"What nonsense are you talking about? You're pregnant, but who knows whose bastard you're carrying? You're actually saying it's mine, it's utterly ridiculous." Lian Qin not only didn't feel happy, but also denied that the child was his.
"You, how can you turn your back on me like this? I've never had another man besides you. I was still a virgin when I was with you, you know that best. Now you're telling me the child isn't yours? Is Lian Qin even a man?" Zhang Qingling was shocked and suddenly felt like she didn't recognize the man in front of her.
He used to be so gentle and considerate when he coaxed her into doing those things, always saying the nicest things. But now he says the most unpleasant things.
This bastard was toying with her feelings, deceiving her, and then refusing to acknowledge the child in her womb.
"I'll fight you to the death! If you dare to lie to me, I won't let you get away with it either!" Zhang Qingling rushed forward and started fighting with him, but a woman's strength was no match for a man's.
"Slap." Zhang Qingling was slapped and knocked to the ground. Blood seeped from the corner of her mouth, showing how much force the slap had used.
"Get out of here. I'll let you off the hook for the sake of our past relationship, but don't come bothering me again, or you'll regret it." Lian Qin pointed to the door, telling her to get out of the house immediately.
"...You hypocrite, you scoundrel! I must have been blind to have fallen for you, ptooey!" Zhang Qingling was as fierce as she usually acted, her gentle demeanor masked by her shrewishness.
Lian Qin sneered and said, "I've known what kind of person you are for a long time. You're a young lady from a fallen family. You've long lost your former status. What are you pretending for?"
You followed me to the Lian mansion gate that day thinking I knew? I had someone investigate you afterwards. You live in that slum, have no income, and rely entirely on your sister for support. You're like a useless piece of trash, good for nothing.
"You always hang around me because you're after my family's wealth. I only gave you the chance because you're somewhat pretty. You're supposed to do what's right, take the money and live a quiet life. But you dare to dream of marrying into my Lian family? You think you're worthy?"
Lian Qin tossed her a two-hundred-tael silver note and told her the truth, "I married four years ago and have three concubines. Now I have four children, and my eldest son is three years old. Even if I really like you, you can only be my fourth concubine at most. Someone like you is not lucky enough to be my wife. You are not even worthy of being my concubine."
Zhang Qingling only then realized that Lian Qin already had a family, something she had been completely unaware of. She immediately broke down emotionally, shouting, "You ruined me, and I'll ruin you too! I'll fight you to the death!"
But before she could even touch the hem of the other person's clothes, she was dragged out by the Lian family's servants. After leaving the house, they carried her a long way and then dumped her in the middle of the night in a desolate wilderness. They were trying to kill her.
But Zhang Qingling was lucky. Not only did she escape unharmed, she also walked home on her own. After returning home, she didn't leave the house for three days in a row, locking herself in her room and doing something unknown.
A month ago, Zhang Shen was sent to a private school by Zhang Qingyu. He left early and returned late every day. The siblings had already fallen out and neither wanted to talk to the other. Besides, Zhang Qingyu would sometimes act crazy, so Zhang Shen didn't like to interfere in her affairs.
No one knew what kind of trouble she was up to all day. It wasn't until that night, when she came back very late, that Zhang Shen was awakened by her loud laughter, even though she had already gone to sleep.
She used to laugh like that often, but she would stop quickly. Unlike that day, she kept laughing, which sounded increasingly strange to Zhang Shen. He got up and knocked on her door to ask her what was wrong.
"What's wrong? Hahahaha, dead, completely dead. He dared to lie to me. He won't get away with this. He'll die a horrible death, hahaha, he'll die a horrible death!" Zhang Qingling seemed to have completely gone mad.
The next morning, the Lian family brought constables to arrest her, saying that Zhang Qingling had poisoned the Lian family's young master and that she should pay with her life. The constables took her to jail.
The prefect interrogated Zhang Qingling twice, and Zhang Qingling confessed to her crimes without reservation. After Zhang Qingling signed and affixed her fingerprint, the case was closed, and she was sentenced to death and executed in the autumn.
Originally, Zhang Qingling was determined to die, feeling that there was no hope in living and that it would be better to die quickly. However, after being imprisoned for a few days, she suddenly did not want to die anymore. She did not want to be beheaded, nor did she want to stay in prison any longer, so she made a fuss every day, crying out for her innocence.
The noisy jailer wanted to torture her, but dared not. The prefect and that official forbade any abuse of prisoners or forced confessions. Besides, this woman was pregnant, so it was even more difficult to torture her. He could only gag her with a cloth and tie her to a chair so she could stop causing trouble.
"It's only right that a life should be paid for a life. No matter the reason, Zhang Qingling killed someone first, so what's the point of saving her?" Ye Moxun said casually.
“…Young Master Ye, my sister didn’t kill anyone. That poison won’t kill people, it just makes them stupid. Lian Qin is just stupid, he’s not dead.” Zhang Qingyu remained kneeling and did not get up.
Seeing her frown and instinctively protect her stomach with her hands, Ye Moxun said calmly, "Since you are pregnant, then get up and sit down. Don't kneel and lose the baby."
He pointed to the chair next to him, gesturing for the other person to sit there. "Where did Zhang Qingling buy this medicine?" Could it be what he's thinking?
Zhang Qingyu hesitated for a moment before saying, "She read it herself from a book. It was the one you showed to the students in the school in Songlin Village before. Everyone in the village knew about it, so I secretly copied a copy back. Who knew that Ling'er didn't learn anything but how to harm people?"
She used to be unwilling to learn, too lazy to read medical books, but unexpectedly, she developed that medicine overnight. The next day, she took the medicine she had made to Lian Qin and managed to find an opportunity to get him to take the medicine.
"Your sister is quite talented. Where did she find all those medicinal herbs?" Ye Mo became interested. It was truly remarkable that someone as incompetent as Zhang Qingling could develop a drug that would make people stupid overnight.
There's no talent involved; she just messes around and performs exceptionally well. She uses whatever medicinal herbs she can get at home. Before, when she injured her head, Song Tantan had someone send over a big bag of medicine, which she didn't finish, so she used this instead.
"When Lian Qin drank the tea laced with the drug, he vomited blood on the spot, collapsed to the ground convulsing and rolling his eyes back. After a while, he foamed at the mouth and then fainted. Ling'er thought he had been poisoned to death." In order to save her, Zhang Qingyu sent people to investigate.
She was quite capable; even though the Lian family had hidden Lian Qin so well, she still managed to find out that Lian Qin was not dead, but had been in a coma for seven days before waking up. When he woke up, he was lying paralyzed on the bed with his mouth crooked and drooling. His mind was not working properly, and he was like a living dead person, needing to be served for everything and having no ability to take care of himself.
"Doesn't that medicine smell strong? How come Lian Qin drank it even though he smelled something strange?" Could it be that Zhang Qingling has developed a colorless and odorless medicine? That would be truly amazing.
“Those few days, Lian Qin seemed to have caught a cold. His nose was stuffy and he couldn’t smell anything, so he drank the medicine in a daze. The medicine was mixed with tea, so the taste must have been diluted and the efficacy weakened…” Zhang Qingyu explained for a few minutes, then realized that these words were not very convincing, so she stopped talking.
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