flstandardbreds Chapter 107: Reconciliation
Chapter 107: Reconciliation
It is said that wealth and honor are sought in danger. The wife of Marquis Xing'an promised a large sum of money. If something really happened, the first one to escape would be the Marquis Xing'an Mansion. In order to save their lives, the Marquis Xing'an Mansion would definitely not let anyone investigate this matter. So he couldn't help himself and did it.
Why kill nine clans?
It’s fake, but it doesn’t stop Qin’s mother from scaring Mao Yongchang.
But even if the nine clans were not executed, Mao Yongchang's attempt to murder the princess was still a capital crime.
"If you want to save your life, then tell us exactly how the wife of the Marquis of Xing'an instructed you to poison the princess and what your purpose was."
"Okay, I confess, I confess." Mao Yongchang nodded quickly, fearing that if he was a step slower, he would make the other party unhappy and put his family's lives in danger.
After breakfast, Gu Zhiyin went to Qingyi Courtyard.
Fu Yunyao also woke up, and the maid was serving her medicine. Her face still looked pale, but her spirit was much better than yesterday.
His eyes are clear and radiant.
"Big sister." Gu Zhiyin walked into the room and called out.
Fu Yunyao was immediately delighted when she saw the person coming: "Yinyin is here, have you eaten yet?"
"I've eaten." Gu Zhiyin asked, "How do you feel today, big sister?"
"Yeah, much better." Fu Yunyao pursed her lips and smiled: "After leaving that terrible yard, I feel much more relieved. There's nothing wrong with it."
"That's good." Gu Zhiyin nodded and said, "I don't know if my mother has told you that Doctor Qi felt your pulse yesterday and guessed that you were poisoned. But since Doctor Qi said so, it's almost certain."
Fu Yunyao's expression suddenly turned cold. She drank the last sip of medicine, asked the maid to leave, and looked at Gu Zhiyin and said, "My mother just came and told me." As she spoke, her hands that were pinching the quilt slowly tightened, and anger welled up in her eyes, "I treat them as family, but they want to kill me just because I don't agree with Pei Shuyan's marriage? Ha, it's ridiculous. I've been married for just over a year, and they are so eager to find a concubine for Ji Yuanwen. For the sake of a merchant girl, they dared to poison me. They favored the concubine and killed the wife before they even entered the house. They simply deserve to die, cough cough cough..."
Gu Zhiyin opened her mouth, wanting to say that the Ji family was not going to give Ji Yuanwen a concubine, but was going to directly replace his wife!
Gu Zhiyin quickly brought a glass of water to Fu Yunyao and patted her back to help her calm down.
"well enough?"
Fu Yunyao drank some water, calmed down, and shook her head at Gu Zhiyin: "I'm fine."
"Big sister, take good care of yourself. Your health is the most important thing now. We will take care of the rest." Gu Zhiyin said, "I had Doctor Mao, who treated you, brought back last night for interrogation. He confessed that Wei threatened and bribed him to delay your cold. He used the medicine you drank and tampered with your diet. There was nothing wrong with each of them, but the two of them counteracted each other and produced a chronic poison that made you sick. I think if Doctor Qi had not been close to my grandfather, he might not have told us his guess."
It is too difficult to determine whether the patient is poisoned just by looking at the pulse.
The poison caused by the incompatibility between medicinal herbs and food is unnoticeable. No matter whether it is the imperial physician or the folk doctor, generally speaking, no one would guess in this direction. After all, who would have thought that the Ji family would poison the princess's daughter-in-law? Even if the imperial physician or doctor with excellent medical skills has doubts, they dare not speak rashly without clear evidence.
The Xing'an Marquisate dared to poison the princess. How many lives do they have left to get involved in the conspiracy behind this?
Most people choose to protect themselves and conceal the facts.
Fu Yunyao looked at Gu Zhiyin in surprise: "He confessed so quickly?"
Mao Yongchang dared to collude with the people in Xing'an Marquis Mansion. No matter how tough he was, he couldn't have confessed so quickly, right?
"Did you use torture?" Fu Yunyao asked again after a pause.
Na Yinyin is also very capable. Poisoning caused by food incompatibility is difficult to trace the source. In the absence of evidence, no matter how stupid Mao Yongchang is, he should know that he cannot admit it. In the end, this matter may just end up in nothing.
But now she actually said that Mao Yongchang admitted to poisoning her?
Fu Yunyao admired Gu Zhiyin very much.
Gu Zhiyin's lips curled slightly, and he chuckled and said, "No torture was used, it was just a show."
Fu Yunyao: "Hmm?"
"Your condition is getting worse, and the rash on your face is said to be contagious. The doctor who treated you had a big problem himself. Later, Doctor Qi said that you might have been poisoned, so I asked someone to check which doctor was hired by the Xing'an Marquis's Mansion. You were taken away by us, and the Xing'an Marquis and his wife must be worried that Mao Yongchang was exposed. They will most likely go find him and either make him go away or kill him to silence him."
"We were lucky. When we got there, we saw him packing his luggage and preparing to flee. So Qingcheng and a group of people followed him out of the city quietly. When no one was around, they pretended to be from the Xing'an Marquis' Mansion and killed him to silence him. At the critical moment, the guards from our mansion showed up to save him. Mao Yongchang believed it and followed the guards back without saying a word."
"The Xing'an Marquisate fell out with him and killed someone, so he gave up everything. Plus, with the intimidation from Mother Qin and the other two, he confessed everything without a struggle. This is the document he signed and sealed." Gu Zhiyin said, taking out a stack of papers and handing them to Fu Yunyao.
Fu Yunyao took it and looked at it, a chill on her pale face...
"Yinyin, ask my grandmother and my father and mother to come for me."
Gu Zhiyin looked at Fu Yunyao, whose face was gloomy but eyes were firm, and nodded slowly.
Soon, the voices of servants greeting were heard outside the house, and the old princess, Fu Zheng and Wen walked into the house.
"What's wrong with Yao'er? Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?" The old princess walked in front, her wrinkled face full of concern.
Fu Zheng and Wen Shi also looked at her nervously.
Fu Yunyao looked at the three of them, and a bitter smile appeared on her beautiful face: "Grandma, my granddaughter is unfilial. I'm afraid it will bring shame to the palace."
The three of them paused for a moment, and vaguely guessed what Fu Yunyao meant.
They had just learned that Mao Yongchang was brought back to the palace, interrogated overnight and confessed. The Xing'an Marquisate was so cruel and audacious that they would not let the Ji family go even if Fu Yunyao was indifferent.
"I want a divorce!" said Fu Yunyao.
The old princess nodded without hesitation: "Okay!"
"Divorce." Fu Zheng gnashed his teeth and agreed, with a fierce light in his eyes: "The Ji family's bastards actually dared to harm you. I will go to the Ministry of Justice and punish them."
Ji Yuanwen, that scum, swore to love and protect his daughter when he begged to marry her, but only a year later he dared to poison her daughter for his new love.
Do you think his Fu family is easy to bully?
Upon hearing this, Fu Yunyao handed Mao Yongchang's confession to Fu Zheng.
Fu Zheng went to the Ministry of Justice with murderous intent.
"Where's Zhou Huai?"
Fu Zheng didn't see the Minister of Justice, so he asked the official next to him.
The official bowed respectfully and said, "Master Zhou has gone to the prison. I wonder what the prince wants?"