Huang Tao’s eyes swept over Qin Wan, and he said with a heart-wrenching look: “Are you really going to kill Shen Nian?”
Qin Wan said: "My husband, Rui'er was raised by me. I saw with my own eyes that the vicious woman Shen Nian and her adulterer killed Rui'er. How can I, as a mother, not feel heartbroken? This vicious woman killed Rui'er, and the nanny beside me naturally couldn't bear to watch it. She wanted her to be buried with Rui'er as soon as possible!"
As soon as Qin Wan finished speaking, the nanny who had just accused Chen Nian of jumping into the lake to commit suicide cried, "Rui'er, I'm sorry for you. I saw you being angered to death by that vicious woman, but I couldn't help you get revenge!"
Shen Nian was supported by Ning Wen and said, “You are so shameless, aren’t you afraid that Huang Rui’s ghost will find you?”
Qin Wan said: "Shut up you bitch!"
Qin Wan looked at Huang Tao and said, "My husband, I saw with my own eyes that Shen Nian committed adultery with her lover and angered Rui'er to death. Why don't you believe me but believe this bitch? Even if the Shen family is the local emperor on Shuofang Road, they should also talk about reason. Don't ruin your reputation for many years for an adopted daughter!"
The more Qin Wan spoke, the angrier she became. She was like a mother whose son had died, and she said angrily, "Why should we give this bitch three more days? She just hugged and kissed Prince Lu. Everyone saw it with their own eyes. Her husband had just died, and she hugged a monk. This shows how bad her character is!
What's the point of keeping this bitch alive?
It's better to kill him!"
Shen Qian stood in front of Shen Nian and said, "I want to see who dares to attack my daughter?"
Huang Tao said to Lu Ze: "Master Shuiqing, you said that you would find the murderer within three days. One day has passed, and there are still two days. I will wait for you for two more days. If you can't find another murderer, the Shen family can no longer protect Shen Nian!"
After Huang Tao finished speaking, everyone dispersed.
Lu Ze carried Lu Yun back to the room to change clothes.
Seeing Qi Yuning in the room, Lu Yun said, "I'm changing clothes, why don't you go out?"
Qi Yuning smiled coldly and said, "What's so good about your small body? When you came to our palace naked as a child, you would have been seen by others a long time ago."
Lu Yun's eyes widened and he shouted, "Who came to your palace to play naked as a child?"
Lu Ze said: "Yu Ning, stop teasing him."
Upon hearing this, Qi Yuning turned her back and waited for Lu Yun to change into clean clothes.
Lu Yun walked to the table, covered his face and said, "This Chen Nian looked weak and frail, and was drugged and knocked unconscious. I didn't expect that she would be so strong after waking up. She is the third woman who dared to hit this county king! This county king will never forgive her."
Lu Ze saw that Lu Yun's face was really full of five fingers, "You saved her, why did she hit you?"
Lu Yun said: "She was fainting at the time, and I used the method my master taught me to breathe into her through my mouth to save her. She probably thought I was flirting with her.
She really repays kindness with hatred. It's all your fault, brother. I knocked on the door and asked to sleep with you, but you ignored me! I was almost beaten to death just now."
Qi Yuning looked at Lu Ze and said, "Chen Nian was knocked unconscious by someone? Then did Huang Rui also die of suffocation after being knocked unconscious by someone?"
Lu Ze said: "Given Huang Rui's physique, if he is awake, few people can knock him out, unless they add drugs to his food.
But I asked his servant, Huang Rui always ate in the military camp. On the day Huang Rui died, he was in the military camp. After receiving a letter, he returned to the Huang Mansion alone. Not long after, he died in the Huang Mansion. Now, if we want to check whether he took drugs, we can only cut open his stomach. "
Qi Yuning said: "Man Niang said that Huang Rui had a grudge against the Qin family. I think he would not dare to eat anywhere else in the mansion after returning home. The only possibility is that he ate at Man Niang's place. I always think that Man Niang is very strange."
Lu Ze asked: "Why do you think so?"
Qi Yuning said: "When she mentioned that Huang Rui wanted to marry her, she was not happy at all. Instead, there was a hint of self-mockery in her eyes."
Lu Ze said to Lu Yun, "Are you afraid to sleep alone in Huang's house today?"
Lu Yun said, "I dare not, brother, please don't look down on me for being dirty. No matter what you say today, I will sleep with you!"
Lu Ze took out a silver note worth 100 taels from his pocket and said, "Go to Longzhou brothel to sleep today and find out more about Man Niang."
"Ah?" Lu Yun said, "Going to a brothel? My parents would beat me to death if they knew!"
Although Lu Yun is a playboy, he would never dare to go to a brothel.
Lu Ze said: "You are just going to find out about Man Niang's news, but don't ask too much."
