Chapter 485 What Sin Did You Do
Prime Minister Liu did not leave the house, but stayed in the study. On the table in front of him, sandalwood was burning in a carved incense burner, with wisps of smoke rising.
He leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes, placed his large palms on the armchair, rubbing gently back and forth, with a faint chill lingering around him.
Suddenly, the butler's voice was heard at the door.
"Prime Minister, the fifth young lady has died of poisoning."
Mr. Guan's voice was trembling and full of grief, but it was unknown whether he really felt sorry for Liu Anyao's death in his heart.
Upon hearing this, Liu Xiang suddenly opened his eyes, and a sharp light flashed in his dark eyes.
After a while, his deep voice came from the study: "Got it, notify the Xiao family to prepare for the funeral and bury the fifth lady as soon as possible."
The manager felt an inexplicable chill in his heart and lowered his head in agreement.
The Prime Minister... is too calm.
It was as if Death was not his daughter, but just an insignificant person.
Although he was thinking about it, the butler did not dare to delay and hurried to the Xiao Mansion to help arrange the affairs of the Fifth Miss...
Liu Anyao was so humiliated that she committed suicide by taking poison. The news spread throughout the capital in just half a day.
In Aunt Qiu's room, Liu Anyu suppressed his excitement and dismissed the servants in the room.
"Auntie, is it true that Liu Anyao couldn't stand the stimulation and committed suicide by taking poison? Why do I feel that she is not a person who can be self-aware?"
Regardless of whether she committed suicide or not, Liu Anyao is dead, and she is her father's most beloved daughter. From now on, she is the most noble lady in the prime minister's mansion, even if she is born out of wedlock.
Aunt Qiu glanced at her daughter, pulled her to sit beside her, and said, "Since that's what you said to the public, just take it as it is and don't worry about it."
When Liu Anyu heard this, she immediately understood that there was something going on. Her curiosity was aroused. She took Aunt Qiu's arm and said coquettishly, "Aunt, do you know something? Just tell me. I promise to keep the secret and never tell anyone even if I die."
I have known Liu Anyao and her sister for many years. I know them like the back of my hand, but I also know about each other's personalities. When she returned home last night, she was making a big fuss in the main courtyard and asked her father to avenge her. But she gave up after just one night?
Even if Liu Anyao wanted to die, she would definitely die after taking revenge.
What is even more puzzling is why she didn't take the poison directly in the middle of the night, but died in the morning after her mother went to look for her.
Liu Anyu doesn’t care whether others believe it or not, she doesn’t believe it anyway.
Aunt Qiu was helpless with her daughter pestering her, so she glared at her and said, "I only guessed a little from the servants' sporadic words. Last night in the main courtyard, the Prime Minister and his wife dismissed the servants. No one knows what they said in private. But this morning, his wife prepared breakfast for the fifth lady to eat together. Halfway through the meal, the fifth lady was poisoned and died. In retrospect, this order was given by the Prime Minister without any surprise."
As Prime Minister Liu's favorite concubine, there are many people in the mansion who are willing to work for Aunt Qiu, so even if Madam Liu manages her own courtyard to be watertight, Aunt Qiu can still place her own spies.
Upon hearing this, Liu Anyu widened his eyes in shock.
Even though she guessed that Liu Anyao would not commit suicide, she never imagined that it was Madam Liu who personally brought the drugged porridge to poison her own daughter.
"Mother, can she... can she really do this?"
Aunt Qiu pursed her lips, her beautiful face still as charming as she was in her twenties. She smiled nonchalantly and said, "The Fifth Miss did such a shameless thing in front of the Emperor, the Empress, the Queen Mother, and all the civil and military officials at the palace banquet. The Prime Minister Lei Ting was furious. If you keep her, the reputation of the Liu Mansion will be greatly damaged. Not only that, with such a dissolute daughter in front of you, your reputation will also be implicated. Which noble family will dare to marry her in the future? Therefore, Liu Anyao must die. Only when she dies can this matter slowly settle down, otherwise it will always be mentioned as a laughing stock."
It's no use even if Madam can't bring herself to do it.
Liu Anyao is not simply being abandoned because she has lost her usefulness, but the Liu family is being put on the fire. If things go wrong, the power and status that the Prime Minister has strived for all these years will be gone. The Prime Minister has tolerated it once, and he will never let his wife protect his daughter again.
If anyone is to blame, it's her fault for not teaching Liu Anyao well.
If it were her daughter, she would never do such a dissolute and shameless thing in public.
Liu Anyu's original sighing mood was immediately forgotten when he heard that his reputation would be affected by Liu Anyao and he would not be able to get a rich marriage.
Liu Anyao's death would only benefit her and not cause any harm.
Xiao family.
Xiao Muheng was recuperating in the mansion. When he heard the news that Liu Anyao had died of poisoning, he was so shocked that he couldn't recover for a long time.
“Dead…dead?”
Because no one from the Xiao family went to the palace for the banquet, and Liu Anyao went straight back to the Liu Mansion after the accident. The maids and painters around her were beaten to death, and the rest were sold by Prime Minister Liu. No one came back to report what happened in the palace, so Xiao Muheng only learned about Liu Anyao's shameful deeds this morning.
The one who told him this was Mrs. Xiao. The servants got up early and went out to buy things. They heard these things on the street and came back to tell her.
Mrs. Xiao was still in Xiao Muheng's room at this time. She had just scolded Liu Anyao with a face full of anger. Suddenly, she heard that someone from the Liu family was coming, and she immediately changed her expression and greeted them politely.
A typical bully who only bullies the weak and fears the strong.
The news I heard was that Liu Anyao was so traumatized by the fact that her innocence was destroyed that she committed suicide by taking poison.
"Mrs. Xiao, Mr. Xiao, please go to the hospital as soon as possible and prepare for the fifth lady's funeral." said the butler.
When Madam Xiao heard this, her face suddenly darkened: "That... Liu Anyao died in the Liu family, so the funeral should be held in the Liu family, right?"
The butler glanced at Madam Xiao calmly and said, "Miss Fifth has married into the Xiao family, so the funeral will naturally be held at the Xiao residence."
Don't think he doesn't know what this old woman is thinking.
When she is useful, she is the daughter of the prime minister's mansion. Now it is embarrassing that he wishes he didn't have this daughter-in-law.
Why didn’t you be more courageous when you married someone?
Xiao Muheng looked at the steward's arrogant expression, his face froze slightly, and then he lightly rebuked Madam Xiao: "Mother, stop talking, arrange for the mansion to be hung up."
But in my heart I was gnashing my teeth with hatred.
If I had known that Liu Anyao was such a brainless idiot, I should not have taken a fancy to the prime minister's mansion behind her and risked being ridiculed to marry her. I thought I had found a backer, but I didn't expect that I had dug a hole for myself.
Now she has to be buried in the Xiao family cemetery with the title of Mrs. Xiao. From now on, when people mention Liu Anyao's shamelessness, they will think of him. Without fame and official position, all Liu Anyao left for him were countless ridicules and mockery.
puff!
Xiao Muheng was so angry that he spat out blood and his face turned pale instantly.
What sin did he commit in his previous life?
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