Chapter 203 Faking Death and Escape from the Prime Minister's Mansion
Wang's heart sank, and she heard Minglang continue, "At this point, I can't protect you anymore."
"Master!" Wang reached out to grab Minglang's sleeve, but was kicked away by Minglang.
"If you want to blame someone, blame yourself for being stupid. You messed up even the smallest thing."
Wang said, "Master, I didn't ask Madam Fang to give me the Gelsemium elegans medicine. I won't make any mistakes."
"Doesn't the master also want that bitch to die?"
"You were the one who asked me to plant that mandrake. I don't know how it turned into Gelsemium!"
"I must have been plotted against."
Just then, the housekeeper hurried in.
"Prime Minister, Nanny Fang and Chunliu have confessed. Here are their fingerprints."
Minglang's face turned pale as he took the confession and glanced at it.
Looking at Wang, he said coldly, "Madame Fang and Chunliu said that you were the one who ordered them to poison?"
"I only asked you to give Zhao the poison of Datura, not the highly toxic Gelsemium!"
Minglang was furious, "Are you that impatient?"
Wang was confused. She had only asked Nanny Fang and Chunliu to apply the Mandrake, so how come Gelsemium elegans appeared?
She looked at Minglang and saw the complicated expression on his face, and a chill suddenly came over her heart.
"Is it you? Is it you, the Prime Minister, who wants to use me to get rid of that Zhao family? And then put the blame on me?"
"Or did Nanny Fang and Chunliu prescribe the wrong medicine?"
"I am following the orders of the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister cannot kill me!"
Minglang was too lazy to pay attention to Wang. He stood up from the bed with an expressionless face and glanced at Wang coldly.
"You can't even do what I asked you to do. Now that things have come to this, you have to give an explanation to Shen Yuheng. Otherwise, if the government comes and the matter escalates, it will be a huge problem!"
"Master, what do you mean?" Wang crawled in front of Minglang in a panic.
Minglang sneered and said, "Now that things have come to this, you should just accept your fate."
The man's cold voice fell, and he turned and left the room without looking back.
Wang got up from the ground and was about to chase after him.
Three maids came in carrying medicine.
"What do you want to do?"
"It was the master, it was the master who wanted to poison Zhao, not me!"
The three maids each held the medicine, and two of them held Wang tightly, making her unable to move.
Just as Wang was about to continue speaking, the bowl of bitter medicine was poured directly into her throat.
Nanny said coldly: "If you want to blame someone, blame the lady for being too talkative!"
"If you want to blame someone, blame the wife for her incompetence!"
The bitter medicine went down her throat and Wang coughed hard.
She struggled to break free, but the drugs made her unable to move.
"Minglang...you are not a human!"
After she finished her last sentence, Wang fell to the ground, no longer able to breathe.
Doctor Wu from the Imperial Hospital came, took Zhao's pulse, and shook his head helplessly.
"Prime Minister Fang, please accept my condolences."
At nightfall, a mourning hall was set up in the front hall of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
Su Yuheng knelt in front of the mourning hall, looking at the coffin in front of him, his eyes slightly dimmed.
I've finally waited for this day.
Qi Lingzhou had tampered with the coffin so that Zhao could breathe fresh air inside.
Outside the Prime Minister's Mansion, a heavy drizzle began to fall.
Minglang came in from outside wearing mourning clothes and saw Su Yuheng kneeling on the ground with his eyes red and swollen from crying.
He stepped forward and sighed.
"Heng'er, it's Daddy's fault. I didn't protect your mother well, and let that Wang poison your mother."
"Madame Fang and Chunliu from the mansion have already confessed."
"Father Wang also let her commit suicide, so she was buried with your mother."
Su Yuheng had an expressionless face as he placed the paper money in his hand into the brazier.
The secret guard told her everything that happened in Wang's room.
If anyone wants to harm his mother, it would be either Wang or Minglang.
What is he performing in front of me now?