Hearing this, Lu Yun began to feel disgusted with the lack of silver and said, "Will this hundred taels be too much of a loss to my reputation as Prince Lu?"
Qi Yuning took out another silver note of 100 taels, "This won't hurt your reputation, right? Let's go! It's almost midnight, the world is in chaos, and I don't know if the brothel in Longzhou will open."
Lu Yun said: "Don't worry about that. The brothel will be open every day. The more chaotic the world is, the more young, beautiful and pretty girls there will be in the brothel, and the more lively it will be!"
Qi Yuning frowned and said, "As soon as the Qi family army enters the city, I will definitely destroy the brothels in Longzhou City!"
After Lu Yun went to the brothel, Qi Yuning and Lu Ze didn't sleep much that night.
There was a commotion outside in the morning.
After Qi Yuning was woken up, he went to fetch water to wash up, and saw that there was a small kitchen in the courtyard where Chen Nian was.
Qi Yuning is the only master in Prince Qi's Mansion. She doesn't even have a small kitchen. She just has a small side room for boiling water, which is kept ready for twelve hours.
However, Shen Nian's small kitchen is actually used for cooking. Most mansions would not deliberately leave such a small kitchen.
Qi Yuning saw medicine being boiled in the kitchen, and realized that Chen Nian had caught a cold and fell ill after falling into the water last night. The noise just now was also because Chen Nian had a high fever and had invited several doctors to see the patient.
Qi Yuning fetched some water and returned to the room, asking Lu Ze to wash up.
When Lu Ze saw Qi Yuning put the towel she had used to wash her face into the water, he frowned slightly, but still walked forward and used the towel Qi Yuning had used to wipe his own face.
Qi Yuning said: "Chen Nian is sick. I forgot to feed that little bald donkey a bowl of ginger soup last night. Don't let him really get sick, or he will yell and want to go back to North City."
After all, he is his younger brother, so Lu Ze is a little worried about Lu Yun. "In this hot summer, he is a man with a hot temper. He shouldn't get sick, right?"
Qi Yuning said: “I’ll go visit Shen Nian.”
Qi Yuning went to Shen Nian's room. She had a high fever and Ning Wen was feeding Shen Nian medicine.
Qi Yuning was a little envious, Shen Nian should be lucky.
Actually, Ning Wen was only twelve years older than her. When Ning Wen adopted Shen Nian, someone advised her to adopt a newborn baby boy so that she could have someone to rely on when she was old.
The Qi family only has two siblings, Qi Yuning and Qi Yu'an. As long as a child is included in the Qi family tree, he or she will be extremely wealthy in the future.
But Ning Wen still adopted Shen Nian, who was five years old at the time and was timid and cowardly, as her adopted daughter.
Although Shen Nian has no biological parents, he has been loved by his adoptive father and mother since he was a child.
Ning Wen saw Qi Yuning coming and said, "Ningning."
Qi Yuning stepped forward and said, “I saw the medicine jar in the small kitchen just now. I heard that Shen Nian is sick?”
Ning Wen said, "Although it is summer, the water was very cold that night. I was frightened yesterday and had a fever all night. Sigh."
Shen Nian coughed several times and said, “Princess, please don’t come over, so as not to infect you with the disease.”
Qi Yuning said: "I am in good health and it is not so easy to be infected. But I am a little curious, why is there a small kitchen in your courtyard? I see that you cook all your food in the small kitchen?"
Chen Nian said, "My husband had someone make it for me half a year after I got married. After that, except for some family dinners, all the meals were cooked in the small kitchen."
Qi Yuning asked: "Did you eat anything last night? How did you get knocked out outside?"
Chen Nian thought: "I didn't eat anything last night. I just went to bed and woke up in the lake."
Qi Yuning asked Shen Nian, “The maid beside you?”
Shen Nian said in a hoarse voice due to a cold: "My previous maids were all sold by Madam Qin on the grounds of protecting the reputation of the Huang family. I am not familiar with the maids I have now, and I don't want them to serve me at night."
Qi Yuning looked at Shen Nian and said, "You should keep a few more maids around you. Where are the maids in the Shen family?"
Shen Nian said, "It doesn't matter to me, Han'er is important. The maids my stepmother gave me are all going to take care of Han'er. Now I don't dare to let the Huang family maids interfere with Han'er's food and other matters."
Qi Yuning saw Shen Nian's sickly look and said, "Has anything happened in the past six months since you got married? That's why I built this small kitchen for you?"
Shen Nian said, "After an old Taoist priest came here."
Ning Wen asked, "But is it Taoist He?"
Qi Yuning heard the familiar Taoist He and asked, "Mrs. Shen San, do you know Taoist He? I have something important to do with him. Do you know where he is?"
After all, Lingling's presence here is also a concern for Qi Yuning.
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