Chapter 445: Master and Servant Become Enemies
"Xiao, Xiaoying?!" Qiao Yihuan's face was full of disbelief. He turned his body and looked at her in surprise, not understanding why she would say that out of the blue.
We clearly agreed on this last night! Why are you suddenly saying this?
This will ruin yourself!
Xiaoying didn't look at Qiao Yihuan. She lowered her head and didn't look at anyone.
What the second young lady said that night was right. She and the eldest young lady grew up together. The eldest young lady treated her very well but she could never stand up for herself and had to compromise. When someone spoke up for her, she stood on the highest moral point and said that this was wrong and that suffering a loss was a blessing.
Over the years, the eldest lady has been so good to me, and I have become a knife in her hand.
This knife was used so much that even its scabbard was gone.
Now that she was being tortured, she only cared about what she should say.
As long as we don't encounter any difficulties or obstacles, she and I are not sisters but are better than sisters.
If you encounter this, you will be abandoned without mercy.
Once I said that, how could I possibly live?
The eldest lady wants to sacrifice herself to pave the way for herself.
She had been with the eldest lady since she was a child, so dying for her was nothing. But with this kind of calculation, she felt that she couldn't really die for the eldest lady.
Someone died for her, but she was innocent and didn't need to feel guilty because the other person was willing to do so.
She was tired of such days.
"Xiaoying! Xiaoying, what nonsense are you talking about? You have been with Qiao Wanyan for a long time. She asked you to say this and frame me like this, right?"
Qiao Yihuan always speaks softly when outside. Even if she encounters a great injustice, she will not make a big fuss, but will just shed tears silently, which makes people feel distressed and sympathetic.
But at this moment, she struggled hysterically and wanted to rush towards Xiaoying. Her beautiful and pure face showed a ferocious look, and her sharp voice echoed in the torture room for a long time, piercing the air, broken and crazy.
That was the devastation of being betrayed by the person you trusted the most.
Xiaoying was hurt by her reaction and looked at her.
"I, Xiaoying, swear to heaven that what I just said is absolutely true. If I break my oath, I will be struck by lightning and die miserably!"
Qiao Yihuan opened her mouth but couldn't utter a word. Her heart was pounding in her throat. "Did Qiao Wanyan threaten you with something? Is that right!!!"
Xiaoying's face turned pale. "The eldest lady is always like this. She likes to push all the problems onto the second lady even though there is no evidence. If you do this, what else can you say except slander and bullying?"
Xiaoying looked at Qiao Yihuan's reaction and said word by word, "The second lady is arrogant and domineering, she is not a good person, and the eldest lady is not absolutely kind. It's just that when you encounter difficulties, there are people who will help you to overcome difficulties, and you just need to be a weak and pitiful person. I have to help you count the money after being sold by you. I don't want to make the same mistake again."
"You're talking nonsense! You're talking nonsense!!!" Qiao Yihuan shouted angrily, "Why are you doing this to me? Why are you doing this? When have I ever hurt anyone?!"
Xiaoying had suffered a lot of torture, but her tone was much louder now than at the beginning.
"Never harmed anyone? On the day when we left Qingzhou and were assassinated on the cliff, wasn't it the eldest lady who pushed the second lady out to shield her from the attack?"
Qiao Jibai glanced at Qiao Yihuan's frozen expression, then looked at the clerk calmly, and the clerk immediately wrote these words on paper.
Qiao Yihuan's voice was trembling. "What evidence do you have?"
Xiaoying said, "I am a witness, but I don't have physical evidence. But with more witnesses, it can be considered equal, right? The young marquis saw it, so he can also be considered a witness. Otherwise, the young lady had such a good relationship with the young marquis in the past, and he saved her life! Why is the relationship so stiff now?!"
"The young lady had a big quarrel with the Second Prince in the enclosure. Wasn't it because the young lady pushed the Second Prince out and caused her to almost die?"
Qiao Yihuan's expression was ferocious. "Shut up, shut up! I treat you like a sister, but you slander me like this. Do you think you are worthy of me?"
Qiao Jibai waved his hand. What he had said had already been said. Why should he continue to stay here?
Qiao Yihuan was covered with her mouth and dragged away. She struggled wildly and almost madly, but her strength was too little to do anything.
This farce was extremely exciting.
"Do you know who gave you this medicine?"
Xiaoying said, "I don't know and I can't judge. But that night at the National Temple, Miss Chen came to see our young lady. She talked for a long time and said that the tea didn't taste good. Without waiting for my young lady to say anything, she asked her maid to bring tea leaves. My young lady didn't eat anything except tea that night, and those things happened after Miss Chen left."
Qiao Jibai asked: "Why weren't you with Qiao Yihuan when the incident happened?"
Xiaoying said truthfully: "After Miss Chen left, the young lady put on her nightgown. She only asked me to pretend to keep watch at the door. If anyone came, I should say that she had gone to bed, and then she left alone. The young lady did not allow me to follow her, so as a maid, I could only stand guard at the door. Later, there was a fire, and I went to look for the young lady, only then did I discover what happened in the main hall."
"Your young lady left for the National Temple in a hurry. Was there any purpose?"
Xiaoying: "My young lady couldn't stand staying in the palace because of Lu Gousheng. Aunt Xu beside the Queen asked my young lady to deal with Lu Gousheng's matter quickly, but my young lady didn't dare to go because she was afraid that she would be in trouble if she met him. So she wanted to go to the National Temple to ask Jingxin for help."
Qiao Jibai asked: "Are Qiao Yihuan and Jingxin such a good relationship?"
"My young lady was unwilling to live under the suppression of the second young lady, so she planned to change her reputation and deliberately went to the National Temple to do good deeds in order to get close to the abbot Jingxin. After a few visits, the two of them got to know each other. But every time they talked, I was on the side and never knew what they were talking about."
Qiao Jibai said: "As you said, your young lady and Jingxin did have private dealings. It is possible that she did have selfish motives when she advised the emperor?"
Xiaoying neither answered nor denied, and the ambiguity left room for endless imagination.
But what he said was not a lie.
"Do you have anything else to add?"
Xiaoying lowered her eyes, "My daughter is not a truly good person, but if she was born in an ordinary family, she would definitely be very happy and would not become like this."
Qiao Jibai stood up and said, "Qiao Yihuan is the eldest daughter of the Shangshu Mansion. She has no shortage of food and clothing. Her mistress has never treated her harshly, and her father has not married her off as a tool to consolidate his power. She has no worries about food and clothing, and can choose a reliable marriage partner. No matter how she gets married, the other party will not dare to embarrass her for the sake of the Qiao family."
"Your young lady is unhappy not because she was born in the Qiao family, but because she is unsatisfied."
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