The eldest sister lying in the dark room suddenly shed tears: "I don't want to live anymore, let the Queen Mother kill me -"
Indeed, you are just a person sent to be killed. Otherwise you would not be able to speak. Cao Xiwan thought.
"Who were you deceived by?"
"..." The eldest sister cried harder. She was choking silently, which made her look pitiful.
Sure enough, it was impossible for Luo Jiuye to directly deceive her. In a relationship like this, clan uncles would not drink soup casually. It was another person who deceived her. Cao Xiwan thought, was it a brother or a new lover?
"No one from your family, the Luo family, would dare to replace the Queen Mother."
"Yes, I just want the Queen Mother to discover that the palace is not safe, and her family members are more important. If her mother's family is separated, the Queen Mother will have no support outside the palace. Can the Queen Mother rely solely on her son for the rest of her life?" The second lady smiled miserably.
"I was sent in to remind the Queen Mother. They... huh, they! The Queen Mother called the old Marquis into the palace overnight, gave him a lecture, and ordered me, Uncle Luo Jiu, to be driven to the village in the suburbs. From now on, I am not allowed to take care of the family affairs or enter the village.
The government also asked them to check the grain in the village. They were all in chaos."
Cao Xiwan thought that Song Chengming had reported to His Majesty about the grain storage in the village in the suburbs. His Majesty went to the Queen Mother.
It's really fast.
This shows that this strategy to replace the Queen Mother is by no means a new one in the past few days. It has been prepared for a long time.
Of course, the mastermind behind this is definitely not the Luo family, but Feng Junqing.
"They were not willing to give in. I don't know who listened to the instigation, and they wanted to use this poisonous trick to scare the Queen Mother. But they didn't expect that I would be cautious and didn't finish the soup." The eldest sister cried, as if she was too resentful and could not finish the soup.
Without confiding, "In the past, people said that the Queen Mother and I looked alike, which was a blessing. Even the old Marquis knew my name. He took pity on my dead husband and asked me to go home and give me a double monthly allowance."
Oh, double portion! She immediately felt the same way. She also received double pay. She was still very grateful.
"At the beginning, we three brothers and sisters came to the capital from our hometown in the countryside, and our sect was willing to take care of us and arranged a decent marriage for us. I thought we could live in peace and stability, but I didn't feel that life was difficult even after my husband died of illness.
I am a daughter of the Queen Mother’s family, and everyone in my husband’s family must respect me——”
"Does the old man know what happened to you tonight?"
"No, I don't know. I don't dare to ask him. He is old, and the Queen Mother's brothers are all good. He just hasn't learned enough to read. He doesn't know how to care about outside family affairs. The clan members are in charge."
Cao Xiwan understood clearly that the old father-in-law, Marquis Luo, probably didn't want to drive away Luo Jiu, so he was confused and agreed to come back to the palace after a while to plead for Luo Jiu.
In this way, Luo Jiu thought that he could maintain his current stewardship just by thinking of a way?
She did indeed hear that Marquis Luo was old and his daughter-in-law was in charge of the inner house. The outer house left the household affairs to the nephews from several clans who came to take refuge. Luo Jiuye should be one of the clan nephews.
"Besides Luo Jiu, who else has joined the Wusheng Old Mother Cult?" she asked.
The second young lady looked sad and angry, and suddenly shed tears: "I'm just——"
"..." Cao Xiwan responded quickly, "Who introduced you to religion?"
She burst into tears immediately: "He is my biological brother——"
She understood that the person who tricked her into drinking the poisonous soup was bribed by her own brother, Mr. Luo Jiuye.
"If you don't have a husband or children, and you live very close to your relatives, the relatives may be the ones who cheat you the most."
She sighed, but she didn't find it strange.
There are not many cases of people looking for opportunities to seize the property of widows or old ladies.
Fortunately, among this kind of women, if they come from a scholarly family and live in a prosperous town, there are often some who have a particularly strong personality. They are not afraid of being exposed when they are angry, and they are on guard against the plots of their brothers and sisters-in-law or their brothers-in-law. Their parents are dead.
I don't want the whole family to go straight to the Yamen.
