Chapter 100 Dog-eat-Dog
Liang Shuren looked at the nanny and the spoon in her hand with half belief and half doubt, and she shook her head hesitantly.
"No, I don't need any tranquilizing medicine! Mammy, please untie me first and call the imperial physician for me, please..."
The nanny continued to smile and said, "You need it. If you don't calm down, how can you stay in this scary place and wait for the Queen Mother to take you out?"
Liang Shuren looked at the spoon that was brought to his mouth.
She felt extremely uncomfortable, but she made up her mind and drank the medicine.
Even if it was poison, she would accept it and die quickly.
At this point, what else could she not see clearly? The Queen Mother never treated her as a human being from the beginning to the end.
She took the wrong path and she was willing to admit her defeat.
However, she was unwilling to accept this. If she had seen the situation clearly and chosen His Majesty's side, would the outcome have been different?
However, after drinking the medicine, Liang Shuren did not feel anything unusual.
Seeing Liang Shuren's surprised expression, the nanny smiled gently and said, "Don't worry, it's just a tranquilizer. The Empress Dowager still cares about you."
Hearing this, Liang Shuren couldn't help but frown again.
Really? It's not poison?
The nanny winked at the young palace maid, who came forward and wiped Liang Shuren's mouth, then helped her lie down and covered her with the several tattered quilts stacked on the couch.
"It's late autumn now, and the nights are getting cooler. My beauty, please take a good rest. I won't disturb you any more."
After saying that, the nanny left with the palace maid.
Liang Shuren lay on the couch, somewhat unable to believe that the Queen Mother actually sent someone to care for her.
But soon, she realized something was wrong.
She could hardly breathe under the weight of several thick quilts.
The previous medicine only made her feel uncomfortable, but now, she couldn't exert any strength at all.
She tried to push the quilts off her body with her knees, but she couldn't even move her fingertips.
What was even more frightening was that she was sweating more and more, and even with several quilts covering her, she felt like she was lying in a steamer.
Liang Shu Ren woke up as if from a dream.
How could the Queen Mother, such a smart person, poison her directly? She drugged her and tortured her to death!
Liang Shuren was completely desperate. At the same time, the hatred and unwillingness in her heart became stronger and stronger.
Queen Mother Xue was a devil with a treacherous heart and a wicked appearance! She was so foolish at first, why did she believe that clinging to her would lead to prosperity?
Now, she didn't even want to kill her to silence her, but actually tortured her with such a vicious trick!
She hates...
No, she couldn't just suffocate herself to death under a few tattered quilts. Jiang Yingli's men would come and untie her, so she had to hold on...
Two hours later, Lian Qiao went to untie Liang Shu Ren and was shocked to see the dying man lying on the couch.
Who covered Liang Shu Ren with so many quilts?
Lian Qiao opened the quilts one by one, and the innermost layer was almost soaked with Liang Shuren's sweat.
"Help..." Liang Shuren half-raised his eyelids and uttered a word in a weak voice.
She was dehydrated, had a high temperature, and her whole body was pale. She looked like she was dying.
My scalp is a little numb.
If this man died here, the Empress might be framed.
"Don't struggle anymore. Lie down first and save your energy." Lian Qiao hurried back to report to Jiang Yingli.
Jiang Yingli was surprised when she heard this.
This method of suffocating someone to death with a quilt is so vicious that most people would never imagine it.
The key point is that the man followed her and had the same idea as Su Qingrong, wanting to follow in her footsteps and do bad things.
Jiang Yingli immediately took people to the You Palace again.
When Liang Shuren saw Jiang Yingli, he tried desperately to grab his last straw.
"Your Majesty... please save me. I don't want to die like this..."
Jiang Yingli took the medicine bowl from the tray and said, "If my people were a moment later, your life would be on my head. Drink this ginseng soup first."
This time, before Jiang Yingli handed the spoon to Liang Shuren, Liang Shuren opened his mouth without saying a word.
After drinking the ginseng soup, Liang Shuren finally managed to hold on for a breath.
Seeing that she was finally breathing more out than in, Jiang Yingli asked, "Who covered you with the quilt?"
