Chapter 74 How is he still alive?
Inside the servant's house.
Tang'er ran in, trembling: "Sister Cui'er...it's done! Second Miss...drink it!"
Cui'er couldn't believe Tang'er had succeeded: "The person is dead?"
She had already prepared for Tang'er's failure, and was ready to collect Tang'er's body, cover up the evidence, and then notify Wen Lanting.
But now that Tang'er said that the second young lady had drunk it, she was still a little dazed.
Tang'er, panting heavily, said excitedly but also a little scared.
“Miss drank a huge gulp of that medicine. It’s so strong, she’s definitely not going to make it. It just so happens that Mama Fang has been sent out by the Second Miss. As long as we don’t make a fuss, she’ll probably be dead by the time she gets back.”
Cui'er frowned: "Then let's go and see. If the Second Miss has really died, we must not make a sound now. Let's go and inform Madam and let her make a decision."
Tang'er and Cui'er entered the main room and saw Shen Shu slumped on the chaise lounge, with a pool of blood still around her mouth.
Cui'er mustered her courage and went up to check Shen Shu's breathing, only to find that Shen Shu was no longer breathing.
So the two of them immediately went to report to Wen Lanting.
"You're saying... the person is really dead?!" Wen Lanting slammed his hand on the table.
Cui'er replied, "Absolutely true! We saw it with our own eyes."
Tang'er actually succeeded?!
Wen Lanting was both surprised and delighted, and ordered, "Then hurry up and prepare the coffin."
She paced back and forth several times, thinking to herself that it was truly a blessing from heaven that Shen Shu had fallen into the hands of this girl, Tang'er.
Wen Lanting glanced at her and said, "Tang'er, you did a good job with this."
Tang'er, feigning delight upon hearing Wen Lanting's praise, tentatively asked...
"I wonder if you can agree to what Madam promised me before, that if I killed the Second Miss, my uncle would recognize me as his goddaughter and allow me to be the young master's second wife?"
"Agree?"
Wen Lanting sneered.
"You lowly foot-washing maid, you still want to be Lian'er's concubine? You only deserve to be in jail! It's your good fortune to be able to work for me, yet you actually dare to dream of rising to the top in one step. Fine, go work underground then!"
Tang'er's smile vanished abruptly, but her heart pounded wildly.
The lady herself admitted it!
"Cui'er, what are you standing there for? Hurry up and do it! Tang'er killed the Second Miss and was so scared that she committed suicide out of fear of punishment. Do I have to remind you of such a small matter?" Wen Lanting coldly ordered.
When Cui'er heard Wen Lanting speak, she was afraid but had no choice but to obey.
He immediately pulled out the white silk he had prepared earlier, intending to strangle Tang'er.
Upon seeing this, Tang'er's eyes widened in horror, and she cried out at the top of her lungs, "Madam! You can't abandon me after you've served your purpose!"
Seeing that Cui'er was being so slow and was letting Tang'er talk, Wen Lanting snatched the white silk from Cui'er's hand and planned to strangle Tang'er himself.
Tang'er was cornered by Wen Lanting, but her eyes couldn't help but look towards the door.
Why hasn't the second young lady arrived yet?
As Tang'er was thinking, she heard hurried footsteps outside the door.
Immediately afterwards, the door was kicked open with a bang, and Li Xiu, the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice, barged in with his men.
Li Xiu looked around, scanning everyone's expressions, and finally fixed his gaze on the white silk in Wen Lanting's hand.
"Madam, are you trying to kill someone?"
Wen Lanting was startled by this sudden situation, wondering why Li Xiu, this ruthless man, would come to the Earl's mansion.
She hurriedly withdrew her hand, forcing herself to remain calm, and said, "Lord Li, you've come at the right time! This vile woman poisoned my second daughter. Please take her away quickly!"
Kill Shen Shu?
Upon hearing this, Li Xiu unconsciously raised an eyebrow and stepped aside to make room.
Shen Shu slowly walked out from behind Li Xiu.
Her face was rosy, showing no signs of being poisoned and dying.
Wen Lanting stared wide-eyed at Shen Shu in disbelief.
"You... how are you still alive?" Wen Lanting's voice trembled, and the fear and panic on her face could no longer be concealed.
Shen Shu sneered: "Mother, are you surprised that I'm alive? Mother used benefits to bribe Tang'er, forcing her to poison me, and then pushed Tang'er out as a scapegoat after it was done. What a clever scheme, Mother. You really played it smart."
"If Tang'er hadn't thought what you were doing was too heinous and told me about it in advance, I'm afraid I would have been poisoned to death."
Shen Shu stepped forward: "Mother, I have already presented the poison that you asked Tang'er to use to poison me to Lord Li. Moreover, Lord Li heard the whole conversation between you two in the room just now. Mother, you admitted to yourself that Tang'er did it for you."
Wen Lanting looked at the porcelain bottle on the clerk's tray, his face ashen.
Li Xiu stepped forward, his face stern: "Madam Wen, now that the evidence is conclusive, you ordered your servants to poison your own daughter and attempted to strangle your maid to frame her. What is your punishment?"
Wen Lanting's legs went weak, and he collapsed to the ground.
She wanted to defend herself, but when she opened her mouth, she found that she had no way to defend herself. Every word of her conversation with Cui'er and Tang'er had become irrefutable evidence pointing to her crimes.
"Take him to the Ministry of Justice and await his fate."
At Li Xiu's command, yamen runners immediately stepped forward and lifted Wen Lanting, who had collapsed to the ground, up.
Wen Lanting's face was ashen, his eyes were empty and lifeless, as if all his vitality had been drained away.
She never expected that Tang'er would turn against Shen Shu and set up such a trap for her to fall into.
Outside the gate of the Bo Gong Mansion.
Li Xiu looked at the woman beside him, a cold glint in his eyes.
“Miss Shen, in the past few months, your family seems to have suddenly gone mad. First, your brother tried to kill you in the street but broke his leg. Then, he offended the Marquis and became completely crippled. Your sister attempted to assassinate Prince Cheng but pointed the finger at you as the murderer. Now, even your mother wants to kill you, and I caught her red-handed. She will also be imprisoned.”
"It's really strange, how come everything is related to you?"
Shen Shu paused, then said without changing her expression, "Perhaps it's just as you said, that they've all gone mad. Not to mention your doubts, I'm also completely baffled. Why don't you go back and interrogate my mother properly, and ask her why she did this, why she had to hurt me like this?"
Li Xiu sneered, staring intently at Shen Shu: "Miss Shen, in all my years of handling cases, I have never seen such a coincidence."
"Today, your servants came to report that you remembered the details of the Cheng Prince's Mansion case, which compelled me to come. When I arrived at the Shen Mansion, they said that the servants had relayed the wrong message and that they were actually reporting that your mother was trying to poison you. Just as I arrived outside your mother's room, I overheard your mother confessing to her crime.
"Miss Shen, you are truly cunning and calculating. This maid must have planned this with you beforehand, deliberately putting on an act for my benefit."
Shen Shu's expression shifted slightly, but she merely raised her eyes to look at Li Xiu, her eyes carrying just the right amount of grievance and innocence.
"Your Excellency is mistaken. It is true that my mother had someone harm me. Isn't Lord Li always known for his impartiality and only discussing evidence, not methods? Since my mother harmed someone and the evidence is conclusive, why should Your Excellency care how I let you know the truth?"
Li Xiu narrowed his eyes slightly: "Fine, then consider it your mother's own fault."
but.
Li Xiu paused for a moment: "Are you aware of the disappearance of Prince Cheng?"
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