lcionline Chapter 257 Zeng Qin’s true face.
Chapter 257 Zeng Qin’s true face.
Seeing Pei Zhijin carrying a lot of dishes, he quickly reached out to take some and said with a smile, "I'll help Master Pei carry some."
"Your sister Yiyi will come over tonight, and we will have hotpot together."
"Hot pot?" Xiao Yu asked in confusion while holding the dish.
Jiang Xue smiled and said, "You'll know tonight."
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Lin House.
The atmosphere in the front hall was very serious. Zeng Qin knelt on the ground crying and shouted, "Master, all I have done over the years is for the Prime Minister's Mansion. You can't do this to me."
"What a joke! I'm already the prime minister of the dynasty. What do I need you to do?" Lin Yanfu looked at Zeng Qin angrily and questioned, "You are so greedy that you even colluded with bandits to mint coins. This is a capital crime. How dare you?"
"I...I..." Zeng Qin was really scared at this moment, and said incoherently: "Master, I was also threatened. Do you remember that I took Wan'er to the Fahua Temple to pray for blessings, and we were intercepted by bandits on the way. They knew that I was the prime minister's wife, so they threatened me to help them mint coins and give them convenience, otherwise...otherwise they would kill Wan'er. Master, do you think I can refuse?"
Lin Wanwan cried and said aggrievedly: "Dad, what mother said is true. If you don't follow their wishes, you won't be able to see your daughter now."
"Then why didn't you tell me earlier?"
"I'm scared!" Zeng Qin cried.
Lin Yiyi watched the two mother and daughter singing the same tune and sneered. Then she looked at Lin Yanfu and said, "Father, if Madam was really threatened, she knew it was a capital crime, but she continued to be an accomplice to the evildoer. She has already returned to the capital safely. The bandits would not enter the city privately. Madam had plenty of time to tell you about this or inform the government office, but she chose to conceal it. I wonder what Madam wants to do?"
Zeng Qin's heart skipped a beat when she heard this, and then she looked at Lin Yiyi and said, "Shut up, do you want to kill me?"
"That's enough!" Lin Yanfu interrupted, frowning as he looked at Zeng Qin and said, "This matter has been reported to His Majesty. You will not fall behind in any way."
"Master!" Zeng Qin shouted at Lin Yanfu in disappointment: "Do you really want to watch me die?"
"I am the Prime Minister. Your Majesty trusts me and the people recognize me. I cannot do anything that violates morality."
"You..." Zeng Qin stood up angrily, her eyes sharp, "When I first married you, you didn't treat me like this. Now I just did one thing wrong, and you're not willing to stand by me."
Lin Yanfu looked helplessly at the unreasonable Zeng Qin, sighed and turned his back, but he still couldn't bear it.
Lin Yiyi knew that her father was soft-hearted, and her heart sank. She said, "Father, do you remember my mother's death?"
Lin Yanfu turned around and looked at Lin Yiyi in surprise, "Lian'er passed away while she was ill, how could I not remember that?"
"My mother passed away due to illness, but she could have survived."
"What?" Lin Yanfu was stunned and asked hurriedly, "How did you know?"
Lin Yiyi took out a piece of paper from her bosom, folded it and handed it to Lin Yanfu, "This is my mother's prescription. I've consulted a doctor and found that the medicine in it is effective for my mother's cough and asthma. However, the flowers placed in her room every day have caused her condition to worsen. And the one who sent the flowers every day was her."
Lin Yiyi pointed at Zeng Qin with a sharp look. Zeng Qin dropped the handkerchief in her hand in fear. She looked at Lin Yanfu in a hurry and said, "Master, my sister has been bedridden for many years. I pick some fresh flowers every day and bring them to her room just to make her feel better. What's wrong with that?"
"There's nothing wrong with sending flowers, but you really shouldn't tamper with them." Lin Yiyi looked at Zeng Qin coldly.
Zeng Qin immediately said to Lin Yiyi in a stern voice: "What nonsense are you talking about? What can I do to the flowers?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Lin Yiyi took out the purple sachet from her arms and threw it at Zeng Qin's feet. "If I remember correctly, you have been wearing this sachet before you entered the mansion, and it contains a mandragora."
Zeng Qin's wet eyes suddenly widened, her face full of fear after being exposed, and she screamed in her heart, how did she find out? She had clearly erased all traces, why were there still traces?
Zeng Qin was puzzled, but she still pretended to be calm. She looked at Lin Yiyi and said, "Why do you say that this sachet is mine? What reason do I have to harm your mother?"
"Oh, my mother was seriously ill, and you were in love with the Prime Minister, but you were unwilling to become a concubine, so you took advantage of my mother's illness. As for this sachet, of course it was obtained from the maid you killed that year. If it weren't for her, I really wouldn't be able to find out the truth of that year."
"You bullshit!"
"Madam, you will know whether I am talking nonsense or not after you see it." As soon as he finished speaking, Zhu Feng walked in with a woman wearing coarse clothes.
"Ah!" Zeng Qin was startled and stepped back quickly, "Aren't you dead? How are you still alive?"
The woman looked at Zeng Qin with resentment and said hoarsely, "Madam wanted to cross the river and destroy the bridge, but she didn't expect that the poison that night didn't kill me. God has eyes and let me survive. Over the years, I have wanted to come back all the time to expose you, a vicious woman."
As she spoke, she knelt down in front of Lin Yanfu, her eyes slightly red as she said, "Master, I was the maid who cleaned beside Madam back then. Madam was killed by this vicious woman. She came to see Madam every day under the pretext of sending flowers, and then sprinkled the mandragora in the sachet into her. Over time, Madam's condition worsened, and she died."
"That day, I overheard her and Wang's mother's plan, but I made some noise out of nervousness, which led to their killing."
Lin Yanfu looked disappointed. Thinking of Lian'er's sick face lying in his arms, he felt heartbroken. Then he looked at Zeng Qin and said, "You vicious woman, you actually killed Lian'er!"
"Master, I didn't. It wasn't me."
"The evidence is all here, and you still want to quibble?"
Zeng Qin was frightened by Lin Yanfu's loud voice and froze in place. Seeing the disgust in his eyes, Zeng Qin lost all her strength and collapsed to the ground, laughing absentmindedly: "You have never been sincere to me, and you have always liked that bitch, right?"
"Lian'er is not a bitch."
"So am I a bitch? I was the first one to fall in love with you. I was supposed to be the wife of the Prime Minister, but she got there first. Why? Just because she has a prominent family background? Can she unscrupulously snatch the man I like?"
"Shut up!" Lin Yanfu couldn't help but slap Zeng Qin in the face, and the crisp sound echoed in the front hall.
Lin Wanwan was startled and immediately ran to her mother.
Zeng Qin pushed Lin Wanwan away and said angrily, "If she hadn't snatched you away, you and I would be a pair of fairy lovers that everyone envied. She deserved to die."
"You are really hopeless. Let me tell you, from the beginning to the end, the person I like has always been Lian'er. If you hadn't set me up, I wouldn't have married you into the mansion."