At the same time, Ling Qingwan also had some speculation about the real mastermind behind the scenes.
Early the next morning, as soon as Ling Qingwan woke up, Luluo found the suspicious person and told Ling Qingwan.
"There is a chef in the kitchen, his last name is Wang. He suddenly sent a sum of money home a few days ago. I heard that his wife immediately bought new clothes for the two children and also bought herself an expensive set of clothes. I think the money came from a strange place."
"Just ask and you'll find out."
Ling Qingwan ate her breakfast leisurely and went to the kitchen after cleaning up.
As soon as they entered, Luoluo and Hongshang asked everyone to leave, leaving only the master named Wang.
Master Wang was about the same age as Ling Feng, with dark skin, and looked like an honest man. When he saw Ling Qingwan enter the room, Master Wang panicked instantly. He wanted to greet Ling Qingwan, but was too scared to speak.
Especially the two maids following behind Ling Qingwan, they looked so fierce.
"Did you poison the young lady?" Ling Qingwan went straight to the point.
"I didn't do that! I am innocent!"
Master Wang had a sad face, but he was still trying to make excuses and didn't want to admit it.
"Since our young lady has found you today, it proves that we already have evidence that you poisoned the young lady. If you don't answer truthfully, you will be punished more cruelly. Make your own choice."
Luoluo snorted coldly and threatened Master Wang to tell the truth.
"I'm telling the truth! I'm telling the truth! Please spare my life, Second Miss!" Master Wang immediately knelt down and kowtowed three times to Ling Qingwan.
Ling Qingwan pursed her lips tightly, waiting for Master Wang to continue.
"I did poison the young lady, but I don't know whether the poison is fatal or not. He only told me that the poison would only make people feel uncomfortable and have diarrhea for two days." Master Wang couldn't help but tremble all over.
"Who is he?" Ling Qingwan's eyes were slightly dim.
"I don't know his name, I just know he's a man, quite tall, dressed in black. I went out to buy some kitchen supplies, and he stopped me when I came back. He persuaded me for a long time and gave me a large sum of money. I couldn't resist the temptation, so... so..."
Master Wang didn't dare to say anything more.
Even without him saying it, everyone knew what it meant.
After all, Master Wang played an indispensable role in Ling Chuchu's current state due to being tortured by the Dusk Butterfly Grass.
Ling Qingwan really wouldn't be angry with Master Wang. After all, Master Wang was also paid to do things for others, and he was not the one who really wanted to harm Ling Chuchu.
But Master Wang worked in Ling Mansion, and because of some small favors, he switched sides and poisoned people in the mansion. Who knows if he will do it a second or third time in the future, such a person must not be allowed to stay.
No matter how much Master Wang cried and begged, Ling Qingwan remained unmoved.
"How is Ling Chuchu now?"
After going out, Ling Qingwan asked Hong Shang.
"I have already given the prescription to Zhiqin, and the people from Meiyuan prepared the medicine. I heard that she is gradually recovering." Hongshang answered truthfully.
Ling Qingwan nodded.
"Do you think the young lady will remember your kindness?" Luoluo was thinking about this question.
After all, this time, it was Ling Qingwan who saved her life.
If it weren't for Ling Qingwan, she would still be lying in bed waiting to die.
"How could she remember?" Ling Qingwan couldn't help laughing out loud as if she had heard a funny joke.
She also didn't expect Ling Chuchu to repay her kindness.
"I guessed who poisoned Ling Chuchu." Ling Qingwan said to the two.
"Who is it?"
The two little girls looked at Ling Qingwan at the same time.
"Xu Yuanyuan."
It was no secret that Xu Yuanyuan and Ling Chuchu didn't get along. Now that Song Zhicheng had gone to Taizhou and was no longer in the capital, if the two wanted to be superior to each other in the future, they could only try their best to please Concubine Jing, Song Zhicheng's biological mother.
Otherwise, according to Ling Chuchu's temper, Nanny Sun would have been driven away on the first day she arrived.
The news that Nanny Sun came to teach Ling Chuchu the rules must have reached Xu Yuanyuan's ears. Ling Qingwan guessed that Xu Yuanyuan gave Ling Chuchu the Dusk Butterfly Grass just to make Ling Chuchu have no energy to learn the rules, but she couldn't find any problem.
In this way, Nanny Sun and Concubine Jing would think that Ling Chuchu was lazy and didn't want to learn.
"If she hates Ling Chuchu so much, why doesn't she just go all out and kill Ling Chuchu?" Luoluo wondered.
"Ling Chuchu is the eldest daughter of the former marquis's mansion, the most talented woman in the capital, and is engaged to the eldest prince. If she dies, it is inevitable that the Ministry of Justice will take action. Do you think that if Xu Yuanyuan really took action against Ling Chuchu, the people in the Ministry of Justice would not be able to find Xu Yuanyuan?"
"Ling Chuchu is dead, and she has been convicted of murder. Why bother? Xu Yuanyuan is not that stupid."
After Ling Qingwan's explanation, Luluo and Hongshang suddenly understood.
"By the way, the two of you should send the master who poisoned the food to Xu Yuanyuan's residence tonight." Ling Qingwan ordered.
She originally didn't want to care about the feud between Ling Chuchu and Xu Yuanyuan.
To put it bluntly, even if Xu Yuanyuan killed Ling Chuchu, she wouldn't even blink an eye. But Xu Yuanyuan should never, ever reach out to Ling's house this time.
Ling Qingwan had always been in charge of the Ling Mansion's backyard, but Xu Yuanyuan bribed someone in the Ling Mansion's backyard to poison her. This was not to show that she didn't take Ling Qingwan seriously.
Ling Qingwan doesn't care about other things, but she must take care of the affairs in the backyard of the Ling Mansion.
Nightfall.
The sky gradually darkened.
Xu Yuanyuan was resting in the room when she suddenly heard a muffled sound outside the door.
"Let's go and take a look." Xu Yuanyuan said to Jingsi.
Jingsi responded and opened the door to check.
"Miss, someone threw a man into the yard." Jingsi told Xu Yuanyuan.
"Man?" Xu Yuanyuan was confused.
When she left the room and looked closely at the man's face, she understood.
At this time, Master Wang's limbs were tied up with ropes, curled up on the ground. Xu Yuanyuan recognized him at a glance. He was the servant of Ling Mansion whom she bribed a few days ago in order to facilitate drugging Ling Chuchu.
"Who did this?" Jingsi wondered.
How could Jingsi not find it strange that a man was tied up and thrown into Xu Yuanyuan's yard for no reason
"It's Ling Qingwan." Xu Yuanyuan glanced coldly at the man lying on the ground.
"Second Miss Ling? Why did she do this? Is she angry that you poisoned the eldest Miss of the Ling family?" Jingsi was puzzled.
"The conflict between her and Ling Chuchu is deeper than the conflict between me and Ling Chuchu. How could she possibly blame me, Ling Chuchu, for poisoning her?" Xu Yuanyuan knew everything clearly.
I'm afraid even if she killed Ling Chuchu, Ling Qingwan wouldn't say anything.
"Then she..."
"She was reminding me that I was reaching too far."
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Winter came very quickly in Tokyo. It was sunny last week, but this week the weather suddenly turned cold.
Ling Qingwan, wearing a mink coat, sat by the door, staring blankly at the teacup on the stove.
The teacup gurgled, making a boiling sound.