Everyone was shocked when they heard what Wei Changying said!
Nanny Li was especially shaking violently. She looked aside, but still managed to hold on and said: "Replying to the Third Madam, this old slave... this old slave really... seriously accepted Miss Duanmuba's... such words!"
Wei Changying sneered and said: "It seems that you are determined not to recruit, right? Anyway, I will make it clear to you and make you stop denying it - Xin Miao is the righteous son who was accepted by his father and mother. She is also our adopted sister. She used to come and go with our family more than once when she was in the imperial capital. When she lived here in Xiliang, I accompanied her in and out - you are a servant who got her favor by chance. , how can I understand her? Since she plans to protect Yan'er, how can she be so gentle as to only let you find a concubine for her second brother?"
She looked at Nanny Li, who was so frightened that she could hardly kneel down, and said word by word, "She must have given you another medicine...poison! Let you poison your second brother to death when there is nothing you can do." ,Yes or no?!"
Huo Qingling and Duanmu Xinmiao were not familiar with each other, so when they saw Wei Changying insisting that Grandma Li was still hiding something, she thought she was cheating the old servant. Unexpectedly, after Wei Changying said these words, Grandma Li collapsed to the ground!
"This..." Huo Qingling's hands and feet were cold and his face was ashen!
If Wei Changying hadn't exposed this, and really asked Grandma Li to do this, once she was discovered, then she, the Sixth Lady, who had promoted Grandma Li from among the many worldly servants to now having a certain status in the backyard, would have gone to How can I find a place in my husband's family later? !
Once this kind of parricide happens, even if she didn't do it, she will definitely not be able to get rid of it! At that time, there is a risk of being taken back!
Huo Qingling simply couldn't imagine how miserable she would be in the future if her third sister-in-law didn't reveal the hidden truth today - it would be fine for her to end up badly, and her daughter who can't speak yet...
Huo Qingling pressed her hand on her chest, trying her best to suppress her dizziness, and said in a trembling voice: "Really... is this really like this?!"
"I was forced to do this! Two madams! Two madams! I was really forced to do this!" Nanny Li fell softly to the ground and was stunned for a moment. She suddenly woke up and rushed to pull Huo Qingling's skirt. , cried with tears streaming down his face, "Old slave's grandson has a hidden disease. If he wants to completely cure it, he needs good medicine. It will cost thousands of taels of silver at least! Old slave... Where can I get this money?" Where is the money? The old slave only has a grandson, just a grandson! Miss Duanmuba said that the old slave had to do something for her before giving the medicine... There is nothing the old slave can do... Please be kind to the two ladies and spare the old slave. This time... I really didn’t dare to think about killing the second master. I really just wanted to do the previous thing for Miss Duanmuba! "
Huo Qingling gritted his teeth and pushed her away, saying angrily: "I really... I really mistrusted you!"
"Sixth brother and sister, don't be too sad. Who doesn't lose sight of me?" Wei Changying sighed and said, "You should go down and have a rest first. Don't get so angry... Yao'er still has to be taken care of by you. By the way, you should keep this matter a secret first, and tell the public that I took it away from you because I stole it."
"Thank you for your understanding, sister-in-law. I don't have the shame to stay here anymore." Huo Qingling originally wanted to ask Nanny Li again, but then she realized that Wei Changying was trying to get rid of her. Although he was suspicious in his heart, But at this moment, she didn't dare to propose staying, so she could only glare at Nanny Li fiercely and leave with hatred.
After Huo Qingling left, Wei Changying waved away the idlers and interrogated Granny Li alone for a long time before ordering someone to take her down.
... After a while, Madam Huang came back and reported: "A steward from the outer courtyard should be the person Miss Wen heard and saw talking to Madam Li that day. He didn't know anything about it. The maid was still confused when she took someone to fetch him." Woolen cloth!"
Wei Changying nodded: "Go to the front and find a reliable person to ask. Be sure to ask clearly who is in charge!"
Huang was stunned for a moment and said, "Although I don't want to do it very much, I have to say that Miss Duanmuba did mix the medicine herself."
"So what?" Wei Changying shook his head and said, "It's just medicine. Who knows if she prepared it for her second brother or someone else? There wasn't even a personal letter, so just one word from Li said it was Xin Miao? I don’t believe Xin Miao is so stupid.”
Huang's heart moved. She had a close relationship with Ji Qubing's master and apprentice. Of course, she didn't want Duanmu Xinmiao to murder Shen Lianshi.
I originally thought that I had personally confirmed that the bottle of medicine was indeed made by Duanmu Xinmiao, and there was nothing left to guess. As a result, Wei Changying now has doubts, and Huang is naturally happy to see the result.
However, Mrs. Huang also knows that even if she wants to speak for Duanmu Xinmiao, she should not focus too much on traces. After all, Shen Lian is more important than Duanmu Xinmiao, and this kind of behavior of reaching into the backyard of Mingpeitang and even delivering medicine is not good. Even the housewife couldn't bear it.
So she thought for a moment and said implicitly: "Miss Duanmuba has always been a sensible person, and if Miss Duanmuba was not smart, it would be impossible for her to have learned the medical skills taught by Divine Doctor Ji to the point where she is now. But... the maid feels that Miss Duanmuba is also very impulsive sometimes. "
Wei Changying's eyes were focused and he was lost in thought for a moment, then he chuckled and said: "What my aunt said is true. As for Xinmiao's temperament, it does seem that she did such a thing after knowing that Yan'er had been wronged many times. However, … Grandma Li’s grandson came to Xinmiao for medical treatment. Was that a few years ago? Xie’er wasn’t even born at that time—Yan’er was still in the imperial capital at that time. Could Xinmiao foresee this day?”
