Chapter 106 The truth is so ridiculous
"I don't know. Over the years, you've treated me coldly, and you've even let Lu Yanlin mock me. Why don't you tell me clearly today? What did I do wrong?"
Zhou Qingbang said coldly, "Now that things have come to this, let's be clear. Yanlin is Qi'er's brother. Now you know why."
Qin was even more baffled: "Who is Qi'er? Your mistress?"
Zhou Qingbang was furious: "Qin, I didn't expect you to be so vicious. You killed her and insulted her like this."
It was the first time he looked so angry. Even someone as smart as Qin took a while to realize what he was saying.
"You think I killed someone named Qi'er, so you've been treating me like this all these years?"
Zhou Qingbang was irritated by her nonchalant tone: "You killed her, but I let you live longer. You profited."
After Qin and her husband got married, they had a period of loving days, but everything changed after Lu Yanlin appeared.
She had never known why, but now she finally got a glimpse of some clues from Zhou Qingbang's words.
"Believe it or not, I don't know who the Qi'er you're talking about is, and I've never harmed her. Why on earth do you think I would harm her?"
"She was my fiancée. I promised her that I would marry her after I passed the imperial examination. But after I passed, your father fell in love with me and wanted to marry you to me. I clearly refused at first, but she died. Do you dare to say that it wasn't your Qin family's fault?"
Qin recalled the process of her engagement. At the beginning, she seemed to have heard her father say with regret that Zhou Qingbang already had a fiancée and had rejected the marriage.
It was only after his fiancée died that he arranged to marry her again.
She had never asked who her fiancée was, let alone how she died.
Now it seems that Zhou Qingbang actually put all the blame on himself and the Qin family.
Over the years, she had thought of countless possibilities, but she never expected the truth to be so ridiculous.
"Our Qin family is a family of noble birth, with generations of noble character. Do you think our daughters can't get married? Would you risk a life just to marry you?"
She laughed until tears came out of her eyes, but her voice was as clear as the collision of gold and jade, "You are worthy of it?"
Zhou Qingbang looked at her smiling face with tears in it, and could clearly feel something in his heart slowly collapsing.
He knew very well that at this point, there was no need for Qin to lie.
But after all these years, had he really wronged her?
He wanted to say something, but he felt a pain in his chest and spat out a mouthful of blood.
He felt dizzy, but saw that there was no expression of surprise on Qin's face.
"You...what did you do?"
He slid down to the floor, holding onto the chair with one hand.
"For a lie, you've brought yourself to this point. You've proven to me that my father's vision is indeed poor. Marrying you is my destiny, and I accept it."
Qin walked to the incense burner, poured a cup of tea into it, and then said to Zhou Qingbang: "Today, I will die with you."
Then she moved the candlestick in front of the Buddha and opened the door of the secret room.
Those few short steps seemed to have exhausted all her strength, and her body slid down the table.
When Zhao Shen came out, her cold face showed a sense of relief that transcended life and death: "You can go now."
As soon as Zhao Shen saw the two of them like this, he knew what Qin had done.
He quickly walked up to Qin and said, "You don't have to be like this. You saved me, so I can save your life. I have the antidote."
Qin shook her head. "No need. I've been waiting for this day for a long time. I bought this medicine from a merchant in the Western Regions. There's no antidote."
She spoke in a very weak voice, and the vitality in her body was visibly fading.
Zhou Qingbang finally saw the person he had been looking for all over the city.
But now he fell to the ground without any strength left in his body.
The other person looked at him with cold eyes, as if he was looking at a dead person.
He knew that if he dared to make any noise, this man would kill him immediately.
But at this moment, he didn't have the heart to do anything else.
He looked at Qin's dying appearance and felt an indescribable grief in his heart.
He pointed to the top of his head and said, "Someone is coming. You can't escape."
Zhao Shen was not surprised. When Zhou Qingbang suddenly searched the house, he knew something must have happened.
Zhou Qingbang continued, "If my husband and I die here, they can pin the crime on you."
Zhao Shen probably knew what he meant: "What do you want me to do?"
Zhou Qingbang endured the severe pain in his chest and gasped for breath, saying, "Save my child, and I will give you what you want."
The room was silent. Although his voice was very soft, his words fell clearly into the ears of the two people present.
Qin suddenly chuckled and said sarcastically, "I thought you were hoping to be childless."
Zhou Qingbang ignored her ridicule and just stared at Zhao Shen.
Zhao Shen's eyes swept between the two of them, and Qin Shi didn't say anything else.
Zhao Shen knew that she hated Zhou Qingbang, but she also didn't want her child to die.
He nodded readily: "Okay, you sign the divorce agreement, and I will send the child back to the Qin family."
As he spoke, he went to the desk and neatly wrote a divorce letter and gave it to Zhou Qingbang.
Zhou Qingbang signed his name, pressed his fingerprint, and told Zhao Shen an address.
"I've recorded everything I've done and hidden it there. If you're capable of escaping, go get it yourself."
When a man is about to die, his words are good, and Zhou Qingbang seemed to have been prepared.
Zhao Shen was not afraid that he would deceive himself.
Seeing that Zhou Qingbang was still breathing, he asked again: "Sir Zhou, can you tell me why you did that?"
Zhou Qingbang came from a poor family, but his starting point was not low. He was a member of the imperial examination system and was also the son-in-law of the Qin family.
Now, although he is only in his forties, he is already the governor of a state.
If he does his job well as an official, he will surely have a bright future.
Zhou Qingbang was a little dazed when he heard this. Why?
"Didn't you hear everything my wife and I just said? At first, I thought I was lucky. I passed the imperial examination, my fiancée died, and yet I married the daughter of the Qin family. Until one day, Lu Yanlin showed up and told me that Qi'er was killed by the Qin family. I actually believed it."
"He instigated me to hate the Qin family and seek revenge, then said he wanted to do some business. I used my position to facilitate his business. Later, I found out that his business was to deliver goods to Mobei."
"It was no use trying to sever ties with him then. He'd been in and out of the government office so often over the years, and everyone in Suzhou knew he was my best friend. He also told me that everything he did was to avenge Qi'er. With our abilities, we couldn't bring down the Qin family, but it was possible to pin the crime of treason on them."
"I was like a devil at the time. I thought I would do anything to bring down the Qin family..."
Zhao Shen didn't expect that things would turn out like this.
He looked at Qin, who had already died, and felt somewhat fortunate that she had smelled the fragrance a little earlier than Zhou Qingbang.
Otherwise, after hearing these words, I would not be able to rest in peace even if I died.
He walked out.
Behind him, Zhou Qingbang's voice was weak: "You have to be careful of Lu Yanlin... and the people behind him..."
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