Chapter 24: Terrible Things
Thinking of this, Nie Qionghua's body, which was like a walking corpse, suddenly regained strength. She gritted her teeth and said, "What have I done wrong? Just because I was born a few years later, I should be disliked?
From childhood to adulthood, no one likes me, no one pays attention to me, what have I done wrong? "
Before she could finish her words, a whip came down on her head. Nie Qionghua closed her eyes in horror. It was over. These two damn girls were determined to kill her!
The whip did not hit her face, but her shoulder. Zhao Yunnuan only used 30% of his strength, but Nie Qionghua's skin was already torn.
"You seem to prefer rats to whips."
A gentle voice reached her ears, and Nie Qionghua trembled all over. Rats, no, she didn't want them. She would rather be whipped than see rats again. That feeling of being worse than death made her suffocate just thinking about it.
"No, don't release the mouse! I'll tell you everything! Someone forced me to do this! It was Ma Dao Po! It was she! She forced me to do this!"
Zhao Yunnuan and Zhao Shiqing looked at each other, and the two sisters saw suspicion in each other's eyes.
They knew this Ma Dao Po.
As Nie Qionghua said before, Zhao Yunnuan cried every night when she was a child, and she went to Qingfeng Temple to ask for talismans, and she got them through Ma Dao Po.
When Ma Dao Po was young, she worked as a Taoist servant for Fairy Fang at Qingfeng Temple. After Fairy Fang died, Ma Dao Po returned to secular life, married and had a daughter. After her husband's death, one day, Ma Dao Po suddenly became enlightened and could invite gods to possess her body and even predict things for people.
It is said that Ma Dao Po was very effective and within two years she became famous in Liangdu.
After Nie Qionghua returned home, she was sent to a nunnery by her father and brother, where she suffered a lot.
From then on, she hated monks and nuns.
After the retired emperor went to Changshou Palace to practice, people from all walks of life followed suit. Even Qingfeng Temple, the largest Taoist temple in Liang, was hard to come by.
Relying on her relationship with Qingfeng Temple, Ma Dao Po often went to Qingfeng Temple to ask for talismans for the ladies of wealthy families. Not long after Nie Qionghua arrived in Liangdi, she met Ma Dao Po.
Although Ma Dao Po was somewhat famous, she was not even allowed to enter the palace through the back door due to her status as a gossip girl.
Because Ma Dao Po came to the palace very rarely, even though Nie Qionghua had some friendship with Ma Dao Po, not many people knew about these things.
Even Zhao Yunnuan had only heard of it vaguely, and as for Zhao Shiqing, who seldom visited the palace, he knew nothing about it.
Zhao Yunnuan lowered her voice and told Zhao Shiqing about Ma Dao Po. Zhao Shiqing narrowed her eyes slightly and looked at Nie Qionghua: "You said that Ma Dao Po forced you to do it. What evidence do you have that she has?"
Nie Qionghua shuddered. She didn't expect Zhao Shiqing to be so alert and guess the reason why she was threatened by Ma Dao Po in one go.
But can that be said?
Can’t say!
Thinking of what happened that year, Nie Qionghua subconsciously looked at Zhao Shiqing, and her resentful eyes were as if poisoned.
Zhao Shiqing was stunned. Why did Nie Qionghua look at her like that?
In a flash, an idea flashed through Zhao Shiqing's mind.
She stared at Nie Qionghua and said word by word, "Ma Dao Po threatened you, and you would rather kill my father than let Ma Dao Po make the matter public.
Why?
Is that a greater crime than murdering the prince?
No, you never thought you would be exposed. You thought you had taken a few detours along the way, and even Aunt Zhang wasn't involved, and you were even more out of it, so you never thought you would be exposed, right?"
Nie Qionghua gritted her teeth, "It's all because of you, you bastard! It's all because of you!"
Last night, Aunt Li and Li Baitaofen were taken out of the palace. Nanny Zhang was panicked, fearing that Aunt Li would give her away. But fortunately, the Wang family's daughter-in-law and her brother had already run away, and Aunt Li had no idea that Nanny Zhang had arranged it.
But Nanny Zhang was still afraid, so she asked a little maid to keep an eye on the Wang family.
Today, Zhao Shiqing went to Wang's house to arrest someone. Wang's wife had already run away, but Zhao Shiqing not only did not leave, but also went to raid Aunt Zhang's house.
When Zhao Shiqing kicked the door open, the little girl came back to report the news. Aunt Zhang was so cowardly that she committed suicide without even saying hello.
When it came to the death of Prince Liang, the master and servant only exchanged lip service. Aunt Li felt sorry for her son, while Wang's wife had an affair with the so-called younger brother. These were all evidence against them. If Ma Dao Po could hold onto her evidence, she and Aunt Zhang could also hold onto the evidence against these people and bring them into submission.
So from beginning to end, the master and servant did not intervene. If Aunt Zhang was still alive, as long as she denied it flatly and with Nie's protection, the anger of the Zhao sisters would not have reached her at all.
But that bitch, Aunt Zhang, actually committed suicide. Aunt Zhang's death put an end to everything, but it also brought the fire upon her.
Nie Qionghua wished she could whip Aunt Zhang’s corpse!
But compared to Nanny Zhang, the bastard Zhao Shiqing is more hateful. If she hadn't targeted Nanny Zhang, the subsequent events would not have happened. And those rats were also released by her!
"If you kill me, your mother will hate you for the rest of your life. You will be branded as unfilial and a slut while you're alive. After you die, you'll go to hell and be a slave for eternity!"
Zhao Yunnuan was about to swing the whip again, but Zhao Shiqing grabbed her wrist and said, "Sister, let me do it!"
Before she finished speaking, she waved her hand, and the little demon who was dressing up on the table ran over.
"Go and call your little mouse brothers over here to help loosen up the skin of my aunt."
The little demon meowed and turned to leave. Nie Qionghua shouted with all her might, "Don't let it go. I'll tell you, I'll tell you!"
Zhao Yunnuan ignored her and shouted outside, "A Shuang!"
When Ah Shuang came in, Zhao Yunnuan ordered, "Go and capture Ma Dao Po. I want her alive or dead!"
Ah Shuang responded and went out, but unexpectedly, as soon as she walked out of the door, she ran into Nie and Nanny Zheng who had hurried over.
Nie rushed over after hearing that Zhao Yunnuan had brought Nie Qionghua out of the dungeon.
She knew where the dungeon in the palace was, but she was afraid and didn't even dare to get close.
When Zhao Yunnuan heard the greetings coming from outside, she knew that Nie had arrived.
She closed her eyes and said, "Please come in, Princess."
Nie rushed in and almost fainted when she saw Nie Qionghua in such a miserable state.
Zhao Shiqing brought a chair over and asked Nie to sit down. Nie glared at her fiercely and said, "The family is in turmoil since your return. If I had known this would happen, I shouldn't have let the prince bring you back!"
Zhao Shiqing chuckled. Although Nie Qionghua had not confessed yet, she had already guessed something from the resentful look in Nie Qionghua's eyes when she looked at her.
Nie Qionghua no longer has a husband's family, and her own family can't accommodate her. In this world, her greatest support is the Nie family.
What secret could she keep even if it meant killing King Liang?
That would definitely be something that would plunge Nie Qionghua into the abyss.
For her, what could be more terrifying than losing the big tree of the Nie family?
This matter must be related to the Nie family and also to her.
Zhao Shiqing could only think of one thing that could satisfy these requirements.
The unfortunate death of the little princess!
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