Chapter 116: Arrogance
"Madam, what do you think is hidden in Jiao's house?"
After returning from Jiao's mansion, Wuhua woke Feng Qingsui up and asked with great energy.
Feng Qingsui was still a little confused: "A man?"
"You guessed wrong this time."
Wuhua was very proud.
"It's a door!"
Feng Qingsui was stunned.
Door? What's there to hide behind a door?
"You mean the dark room?"
Wuhua took out a bag of duck feet from his pocket, sat down at the half-moon table by the window, and said, "It's the door to the underground."
Then he told Feng Qingsui about his harvest tonight while chewing on the duck feet.
"When I sneaked into her bedroom, I found no one there. I waited for half an hour, and then the carpet in front of the bunk bed suddenly flipped up, revealing a three-foot square hole."
"Jiao came up from that cave entrance."
"When she fell asleep, I knocked her out, opened the carpet-covered tunnel door, and went down to take a look. Guess where this tunnel leads to?"
Is that even necessary?
Feng Qingsui chuckled: "Tan Qingzhou's study."
"That's right!" Wuhua's eyes lit up. "This tunnel is beautifully built. There's a bedroom in the middle with a big bed. There are drawers under the bed, and the drawers are full of gold and silver ingots."
"There are hidden storage areas on three walls of this dormitory, also filled with gold and silver ingots."
"I found Jiao's account books in one of the hidden storage rooms. They included accounts for the restaurant, the farm, the shops, and also this."
She nodded towards the headboard.
Feng Qingsui only then discovered that there was a pile of account books on the round stool beside the bed, and on top of the account books was a palm-sized sandalwood box.
She picked up the box, opened it, and saw a note inside.
His eyes suddenly fixed.
The size of the note was exactly the same as the one she got from Doctor Xun, who poisoned her sister. The words on the paper were also written in regular script, and even the subtle orchid scent in the ink was no different.
There is no doubt that the two notes came from the same person.
Queen.
Feng Qingsui sneered, "How conceited."
Every time he instructs others to kill someone, he uses exactly the same paper, ink, and handwriting, just like a serial killer who signs his name after each murder.
Being so arrogant and conceited is simply because he is certain that no one else can catch up with him.
Who gave her the confidence?
It must be that when Han Ruixuan gave her the ink stick, he didn't tell her that he had kept a defective one, making her think that she was the only one in the world who had this floral-scented ink and no one else knew about it.
Therefore, she used the ink to do evil without restraint and secretly showed off her skills.
Feng Qingsui closed his lid and lowered his eyelids.
One day, she would make the queen die because of her arrogance.
Jiao didn't know that her secret affair with Tan Qingzhou had been known to others. The next day, she woke up, had breakfast, and went next door, pretending to know that Cui stayed in the Duke of Qing's mansion to accompany her mother.
Then he returned home and ordered people to fetch some valuable medicinal herbs of old age and send them to the mansion of Duke Qing.
PS: "I hope the old lady will recover soon from her serious illness and live a long and healthy life."
He was eagerly waiting for the news of the death of the old lady of Duke Qing.
Cui had a deep relationship with the old lady of Duke Qing. As long as the old lady of Duke Qing died, she would definitely sue Feng Qingsui if she instigated a few words.
Conspiring to murder the old Lord Feng is a capital crime, and the Criminal Justice Department will definitely bring Feng Qingsui to justice.
As long as Feng Qingsui was imprisoned in the Criminal Justice Department, Tan Qingzhou would have a way to make her die there.
In this way, the instructions of the person who threatens you can be completed.
Thinking of this, she frowned.
"Who on earth is this person who knows so much about me and Tan Qingzhou?"
She married Tan Qingzhou as soon as she came of age, and had two children in three years. When Tan Qingzhou went to Beijing to take the imperial examination, she waited day and night in Lizhou, hoping to become an official's wife.
Who knew that he did it, but the woman he married was the wife of a seventh-rank official.
The salary of the Taichang Temple clerk was only enough for Tan Qingzhou to rent a house in the capital and live there, and it was not enough to support the three of them.
Why did she choose to marry Tan Qingzhou, a scholar from a poor family, instead of marrying a local wealthy man?
Isn't it just for an imperial decree?
Only those of the fifth rank and above can apply for imperial decree. Even if Tan Qingzhou retires from a cold government office like the Taichang Temple, she may not be able to become a lady of imperial decree.
The capital is a place full of hidden talents. Without the support of powerful people, it is simply wishful thinking to want to rise to the top.
After receiving the letter from Tan Qingzhou, she thought about it for a few days and went to find the clan leader to ask him to change her status from Tan Qingzhou's roommate to the widow of Tan Qingzhou's eldest brother Tan Qingshan.
Tan Qingshan is two years older than Tan Qingzhou. When he was five years old, he went to the town with his mother to watch the community performance. He was abducted by a beggar and his life or death is unknown.
Tan's father and mother spent a lot of effort to find Tan Qingshan, but in the end they didn't find him and they even became ill from exhaustion.
Passed away from this world early.
"...After Qingshan died, the three of us, mother and daughter, searched everywhere for him to return home, and finally found Tanjia Village..."
The patriarch was stunned.
But after listening to Tan Qingzhou's situation and her original intention - to give Tan Qingzhou a good future and give back to his fellow villagers, he readily agreed to her approach.
Not only did he change the family tree, but he also asked the entire village to speak with one voice and treat her as Tan Qingzhou's widowed sister-in-law from then on.
As for the marriage certificate registered with the government, money can make the world go round, so it is not difficult to change it.
After everything was ready, she wrote to Tan Qingzhou, informing him of her arrangements and asking him to find a noble lady from a wealthy family so as not to let her sacrifice go to waste.
Tan Qingzhou was the same kind of person as her, and only cared about fame and fortune. After expressing his gratitude for her actions, he set up a plan to marry the noble lady.
She wouldn't do anything for nothing.
Naturally, I did something else.
Only if Cui had no children could her son be "adopted" by Tan Qingzhou and inherit the fruits of Tan Qingzhou's hard work.
And she, with the help of her adopted son, successfully came to the capital to seek refuge with Tan Qingzhou.
Tan Qingzhou wanted to embezzle money but was hesitant to do so. It was only after she came up with the clever idea of running a restaurant that his stolen money had a proper place to go.
She and Tan Qingzhou are the most perfect couple in the world.
The Cui family was just a plank for them to cross the river.
Once Yi'er's marriage is settled, Cui can start beating him.
She had been planning for twenty years, and when the dawn was about to come, she was suddenly hit hard.
"We must find out who is responsible and eliminate the root of this evil."
She muttered to herself.
The scent of ink on the note threatening her and Tan Qingzhou was unusual, so she kept it for future searches.
The most urgent task is to survive this disaster.
However, she waited for a whole day but did not receive any bad news about the old lady of Duke Qing.
"The old woman is really lucky."
Before going to bed, she cursed loudly and prayed to receive good news the next day.
However.
Unexpectedly, she was awakened in the middle of the night by the sound of a jade pendant falling to the ground.
Two jade pendants that were supposed to be tied around the necks of her eldest and youngest sons were lying on the carpet in front of her bed.
There was a piece of paper under the jade pendant.
"If you don't want them to die, come to the East City Earth God Temple immediately. Remember, only one person is allowed to come. If you tell anyone about this... you know what will happen."
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