"Your name is Tong'er?"
Li Qingyi spoke coldly.
Tong'er was so nervous that beads of sweat broke out on her forehead uncontrollably: "Yes, I am Tong'er."
"You are the maidservant of which master of the Cui family. Why do you want to leave the Cui family and return home?"
"This slave is... the maid next to Aunt Pang. Aunt Pang is considerate of the fact that she has children to take care of at home, so she is allowed to let her go back to her hometown..."
Chen Zhengdao: "Didn't you say yesterday that you were just going out of town to do errands for Aunt Pang?"
Tong'er was startled and immediately knew that she had said the wrong thing. She just followed the other person's words and subconsciously said the words about returning home, "I..."
Li Qingyi looked at Tong'er and said, "I guess you don't understand me, so I can forgive you for the lie you just made up. But if you tell a lie in the next sentence, I will let you taste it." What does it feel like to be worse than dead?"
Li Qingyi's face was expressionless, his tone was normal, and there was neither coldness nor anger in his eyes, but Tong'er felt extremely terrifying.
If you disobey her, you will never get any good fruits.
But how dare she tell the truth! She lowered her head deeply and bit her lower lip without saying a word.
Li Qingyi looked at her appearance and didn't say much. He just stretched out his hand to signal Chang Lan.
Chang Lan opened a dark brown wooden box and put it into her hand.
Chen Zheng couldn't help but crane his neck to look inside, and saw that there was just a comb inside the box. He couldn't help but look at each other strangely, not understanding what Li Qingyi was going to do.
Tong'er heard the noise and carefully looked into the box, but there was no snake or insect poison as she imagined.
Li Qingyi looked at her and smiled softly, picked up the comb in his hand, brought it to Tong'er's eyes, and said, "I wonder if you have ever heard the old man tell the story of someone who had his face licked off by a wild bear in the mountains? "
Everyone was confused and looked at the comb in her hand. Only then did he notice that this comb was actually glowing with gold and iron.
The palm-width comb board was densely packed with dozens of sharp comb rulers, like the barbs on a wild bear's tongue, with the top slightly raised.
Tong'er's scalp exploded, and the blood on her face faded away in an instant, "What, what is this?"
Li Qingyi put the comb in front of Tong'er's face: "You want to know what this is? You can give it a try. Just once, your face will feel like it has been licked by a bear's tongue. The skin and flesh are gone, and the bones are deeply visible."
As soon as Li Qingyi finished speaking, even Chen Zheng was stunned.
Even Jiang Shun, who had been in the market and had seen countless bloody and tragic events, couldn't believe it when he heard this.
He looked at the slender girl in front of him. How could she say such a thing coldly and without any emotion?
Everyone watching the excitement felt chills stand on end, let alone Tong'er, who was being intimidated.
She suddenly trembled like chaff: "You, why do you do this to me? I have no enmity or enmity with you..."
"Don't say such meaningless words to me."
Li Qingyi sneered: "My patience is limited. I ask you a question and you answer a question. If you tell a lie, you will have to suffer a little, no matter whether you have done something bad or not."
Tong'er's spine ran cold, and she was so frightened that she almost held her breath. She didn't understand why the girl in front of her was so scary!
There was a smile in Li Qingyi's eyes. She had been with Qin Zeng in her previous life. She had never eaten pork, and had she never seen a pig running?
Extorting confessions through torture is a matter of truth from Dongchang!
Even this comb was borrowed from Qin Zeng.
She said word by word: "First tell me your identity in the Cui family."
Tong'er opened her mouth, wanting to repeat her answer just now, but looking at the comb and the expressionless girl in front of her, she couldn't help but feel discouraged, and tears instantly flowed down her face.
She gritted her teeth and said, "I am the personal maid of Cui Changxin, the concubine of the Cui family."
Li Qingyi looked at her with a look that seemed aggrieved and unwilling, and continued to ask: "Are you very close to Cui Changxin?"
As soon as Tong'er heard this, she knew that the other party had already made a guess.
She closed her eyes in pain and laughed to herself, unable to hide her emotions anymore. Just like once the floodgates are opened, the flood will surge out and there will be no need for restraint.
With tears in her eyes, she gritted her teeth and said, "I entered the government at the age of ten and served Cui Changxin for nine years. During this period, we had a relationship, but I was used to the quarrels between wives and concubines in the government, and I didn't want to I wanted to be a slave to someone, so I never agreed to it. Until one time when he became seriously ill, he begged in every possible way, saying that he didn’t want to leave any regrets. The woman he wanted most in this life was me... When I softened my heart, I We became husband and wife with him..."
A few rays of light shine through the dilapidated window lattice, shining on Tong'er's constantly falling tears. Those crystal clear gem-like water drops are weakened by her sad and contrite look, and become extremely dark.
"From that time on, I have been wholeheartedly only for his good, and I have to think of him first in everything. But I have always been unable to get my status because he has not yet married his wife. But he has never treated other girls around him Even if I did something inappropriate, I would just wait with peace of mind until one day..."
"Did you realize that what he said was just a lie to you?"
"Yes!" Tong'er's voice suddenly became sharp: "He lied to me! All men in the world are the same, they only like things they can't get!"...
