Chapter 73 What do you know?
"Did they say that if you still have any sense of shame, you can commit suicide in prison, and the Song family will naturally take good care of your children. If you say something you shouldn't say, your children will be punished for you when you die?"
As Qu Ling spoke, Song moved her lips, her expression slightly dazed.
"Lord Chi, please take my sister out first. I want to say a few words to my wife." Qu Ling looked at Chi Yuan.
She opened the food box she brought, and inside was lotus cake.
"This is what Dad told me to bring to Madam. Dad said that when he and Madam got married, Madam was hungry, so he took this lotus cake from the compartment and gave it to her."
Song stood there in a daze.
Qu Lianzhi was unwilling to leave, "What do you want to say to my mother? Qu Ling, don't forget what you promised me!"
"Lianzhi, please go out," Song said. She looked at her daughter greedily, wanting to engrave her appearance in her mind. "Mom will be fine."
Qu Ling broke off one of the lotus cakes and put it in his mouth.
Non-toxic.
"I won't leave," Qu Lianzhi insisted. "If you have anything to say, say it to my face."
Qu Ling didn't insist and asked directly, "How did my mother die?"
Song leaned back against the wall and chuckled lightly when she heard this. Her tone was light and airy, "She died in the princess's mansion. Everyone knows it."
"No." Qu Ling was as cold as ice.
Song sneered, "You are so capable that you even let me fall into your hands. Why don't you investigate it yourself?"
Qu Ling didn't say anything, staring at Song, with undercurrents surging in his eyes.
Chi Yuan, who was standing by, looked at Qu Ling's tense face and felt a little moved.
When he just came back from Jiangzhou, he asked someone to find out everything about her.
Master Huaisu is right, they are similar.
He had seen her chanting sutras in Nanchan Temple, and he had also seen her calmness on the other side of the screen in the mourning hall.
Many things happened in the Dingxiang Marquis Mansion, and he always felt that she was manipulating them, but secretly he was happy that she could escape unscathed and protect herself.
Chi Yuan knew very well how difficult life was in a large mansion.
They didn't meet each other many times, but her eyes at that moment still made Chi Yuan's heart slightly tighten.
The suppressed anger and forbearance were about to wrap around and swallow her up.
He subconsciously wanted to move forward, but just as he took a step, he stopped.
Some truths and some knots in her heart need to be resolved by herself.
Just when Chi Yuan was lost in thought, Qu Ling moved.
She grabbed Qu Lianzhi who was standing nearby and slammed her head against the cell bars.
"Bang--"
Qu Lianzhi's forehead hit the pillar hard, and blood immediately gushed out.
She screamed in pain, but Qu Ling held her down tightly, unable to move.
Qu Ling's voice was terrifyingly calm. "Song Jun, you have to understand that if you die, Qu Lianzhi will become the most pitiful person in the world."
Song quickly ran to the fence, her eyes wide open, "Let her go, are you crazy?"
Qu Ling remained unmoved. He pinched the back of Qu Lianzhi's neck with such force that it almost broke her bones. "The old lady hated her to death. Empress Song took her into the palace and kicked her out within half a day."
Her eyes were dark and terrifying, and she whispered softly in Qu Lianzhi's ear, "Tell me, if your mother died, how many days could you live?"
Qu Lianzhi was in so much pain and hated Qu Ling for using such a harsh blow, but she knew in her heart that what Qu Ling said was not meant to scare her.
Queen Song's attitude towards her depended entirely on the Song family's mood.
Song Yuzhen was very hostile to her and would definitely not let her live in the palace again.
She lived in the Marquis' Mansion, and if Qu Ling didn't help her, she would be tortured to death by the old lady.
Tears mixed with blood flowed down, and Qu Lianzhi sobbed continuously, "Mom, what do you know? Tell her quickly."
Song's eyes were bloodshot, and her fingers scratched the fence, leaving marks. "Qu Ling, if you dare to touch her, I won't let you go even if I become a ghost."
Qu Ling sneered, "I'm not afraid of you when you're alive, and I'm even less afraid of you as a ghost."
She increased the strength of her hands, and Qu Lianzhi almost fainted from the pain. His cries echoed in the cell, so shrill that it made people's hair stand on end.
Chi Yuan stood aside, his fingers slightly tightened.
Reason told him that he should stop it, but the inexplicable emotion in his heart prevented him from moving.
He has seen too many unjust cases and too many people who died in vain.
The Song family is extremely powerful. If Qu Ling's methods can pry open the Song family's mouth, it might not be a bad thing.
"I say," Song finally broke down and screamed, "Let Lianzhi go."
Qu Ling didn't move at all, and the strength in his hands increased a little.
Song closed her eyes in despair. "The poisoning in the Princess's Mansion was an accident. Even without that accident, Xu Zhaoyue would still have died."
She gasped, her eyes full of struggle, but looking at her daughter's face covered in blood, she finally said dejectedly, "It was not the Queen Mother who wanted to poison Zhao Yuanrong, but the Queen."
It was just a short sentence, but it was like a thunderclap in the cell.
Chi Yuan was stunned and looked at Qu Ling.
Qu Ling's expression didn't change much, but his eyes were frighteningly bright. "Where's the evidence?"
Song laughed bitterly, "How could there be any evidence left for something like this?"
She is a member of the Song family. She knows some things, but not everything.
She stared at Qu Ling, "The Queen Mother was determined to kill Xu Zhaoyue and made a deal with the Marquisate. You woke me up. If my guess is correct, the Marquisate of Dingxiang killed Xu Zhaoyue, and the Queen Mother married me into the Marquisate."
In this dark dungeon, Song was thinking hard.
She didn't understand why she, as the queen's sister, had to marry someone else as a concubine.
It was this unwillingness that made her hate Qu Ling so much that she tried every possible way to kill her.
The reason why we are in this situation today is all because of this obsession in my heart.
So what was the reason for her obsession in the first place?
The Queen Mother Song wanted to win over Qu Xin, the newly crowned number one scholar, and use him to get rid of Xu Zhaoyue. Qu Xin also wanted to use the Queen Mother Song's influence to have a smooth career.
"You should find out why the Queen Mother wanted Xu Zhaoyue to die," Song said.
Qu Ling let go of Qu Lianzhi and let her collapse to the ground.
She thought she shouldn't need to check.
Empress Dowager Song felt that the emperor liked Xu Zhaoyue, and she would never allow such a thing to happen, so she killed him.
"How do you know that it was the Marquis' Mansion that wanted my mother dead?" Qu Ling wanted to know.
Song sneered, "When I married into the Marquis's Mansion, I found that many people had changed. I was young and curious at the time, so I sent my confidant to the pawnshop to find several servants who had not yet been sold to the capital to inquire."
"From them, I learned that the food your mother ate when she was pregnant with you was unclean."
"They want to kill your mother twice."
Song was eager to see shock and heartbreak on Qu Ling's face.
But Qu Ling just nodded thoughtfully, "So that's how it is."
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