Chapter 92: Murder in the Nunnery
Wu Sanniang was taken away with her child.
Qu Ling planned to do it openly, "Involve the Song family and tell Wu Sanniang that if she kills the Song family, her husband still has a chance of survival."
He thanked Chi Yuan again, "Thank you for believing what I said."
It was just a guess, but he brought so many people here.
The man who shot the arrow was caught.
Song Guang went to great lengths to kill her.
Chi Yuan looked at her with mixed feelings.
Her situation was very similar to his in the Jingwei Marquis Mansion after his grandparents died.
"My Lord, there's no need to pity me," Qu Ling understood Chi Yuan's eyes, "I have the eldest princess to care for me."
"Is it the Song family or the Marquis' Mansion that wants to kill you?" Chi Yuan asked.
Her father did not feel sorry for his daughter.
Qu Ling could laugh, "It's the Song family. Don't worry, the Dingxiang Marquisate can't hurt me."
"This place is still some distance away from the princess's residence. I'll take you there." Chi Yuan felt heavy in his heart when he saw her smile.
The carriage started moving again. Qu Ling leaned back on the cushion and took a long breath.
The assassination just now made her feel uneasy, but the sound of horse hooves coming from outside the car window inexplicably calmed her down.
She lifted a corner of the car curtain.
Chi Yuan was riding on a horse, his official robe slightly lifted by the wind, and his profile was as clear as if it had been cut by a knife.
He seemed to notice the gaze and suddenly turned his head, their eyes meeting.
Qu Ling didn't dodge and curled the corners of his lips.
Chi Yuan's brows softened and a smile appeared in his eyes.
The two people in similar situations moved closer.
"Princess, we have arrived at the princess's mansion." The female official reminded.
Qu Ling lifted the car curtain again.
When Chi Yuan saw her sticking her head out, he raised his hand and threw something into the car window.
Qu Ling caught it, as if it were a talisman.
"Life is so difficult, you have to be careful at all times." He had already ridden away, but every word he said was clear.
Qu Ling got off the carriage and fumbled for the amulet in his hand, which he had obtained from Guoqing Temple.
She murmured, "Don't worry, I will live well, and so will you."
When I entered the princess's mansion, I didn't see the eldest princess.
"When did my aunt go out?" She didn't ask where the eldest princess went because she knew.
"It's been two hours."
"Who's following?"
"Prince."
Qu Ling felt relieved.
"Where's Madam Mu? Take me to see her."
As soon as Qu Ling returned to the capital and revealed the news, the princess quickly brought people over from Jiangzhou.
With Madam Mu by her side, the eldest princess no longer has to worry about being plotted against by the man surnamed Mu from the Imperial Hospital.
Qu Ling twirled the Buddhist beads in her hand, wondering how many enemies she had left.
She looked at the sun and found it difficult to open her eyes.
Someone is about to die at this hour.
The nunnery outside Beijing is called Qingxin Nunnery.
Most of them were nobles sent here because they had committed mistakes in the palace, and there were also women from high-ranking officials’ families.
Unlike other nunneries, Qingxin Nunnery has guards outside.
Those female guards were trained by the eldest princess.
Qingxin Temple is where the eldest princess lives.
"Where are the people?" The eldest princess was dressed in plain clothes, like an ordinary woman, and was not noticeable at all.
Pei Jingming behind her also changed into coarse linen clothes.
"I was reciting scriptures and confessing my sins in the room. I didn't know the eldest princess was coming. I should let her come to pay her a visit." The person in charge of the nunnery was the wife of the former Marquis of Pingyuan.
She killed her unfaithful husband and should have paid with her own life, but the eldest princess saved her.
Let her be the head of a place with a green lamp and ancient Buddha.
"Don't let anyone know I'm here," said the eldest princess.
Pei Jingming, who was standing behind him, narrowed his peach blossom eyes and greeted Madam Pingyuan. "It's been a while since we last met. You seem to be looking better."
"Thanks to the eldest princess." The lady, who was pure and simple, couldn't help laughing when she heard such praise.
"Don't worry, Your Highness. No one will know you're here." She led the princess and Pei Jingming to a wing room. "There's no one living around her."
The eldest princess nodded and pushed the door open.
Old Madam Song was kneeling on a mat with her back to the door. When she heard the voice, she thought someone was coming to deliver food.