This Minglang is such a scumbag.
Seeing that she remained silent, Minglang continued, "You are my daughter, Minglang. We can't remain in this stalemate forever. You can't treat me like this."
Su Yuheng snorted coldly: "Then, Prime Minister, how do you want me to treat you? Should I be grateful to you?"
"My mother was murdered in the Prime Minister's Mansion. You didn't raise me. There's no love between us."
Not only is there no affection, there is no blood relationship either.
Before she left Qin, she would definitely give Minglang a heavy blow to make him see the reality.
Seeing her attitude towards him, Minglang said coldly, "After all, you and I are blood relatives. When your mother passed away, I had her buried with great ceremony and found her a good feng shui site."
"Besides, didn't I also execute my own wife to avenge her? I've already paid enough, what else do you want? Don't be ungrateful!"
"You are my only daughter."
Su Yuheng laughed when he heard this.
She didn't reply to him and continued burning paper money.
Two days later, Minglang asked someone to find a high-ranking Taoist priest to perform a ritual on Zhao.
He also asked people to find a Feng Shui treasure land on the outskirts of Bianjing.
On the second day, he was taken up the mountain and buried.
Qi Lingzhou had brought people from Qianshu Tower and was guarding near the cemetery on the outskirts of the city early on.
After the people in the Prime Minister's Mansion buried Zhao's coffin, they asked a Taoist priest to perform a ritual on Zhao.
Su Yuheng looked at the Taoist priests performing rituals, his heart hanging in his throat, he just hoped they would leave quickly.
In the evening, everything was settled.
When Su Yuheng took Zhuque and Linglong out of the cemetery, Qi Lingzhou led the people from Qianshu Tower to start digging the graves.
"Hurry up, it will be troublesome if someone comes later."
Several black-clad guards moved quickly and dug out the coffin in half an hour.
Qi Lingzhou couldn't wait to open the coffin, and saw Zhao lying quietly in the coffin.
He stuffed a pill into Zhao's mouth, and within a moment, Zhao moved.
It was too dark. Zhao opened her eyes, but couldn't see the person in front of her. She only stretched out her hand tentatively.
"Is it Heng'er?"
"It's me." Qi Lingzhou said.
"Yes, Zhou'er."
Qi Lingzhou reached out and held Zhao's hand, pulled her out of the coffin, and ordered the guards to restore the tomb to its original state.
After everything was done, Qi Lingzhou took Zhao on a carriage and headed straight to Qianshu Tower.
In the carriage, Zhao was feeling uneasy.
In the pitch-black night, she couldn't see the person in front of her, but could hear the noisy sounds outside the carriage.
"Finally it came out."
"I thought it would be impossible for me to leave the Prime Minister's Mansion in my lifetime."
Qi Lingzhou smiled and took the medicine to wipe her hands.
"Are you thirsty?" he asked in a low voice.
When the young man's clear voice came, Zhao was slightly stunned. Looking at the blurry figure, she stretched out her hand.
"Zhou'er, can you please let your mother take a look at you?"
Qi Lingzhou had a blank expression on his face, his eyes fixed on Zhao's face.
A little strange, and a little distressed.
The reason for the unfamiliarity was that he and Zhao rarely spent time together.
He felt sad because Zhao was his mother.
Zhao stretched out her hand and placed it on Qi Lingzhou's handsome face. Through the little light coming in from outside the carriage, she could see Qi Lingzhou's face clearly.
"Yes, it's you."
"You are really my child. You and Heng'er look somewhat alike."
Qi Lingzhou smiled and said, "She and I are siblings, so naturally we look alike."
As the two were talking in the carriage, Qi Lingzhou lifted the curtain.
When he was about to reach Qianshu Tower, he felt a pair of eyes outside the carriage staring straight at them.
Seeing that the man was Minglang, Qi Lingzhou's heart beat faster and he immediately lowered the carriage curtain.
He said to the groom, "Hurry up and get out of here!"
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