After winter came, Qingli had been feeling uneasy, always afraid of what would happen if he went to Beijing.

That afternoon, after Qingli took a nap, she went to Jiang Mingzhu's study to draw. Reading and writing can make people calm down, and she hoped to calm herself down.

Suddenly, his right eyelid twitched.

Qingli panicked, saying that his left eye would make money and his right eye would make misfortunes. Could it be that something bad had happened?

"Dong...dong...dong..."

The bell tower of Yunzhou City Tower was rung.

Qingli's breath was suffocated, and he felt his heartbeat had stopped.

When the clock tower bell rings, it means either enemy troops are attacking the city or there is a national mourning.

Could it be...

Yang Jin hurried in from outside, his hair messy and his chest panting slightly.

"What happened?" Qingli dug his right hand tightly at the corner of the table, his voice trembling unconsciously.

"I'm telling you, you have to hold on." Yang Jin looked at her worriedly, as if he couldn't bear it, and lowered his head, "The Empress Dowager is dead."

The air suddenly stagnated.

"The queen mother passed away..."

Qingli's face was pale, his eyes were wide open, and filled with tears. However, before the tears fell, he spat out a mouthful of blood and fell straight down.

"Qingli!"

Yang Jin was so frightened that he almost stopped breathing. He hurriedly carried her to the bed and called for a doctor.

The doctor came to see me and said that he was suffering from an acute fire and that he needed to rest. He prescribed a few prescriptions to calm his nerves and ordered him to decoct his body with water and take it before leaving with his medicine box on his back.

Qingli was in a coma for a day and a night, and Yang Jin stayed by the bed to take care of him for a day and a night.

Qingli was lying on the bed, sweating on his forehead, talking in his sleep, and tears constantly falling from the corners of his eyes.

She dreamed about her childhood.

She had been the apple of the emperor's eye since she was a child, and was loved by all. However, although her father doted on her, he had to deal with state affairs, accompany so many empresses in the harem, and other brothers and sisters. He who really devoted his whole life to her

This is Queen Mother Xiao.

She has not been a worry-free child since she was a child. She has a weak constitution and tends to be noisy.

During the meal, she refused to eat, so Empress Dowager Xiao would feed her herself with a bowl in hand; when she was sleeping, she was not well-behaved and did not want a wet nurse to accompany her, so Empress Dowager Xiao personally coaxed her to sleep; she was injured when she was playing around outside.

, Empress Dowager Xiao shed tears while applying medicine to her; she aspired to be a heroine and wanted to learn martial arts, so Empress Dowager Xiao personally carried her to Chonghua Palace to become a disciple...

Her entire childhood was almost built up bit by bit by Empress Dowager Xiao.

She never thought that one day, her dearest mother would suddenly leave her.

Such a surprise.

Qingli slowly opened her eyes, big tears sliding down the corners of her eyes, she opened her mouth and said hoarsely: "I want to go back to Beijing..."

Yang Jin looked at her heartbroken look and felt a sharp pain in his heart.

He stretched out his hand to wipe away her tears and said, "Okay, I'll go with you."

"No, I can go back by myself, you don't have to go to such trouble to accompany me..." Qingli smiled weakly.

Yang Jin interrupted her and said: "Who said I want to accompany you? When the new emperor ascended the throne, in the first year of Enke, I went to Beijing to take the exam, and I just joined you on the way. You wait here, I will prepare

, we’ll set off early tomorrow morning.”

Yang Jin finished speaking hastily, and without waiting for her reply, he turned around and left the Juyuan.

Qingli looked at his leaving figure.

This person is always so tough-talking and says ugly things, but his heart is soft.

Qingli lay silently on the bed alone.

In the evening, Xia He walked in and said: "Young madam, the eldest son would like to ask you to go to Shuixie."

Qingli frowned slightly.

Why couldn't Yang Jin come to see her if he had something to do, and why did he insist on asking her to go to Shuixie?

Ever since Cuinong happened, she had been more careful and wary of the maids around her. She glanced at Xia He and found that the girl's head was lowered and her eyes were twinkling.

There is obviously a ghost.

"Okay, I'll pack up and go right away."

Qingli didn't expose Xia He. She wanted to see what this girl was up to. Besides, after the news of Queen Mother Xiao's death came, she felt a breath of blood clogged in her heart. If she didn't find a way to vent her anger,

I'm just afraid she will go crazy.