"Madam is absolutely right!" Mrs. Huang's eyes lit up, "My maid remembers that Miss Duanmuba was not very close to the late Second Madam in the early days. At that time, when Miss Duanmuba came to the Taifu's Mansion, she rarely I will look for the Second Madam first, and most of the time I will come to Madam You first..."
Wei Changying said calmly: "Because Xinmiao was neglected and oppressed by her clansmen in her early years, she was not close to any clansmen except her sister, not even her biological father. So just a few years ago, the imperial capital fell. , I'm afraid she may not even remember Yan'er! You know, although the second sister-in-law and Xinmiao are sisters from the same clan, they have lived in separate rooms since they were young... Even if Xinmiao misses Yan'er now, then It must be because the Jinxiu Duanmu was too withered, and she took stock of how few members of the tribe survived, and then she thought of Yan'er. "
"But Miss Duanmuba is not a fool. How could she not know that if she murdered the second master, she would have harmed the fourth miss?" When Huang said this, she was horrified, "Then... who instigated the murder of the second master?" Master’s?”
Wei Changying said calmly: "Did you know? When Yu Lan told me that she heard this scene, I later sent someone to ask her who mentioned the hide and seek in the garden that day."
Mrs. Huang was surprised and said, "Is it possible that Miss Wen...?"
"The servant came back and told me that the reason why she went to the garden was because a servant girl who sent her here from Panzhou told her that she found a spider web in the corner of the house where she lived and wanted to clean it up, and asked her to go to the garden to take shelter. "We have to avoid it." Wei Changying said calmly, "This matter was deliberately made for us to discover and suspect."
"So it's not the Huo family." Huang nodded clearly, "Panzhou... Wen Yaozi..." She hesitated for a moment, then said, "Could it be... the work of the sixth master of the family again?"
The guard chief nodded: "It's very possible!"
"But why should we find out?" Huang frowned and said, "If we don't find out, then Li will really take action... Although it is extremely difficult for a housekeeper of a sixth-floor house to take action against the second master. However, Even if you calculate with intention and without intention, you may not be able to accomplish something... Don't be afraid of 10,000, just be afraid of the eventuality... "
"I mean, it was Uncle Six who let us discover that Li was colluding with the steward of the outer courtyard. He deliberately revealed it to us." Chief Wei Yingxia took a sip of tea and sneered, "But the person who instigated Li... But it may not be Uncle Liu! Uncle Liu has made trouble for others not once or twice, what’s so strange about it?”
Huang was surprised and said: "What? Who is that?!"
Wei Changying turned his eyes to the window: "Ms. Li has been an old servant of the Shen family for many years, and she has a certain status among the servants. Not to mention that her husband and only son had a lot of money during their lifetime, and their family fortune is only a few thousand taels. Even if We don’t have enough cash, so we might not be able to get it all by selling the things our master has given us over the years. There’s no need to take risks—just talk about her dignity in front of the sixth brother and sister during this period. If the sixth brother and sister know about it, can they still help her?”
"How can it be so easy for outsiders to bribe such an old servant?" Wei Changying said coldly, "If it's not an outsider, then of course it's within the clan!"
Upon hearing this, Mrs. Huang changed her expression and said, "Could it be that the Valve Master has killed several times, but they still...?!"
"The family is huge. Even if we see blood a few times, the hatred is still accumulating! This blood relative, you are connected to me, and I am connected to you, can we really kill all the nine clans? It's not written in people's minds. There will always be something missing on the face!" Wei Changying sighed tiredly, "Besides, my husband and the others are not in Xiliang now. The fifth brother who is left behind will inevitably be looked down upon by them. After all, it is inconvenient for me to be a woman. It’s not surprising that the thoughts at the starting point come out at this time.”
Huang frowned and said, "But we have cleaned the backyard many times..."
"So we have never doubted the Li family before." Wei Changying said coldly, "As long as she takes action, it doesn't matter whether it succeeds or not. There will be a gap between the second room and the sixth room. The sixth brother's aunt is still Don't you know? He likes the sixth brother and sister, but he is more afraid of the second brother... Hey! The second brother has always favored boys, and now the sixth brother and sister have only one daughter, and the situation of the Huo family is terrible. Just imagine!”
"But there is quite a harmonious relationship between you gentlemen. Even if there is some turmoil, there may not always be rifts because of such an obvious thing, right?" Huang said after pondering for a moment.
Guard Chief Ying said: "Auntie, this move is not necessarily intended to provoke, but to toss. How many times have we investigated those who harbor disloyal intentions? Which time was it not a big fight? What's more, the army is out now. , There are countless descendants of my Shen family, servants and neighbors in the Xiliang army. We are busy here and the news is passed on. Can we not worry about it in the front? "
"…and now?"
"We can't fulfill their wishes! But we have to investigate." Wei Changying thought for a moment and said, "Keep this a secret in advance. Li... keep it tight, don't let her die yet, it might be useful to turn back! I'll do it first Write a letter and ask Xin Miao whether she was involved in this matter! Also, although I think it is unlikely that the Huo family is involved, I will feel more at ease after checking."
Huang sighed: "This is such a long distance..."
"So Uncle Wei Sixth also has bad intentions." Wei Changying sneered, "He planned to ask Yu Lan to point it out for me, but I also want to torment him. Looking back, maybe he will ask me for favors!" (Unfinished) to be continued)