Using Fang Zheng's Time Reversal, everyone finally figured out what had happened on the day of the incident.
That day, the Bloody Baron had gotten drunk out of his mind and had a huge fight with his wife, Anna. Then she said she wanted to leave, but he refused, and the two of them started fighting. She grabbed a candlestick and knocked the Baron unconscious, then ran away crying with their daughter...
"I never thought he was that kind of man!"
After watching the scene, Lis immediately became angry. They had originally had a good first impression of the Bloody Baron. He had seemed generous and welcoming, but they had never expected him to hit his own wife so viciously.
"All right, the situation is clear now."
Fang Zheng did not get involved. When it came to domestic disputes and issues between men and women, people always sided with family rather than reason.
"So this was just a husband and wife arguing and fighting, then... um..."
According to Chinese custom, that would mean rolling up the bedding and going back to her parents' home. He just did not know whether that custom existed here.
In Fang Zheng's view, this was not surprising. Domestic violence would remain a social ill even centuries later. Besides, he had long noticed that the Bloody Baron was also a drunkard, and drunkards were more likely to abuse their wives. Fang Zheng had harbored that suspicion deep down, and now it had been confirmed. Moreover, the status of men and women in this era was also a problem. Ciri had said that only two types of women wore their hair loose to their shoulders in this era: prostitutes and sorceresses. Other women did not do that. Commoners either wrapped up their hair or braided it. Noblewomen