Chapter 118 Second Half
Jiao didn't know why the masked man was interested in this matter, but her son was still in his hands, so she dared not disobey.
"Tan Qingzhou is extremely picky about pillows. He can't sleep on ordinary pillows. He has to sleep on special pillows that are concave like a chicken coop."
She replied.
"I improved this pillow for him bit by bit after we got married. He always brings it with him when he goes out to take exams."
"Before he married Cui, I made a new, bright red pillow and asked someone to bring it to him."
"And every six months, he would be given a new pillow."
"There are a lot of medicines put in these pillows. If a woman smells them for a long time, she will suffer from uterine cold and blood stasis. It is naturally difficult for Cui Shi to get pregnant if she sleeps with him."
The masked man laughed and said, "What a good plan! It even fooled Tan Qingzhou."
Jiao said, "I can't help it. If he and Cui had children, they wouldn't even remember the three of us."
"Tan Qingzhou never became suspicious?"
"I didn't suspect anything for the first two years, but then I figured it out and stopped sending pillows to the capital."
But how can a damaged field be restored so easily?
Cui was unable to give birth, so as a son-in-law from a poor family who lived off his wife, instead of taking a concubine and destroying the trust of his wife's family, he might as well adopt "eldest brother's child" and let his wife's family compensate him doubly for this debt.
By the way, you can also use her business to sell stolen goods.
Taking her and the two children back to Beijing would kill two birds with one stone, so naturally he wouldn't turn against her for this.
Later he even asked her for a pillow.
Cui listened to the conversation between the two people behind the veil. The anger in her heart gradually faded away, and was replaced by sadness inch by inch.
How could there be someone as stupid as her in the world?
After sleeping in the same bed for twenty years, I don’t even know whether the person sleeping next to me is a human or a ghost.
Every day she would get up at the crowing of the cock, wash his face, dress him, set the table for him, ask him if his porridge was warm, stand with him at dusk, listen to him pour out his heart, and ease his sorrow.
Twenty years of tenderness and consideration were rewarded with a deadly fragrance.
——The person who put the poisonous incense into her sachet could only be Tan Qingzhou.
After the masked man in black asked her questions, he let Jiao leave.
Jiao was unwilling to leave.
"You must return these two children to me."
She said to the masked man in black.
The masked man in black swung his hand, and the blade flew past her forehead, causing her broken hair to flutter and fall.
"Do you think you are qualified to negotiate with me?"
Jiao felt cold all over.
Only then did he remember that the note was placed quietly by this person next to Tan Qingzhou's pillow - since he could place the note without alerting anyone else entering the house, he could naturally kill people without alerting anyone else entering the house.
She even had the delusion of taking him down.
After a moment of hesitation, she said bitterly, "We will help you kill Feng. Please show mercy and don't hurt the two children."
After saying that, he turned and left.
Cui couldn't recover for a long time.
Until the divine veil was lifted, a masked man in black reached out to her and said, "Madam, I will take you to watch the second half of the play."
And... the second half?!
The expression on Cui's face cracked.
Wasn’t the scene just now thrilling, devastating, and earth-shattering enough?
How much more do you want her to collapse!
Feng raised an eyebrow and said, "Madam, you don't want to watch any more? It's really hard for ordinary people to accept such a big shock. If you can't bear it, then..."
"I want to keep watching."
Cui gritted her teeth.
Now that the sky has fallen, let it fall completely. She wants to see how much worse this pair of dogs and pigs can become!
When Feng's maid, who was disguised as a masked man in black, carried her over the eaves and walls and returned to the Tan Mansion, she witnessed with her own eyes that Jiao went down the secret passage of her room, came out of Tan Qingzhou's study, hugged Tan Qingzhou, and told him about all the fears she had just experienced.
Only then did she realize how poor her imagination was!
These two people actually dug a secret passage right under her nose!
Thinking of the countless nights in the past when Tan Qingzhou sent someone back to the main courtyard, saying that he still had documents to look at and asked her to rest early, she felt extremely distressed. The next day, she personally made nourishing soup for him and massaged his shoulders and neck like a fool. She felt so disgusted that she almost vomited.
This is too much!
This is too much!
She, Cui Yunxiu, and this adulterous couple will never reconcile!
Tan Qingzhou was unaware that his and Jiao's words and actions were being seen by others. After hearing Jiao's experience tonight, he frowned and said, "This man is so capable, why didn't he kill Feng himself? Why did he have to let us do it?"
Although it is difficult to break into the Ji Mansion, Feng is always out. If you are patient and wait for the opportunity, won't you be able to kill the person?
Jiao sighed, "Who knows what this guy is thinking? Maybe he's forcing us to kill so he can use it as evidence against us, turning us into his accomplices and forcing us to obey him from now on."
Tan Qingzhou thought more deeply.
"This guy sounds like a ruthless assassin. He must have a master behind him. I just don't know why he's targeting the Feng family..."
The two discussed for half the night but were unable to identify the person behind the scenes.
Seeing that the time for court was approaching, Tan Qingzhou said to Jiao, "Go back first and hurry up and add more materials. We must kill Jing in the next two days."
Jiao nodded and said yes.
Then he turned back along the secret passage.
Tan Qingzhou called the servant in to change his clothes. After he was dressed, he stroked the crease on his sleeves and frowned.
The servants are not as meticulous as Cui in their work.
Cui never let his clothes have any wrinkles, nor would she prepare breakfast for him that was not to his liking.
I hope that after Jing's death, she will not be too immersed in grief and delay the affairs of the mansion.
After finishing his breakfast with a frown, he walked out of the house and headed for the palace.
It only takes a quarter of an hour to walk from the Tan Mansion to the Imperial Palace.
In order to buy this house, Cui used all her skills and persuasion to convince the previous owner to buy it.
He once advised her to give up, but she insisted.
"If you live closer to the palace, you can get up later in the morning. You've been working so hard, you should get more sleep."
No one is better than her in these details.
pity……
Looking at the towering palace gate, he sighed.
Yizhi is not as talented as him. If he cannot use the power of the Duke's Mansion like him, he is destined to waste his life.
He had to support him and make the Tan family a prominent family.
We must not allow each generation to be worse than the previous one.
In this way, I can only feel sorry for the Cui family.
The moment the palace gate opened, he put Cui out of his mind, walked into the palace, and stood there waiting for the emperor.
When His Majesty entered the palace, he and the court officials were about to welcome His Majesty when suddenly a loud drum sounded from the direction of the palace gate.
It is the drum of hearing.
The Dengwen Drum can reach the ears of the heaven, but few people actually beat the drum. At least he has never heard the drum sound since he entered the court to discuss matters.
Today is the first time.
Fresh.
His Majesty probably found it novel as well. When he heard the drumbeat, he immediately sent for the person beating the drum to come into the palace.
When the man beating the drum walked into the Qinzheng Hall, he, like other court officials, turned his head to look, wanting to know who was so resentful that he had to beat the drum to report his wrongdoing.
Unexpectedly, I met Cui's eyes directly.
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