Chapter 119: She murdered her elders and sisters, so she deserves death
Soon, both Old Madam Zhou and Zhao Yinlian ordered people to investigate the poisoning. All the women in the mansion were poisoned, so it was a serious matter and it was impossible not to investigate.
"To answer the old lady and Madam, the female members of the family were poisoned, and the problem lies with the food in the kitchen."
The Zhou Mansion is not a big place. Besides, the mansion is in chaos now and many servants have been sold out. Zhou Qianqian's methods are not sophisticated, so it would be easy to investigate.
"Food? Can you find out who prepared it?" Old Madam Zhou sat on a low couch with a blanket covering her legs, and she looked a little unwell.
"The taro rice that the women had that day was made by the cook, Mrs. Zhong, but she denied poisoning the rice. When I asked her again, she said that the rice was from the mansion, but the taro was sent by the second young lady, who asked her to poison the rice."
As the housekeeper spoke, he opened the box in his hand, and inside was the taro left over from cooking that day.
"I've had it tested, and the poison is in the taro. When the Second Miss gave the taro to Mrs. Zhong, she said that Aunt Zhao loved to eat it when she was alive, and she wanted to serve a bowl of it as a sacrifice to her mother."
Zhou Qianqian has no one she can use around her. Whether buying the drugs or poisoning them, she did it all by herself. It is naturally easy to trace it back to her.
"Qianqian?" Zhao Yinlian couldn't believe that the person who poisoned her was Zhou Qianqian.
"I dare not speak to the old lady and the lady without concrete evidence. I wonder if we should invite the second young lady to come for questioning?" The housekeeper sighed secretly. Recently, the Zhou Mansion has been getting more and more unstable.
"Well, please, of course you have to. Come, bring the second young lady to the front hall. If she doesn't want to, don't be polite to her!" Zhao Yinlian coldly ordered the housekeeper to do it.
Zhou Qianqian was depressed for a whole day because she failed to poison the Zhou family. Suddenly, the housekeeper came with someone and said they had something to ask her. His attitude was not very friendly. She wondered what was going on and how could she go.
The housekeeper didn't bother to be polite with her and directly asked the strong maids to carry her on both sides and drag her to the main hall.
Zhou Qianqian struggled and was dragged to the front hall. The maid dragged her inside and threw her to the ground without any courtesy.
"Zhou Qianqian, your biological mother Aunt Zhao likes to eat taro rice. Do you recognize this piece of taro?"
Zhao Yinlian sat at the head of the main seat, her voice was cold, and she raised her hand to point at the taro to show Zhou Qianqian.
When Zhou Qianqian saw the piece of taro, she knew that what she had done had been discovered.
"What if I recognize you? What if I don't recognize you?" Zhou Qianqian stood up from her kneeling position and looked at Zhao Yinlian.
In the past, in front of Zhao Yinlian, she had to bow her head in everything because she was the mistress.
Now that the truth has been exposed, there is no need to continue pretending. Why not just throw the jar away?
"Well, you are really my good daughter. Are you crazy or have you lost your mind? How dare you put poison in the food? The mansion provides you with fine clothes and delicious food, and this is how you repay me and your grandmother?"
Zhao Yinlian spoke these sanctimonious words, completely forgetting who had ordered the fifty strokes of the cane against Aunt Zhao.
"Shut up! You are not worthy of being my mother! My mother is already dead, and you are the murderer who killed my mother! How can I repay you? I am just giving you an eye for an eye!"
Zhou Qianqian shook off the hand of the servant who wanted to come forward and hold her down. Since these people found out about the food and asked someone to bring her here, it meant that the evidence was already solid.
"Don't talk nonsense! Aunt Zhao deserved it for murdering Aunt Liu. It was the Crown Prince's wife who wanted her life. Don't I want to protect her?"
At this time, Zhao Yinlian still wanted to defend her actions.
Old Madam Zhou lowered her eyes in silence, not knowing what she was thinking.
Looking at the hypocritical face in front of her, Zhou Qianqian's mentality collapsed and she just gave up.
"It's true that Liu Mingyue is a bitch, but you shouldn't flatter yourself!" Zhou Qianqian threw all the etiquette she had learned before to the winds and madly accused Zhao Yinlian of hypocrisy.
"From the beginning to the end, did you ever think about protecting my mother? You only thought about your precious daughter! You were afraid that Liu Mingyue would go crazy and hurt Zhou Baili, so in order to keep things quiet, you pushed my mother to death!"
In the past, Zhou Qianqian respected her mistress Zhao Yinlian, but now she just feels disgusted when she sees this person.
Her blunt condemnation and scolding tore off the hypocritical masks of Old Madam Zhou and Zhao Yinlian.
Although she knew she would be severely punished, Zhou Qianqian no longer cared.
She fell to the ground, first laughing softly, then laughing crazily, until she couldn't breathe, she put away her crazy smile: "What a pity, what a pity that I didn't kill all of you this time, I was just a little bit away, I almost succeeded."
After she said that, she started laughing again, looking like she had gone crazy.
Old Mrs. Zhou and Zhao Yinlian were so angry at her nonchalant look. Old Mrs. Zhou closed her eyes and her mental state looked even worse. She was already old and looked even older.
"Good! What a concubine's daughter! Since you love Aunt Zhao so much, wouldn't it be unreasonable for me not to preserve the relationship between you and your daughter?" Zhao Yinlian was so angry that she thought it would be better to execute her.
A person who is able to poison the entire family for Aunt Zhao will ultimately be a disaster if kept around and must be eliminated.
When the maids came over and were about to take Zhou Qianqian away, Old Madam Zhou spoke up to stop them.
"Wait a minute."
The old lady sitting in the main seat opened her eyes. Her once bright eyes were now covered with a layer of white film.
"Mother, are you going to forgive this disobedient and unfilial granddaughter?" Zhao Yinlian looked at Old Madam Zhou in confusion. After all, she was just a concubine's daughter of no value. What was there to worry about?
Old Madam Zhou saw Zhao Yinlian's confusion. If it were any other time, Old Madam Zhou would have chosen to do the same as Zhao Yinlian and let the servants deal with the person quietly, but that was not possible now.
"Take the second young lady back to the house first, and then assign more people to watch her yard to make sure it doesn't get lost. Otherwise, you will be held responsible!"
The maids in the hall heard what happened and of course did not dare to delay. They followed the old lady's instructions and dragged away Zhou Qianqian, who was still laughing wildly.
"Does mother have any concerns?" Zhao Yinlian calmed down a little and could see that Madam Zhou had some plans in mind.
"She murdered her elders and sisters. Her death is not a pity, but there is a saying that family disgrace should not be made public. Moreover, the Zhou family has already lost two concubines in succession. If another concubine dies, what do you think others will say about her?"
Old Madam Zhou handed the crutch in her hand to the nanny beside her. She felt tired now and even found it difficult to hold the crutch.
"This..." Zhao Yinlian realized it later and thought from another perspective. If something like this happened in someone else's family, she would stay away from them.
"People have died one after another in the mansion. Outsiders who don't know the inside story will inevitably think that we have offended some gods. You have to know that it has been less than a year since Junyuan died, and two concubines have passed away in the mansion."
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