Chapter 39: The one who lost her never thought of finding her again
The room fell into deathly silence again.
Deng Zheng was also thinking, if Deng Youning really wanted him dead, she would have done it on the first day she returned home, why did she wait until now?
Deng Youning looked at Deng Xuelian and sighed deeply.
What is going on between her and Aunt Zhang?
"Madam Zhang, I don't know who ordered you to frame me."
"But you must have seen my strength. If you were coerced or threatened by that person, you can tell me."
"Perhaps, I can help you."
She was not a person who was overly loving. She said this simply to awaken the last bit of conscience in Aunt Zhang and clear herself of suspicion.
Aunt Zhang collapsed on the ground and shook her head.
She slept for a while, knelt down, and said:
"No one instructed me to do this. Not the Second Miss, nor anyone else."
"It was this old servant's idea to drug the Duke, and it had nothing to do with anyone else."
"I am guilty, but I beg for death."
In the end, she alone took the blame.
She couldn't betray the eldest lady.
I also know that the second young lady is a ruthless person. If I really drag her into this situation today, I'm afraid her whole family will be in danger tomorrow.
Having achieved his goal, Deng Youning smiled proudly.
She raised her eyes and looked at her parents who had never trusted her.
There was no resentment towards them in her eyes, but a kind of indifference that was accustomed to it.
That look was like an electric shock, causing Gu's heart to ache slightly.
Could it be that she was wronged this time?
But, if she wasn’t the one who ordered Aunt Zhang, who else could it be?
Nanny Zhang has no grudge against their family!
Gu and Deng Zheng exchanged glances.
Just as they were about to ask someone to drag Aunt Zhang away, Deng Youning spoke again:
"She said she did it all by herself, do you really believe it?"
"This poison is not available on the market, and the herbs needed to make it are not something that ordinary people can prepare on their own."
"In order to prevent someone from plotting to harm my mansion and my father, my daughter suggests that we investigate this matter thoroughly and find the person behind it."
Deng Youning raised her voice slightly, very resolutely, as if she had made up her mind to get to the bottom of the matter.
"Trace?"
"Besides you, who else would make something that could harm people?"
Deng Xuelian is now on pins and needles.
If Deng Youning really produced evidence to identify herself, she would really have no way to defend herself.
In a moment of panic, I forgot to pretend to be gentle and soft.
Deng Zheng glanced at her with a slightly suspicious look, and Deng Xuelian quickly covered her mouth.
"I'm sorry, sister. I'm short-sighted."
After realizing her loss of composure, Deng Xuelian hurriedly apologized.
Gu was afraid that Deng Zheng's attitude towards Deng Xuelian would deteriorate, so she spoke up for Deng Xuelian:
"Our Lian'er grew up in a large mansion, unlike some people who made friends with many shady people in the underworld."
That sarcastic tone was deliberately mocking Deng Youning.
Deng Youning was not angry either.
In her previous life, when she was thrown into a leaky, dilapidated house by Gu to fend for herself, she no longer had any illusions about the Deng family's affection.
"Yes, Ningning did grow up in the underworld. But isn't it because we lost her that we have never thought of looking for her in the past 16 years?"
Han Qiongyue's angry voice came from outside the door.
When she heard the noise, she had to come over to support her granddaughter.
"Mother."
"grandmother."
Seeing Han Qiongyue coming, everyone saluted her.
Deng Zheng even gave up the main seat and welcomed Han Qiongyue to take the seat.
"I also know roughly about what happened to Aunt Zhang who poisoned me."
"Ningning, tell me, how do you want to investigate this matter?"
Han Qiongyue's meaning was very clear, she wanted to delegate power to Deng Youning.
Deng Youning bowed to her, glanced at Deng Xuelian, and said slowly:
"When I was in Nanxin before, I met a miraculous doctor, Wutong, the Right Court Judge of the Imperial Hospital."
"I don't know whose orders he followed, but he wanted to destroy my martial arts, but I broke both of his hands."
"After returning to Beijing, he was naturally expelled from the Imperial Hospital."
"Ning Ning doesn't know many people in the capital. Wu Tong is one of the people who knows how to make that poison and can make it."
Having said this, she looked at Deng Xuelian again.
At this time, there were beads of sweat the size of beans on Deng Xuelian's smooth and flawless forehead.
She was so nervous that her legs were trembling slightly and her face was pale.
"Although Wu Tong died a few days ago, he had many disciples when he was alive. It's not difficult to find one of them and ask the person who asked Wu Tong for medicine."
She raised her eyebrows and finally set her eyes on Deng Xuelian.
Deng Xuelian was really frightened.
I felt dizzy and almost fainted.
"Lian'er, what's wrong with you?"
"Is it because of the poison just now?"
Gu put her arm around Deng Xuelian's shoulders and helped her sit down, then quickly asked the doctor to prescribe medicine.
"Regarding the matter of finding Wu Tong's disciples, Gu, I'll leave it to you."
"You are required to find out as soon as possible, to whom did Wu Tong give this poison?"
Han Qiongyue confirmed the matter.
As the legal wife and the mistress of a mansion, she was unaware of her husband's deteriorating health. What on earth had she been doing in the Deng family all these years? !
Besides, it’s time for her to go and clear Ningning’s name in person.
“No need!”
Just at this moment, Deng Yi's voice came.
He was seven and a half feet tall, and even though one arm was missing, he still walked with grace.
"I was the one who poisoned him. I am solely responsible for my actions."
"But I originally intended to give this poison to my grandmother, but somehow it ended up on my father's side."
He looked very righteous.
He didn't even think there was anything wrong with poisoning his grandmother.
"Yier, are you sick?"
"Why are you talking nonsense?"
Gu didn't believe that her good son could poison his mother-in-law.
"My mother is really not in a good mind."
"The prince also said that he wanted to poison grandma."
"If I'm not mistaken, the poison I gave to the prince in Fahua Temple was also cured by Doctor Wu, right?"
Deng Youning added a sentence, which made Gu and Deng Zheng believe it.
The couple still looked at Deng Yi with disbelief.
In contrast, Han Qiongyue's eyes were somewhat dull.
It is not surprising that Deng Yi could do such a thing as hiring someone to kill his sister and buying poison to kill his grandmother.
Fortunately, she never had high hopes for this grandson, nor did she love him particularly much.
"Yier, you poisoned grandma, why?!"
Gu had already started crying.
Not just shocked, but scared.
Why did a good family become like this?
She broke down and cried, looking at Deng Yi with tears in her eyes.
"My son did nothing wrong. It was my grandmother's fault. She was too partial to Deng Youning. For so many years, she never even looked at me and Lian'er!"
"When I was young, she forced me to learn martial arts. She made me do horse stance in the snow. I caught a cold and was sick for three whole months."
"A few years ago, I took a fancy to a girl from the Jiaofang Bureau and wanted to buy her to be a concubine, but she scolded me for that."
"These are actually nothing. I don't blame my grandmother."
"But ever since Deng Youning came back, she has forgotten our entire Duke's Mansion in her heart."
Deng Yi turned his head and stared at Han Qiongyue with his scarlet and tearful eyes.
It seems like there is a huge injustice.
He would never think that his grandmother asked him to learn martial arts in order to let him take on the responsibility of defending the Duke's Mansion.
He also didn't know that his grandmother didn't let him contact the official prostitute in order to leave a good reputation so that he could find a good marriage in the future.
He also didn't think that he was the one who was wrong from the beginning to the end in Deng Youning's matter!
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