Chapter 314 I want her to die!
But Yun Qingqing flashed to the side of the beam, raised her hand and placed a soft cushion to block the position where the orb was aimed.
Baozhu rushed over with her eyes closed and bumped into the cushion. At the same time, Yun Qingqing slammed the beam heavily, making a "bang" sound.
Minister Cao and Shen Shiqin breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Yun Qingqing with admiration and gratitude. If someone really died, it would be a bad ending.
However, I thought I was fine after stopping Baozhu from hitting the pillar, but she fell straight to the ground after the collision, and she was unconscious with her eyes closed!
"this……"
The two of them felt relieved again and looked at Yun Qingqing helplessly.
But she curled her lips coldly, glanced at the two of them and shook her head at the same time. The two of them seemed to understand, and they shut up, waiting for Yun Qingqing to speak.
Yun Qingqing glanced coldly at the pearl lying on the ground and said in a calm voice:
"In order to avoid being detected, she did not use ordinary drugs, but brown snake grass root powder. If there is an accident, even if you invite a doctor to diagnose it, it will be difficult to find out. They will only think that the lady is tired because of qi and blood deficiency."
"After the lady fell unconscious and the maid committed the crime, she thought that if she cleaned the container that had held the sweet soup in time, no one would discover what she had done. However, she didn't know that once the brown snake grass root powder got on your hands, it would take at least twelve hours to completely clean them."
"During this period, if the skin that has been touched by the powder is touched by alum water again, it will turn green."
When she said this, Minister Cao and his wife subconsciously stared at Baozhu's hands. They saw that although she had her eyes closed and looked unconscious, her hands quietly retracted into her sleeves!
Shen Shiqin's eyes flashed, and he said loudly:
"In that case, come here, prepare alum water. We will know if Baozhu is innocent by testing it!"
Baozhu's tightly closed eyelids trembled violently.
Yun Qingqing sneered:
"The girl was just pretending to bump her head against the pillar to gain your trust. Her movements looked intimidating, but her actual strength was very light. That's why she didn't notice that I was the cushion that stopped her. She still pretended to faint and waited for you to wake her up. She then acted as if you trusted her and let bygones be bygones."
"However, this development is probably beyond her plan, right?"
Shen Shiqin also chuckled:
"Get up, stop pretending, we can all see clearly that you didn't even hit the pillar just now!"
Baozhu’s eyelids couldn’t stop trembling, but she still insisted on not “waking up”.
Shen Shiqin ran out of patience and said sternly:
"Someone, come and get the family rules! If she doesn't wake up, beat her to wake her up!"
Baozhu opened her eyes with a start, threw herself at Shen Shiqin's feet and cried:
"Madam! I was just fooled by her. I lost my mind for a while out of fear. I really didn't pretend to faint on purpose!"
At this moment, a servant brought over alum water. Shen Shiqin grabbed Baozhu's hand and pressed it into the basin.
In just a few breaths, her fingertips turned green and Baozhu's face turned pale.
Shen Shiqin slapped her to the ground and said sternly:
"What a dedicated girl, but she is so vicious in secret, trying to step on my dead body to get to the top!"
Minister Cao was so angry that he was shaking. He pointed at Baozhu's nose and said:
"You, you are such a slut! My Cao family has provided you with good food and drink and never treated you harshly. My wife even treats you like her own sister. Recently, she even said that you are old enough and she will find you a good family to marry off! I never thought you could do such a murder to her!"
Baozhu sat on the ground, unable to refute, and suddenly burst into tears and laughter, screaming:
"Hahahaha...if you want to blame someone, blame it on me, your beauty and talent, and you treat us servants so kindly. After staying with you for a long time, who would still be interested in those ugly people outside!"
"Stop flattering her! She said she wanted to marry me off to a good family. I think she is just afraid that I will snatch you away from her, Master, and thinks I am an eyesore!"
"It's all your fault in the end! You are the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice, a third-rank official in the court, and yet you have to live with a wife! What's wrong with marrying a concubine? How is this jealous tigress better than me?"
"It was fine a few years ago, but now you are already thirty-one and still childless, yet you would rather think about finding someone to have a child than even look at me! How can I accept this! She is just a hen that doesn't lay eggs! How can she be worthy of you!"
"I just want her to die! As long as this woman is dead, I don't believe you will still not see my goodness...hahahahahahaha..."
Shen Shiqin listened to her crazy shouting, her face gradually turned pale, and she tightened her fingers.
"How dare that slut talk nonsense! Block her mouth and drag her out to be beaten to death!" Minister Cao shouted with a sullen face.
"Ah! Master, please spare me, wuwuwu..."
When Baozhu heard that she was sentenced to death by beating, she finally woke up. She was so scared that she trembled all over and begged for mercy at the top of her lungs, but her mouth was immediately gagged and she was dragged out like a dead dog.
Minister Cao held Shen Shiqin's hand tightly and said worriedly:
"Madam, don't listen to her nonsense. I married you because I love you and want to spend the rest of my life with you. If you like children, we can adopt one from the side branch. If you don't want, that's fine. I'm not the only male in the Cao family. I will never let others blame you for this."
Shen Shiqin looked at him steadily, and tears suddenly flowed down.
"Aqin, don't cry, I...this..." Minister Cao did not expect that his wife, who had always been decisive and capable, would cry in front of him. He was suddenly at a loss.
Shen Shiqin pushed him away and knelt down towards Yun Qingqing:
"Master Qingyun, it is rumored that you can do anything. Please help me!"
Yun Qingqing reached out to help her up and said with a smile:
"It's a bit exaggerated to say that you can do anything, but if you and your wife just want to have a child, it's not a big deal."
She had long seen that Minister Cao had come to Tianming Pavilion for exactly this matter, so she just went with the flow and did it.
"Really!" The couple looked delighted, "Please give me some advice, Master!"
Yun Qingqing said in a gentle voice:
"You two don't have to worry. I've just calculated for you. You were destined to have a son and a daughter, but they just came late. It should be soon."
"As long as you remember to do more good deeds and accumulate more blessings for future generations, Lord Cao, as an official in the court, must not forget your original intention and be fair and strict. Then you two will be happy and have children and grandchildren around you and grow old together."
"Mrs. Cao, you can put this amulet in your sachet and keep it with you. When the baby comes, it will keep both mother and child safe."
"Thank you, Master Qingyun!"
The two were overjoyed, and Shen Shiqin carefully took the amulet and kept it as a treasure.
Not to mention the matter of praying for a child, just the fact that his beloved wife was rescued from the gates of hell made Minister Cao want to give half of his family property to Yun Qingqing as a reward.
However, Yun Qingqing glanced at his courtyard which only had two entrances and two exits, and said with a faint smile:
"I am not short of money. The pen that Lord Cao uses to review case files and official documents every day is more valuable to me. Would you be willing to give it to me as a reward?"
Minister Cao was stunned:
"But I've been using that pen for more than ten years. The hair has been worn out and I've changed it several times..."
"Of course the longer you use it, the better." Yun Qingqing said meaningfully.
Minister Cao suddenly understood that the master was an extraordinary person and that everything he did had its reasons.
He immediately went to get a pen and presented it to him with both hands.
Yun Qingqing accepted the thank-you gift and returned to Tianming Pavilion, where Tongtong was still waiting for her.
She had just taken Tongtong back to her office when Zhiluo also came back.
Yun Qingqing's expression turned serious:
"Have you figured it out?"
What she asked Zhiluo to investigate was exactly what Lu Yu said, about the incident in which the "River God demanded sacrifices" while on the river heading south.
If the so-called "Jiang God" is really a murderer, she cannot just sit back and do nothing!
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