patricide
Zhong Yuxi took a few days off and stayed in the Zhong Mansion all day without going out. She was scared when she thought about what would happen next. Although she would not do it herself, she was still nervous.
At first, Mrs. Zhong wanted to cut the Gordian knot and send people to the Zhuang Mansion to kill the man quietly. However, when she sent people to the Zhuang Mansion, there was no one there, so she could only wait until the agreed day to take action.
A few days later, it was the day that Zhuang Qiao and Zhong Yuxi had agreed upon.
Lin Yan has also been waiting for this day. Zhong Yuxi does not look like Zhong Lou. Zhuang Qiao's one-sided statement alone cannot prove that Zhong Yuxi is Zhong Lou's daughter, so Zhuang Qiao must have other evidence.
Zhuang Qiao was very cautious, and until that day, Lin Yan was unable to find any evidence.
But Zhuang Qiao's identity is very ordinary. How could he have the ability to hide such a big secret? Even Lin Yan could not find any clues.
For this reason, Lin Yan couldn't help but suspect that there were other people hiding behind Zhuang Qiao.
In addition to Madam Zhong Yuxi, Song Shi, and Lin Yan, there is another person participating in this tonight, and that is Tang Yuelin.
That is the person behind Zhuang Qiao.
The person who delivered the letter to Zhuang Qiao was Tang Yuelin. It was she who told Zhuang Qiao about Zhong Yuxi's life experience, and it was also she who guided him to find Zhong Yuxi to extort money.
If it were half a year ago, Tang Yuelin would not have been able to tell Zhong Yuxi's life story, but since her rebirth, she has been able to tell more and more things, and many things are no longer restricted.
This life is very different from the previous one. Tang Yuelin guessed that she couldn't tell what would happen in the future because it would happen.
But now, some things may not happen again or have changed a lot, so she can talk about them.
But there are still many things she can't say, such as Gu Shi's identity, and many things that people experienced in their previous lives. Unfortunately, she can't say anything about rebirth. If Lin Yan knew that she was involved in many things, she might doubt herself.
Gu Shi's involvement this time was a surprise. After all, Tang Yuelin initially only wanted to use Zhuang Qiao to expose Zhong Yuxi's life experience and ruin Zhong Yuxi's reputation in the capital, which would make it difficult for her to act.
Later, Lin Yan joined the group, so Tang Yuelin wanted to make the incident bigger so that Lin Yan could find Gu Shi, and preferably find out Gu Shi's identity.
Zhuang Qiao asked Zhong Yuxi to meet him at Zhuang Mansion at Chou time. It was already dark at this time, and there were several groups of people hiding in the dark.
Zhong Yuxi, wearing a black robe and accompanied by two attendants, entered the Zhuang Mansion. When he saw Zhuang Qiao, he said coldly, "I have brought the silver. Hand over your evidence."
Zhuang Qiao joked, "Don't be impatient, let me check the banknote first."
Zhong Yuxi took out the banknotes and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Before leaving, her grandmother asked her to take the silver with her and take action immediately after Zhuang Qiao brought the people out.
After checking the banknotes, Zhuang Qiao's eyes narrowed into slits. He put them away carefully and pulled open the curtain. There was a screen hidden behind it, with a flickering candle and a human figure printed on it.
"This is the doctor who treated your mother back then. He found out that your mother was pregnant before I and I got married. You and your mother are really equally despicable." After saying this, Zhuang Qiao smiled contemptuously.
Zhong Yuxi stopped pretending when he saw the figure. Regardless of what Zhuang Qiao said, he sneered and said, "Your death has come." Then he immediately blew the bone whistle.
"…The mansion was completely silent" and no one came in.
Zhong Yuxi panicked instantly and shouted, "Where is the person?"
Zhuang Qiao laughed and said, "Why, you want to kill me? Unfortunately, I'm prepared. Just wait for everyone in the capital to know that you are the illegitimate son of the bell tower." After saying that, he prepared to leave.
Suddenly, the sound of weapons was heard outside, and the sound was getting closer and closer. Zhong Yuxi thought that it was his own people coming, and said to Zhuang Qiao: "It must be my people coming, you can't escape."
Zhuang Qiao was also a little panicked at this moment, and hurriedly jumped out of the window and climbed out of the house. Zhong Yuxi went around behind the screen and found a shivering old man who was muttering, "Don't kill me, I'm just a housekeeper."
Zhong Yuxi, the housekeeper of the Zhuang Mansion, had some impression of this. She immediately realized that she had been cheated and hurried to chase after him.
After running out, he saw a sea of blood and corpses. They were all people sent by his grandmother. Two groups of people were still fighting. One group was the guards bought by Zhuang Qiao, and the other group was Gu Shi's people.
