bestfiction Chapter 487 The Heroine's Hateful Concubine's Sister Who Impersonated Her to Receive Credi
Chapter 487 The Heroine's Hateful Concubine's Sister Who Impersonated Her to Receive Credi
If Li Qian collapsed at this time, Bai Weixue didn't dare to think about what would happen to the Li Mansion.
"No, I have to go out and look for Pearl. I can't let her..."
"What can we do? The area below the cliff has been flattened, but there is still no trace of the pearl. There is only a trace of blood."
Every time Li Qian thought of the bloodstains under the cliff, he felt panicky.
"No, Pearl will be fine. Let's not overthink it. It's a good thing that she's not found. Maybe Pearl has left the bottom of the cliff and is now thinking about how to get home."
The second daughter of the Li family is missing, and the whole capital knows about it.
Outsiders thought that Miss Li Er fell off the cliff while enjoying the scenery, and her maid Jindou fell with her.
No one knows exactly how Miss Li Er fell off the cliff. A maid in the mansion mentioned that it was Lu Hua who invited her to enjoy the scenery, which caused Azhi to fall off the cliff.
At first, Bai Weixue believed this persuasion, but she didn't believe that Azhi's death had anything to do with Lu Hua.
Li Qian was angry at Lu Hua for not protecting his daughter, and refused to let Lu Hua visit him for some time.
"I really misjudged him at first. I didn't expect Lu Hua to be so unreliable. Pearl could have slipped and fallen off the cliff out of nowhere."
Bai Weixue felt that something was wrong.
She has also sent people to investigate the matter these days and has discovered some clues that Ren Liunian's people have been planted in the mansion.
Thinking of the stupid things Ren Liunian had done, she always felt that Azhi falling off the cliff must have something to do with Ren Liunian.
"I think things are not as simple as my husband thinks. Lu Hua is a steady child and will not put Zhenzhu in danger. Also, how could the contents of the letters between the two children be easily known by the maid? We must not misunderstand Lu Hua."
Li Qian did have a reason to vent his anger on Lu Hua, which was why he didn't want to see him.
But as time went by, Lu Hua came to see him every day, and slowly Li Qian began to have other guesses in his mind.
He saw how much Lu Hua had given for his daughter.
"I will go see Lu Hua and ask him what's going on."
Li Qian rested for a while and felt that he had recovered a lot.
He looked at Bai Weixue and said, "I have to go out and look for her quickly. Zhenzhu has been with us since she was little. When has she ever left home? She must be terrified outside. I have to go and get her back."
After Li Qian finished speaking, he was about to walk outside, but he was stopped by a voice.
"Sir, Madam, Nanny Feng is back and is waiting outside to be summoned."
Bai Weixue and Li Qian both knew that Nanny Feng was left at the Lu Mansion to help.
Ever since Ah Zhi got into trouble, Nanny Feng came back several times, but thinking that the Lu Mansion needed someone else, Bai Weixue still let her stay there.
"My husband, why don't you go see Madam Feng before you go out and look for her."
"Row."
Nanny Feng came in and bowed to the two of them first, then took out a letter from her bosom.
"Master Lu asked me to bring this letter back. Master Lu said that if you and your wife read the contents of the letter, they will know the truth about the second young lady falling off the cliff."
Thinking of Azhi falling off the cliff, Nanny Feng couldn't help but feel very sad.
She had been having trouble sleeping at night these days and always woke up in tears. After all, this was a child she had watched grow up, and Nanny Feng had long regarded her as her own daughter.
Originally, Nanny Feng wanted to go back to the Li Mansion and wait for Azhi to come back, but she didn't expect Lu Hua to not let her go back to the Li Mansion now.
When Nanny Feng came back this time, Lu Hua asked her to bring a letter.
Li Qian opened the envelope and read ten lines at a glance. When he saw the contents inside, his face was full of anger.
Bai Weixue standing by was also shocked.
Lu Hua wrote down what happened on the mountain in the letter.
"Husband, is the content of this letter true?"
Li Qian nodded vigorously with a complicated expression.
"I felt that something was wrong with the prince from the beginning. Why did he propose a marriage exchange?"
"Exchange marriage? What exchange marriage? The prince actually approached you?"
Bai Weixue knew that Ren Liunian had gone to the palace to request the cancellation of the engagement. This matter was no secret in the capital, but she was completely unaware of the marriage exchange that Li Qian mentioned.
Only then did Li Qian begin to tell the story.
"I just don't want to bother you. The Crown Prince came to me at the beginning. He wanted Zhenzhu to marry into the Crown Prince's Mansion instead of Li Lian. In this way, the Crown Princess would still be from our Li family."