"It's the Queen Mother! It's the Queen Mother's people! They fed me a knockout drug. I have no strength left in my body and was almost suffocated to death. Your Majesty, please save me!"
This was done by Empress Dowager Xue. Jiang Yingli was not surprised, but she found it a little funny to hear Commoner Liang asking her for help.
"Why, you said the Queen Mother would send someone to pick you up soon, so it turns out she sent the Black and White Impermanence?"
Liang Shuren was speechless for a long moment before she replied, "I am but the Queen Mother's abandoned child."
Jiang Yingli looked at her with drooping eyelashes, sighed softly, and said coldly: "You saw the truth too late. She destroyed your chess piece. You were going to die anyway. Why should I disobey the Queen Mother and protect you?"
At this moment, Liang Shuren didn't care about anything. He stood up from the couch, knocked his knees straight on the uneven brick surface of the abandoned palace, and tears streamed down his face.
"But I really can't accept this. I'm only seventeen years old now..."
Jiang Yingli looked at the embarrassed Liang Shuren, then turned her gaze to the gray and dilapidated walls of the You Palace and sighed softly.
"You can't escape death in the hands of the Queen Mother. I can't protect you, nor do I want to. But do you want to die a more meaningful death?"
Liang Shuren was stunned. "How... could his death be worthwhile?"
Jiang Yingli turned her clear eyes towards her, paused for a moment, and said quietly, "Who made you so miserable? Don't you want revenge?"
Liang Shuren looked at Jiang Yingli saying these words calmly and suddenly got goosebumps.
She meant... revenge on the Queen Mother?
Immediately, a fanatical yearning exploded from the bottom of Liang Shuren's heart.
She wanted to, why wouldn’t she want to!
When she was about to be suffocated to death, she saved her life by thinking about the pleasure of killing Empress Dowager Xue with her own hands.
Jiang Yingli said calmly, "The Queen Mother goes to Da'an Guo Temple to pay homage on the 16th of every month."
Liang Shuren was confused for a moment, and suddenly an idea came to his mind.
If she could fake her own death and escape from the palace, then enter the temple as a nun...
When she opened her mouth to speak her mind, Jiang Yingli pressed her knuckles against her lips, signaling her to be silent.
"I'm just chatting with you, I don't want to listen to your gossip."
Liang Shuren understood immediately and kowtowed heavily: "I will never say a word more!"
Jiang Yingli stared at her and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Verbal promises don't count. You must remember that the lives of the entire Liang family depend on you. As long as you are a Liang commoner, the Liang family will inevitably be implicated by you."
Liang Shuren paused for a moment, made up his mind, and looked at the old oil lamp on the table.
She rushed over, took out the lamp oil, smeared it on her face, lit the wick with a tinder, and held the lamp close to her face...
"After tonight, there will be no more Liang Shuren in this world. Please rest assured, Your Majesty..."
There was a hint of surprise in Jiang Yingli's eyes, because of her determination.
It seems that Liang Shuren really hated the Queen Mother.
"The Queen Mother has many personal guards, so you may not be able to accomplish anything."
Liang Shu Ren gritted her teeth and said, "It's better than dying in obscurity, like being crushed to death like an ant. Thank you, Your Majesty, for putting aside past grudges and helping me."
Let bygones be bygones?
Jiang Yingli didn't think she was that kind-hearted, she just wanted to see dogs bite each other.
Jiang Yingli stopped looking at her, closed her eyes, stood up, and left the palace with her people.
At night, Liang Shuren, who was confined in the You Palace, became mentally ill and hanged himself.
Her body was wrapped in a straw mat and thrown into a mass grave on the outskirts of the city.
When the news reached Wanshou Palace, the empress dowager pinched her Buddhist beads and chanted "Amitabha". Her eyes were full of compassion and guilt.
"I have no choice but to do this. She died a miserable death. May she be in heaven after death. When you go to pray for her in a couple of days, please light a stick of incense for her."
Nanny Xia replied, "The Queen Mother is so kind that she is willing to light incense for the deposed concubine."
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