Chen Jiao's body had been delayed for some time due to the autopsy. If it was to be buried in Shazhou County, the journey would be too long. After discussing with Chen Jia, the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of War, Meng Chen decided to cremate her in Kyoto. Meng Chen left Kyoto holding his wife's ashes.
After learning about this, Sun Yannan rushed to the Shili Pavilion in Kyoto to see him off. He wasn't seeing Meng Chen off, as neither of them knew each other. He was seeing Chen Jiao off, as they were old acquaintances and had both been "down on their luck" and bullied in the past.
Meng Chen carried Chen Jiao's ashes as he walked towards the Ten-Li Pavilion. Built high on the mountainside, it offered a panoramic view of the road out of Beijing and back towards the capital. However, because it was so high and open on all sides, even in summer, the mountain breeze that penetrated the bones kept the pavilion cool.
There are various teahouses, taverns, and small shops selling Kyoto specialties below the Shili Pavilion. Most people who say goodbye to others leaving the capital say goodbye in these teahouses and taverns.
Sun Yannan followed Meng Chen all the way up to the Ten-Li Pavilion. Meng Chen sat down in the pavilion, facing the urn towards Kyoto, and murmured, "Let's take another look at our homeland."
Then he said to Sun Yannan, "You are quite special. You have already gone there. Even if you are not afraid of the Fifth Prince and General Ren's Mansion, this favor will still fall on the family of the Minister of War. Others go to the mansion to visit my father-in-law and mother-in-law, but you come to Shili Pavilion to get some fresh air."
Sun Yannan said, "It's more convenient to ask some questions here. Is it because you can't bear it that you ruined Chen Jiao's original plan?"
Meng Chen looked at Sun Yannan and asked with some surprise and caution, "What do you mean?"
Sun Yannan said: "After I returned to Kyoto, I went to Chen's house. After I learned Chen Jiao's address, I wrote her a letter, just telling her that I was back in Kyoto. If she came back to Kyoto, we could get together, or come and play with me like we did when we were little.
Chen Jiao wrote me a letter in which she said she was dying, but Sheng Caier, who wanted to poison her, would also die, so she felt happy.
It's clear that she knew Sheng Cai'er was trying to poison her, but now Sheng Cai'er has escaped murder. I'm just curious, why? "
Meng Chen was silent for a while before he slowly said, "Chen Jiao's sense of taste has deteriorated due to her illness. Something was added to the yogurt cake, so the taste is a little different. Her personal maid noticed it.
Chen Jiao was delighted, saying that she could still avenge her death. But I secretly asked several doctors, and they told me that if she took two poisons, she would have lived for six months, but would have died in a month. I couldn't bear to let her go. I was looking for the strange doctor in Guigu Valley, and a few more months meant a little more hope. So I replaced the cheese cake; she ate nothing poisonous.
We also sell cheese cakes in Shazhou County. Chen Jiao used to say that they looked the same but tasted different, so she didn’t like them very much. But after she became ill, she couldn’t eat them anymore.
Because we need to be prepared to replace them at any time, we always have cheese cakes in our house. The ones that are really poisonous are destroyed by the maids who know about it. Even those that are thrown away are not poisonous.
Sun Yannan sighed and thought: Is it really Sheng Caier's destiny? Recalling again, he said: "Chen Jiao wrote in the letter that Sheng Caier was Ren Jiayu's most capable lackey. She did countless bad things. She slapped countless women and insulted them in the street. Even her was included if she just said she didn't like her.
Later, not only did he and Tian Yuanji almost cause her to lose half her life when her engagement was broken off, he also spread rumors in Kyoto that Tian Yuanji broke off her engagement because of an affair with her family's groom.
The rumors were so rampant that even the elders of the Chen family came to her house and told her father to either send her to become a nun or marry her to a groom, saying that she was not frugal enough and that was why the rumors were spreading. This almost drove her to despair.
I dare not say that you are wrong. After all, I might not be willing to do that either..."
After hearing this, Meng Chen said, "I don't know about these things. I only know that she really wanted Sheng Cai'er to die. This person poisoned Chen Jiao with a vicious mind. He deserves death. I originally thought that even if she took less poison and left the last poisonous packet as evidence... Sheng Cai'er would still die.
Who would have thought these coroners were so skilled that they could actually find out it wasn’t just a poison…”
Sun Yannan said, "Every wrong has its perpetrator, and I want to bring down Ren Jiayu once and for all."
Meng Chen looked at her and said, "If you need me, just let me know, Madam. Sheng Cai'er bullied my wife so much, and when she's released from prison in a year, I'll teach her a lesson."
Sun Yannan smiled bitterly and said, "I'm afraid she'll be out in a few days. A prison guard has to do hard labor every day and return to the cell at night, but I've always been able to pay her with money. If she can come up with a large sum of money, she'll be able to get out unharmed."
Meng Chen said angrily: "If that's the case, even an ordinary man can get angry."
Sun Yannan said: "If you want to fight a man out of anger, Chen Jiao will not think twice. She just wants you and the child to be fine."
In the teahouse under the Shili Pavilion, Chen Jiao's two children were eating snacks obediently and waiting for their father under the care of servants.
Meng Chen's eyes welled up. ...
After the two of them parted at Shili Pavilion, someone really paid double the amount of silver, and Sheng Caier walked out in a swagger.
What’s interesting is that Tian Yuanji, who expressed his loyalty to Chen Jiao in the letter, was willing to give up everything to be with Chen Jiao. He took his children to find Sheng Caier and cried bitterly to her, saying that he had been deceived by Chen Jiao.
Now he was a commoner, and he had been beaten and ridiculed by others. It was all because of that scheming woman.
He and Sheng Caier have been married for ten years and have a child. Now Sheng Caier is also involved in a case and is being ridiculed by others. It would be better for the two of them to stay together and live a good life. He found someone to spread the word that the woman was eager for revenge and deliberately set a trap to trick him into saying this.
Sheng Cai'er was furious and pounced on him, scratching him. "I will be laughed at by others because of your affectionate letter to that bitch. Now the whole capital is spreading your famous love letter. People say that although your character is not good, you still have talent and learning. You must be truly in love with that bitch, otherwise you couldn't have written it.
And now you're saying you were cheated. You think that bitch died for you when she confessed in court, but that's not what she said. You swore you married me because you were cheated. Now you feel you've been taken advantage of and you're saying you were cheated by that bitch. You want me to take the blame for you! And now you're talking about the deep love between husband and wife!"
Tian Yuanji said: "What I wrote to her then was my true words at that time, and what I am saying to you now is my true words at this moment. This time is different from that time. It is not that I want to deceive you, but I was deceived.
A day of marriage brings a hundred days of grace, not to mention we have a child."
Sheng Caier said angrily, "Your true feelings really change every moment!" She rolled her eyes and turned back to say, "If you also wrote dozens of affectionate articles for me to express your regret, overshadowing that bitch, then I might turn back.
You should also write about how you were seduced and deceived by that bitch. If I am satisfied and satisfied, you will have done your best for me. Then we can talk about the love between husband and wife for a day and a hundred days."
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