Qi Zhenheng turned around and looked at her with an ambiguous expression: "Xia Zhu went to the Zhuang family's banquet last night. You had He Fei send her back halfway through. She told her wet nurse that you threatened to send her to the countryside tomorrow. Then she was poisoned to death in her room."
His breath was a bit cold.
Shen Qing knew that he still doubted her after all.
She suppressed her disappointment and said, "Yesterday, she stole my invitation and went to the Zhuang family's house without warning. She talked nonsense in front of everyone. I asked her to go home, but she refused and even threatened to expose the children's identities."
"So you let He Fei kill her?" Qi Zhenheng suddenly raised his voice, "Shen Qing, how did you become so terrifying?"
Shen Qing was taken aback: "I didn't! I don't even care about a little girl like her! He Fei would never lay a hand on her!"
"Then how do you explain her sudden death at home? The manner of her death is exactly the same as Cheng Zhiwu's!"
He suddenly mentioned Cheng Zhiwu.
Shen Qing's thoughts immediately drifted back to that eerie morning many years ago.
The white-clad Cheng family, and Cheng Zhiwu, who died with his eyes wide open in disbelief.
Shen Qing took a big step back.
In Qi Zhenheng's eyes, her fearful appearance was equivalent to her panic after being exposed for murdering Xia Zhu.
Qi Zhenheng looked at her with utter disappointment: "I thought you were a magnanimous woman, I never knew you... could be so ruthless!"
Shen Qing shook her head: "I didn't, don't frame me!"
"Now that the evidence is irrefutable, are you still going to try to deny it?!"
Shen Qing glared at him resentfully, then turned and left the study.
She carefully packed away the children's clothes and belongings, preparing to take them to a hotel the next morning at daybreak.
downstairs.
Several plainclothes officers with knives subdued He Fei and took him to the basement.
As soon as the man was tied up, Qi Zhenheng came down and, without saying a word, grabbed a whip from the side and lashed it at He Fei.
"Speak! Did the madam order you to poison her?"
He Fei gritted his teeth: "Xia Zhu's death has nothing to do with Madam!"
"Then who is it related to? Cheng Zhiwen? Did Cheng Zhiwen tell you to poison him?"
He Fei roared, "Mr. Cheng is no longer alive! Please don't falsely accuse a deceased person!"
Qi Zhenheng sneered: "Do you really think I don't know that He Danqing is Cheng Zhiwen?"
He Fei roared, "No! Mr. Cheng died on his way to Japan!"
Qi Zhenheng continued to whip He Fei, quickly beating him to the point of near death.
He walked out of the basement and said to his subordinates, "Go tell He Danqing that He Fei poisoned my child, and I want him beheaded and his head displayed to the public!"
"yes!"
...
Shen Qing barely slept all night. Before dawn the next day, she woke the children, dressed each of them in a down-filled onesie, held her daughter in her arms, and led her son by the hand as they left the house.
They walked toward the carriage across the garden.
From afar, Shen Qing could see Old Xu pacing back and forth anxiously. She ran over with her daughter in her arms and asked, "What happened?"
Old Xu cried out urgently, "Lord Qi has arrested He Fei! He says he poisoned his own child and wants to chop off his head!"
Shen Qing was startled upon hearing this. She gritted her teeth, carried the child onto the carriage, and let Chunju get on as well.
"You and the children wait for me in the car. I'll go talk to Lord Qi about something and then come right away."
Chunju nodded blankly: "Oh, okay."
Shen Qing arrived at the study, and without knocking, pushed the door open and went in.
Qi Zhenheng was still fast asleep on the sofa when Shen Qing walked over, pulled off the blanket covering him, and threw it to the ground.
He woke up with a frown, and sat up in surprise, looking at Shen Qing.
Shen Qing growled, "Release He Fei immediately!"
He got angry too, sat up, and coldly asked her, "He's just a servant, what's the rush?"
"He Fei is not a servant! He's someone who has saved my life many times!"
Qi Zhenheng sneered: "Do you think I don't know that Jiang Shen and He Fei are both people Cheng Zhiwen placed by your side! Cheng Zhiwen uses them to monitor our lives! I've disliked them for a long time! This is a good opportunity to take one of them down!"
"Are you crazy?"
"Yes! I've gone mad!" Qi Zhenheng roared. "I'm going to cut off everything Cheng Zhiwen left behind! I'm going to make him disappear from our lives completely!"
He was so angry that his face turned red and his neck bulged, with veins bulging on his forehead.
Shen Qing shook her head in disappointment: "You're really crazy! If you want to sever all ties with everything Cheng Zhiwen left behind, then we should get a divorce! Because I was once his woman!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Qi Zhenheng raised his hand.
But just before the slap landed on her face, looking at the face he had loved for so many years, he ultimately couldn't bring himself to do it.
“Let’s get a divorce!” Shen Qing said calmly. “We can’t go on like this.”
Qi Zhenheng gritted his teeth and grabbed her wrist: "You want to divorce me for the sake of a servant?"
"Yes!" Shen Qing met his gaze. "If you don't release He Fei today, I'll divorce you immediately!"
Qi Zhenheng's eyes reddened, and he nodded with a smile: "Fine, fine, you're going to treat me like this..."
As he spoke, he turned around and punched the wall.
Shen Qing ignored him and went straight to the basement.
The guards with swords at the gate saw her and nodded, saying, "Madam!"
"Release He Fei."
The officers hesitated and said, "Madam, I'm afraid this is not appropriate."
"I said release them, and I mean it! I'll bear any consequences! Release them! Now! Immediately!"
The two officers exchanged a glance.
Knowing that his master always obeyed his wife and that he dared not contradict her, he stepped aside.
Shen Qing quickly went inside.
Seeing He Fei beaten and bruised all over, she cried as she helped him untie all the ropes.
"He Fei, He Fei..." she called softly as she supported him. "It's alright now. I'll take you out. Wake up, don't fall asleep."
She helped He Fei out of the basement, and Old Xu, who was waiting by the carriage, immediately ran over. He was also startled when he saw He Fei's appearance.
The two of them worked together to help He Fei into the car.
Shen Qing handed Old Xu a few silver notes and instructed, "Quickly! Take He Fei to see a doctor! After that, make sure he stays at a hotel! Don't let him come back!"
Old Xu looked at her worriedly: "What about you? Young Master, Miss, and Chunju are still in the carriage."
Shen Qing then remembered and quickly got into the carriage.
The carriage sped out of the garden.
...
Shen Qing, along with the injured He Fei, Chunju, and their two children, checked into the hotel where they had met He Danqing that day.
The Western doctor treated He Fei's wounds and prescribed medication, and He Fei's condition temporarily stabilized.
After calming the child down, Shen Qing went to the next room to visit He Fei.
He Fei had already woken up. Upon seeing her, he immediately tried to get up to thank her: "Madam, you gave me my life."
Shen Qing pressed him back onto the bed and sat him down on the stool beside the bed.
"Lord Qi suspects that you poisoned Xia Zhu," she said calmly.
He Fei nodded: "I know, that's what he said when he interrogated me."
Shen Qing looked at him suspiciously: "So you know who poisoned Xia Zhu, right?"
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