Chapter 31: Confrontation
Mama Chen was shocked, turned around, and looked at Jiaojiao.
With tears on her face, she muttered to herself, "After all these years, I still remember that it was a gloomy afternoon. It was nearly evening, and my mother and I were doing laundry. Mama Liu came to call her mother, saying that there was a stack of dried clothes to be sent to the Jade Palace. My mother also asked me not to wait for her, but to eat first. But she never came back. I'll wait, wait, wait, wait until the moon is on the willow top, and you come and tell me to go to your room to embroider a handkerchief. By the way, I slept on your side. I always thought that when I woke up, I would be able to see my mother again. But what she didn't expect to come was her scarred and swollen body. ”
At this point, she choked up and couldn't say any more. Mama Chen's face is still calm.
Wiping away her tears, Kyaukjiao continued: "I'll go and ask Mama Liu, what's going on? She said that she just asked her mother to go with her to the Jade Palace. After giving the clothes, my mother said that she wanted to be respectful, and walked away. She came back on her own. I know my mother. She knows the etiquette and abides by the rules, is cautious, and does not dare to make a mistake. How could we suddenly be so anxious that we had dinner together at noon that day that we had to walk around and stop in a place with great rules like Concubine Xian? But I couldn't ask anything else. When I asked again, I was scolded by Mama Liu. To the final hit. So I've always wanted to ask Mama Liu. It's a pity that she hanged herself the day after we went to the court. So, now I only have Mama Chen to ask. ”
Mama Chen said coldly: "Mama Liu wants to die herself, ask me what to do?" I was in the cloak room the day your mother died, and I didn't have time to kill her. ”
Kyaukjiao looked at her and said, "I thought so at first. But after following my sister for a few months, I understood. In this palace, if you want to kill someone, you don't have to do it yourself. For example, if Concubine Xian wants her sister to die, she doesn't have to take the knife herself, or send someone directly from her palace. She only needs to set up an inside line next to her sister, maybe a palace maid, or a eunuch, or a grandmother in charge, and she can end her sister. That's what you say, right? ”
Mama Chen squinted, looked at her, and asked, "How do you know?" ”
Kyaukjiao was not afraid, looked at her head-on, and whispered: "I just regret it, although I knew that you were going to be unfavorable to us, but I didn't guess what kind of way you would use to stop you, which led to this catastrophe." From the moment when the people of this courtyard die one by one before your eyes and me, and you remain indifferent, I know that those who stand in your way will surely die. Then, I thought of my mother, could it be that she is also in your way, so you must have her die? ”
Mama Chen was bitter in her heart, and said coldly: "In this palace, there are wronged people dying every day. Why do you keep saying that I must have hurt her! ”
Kyaukjiao had already walked an arm's length away from her, and two beautiful eyes nailed her to death, and said, "The night that Concubine Xian sent someone to give you medicine, I was by the fake stone on the edge of the pavilion!" Although I don't know what kind of poison it is, what the man said, Mama Chen thinks will she not forget? ”
Mama Chen looked at her in shock. From the moment she said that Mama Liu died, she still thought that she knew about the child from the inside out. But at this moment, she suddenly felt extremely strange.
Kyaukjiao looked at her, as if she had understood all the thoughts in her heart, and said with a wry smile: "It's strange, isn't it?" I also feel like I'm a stranger now. Knowing that his mother's enemies are dangling in front of his eyes every day, he still has to pretend that nothing happened. How much pain does my heart have? You have done me well enough to be false. But you can't escape my mother's death. ”
Mama Chen finally burst into tears and said, "Jiaojiao, in life, there are all kinds of last resorts. Your mother, I really didn't kill it with my own hands. But you guessed it right, I'm part of the murderer too. If you want to avenge her, kill me, and I won't fight back. But if I were to tell who harmed her, I would rather die than know you. ”
Kyaukjiao looked at her and asked, "Why?" ”