Chapter 64: If a person does not work for himself, he will be punished by heaven and earth
He couldn't believe it.
He ran to the study in his underwear, opened the secret room mechanism, and went in to check.
Everything in the darkroom was normal, except that all the top-secret account books stored in the dark box had disappeared.
He slumped down on the chair as if his spine had been pulled out.
"what is going on?"
He kept thinking about his encounter with Zong's ghost last night.
The ghost looked exactly like Zong when he was alive, and didn't seem like someone else impersonating him.
The mechanism in this secret room has never been touched by anyone, yet all the account books are gone. Apart from gods and ghosts, who else has such means?
The people under his command don't have such ability anyway.
Could it be that I really saw a ghost?
He was skeptical.
After putting down the two porcelain bottles, he went back to the yard to wash up.
It was noon, and after the servants brought the meal, he ate while recalling Zong Hebai's actions last night.
Zong Hebai built up his business so big and made a lot of money, but he suddenly asked him to borrow money, which was very suspicious.
It is possible that the female ghost was set up by Zong Hebai because he knew about the short finger incident and became suspicious.
But it doesn't make sense.
He personally threw the child into the mass grave, and no one else knew about it. How could Zong Hebai arrange for the female ghost to tell him?
What's more, given the straightforward nature of the Zong family, if they knew that he had killed Zong Yingqiu and her daughter, they would have come to kill him long ago. They would not have the mood to be mysterious.
When he was struggling, Ning Fengluan came.
"Dad, what happened to Fourth Uncle's business? He's losing so much money that he has to borrow all the birthday gifts he gave me to pay off his debts."
He was stunned.
"He asked you for a birthday gift?"
"I came to ask early in the morning!"
Ning Fengluan gritted her teeth.
Zong Hebai has always been generous. The birthday gifts he gave her over the years, if converted into silver, would add up to at least 200,000 yuan.
Even if the emperor wanted to marry a daughter-in-law, he could not afford a dowry of the same amount of silver.
She also wanted to add it to her dowry when she got married, so that all the women in the capital would be envious and cry.
Duke Ningguo asked her, "Did you give it to me?"
Her eyes widened. "How could I not give it to him? He made himself sound so pathetic, and then he said I was always considerate and that he would repay me double when he got through this difficult time."
After a pause, he asked, "Can he get through this?"
Duke Ningguo thought about the 500,000 taels that Zong Hebai asked him for last night, and he was unsure for a moment.
"I think so."
Ning Fengluan complained a few more times before leaving.
Duke Ningguo's thoughts became even more confused.
"Is Zong Hebai really short of money? Or is he just putting on a show for me?"
He decided to wait and see for two more days.
Unexpectedly, when I lay down at night, I dreamed of the female ghost again.
The female ghost said nothing, but stretched out her hands and tightly strangled his neck.
He was strangled and passed out.
When I woke up, there were new finger marks on my neck.
Rumors gradually spread that Zong Hebai had suffered huge losses and was borrowing money everywhere to fill the hole.
One day, he woke up and found himself vomiting black blood. He saw the local doctor, but the doctor could not diagnose any problems. He finally became convinced that the female ghost incident was not Zong Hebai's trick, but was real.
He immediately rushed to a famous temple to find a master to exorcise the evil spirits.
However, even though the ritual was performed and the magical instruments were worn, the female ghost always followed him like a shadow and appeared in front of him as soon as he closed his eyes.
If he had not been afraid that digging the grave would alarm the Zong family, he would have dug up the Zong corpse and locked it in the Demon-Suppressing Tower long ago.
After spitting out all the black blood on the ground again, he remembered the ghost girl's words: "If you don't do as I say, you will die in exchange."
The poison was indeed given to him by Zhong.
It was indeed the mother's suggestion to throw the child into a mass grave.
Why should he be punished for them?
After realizing this, he took the medicine out of the secret room and found an opportunity to give it to Zhong and his mother respectively.
After taking the medicine, Zhong couldn't fall asleep at night.
The same is true during the day.
It's no use seeing a doctor.
After enduring four or five days, I was finally able to sleep, but my eyes could no longer see the light.
The next day after taking the medicine, my mother was paralyzed in bed.
The doctor said it was a stroke and needed to be treated slowly.
But there was no improvement.
She went from being an old lady in the Duke's Mansion who could call the wind and rain and had the final say to an old lady who could only move her eyes and needed others to serve her in everything from eating, drinking, and defecating to urinating.
He went to look at her, and she made a hoarse sound, as if she wanted to say something.
"Don't worry, mother. I will watch over them and let them take good care of you."
The light in my mother's eyes suddenly dimmed.
He understood that she wanted him to give her a quick death.
She has always been arrogant, otherwise she would not have disliked the Zong family just because they witnessed her incontinence and wanted to throw the only bloodline she had left into a mass grave.
But if a person does not work for himself, he will be punished by heaven and earth.
If he sends his mother to death quickly, what if Zong's ghost feels unhappy and comes back to take his life?
He can only be an unfilial son for once.
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Zhong didn't understand why she suddenly couldn't sleep and suddenly became blind.
She asked people to invite famous doctors in the capital, including the imperial physician, and everyone said that there was nothing wrong with her eyes and it might be the result of emotional illness.
People who suffer from emotional disorders include those who talk nonsense, have hallucinations and auditory hallucinations, suffer from anorexia and bulimia, and some are like her, who have intact eyes but cannot see.
But she is in good health, everything goes well, all her wishes come true, and she lives in prosperity and peace. Apart from some problems that occurred while attending Princess Shouyang's wedding banquet, she has no worries at all!
How could she get an emotional illness?
This is ridiculous!
After she lost her sight, she could no longer distinguish between day and night, her daily routine became a mess, and she had no way of taking care of the affairs in the mansion.
But these are not the most important things.
The most important thing is that she can't go anywhere!
As the wife of a duke, her biggest hobby is to attend banquets and parties in various mansions, showing off her newly acquired beautiful clothes and exquisite jewelry to those ladies and feeling their envious gazes.
Or invite them to your house to see the newly built garden, the newly added exotic flowers and plants, the newly hired opera troupe...
Would not her wealth, her taste, her social graces, her good qualities, her generosity of character, all be ruined if she could not see?
From then on, when people mentioned her, they would only feel pity, compassion and sympathy for her.
"Ah, a perfectly healthy person turned out to be blind..."
This hurt her more than killing her.
She gritted her teeth, offered a sky-high reward, and recruited the world's best doctors to cure her eye disease.
Many people came to her house, but they were all swindlers and were kicked out by her.
However, a slovenly Taoist priest, after examining her, said, "Madam, your symptoms don't sound like you're sick, but rather like you've been poisoned."
A word can wake a dreamer up!
She suddenly remembered that when Zong took the "Baichou Powder" she had found, all the doctors could not tell that she was poisoned and thought she had an emotional illness.
She is the same as Zong!
They're all poisoned!
Who poisoned her?
She was obviously very careful about her diet on a daily basis, and all the meals were cooked in the small kitchen. The cook was her confidant who had followed her for many years, and the whole family was under her control, so there was no way she would betray her.
After going through all the people she had contacted before she fell asleep, she finally remembered that Ning Zeming had come to her place for tea that day.
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