funbook-pk Chapter 122 The first clues appear
Chapter 122 The first clues appear
"What are you thinking about?"
The old lady looked at Murong with a gloomy expression: "Do you have any good ideas right now?"
The Shangguan family had become like this in just a few months. Murong felt the worst. She shook her head and said, "What can I do?"
Her face was ruined and she had a falling out with her natal family. The most she could do was to order a few maids and servants to do some work in the inner house of the Shangguan family. If she really had to act in the public eye, how could she possibly be a match for Lu Jingning?
"Miss Liao is missing. We haven't satisfied either the Crown Prince or the Queen, and we've even sacrificed our husband. It's not worth it."
"Besides, it's just an unformed child."
Murong sneered.
The old lady held her breath and was too lazy to argue with Murong. She waved her hand and asked her to leave. Murong asked again: "Old lady, do you really want to watch your husband being beaten to death by the people of the East Palace?"
"Get out!" The old lady lost her patience.
Murong pursed her lips and sneered. Since the old lady was willing to watch Shangguan Si die, she had no choice. She turned around and was about to leave but was stopped by the old lady.
"and many more!"
She stopped.
"How did you get all the way back?" The old lady looked Murong up and down with a questioning look. She had clearly made all the arrangements at the farm.
Besides, Murong only took a maid and a groom with her, so it was impossible for her to leave the farm alive.
Murong looked at the old lady in a puzzled manner: "What do you mean, mother? Shouldn't I come back?"
The old lady choked up and waved her hand without saying anything more.
She didn't believe Murong's words, so she sent someone to the manor to find out what was going on. The nanny asked, "Could it be that the eldest lady is helping the madam behind the scenes?"
"No." The old lady said firmly, "They are both sworn enemies. Lu Jingning will not help the Murong family for no reason."
There is still the blood debt of Shangguan Qingfeng between the two of them.
"Pity."
The old lady shook her head and sighed, "Such a good opportunity was missed. I had planned to let Murong die on the farm and put all the blame on her, and the matter would be over. But she came back alive."
The people who were sent out did not come back until noon. According to the guard, Madam Pei had already run away with her lover and did not even care about her family. He also said that if the old lady dared to do anything to her family, he would find a way to expose the old lady's handle.
The angry old lady overturned the table.
"How dare you threaten me, you bastard!"
Before the old lady could get angry, the East Palace sent someone again.
The old lady's eyelids twitched, because the person who came was Xue Yuan. She had seen this girl's methods before.
"Miss Xue Yuan..."
Xue Yuan raised her eyebrows: "The prince has ordered that if you don't hand over Miss Liao today, you will be severely punished."
The guards behind him even had the boards ready.
The old lady pulled a bitter smile from the corner of her mouth, sat on the ground in a daze, and said in despair: "What sin has the Shangguan family committed? One by one, they were all plotted against."
"Miss Xue Yuan, we really have never seen Miss Liao." The nanny knelt on the ground and begged.
Xue Yuan was too lazy to waste time and asked someone to carry Shangguan Si out.
Shangguan Si, who was still asleep, was carried out on a stretcher by two guards and placed on the ground. Shangguan Si's face was pale and his lower body was still unconscious.
He looked at the old lady in fear and sent out a distress signal: "Mother."
He was still frightened by the beatings he received yesterday. The people in the East Palace were more cruel than each other and had no regard for family ties at all.
"Mother." Murong came over and said with a strange look on her face, "The East Palace beat my husband today. If they haven't found Miss Liao yet, they will definitely not let it go. The next one might be you, or someone else from the Shangguan family."
Murong stared at the old lady. She had been thinking about one thing this morning. On the surface, the old lady cared a lot about the Shangguan family.
But he always makes things worse.
At the beginning, it was the old lady who reminded Shangguan Si that eggs should not be put in one basket and encouraged Shangguan Si to get acquainted with Prince Shen.
Would you rather sacrifice your own son for Liao Han?
This is not normal.
The old lady was still crying and couldn't utter a word. Murong's heart sank when she saw Xue Yuan was about to take action.
"Your Highness said that Miss Liao's disappearance was not the fault of Lord Shangguan alone, but the fault of the entire Shangguan family. Therefore, the old lady will bear more than half of the eighty strokes of the cane today, sixty strokes!"
After he finished speaking, Murong immediately swallowed back the plea he had just made, lowered his head and remained silent.
"What?" The old lady was a little agitated. "I am old, how can I bear this torture? This is going to cost me my life."
"Is this an order from His Royal Highness the Crown Prince or from the Queen?" the old lady asked in a hoarse voice.
Xue Yuan said nothing, but raised her hand to signal the guards to press the old lady down on the bench. A stick came down, and the old lady's face turned pale instantly. She was sweating profusely from the pain. Before she could recover, the second stick came down.
A scream of agony.
The nanny couldn't stand it, so she rushed forward and lay on the old lady's back to protect her.
Xue Yuan sneered: "Keep fighting until you die!"
The old lady was still lying on the stool. Even through the old nanny, she could still clearly feel a force. The person on her body's breathing gradually became weaker and weaker. A mouthful of blood spurted out, and the blood dripped down her collar.
The nanny was beaten to death. She slipped off the old lady and collapsed to the ground, staring at
old lady.
The old lady shivered with fear.
"Madam, there is no need to be stubborn. His Highness has ordered that even if we slaughter the Shangguan Mansion today, we must find out the whereabouts of Miss Liao!"
Xue Yuan became furious and grabbed the other maids around the old lady, pressed them to the ground, and beat them to death in front of the old lady.
One, two...
More and more people were lying on the ground.
The old lady was so angry that her heart was heaving. She finally broke down. "Where's Lu Jingning? I have something to talk to Lu Jingning alone. If she doesn't come, I won't tell her even if I'm beaten to death."
Xue Yuan frowned and gave a look to the guard beside her.
An incense stick later, Lu Jingning slowly stepped into the yard, glanced at the corpses lying on the ground, and sneered: "If the old lady wants to say something vicious, there is no need to do so."
Looking at Lu Jingning, the old lady's eyes were filled with resentment. "Just because of an antidote pill, you hate the Shangguan family so much that you want to kill them all?"
Lu Jingning remained silent.
"Aning, we are all your relatives, we know we were wrong..."
She bent down and squatted, her eyes level with the old lady's. "Actually, whether Miss Liao shows up or not, I don't care at all. I just want to find an excuse to kill everyone in the Shangguan family and clear my mother."
The old lady was caught off guard and startled.
"My father was lost in a shipwreck, and the first person to save him turned out to be the Shangguan family. How could such a coincidence happen in the world?"
He even deceived Bu Yan, so there must be someone behind this.
The old man of the Liao family did not live a well-off life. He had only two daughters. He picked up a man from another family, not knowing his identity, and asked his youngest daughter to take care of him personally. However, three months later, when her father woke up, the youngest daughter became pregnant.
Why does this sound so strange?