If she is lucky, she has the documents for dividing the property between her parents before their death, and if she meets a decent parent official, the property can be taken back and divided between her and her brother.
Therefore, Cao Xiwan had seen many Jinyi case files in which women sued their natal relatives for having their babies stolen.
But it’s difficult inside the church.
The sect will keep an eye on the widow's property and will often bribe officials when choosing.
Not to mention, it would be even more difficult if something like this happened to the Queen Mother's family.
First of all, the face of the whole family, the face of the Queen Mother, and the face of Your Majesty must be preserved.
Secondly, the government may not dare to take this case.
She thought for a while: "You should still have some property."
"...I was cheated out of half by my brother and his wife. I just wanted to keep half to support myself in old age, so I didn't agree to borrow any more money." The second young lady was indeed a widow who returned to her parents' home, as Cao Xiwan expected.
Although her husband's family does not dare to seize her property, her relatives are watching her with eager eyes. Without a husband and children, in the eyes of her relatives, her property will be divided among everyone sooner or later.
"May I have your name."
"Stop prying!"
"..." Weren't you nagging just now? Cao Xiwan felt aggrieved.
"I'm telling you, I'm not stupid! I'll take advantage of it. I want to go to the palace and tell the Queen Mother everything -! I am the Queen Mother's -" She hated it and was about to say her name, but she couldn't say a word when she opened her mouth.
Luo Yubing was shocked to find that she could not speak.
She struggled, trying to get out of the dark space, but she opened her hands and fingers, but found that her legs were weak.
She looked at Cao Xiwan in fear.
"It wasn't me. It was you who was poisoned. The traitor had already planned it."
Cao Xiwan looked at her sympathetically. She was a smart person, but her opponent was not an ordinary money-grubbing clan member, but the rebellious Feng Junqing. She fell completely into a trap. The traitor deliberately gave her a small amount of medicine to make her think she could survive.
With his wits in mind, he took advantage of the plan and went to the palace to complain to the Queen Mother.
After entering the palace, the poison took effect and she died in this organ. She could not utter a single word. All she had to do was let the Queen Mother see the body.
This can't be Luo Jiuye's arrangement, this is Feng Junqing's vicious plan.
"Let's exchange. I have a little antidote that can save you. You, for the time being, will be my backbone. No matter what you hear in this palace, you must tell me. Do you agree?"
The second young lady had no strength to make a choice and just looked at Cao Xiwan crying.
"Can you blink? Three blinks means yes."
The second young lady blinked three times desperately.
"Does that mean you agreed? Come on, I'll write you a thumbprint for three thousand taels. I'm not blackmailing you. I'm afraid you won't recognize today's debt. My antidote is very expensive. And I'm a ruthless person who has turned against his savior.
, a lot, don’t you think?”
Cao Xiwan turned around to get pen and ink, and quickly wrote an IOU that Luo Yubing owed Cao Xiwan 3,000 taels. Then he made a cut on her thumb that drew blood, and put his fingerprint on the IOU.
Satisfied, she pocketed the three thousand taels of IOU, took another look, and took off a jade pendant from the second lady's neck. She actually saw the second lady's name on it, which was Luo Bingsheng.
It's a good name.
The Queen Mother's name is Luo Lan. I heard that there was originally a word for ice in the middle, but the name was changed by Queen Xingwu. She is indeed of the same generation.
She fed her a little bit of Bizhu Mo'er, turned off the machine, and ran away irresponsibly.
She ignored Feng Xiaochu and just landed outside the palace. After a few hehehehehe, she hurriedly sneaked through the palace and went directly to the Beiqun Room.
She entered Xiao Zheng's yard, and as soon as she jumped into the yard wall, she saw a fire in the stove.
A weak stove fire was burning, and there were corpses in the yard.
Xiao Zheng fell down in the yard. He was wearing Wu Laodang's clothes.
Sure enough, the old man Wu just now was actually Xiao Zheng. Cao Xiwan saw something was wrong with his figure and heard the scream.
He had been bribed by Feng Junqing a long time ago, right? She became suspicious when the mummy of Changchun Palace appeared.