Chapter 44: The Truth
Zhao Qiaoyun's body was shocked, but she didn't speak. Yan Ran no longer looked at her, but swept through the crowd, "I don't know why you hate your sister so much, she killed her three times and twice, and even after she forgot it, she still carried out the second murder." ”
"Actually, I thank you for your impulse by the river," Yan Ran's gaze fell back on Zhao Qiaoyun's face, and she showed a smile, "If you hadn't exposed your killing intent at that time, then I'm afraid I still wouldn't understand what role you played in Aunt Qian's death." ”
"Could it be that Aunt Qian was killed by you?" Zhao Qi looked back at Zhao Qiaoyun in disbelief, his mouth moved, but he didn't say anything in the end.
"It's not her." Yan Ran smiled mockingly, "Although our third lady herself doesn't know whether there was a murder or not, and how Aunt Qian died, fortunately, she is not a murderer." ”
"Aunt Qian committed suicide." Yan Ran announced to everyone, and then showed a meaningful expression, "But the son doesn't kill Boren, but Boren dies because of you." ”
The third lady has read books, and she obviously understands Yan Ran's words. When she realized the meaning behind this sentence, her face changed, but Yan Ran didn't bother to care about her mood, and had already told everyone the truth of the whole incident.
All the causes of the matter originated from the marriage of three young ladies who were about to become adults - Zhao Liusi, Zhao Qiaoyun, and Zhao Qiaoman. Although Zhao Liusi's mother died early, she occupies the position of a concubine and has the influence of the Liu family, so she is very popular in the marriage market. Although Zhao Qiaoman was born as a concubine, she had the support of the eldest lady, and she also carefully chose a family affair for her that did not disgrace her, so Zhao Qiaoman is now embroidering wedding dresses at home, and after Zhao Liusi's marriage is decided, she can discuss a duty with her family. Among the three, the only one who is empty is Zhao Qiaoyun, who is not high or low.
Because of Aunt Qian, no one in the city with a little background is willing to marry Zhao Qiaoyun. Zhao Qi runs outside all the year round, and he doesn't care about the big things in the family, so he is handed over to the eldest lady to take care of. The eldest lady has a grudge against Aunt Qian, so she also has the intention of pinching their mother and daughter in Zhao Qiaoyun's marriage, so she deliberately found a lot of relatives for Zhao Qiaoyun who are not in the right household, on the surface, it seems that she chose a famous family and a scholarly disciple according to Zhao Qiaoyun's thoughts, and held her high, but in fact, let others humiliate her. Zhao Qiaoyun failed on a blind date several times, and learned that her mother's true background was a character who was not even as good as her subordinates, and her mentality collapsed all of a sudden. She is just a little girl who has just reached her teens, where can she distinguish so much black and white, and she doesn't hate the eldest lady who helps her choose a partner and connives others to bully her, but hates her biological mother.
It was at this time that Wang Yuan fell into the eyes of Zhao Qiaoyun's mother and daughter, he was not from a famous family, but he was good at learning. If it was a few months earlier, he would not have been able to enter Zhao Qiaoyun's eyes, but seeing what kind of businessman family the eldest lady chose later, there were few people in the family who could read, let alone study. Zhao Qiaoyun grew up in the family of the eunuchs, and he has long known that power is much more important than money, and Shinong is a businessman and a businessman, and business is at the last level. She has been pressed by Zhao Liusi for more than ten years, how can she be willing to be inferior to the two sisters in the rest of her life? So even if Zhang Yuan was born in a peasant family, was poor, and his family was full of mud legs, he still chose Zhang Yuan as a potential stock in a desperate way.
But what Zhao Qiaoyun didn't expect was that the careful thinking she thought she was hiding well was clearly seen by the domineering second lady. The second lady has been used to grabbing Zhao Qiaoyun's things since she was a child, and this time is no exception. She didn't think that Zhang Yuan was anything good, she just had the intention of gambling on Zhao Qiaoyun, so she secretly flattered Zhang Yuan. Zhang Yuan is not a good person, facing a concubine who is sitting on a large dowry and a concubine who has a bad reputation, everyone knows how to choose, so he can't help but have the dream of being fought by two daughters.
Zhao Qiaoyun is a careerist, not a simple little girl, so she naturally will not always indulge in the illusion of love, and soon discovered the changes in Wang Yuan, and according to Wang Yuan's sneakiness, she caught the picture of his private meeting with Zhao Liusi, that is, the scene where Zhao Liusi gave Wang Yuan's purse.
In fact, earlier that day, before Wang Yuan and the others "coincidentally" met" Zhao Liusi in the garden, Aunt Qian's mother and daughter were already there. She found out that Zhao Qiaoyun was stealing, and it was not good to confront her daughter in Luoyun Xuan, for fear of being listened to by others, so she made an appointment to talk in the corner of the garden. When she learned that her daughter had handed over the stolen things to Zhang Yuan for sale, she immediately asked her daughter to cut off relations with this person.
Aunt Qian is in the skin and meat business, and the men she has seen are beyond most people in this era, so she naturally knows which men can marry and which men can't. She is not simply judging people by wealth and looking down on the poor, in fact, the characters she chose for Zhao Qiaoyun before are more suitable than the eldest lady. Helplessly, her daughter didn't have the same heart with her, and only felt that she wanted to "sell cheaply", which failed. Now that she learned that Zhao Qiaoyun wanted to "invest" in a man, she was shocked and stopped immediately.
