Chapter 59: The carriage was tampered with
"You're lying," Qu Heng said, his forehead veins bulging. "How could it be such a coincidence?"
There was no smile in Qu Ling's eyes. "Yeah, what a coincidence! Our carriage broke down on the same day."
She turned to Qu Xi and said, "Father, we should investigate carefully. Could it be that the manager was lazy and didn't repair the broken carriage?"
The Marquis frowned and glanced back and forth between his children.
There was a flash of panic in Song's eyes.
Since the incident, she has not had time to make any arrangements.
Qu Ling's carriage had only been tampered with slightly, so he just had to push it to the steward, saying that it had not been properly kept, and then take him out and give him a beating, and everything would be fine.
She never thought that her son had broken a leg because of the carriage.
It's like a dumb person eating bitter herbs, unable to express his pain.
At this point, it would be too far-fetched to say that it was due to poor storage.
Qu Xi asked someone to call the steward and all the servants from the carriage and horse department over.
Soon, several people knelt in the yard.
"Who is missing?" Qu Xi looked fierce.
The steward knelt on the ground, not daring to breathe. Indeed, there was someone who had not come. "Gourd is missing. Gourd didn't come."
Song gritted her teeth and cursed inwardly, "Idiot!"
Can he escape?
I also felt a little hopeful. If he really ran away, there would be no evidence.
"Why didn't you come!" Qu Xi glared, "Send someone to kidnap him!"
He looked at Song coldly, "You've been in charge of the family for so many years, and this is how you manage your servants?"
Song was already heartbroken and annoyed. After hearing this, she exploded. "There's no need to be so rude to me. I don't need you to teach me how to discipline servants."
Qu Kui's face turned red from choking.
"Ah Heng has become like this, what are you doing as his mother?"
Song was unyielding. "As a mother, I naturally devote myself to my child, but what about you, the father? You spend the whole day indulging in the pleasures of life. What have you done?"
"How dare you!" Qu Li raised his hand.
He and Song have been married for many years, and in all the years that have passed, they have blushed more often than in the past few months.
The slap naturally didn't fall, as Qu Yi blocked it firmly.
"Mom, please don't talk to Dad like that." Qu Yi also felt that his mother had been going a little too far recently.
A wife is the head of her husband's family, so how can she talk back to her husband like this?
When Mrs. Song saw the hint of reproach in her son's eyes, she felt an indescribable chill in her heart.
Even Qu Heng fell silent during this quarrel.
The imperial physician in the room looked straight ahead, but was inwardly amazed.
It's really wonderful.
It didn't take long before the servant named "Hulu" was called over.
There was a foul smell that was disgusting.
His body was wet, and he didn't know what it was stained with.
He didn't run at all. He was knocked unconscious and thrown into the toilet, with his head tied up with a rope and his feet on a stool.
"My Lord, it must have been him!" The servants who went to arrest him described the scene they had witnessed vividly. "He even tried to commit suicide out of fear of the crime and almost hanged himself."
Fortunately, he kicked the stool away.
Of course, he also kicked the gourd into the pit.
After fishing it out, I poured water on it several times. I didn't dare to delay and sent it over quickly.
"Tell me, who ordered you to damage the carriage!" Qu Lu tried his best not to breathe in, and almost vomited when he opened his mouth.
"It was Madam's order that the young lady's carriage be tampered with."
The sound of the gourd was like a thunderclap that struck everyone's heart.
Song sat upright on the armchair, her expression normal, and she was not panicking at all.
So what if it was her? Qu Ling was unharmed and no one could do anything to her.
The corner of Qu Qi's eye twitched slightly, "Where is the eldest master's carriage?"
Hulu almost cried, "I really don't know what's going on with the young master's carriage."
Qu Ling chuckled, "I think you got the wrong carriage."
"Only one axle of my carriage was broken. The driver checked and found it was worm-eaten."
"The eldest son's carriage was shattered into pieces, with the shafts having smooth cuts where they were broken. It was clearly damaged by a sharp weapon."
Someone has already sent over the results of the investigation.
Song's face changed. She already knew what Qu Ling was going to do.
Before she could speak, Qu Heng trembled, his eyes full of disbelief, "Did my mother really ask you to destroy the carriage?"
How is that possible!
Can't!
His legs were actually because of his mother.
Qu Yi suddenly stepped forward and grabbed Hulu's collar, avoiding the main point and asking, "Did my mother really ask you to go?"
Hulu was strangled to the point of being unable to breathe, and shook his head desperately, "Second Young Master, please spare me. I really haven't touched the eldest young master's carriage."
He did move the carriage, and this was the only sentence in Qu Heng's mind.
Song pointed at Qu Ling and said, "I wanted to harm her, so what? But how could I harm my own son?"
She admitted it directly, her eyes flashing with resentment as she shot at Qu Ling, "It was you who moved Ah Heng's carriage!"
Qu Ling didn't dodge or evade. "Madam, do you think the stewards are all dead? You can do whatever you want? Or do you think you can't manage this family? What you should worry about is not a carriage, but someone who can easily kill the entire mansion at any time."
Qu Xi frowned, as if thinking about something.
"It's too dark. Maybe I saw it wrong?" Qu Yi said suddenly.
Song suddenly turned her head to look at her second son, a trace of chill in her eyes.
Is he so eager to put the blame on himself?
Qu Yi had already lowered his head, not daring to let anyone see the joy in his eyes.
Qu Xi had already walked up to Hulu and asked, "Are you sure it was Madam who ordered you to harm the young lady?"
The gourd shook even more violently, but he still nodded, "Yes, the nanny beside the Madam said that she would reward me with twenty taels of silver after the task was completed."
Qu Xi's eyes shot towards Song with lightning speed.
Song was too lazy to hide it and silently indicated that it was indeed her who did it.
The most important thing right now is not to let Ah Heng think that his broken leg was caused by him as a mother.
She simply couldn't bear being resented by her own children.
Qu Qi's eyes became colder and colder.
Song Shi couldn't stand being looked at by him, and she felt a lump of anger in her chest. "Qu Ling returned unharmed, but now it's my son who is injured..."
There was a sudden commotion outside.
"My Lord, the Duke of Dongyang and his wife are outside shouting for us to return the Crown Prince to them."
Qu Xin, who was already in a state of panic, was completely confused. "What prince?"
"I don't know."
"Let them go," Qu Xi had no good feelings towards this family, "Just kick them out."
Before the messenger left, another person came in in a panic.
"The Duke of Dongyang said that they had Prince Xu block the eldest girl's path as instructed by the Madam. Now he's gone. If the Madam can't give an explanation, then we can only go to the palace and file a complaint."
Qu Ling was bewildered. "What? But I've never met Prince Xu."
"What's going on?" Qu Xi was extremely annoyed, and there was a murderous intent in his eyes when he looked at Song.
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