"It's just that I don't want Zhenzhu to get involved in this mess. I rejected the Crown Prince's proposal. Now the letter says that it was the Crown Prince who sent Lu Hua away and wanted to imprison Zhenzhu as a concubine outside the palace. This time, he forced Zhenzhu to jump off the cliff. I think it's true."
Bai Weixue knew that Ren Liunian would not give up easily, and she was not surprised at all that he would find Li Qian to make this request.
But I didn't expect Ren Liunian to be so cruel. He not only threatened Lu Hua, but also threatened his own daughter.
Bai Weixue quickly came to her senses.
"If everything in the letter is true, then we must be more cautious in our search for the pearl. If the prince finds the pearl in advance, wouldn't that be pushing the pearl into the fire pit? Husband, what should we do now?"
"Don't worry, I will be more careful."
In order to avoid being discovered by Ren Liunian's men, Azhi deliberately disguised herself as a pregnant woman and traveled on her way.
They have petite figures to begin with, and if they dress up as men they will be easily spotted, so it’s better for them to dress up as pregnant women.
Jindou used rice paper to put makeup on her face, completely transforming herself into a skinny old woman. She walked on the street with a hunched back and no one could recognize that she was a little girl.
The two of them took a carriage back to the capital.
Azhi knew that Ren Liunian must have his eyes fixed on the Li Mansion, so it would not be wise to return to the Li Mansion now.
I escaped danger by jumping off a cliff last time, who knows how despicable Ren Liunian’s methods will be next time?
Azhi and Jindou first contacted Nanny Feng, and then entered the Lu Mansion under Nanny Feng's arrangement.
Today, the Lu Mansion is as solid as an iron barrel under the management of Nanny Feng.
Those maids and servants who had problems had already been sent away.
Azhi took off her disguise and recognized Lu Hua.
Looking at Ah Zhi's face which looked a little tired from the journey, Lu Hua hugged her tightly and trembled all over.
"I'm glad you're okay. I'm relieved that you're okay."
Ah Zhi patted his back gently and consoled him, "I'm fine, I just felt a little tired after working for a long time. Ren Liunian sent someone to look for me privately."
"It took me so long to come back in order to avoid him. By the way, I have something to discuss with you."
"Ren Liunian is taking advantage of his status as the crown prince to do whatever he wants. We can't do anything about him for the time being. Now we have to think of a way to make sure he can't sit on the crown prince's throne any longer."
Azhi is not the only one who wants to pull Ren Liunian down from the throne of crown prince.
Lu Hua had this idea a long time ago.
"Do you mean to find a way to depose the crown prince Ren Liunian and let His Majesty appoint another crown prince? But His Majesty has too few princes. Compared with the second and third princes, Ren Liunian is the best candidate now."
The current emperor, Emperor Ren De, has three sons. The eldest son is Ren Liunian, and the son born to the empress is already the crown prince.
The second prince and the third prince were still young, one was five years old and the other was three years old.
Ren Dedi had a child before, but the child died before he grew up.
Emperor Ren De was so sad that he rearranged the order of birth for the second prince, but the second prince could not speak until he was five years old.
My academic performance is average on weekdays. I still can't even learn the Thousand Character Classic, let alone the Four Books and Five Classics. Even the Thousand Character Classic is difficult for me to learn.
Now the rumor in the palace is that he is a fool.
The third prince is too young to start his education this year, but he is much smarter than the second prince. Sometimes there is no harm without comparison. He is really the tallest among short ones.
With the second prince as a backdrop, Ren Liunian and the third prince both seem precious.
Ah Zhi looked at Lu Hua and said firmly, "I think it doesn't matter who is chosen as the crown prince, but we cannot let Ren Liunian continue to be the crown prince. If we let him continue to be the crown prince, you and I will never be together."
Seeing Ah Zhi's worried look, Lu Hua knew that he should step forward and not let things go on like this.
Now Ren Liunian has sent a lot of people to keep an eye on the Li and Lu mansions. Some things can be hidden for a while, but not forever.
If Azhi is exposed, he will face a second threat from Ren Liunian.
Lu Hua looked at Ah Zhi and asked, "What are your plans?"
"I do have an idea, but it's a bit troublesome to overthrow Ren Liunian. I want to pull Ren Liunian down from the position of crown prince."
"We must first consider whether the queen should stay or go. Emperors of all dynasties have always been suspicious. If Ren Liunian wants to rebel, do you think Your Majesty can sit back and do nothing?"
"You want to provoke a fight between father and son?"
Ah Zhi nodded and said in a cold voice, "Over the years, the Queen's family has relied on the Queen and the Crown Prince to do a lot of bad things. Contact father privately and ask him to help you."
Lu Hua was a man of action. It didn't take long for him to collect all the evidence of the Wang family's crimes.
Who could have imagined that the queen's mother's family was so corrupt that they abducted women, lent money at high interest, and were even involved in buying and selling official positions.
