My Lord, your wife is spreading rumors about you again.

Chapter 84 I'll Poison You
Two carriages drove rapidly towards the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion, one after the other. In the front carriage sat Zhang Zhi and Mingli, and in the back one sat Mingqi, Meng, Li Ma, and Jinhuan.

Fortunately, the Zhang family’s carriages were all luxuriously decorated, otherwise four people would be squeezed to death if not suffocated to death with four people sitting in one carriage.

"It's not a big deal for the Ming family. I have already made plans. I was afraid of accidents, so I specially asked Liuliu to go to the Jiang Mansion to pass on the message. But why are you here? Aren't you busy today?"

Mingli was flipping through two account books in her hands. She asked questions as she looked at them, not wanting to delay anything.

Zhang Zhi said, "Didn't you promise His Highness that you would personally interrogate Mo Zhao? He has already sent him here. Jiang Tong happens to be quite talented in interrogation, so I will let her do the first round of interrogation."

"Is that so?" Mingli nodded. She closed the account book in her hand and sighed, "I gained a lot from this trip today. Hey, can we trust this Lu Chuyang? Could he be the second brother's man?"

Hearing this, Zhang Zhi glanced at Mingli and spoke in a sarcastic tone.

"Hmm? What? You still don't believe him? The way you two looked just now made me think that you were either close friends who hadn't seen each other for many years, or lovers who were bound together in this life and have a bond from a previous life."

Mingli: “.”

Zhang Zhi continued to sarcastically say, "Mingli, Mingli, we have known each other for quite some time, and your mouth is always as if it were filled with poison. Why is it that today when you met this Lu Chuyang, you acted as if it were filled with honey?"

Mingli: “.”

"I don't believe you wanted to get into the medical office. Just to get into the medical office, you specifically called him when he was gone?" Zhang Zhi really had no desire to live. He completely ignored Ming Li's increasingly dark face. He sat up straight and deliberately imitated Ming Li's tone and manner. "Hey, when did you talk to someone like this? Judge Lu, have we met somewhere before?"

"Zhang Zhi!"

Ming Li glared at him angrily and shouted, "Are you crazy? Shut up! Say another word and I'll poison you to death!"

Zhang Zhi was shocked and looked at her with a smile.

"Why are you like this? You're going to poison me to death because you can't win an argument?" Zhang Zhi was also quite naughty. He moved closer to Mingli and deliberately teased him, "Are you angry because of shame? Where's the poison? Aren't you going to poison me to death?"

Mingli closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He could not kill, could not kill, could not kill. He repeated this three times in a row, then shook off Zhang Zhi's hand and sat directly opposite him, far away from him.

The carriage drove for a while and arrived at the Zhenbei Marquis's Mansion. Mingqi and his men entered through the small door with the still unconscious Meng. Anzhi was waiting for Mingli and Zhang Zhi in front of the mansion.

Zhang Zhi was the first to get off the carriage and naturally reached out to help Mingli.

It would be a miracle if Mingli could be in a good mood with him at this moment. She raised her hand and slapped his hand down hard without even looking at him, then lifted her skirt and got out of the car.

Seeing this, Zhang Zhi didn't get angry, but smiled secretly behind her.

An Zhi clasped his fists and bowed: "Greetings to the Crown Prince's Consort, and greetings to the Crown Prince."

"Your Highness is already in the secret cell, please follow me." An Zhi turned aside and led Zhang Zhi and Ming Li to the secret cell. This secret cell was built by Zhang Zhi privately under the Zhenbei Marquis's mansion. Even the old Marquis Zhang was unaware of its existence. Because it was a secret construction, it has been under construction for two and a half years and has only been put into use recently.

He was from an aristocratic family and had military power, so the three judicial departments and the Ministry of Justice were not allowed to interfere. But whenever they wanted to investigate someone, they could not avoid interrogation, so Zhang Zhi and Shen Ke decided to build a dungeon.

The dungeon was buried nearly a hundred meters underground. They walked down from a secret door in the side room of the main house. As soon as the secret door was opened, they could smell the smell of decay and corpses in the dark void. The walls were covered with moss, and only a few oil lamps on both sides flashed a faint light. Anzhi blew the fire stick and went down first. Mingli stood at the entrance of the secret door for a long time without moving. Suddenly, she leaned against the wall, sweating on her forehead and having difficulty breathing.

"Mingli?" Zhang Zhi immediately noticed that something was wrong with her. "What's wrong with you?"

Mingli closed her eyes and gasped heavily. She could vaguely hear Zhang Zhi calling her name, but his voice was like willow catkins in the sky, which were blown away by the wind and spread across the sky and earth.

Gradually, the dark and damp dungeon before her eyes was replaced by another picture.

Every winter, the medicine refining cave in the Medicine Poison Mountain is always freezing to death. The girl in blue still wears the same thin dress all year round. At this moment, she was tied to a thick wooden stake and fell asleep. Her lips were purple and her face was black, as if she was severely poisoned.

A man in a black robe was walking back and forth in the cave. A dozen medicine stoves were placed on the ground, emitting steam. Deep in the cave was a bright light, and the source of the light was the ice that had not melted for a thousand years.

In the middle, there is an ice bed carved out of ice, covered with gorgeous flowers. A woman in a pink coat is lying peacefully on it, sleeping soundly.

At this moment, the girl in blue suddenly woke up and murmured, "Father, father!"

Hearing the word "father", the man in black robe paused while dissecting the venomous snake. He glanced to the side, and his deep eyes were moved for a moment. Then, the coldness of reason climbed up, covering the last trace of affection in his eyes.

He picked up a bowl of cold medicine and slowly walked towards the girl.

He stood in front of the girl for a long time, and finally spoke. His voice was indistinguishable between male and female, as if his vocal cords were damaged: "Child, you have suffered. When your mother wakes up, your father will die to atone for your sins."

After saying this, the man in black grabbed the girl's chin and lifted it up, then poured the medicine down her throat without mercy. He poured it down so hard and so fast that the medicine went into her trachea, causing the girl to cough violently. The man in black closed his eyes and covered her mouth with his hands. He would never allow the poison he had been working on for a year to be vomited out and become useless.

The medicine enters the lungs and reaches the whole body.

But in a moment, the girl's whole body suddenly trembled, and bright red blood foam kept gushing out from the corners of her mouth. The blood flowed onto her chest, dyeing the sky blue into the blood red of hell.

She was in great pain. Every pore on her body felt as if a thin silver needle was piercing it. After being pulled out, it would be pierced again, over and over again, without end.

She screamed at the top of her lungs, frightening the poisonous snakes and scorpions nearby, but it was useless, no one would save her.

Including the instigator of all this, her biological father.

Mingli was like an outsider, watching all this happen clearly from a distance, but she was also like an insider because she could empathize with the girl's pain, despair, and hatred.

"Be polite! Be polite!"

Zhang Zhi was almost going crazy looking at her. Just when he was about to carry her away, he heard the sound of a door opening behind him. It was Shan Cha.

Shan Cha knew what was going on when she saw Ming Li's condition. She hurriedly said, "Prince, quickly lay my girl flat on the ground!"

(End of this chapter)