Chapter 575 Death of Song Mingzhen
"I've already sent someone to investigate. Don't panic." Zhang Heyao said in a deep voice, "Someone must be targeting you and me in this matter."
Lu Qiniang said, "I'm not panicking. I just want to know what the person who spread the rumors is trying to do."
"I'll get to the bottom of it. Try not to go out these days."
"No." Lu Qiniang flatly rejected his proposal. "I haven't done anything wrong. If I don't go out, people will think I'm guilty."
Zhang Heyao was furious. "Can't you just listen to me for once? Are you so willing to go out and get scolded?"
"The more I get scolded, the more I have to make things clear." Lu Qiniang had her own ideas. "I've made up my mind. Let's wait for two days until things get a little bigger."
Let those emotions come out, and then she'll clarify in the heat of the moment.
"What are you trying to clarify? How can you, alone, silence the swirling gossip?"
"Those people are sneaky, but I want to be open and aboveboard." Lu Qiniang said, "Brother, don't worry about it. This matter is probably caused by me. I will go and clear it up so that it won't affect you."
Zhang Heyao: “…”
He couldn't persuade Lu Qiniang.
Lu Qiniang insisted on her own opinion.
Zhang Heyao thought that there were still a few days left, and he would think of a way to persuade her.
At the same time, he has begun sending people to investigate the source of the rumors.
But the news has spread so widely now that it will take some time.
For this purpose, he specially visited General Li Feng and asked him to help with the investigation.
Li Feng responded politely on the surface, saying repeatedly, "I will do my best."
But Zhang Heyao was not completely sure.
Sun Shun was a little worried and told Zhang Heyao his guess privately, "Sir, is it possible that they are coming for you?"
His speculation is mainly based on interests.
——What’s the point of plotting against Lu Qiniang, a widow?
However, Zhang Heyao has been too powerful in recent years, with great influence in the government and the country, and has made countless enemies. The open and covert attacks against him have never stopped.
Zhang Heyao was silent for a long time, a dark light flashing in his eyes, and finally he said in a deep voice: "No matter what, I will bring my abandoned mother back to Beijing."
Sun Shun was stunned when he heard this, his heart skipped a beat, and an absurd and horrifying thought popped up uncontrollably: Could it be... Could it be that this turmoil was actually planned by the adults themselves?
Just to cut off Lu Qiniang's roots in the northwest and force her to follow him back to Beijing?
No, it can't.
Zhang Heyao might have done this in the past, but now, even for Xiaoman's sake, he would not do it.
How could Xiaoman have a mother with such a bad reputation?
While he was thinking, there was a sudden commotion outside the inn, mixed with fierce arguments and crying.
"Sir, let me go and take a look!" Sun Shun immediately asked.
Zhang Heyao frowned and nodded.
However, before Sun Shun returned, a shrill, desperate, and weeping cry penetrated the doors and windows and pierced Zhang Heyao's ears.
"Master! Master! It's bad! Madam is gone! Madam...she is gone!"
Zhang Heyao's body trembled.
He recognized that it was the voice of a servant beside Song Mingzhen.
Is Song Ming really gone?
Dead?
How is that possible!
Zhang Heyao's first reaction was disbelief.
How could Song Mingzhen die?
She is the one who values life the most.
Moreover, she has been causing harm for thousands of years, so she should have died after everyone else.
"What's going on!" Zhang Heyao said in a deep voice, already wondering in his heart whether Song Ming was really up to something.
Sun Shun brought the person who brought the news of the death in with a serious expression.
The old servant fell to the ground, tears streaming down his face, and cried out to the heavens, "Master! Madam...she has swallowed gold and committed suicide! Please go and see her!"
Zhang Heyao didn't believe it, he didn't believe a single word of it.
Conspiracy, this must be Song Mingzhen’s conspiracy.
"Sun Shun!" Zhang Heyao's voice was as cold as ice, filled with suppressed rage. "Send someone to investigate immediately! Find out! I want to see him alive or dead!"
"Yes!" Sun Shun did not dare to delay and immediately turned around and ran away.
However, before Song Mingzhen's death could be verified, the content of the "suicide note" she left behind was like cold water thrown into a frying pan, instantly triggering a second wave of even more violent and vicious public opinion in Changzhou City.
In her suicide note, Song Mingzhen wrote with "heartfelt emotion": She knew very well that Zhang Heyao and Lu Qiniang could not forget their old love, and did not want to be an obstacle, so she "voluntarily" swallowed gold and committed suicide to help this "star-crossed couple" be together.
When Lu Qiniang heard this, she found it unreasonable, absurd and disgusting.
To fulfill the wishes of myself and Zhang Heyao?
She used to think that although Song Mingzhen was bad, she was clear-headed!
How come after something happened at home and he was hit hard, he became a love saint?
wrong.
Song Mingzhen is a very strong-willed person. Even when they met a few days ago, she didn't show any sign of decadence.
There must be something fishy about this matter.
Zhang Heyao knew Song Mingzhen better than she did, so by now, he had pieced together the truth of the matter.
Song Mingzhen's inherent pride and viciousness have never changed.
Not only is she cruel to others, she is also cruel to herself.
She hated him for standing idly by and watching the Zhenbei Palace.
These days, she herself was also forcing herself to run, but her heart was already crumbling.
——Her pride does not allow her to live in the contempt of others.
She, Song Mingzhen, wants to be better than others in life and wants others to envy her.
She probably also knew the news that she had come to Changzhou, and was very angry that she had traveled thousands of miles for Lu Qiniang but was unwilling to help her.
This became the last straw that broke the camel's back and ignited her most vicious revenge.
So, she used her life to throw dirty water on herself and Lu Qinniang.
This behavior is very similar to Song Mingzhen's consistent ruthlessness.
Zhang Heyao took a deep breath, his eyes full of disgust.
Okay, okay, okay.
First there were a lot of rumors, and then her suicide brought the matter to a new level of intensity.
She used her own life as the most vicious sacrifice to throw dirty water on him and Lu Qinniang.
She wanted to use death to nail them firmly to the pillar of shame as "forcing the original wife to death" and "adulterous couple".
Before she died, she must have felt a twisted sense of pride as she imagined him and Lu Qinniang being condemned by thousands of people and doomed to eternal damnation.
Zhang Heyao took a deep breath, trying to suppress the anger and disgust surging in his chest, but his teeth chattered uncontrollably.
Song Mingzhen! You really are——
He refused to leave anyone with any good thoughts until his death.
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