But Zhong Yuxi didn't know whether they were enemies or friends, and she couldn't think too much at the moment. Seeing so many corpses, her legs were shaking.
Suddenly an arrow flew towards her. Zhong Yuxi subconsciously closed her eyes. A man fell from the sky, hugged her waist and saved her. Zhong Yuxi knew this man, Gu Shi from Chongming Academy.
She couldn't think too much at this moment. Many people were rushing towards them. Gu Shi kept protecting her and fought with that group of people.
Zhong Yuxi found the right moment and ran out of the crowd. He saw Zhuang Qiao, who had been shot by an arrow, limping out.
She hurried over and asked, "Where is the eldest lady?"
How could Zhuang Qiao possibly answer her question? At this moment, he hated Zhong Yuxi to death.
He could have gotten the banknotes and spent them lavishly, but she brought so many people here and wanted to kill him to silence him. Now it's a problem for him to even survive.
But Zhong Yuxi was ignorant of the danger and stopped Zhuang Qiao to ask him to hand over the person. At this time, Zhuang Qiao had reached the limit of his patience and picked up the sword on the ground and slashed at Zhong Yuxi.
Zhong Yuxi dodged in panic, but fortunately Zhuang Qiao's leg was injured, giving her the opportunity to pick up the sword on the ground.
But she was no match for Zhuang Qiao. Just as Zhuang Qiao's sword was about to chop down, Zhong Yuxi stabbed him with the sword as if she didn't care about her life.
In an instant, Zhong Yuxi's sword pierced into Zhuang Qiao's body, hitting his heart. Zhuang Qiao covered his chest with his hands, a look of disbelief on his face.
"Bang" the sword fell to the ground. Zhong Yuxi's hands and feet were shaking and he collapsed on the ground. He was glad that he survived the disaster, but when he looked at Zhuang Qiao's body, he realized that he had killed someone.
Zhong Yuxi held his head in his hands, unable to believe it, "I killed someone, I killed someone."
At this time, Gu Shi finished dealing with the group of people, quickly squatted down and hugged Zhong Yuxi tightly, "Don't blame you, he was the one who wanted to kill you first."
Lin Yan squatted on the roof, witnessed all this, and sighed inwardly that it was wonderful: "A hero saves a beauty, and comforts a beauty in distress. This Gu Shi came for Zhong Yuxi."
When Zhong Yuxi was not looking, she was about to stab Zhuang Qiao with her sword when a stone was thrown at him, deflecting the sword and allowing Zhong Yuxi to kill Zhuang Qiao.
The stone was thrown by Gu Shi. If you didn't know, you might think he was trying to save Zhong Yuxi.
But Lin Yan saw that Gu Shi could have rushed over to save Zhong Yuxi earlier, but he didn't.
Lin Yan found it extremely interesting that Gu Shi wanted Zhong Yuxi to kill Zhuang Qiao personally, so that she could kill her own father with her own hands, and then he would run to comfort her. "Tsk tsk, what a cruel heart."
Zhong Yuxi was shaking all over as if she was falling into an ice cellar. Gu Shi kept comforting her, but Zhong Yuxi finally couldn't hold on and fainted.
Gu Shi clicked his tongue impatiently, thinking to himself that she was too weak and fainted so easily. He then picked her up, threw her to the guards, and said, "Send her back to the Zhong Mansion."
After watching this farce, Lin Yan also left. Before coming, she received a letter saying that the doctor was in the cell of Dali Temple.
Lin Yan quickly asked Lin Yi to check it out. To her surprise, the doctor had been there for three years.
Now that the person has been found, Lin Yan was curious about what kind of drama Zhuang Qiao would perform, so he went to see.
As a result, I ran into this drama of a hero saving a beauty, and it was a carefully planned one.
Since knowing that Gu Shi was not the male protagonist, it was no longer important whether he was the biological son of the Gu family, and Lin Yan did not let Song Yizhou investigate further. Now it seems that Gu Shi is definitely not an ordinary person.
When Lin Yan returned to the Lin Mansion, Lin Yi had already brought the doctor out of the Dali Temple prison and sent him to the Lin Mansion.
Lin Yi checked the man's file and found out that he had committed a crime three years ago and was arrested in the Dali Temple, but he always felt something was strange, as if this man was arrested on purpose.
But this man was very tight-lipped and refused to admit it. Anyway, this was not what they wanted to know, so Lin Yi stopped questioning him and turned to ask him about Zhong Yuxi's life experience, which he confessed very quickly.
The doctor said that more than ten years ago, Mei came to see him for treatment. The records of every patient he saw were kept, and the doctor remembered the date of Mei's marriage. After taking her pulse, he found that she was two months pregnant, so he became cautious. He was inexplicably hunted and luckily escaped.