"Leave it there, I'm not hungry."
"You'd better eat it. This is your last meal." The eldest princess said in a calm voice.
Madam Song turned back in shock, "What are you doing here?"
"I'll take you off." As soon as the princess finished speaking, Pei Jingming had already grabbed Madam Song's neck.
The old lady stumbled backwards and bumped into the altar.
A sharp pain.
“Your hands will be dirty,” the princess taught him, “use white silk so that no one can see that he was strangled to death.
Pei Jingming smiled and said, "Listen to mother."
As soon as he finished speaking, the white silk was pulled out from his sleeve and put around the old lady's neck.
"Don't kill me," said Old Madam Song, frightened to death. "I'll tell you whatever you want to know, just don't kill me."
She was terrified and she didn't want to die.
Zhao Ju is so cruel and ruthless that he doesn't give anyone a chance to survive.
"Can you tell me something useful so that I won't kill you?" The eldest princess sat down gracefully.
Pei Jingming tacitly tightened the white silk on his hand.
Old Madam Song's breath was taken away in an instant.
She felt death approaching and spoke in panic, "Xu Zhaoyue is the daughter of the late emperor. She is your biological sister."
Apart from the late Queen Mother, she was the only one who knew this secret, and even the Queen had never revealed it.
"If you let me go, I will slowly tell you the reasons behind this."
She stared at the eldest princess's expression motionlessly, trying to see surprise and anger on her face.
But the eldest princess seemed to have heard something very ordinary.
"Anything else?" She gestured to Pei Jingming to loosen his grip.
Pei Jingming is very obedient.
Old Madam Song breathed in deep gulps of air and crawled back from the brink of death.
What else?
She searched her mind.
"The Queen Mother never intended to kill you," Old Lady Song said in a sudden, desolate tone. "You only know that she sent you to Liangzhou, but how could you know the pain in her heart?"
The eldest princess's expression really changed.
"When the late emperor passed away, the King of Yunnan wrote a letter to the Queen Mother, saying that he was attracted to you and asked her to marry you to him as his princess. Otherwise, he would rebel."
Madam Song smiled bitterly, "The Queen Mother didn't want you to be embarrassed, so she drugged you and first let His Majesty ascend the throne to stabilize the situation. Then she had General Hou secretly dispatch troops to Yunnan under the pretext of escorting you to your wedding."
"In fact, the troops were divided into two groups. You were sent to Liangzhou, and the one who went to Yunnan in your place was a girl from the royal family."
Old Madam Song burst into tears, "Aju, your mother is also suffering."
She hoped these words could touch the eldest princess.
Outsiders all thought that the eldest princess and the Queen Mother Song were enemies.
In fact, the eldest princess has always been like an abandoned puppy, wagging her tail and begging for mercy, trying to get the love of Queen Dowager Song.
Let her know that her mother has always been thinking about her, and she should let go of her worries and reconcile with the Song family.
She saw the eldest princess sitting there quietly, seemingly in a daze, and she felt secretly happy.
But the next moment, the eldest princess calmly and coldly ordered, "Kill her."
Old Madam Song was stunned.
As soon as he opened his mouth, the white silk around his neck tightened rapidly.
Pei Jingming's eyes were vicious. Could he wash away the harm that the Queen Mother Song had done to the eldest princess over the years with just a few words?
No one knew better than him how much despair Empress Dowager Song had brought to the eldest princess.
What was Queen Dowager Song doing when the eldest princess was sitting alone under the moon, crying and breaking down?
Playing power games.
Since it is a delaying tactic, why not return the country to the eldest princess?
"I don't believe a single word you say." The eldest princess slowly stood up and walked up to Old Madam Song, whose eyes were bulging, and watched her struggling to death.
"Do you know who Yuan Rong's father is?"
The eldest princess's eyes were as cold as the deep water of a cold pond. Facing Old Madam Song's desperate eyes, she said, "Your life is my birthday gift to the Queen."
Old Madam Song did not want to die. She was the most honorable old lady in this dynasty and the mother of the queen.
Today is the Queen's birthday, and her daughter will ask the Emperor to forgive her.
She will still be the old lady with noble status and respected by everyone.
How could she die?
What went wrong?
Until the last moment of her life, she still couldn't figure it out.
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