No matter how many years pass by, it is never clean.
There are many things that the Wang family would not be able to do so easily if Ren Liunian had not intervened.
In order to reduce the obstacles for the Wang family's descendants, the Wang family beat to death a scholar who was going to Beijing to take the imperial examination three years ago.
If Li Qian hadn't tried hard to protect Lu Hua this year, he might have been in trouble.
The methods used by these Wang family members are truly disgusting. Just the evidence of lending money at high interest is enough to make them die ten thousand times. How many people have died at the hands of the Wang family members.
There was also a piece of evidence involving the private purchase of weapons.
Seeing the Wang family secretly buying weapons, Emperor Ren De suppressed his anger and asked, "Do you know what crime it is to frame the Queen's mother's family?"
Lu Hua knelt down with a neither humble nor arrogant voice.
"Your Majesty, please understand that none of the things I investigated were false accusations against the Queen and the Crown Prince. What the Wang family did was truly abominable."
"Okay, check!"
The word "check" means that Emperor Ren De has taken action.
Ren Liunian's attention was completely focused on finding Azhi, and he never expected Ren Deti to move so quickly.
By the time he reacted, the entire Wang family had already been convicted.
The Queen tried her best to make Ren Liunian take the blame on himself.
Ren Liunian went to the palace to plead for the Queen and the Wang family, but he didn't expect Emperor Ren De to throw the evidence in his face.
"How dare you beg the queen for mercy? Do you know how many evil things she has done over the years? Lingze is gone, and your third brother was killed by the queen. Ren Liunian, such a vicious woman, is not worthy of continuing to be my queen."
Dealing with the Wang family was inevitable. In order to secure his position as crown prince, Emperor Ren De did not want to touch the empress.
Unexpectedly, the Queen saw that the Third Prince was smart and especially liked by Emperor Ren De, so she became jealous and attacked the Third Prince.
Concubine Yun had long discovered that the Queen had some dirty hands, and had originally thought that since it was none of her business, she should just stay out of it and not force herself to get involved in certain matters.
But when her son drowned in the lotus pond with a piece of cloth in his hand, Yunpin immediately thought of the vicious queen.
The cloth that the child was holding was evidence. The pattern on that cloth was something only the queen liked to use.
At the same time, Concubine Yun revealed all the evil deeds that the Queen had done, including killing concubines, murdering princes, and angering the Queen Mother to death. Some things could not be proven, but clues could still be found.
Following the clues given by Concubine Yun, Emperor Ren De stripped the Queen of all her secrets.
At that time, the Empress and the Empress Dowager were not on good terms, and the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in the folks was not good, let alone that between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in the royal family.
It’s just that the Queen Mother was a bit soft-hearted, and when she was upset she didn’t want to confront the Queen head-on.
Concubine Yun mentioned that the Queen Mother was angered to death by the Queen, and I think it was because of Princess Minghui.
Princess Minghui was the only daughter of the Empress Dowager. Her husband died early, and she was frail and sickly since childhood. She passed away at the same time as the Empress Dowager. The Queen deliberately did not allow the Empress Dowager to see Princess Minghui for the last time.
"Father, the Queen Mother must have been framed by someone else. How could she be such a person? You have been married for so many years, don't you trust your wife?"
"Humph, wife? I will never admit that this vicious woman is my wife!"
Emperor Ren De swept a piece of paper to the ground, which contained information about how the queen poisoned Liu.
This is why Liu died at a young age.
Perhaps because of his age, Emperor Ren De could always recall his youth, and the Liu in his memory exuded a soft glow.
She was apparently just a pretty and gentle-looking girl, but now, in Ren Dedi's memory, her appearance, which was not stunning, made him linger.
Ren Dedi's voice was icy cold.
"The Wang family is arrogant and conceited, and they have harmed the people... They have confiscated their property and exiled them. Queen Wang condoned her mother's family's mistakes, and she was deposed from the position of Queen and given wine."
At this time, Ren Dedi looked at Ren Liunian who was kneeling on the ground.
"The Queen has taken all the responsibility on herself, but there are some things that both you and I know clearly. Today I will give you another chance, and I hope you will learn from it."
There is no room for maneuver now. If he insists on pleading for Wang, his end will not be good.
Ren Liunian's face was full of confusion and pain, and he didn't know how to face his mother for a moment.
Something even more desperate happened. Emperor Ren De had someone bring poisoned wine and put it in front of Ren Liunian.
"After all, Wang gave birth to you and raised you. You must see her for the last time. Please give her this glass of wine. I hope to see an empty glass."
This is simply killing someone and destroying their heart. Emperor Ren De wants Ren Liunian to personally send Wang off!
It is against the will of heaven for a son to kill his mother!