Chapter 5: Oh no, the eldest lady hanged herself
A girl's voice as sweet and clear as a silver bell sounded, but the words she spoke were so vicious.
Deng Youning slowly got out of the car with a bamboo flute in her hand.
She was wearing a veil, so her appearance could not be seen. Although she was thin, she was tall and could indeed disguise herself as a beauty.
"If someone doesn't offend me, I won't offend him. If someone offends me, I will cut off the roots."
Han Qiongyue's meaning was already very clear.
Deng Youning chuckled and played a strange tune.
As the music started, the insects seemed to have received orders and began to attack the robbers.
In less than a moment, everyone was poisoned and fell to the ground.
Some of them were still tenacious and had not yet died, lying on the ground groaning.
Deng Youning glanced at them threateningly.
"Tell me, who sent you?"
"I will detoxify anyone who tells the truth."
Hearing her words, Han Qiongyue walked over quickly and asked suspiciously:
"Ning Ning, do you suspect that someone deliberately found these people to kill us?"
Deng Youning nodded affirmatively.
She recognized that these people were the prince's secret guards in the ruined temple in Liangcheng.
They still received the killing order.
Find out when the Silver Dragon Guards leave and attack them.
Just when Han Qiongyue was about to ask Nanny Dou and others to interrogate the mastermind behind these people, they all committed suicide by taking poison.
She sighed, "It seems that someone doesn't want us to return to Beijing alive!"
She asked herself honestly and realized that she had never made any enemies.
Why did someone in the capital go to so much trouble to kill an old woman like her?
"Don't make this public."
"Let's take another route to Beijing and pretend we haven't seen them today."
Han Qiongyue made arrangements calmly.
In order to prevent anyone from discovering anything, Deng Youning also specially handled the corpses of the poisonous insects that had just been killed by these eunuchs, making sure that they were clean and without any trace.
Grandmother didn't know who was going to attack them, but she knew it very well.
I don't know how Deng Xuelian knew that I know martial arts and the art of poison, but I have to make sure she can't find any evidence.
Otherwise, if anyone in the capital died of poison in the future, she would be able to blame herself and say that she was the one who killed someone.
This vicious Deng Xuelian even wanted to kill my grandmother!
My grandmother was born into a family of military generals. She practiced martial arts since childhood and was stronger than me. Why did she suddenly die of illness without any warning in her previous life?
This incident troubled her for two lifetimes.
Today I finally know the answer.
What puzzled her even more was that although her grandmother sent a pigeon back to Dongji as soon as they recognized each other, the capital of Dongji was very far away from Liangcheng on the border of Nanxin, and there was not enough time for Wutong and the man in black to come over.
That only means that Wutong and the others may have followed their grandmother from the very beginning.
How did Deng Xuelian, the prince and others know that their grandmother would find her, the real daughter, on this trip?
How did you know that she became a disciple of Wanshe Valley?
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In front of the Duke Zhenguo’s Mansion.
Everyone in the Deng family had already made preparations to welcome him.
Gu paced at the door nervously.
"Stop turning, it's giving me a headache!"
Deng Zheng felt mixed emotions when he thought that he would soon have another daughter.
If he was not afraid of bearing the stigma and affecting his official career, he would never let his mother bring back that girl of unknown origin.
I don’t know what this daughter looks like, and whether she can find a rich husband for me?
"Alas, how can I not be anxious? You see, we don't even know if she is the bloodline of our Zhenguogong Mansion."
Gu had long believed Deng Xuelian's words and was certain that there was something wrong with Deng Youning's bloodline.
"Mother, isn't my sister preparing for a blood test?"
"If not, she would confuse the bloodline of the Deng family and confuse her grandmother. I hope my son will take her to Jingzhao Prefecture and make her suffer the consequences."
It sounded like a murderous tone, coming from the mouth of Deng Yi, Deng Youning's biological brother.
Deng Xuelian grew up being carried on his back and in his arms. From childhood to adulthood, they had the deepest brother-sister relationship.
Ever since the Deng family received news from Han Qiongyue and found the real daughter Deng Youning, Deng Yi watched Deng Xuelian feel sad and blame herself. She lost a lot of weight because of Deng Youning.
