Black Lotus Concubine's Case-solving Notes

Chapter 104 Shu Bai turns dark

"It's so stupid!"

Xie Qian shook his head, and suddenly turned around to look at Xie Shubai, who was standing in the corner with pale lips: "Your mother is too stupid, Shu'er, don't learn from her."

Xie Shubai immediately knelt down in fear: "My daughter doesn't dare!"

"That's good," Xie Qian smiled faintly, walked to Xie Shubai, and said in a voice that only she could hear: "You are now a county lady. In August next year, on the prince's birthday, your father will definitely use all the strength of the family to send you to the East Palace. So in the days to come, you just need to wait quietly, don't show off, and don't have any accidents, understand?"

"Shubai, follow your father's teachings!"

Xie Qian nodded with satisfaction, and then said to Feng Jia, who had recovered from her shock, "Zhao'er, come with me!"

Feng Jia followed Xie Qian to the study. Xie Qian took out an account book and placed it on the table. As usual, he sat at the desk opposite and wrote official documents.

It seems that today is no different from every day before.

Feng Jia sat on the black lacquered bench, holding the brush, and indeed did not put it down for a long time, until a drop of ink fell on the paper with a "pop" sound, and she finally came to her senses.

"You are in a state of confusion, Zhao'er." Xie Qian's pen moved as fast as a dragon, and he didn't even look up at Feng Jia.

Feng Jia frowned and gently wiped off the ink: "Father is right."

"Do you think your father is very cold-blooded?"

Feng Jia was stunned and couldn't help but look up.

Xie Qian didn't look at her, but only stared at the documents under his command: "Do you think that since your sister Yunyao is dead, your father should be heartbroken, or even cry, instead of sitting here so calmly and even calling you over to look at the account book?"

"I..." Feng Jia moved her lips, but found her throat dry.

Xie Qian smiled gently: "Zhao'er, this is the first lesson your father taught you. No one can influence your plans or plots, even if that person is your child, your parents, or your husband!"

"Yes……"

Xie Qian put down his pen: "I heard from Mr. Li that you are a great chess player and can beat him in ten moves? Then you should understand that the world is like a chess game. Everyone is a chess piece in your hand. If the chess player wants to win in the end, necessary sacrifices are inevitable!"

How cold-blooded! Feng Jia's eyes were filled with sarcasm, but she didn't show it on her face.

"Among the children I gave birth to, you are the most like me except your third brother, so you should understand that as a father, everything you do is for the Xie family!"

What's the matter with doing it for the Xie family? It's just a high-sounding excuse to climb up by stepping on the corpses of his family members.

Feng Jia nodded: "Zhao'er understands!"

"I have already made arrangements for you at the Gu Family Academy. You can go in and study with your sisters tomorrow!"

"Thank you, father!" Feng Jia bowed.

"Next month, the palace will hold Shubai's enthronement ceremony. The crown prince and the princes will be present. You should dress up brightly, and your father will pave the way for you." Xie Qian added.

Feng Jia was stunned. Why did he emphasize that there were several more princes? When Xie Qian talked to her before, he was very determined to let her enter the East Palace. Why did he change now?

But her doubts disappeared immediately, and she bowed quickly: "Zhao'er will follow father's teachings!"

It began to drizzle in the evening. A luxurious sedan hurried out of the back door of Xie's mansion, heading west all the way to a mansion in the suburbs of Beijing.

The house was not big, but square, and was guarded by servants in two rows, like a cage.

Mrs. Meng was locked up in the innermost room. It was dark inside, and there was no oil lamp. She saw a lantern coming up from a distance. She immediately rushed to the door excitedly and said, "Who's here? Is it the master?"

"Mother! It's me!"

There was a muffled thunder outside the window, and the light of lightning shone on Xie Shubai's face. Meng's hand seemed to be burned by fire, and her eyes were full of disgust: "Why is it you! What are you doing here!"

"Mother, I came to see you." Xie Shubai used a tinder to light the oil lamp in the room. Only then did she see Meng's appearance clearly. Her hair was disheveled, her eyes were bloodshot, and her black hair was full of silver threads. It looked like her hair had turned white overnight. She couldn't help but shed tears. "Mother, I know that sister Yunyao's death has made you very sad, but you have to take care of yourself too!"

