Chapter 312: Nirvana 3

Song Zhao was shocked.

Seeing Xiao Jingheng staring at her with cold eyes, she quickly put on a serious expression and said lightly:

"Your Majesty, this banknote has the seal of my mother's family, the Duke of Huguo Mansion, but the banknote is circulated and transferred again and again, so it's not surprising that he has it."

Xiao Jingheng obviously didn't believe such an explanation.

He closed his eyes and sighed, "Xiao Yinzi, didn't they say that the person who sent the banknotes to this servant has been arrested? Bring him up."

There was another rustling sound outside the door, Song Zhao turned around and looked.

The moment she saw who was coming, her heart almost turned cold.

That person turned out to be the former head servant of the Duke of Huguo's Mansion, Liu Chi...

Liu Chi stood at the bottom of the hall, first greeted Xiao Jingheng, then said to Song Zhao:

"Your servant...pays respects to the Second Young Lady."

He was very polite and respectful, and there was no trace of the look on his face that he had when he bullied Song Zhao in the mansion before.

This Liu Chi was a distant relative of Song Zhao's biological mother, Jiang. When he was working at the Duke of Huguo's Mansion, Jiang had many private disputes with Song Zhao, and most of them were caused by Liu Chi.

Therefore, Song Zhao and he can be said to be incompatible.

In fact, Song Zhao also thought about dealing with this scourge, but after Jiang's death, the Duke of Huguo's Mansion fell into desolation, and Liu Chi disappeared as if he had evaporated from the face of the earth.

Now that Liu Chi had arrived, Song Zhao had no way to defend himself.

All along, Song Zhao had been pretending to Xiao Jingheng that she was on good terms with her mother's family and close to her stepmother.

Now that things have come to this, how can she tell Xiao Jingheng what happened between her and Liu Chi?

The crime of deceiving the emperor is also punishable by death.

After a brief silence in the hall, Xiao Jingheng asked Liu Chi,

"Tell me what you have done, and I will leave you with an intact body."

As expected, Liu Chi bowed to Song Zhao first and said with a bitter face:

"Second Miss...I am so sorry for you!"

After saying this, Kuang Dang knelt down and replied:

"Your Majesty... I was the one who found Qu Yanran, but I was instructed by the Second Young Lady. She asked me to find refugees and use them for her own purposes. It was also the Second Young Lady who gave me money and asked me to bribe the County Magistrate of Tonglu to recommend Qu Yanran to serve the Emperor in Lin'an, so that I could have the opportunity to take action.

As for the fire in the county magistrate's house afterwards, it was also started by me. After the assassination attempt failed, the second lady asked me to hunt down Qu Yanran, but the woman hid well and I did not find her..."

The county magistrate's servant who was kneeling beside him also kept pointing and saying:

"Yes! It's you! Your Majesty! It was this man who met my master and gave me the silver note to keep me quiet!"

Song Zhao was so angry that he couldn't stop shaking.

I hadn't had a chance to recover from the weakness after giving birth, and after going through this, I felt as if thousands of daggers were churning in my stomach.

This series of traps, one after another, is watertight.

Song Zhao felt as if he had fallen into a bottomless cold cave.

The deeper she fell, the colder it became, but she didn't even know when she would reach the bottom.

Concubine Yao covered her mouth and exclaimed, "Concubine Yi! What on earth are you thinking?"

Concubine Yun also followed suit and scolded, "How dare you! How dare you murder the emperor!"

The remaining concubines, taking advantage of this exciting event, all wanted to step on Song Zhao and say something disparaging, as if only in this way could they show their loyalty to Xiao Jingheng.

Seeing that Song Zhao was wronged to this extent, Rong Yue wanted to stand up and plead with Xiao Jingheng,

But Ning Wanshuang glared at her and gestured for her to sit down.

Yes, Song Zhao has nowhere to go now.

Anyone who pleads for mercy will be implicated. The only way to find a way out for Song Zhao now is to keep quiet.

Amidst the crowd's scorn, only Concubine Ying asked,

"You said Concubine Yi arranged for you to do these things? Why did she arrange it this way? When did she start arranging it?"

Liu Chi said: "Then I don't know everything... I only know that the second young lady suspected that the master's death was not self-inflicted, but was killed by the emperor. The second young lady and the master have always had a deep father-daughter relationship. It was also from that time that the second young lady secretly contacted the servant and asked the servant to help her do so many things in secret."

After hearing this, Song Zhao didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Deep love between father and daughter?

She wished that Song Shicheng would fall into hell and never be reborn. When had she ever had a deep father-daughter relationship with Song Shicheng?

But if you think about it carefully, she and Song Shicheng do have a deep father-daughter relationship.

After all, isn't this what Song Zhao has always shown in front of Xiao Jingheng?

Faintly, Song Zhao felt as if there was a pair of eyes in the crowd looking at her.

She raised her eyebrows and met Huibin's clear and bright eyes.

At this moment, Huipin no longer pretended.

She tilted her head towards Song Zhao, her ears ringing.

He raised his eyebrows slightly, seemingly in a teasing tone, but more like a provocation.

Xiao Jingheng, who had been sitting firmly in the first place, also stood up at this moment.

With heavy steps, he walked towards Song Zhao step by step.

His face was livid, and he was extremely frustrated.

"Empress Yi, I have always treated you well."

Song Zhao was about to say something,

However, he was already dizzy from the sudden slap from Xiao Jingheng.

Apart from the concubines' exclamations, all that remained was Xiao Jingheng's angry questioning.

"Tell me! Why do you want to plot against me like this!"

[Cheng Yu is not dead, there is a big twist later. Also, I want to write the story I like carefully and share it with you. The story must have a beginning, a middle, and an end, and the character's mentality change must be driven by events. I can't write something that is sick and illogical.]

[So if you think that novels cannot have any twists and turns, don't leave comments like "you will give up if I write like this again". It's your choice what you like to read, and I fully respect it! Love you, Pen Core~]