jdhmnovel Chapter 541: Kidnappers? They all directed and acted themselves.
Chapter 541: Kidnappers? They all directed and acted themselves.
"This medicine does not need to be decocted. Can we just add some water and drink it?" Zhao Qi asked, looking at the strange medicine in his hand.
"Well, just do as I say. Take it after meals, twice a day, one pack at a time."
"Thank you." Zhao Qi had suffered a lot during these days of running around. Holding the medicine in his hand, he, a grown man, almost shed tears.
Yao Qingnian saw that the time was almost up, so she stood up and prepared to leave. Zhao Qi suddenly said, "Miss, I heard that Madam Shen and Shen Wenting have divorced. Is that true?"
"Well, now she is not Mrs. Shen."
"This is a good thing. In fact, Shen Wenting didn't really like Madam Shen at the beginning. He was just attracted by her identity as a young lady from the Duke's Mansion and the benefits she could bring to him. Those things about being a hero saving a beautiful woman were all directed and acted by him."
"What did you say?" Yao Qingnian sat down again.
"It was not an accident that Shen Wenting met Chen Shuhua, but a premeditated design. He kept it extremely secret. If my uncle hadn't let it slip when he was drunk that day, I would never have known about it.
That day, when my uncle and I were free, we cooked some side dishes at home and started drinking. After three rounds of drinks, my drunken uncle told me some things.
He said that when he first followed Shen Wenting, he was just a poor boy who had just passed the imperial examination. He had nothing, no connections in the court and no background. The fastest way was to find a suitable marriage, so that he would have a backer and help him rise. By chance, he met Chen Shuhua.
Shen Wenting was also an elegant young man in the past. He was handsome and talented in writing, which attracted many girls. However, he didn't like any of them. He either disliked those girls because their family backgrounds were too low and they couldn't help him, or they just looked down on him. So when he met Chen Shuhua by chance, he learned that she was the only daughter of the Duke's Mansion, who grew up in love and had a simple and kind personality. He was instantly attracted to her. Only a girl like this could help his future. Not only did she have a good family background and good looks, she also had a good personality and was easy to control.
So he created an opportunity to get close to your mother. Your mother saw that he came from a poor family, had graduated from high school at a young age, had a good appearance, and was good at talking, so she soon fell in love with him. But after your grandfather heard about it, he cut off the contact between the two. He thought Shen Wentingguan was good at sweet talk, so he didn't think highly of him and asked someone to warn him not to harass his daughter again.
Your grandparents didn't agree, so your mother stopped contacting her. Your mother already had an engagement, and the old Duke Chen also had a favorite son-in-law, so Shen Wenting had no chance of getting close to her. But he was unwilling to give up, and thought about winning her over no matter what. In addition to trying to get close to your mother, he was also planning to force the Duke to marry your mother to him.
So he asked someone to pretend to be a bandit and kidnap your mother, and then he would appear as a hero to save the beauty. In this way, your mother's reputation would be ruined, and she would have to marry Shen Wenting. But even so, the Duke still did not agree to let his daughter marry him.
There was no other way, he could only stage a plan to marry no one but your mother, and swear that he would never take a concubine in his life and would only have your mother as his wife.
But over the years, he not only found concubines and used your mother's dowry to support them, but also used the power and reputation of the Duke's Mansion to live a prosperous life in the court. My uncle and I followed him, did a lot of things, and lived a happy life for many years. "
"Even this matter between him and my mother was set up by him?" Yao Qingnian thought that he had done so many wrong things because he was greedy for power and money, but at least he married Chen Shuhua because he loved her. He didn't expect that even this was fake. This... How should he tell Chen Shuhua about this?
"Well, he has more than one mistress. He has another one, and it's very secretive. Even my uncle doesn't know about it. But what is certain is that the child he brought back was related to that secret mistress."
"The mistress you are talking about is his childhood sweetheart in his hometown in the countryside, right? Didn't she die?" Chen Shuhua investigated Shen Youran's life experience and found out that her biological mother was Xier, the childhood sweetheart of Shen Wenting in the countryside. However, Xier said that she died of complications during childbirth. Could it be that Shen Wenting had other concubines?
"I don't know the details. I was only responsible for helping my uncle do some errands within my ability. He left the more important things to my uncle. So this should be the reason why he wanted to kill my uncle. He did too many shameful things for him. If these things were leaked out, it would be enough to ruin his reputation. That's why he resorted to this desperate measure. Not only did he kill my uncle, but he also killed all his family members." Zhao Qi continued with a face full of resentment.
"Is there any hidden story behind me being sent to the countryside?" Yao Qingnian was a little bit unbelievable.
"I didn't participate in this matter, but in the first few years after you were sent to the countryside, I was responsible for delivering daily necessities and silver to you. But later, we received an order from Shen Wenting, asking us to give him the silver and not to deliver it to you anymore. We all depended on Shen Wenting for food, so whatever he said was what we did. If he didn't allow us to deliver the silver, we didn't deliver it. Every year, we gave him the silver privately. As for the supplies, my uncle asked me to exchange those that could be exchanged for silver, and we divided it between us. Those that couldn't be exchanged for silver were taken back for our own use.
Madam never doubted us. I thought at the time that even if they found out, the master would be responsible and we couldn't be blamed. But at the critical moment, I didn't expect that my uncle would still take the blame."
After listening to her, it took Yao Qingnian a while to come back to his senses. Only then did he realize that Shen Wenting had done so many shameful things.
She told Zhao Qi a few words and asked him to keep the matter secret. She would find a way to find the evidence left by Lao Qiao. She believed that as long as the evidence had not been destroyed, it would be found. If there was any discovery or if he remembered anything missing, he could come to the Duke's Mansion to find her at any time.
After she left, Zhao Qi looked at the medicine in his hand, called Guisheng over, and made the medicine according to Yao Qingnian's instructions, and asked her to drink it.
For some reason, when he saw Yao Qingnian, he believed that this young lady would definitely be able to help them get revenge.
"Dad, that sister didn't lie to me. This medicine is really sweet. But it's not really medicine. It's sweeter than sugar water. If I were to drink medicine like this, I would drink it every day!"
"What nonsense! Who wants to take medicine every day? Okay, after you finish taking the medicine, go and rest in your room." Zhao Qi looked at him and said the medicine tasted so good, but he was still a little unconvinced. Looking at the remaining medicine in the bowl, he took a little with his hand and put it in his mouth...