"You are not allowed to mention her! You are not allowed to mention my Yun Yao! You bitch!" Meng cursed loudly with a ferocious look on her face.

Xie Shubai was stunned. Looking at Meng's crazy appearance, she said in surprise, "Mother! What's wrong with you? I am Shubai!"

Xie Shubai reached out to pull Meng over, but was pushed down by her: "Bitch! Xie Lanzhao, that little bitch! I must kill her! And you! Are you here to laugh at me? Are you happy that Yun Yao is dead!"

The ground was full of broken porcelain pieces. Xie Shubai's hands were pushed on them, and they were all bloody. But she didn't care about the pain at the moment. She felt that the woman in front of her was so strange: "Mother, what are you talking about?"

"I said you are a bitch! Why is God so unfair! He wants to take my own daughter away! Xie Shubai! Why wasn't you the one kicked out of the Xie Mansion? Why wasn't you the one who died!"

Xie Shubai stood there in a daze, her face turning paler and paler.

She had been orphaned since she was young, and had been looked down upon countless times and heard countless vicious words at her grandfather's house, but none of them had hurt her as deeply as now!

"Mother..." Tears dripped down her face, and Xie Shubai knelt at Meng's feet like a beggar wagging his tail to beg for mercy.

But Mrs. Meng kicked her away, and began to dance with disheveled hair, looking crazy: "Just go to hell, hahahaha, just go to hell! Bring my Yao'er back! Go! Go and bring my Yao'er back! She is my only daughter!"

Xie Shubai was so shocked that she couldn't speak. She only had one daughter, so what was she? What was the relationship of all these years?

Meng's eyes were filled with poison, as if she knew what Xie Shubai was thinking: "You want me to be your mother? Are you worthy?"

"Bah!" Meng spat on Xie Shu's pale face: "She is just a concubine's child! How dare you come to the Prime Minister's Mansion to find me and call me aunt?"

Meng recalled that ten years ago, a six-year-old girl was beaten up in her mother's home until she was covered in blood and looked as dirty as a beggar. Someone told her that her name was Meng Shubai and that she was the child of her eldest brother's seventh aunt.

She said that someone in the mansion wanted to kill her and begged her aunt to give her a chance to live.

At that time, she was making tea by the stove, and her heart was full of contempt for the little beggar, who was just a poor relative who came to beg for money. Meng waved her hands in annoyance and was about to send the servants to beat him out with sticks, but a white little hand grabbed the edge of her skirt.

Meng lowered her head gently and saw her Yun Yao.

She was so cute and lovely, like a little child blessed by heaven. She tilted her head and asked her innocently, "Mother, who is this sister?"

On one side was the legitimate daughter who was as flawless as the clouds in the sky, and on the other side was the lowly concubine's daughter who was like a cabbage rotting in the field and no one wanted her. At this moment, Meng had her own ideas.

Her husband told her that Yao'er would definitely enter the Eastern Palace in the future, and even become the queen. But wouldn't the bloody battles along the way tire Yao'er out? No, her daughter was born noble, and could only be pure and spotless forever, and could never be stained with dirt! Absolutely could not be stained with blood!

She turned her attention to another girl, who was so skinny due to long-term malnutrition that she seemed like she would fall down with a gust of wind. Such a person was destined to be garbage in the mud and destined to pave the way for her, Yao'er, and be a stepping stone!

So she stood up and looked down at him: "What's your name?"

"Aunt, my name is...Meng Shubai."

"From now on, you will be called Xie Shubai, the eldest daughter of the Xie family. This is your sister Yunyao. You promised mother that you would take good care of her and love her. She is your sister and the apple of mother's eye. You must be determined to die for her. Do you understand?"

At that time, Shubai bit her lips tightly, as if she couldn't believe that she finally had a home and a mother, and she no longer had to go back to that wolf's den to be bullied. She murmured and repeated solemnly: "I, Xie Shubai, will always take care of my sister, love my sister, and am determined to die for her at any time..."

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"So why didn't you die!" Meng rushed forward and beat Xie Shubai's body frantically, "I raised you for so many years, all to pave the way for Yao'er! Now Yao'er is dead! Why are you still alive!"

"Go to hell!"

"Die!!!"