Seeing his beloved sister in so much pain, he felt very resistant to Deng Youning.
He also hoped that she would die on the way, or encounter something, so as not to come back and disturb their peaceful life.
Soon, the carriage stopped in front of the Duke Zhenguo's Mansion.
Nanny Dou helped Han Qiongyue down first, and then everyone watched Deng Youning come out.
Because she practiced martial arts since childhood and because of her bloodline, Deng Youning is relatively tall among women.
She had already changed into a gorgeous dress and greeted everyone gracefully.
You know what, she really looks like a lady from a noble family.
Deng Zheng has already been planning in his mind which family he can benefit the most from marrying her to.
However, when everyone's eyes moved to Deng Youning's face, which was so pale that it looked like someone might die on the spot, they were also shocked.
In the Valley of Ten Thousand Snakes, she had been kept by her master in a basement without sunlight, so naturally her skin was abnormally white.
Because he was going to be bled, his body became extremely thin and looked like it would fall apart at the slightest breeze.
Deng Zheng felt extremely disappointed.
The Gu family wasn't much better.
She covered her mouth and nose with a handkerchief, and the word "disdain" was almost written on her forehead.
Is this girl suffering from some disease?!
Don't infect them.
What is the mother-in-law's intention in bringing back this medicine jar?
She didn't believe that she gave birth to this monster!
Why?
Why is Lian'er not her biological daughter?
When Deng Yi saw Deng Youning's sickly appearance, he breathed a sigh of relief for the first time in his life.
He thought Deng Youning would not live long.
Moreover, with her body condition, she should not have the strength to bully her Lian'er.
If she keeps quiet, I'll treat her like a dog and give her food to eat.
If she didn't appreciate it, she would probably die if she just found a servant girl to explain the rules to her.
Looking at the ill-intentioned eyes of this family, Deng Youning couldn't help but smile to himself.
Such obvious disdain and calculation!
"By the way, where's Lian'er?"
Han Qiongyue didn't see Deng Xuelian, so she took the initiative to ask.
That girl had been scheming since she was young, just like her petty-minded daughter-in-law, and was good at scheming in the inner court, which made her very disliked.
Today he was so bold that he didn't even come out to greet her when she came back.
Does this mean you don't take this old lady seriously?
Gu explained: "Don't blame me, mother-in-law. Lian'er is preparing the things needed for the blood test."
Blood test!
Han Qiongyue frowned and her face suddenly fell.
"Ningning was personally identified by me. If you suspect her identity is fake, why don't you kick me out of the house with you!"
She no longer paid attention to anyone, took Deng Youning's wrist and went back to her own Fu Shou Tang.
In the letter, she described her meeting and recognition with Deng Youning in great detail, taking up several pages. However, she did not expect that her foolish son and daughter-in-law still doubted Ningning's identity.
Is this about looking for Ning Ning?
This is to slap her in the face!
"You, you, you have to do a blood test."
"I've already said it, even if the one our mother brings back isn't our daughter, we still have to accept it!"
Deng Zheng, who bullies the weak and fears the strong, made Han Qiongyue angry, and she blamed all the faults on the Gu family.
"I...I am also worried that the bloodline of our Duke's Mansion is not righteous, right?"
How wronged the Gu family was.
As soon as Deng Youning came back, her mother-in-law gave them the cold shoulder. In the future, I'm afraid she will rely on the old lady's support to make trouble!
Just thinking about Gu made me feel a chill.
"Humph, maybe she used some kind of magic to confuse grandma's mind!"
Deng Yi thought about it and felt that this was the most reasonable explanation.
In his impression, his grandmother never liked to be close to others, and even he, the eldest son and grandson, was rarely loved by her.
He couldn't believe that his grandmother could be so partial to someone she had only known for a month.
It must be that Deng Youning who cast some magic spell!
She looks like a monster.
The three were still discussing outside the door when there was a sudden commotion in the yard.
Soon, a maid ran out in panic, shouting:
"Oh no, oh no—"
"Duke, Madam, Prince, the eldest daughter has hanged herself!"
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