The two mothers were heartbroken and furious, and they stabbed the old lady again and again with the sharp hairpins in their hands.
Each time, the attacker avoided vital points, making her feel pain, scream, and howl. Countless small holes were poked into her body, and blood gushed out, but she couldn't die.
The old woman screamed for the duration of an incense stick's burning time before finally lying on the ground, barely alive. Her blood flowed out of the pavilion and mixed with the rainwater outside, staining the rainwater red.
Madam Zhou and Granny Hu knelt on the ground, curled up, and wept bitterly.
The old lady suffered, but what they lost will never come back.
Ye Qingxue watched this scene with icy eyes, the thrill of revenge surging in her blood. She was a dying woman and had no fear of losing anything.
For her, every successful revenge was a "gain".
She released her longsword, walked up to the old woman, and met the old woman's venomous yet fearful gaze. She squatted down, slowly leaned forward, and whispered a sentence in the old woman's ear.
“My grandmother didn’t have seven moles on the soles of her feet, and neither do I. I lied to you just now.”
The old woman froze. So, Ye Qingxue had tricked her into revealing the truth? Ye Qingxue didn't actually have any evidence at all?!
The old woman stared straight at her, reaching out to grab her neck and strangle her to death.
Ye Qingxue added, "I know you are afraid of death. I killed you with my sword to force you to confess your past crimes. As I expected, you confessed to everything!"
Is this a clever scheme?
Not necessarily. It was simply a matter of using the truth to trick the old lady into admitting it, letting everyone know, and bringing the buried truth to light.
The old woman's outstretched hand suddenly trembled.
She had her sights set on Ye Qingxue's throat, but she couldn't move an inch further. Moreover, her hand was shaking even more violently, completely out of control!
Ye Qingxue pressed her hand down and whispered in her ear again, "If you don't want to die, I will let you live until Ye Yabing successfully marries into the Prince Ding's mansion. Before that, there can be no funerals in the Marquis's mansion!"
He paused for a moment, then added, "But I'll let you experience what it means to be 'worse than dead'."
The old woman glared at her fiercely, but could only utter "you...you..." sounds!
Ye Qingxue stood up: "Granny Hu, take the old lady away and take good care of her."
Fear appeared in the old lady's eyes. She had plotted to kill Hu Mama's daughter and was now being "cared for" by Hu Mama. It was easy to imagine that her life would be "worse than death" in the days to come!
The old woman wanted to curse Ye Qingxue to a terrible death, wishing her to go to the eighteenth level of hell after death, but she found that her speech was becoming unclear. She belatedly realized that she had suffered a stroke and become paralyzed!
Ye Qingxue did not kill the old lady, which surprised everyone.
After the old lady was taken away, everyone stared at her in a daze.
Ye Qingxue walked up to Prince Yu and his wife, bowed to them and thanked them for coming tonight and witnessing the ugly side of the Marquis's mansion.
After carefully reviewing the list of crimes recorded by Ye Cunsi, she determined that there were no problems and then asked Ye Cunsi to make a copy.
"I humbly request that Your Highness and Your Highness speak privately," Ye Qingxue said.
The servant held up an umbrella and escorted them out of the pavilion, standing where no one could hear them.
After another sincere expression of gratitude, Ye Qingxue said, "Please keep tonight's events a secret for now, Your Highness and Your Highness. Because the Second Miss is engaged to His Highness Prince Ding, if such a scandalous matter were to spread through the Marquis's residence, I'm afraid their marriage would be in jeopardy!"
Princess Consort Yu frowned and said, "The Second Miss has occupied your brother's position for many years, helping Ye Cunjin seize the marquisate that belongs to your eldest son's family. Her grandmother and mother are so vicious, and you still want to think about her marriage?"
Princess Yu wished she could expose the old lady and Min Yingying's evil deeds to the public and make them be cursed by the world.
Ye Qingxue, however, wanted to suppress the matter and wait until Ye Yabing and Prince Ding's wedding day to give Prince Ding a huge "surprise" and strike him hard.
However, Prince Yu and his wife were unaware of Prince Ding's true character.
Ye Qingxue currently has no evidence to prove what kind of evil person Prince Ding is.
All I could say was, "The Second Miss was innocent back then, and she and Prince Ding were truly in love. His Highness Prince Ding went to great lengths to win her hand in marriage. Qingxue is unwilling to be the kind of person who breaks up other people's marriage agreements."
"I implore Your Highness and Your Highness, after the Second Miss marries into the Prince Ding's mansion, to submit this indictment to the Emperor, so that the Emperor may severely punish the wicked and allow my father to rest in peace!"
Once a woman marries, she becomes part of her husband's family.
The Prince and his wife thought that as long as Ye Yabing got married, the bad things in the Marquis's mansion would be unrelated to Ye Yabing, so Ye Qingxue made such a request to them.
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