After hearing the conversation of the people who were chasing him, he realized that everything was related to Mei. Later, he changed his name and identity, but those records are still preserved.
"Do you know the identity of the person who is chasing you?" Lin Yan asked.
The doctor shook his head.
Lin Yi looked at Lin Yan, "Mrs. Zhong?"
Lin Yan: "It's unlikely. Madam Zhong didn't know that Mei was pregnant at that time."
At the Zhong Mansion, it was dawn. Zhong Ningning received news from Lin Yan and knew that the evidence had been found. She immediately went to find her mother and told her everything.
I had been prepared for my mother to cry bitterly after she found out that my father had betrayed her, but Mrs. Zhou's smile gradually faded after hearing this, and her face remained calm.
"Mom knows," Zhong Ningning was surprised.
"I didn't know that Zhong Lou had an illegitimate daughter, but it doesn't surprise me. If my guess is correct, that girl is Zhong Yuxi." Mrs. Zou said calmly.
Zhong Ningning looked surprised: "How did you know?"
Mrs. Zhou: "I knew about the affair between Mei and your father fifteen years ago, but I had just learned about it when something happened within the Zhou family. Divorce would not be good for me, not to mention that you were only one year old at that time."
"Later, you were lost. I was heartbroken and couldn't stay in the Zhong Mansion any longer. I thought about getting a divorce, but at that time I had no evidence to prove that Mei and Zhong Lou had an affair.
At that time, Zhong Lou was already in a high position, and the Zhou family was unable to resist him. They also knew in their hearts that as long as I didn't seek a divorce, I could still do my job as the mistress of the Zhong family.
But Mrs. Zhou never understood why Zhonglou wouldn't let her leave. Zhonglou was of no use to the Zhou family now.
Madam Zhou continued, "Later, Zhong Yuxi was brought into the mansion. At that time, I was so exhausted by your disappearance that I didn't pay much attention to her. Until I found you, I wanted to make plans for you and didn't agree to let Zhong Yuxi stay in the mansion.
After that, the old lady's attitude made me suspicious. They thought I was a fool and knew nothing. In fact, I knew everything. There was a noble person helping me behind the clock tower, and I couldn't beat him.
If you ask for a divorce from him, your life may be over. Zhong Lou is a very cruel man. Even though you are his daughter, I have had to endure it all these years.
Sometimes, I really regret bringing you back. If you could have spent your whole life with Xiao Yan in the martial arts world, you would have been happy forever."
Then Madam Zhou looked at Zhong Ningning worriedly and touched her hand, "Mother, I don't know how you knew that Zhong Lou had an illegitimate daughter, but please don't tell anyone about it. We can't defeat him.
Mother only hopes to find a good marriage for you as soon as possible, so that you can escape from this place and never come back."
Zhong Ningning comforted her mother: "No matter how powerful that noble is, he can't destroy the entire Zhou Mansion. Besides, this is the capital, and my sister is here. No one can do anything to me."
"I know Xiao Yan is the sister of the Dali Temple's Shaoqing, but it would be easy for the people behind the bell tower to harm us.
Besides, I have no evidence, so it's not easy to get a divorce. I'm still useful to him, so he won't do anything to me." Madam Zhou couldn't guarantee that a single Shaoqing from the Dali Temple could protect them.
Seeing that her daughter still didn't understand, Mrs. Zhong sighed helplessly and told her the truth: "The person behind Zhong Lou is the Empress Dowager, the grandmother of His Majesty. I wanted to send Zhong Yuxi away, and I had a quarrel with Zhong Lou, even arguing about divorce, and he let the cat out of the bag.
Later, he simply threw the can down the drain and threatened that if I divorced him, he would ask the Queen Mother to marry you to his stupid nephew."
Seeing Zhong Ningning's astonishment, Mrs. Zou thought her daughter understood that they could not defeat Zhonglou and that she was afraid, so she comforted her: "Ning'er, don't worry, as long as we pretend that we know nothing, we can live in peace. Don't go against Zhonglou in the future, just pretend that nothing happened."
Zhong Ningning was not afraid at all, she clearly couldn't believe it. Xishui had mentioned the Empress Dowager to her, and she always thought that the Empress Dowager was a kind and gentle person. She never thought that she would be in cahoots with someone like her father.
This matter had to be made known to her elder sister, so Zhong Ningning hurriedly pulled her mother into the carriage and headed to the Lin Mansion.
Mrs. Zhou was puzzled by Zhong Ningning's behavior, but Zhong Ningning said firmly: "Mother, believe me, we will definitely be able to leave the Zhong Mansion safely."
Seeing her daughter's calm look, Mrs. Zhou's heart calmed down at that moment.
Maybe my daughter really has some idea.
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