It started to drizzle outside the house again. Yuqing was busy closing the windows, occasionally looking outside before coming in.
Cen Er's voice also seemed a little gloomy in this atmosphere, and the nonchalant tone at the beginning also stopped, and turned into anger: "My sister has no time to take care of me, and someone gave me two taels of silver to drive me away. Of course I refused to do it. I took the silver and lingered in the inner room with her maid, and refused to leave."
"I know her character. She is very stingy. She never gave me a penny since I was a child. Even after I entered the Qiu family, she still refused to pay attention to me. Whenever I went to her place, she would have someone send me away. But that time, for the first time, someone gave me some money to send me away. I thought it was very strange, but I refused to leave. I took the opportunity to hear that something big happened in her family."
"They said the lady was not well, so my sister was busy sending someone to get a letter to invite a doctor. At first I thought it was her mother-in-law who was not well, and I thought it was a good thing for the old witch to die. But later I found out that it was not the case. The lady they were talking about should be the wife of the high-ranking official who was married back from the capital..."
Cen Er coughed violently for a while, and then continued: "Then their family became chaotic. I heard that the lady died before the doctor came. The servants around her probably wanted to report the news, but my sister had someone stop them."
Wei An keenly understood the key point and raised his eyebrows slightly: "Dead?"
Yuqing also frowned and was very confused: "Dead? But I haven't heard about it. Aren't they still walking around now?"
Not only that, Wei An also knew that Qin Sheng had taken his nephew to Dr. Li's house to pay his respects to Dr. Li as his disciple.
But now from what Cen Er said, it seems that the lady had actually given birth to a child.
So who is the current cousin of the Qin family
Cen Er was so excited that his saliva flew everywhere, and he was a little proud: "He's dead, dead. Their family has strict rules. I was kicked out as soon as I went in before, but that day was too chaotic. I heard that among the people brought by that lady, someone was killed on the spot. It was so busy and chaotic that my sister couldn't take care of me, so I heard it."
"She is really dead." Cen Er repeated, emphasizing his tone. He looked at Wei An and the others mysteriously, intending to scare the girl who looked like an extraordinary person: "Do you know how she died?"
He smiled and crossed his legs: "Anyway, he didn't die in a pretty way. I heard that his tongue was sticking out. It was so long."
Wei An was not afraid at all. She said "oh" and asked directly, "So you mean she was murdered by someone?"
Cen Er hummed indifferently.
Wei An then said, "But, I heard that she wrote a letter to the Qin family this year and asked them to help. If she is really dead, where did this letter come from?"
Her expression suddenly changed: "It seems you are lying!"
He Sheng rushed forward and kicked Cen Er, almost breaking his ribs, and shouted angrily: "How dare you lie!"
Cen Er covered his left abdomen and curled up and took a few steps back. When he retreated to a safer place, he almost cried with a bitter face and spat out a mouthful of blood foam in frustration: "Who lied?! Why would I lie like this?! He is really dead. Although the Qiu family hid it well, they can't hide it from me! I have evidence!"
"What evidence?" Wei An's tone became indifferent: "I gave you so much silver, enough for you to live for ten lifetimes. If you refuse to tell the truth, you will have to pay the price."
The little girl's threatening tone was always light, and it was impossible to tell whether she was happy or angry, but Cen Er shuddered inexplicably, and finally felt scared. He shrank his neck and hummed, "Don't worry, girl, I must be telling the truth, all the truth!"
He swallowed again and said, "Although this matter is well hidden, the Qiu family is still there. No matter how powerful they are, they can't kill everyone who knows about it! Besides, let's just talk about my sister. Many people around her know about it."
To cover up one lie, you need countless lies to cover it up.
Things built up with lies cannot stand the test at all and will fall apart with the slightest push.
She laughed: "Then, do I still need to go to the Qiu family to ask for someone?"
Cen Er realized it belatedly and said, "Are you going to deal with Mr. Qiu?"
Wei An didn't answer, but just looked at him quietly.
Cen Er turned his eyes away uncomfortably, lowered his head and thought quietly for a while, then said honestly: "Let me tell you, after his wife died, my sister became the oldest in the Qiu family. My sister gave birth to four children for him, three of them were sons!"
In this case, Qiu Chuying is really too brave.
"How many years has Mrs. Qiu been dead?" Wei An suddenly asked.
Cen Er thought for a long time before giving a time: "At least twelve or thirteen years."
Then how did the Qiu family hide this from the Qin family for so many years
Wei An frowned and asked him to continue.
Cen Er then said, "Also, my sister is called Madam Qiu. To outsiders, Madam Qiu was not dead at all, but after she died, the Qiu family said she was sick."
This is not justifiable...
Even if she was sick, could she stay at home for more than ten years
As long as they don't go out, how do the noble ladies in that place socialize? They will always sense something is wrong, and as long as they sense something is wrong, they will always reveal some clues.
But the Qin family has never doubted it for all these years. Isn’t this strange
She asked doubts.
Cen Er smiled and said, "Tell the people back home that Madam Qiu has gone to take up her new post!"
She really did go out to take up the post, but the person who went with her was only Cen Liying.
In southern Yunnan, the mountains are high and the roads are long, and no one knows each other, so they just say that she is the eldest daughter of the Qin family, Mrs. Qiu.
Later, when she was about to take up a post in Guangdong, where she might get to know more people, she was sent back to her hometown, but she still told the people in her hometown that she was still in office.
"That's not right." Wei An frowned and looked at him suspiciously: "Even if that's the case, the Qin family values Madam Qiu so much that they would have sent someone to visit her. How did the Qiu family fool them?"
"Mrs. Qiu would write letters home herself and ask her relatives to send New Year gifts. This way, the Qin family would not suspect anything. Later, she said she was pregnant and was going to have a baby. When she was sick, the Qin family looked at her through the curtain. There was nothing wrong with her voice and tone, so they naturally would not think that she was not Mrs. Qiu!"
Cen Er thought Wei An was a little silly: "You are a mean person, don't you know that there are many ways in this world."