prison chief said, "You stay here and watch, I’ll go report to the Magistrate."

Saying this, he gave Lord Lai a fierce glare, pointing at Granny Gu: "Dying with grievance, are you satisfied now!"

Lord Lai was already shocked, hearing the prison chief’s words, looked at Granny Gu and saw her dilated eyes staring at him, startling him to the point of screaming and covering his eyes, shouting, "Take her away, quickly take her away!"

Staring at him like this, is she trying to claim his life?

The prison chief sneered: "Take her where? In a few hours, you’ll be on your way too. Just leave her here to wait for you, so you’ll have company on the path to the underworld."

Hearing the prison chief’s words, Lord Lai was even more terrified, almost fainting from fear.

The prison chief had no time to deal with Lord Lai, hurrying to see Magistrate Gu, reporting Granny Gu’s death by Lord Lai’s anger, also pleading, "My Lord, it was my mistake, I shouldn’t have brought Liu Shiliu to see Lai Zhi."

Upon hearing Granny Gu was dead, the Magistrate only frowned slightly, saying, "It’s fine, since she’s dead, leave her there, and when Lai Zhi is executed, take Liu Shiliu’s body along to the execution ground."

The Fei Family Case, Yuan Jiaman Case, in essence, are all Lord Lai’s sins. If he hadn’t married Liu Shiliu to Yuan Jiaman in the first place, none of this would have happened. It’s all karma and retribution.

So letting Lord Lai be scared by Granny Gu’s body for a few hours serves as a punishment too.

The prison chief was overjoyed hearing this and said, "Yes, my lord, I will handle it right away!"

Great, no punishment received.

However, after returning, the prison chief dared not do anything in secret anymore, fearing more troubles.

As for Lord Lai, he stared at Granny Gu’s body all night until just before dawn, when he was escorted to the execution ground.

Ms. Zheng, along with her son, Mrs. Gu, Gu Youwen, Gu Dagu, and others were also brought to the execution ground, kneeling, preparing for execution.

Last night, Ms. Zheng and the others had a good meal and were quite happy, but now seeing this situation, they snapped back to reality, crying out, "My lord, my lord, we are innocent, don’t kill us, we haven’t done anything wrong!"

Gu Dagu also cried uncontrollably, constantly proclaiming her innocence, but the prison guards ignored them, letting them cry and shout.

The executioner sharpened the large knife, the sound of scraping making people’s necks chill.

Gu Dagu was really about to go mad, constantly shouting, and under the torchlight, spotting Lord Lai, as if seeing a savior, she cried out, "Father, Father, save us! You are an official, a fifth-rank official, quickly think of a way to save us, we don’t want to die."

Father?

Lord Lai glared at Gu Dagu with cold eyes, sneering, "A bastard, born to be killed, what right do you have to call me Father?"

Back then, Lord Lai thought Gu Dagu was a son, and since he married an official’s daughter, he couldn’t give her too much face, lest she put on the airs of an official’s daughter, she needed to know the husband’s superiority over the wife.

Thus, he deliberately pampered Liu Shiliu, protecting the child in her belly, to make his official’s daughter wife bow and bend before him.

Little did he know Liu Shiliu gave birth to such a thing as Yuan Jinzhi.

Not only vulgar and unsightly but married to Qian Guangzong, and bore a son Qian Chengcai, each more disgusting than the last. Lord Lai wished Yuan Jinzhi had never been born!

Gu Dagu was dumbfounded, unbelievingly looking at Lord Lai, and when she came to, she cursed, "You dog official, how dare you disown me? If it weren’t for you, would we have ended up like this?!"

Gu Dagu, without any sensible thinking, suddenly had a bright idea and asked Squad Leader Zhang, "Lord, if Lai Zhi doesn’t recognize me, I don’t recognize him either, I want to sever ties with him, then I wouldn’t be his daughter, and wouldn’t have to be implicated, you quickly release me!"

Hearing this, Ms. Zheng quickly shouted, "Lord, Lord, I want to divorce Gu Youlu, not be his wife anymore, you can’t kill me!"

Gu Chengzhi, the little madman, laughed beside them, "Give us meat, let us sleep with wives, just let you kill us."

Squad Leader Zhang, having lived almost forty years, had never seen a family as bizarre as the Old Gu Family, sincerely asked, "Are you all mad? Do you think severing ties with Lai Zhi will stop your beheading? Yuan Jinzhi, even if Lai Zhi doesn’t recognize you, you were born from Granny Gu, and since she gave birth to you, you must die!"

He pointed at Ms. Zheng, "And you, the Da Li Temple’s approval document has already been issued, every member of your Old Gu Family will be beheaded. Trying to play clever by asking for a divorce at this point, you think the office’s blade will oblige?"

As for Gu Chengzhi, Squad Leader Zhang couldn’t even bear to look.

The Old Gu Family is just a group of lunatics, hurry and behead them, if not, he’s about to go crazy being tormented by them.

Mrs. Gu, sinisterly threatening nearby, "My daughter Sister Ya is Zhan Family’s wife, Old Master Zhan San’s equal wife, you’re nothing but lowlife. Dare to kill me, Zhan Family won’t let you off."

Again and again, will it ever end?

Squad Leader Zhang banged his foot, kicking over Mrs. Gu: "Shut up, or you’ll be the first to be cut down later."

Seeing the disgrace of the Old Gu Family, Lord Lai felt disgusted, how did he end up with such a group of people?

Fortunately, there’s still the second son and Brother Yan’er, with them, the Lai Family won’t die out.

A while ago, Lord Lai wished to chop off Mrs. Lai Tao, but now, he’s grateful to her, thankful she saved his sons and grandsons.

She must still have some feeling for him.

Lord Lai, relieved, thought of Mrs. Lai Tao fondly.

But he’s overthinking it; Mrs. Lai Tao saved Second Young Master Lai and the others because, after living together for years, they’ve formed bonds, and since they hadn’t done anything wrong, she didn’t want to see innocent stepsons and step-grandsons die tragically.