"Madam asked me to invite the young mistress. It would be best if the young mistress went!"
Chen Siyuan got angry at these words and kicked over a flowerpot next to her. The flowerpot fell to the ground with a thud, and the flower that was just blooming fell to the ground. She then stepped on it.
"I have too many things to do here. I won't get involved in the affairs of other courtyards. Madam can decide how to proceed."
The old woman who had been standing just moments before, seeing how difficult it was to invite this person, and glancing at the trampled flowers on the ground, suppressed her inner mockery and arrogance, and said, "Please, young mistress, don't make things difficult for me."
Chen Siyuan's eyes flashed; it seemed there was no way to avoid it.
"Is this Madam's intention?"
"And Aunt Guo's intentions too," the old woman said, bowing her head as she revealed part of the truth.
Aunt Guo.
That is, Qiao Yang's mother.
Chen Siyuan's eyes turned frosty.
Chunping knew roughly what was happening in the manor. The person was dead, yet she hadn't received any news. Clearly, someone was deliberately covering it up. Now that they were coming to ask her for help, it was definitely not a good thing. If she didn't step forward, who knew how things would end up?
A hint of helplessness flashed in Chen Siyuan's eyes; whether she went or not, it seemed there was no good outcome.
Reluctantly, he still took two maids with him to take a look.
The two old women breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that Chen Siyuan was finally willing to leave.
Chen Siyuan originally thought she was going to Madam Qiao's West Garden, but when she arrived at the living room, General Qiao was also there.
Qiao Yang and Qiao Zhen stood next to Madam Qiao, with Aunt Guo and Aunt Xu behind them.
Seeing this scene from the outside, Chen Siyuan felt uneasy; it seemed like a trap, waiting for her to fall into it.
Thinking to herself, Chen Siyuan did not stop. She walked in and before she could even bow, she saw a person lying on the ground next to her, covered with a white sheet.
Chen Siyuan only glanced at it and confirmed that it was a dead person, but whether it was Aunt Wang under the white cloth could only be known by lifting it.
Thinking about it, he glanced at the two maids kneeling beside him.
One was sobbing uncontrollably, as if the deceased was her own mother. The other, the maid named Yu'er, was still dressed elegantly, but her face showed signs of having cried for a long time, and her expression was somewhat different from what she had seen yesterday.
“Speak, the general and his wife are here, tell me what you saw,” said Aunt Guo, who was standing next to Madam Qiao.
very good.
Before the master could even speak, a concubine began issuing orders.
Chen Siyuan looked at Aunt Guo with amusement, then bowed to Madam Qiao and General Qiao.
"The daughter-in-law has met her father and mother."
Chen Siyuan's words were very timely, directly interrupting the maid Yu'er who was about to speak.
Yu'er was feeling a little pleased after being rebuffed, when she heard Chen Siyuan speak again.
"Your name is Yu'er?"
"This servant, Yu'er, greets the young mistress." Yu'er bowed to Chen Siyuan.
Aunt Guo was so embarrassed that her face turned extremely ugly.
Qiao Yang was about to lose his temper, but Aunt Guo reminded him, so he could only try his best to hold back.
Qiao Zhen and Aunt Xu arrived earlier and already knew the general situation. Seeing Chen Siyuan's composure, they admired him.
To be able to take the initiative in such an unfavorable situation is truly worthy of being called the young mistress; her courage is in no way inferior to Qiao Yuchen's.
"As a maid, you don't know how to serve your mistress properly. Who are you trying to impress by crying and wailing here?"
Yu'er was stunned for a moment, then immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed towards the spot covered with a white sheet, "Master, it's all because I didn't serve you well enough that the villain took your life. I deserve to die, I..."
"Is this Aunt Wang?" Chen Siyuan said, seemingly shocked. She quickly stepped forward, lifted the white cloth, and saw Aunt Wang's ashen face. She knew that she was really dead.
Enraged, he turned around and slapped Yu'er, who was standing next to him.
"Young Madam, you have quite the airs!" Aunt Guo, oblivious to the danger, spoke up again.
Chen Siyuan still treated these words as nonsense and looked at Yu'er to question, "Is this your master?"
Yu'er was somewhat dazed from the beating. When she met Chen Siyuan's fierce gaze, the lines she had prepared were disrupted.
He could only nod obediently, "Yes."
"Your master is dead, and you're still dressed in bright colors? What do you mean by that? Are you so happy that your master is dead?"
General Qiao and his wife remained silent, simply watching. Aunt Guo wanted to speak again, but she was still angry about the earlier incident that had caused her to lose face, and couldn't say anything.
"That's not what I meant, I meant..."
"Lies!" Chen Siyuan slapped him again. "Don't you know your master is dead, or are you blind to the fact that you're wearing brightly colored clothes and mocking your master like this?"
"This servant wouldn't dare, this servant wouldn't dare."
Yu'er's prepared explanation was completely disrupted; she had no idea how to begin to prove her innocence.
"Are you feeling guilty?"
"I didn't," Yu'er immediately began to deny, unaware that she was being tricked.
"Alright, go and invite the magistrate to investigate the cause of Consort Wang's death and find the mastermind behind it all." Chen Siyuan immediately began issuing orders.
General Qiao and his wife remained silent, seemingly agreeing with what they said.
Aunt Guo could no longer stand there. She immediately jumped out and knelt directly in front of General Qiao. "General, Madam, Aunt Wang died unjustly. We must find the real culprit for Aunt Wang."
Yu'er seemed to be reminded by these words, or perhaps frightened by the news of the report to the authorities. She crawled to her knees and came forward. "Master, yesterday Concubine Wang went to see the young mistress. I don't know what the young mistress and Concubine Wang talked about, but after Concubine Wang came back, she was in a bad mood, refused to eat or drink, and then in the evening..."
"Heh—" Chen Siyuan sneered, "You dog of a servant, your master was acting strangely last night, and you only show up now?"
"No, no, this servant thought that Consort Wang was in a bad mood and would be fine after a good night's sleep. Who would have thought that when we went to serve Consort Wang this morning, she...she had already...passed away." Yu'er said, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing.
"Slap her." This time, Chen Siyuan didn't do it herself. After she said this, Chunping immediately stepped forward and slapped Yu'er twice.
These two slaps were not delivered with Chen Siyuan's full force. The moment they landed, Yu'er's face swelled up, quickly turning into a pig's head.
Those watching from the sidelines were quite alarmed.
That day, they witnessed the two maids beside Chen Siyuan attack Qiao Yang with their own eyes; the force they used was extraordinary.
Upon seeing this scene, some people were originally waiting to see someone else suffer, but unexpectedly, the scene before them made their hearts tremble.
No way.
Chen Siyuan was too fierce; before Madam Qiao and General Qiao could say anything, she immediately attacked.
They arrived a little earlier and had already heard a rough outline from Yu'er, but now, Chen Siyuan had beaten them so badly that they didn't even have a chance to identify them.
Chen Siyuan was very satisfied with the results of Chunping's creation.
At this moment, she didn't know why Madam Qiao and General Qiao hadn't spoken, but she wouldn't put herself at a disadvantage.
He glanced at the trembling maid kneeling beside him and asked in a cold voice, "Speak."
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