She has been rich for so many years, and she is not a shallow person, if Zhang Yuan is really a character, she will not be stingy to pull her future son-in-law, as long as he can give her daughter a bright future. But in fact, through Zhang Yuan's willingness to accept what Zhao Qiaoyun gave her, Aunt Qian judged that this person was not a decent gentleman.
The reason is very simple, Zhao Qiaoyun is a little girl raised in a deep boudoir, she is angry with her mother, and it is normal for her to do some out-of-the-ordinary behavior, but Wang Yuan, as a man in the outside world, is so much older than Zhao Qiaoyun, how should he be more mature. Even if he didn't persuade Zhao Qiaoyun to reconcile with his mother and stop stealing, he shouldn't have helped her sell the stolen goods. But in fact, Wang Yuan was very happy, obviously wanting to profit from it. This person is still a scholar, full of benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith, but he has no virtue to the extreme. Such a person does not want to invest, even if he partners in business with him, he must prevent the loss of his money, so where does she dare to let her immature daughter deal with this kind of old fox.
But for Zhao Qiaoyun, she stole not only for money, but also for Aunt Qian, so where is she willing to listen to the advice of her ex-aunt? During the dispute between the mother and daughter, she said something serious and hurt Aunt Qian, which caused Aunt Qian to cry a lot, and after Furong came over, she found that her eyes were red.
The mother-daughter dispute lasted for a long time, and according to the confession of Furong, who was arranged to stay on the other side, she should have happened to encounter the picture of Zhao Liusi seducing Wang Yuan and giving Wang Yuan a purse. Zhao Qiaoyun was naturally furious and wanted to go out to seek justice with Zhao Liusi, but was held down by Aunt Qian covering her mouth, so Zhao Liusi didn't find out. After Zhao Liusi left, Zhao Qiaoyun wanted to go to the eldest lady and say that Zhao Liusi did not abide by women's morals, and Aunt Qian was afraid that Zhao Qiaoyun would expose her shortcomings and affect herself, so she was not allowed to go. Zhao Qiaoyun was very angry, crying and saying that everything she had was taken away by Zhao Liusi, and even everything in the future would be snatched away by Zhao Liusi, to what extent did Aunt Qian want her to retreat before she was willing? If it weren't for Aunt Qian's pressure on Zhao Qiaoyun since she was a child, and she was not allowed to rob Zhao Liusi, how could Zhao Liusi be so arrogant and domineering as she is now?
After Zhao Qiaoyun quarreled with Aunt Qian, she left the garden. Originally, she didn't want people to see her gaffe, and she planned to wait for her eyes to be less swollen before going back, but she didn't want to meet Chunxiang who came out of Zhao Liusi's courtyard. Thinking of the hatred with Zhao Liusi in the morning, Zhao Qiaoyun followed Chunxiang to the kitchen and found that Chunxiang told the kitchen to make pastries, and the cooks agreed to do it after lunch, which made the plan to poison the pastries.
She replaced the frosting she had received from the storeroom with a poisonous one and sent it back to say she had taken it wrong. After the warehouse identified it, he believed it and took it back. People have an inertia and are used to keeping the nearest items at hand, Zhao Qiaoyun waited next to him for a while, and saw the kitchen lady coming to get sugar, and sure enough, she took away the jar of poisonous frosting with sugar.
So, everyone couldn't figure out when and where the poison was put in, so they solved the case here. In fact, Yan Ran thought at the beginning, since after the pastry was made, there was no chance of poisoning, would the poison be dropped at the time of the raw materials? But according to this line of thinking, the poisoned person should be indiscriminate, that is to say, Zhao Qiaoyun and Aunt Qian should be poisoned at the same time, but why did only Aunt Qian die in the end, but Zhao Qiaoyun was still alive?
Because of Zhao Qiaoyun's survival, it interfered with Yan Ran's judgment and brought him a lot of trouble, making him go around in a big circle, until he accidentally found out that Zhao Liusi didn't like to eat honey, and Aunt Qian's unfinished dim sum was poured with a thick layer of honey at the poisoning scene, so he thought of separating the pastry from the honey poured on it. After such an investigation, I found a problem - honey and pastries are poisonous, but honey is much more toxic than pastries, and the cause of Aunt Qian's death is not pastries, but honey.
According to the cook in the warehouse management, the honey was taken by Aunt Qian herself, and the second miss did not like to eat honey, so the result after ruling out all possibilities was that Aunt Qian herself poisoned the honey she ate, and then poured it on the pastry, accompanied the second lady, and ate the mortal things one by one.
"Why would she do that?" Looking at Yan Ran's magical rows of evidence, the people on duty that day in the kitchen and warehouse, the people who sprinkled and swept in the garden, and the people who delivered things, inadvertently met the servants of Aunt Qian, Zhao Liusi, Zhao Qiaoyun and others, as well as Wang Yuan, who absconded with the money and was arrested by the people he sent, while feeling that what he said should be the truth, on the other hand, there was a bigger doubt - what did Aunt Qian do this for?
"For her daughter, of course." Yan Ran sighed, with a hint of melancholy, "I think, we all blame her." ”