Jiang Shun and others couldn't help but feel embarrassed after hearing this, but Tong'er had no time to pay attention to their expressions.
She said bitterly: "I never thought that Cui Changxin, who was gentle and considerate when we were together, would turn out to be a beast worse than a beast! He actually had his own concubine in mind."
Chen Zheng said in surprise: "You mean, Cui Changxin fell in love with his father's concubine?"
Tong'er pursed her lips tightly and nodded, then continued after a while: "Aunt Ning is only in her early twenties. She is the master's favorite concubine. She is usually a voluptuous person and is a sworn enemy of Aunt Pang. But Cui Changxin chose to do something to her. I’m so worried! One time I caught them in the garden in the middle of the night..."
"I was so shocked and angry that I almost rushed out and gave Aunt Ning a few slaps. But I suddenly realized that I was just a maid! A maid who was played by the young master! I have no right to accuse any of them! Moreover, I don’t know what the consequences will be if this kind of thing is publicized, but I myself will definitely die!”
"So, you are not willing to be played with, and you have a desire for revenge, right?"
When Li Qingyi heard this, he almost guessed the whole story. It turned out that Jiang Shun's sister Jiang Ping'er had just suffered the disaster of Chiyu.
Sure enough, Tong'er said: "Yes, I am not willing to accept it. After that night, I understood why Cui Changxin was not interested in the maids around him. Because a wife is not as good as a concubine, and a concubine is worse than stealing. He only likes her. Maybe it was because of this that he deceived me in every possible way. I sacrificed myself for him, but what did I get in return? How could I make it easy for such a dirty beast?"
Tong'er's tears have stopped, and only hatred remains on her face.
She said: "I served him closely, and it was easy to do anything with his medicine. I pretended not to notice anything, but every time I cooked the medicine, I added one of the ingredients. Increase the dose of medicine.”
"Although Cui Changxin was not in good health originally, he was not as weak as the rumors said. Most of the time, it was Aunt Pang who made a fuss to win favor. But since then, his health has deteriorated day by day... At the same time, in my case Through intentional or unintentional reminders, Aunt Pang found out about his son and Aunt Ning..."
Tong'er sneered: "Aunt Pang was shocked and angry. She was extremely afraid. If the master found out about this matter, both mother and son would be implicated, and falling out of favor was inevitable. So, she tried every means to cover it up. So she used it as an excuse to find a good family for her son."
"Firstly, Aunt Pang hopes that her son will find someone new and cuts off all contact with Aunt Ning. Secondly, the bride is from a lowly background and will not dare to tell the truth about Cui Changxin and Aunt Ning when she discovers it in the future. Otherwise, even if Cui Changxin is a bastard, she will It’s impossible to marry a commoner’s daughter.”
When Jiang Shun heard this, he already understood the cause of his sister's death. Veins popped up on his head, and he almost wanted to punch the instigator to death in front of him.
But he was born
I endured it raw. If Tong'er dies at this time, Aunt Pang will not get the retribution she deserves.
Li Qingyi glanced at him with admiration. He was still sensible and measured.
Tong'er said: "Cui Changxin was already very weak on the day he got married, so I added some ephedra to his medicine... Ephedra can induce heart palpitations, and his body is enough to cause sudden death..."
At this point, the cause and effect of this matter are already clear.
Chen Zheng asked: "Ke Ren is already dead. Why would Aunt Pang say that Jiang Ping'er killed Cui Changxin? What good would it do to her?"
"There shouldn't be so many coincidences in the world, but there are coincidences everywhere."
Tong'er sneered, glanced at Jiang Shun and said, "Aunt Pang searched secretly for a long time before she found the Jiang family's daughter. She has a handsome face, an honest temper, and there is no threat to the family. That's why she ordered someone to trick Mr. Jiang to lose. She paid a large sum of money to force him to agree to marry his daughter. She was afraid that something might happen if the Jiang family and his son went back on their word, so she took Jiang Ping'er to the Cui family in advance on the grounds that the Jiang family did not have a dowry and bought wedding clothes and other items."
Jiang Shun's whole body froze.
Tong'er looked at him and sneered: "It turns out that Jiang Ping'er was unlucky. On the eve of the wedding, Cui Changxin, that beast, refused to change his ways and bothered Aunt Ning again. Who would have thought that Jiang Ping'er would bump into her."
Everyone not only lamented that it was such a coincidence.
"Haha... Aunt Pang thought, Jiang Ping'er will marry Cui Changxin on the next day anyway, and then she will become Cui Changxin's wife. Jiang Ping'er will not talk nonsense for the rest of her life. Destroying her own future. Moreover, since she was always beating him, she felt that nothing would happen, so she just kept Jiang Ping'er under guard. But she never thought that Cui Changxin died while worshiping! Hahaha...haha !」
Tong'er couldn't help laughing, laughing crazily, laughing at Aunt Pang's stupidity, and laughing because Cui Changxin got the retribution he deserved.
Smiling and laughing, she burst into tears again.
Jiang Shun couldn't wait for her to finish crying, and asked with eyes splitting, "So Aunt Pang took my sister to be buried with Cui Changxin because she wanted to kill someone and silence her?"
