Chapter 267: The Wang Family Is Gone
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Butler Wang smiled sinisterly. “Master, Madam, Young Master, you have to move faster. We can’t take away such a big house, so we can only burn it down.”
In the past, the servants whom they could order around at will, turned against them like demons.
The torches in their hands lit up the house.
Strangely, the entire house seemed to have been doused with oil, and the fire spread out extremely quickly.
The servants all ran away.
Master Wang, Madam Wang, and Wang Xu stood up with difficulty. The pain in their bodies made them feel like they were in hell. Every step they took felt like they were walking on the edge of a knife. Their desire to survive forced them to run out of the mansion with all their might.
They didn’t want to die.
Wang Xu was young after all and ran out the fastest.
Madam Wang stretched out her hand. “Xu, help me.”
In such a raging fire, Wang Xu surely wouldn’t risk his life to help his mother.
Master Wang and Madam Wang were filled with fear and despair.
Master Wang’s limbs were as stiff as wood. When he was about to crawl out of the mansion, Madam Wang reached out and grabbed him. Her face was filled with panic. She felt like a knife was twisting in her stomach, making her unable to stand up straight. She needed someone to help her. Grabbing Master Wang, she said with difficulty, “Help me.”
Master Wang said fiercely, “Screw you.”
He wanted to push Madam Wang away, but at this moment, letting go was equivalent to losing her life. Madam Wang staggered and grabbed Master Wang tightly.
Flames surged and smoke billowed. Master Wang pulled his wife up with difficulty and the two of them ran out.
“Boom…”
The door beam collapsed and fell on Master Wang and Madam Wang’s feet. The two of them immediately fainted from the pain.
Wang Xu was watching from outside the door. He shouted. “Someone, put out the fire.”
Li Guanfeng and Wei Shilai were informed of the fire and arrived in time. Li Guanfeng had already started to take care of the government affairs. He immediately ordered the men. “Ligui, Liming, go and save them.”
Liming and Ligui immediately moved the beam away. Master Wang and Madam Wang were fine, but the fire in the mansion was very fierce. The surrounding commoners were frightened, afraid that the fire would spread to their houses.
Almost all the constables in the county office were deployed to put out the fire.
But the fire was too strong. When it was finally extinguished, the mansion had already turned into ashes. Strangely, the surrounding houses were not affected at all.
Only the Wang mansion was burnt down.
Master Wang heaved a sigh of relief. “Sir, I want to report a case. It was the servants who set my house on fire. These bastards…”
“They also stole everything in my house. Sir, you have to catch them.”
Li Guanfeng ordered immediately. “Close all the exits in the county and find out the arsonists.”
The constables received the order and immediately went to execute it.
The streets were filled with commoners. Looking at the ashes after the fire, they sighed. The Wang family, which was once so prosperous, collapsed overnight just like that.
Immediately after that, some people who had business dealings with the Wang family came to ask for compensation. Master Wang and Madam Wang begged, but none of them showed any mercy to the two of them.
The shops belonging to the Wang family were taken away one after another. The houses and land were confiscated. At the end of the day, they had nothing left.
The servants who robbed the mansion had already fled and could no longer be found.
In the county office, Master Wang and Madam Wang saw despair in each other’s eyes. Wang Xu said with anger written all across his face, “If there’s nothing left, how can we live?”
Li Guanfeng looked at the family with a cold expression. He did not speak and seemed to be deep in thought.
Master Wang said with burning hatred in his eyes, “Magistrate Li, you have to seek justice for us. All of this was done by Liu Sanniang, the daughter of Liu Yuanxun. It was her who brought destruction upon our family.”
Li Guanfeng’s expression was solemn as he questioned him. “How did she do it?”
Master Wang and Madam Wang were speechless. They didn’t know how to explain it from beginning to end.
Li Guanfeng raised his eyebrows. “What do you want me to do without evidence?”
Master Wang and Madam Wang begged him with tears streaming down their faces. “Sir, please uphold justice for us.”
Wang Xu also said with a trembling voice, “She, she dug him out. Sir, if you don’t believe us, you can question Liu Sanniang.”
After saying that, Wang Xu looked up at Li Guanfeng. “Sir, you saw that thing with your eyes that day, didn’t you?”
Li Guanfeng asked. “What is that thing you are talking about? What did she dig out?”
At the wedding banquet, he and the others indeed saw Wang Peng. But so what? Who could prove that he existed?
Would the Wang family dare to admit that he ever existed? If they didn’t, what did it have to do with Liu Sanniang?
Master Wang sat on the ground and sobbed. “Wrong, we are all wrong.”
They were wrong from the beginning. One had to eventually pay what one did. There was no exception.
Wang Xu broke down. “I don’t care if I’m wrong or not. I only know that Liu Sanniang has to give me back everything that belongs to me. Everything I like and want has been taken away by her. Why should I end up being wrong instead of her?”
Wang Xu felt like his head was about to explode. The piercing pain felt like a saw was cutting his bone inch by inch.
He held his head. “Ah… I’m dying. I’m dying…”
Madam Wang crawled over while enduring the pain in her stomach. “Xu, Xu, my son.”
Wang Xu held his head in pain and kowtowed on the ground. “Mother, my head hurts. Kill me.”
Tears streamed down Madam Wang’s face. She recalled what Liu Sanniang had said. What they were feeling now was what Wang Peng had felt all this while. He had been tortured for thousands of days and nights. This was what they owed him. When they paid him back in full, he would not hurt anymore.