Slender willows sway in the breeze

Chapter 16 True Biography
"Nine-Turtle Poison".

Everyone present was taken aback.

Liu Siqin exclaimed, "How is that possible? It was Master Li who cured me when I was poisoned. How could he have died from this poison?"

"That's a great question, sister!"

That's a brilliant question.

"Master Li clearly cured my elder sister's poison, so why can't he cure his own?" Liu Sijun looked at the pale-faced Zhu Yingrong. "Why don't you, Aunt Zhu, enlighten everyone?"

"How would I know?"

"If Aunt Zhu doesn't want to say, then I'll do it for her!"

Back then, Master Li was seriously injured while refining the Shuluo Pill for Liu Shiyuan, which caused his cultivation level to drop.

His alchemy skills were subsequently affected.

He could deal with common ailments, but he no longer had the ability to detoxify complex poisons like the Nine-Turn Turtle Venom.

Liu Siqin's poison was not cured by Master Li; Aunt Zhu had already given her an antidote pill.

Others might not see it, but Master Li knew it perfectly well.

Twenty years have passed since Liu Tailin died, and the Liu family is no longer what it used to be. Moreover, after Zhu Yingrong took over the household management, his treatment has deteriorated day by day.

Having discovered Zhu Yingrong's methods of harming people, he decided to leave the Liu family.

I never expected to be murdered so soon after I left.

"No, you're making baseless accusations."

Liu Siqin shouted, "Father, what my third sister said is all slander! My aunt would never do such a thing!"

Zhu Yingrong was already very flustered inside, but she remained calm on the surface: "Third Miss, your father punished you by sending you to another courtyard because of your playing the zither. Your aunt knows you harbor resentment. The story you told was very interesting, but it was all speculation, without any evidence!"

Yes, she has no evidence.

Those recording symbols are most likely fake.

Otherwise, he wouldn't be saying so much nonsense.

Zhu Yingrong felt relieved, as if she had been brought back to life.

Not only that, she could also turn around and bite Liu Sijun, and ideally, take this opportunity to get out of the Liu family completely.

Then he met the same fate as Li Danshi.

Thinking of this, a hint of excitement lingered in his eyes.

Liu Sijun calmly withdrew his gaze.

Get excited, get really excited, because you'll soon experience the feeling of falling from the clouds to the bottom of the valley.

"Father, you should lift the seal on the recording talisman and let everyone hear what truth it has recorded!"

A hint of hesitation flashed in Liu Shiyuan's eyes, but in the end he still raised his hand to forcibly remove the restriction on the recording talisman.

Gray spiritual energy emanated from the talisman, and two people appeared before them: one was the deceased Lixiang, and the other was Zhu Yingrong. Judging from the room's furnishings, it was her Liushuang Courtyard.

In the scene, Zhu Yingrong hands Lingxiang a red box.

"Secretly place this in the Third Miss's room. I promise you, once it's done, I will remove your slave status, give you a hundred high-grade crystals, and let you go home."

Before the image disappeared, the recording device focused on recording the appearance of the box.

The box is exquisite and small, small enough for a woman to hold in her palm, and it is engraved with a daffodil.

"Father, does this box look familiar?"

That was the box containing the Nine-Turn Turtle Poison. Four years ago, Liu Shiyuan personally searched Liu Sijun's room and found it. How could he forget it!

"Rong'er, did you really do all this?"

The color drained from Aunt Zhu's face instantly.

She never expected that there really was a recording talisman, and she never expected that the lowly maid would be so audacious as to record their conversation.

Good, good, good indeed. As expected of a maid personally chosen by the Chu family, she is truly capable.

Even years after her death, they still tricked her.

Seeing that she could no longer hide the truth, Zhu Yingrong finally tore off her mask of hypocrisy.

"That's right, I poisoned Qin'er and then framed the Third Miss. I also sent someone to poison Master Li to death."

"Zhu Yingrong, Siqin is our child, how could you do this to her?"

"You're a vicious woman!" "Even tigers don't eat their cubs. I was blind back then, thinking you were kind and easy to bully. Whether it was the Chu family or my mother who made things difficult for you, they all tried their best to protect you. I never expected you to be so heartless."

"Ha ha……"

Is he blind?

It's obvious that I'm blind.

Thinking of the grievances she had suffered over the years, Zhu Yingrong laughed heartily.

Liu Shiyuan cursed, "He's gone mad! He's truly gone mad!"

"I may be crazy, but it was you, Liu Shiyuan, who drove me crazy." Zhu Yingrong pointed at Liu Shiyuan's nose and cursed, "You, who claim to be affectionate, are actually stubborn, self-willed, and heartless."

“Back then, you promised to marry me as your principal wife, which is why I became pregnant before marriage. But then you married Chu as your principal wife.”

"Because I am pregnant, I can only be a concubine."

"Liu Shiyuan, compared to the Chu family, I actually hate you the most. If you can't marry me as your principal wife, you shouldn't have bothered me in the first place! If I weren't already pregnant, I would never have married you."

"You, Liu Shiyuan, love no one but yourself. You are a selfish, hypocritical, and despicable person!"

It felt really good to vent all my anger.

"you!"

Being scolded by a favored concubine made Liu Shiyuan feel utterly humiliated.

Enraged, he slapped her across the face.

Fueled by anger, Zhu Yingrong was thrown into the air, crashing into the barrier set up by Zhu Lecheng and bouncing back.

Zhu Lecheng rushed over and helped Zhu Yingrong up.

Zhu Yingrong couldn't stand up straight at all, and blood kept flowing from her nose and the corners of her mouth.

Liu Siqin knelt before Liu Shiyuan, weeping and pleading, "Father, please don't hit Auntie. She always respected you the most. It's all because of Liu Sijun that there has been no peace in the house since she came home."

"Eldest sister, you truly inherited this skill from Aunt Zhu!"

Liu Siqin's crying stopped abruptly: "What?"

"This is blatant distortion of the truth!"

Liu Sijun smiled sweetly: "It was Aunt Zhu who did the evil. I just exposed her evil deeds, and my elder sister blamed it on me without any explanation."

Liu Shiyuan's anger intensified.

"Guards, take Aunt Zhu back to the manor and lock her in the ancestral hall to await further instructions. The eldest young lady is confined to Siyu Pavilion and is not allowed to step out of the courtyard without my order."

Locking someone in the ancestral hall would at most mean suffering some physical pain.

Liu Sijun was very dissatisfied with this punishment.

Although Liu Shiyuan immediately handed over the power to manage the household to her as a way of appeasing her.

Liu Sijun remained indignant on behalf of the original owner of the body.

Qingqiu Courtyard

"Sister, I'm not happy!"

Liu Sijun smiled and said, "Qing'er is mistaken."

"No."

Today is the last day that Master Lu Dan will give Liu Sijun acupuncture. Seeing that his disciple is in low spirits, he takes the initiative to tell jokes.

Unfortunately, Liu Sijun had a high threshold for laughter, and Li Qing couldn't understand her.

The only sound in the room was Lu Danshi's goose-like laughter.

The atmosphere became rather awkward for a moment.

Master Lu Dan: "In the end, it will still be dealt with, but your father values ​​his reputation highly, so I don't think he will report it to the authorities."

Li Danshi had no father, no mother, and no children.

He died quietly, and given Liu Shiyuan's nature, he would simply pretend it never happened.

As for her, no one knew that the original owner of this body was already dead.

Zhu Yingrong not only killed Li Danshi, but also owed the original owner of this body a life.

She had been plotting for three years, not only to clear the name of the original owner, but also to make Zhu Yingrong pay for her blood debt.

(End of this chapter)