Chapter 526 Witness
After a while, once the mother and daughter's argument had subsided, Shen Wantang slowly walked toward the cell.
She raised her hand and clapped her hands: "Wonderful, truly wonderful! Keep arguing! Why did you stop?"
Upon seeing Shen Wantang, Qi's eyes immediately turned red: "You little beast, how dare you come here?! You better not let me out, or I'll kill you first!"
Shen Wantang smiled rather pleasedly: "Don't worry, now that you're in, you can't get out. After all, you've already killed someone, haven't you?"
"I didn't kill anyone!"
Qi shouted hoarsely, "You're the one who killed me! You're framing me!"
Shen Wantang shook her head: "You can only use this to fool your daughter. You can't fool anyone else. The government officials aren't pushovers. They must have had evidence that you poisoned someone, which is why they arrested you."
"What evidence do they have? They have absolutely no evidence! If I really killed someone, how could I possibly leave any evidence? Even if they have evidence, it's something you fabricated!"
"Yeah?"
Shen Wantang looked at her indifferently and raised her hand to give a light clap.
As the clapping subsided, a maid dressed in green approached: "This servant, Yunlian, greets the Crown Princess, the Madam, and the Eldest Miss."
"Yunlian? What are you doing here?"
Shen Mingxuan looked on with suspicion. This Yunlian was a maid her mother had just bought at the beginning of the year. Because she was quick-witted and hardworking, she quickly became a second-class maid by her mother's side.
This prison is not a place that ordinary people can enter, yet Yunlian actually got in?
Shen Mingxuan turned to look at her mother, only to see that the color drained from her mother's face the moment she saw Yunlian.
Qi looked as if she had seen a ghost: "You, how are you still alive? This is impossible!"
Yunlian raised her head, revealing the pockmarked scars on her face: "Madam, I'm lucky to have survived. Why are you so afraid, Madam? Do you think that now that I've survived, you can't hide the fact that you killed Liao's mother?"
"You're talking nonsense! I didn't kill that old hag!"
"Madam, please don't worry. I didn't use all the poison you gave me; I still have some left, which I've already handed over to the authorities. I've also told the officials about the other despicable things you instructed me to do."
"Nonsense! Utter nonsense! I didn't give you any instructions. You must have been sent by Shen Wantang to frame me!"
Yunlian looked at Shen Mingxuan: "Miss, I am not lying. It was Madam who instructed me to poison the young master's mother."
“I originally refused, but the madam poisoned me and said that she would only give me the antidote if I did as she instructed. In order to save my life, I had no choice but to do this bad thing.”
"However, after the son-in-law's mother died, the madam went back on her word and refused to give me the antidote. The poison caused my whole body to fester and I was in excruciating pain. Fortunately, the Crown Prince's wife saved me, and I barely survived."
“I didn’t dare to report you to the authorities, but the Crown Princess said that she didn’t want the young lady to suffer this injustice and bear the vicious reputation of poisoning her mother-in-law. She encouraged me to stand up and clear your name, so I came.”
Upon hearing this, Shen Mingxuan felt as if she had fallen into an ice cellar.
She turned her head stiffly to look at Madam Qi: "So, you really did kill him!"
"It wasn't me! Why do you believe everything others say, but not what I say?"
"You killed someone, and now you want me to go to jail for you?! Why? Why are you doing this to me? Didn't you always say you loved me the most? Didn't you say you'd do anything for me?"
As Shen Mingxuan spoke, she gripped Qi Shi's clothes tightly: "Why did you lie to me? Why did you hurt me?!"
Qi Shi angrily scolded her: "I am your mother, how could I harm you! I am doing this for your own good! If that old hag doesn't die, you will have to serve her for the rest of your life and be oppressed by her for the rest of your life!"
"It really is you?!"
Shen Mingxuan was so angry she almost vomited blood. She roared wildly, "Are you crazy? Why did you kill my mother-in-law?! Do you know how much effort I put in to make Liao Youhe like me? You killed his mother, now he hates me to death! All my efforts have been in vain! I worked so hard to plan, thinking I had finally found a good home for myself, and now you've ruined it all!"
"What kind of good match is Liao Youhe?! He's a complete waste!"
"He's not a good-for-nothing; he's destined for greatness! He's going to be a high-ranking official!"
"He has no great fortune whatsoever. It's you who's been acting crazy and stubborn all this time! I told you to marry the Prince of Ning's heir, but you wouldn't listen and insisted on marrying Liao Youhe, a poor scholar! Look at the kind of life Shen Wantang is living, and then look at the kind of life you're living! Don't you feel ashamed? Don't you think you've chosen the wrong person?!"
Shen Mingxuan shouted, "In my past life, I listened to you and chose Xiao Qingyuan, and as a result, I lived a life of widowhood! I even died tragically in prison. You have no idea how miserable my life was! In my past life, Shen Wantang married Liao Youhe, and her life was a thousand times better than mine! That's why I chose Liao Youhe in this life!"
Qi roared, "What you're talking about about past lives is completely untrue! Liao Youhe never passed the imperial examination, he can't solve cases, and he doesn't even care about his wife! It's all your fantasy, haven't you realized it yet? You're sick, very sick!"
Shen Wantang listened to the mother and daughter arguing again, smiled indifferently, and then turned and walked out.
Let them argue, the fiercer the better.
After leaving the cell, Shen Wantang had Du Juan give the jailer a reward. The jailer beamed and respectfully escorted her to the gate.
Before getting into the carriage, Shen Wantang looked at Yunlian and said, "You've avenged your great grudge, go and live your peaceful life!"
Yunlian knelt down before her with a thud, kowtowing firmly to Shen Wantang: "Thank you, Princess Consort, for avenging my sister! My sister and I were each other's only family. When Madam went to the slave trader to select people, I thought she was a good person, so I found a way to send my sister to the Shen family. I never expected that she would be beaten to death by Madam less than a year after she entered the Shen family!"
“As someone else’s maid, I had no way to avenge my sister. It was thanks to the Crown Princess that I was able to enter the Shen family as a maid for the lady of the house. Only then did I have the opportunity to gain her trust and avenge my sister.”
"I will never forget the great kindness and virtue of the Crown Princess! If you ever need Yunlian in the future, please don't hesitate to ask!"
Shen Wantang sighed softly, "You are a pitiful person too, go."
Yunlian wiped away her tears, kowtowed to Shen Wantang again, and then got up and left.
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