Painting Doctor Jinhua

Chapter 139 The Accomplice Behind the Scenes

Perhaps because she had not expected Xiao Jinyu to ask this question, Xiao Qin shuddered and glanced at her in disbelief and fear, lowering her head and saying, "I really don't know, I don't know..."

"Xiao Qin, over the past ten years, you have repeatedly given Princess Yunyin advice, and she considers you a confidant. Don't you know where this poison came from?"

"Princess Yunyin doesn't know medicine, let alone poison, so the preparation and use of these poisons must be done by you, right?"

When Xiao Jinyu asked this question, Xiao Yuan looked at Xiao Qin in disbelief, and became a little excited and out of control.

She suddenly ran to Xiao Qin, held the girl's shoulders, shook her and asked sternly:

"So, it was you who poisoned my son, right? Ah Qin, I usually treat you well, how could you be so cruel and help Princess Yunyin to harm my son?"

Faced with Xiao Yuan's grief and accusations, Xiao Qin sneered.

"Mother, are you really good to me? If you were, you wouldn't have killed my biological mother, Aunt Zhao. Aunt Zhao just made a small mistake, but you sold her out. She was just a concubine, how could she have a good ending if she was sold out? So you caused her to commit suicide!"

"What did you say? Who told you? Who told you that?"

"Who else could it be? My father told me. He said Aunt Zhao was your maidservant who came with your dowry. You gave her to me as a reward, but you were jealous of him doting on Aunt Zhao and ignored you. So Aunt Zhao just broke a piece of porcelain, and you wanted to sell her off!"

"He's talking nonsense! Nonsense! Would I compete with a maid for his favor? For his favor? This is ridiculous, ridiculous!"

Xiao Yuan laughed at herself, tears streaming down her face. So from the very beginning, Xiao Jian had never treated her children as his own. He had been planning this from the very beginning. It was not because he was threatened by Princess Yunyin that he did not hesitate to use the maidservants around her and even his own children!

"This has never happened. Your mother, Zhao, has been my personal maid since she was young. She grew up with me and I have a very good relationship with her. It was your father who took her away from me, and then I let her become your father's concubine after you were born. But after you were born, she has always lived with me, but there was one time..."

Xiao Yuan suddenly remembered that one day Zhao ran to her in a panic, as if she wanted to tell her something, but there were guests at the house at that time, so she interrupted what she wanted to say. After the guests left, when she went to Zhao to ask questions again, Zhao had already fallen into the pond and was dead when she was fished out.

At that time, a servant from the mansion came to report that Zhao had accidentally fallen into the water. Although she had investigated the matter, she did not find any other abnormalities, so she treated it as an accident. Because of her guilt towards Zhao, she raised Xiao Qin and treated her like her own daughter.

At that time, Princess Yunyin had not yet married into the palace, but Xiao Jian had already started to plot...

"So, it was Xiao Jian who was using you and your hatred to deal with me and harm my son... You were poisoning my son. Did Xiao Jian give you the poison?"

Xiao Qin was also a little confused, bewildered, and desperate for a moment.

"Use? You said my father used me? He has been lying to me and using me?"

He muttered to himself, smiling bitterly with tears streaming down his face.

"Aqin, tell me, where did the poison come from? Who is their accomplice?"

"I don't know. I just happened to hear them say that this poison is rare and extremely valuable. It comes from a secret organization in Qi State. I heard them mention a noble lady in Qi State, the Lady of the County!"

"Lord Lu?" Xiao Jinyu walked over and asked.

Xiao Qin suddenly looked up as if she was awake. It was obvious that her reaction showed that she was very familiar with the title of Lord Lu.

"I did poison my third brother, but I didn't know about the deaths of my first and second brothers. I was forced to poison my third brother by them. I didn't intend to poison my third brother..."

"But you did this thing?" Xiao Jinyu asked coldly.

"Yes, I did. Under the coercion of Princess Yunyin, I also did many things to harm the descendants of the Xiao family. But what can I do? If I don't obey, they will send me away and give me to any old official who is beneficial to them as a concubine. My life and death will not be controlled by myself.

Xiao Jinyu, although you are called an illegitimate daughter, you still have a mother. You grew up safely under the love of your mother. Your mother gave you beauty, wisdom and talents that others cannot reach, which gave you endless wealth.

