Ning Dao Covered with Snow

Chapter 162 Protection
Speaking of this, Lingniang's eyes were already wet. Even though many years had passed, every time she thought of her mother's tragic death, she still felt so sad that she almost suffocated.

The fire lasted for three days and three nights.

By the time she found one unrecognizable charred corpse after another from the ruins, her soul had been completely devoured by anger and hatred.

She pressed her chest, her eyes red.

"Hong Ling told me that my brother guessed that Xie Chen asked him to assassinate Emperor Wen in order to frame the Crown Prince Renxian. The Crown Prince Renxian had done us a favor, and my brother did not want to be an ungrateful villain. Therefore, he did not intend to really assassinate Emperor Wen from the beginning. He pretended to agree to cooperate with Xie Chen's plan, and actually planned to tell Emperor Wen about Xie Chen's conspiracy when he met him. But my brother still underestimated Xie Chen's shamelessness. Xie Chen never thought of letting him really contact Emperor Wen from the beginning. The so-called assassination plan was just a cover. My brother did not get to see Emperor Wen at all. He Almost as soon as he appeared, he was killed on the spot by Xie Chen in the name of saving the emperor. He did not give my brother a chance to speak from beginning to end. To those high and mighty people like Xie Chen, ordinary civilians like us are no different from ants. Whether it is my brother or the more than one hundred lives in the temple, life and death are only in his mind. But why? We have done nothing wrong. We are just living a stable life. Why can't even such a small wish be fulfilled for us? Just because we are civilians, are we born to be inferior to Xie Chen? ! "

Yan Ciwan couldn't answer.

Outside the yard, Fu Bai had already counted to two.

But Lingniang turned a deaf ear to it.

She was immersed in her own world, her hands slowly clasped together like a devout pilgrim, tears falling from the corners of her eyes.

"When I lived in Lingdie Temple, my mother, brother and I ate vegetarian food every day, worked hard to accumulate virtue and do good deeds, and tried our best to help everyone around us who needed help. We prayed to the Buddha devoutly, hoping that our family would be happy and healthy. But when my mother was tortured and abused, the Buddha did not appear. When everyone cried for help, the Buddha did not appear. When Lingdie Temple was engulfed by fire, the Buddha still did not appear. In fact, there is no Buddha in this world. The so-called good people will be rewarded is just bullshit. No one can help us. I no longer believe in Buddhism. I will kill them all one by one with my own hands!"

At the end, she put down her hands and couldn't help laughing. Even though there were tears in the corners of her eyes, she still laughed happily.

"Mother, brother, can you see this in heaven? I have avenged you! All those who killed you are now dead!"

Yan Ciwan looked at her and said, "I've never seen you so happy."

"Of course I'm happy!" Ling Niang laughed heartily. "I sold myself, from a good family to a lowly one, willing to be a concubine to that old man Chu Wangshan. I have been lying dormant for twenty years, just to wait for the day when I can get my revenge. Do you know how it felt when I stabbed them in the heart with a knife just now and the blood spurted out of their bodies? It was so satisfying!"

Yan Ciwan suddenly asked, "What about Fu Xue?"

The smile on Lingniang's face gradually faded.

Among all the people she attacked, only Fu Xue was innocent.

When Fu Xue was born, the events of Lingdie Temple had long become a thing of the past. She knew nothing and had done nothing.

But Chu Wangshan's blood flows in her body.

Ling Niang said in a hoarse voice: "I didn't want to kill her."

Yan Ciwan said: "So you already knew that the cook would put white ginger in the mutton soup when she cooked it?"

"I know that white ginger can reduce the toxicity of aconite. My original intention was just to poison Axue to force Chu Wangshan and others to tell the truth of the year. By the way, I could also reduce the suspicion on myself. After all, no one would believe that I, as a mother, would poison my own daughter. But I didn't expect that Axue would hang herself. I originally thought that it was A Shi who did it secretly. He wanted to kill Axue and then pretend that she committed suicide by hanging. But I asked A Shi afterwards, and he swore that he had never done anything to hurt Axue."

So until now Lingniang still doesn’t understand why Fuxue was almost hanged to death when she found her.

Yan Ciwan saw the doubt in her heart and said with a complicated expression: "I checked Fu Xue's house, and the doors and windows were locked from the inside. This means that when Fu Xue hanged herself, she was the only one in the house."

Ling Niang stared at her blankly, and a guess came to her mind. "Could it be Axue herself... But how is this possible?!"

Yan Ciwan said slowly, "You handed the bowl of mutton soup to Fu Xue yourself. When she was poisoned, she immediately thought it was you who did it, but she didn't think of exposing you. Not only that, she also wanted to cover up for you. She locked the doors and windows herself, and she also hung the rope on the beam herself. She thought that as long as she committed suicide, this matter would not be traced to you, and you would be safe that way."

Lingniang never thought that the truth would be like this.

She murmured absentmindedly, "Why? Why is she so stupid?"

"Because she is the child you risked your life to give birth to after ten months of pregnancy. In order to protect you, she was willing to hurt herself, just like when you were infected with the plague, you secretly poured out the medicine and deliberately made your condition worse in order to go to the clinic to accompany your mother. What Fu Xue is doing now is the same as what you did back then."

Lingniang's mind was filled with guilt and regret, and for a moment she didn't even doubt why Yan Ciwan knew what happened twenty-five years ago?

She pressed her aching chest, slowly bent down, and choked up as she called out, "Ahxue, it's my fault for you."

Outside the hospital, Fu Bai's countdown has reached its final beat.

"one!"

Immediately afterwards, a loud bang was heard, and the gate of Yufengtang was slammed open from the outside.

Lingniang's body trembled.

She suddenly pounced on Yan Ci Wan, not to launch a sneak attack, but to snatch back the boning knife.

Yan Ciwan reacted quickly and dodged her hand.

Lingniang's eyes were red: "Give the knife back to me!"

Rather than being sent to the execution ground, she would rather die here. At least A Niang and A Shi are here and they will always be with her.

Yan Ciwan suddenly attacked and hit her hard on the back of the neck.

Lingniang’s eyes went dark and she fainted immediately.

Her body fell limply, Yan Ciwan reached out and hugged her in time, then took her to the top of the wall and left Yufengtang.

When the guards rushed in, they found He Chunzhuo and four others lying in a pool of blood, and the murderer was nowhere to be found. Only a string of red bloody footprints were left in the snow in the courtyard.

Si Buping stood in the courtyard and found two shallow footprints next to the bloody footprints. Judging from the size, they seemed to be those of a woman.

He looked up at the top of the wall, which was originally covered with white snow, but now there was an obvious dent in the snow, probably because someone had just stepped on it.

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