Chapter 119 Antecedents
"Miss, I..."
The master's tears fell on her, burning her heart so much that it made her shiver.
She could grit her teeth and refuse to admit it in front of the eldest lady, but she didn't have the face to say those excuses in front of her own lady who had been the best to her in her life.
"Speak up, Sister Luguo, quickly refute me and tell me you didn't do it. You didn't betray me and you didn't poison my mother, right?"
Jiang Han was deceiving herself. She was sad that her personal maid, whom she regarded as a confidant, had betrayed her master, and she blamed herself even more for almost killing her own mother.
"Second brother, that's enough."
Jiang Wan walked over and hugged his sister in his arms.
"Sister, I almost killed Mom! Woohoo, I'm so stupid! I almost killed Mom!"
She will never be able to forgive herself in her life.
"Shh, stop crying. You're just a little kid, what does this have to do with you? Go sit over there, I'm here."
Throwing his sister back into the chair and leaving her crying, Jiang Wan turned around and bared his fangs at his enemy. Without a word, he pulled the whip from his waist and beat Lu Guo with it until she was instantly covered in blood.
"Tell me, who sent you?"
After releasing some of the anger in her heart, she retracted the whip and grabbed Lu Guo's neck with her left hand.
"You probably know my personality a little bit. I'm not a kindhearted person. If you tell me the truth, I'll kill you. Otherwise, don't blame me for being ruthless!"
"...This servant... This servant is guilty and only asks for a quick death."
With his dying breath, he took a look at his delicate and tearful young lady, and tears of guilt welled up in Luguo's eyes.
"My lady, I am guilty..."
"You are indeed guilty, and I cannot spare your life. But there is a difference between the way you die and the way you die. Do you want a quick death, or do you want to enjoy the pain of living?
"Lu Guo, if you still have a little bit of gratitude for the master-servant relationship between you and my sister, you should say a few kind words at the end. Otherwise, if you can't even get a little bit of sincerity from this world, wouldn't it be a waste of your life?"
Lu Guo was crying uncontrollably. She knew what the eldest lady wanted to ask, and she also knew that she had indeed let the Jiang family down, but, but...
"Miss, Lu Guo is sorry for you..."
Are you going to fight to the end?
Jiang Wan's brows furrowed deeply.
For such a long time, Lu Guo's dedicated service to Lao Er didn't seem to be fake. And she was not a fool with a muddled mind. To do something like this now, there must be someone behind the scenes directing her.
If we don't catch the mastermind behind her, how are we going to live in the future when the enemy is in the dark and we are in the open?
"Since you won't confess, don't blame me for being ruthless. Come, take her..."
"Miss, I found something!"
Ma Fei was outside reporting at the top of his voice, saying that the eldest lady was determined to punish them today, so it would be a good idea to make amends for the crime as soon as possible.
"Come in and talk!"
"Master, this was found in Chunyun Garden. It was from..."
He glanced at the ripped green fruit on the ground and dropped his head. He felt a little sorry for Wang Bao, but given the situation, that kid probably wouldn't even want the green fruit anymore. Alas!
"These are letters from home that were found in the room of Miss Lu Guo, the Second Young Lady's personal maid, along with some pills and powder."
"Show it to me."
Jiang Wan looked at the decadent and resigned look on Lu Guo's face as he lay on the ground, then turned around and took the letter that Ma Fei had handed over.
She unfolded the paper and quickly read through it twice, then walked over to Lu Guo, squatted down, and asked in a cold voice.
"Your previous family was also the former King of a different surname, now the Marquis of Yongning, the Old Wu family?"
The other party lay on the ground pretending to be dead and did not answer. Jiang Wan shook the letter in his hand and spoke in a firm tone.
"From what I've read in this letter, I think you and your mother have a very good relationship. This letter was written last month, so you must have gone out to see your mother, right?
Tsk, no wonder you didn't say a word even when you were biting yourself to death, it turns out you are also a filial daughter. Then I have a trick."
She stood up simply, but the other person grabbed the hem of her skirt.
"Miss, please have mercy on me and let my mother go..."
"When you drugged me today, why didn't you think of letting my mother go? We are all daughters. Whatever feelings you have for your mother, I can only feel even stronger!
Since you are unwilling to confess, then I really can't dig into your brain to find the answer. But it doesn't matter, once I catch your mother, I think you should be interested in telling me something. "
"don't want!"
Lu Guo was crying so hard that her whole body was shaking.
"I admit it!"
"Um."
Jiang Wan waved his hand and asked Ma Fei to send everyone else to the yard to wait. He then took out his clean handkerchief and stuffed it into the second child who had stopped crying. Then he sat back in his chair and nodded.
"Go ahead, I'm listening."
Lu Guo struggled to get up from the ground and knelt down, his tone bitter and his eyes resigned.
"As far as I can remember, I was beaten and scolded by my family growing up. My mother was sold to the Zhou family by a kidnapper..."
Another cliché story.
A poor mother who was abducted and sold, an incompetent and angry bastard father who only knows how to drink, gamble and beat women, two brothers who always bully him, and a pair of vicious grandparents.
An empty stomach, endless work to do, and being beaten and scolded every day. This is Lu Guo, oh no, this is all Zhou Xiaoya's memories of her childhood.
Even though her life was so hard, she was still willing to stay in the Zhou family because her mother who loved her the most was there. But when she was eight years old, she was sold to a brothel owner by Zhou Dabao for two taels of silver.
Even in the most desperate situation, she did not give up. She worked hard to squeeze in beside the courtesan and served her, and then successfully followed her out of the brothel and into the Wu family's backyard.
Later, the old master died in a palace fight. She struggled and schemed all the way, and finally succeeded in squeezing into the most favored concubine Fang's palace to serve.
Concubine Fang's only daughter is the second young lady who is the most favored by the head of the family. She is Princess Muhua, Wu Shuyao, who is a concubine's daughter but holds the title of princess.
"The eldest daughter of the Wu family died, and the favored second daughter naturally became a princess, and also took over the eldest daughter's excellent marriage.
It was at that time that I was released by my master, who was in a very good mood. I was the youngest of the maids released at that time, because I had used most of my savings over the years to bribe them, just to gain my freedom so that I could return to my mother.
But I didn't expect that after selling me, the damn Zhou family would pawn my mother off soon after!"
"What do you mean?"
Jiang Han had indeed stopped crying, but she was still feeling very upset. Although her own childhood wasn't easy, it was clear that Lu Guo's life was even worse than a normal one.
"Don't interrupt, second brother. Let her continue."
Jiang Wan had read about the issue of pawning wives in some clichéd stories. She felt incredibly upset when she heard about it. This damned world was truly a giant gang of men who flattered men! It was always the women who suffered the most, no matter what!
"Your mother was sold. What does that have to do with your plan to poison my mother?"
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