Chapter 217: Man Proposes, God Disposes
Zhao Fu had completely seen through her mother's true face. After hearing this, she did not make any excuses, but knelt down in front of Qin again.
"It's only right for a mother to teach her daughter a lesson. When we were first engaged, I didn't want to, and you said I obeyed my parents. Now that the Chen family has called off the engagement, you say I've brought shame upon the Zhao family and shouldn't be alive. Everything you said was right, mother. Now, should I live or die? Please enlighten me, mother."
Zhao Fu's words made Ji Yunshu look at her with new eyes.
She didn't say a word of dissatisfaction with Qin, but every word she said was full of dissatisfaction.
More importantly, these words are true.
Qin clutched her chest and angrily said, "What are you talking about? When did I ever tell you to die?"
Zhao Fu lowered her head and said, "If Mother didn't want to kill me, why would she come to my room in the middle of the night? Isn't it enough to lecture me during the day?"
Qin seemed to be so angry that she couldn't speak, and she covered her chest and gasped.
Ji Yunshu said, "Second Aunt, there's no need to worry. It's not hard to tell whether you're truly thinking about my elder sister. First, why don't you tell me why you arranged this marriage with the Chen family? Do you truly think that Prince Chen is a truly outstanding man, and a perfect match for my elder sister?"
Qin said angrily: "I am your elder after all, are you interrogating me?"
Zhao Shen felt that Ji Yunshu's words were too polite, which was why he was being so arrogant. He said coldly, "Second Aunt, there's no need to use your status as an elder to pressure others. The Chen family's eldest son spent a few days in the Jingzhao Prefecture prison before the New Year. He said everything he needed to say. Now you can choose to speak yourself or let someone else judge you?"
Qin has actually been in panic these days. She knows what kind of person Chen You is and he simply cannot bear the secret.
Unless he knows nothing.
But her prayers were apparently in vain.
She said with a sullen face, "How can you believe the words of a man like Chen You?"
Zhao Shen raised his eyebrows and smiled, "After seeing what kind of person Prince Chen is, Second Aunt is not unaware of it. If that's the case, why do you still want to get engaged?"
Seeing that the issue had returned to its original point, Qin pursed her lips and said, "The Chen family and ours are quite compatible. Even if he isn't perfect, we can still make do. Where else in the world can you find a man who is perfect in every way?"
Seeing that she wouldn't cry until she saw the coffin, Zhao Shen didn't bother to procrastinate any longer: "That's not what Chen You said. He said that you agreed to the marriage because the Chen family knew a secret and used it to threaten you."
Qin looked up at him and said, "It seems that the prince would rather believe the Chen family than me?"
Zhao Shen said, "I also want to believe Second Aunt, so I haven't told anyone about the matter these days, so that my family can spend the New Year in peace."
Qin didn't say anything. She originally thought that although the Chen family knew something, they definitely had no evidence.
But Zhao Shen is not an ordinary person. He would not speak nonsense. Since he said so, he must have found out something.
It’s okay to not know some things. It’s not difficult to verify them if you know some clues.
It has come to this point. Even if she doesn't speak, Zhao Shen will not let her go: "Aunt, don't you want to say something about my mother's death?"
Lord Zhao had been silent since he entered the room. He probably understood what the second wife's mother and daughter were making a fuss about, but he didn't know why his son, who usually didn't like to meddle in other people's affairs, would intervene.
Until he heard this, he looked at Zhao Shen in shock and asked, "What did you say?"
Zhao Shen glanced at him, wondering how a person could be so confused that he didn't even know how his wife died.
"It doesn't matter what I say, Second Aunt. If you don't tell me, don't blame me for being ruthless and letting everyone in the world know what you did."
Qin looked at him with complicated eyes and said with a smile: "You wouldn't dare, Zhao Shen. Why do you think I would do that?"
Zhao Shen wanted to ask something, but he saw black blood suddenly flowing out from the corner of Qin's mouth.
Zhao Fu had been looking at her mother, wondering what she could say. Suddenly seeing this scene, she turned pale with fear and cried out, "Mom..."
Blood continued to flow from Qin's mouth. She said to Zhao Fu, "I knew that one of us would have to die before this matter could be over. Man proposes, God disposes. This is fine. I don't owe you the Zhao family anything..."
"Mother..." Zhao Fu cried and picked up the fallen Qin. "Tell me, why is this happening?"
Why would you rather die than tell the truth?
Blood gushed out of Qin's seven orifices, and she soon lost her voice and could no longer answer her questions.
Zhao Shen also frowned.
Only Yao asked with a worried look on her face, "What...what exactly is going on? If people find out, what will we say to our family? And what about my second brother?"
Although the relationship between husband and wife is not very good, that does not mean that he does not care about his wife's life or death.
Zhao Shen glanced at her coldly and said, "I'll write to my second uncle and explain. Madam, don't worry about it."
Yao said, "It's fine for the prince to handle this, but someone from my second brother's wife's family will definitely come. How should we explain it?"
The Qin family in the capital is a big family. Although the second wife is from a side branch and her family is not as prominent as the direct line, it is not an unknown family.
A healthy person died so suddenly, and it was obvious that he died of poisoning. It is impossible for the Qin family not to investigate.
Zhao Shen said, "Just conduct the funeral as normal. When the Qin family arrives, leave it to me. I also want to ask them for instructions."
Yao was choked by him and had nothing to say, but she was not angry: "Thank you for your hard work, my lord. It's late today, go back and rest. If there is anything, we can talk about it tomorrow."
After saying that, she took the initiative to say goodbye and left with her people.
He didn't even ask what the Marquis meant.
Ji Yunshu looked at this scene and felt that the Yao family was really a very troublesome situation.
She knew very well that Zhao Shen had no evidence at all.
This shows how cautious the Yao family was and how cleanly they handled the matter back then.
It may not be that easy for Zhao Shen to lure the snake out of its hole.
After hearing Zhao Shen talk about his mother, Lord Zhao has been out of shape.
After Yao left, he seemed to come back to his senses and asked Zhao Shen: "What on earth is going on?"
Zhao Shen didn't want to say anything, but he saw Zhao Fu looking at him.
No matter what Qin did to Zhao Fu during her lifetime, she was still Zhao Fu's mother. If she didn't explain it clearly today, Zhao Fu might think that he had forced her mother to death.
"Second Aunt agreed to marry my eldest sister to the Chen family because they threatened her with an old incident. Chen You said Second Aunt was behind my mother's death. Dad, do you remember what happened then?"
Lord Zhao's face turned pale in an instant, as if he had suffered a serious blow, and he recalled the events of the past in a trance.
Even after so many years, Mrs. Shen’s death is still the nightmare he least wants to touch.
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