As for me, I lost my biological mother when I was young. A few years later, my stepmother became crazy and my father didn’t love me. No one in the Xiao Mansion was sincere to me, except for Xiao Yun. In order to vent his animal desires, he actually...

I live in fear and torture every day. Do you think I don’t want to live like a normal person?

Do you think I don’t want to be in harmony with my family and enjoy the happiness of being a happy family?

I wanted to, but no one cared about me. I was just a concubine's daughter and had no right to..."

Xiao Qin's roaring words shocked Xiao Yuan and made her silent.

Sixteen years ago, she was often depressed because of Aluan's affairs, and sometimes complained as if she was crazy. She indeed neglected to care for her other children. So, is it because of her negligence and lack of care that Liu Niang has become like this today?

"Aqin, I'm sorry. I raised you but didn't teach you... I ignored your feelings..."

Suddenly hearing what Xiao Yuan said, Xiao Qin's eyes, which were full of resentment, were suddenly filled with hatred, and big tears fell.

She suddenly buried her face in her hands, and said with an exhausted smile: "Just kill me! I'm tired, I don't want to fight or rob anymore, just let me rest here forever!"

After saying this, she closed her eyes and raised her head as if she had lost all hope, as if waiting for her followers to kill her with a single blow of their sword!

But she waited for a long time, but never waited for this moment. When she opened her eyes, all the people in front of her had left. There were no soldiers on duty in the entire Xiao Mansion, and even the servants had fled after taking their indentures.

This family is really broken up!

nothing left!

Xiao Jinyu didn't dare to use those servants who had done dirty things for Princess Yunyin, nor did she recommend Xiao Xian to keep them, so she bought some servants herself. Afterwards, she checked the land tenants, houses, shops, charity schools and other assets, as well as the troops and private soldiers, and cleaned up all the places that Princess Yunyin had infiltrated.

Due to Princess Yunyin's manipulation over the past twenty years, these private soldiers have been divided into two factions. One faction is the old soldiers who are loyal to the Xiao family's direct bloodline, and the other faction is the newcomers that Princess Yunyin has replaced over the years.

Xiao Jinyu eliminated these newcomers who were loyal to Princess Yunyin.

After a massive reorganization, the prominent branch of the Lanling Xiao family finally took on a whole new look, and before long, everyone moved to their new mansion in Wuyi Lane.

"Sister, our new home is so grand!"

For this new Xiao Mansion, Xiao Jinyu also invited someone who was very knowledgeable in geomancy to choose the site. There is also a stone Qilin guarding the gate of the mansion. Once the gate is opened, the inside is extremely spacious, with large tracts of sycamore and poplar trees planted in it, and there are also rockery, pools, pavilions, towers, and winding corridors to embellish it.

Xiao Jinyu looked at the family members in the house, all with happy smiles on their faces, and heard Ah Yuan's laughter in the courtyard, as if she had returned to the Xie family's house. As she watched, she couldn't help but become absent-minded again.

"Ayu——"

Almost every time she lost consciousness, Xiao Xian could feel the melancholy and nostalgia in her heart.

"Ayu, can you tell Uncle Xian the truth, that you like Prince Lanling?" Xiao Xian suddenly asked.

"Yes, I do. What girl wouldn't like a man as handsome as him, who can be called a real husband?"

"You know very well that's not the kind of love I'm talking about!"

Xiao Xian smiled bitterly.

Xiao Jinyu then raised her eyes, facing the mist of the sunset, and looked into Xiao Xian's starry eyes, which were slightly melancholy but full of concern.

After a pause, he answered, "I don't know. I can't give Uncle Xian an accurate answer. I originally no longer believed in another kind of sincerity besides family affection, but he made me believe that there might be such sincerity in this world."

“So, I want to give it another try!”

After she finished speaking, she smiled brightly, and this smile made all the worries, sorrows, and guilt that had been pent up in Xiao Xian's heart for a long time disappear.

In the end, only a faint sense of loss and reluctance remains, forever hidden deep in my heart.

As the two were chatting, they suddenly heard Yuan Rujing's voice: "Hey, isn't this the Prince of Lanling? Since the Prince is here, why doesn't he come into the mansion?"