Chapter 82: Yellow Crane Gone Forever (2)

Like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, I swayed, holding the ebony railing on the arch bridge with one hand, and the other hand was slippery. I don't know when I was sweating.
"Next...poison..." I could barely say these two words.
Li Pingfu nodded, I looked at him with bright eyes: "Can there be evidence?"
He was stunned and shook his head: "Miss, that is chronic poison."
My heart sank and looked at him and said: "It's impossible, the royal doctors are here, how can it be chronic."
A layer of sorrowful hatred appeared on Li Pingfu's face at this time.
He gritted his teeth and said: "It is these imperial doctors who use good medicine as a guise, and the master drank the chronic poison."
My heart was thunderous, but my face was calm. I took a deep breath: "Housekeeper Li, tell me, how did you know?"
Li Pingfu's face changed, and I saw the hesitation in his heart.
I sighed and said, "Since you stopped and I told me, then it should be intended to let me know everything."
My voice was low, gentle and under pressure, he was taken aback, and suddenly looked straight over.
"Miss, it was the attendant who came with you today."
The night is dark and the moon is gone.
The eldest brother knelt across from me, not in good spirits. I looked at the paper money burning in the brazier and the eternal candle in the mourning hall.
I am sober, sober like never before.
What Li Pingfu said to me earlier still echoed in my ears. I recalled the flashes of Shen Xiyao's previous but puzzled look. Now, following Li Pingfu's words, I finally understand everything.
"Miss, you have to be careful. People like this should be removed early. It must be the minister who has a gap with the master." Li Pingfu said to me worriedly.
I only had a wry smile, watching him quietly and listening to him.
"The master was in good spirits that day. Many ministers came to visit the master and didn't know who he was with. I went to the kitchen to have some snacks, thinking about the hard work of the doctors taking care of the master's illness all day long at the house. Brought a dish of dim sum to the place where the doctors lived."
He paused and said, "But the door that was open in the past was closed that day, and there was no one around, only the window was open. I thought the doctors were resting, so I wanted to go to the window to have a look. I won't bother."
He looked straight at me: "As a result, I saw this man talking to the imperial physician, saying that the weight of the medicine should not be too large. The important thing is to slowly take effect and not be noticed."
Li Pingfu recalled what he knew, I could only listen in silence, but my heart was fluctuating, and hatred enveloped my body.
"At first I thought I was also an imperial doctor, but when I was about to leave, the imperial doctor was asking,'How long will it take to be effective?' He smiled wickedly and said softly,'Don't be too long, Master Ling has been alive for too long Yes, remember, then what are you here for.'"
Li Pingfu’s words were full of sadness and hatred. He paused and said,
At that time, his gaze swept to my side. Fortunately, I hid quickly. Without being seen by him, I hurried away. "
I looked into his eyes with fear inside. I suppressed my emotions and asked calmly: "Then, why don't you stop my father. Why do you want to give him the medicine? You know that the medicine is..."
I couldn't say those two words, Li Pingfu shook his head: "Miss, the medicine was brought to the bedside of the master by the imperial doctor himself, watching the master drink it."
He wiped a tear: "I told the master privately, but..." His face was full of regret: "But the master has never believed it."
"I'm sure some minister is waiting for the opportunity to harm the master, but..." He hesitated again.
I couldn't help stepping forward and standing in front of him, looking straight at him: "But what?"
The night breeze made me feel cold. I didn't dare to think about it, but I had to.
"But the master said something after asking it clearly, if you have to die, just..."
Li Pingfu burst into tears, but my heart sank deeply. It was a bottomless abyss.
The king wants the minister to die, the minister has to die.
No wonder Dad resigned, no wonder Dad moved to the Big Brother House to live. It turns out that my dad has been living in extreme danger.
Under the glory that the world looks like, there are many murderous opportunities that the world cannot see.
But my daughter, in that deep palace, thinks everything is fine.
Soon after I entered the palace, my mother went to Jiangnan to visit my third brother. I don't know the news yet.
I told Li Pingfu not to tell anyone anymore, the three brothers and mother must not know the truth.
Although I hate it, it is for the Ling family to let the elder brothers be their good ministers. After all, the Ling family is the family of the first loyal minister of Daxi. Father didn't want to see the Ling family lose the Shen family.
I also know very well that what Shen Xiyao hates is not actually the Ling family, but my dad Lingxiang Lingyun.
It's just that the reason for this hatred is something we don't know.
After all, his father had done a great job in the dynasty. Now in the prosperous age, Shen Xiyao is also Mingjun. It is really puzzling to do such things that harm Zhongliang.
Maybe it's because I thought too long and was too mad, maybe my expression changed too much, my eldest brother looked at me with concern: "Sister, what's wrong with you?"
I looked up and found that my elder brother was looking at me worriedly, and I gave him a very faint smile: "Big brother, I'm fine."
Only then did I realize that my eyes were filled with tears.
"Father's illness later became more serious, and the imperial physicians did their best, but..." The eldest brother did not continue, sighed deeply, and lowered his head.
I looked around this mourning hall and watched the howling wind blowing up and down the leaves, like dead butterflies.
I suddenly felt so tired, my eyes became hollow, and my heart became heavy.
The night is so quiet, so quiet that I feel scared.
With a loud "plop", my eldest brother and I stood up at the same time and looked at each other with face to face.
What happened?
A Ding hurried over: "Grandpa, miss, it's not good, butler Li in the master's house has thrown into the lake..."
I couldn't help but retreat, my heart was pinched tightly in pain, as if it could drip blood.
The eldest brother immediately stepped out, and I also staggered and followed anxiously. There were heavy torches in front, and the air was full of the smell of burnt smoke.
Li Pingfu was lying on the shore, wet, but his face was pale.
The imperial doctor in the house stepped forward to look and shook his head: "There is no rescue."
After finishing talking, I looked at my eldest brother: "I took poison before."
My heart was shocked again, poison and poison again... I clenched my silver teeth, and there was no sadness in my heart, it was all hate.
"Steward Li is a loyal servant, so I will bury him next to his father's tomb." I said weakly, and when I looked up, almost all the attendants in Ling's Mansion came, crying one by one.
However, I did not see Haoyue.
Back then, it was Li Pingfu who took Haoyue in and brought her back to Ling Mansion. I saw that she was clever and well-behaved, and only then took her into my personal maid.
Now that Li Pingfu is dead, she is regarded as his half-adopted daughter, and it is reasonable to inform her.
I looked at the girl standing here and said, "Which one of you will bring Haoyue."
The people looked at each other, but no one moved.