kvmb Chapter 74 I'll Give You One Chance
Chapter 74 I'll Give You One Chance
Lu Yangyang wouldn't solve this kind of case.
She has always been straightforward and decisive in her work.
If someone is disobedient and doesn't tell the truth, a beating will do the trick. If they still don't talk, it just means the beating wasn't severe enough.
Lu Yangyang released Xiao Huan and looked at Aunt Meng with a chilling gaze: "Aunt Meng, is it? I'll give you a chance to explain yourself. Who told you to tamper with Madam's medicine?"
Aunt Meng glanced at her timidly, then looked pitifully at Duke Sheng: "Your Excellency, it wasn't me! I didn't know! Why would my cousin frame me like this? I have no grudge against her!"
As she spoke, tears streamed down her face.
Pear blossoms, glistening with rain, delicate and timid.
"Lu Yangyang, how long are you going to keep this up? This is the Duke of Sheng's residence. I've said it before, this isn't a place where you can act recklessly." The Duke of Sheng's patience had clearly reached its limit. His face was cold and his gaze fell on the doorway. "Guards!"
Suddenly, two guards appeared out of nowhere at the door.
“Father!” Sheng Junyao called out in a low voice.
He quickly walked up to Lu Yangyang and shielded her behind him.
"Father, are you planning to use torture in the manor?" Sheng Junyao's eyes turned cold as he silently confronted the Duke of Sheng.
The Duke of Sheng's face was extremely somber.
No one could have imagined that things would turn out this way.
Duke Sheng initially didn't care about Lu Yangyang, but now he felt a sense of disgust towards her.
"Take them away!" Duke Shengguo coldly ordered impatiently.
The guards came in.
Without hesitation, Sheng Junyao turned around, pulled Lu Yangyang behind him, and glared at the two guards who had entered the room.
"Wait a minute!"
Lan closed her eyes briefly, concealing the disappointment within.
A slight sneer curled at the corner of his lips.
Disappointment, if you accumulate too much, it might just become something you don't really feel anymore.
Some things that we deliberately ignored or deceived ourselves about before, we will find when we wake up one day that disappointment is something that accumulates over time.
Let's see how long I can keep fooling myself.
Lan looked calmly but wearily toward the door: "Bring everyone in."
Soon, two maids dragged in a young maid and an old woman. Meng Yiniang, who had just been crying timidly, immediately changed her expression.
These two people were Ah Xiang, her head maid, and Granny Wu, a maid in her courtyard.
Without wasting words, the maid opened the items found and replied to Madam Lan, "Madam, this is a document found in the room of A Xiang, the head maid of Concubine Meng. It has Xiao Huan's father's fingerprint on it. Concubine Meng gave him two hundred taels of silver and made him put his fingerprint on it to prevent him from going back on his word."
Then she opened another bag: "This bag of medicine was found in this old woman Wu's courtyard. I found out that this old woman had secretly gone to the pharmacy to buy these two medicines several times. She was probably afraid of being discovered. She went to several pharmacies. This is her record of buying medicine."
At this moment, Granny Hui also took out a list: "Madam takes medicine all year round. Although there are many medicines in the mansion, in order to avoid the problem of medication errors, every time medicine is taken, it is recorded. I had someone check this month's list, and these two medicines are less than four ounces short, which is why it was not discovered."
"The medicinal herbs in our household are always carefully selected, mostly purchased from Renxintang, and their quality is somewhat different from that of other pharmacies. I have compared them, and some of the herbs found in this old woman's room were stolen from our household, while others were purchased from outside. Recently, after the prescription was changed, these two herbs were used less often, so I specifically had someone keep a close eye on the storeroom. Therefore, no medicinal herbs have been lost in the past two weeks."
"However, among the medicines found in Granny Wu's room, some were lost from the mansion and some were bought from outside. The quality is different, and you can tell by comparing them."
"These medicine dregs aren't from a while ago, but from the most recent ones. Even now, they still dare to tamper with the madam's medicine. Such audacity is something no maid or servant would dare to do."
"Aunt Meng, do you still claim you didn't know?"
The color drained completely from Aunt Meng's face, and her lips trembled as she tried to explain, but the evidence was irrefutable, and she had no way to defend herself.
"I, I... I, I..." Aunt Meng was clearly panicked. After a moment of stunned silence, she hurriedly crawled toward Madam Lan: "Madam, Madam, I am guilty, Madam, spare me, Madam, spare me! I was wrong, please forgive me..."
Worried that she might run into Madam Lan, Granny Hui quickly pulled her away.
"Your Excellency, please help me. I know I was wrong, I was really wrong... Please give me another chance, considering how many years I have served you..." Concubine Meng crawled up to Duke Sheng again and hugged his leg.
"Get out!" Duke Sheng said with a dark face, kicking her away.
Aunt Meng was kicked so hard that she spat out a mouthful of blood, but she was unwilling to give up and crawled back up, grabbing the hem of Duke Sheng's clothes to plead for mercy.
Duke Sheng grabbed her by the neck: "Tell me, who gave you permission to do this? Who gave you the audacity to lay a hand on the Madam!"
Aunt Meng's slender neck seemed to snap in his hands with the slightest twist.
Aunt Meng stared blankly at the man before her, and after a moment of daze, she suddenly laughed: "No one made me do this, I did it on my own. What did I do wrong? I just wanted a child of my own! Duke, I have served you for so many years, and I have no other wish than to have a child of my own. I have always been respectful and obedient to you, Madam, but why, why did you not only give me medicine to abort my child, but also make me unable to have children from now on!"
"Yes, I switched Madam's medicine. I had someone tamper with it. Madam already has so many outstanding children, why can't she accept my child? Why!"
Aunt Meng's eyes were filled with tears, but her pupils were bloodshot.
She looked at the Duke of Sheng with despair, almost to the point of madness.
Duke Sheng tightened his grip slightly, making it difficult for Aunt Meng to breathe.
Duke Sheng then released his grip.
Aunt Meng's body went limp and she collapsed to the ground, coughing softly.
Knowing there was no hope, she collapsed helplessly to the ground, laughing and crying intermittently, looking utterly desperate.
"You've already said that I have several excellent children, so why would I want to harm yours?" Madam Lan's tone was very calm, and she didn't even flinch at Meng Yiniang's madness. "I don't know where you heard this rumor from, but if I really wanted to cut off your offspring, I would have given you a dose of infertility-preventing medicine the day you entered the manor as a concubine. Why would I wait until you get pregnant?"