She followed Xia He to the waterside pavilion in the northeast corner of Yang Mansion.

After winter, the weather gradually turned colder, and the waterside pavilion was covered with a layer of curtains to keep out the cold, and a pot of charcoal fire was burning in the corner.

Qingli opened the curtain and walked in, only to see that there was no one in the waterside pavilion. There was only a table of dishes on the stone table in the middle, and a pot of wine and two glasses.

"Where are the people?"

Xia He said: "The eldest son asked the young lady to sit down and wait for a while, and have a glass of wine to warm up. He will arrive soon."

Warm yourself up with a glass of wine?

I'm just afraid there's something wrong with the wine, right?

"Xia He..." Qingli's tone was slightly cold.

Xia He trembled, lowered his head and did not dare to speak.

Qingli looked at Xia He, who was shrinking, and then at the table full of wine and food. He became more and more sure of his guess and sneered: "Xia He, what good seasoning did you add to this wine and food?"

"I don't dare!" Xia He knelt down with a bang.

"I'll give you a chance. I'll count to three. If you still refuse to admit it, huh..." Qingli sneered, with an icy cold light shining in the corners of his eyes.

She didn't say what she would do to Xia He if she didn't recruit him, but it was this unknown threat that made people even more frightened.

Xia He knelt on the ground and was already shaking slightly.

Qingli smiled slightly and started counting, "One...two..."

"Young Madam, Young Madam, I've done it, I've done it!" Xia He was so frightened that he cried bitterly, "It's the Second Young Master! It was the Second Young Master who asked his slave to trick the Young Madam into coming to Shuixie! The Second Young Master plotted against the Young Madam,

There is an aphrodisiac added to this wine! Madam, it is none of my business, please spare me!"

"What benefits did Yang Yan promise you?"

"The second young master said that when things are done, he will accept me as his maid. It was because I was confused for a moment that I lost my mind. Madam, please spare me!" cried Xia He.

"Idiot! You belong to the eldest brother-in-law. If you want to marry the eldest son, you can only be the eldest son's brother-in-law. How can you go to the second room? Do you believe such nonsense? What's more, Yang Yan married Princess Yunni.

With King Yan here, no matter how cowardly Princess Yunni is, Yang Yan only dares to steal chickens and dogs and hunt for wild food outside, so how can he dare to take in concubines and girls from the same house?"

"Young Madam, this servant is confused. Please forgive me this time, Young Madam." Xia He just cried and begged for mercy.

"Who dares to keep you when you're such a rip-off?" Qingli sneered, "I'd better call Ren Yazi here tomorrow and sell you!"

Xia He raised his face in disbelief.

"Young madam, are you going to sell me?" Xia He was stunned and suddenly became crazy, "You can't sell me! I know your secret! You are not our young madam at all!"

"Who would believe what you, a rip-off girl, say? Besides, you will be taken away by someone tomorrow, who will you talk to then?" Qingli looked at her amusedly.

Xia He became frightened and trembled all over.

A maid like her who did something wrong and was sold by her master will either be sold to a farmer in a remote village as a wife and face the earth for the rest of her life, or she will be sold to a brothel and be scorned for the rest of her life.

Dirty whore.

"Please forgive me, I know a secret about the real cause of the young lady's death..." Xia He tugged at the hem of Qingli's skirt, as if grasping a life-saving straw.

"The real cause of Jiang Mingzhu's death?"

"Yes!" Xia He nodded, "As long as the young lady is willing to spare me, I will."

"Okay, tell me and I'll spare you."

Xia He breathed a sigh of relief and said: "About three months ago, the second young master coveted the beauty of the young lady and deceived the young lady into the back garden and raped her. After the young lady was humiliated, she felt that she had no face to live in the world anymore and threw herself into a well.

Committed suicide."

An innocent woman like Jiang Mingzhu was killed like this.

Inexplicable grief and anger welled up in Qingli's heart.

Yang Yan, you are a beast inferior to a pig or a dog, you actually raped your eldest sister-in-law and forced your eldest sister-in-law to commit suicide by throwing herself into a well!

Qingli was so angry that his whole body was shaking, and he clenched his fists tightly, saying: "Xia He, please help me do something. After the completion of the matter, I will return your deed of betrayal to you, let you out of the house, and also give you a gift

You have one hundred taels of silver."

Xia He's eyes lit up.
To be continued...