Chapter 158 Ning Lai
Ning Pavilion.
Jiang Qingning was quietly tending to the flowers and plants, while Zisu walked quickly into the flower shop.
"Miss, all the maids and servants in Jiang Ruyi's yard have indeed been driven out." Zi Su saluted.
"She's not stupid, she just believes too much in love and Xun Chen's appearance."
Jiang Qingning curled his lips and said, "Tell someone to go in. Bai Qingyi is going to stir up trouble. Remember, we have to do it without anyone noticing."
Zi Su's eyes flashed with excitement: "Yes, I will do it right away."
late at night.
Bai Qingyi sat quietly in the room, with two strong servants guarding outside the door.
"What bad luck! I thought she would become the uncle's stepmother, but she ended up incarcerated with just a few words from the mistress."
"Who says it's not true? I spent five taels of silver to hire someone like that. Just to come here and be a maid, I was expecting a glorious career. Who could have imagined..."
"Let's wait until the lady recovers before releasing her. Everyone knows that the lady is dying."
"Hush, keep your voice down! If the lady's maidservants hear us, we'll be in big trouble!"
The two of them spoke with disdain in their tone, chatting haphazardly.
The candlelight in the room was dim. Xiaotao was lying in the outer room to rest. Bai Qingyi was sitting in front of the dressing table with a thin figure, looking at her rapidly fading face in the bronze mirror.
Her hands were shaking constantly, which was the sequelae of the execution that was not treated in time. In the past half month, she was beaten with twenty hands every day.
Now the palms of my hands are red and swollen, and no longer as white as they used to be.
Listening to the words of the old woman outside the door, a sinister look flashed in Bai Qingyi's eyes.
"Ouch! My stomach suddenly hurts!"
"No, me too. Could it be that the dinner was bad? I said it tasted wrong!"
"You go first, I'll go first, I still have to guard the door..."
"She wouldn't dare to run out anyway, so why don't we go together? I'm pretty scared of the dark anyway..."
The two old women covered their stomachs in pain and ran towards the toilet in a hurry.
A moment later.
Bai Qingyi opened the door expressionlessly, holding a porcelain bottle tightly in her hand. She walked towards Ningxiangyuan, her back gradually blending into the darkness.
“Cough cough cough…”
Jiang Ruyi coughed so hard that she felt like she was dying. She couldn't hold it back and spat out a few mouthfuls of blood.
Qing'er's eyes were filled with tears: "Madam, I will ask the Second Madam to come over tomorrow. Your body really can't hold on any longer."
Jiang Ruyi rinsed her mouth and lay back down, her breath weak. "You're not allowed to go. The Jiang family will only exploit the last bit of my value. My younger sister is coming of age this month, and I can't let her walk into this hell. Mother is a tough-looking woman with a weak heart. She can only curry favor with my father."
Qing'er choked up: "But your body..."
Jiang Ruyi pulled the corner of her mouth, her face pale: "Wait a little longer, since she dared to poison me, she will definitely not give up the opportunity to kill me with one blow. I am waiting to die with her."
"I have been so unfair to you in the past, and have beaten and scolded you so much. I only ask that after I die, if you stay in the mansion, you take my dowry and take good care of Xun Moan for me."
"He's clearly my child, but I've never even seen him."
Qing'er nodded repeatedly, wiped the tears from her face, turned around and went to the small kitchen to get medicine.
With a creaky sound, the door was gently pushed open, followed by light footsteps.
Jiang Ruyi didn't hear Qing'er speak. He slowly turned his skinny head and looked out the door. A smile appeared on his face: "You are finally here."
Bai Qingyi's eyes were cold: "Madam is not feeling well, I am here to help her get rid of her pain."
She walked quickly forward, opened the medicine bottle, pinched Jiang Ruyi's chin and was about to pour the poison into her.
There was a crackling sound behind her, and the medicinal food in Qing'er's hand fell to the ground. She rushed over to stop it: "Hurry up! Aunt Bai has gone crazy! She wants to kill Madam!"
Jiang Ruyi had a strange smile on her face, and she didn't even try to stop it, letting half a bottle of poison be poured down her throat.
Several maids woke up in shock and rushed in. They grabbed Bai Qingyi with great strength and forced her to kneel on the ground.
"Jiang Ruyi! You will die a miserable death! You will die a miserable death! How dare you frame me!"
Bai Qingyi looked crazy and pointed at Jiang Ruyi and cursed her.
Jiang Ruyi was held down by Qing'er to induce vomiting. When his bloodshot eyes swept over Bai Qingyi, there was only relief and ease in his eyes.
"Even if I die, I will drag you to hell with me! I will make sure you never even think of adopting my son!"
Jiang Ruyi smiled crazily and shouted with great relief.
In Ning Pavilion, Jiang Qingning learned about this and simply said, "The chess piece can move forward."
Jiang Ruyi's body was like a candle in the wind, how could she withstand such secret poisoning?
In just half a month, the little vitality she had left was quickly drained away, and she quickly became weaker and weaker. She looked haggard, with sunken eye sockets, and even speaking became extremely difficult.
Late one night, Jiang Ruyi's breathing suddenly became rapid, and a strange blush appeared on her sallow face.
Her cloudy eyes suddenly opened, staring at the curtains above the bed, and her skinny hands tightly grasped the edge of the bed.
"Madam? Madam, what's wrong with you?" The maid who was on night watch was scared out of her wits.
"Jiang Qingning, I want to see Jiang Qingning!"
Jiang Ruyi actually struggled, squeezing out three words with all her strength, her eyes vacillating with stubbornness and resentment, "Call her over, I want to see Jiang Qingning..."
The maid crawled and rolled to report.
Xun Chen was startled and rushed over with his clothes on.
Looking at Jiang Ruyi, who was lying on the bed with her last breath but refusing to close her eyes, Xun Chen felt a mixture of irritation and absurdity in his heart.
With a gloomy face, he said to Zhu Xi beside him: "Go to Ning Pavilion and invite Jiang to come over. Tell her that the lady is dying and wants to see her one last time."
Ning Pavilion.
"Miss, someone from the Anping Marquis's Mansion came and said Jiang Ruyi is dying and insisted on seeing you."
Zi Su came in to report, with an undisguised look of disgust on her face, "A weasel wishing a happy new year to a chicken must have bad intentions. Miss, are you going?"
Jiang Qingning was facing a chess endgame, twirling a black jade chess piece between his fingertips, and he did not pause at all when he heard the words.
She placed the piece slowly, making a crisp sound.
"Go, why not?"
She raised her eyes, her eyes were indifferent, and the corners of her lips curled slightly. "To watch someone who hates me to the core die with his last breath filled with resentment, wouldn't it be a pity to miss such a scene?"
She put down the chess piece and stood up, "Prepare the rook."
Anping Marquis' Mansion.
The old lady sat in the outer room holding the swaddling clothes and crying. Jiang Songyan, the second wife of the Jiang family, and the old lady Jiang rushed over after hearing the news. They crowded around the bed and cried and wailed. The whole place was in chaos.
Xun Chen felt extremely disgusted when he looked at the emaciated woman on the bed.
Jiang Qingning appeared in a plain moon-white dress, looking out of place among the crying and shouting people, like a handful of fresh snow that had strayed into a dirty quagmire.
Everyone's eyes were focused on her, filled with mixed emotions.
Jiang Qingning acted as if he didn't see it and walked straight to the bed.
Her gaze fell calmly on Jiang Ruyi's face.
The once gorgeous and flamboyant face was now withered and sunken, with only a pair of bright eyes staring at her face.
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