"Have they met before?" Song Chengze turned his head to look at Meng Qi.
Meng Qi thought for a moment and said, "More than a month ago, it was the anniversary of her child's death. She asked me to go to the temple to burn incense. I wonder if we met then?"
Song Chengze nodded. Yes, he had originally wanted to go with her, but Wu Zhengda just happened to come back.
Haha, it turns out that he went to the temple to see the prince.
Seeing that the two of them stopped talking, Mother Jin continued, "After returning, Concubine Li began to plan things against the Second Young Master."
"She used Mrs. Hu to threaten Mrs. Wu, forcing the eldest daughter to go to the second young master's yard with changing cakes every day." Meng Qi said softly.
"Yes, I don't know how she talked to Mrs. Hu or how she arranged it. She did it all herself."
After waiting for Mother Jin to finish talking about some trivial matters, Song Chengze stood up and said, "Let's go. Although there is a kang, it will be cold if you sit for a long time. Let's go back to the study first."
"Princess, you promised me..." Mother Jin watched Meng Qi stand up, took two steps on her knees and tightly grabbed the hem of Meng Qi's skirt.
"Are you sure you're not hiding anything?"
"No, I have already said that I dare not confront her."
"Confrontation? Haha, she doesn't have the courage to do that." Song Chengze snorted coldly.
Mother Jin said, "There is one more thing. I think I can tell you about it and let the prince and princess have a discussion."
"What's the matter?" Meng Qi asked.
"Yes, it's about Concubine Li's child."
"What?" Song Chengze stopped, "Is there something else going on?"
"That child, that child didn't die of illness." said Mother Jin.
"What did you say?" Meng Qi and Song Chengze looked at each other. Could it be that Concubine Li's child was killed by someone else?
Meng Qi even thought, could it be Gong or Xiao Lin?
Mother Jin continued, "It was Concubine Li. Concubine Li killed herself."
"Bang!" Song Chengze overturned the table on the kang. "Tell me, what's going on?"
Mother Jin shook her head. "I really don't know the details. It's just that for a while, Concubine Li was very anxious. She would always hold her sleeping son and talk to herself, saying what to do. There was no other way, and it would be better for everyone if she took action sooner. After more than ten days, she started to feed the child medicine. It was only about half a month before the young master slowly, slowly..."
How could this happen? What was going on? Li was asked to be a concubine because of this son. If this son were alive, her life in the mansion would be much better.
But why would she be so cruel to her own child?
The two returned to the east room of the outer study. Meng Qi looked at Song Chengze, who was standing with his back to her in a depressed mood, and gently walked forward to put his arms around his waist. "I'll go ask Li alone later. If there is really something, I'm afraid you..."
Song Chengze stretched out his hands and covered Meng Qi's hands. "I am such a failure. I actually let such a wicked person stay in the mansion for so long, and I trusted her so much. I doubted everyone, but I never thought she would betray me."
"It's not your fault, it's the prince. He is too vicious. He laid out the chess game too early, too carefully, and too cleverly. You can't see through it at all." Meng Qi leaned her head on his back and comforted him softly.
Song Chengze sighed deeply. "I can't remember how she came to be with me. I only remember that when she first came, I didn't trust her, and Nanny Hai was also wary of her, so she couldn't serve me closely. Until one time, my second brother schemed against me and I accidentally ate a kind of mushroom. The doctor said that human blood would be used as a medicine. As soon as the doctor finished speaking, she cut her own arm. I drank the medicine for a whole month, and she dripped her blood every day to make it for me."
Meng Qi was stunned, and after thinking for a moment, he said, "I'm afraid it wasn't Prince Duan who did it."
Song Chengze hummed, "This must be a trap set by the Crown Prince. His purpose is to make me trust Li."
"So, the Crown Prince had such good intentions. Not to mention that you were still an unwelcome prince in the palace at that time, even if you had established a residence and had your own people, how could you have seen through such a thing so quickly?"
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