The female supporting role turns over: the prince regent's favorite

Chapter 154 Lily confronts Taoist Ling Xiao

Seeing this, Lin Qingqian sighed inwardly.

Xu Shi and Bai He's master and servant are really good at acting. If it is placed in modern times, it is no problem to win the Oscar queen.

The old lady looked at Lily, then at Xu, and became thoughtful.

Wen shi gritted his teeth, feeling unwilling.

Could it be that her child died in vain, and Xu only needs to push a maid out as a scapegoat?
The old lady thought for a moment, and asked: "Mr. Xu, are you really ignorant of this matter? Is this maid Lily making her own decision?"

"This……"

Xu's face showed hesitation, looking at Lily whose forehead was broken.

She couldn't bear it and said: "Although I don't know about this matter, I can't escape the guilt. Please mother punish me. It's just that Lily has served me for many years, and I begged my mother to spare her life."

A look of sternness flashed in Wen's eyes, "Sister, who protects her maid so much, has she ever thought of my innocent child? This maid dares to murder the master, so she deserves to be shot, right?"

Lily was so frightened that her face turned pale, her shoulders trembled, she kowtowed to Wen's non-stop, and cried, "Third Madam, I know I was wrong, I beg you to spare me this time, I will never dare again."

Xu clenched her palms tightly, suppressed the anger in her heart, and looked at the old lady pleadingly.

"Mother, this concubine knows that Lily has made a mistake, and she deserves to die, but she has served this concubine for many years, and this time she made such a big mistake for my concubine's sake. I beg you to spare her life, and punish her no matter what. Just leave her alive."

Lin Qingrou said indignantly: "Mother, you miss your old love and want to leave this lowly servant girl alive, but what about the child in my mother's womb, who left it alive?"

"That's right, one life pays for one life, it's just and right!" Wen shi covered her mouth and sobbed in a low voice: "Mother, if I spare the life of this lowly servant girl, then wouldn't the child in my womb die in vain?"

The old lady frowned tightly, her expression complicated.

Lin Qingqian stood aside, seeing that the focus of the matter was quietly shifted to a maid, Xu plucked herself clean.

I sneered in my heart.

Lin Qingqian said: "Grandmother, Qingqian has something to say."

The old lady said: "Qingqian, tell me."

"Grandmother, Taoist Ling Xiao kept saying yesterday that I was responsible for the miscarriage of my third aunt. The timing of Taoist Ling Xiao's visit was too coincidental. I found out that my third aunt had had a miscarriage. Is there any connection between this?"

When Xu heard the words, she said angrily: "Qingqian! What do you mean by that, do you suspect that I am the one who ordered the Taoist behind the scenes?!"

"My mother misunderstood. I didn't say so. I just doubted whether Lily had anything to do with Taoist Ling Xiao, and why did she hold a grudge against me? So much so that she didn't hesitate to think of this way to kill two birds with one stone. Get rid of me."

After Lin Qingqian finished speaking, she added, "Qingqian has never doubted her mother."

As soon as these words came out, the implication seemed to be that Xu's words just now had a bit of a guilty conscience.

"Third sister is right. My mother had a miscarriage, and the third sister was treated as an evil spirit. The swindling Taoist also pointed out that it was the third sister who caused my mother's miscarriage. This is too coincidental. It must be not simple. Grandma must find out. , can't let go of anyone who is full of sorrow!"

Lin Qingqian thought to herself: This Lin Qingrou knows how to see the situation clearly, and immediately stands on the side that is beneficial to her.

After being reminded by Lin Qingqian, the old lady also remembered the important point, stared at Baihe with sharp eyes, and asked, "Do you have any relationship with Taoist Ling Xiao yesterday?"

From the corner of Lily's eyes, she secretly glanced at Mrs. Xu, but Mrs. Xu didn't give her any hint.

She hesitated for a moment, and said: "Back to the old lady, this servant doesn't know Taoist Ling Xiao, why did he come to the mansion to deceive people, and treat the third lady as an evil spirit, this servant really doesn't know..."

Lin Qingqian added another sentence lightly: "If this is the case, it would be too coincidental. Taoist Ling Xiao knows all the old things in the manor like the palm of his hand."

The old lady patted the table hard, and said angrily: "You'd better do it honestly! Do you really know Taoist Ling Xiao? Have nothing to do with it?"

Lily cried and said: "I dare not hide anything, I really don't know the Taoist priest yesterday."

Coincidentally, as soon as Lily finished speaking, a servant girl from Jinglan Court came in, saluted, and said, "Old Madam, the guards at the house have brought back Taoist Ling Xiao who escaped, and they are waiting outside the courtyard at this time."

Lin Qingqian smiled and said: "Grandmother, since the Taoist priest has been captured, it's so good, you can bring him to confront Lily and see if the two of them really have nothing to do with each other."

"Well, just as Qingqian said."

The old lady said to the maid who came in: "Bring me in."

"Yes, old lady."

Xu's and Baihe's bodies froze suddenly, and it was difficult to hide a look of panic on their faces.

Not long after the servant girl retreated, two guards pushed him in and kicked Taoist Ling Xiao to his knees.

The two bowed their hands together and said, "Report to the old lady, my subordinates are ordered to capture the escaped Taoist priest."

"Where was he caught?"

"The subordinates and others were searching at the gate of the city. Taoist Ling Xiao was in a panic, as if he wanted to leave the city, but we caught him right away."

Taoist Ling Xiao was lying on the ground with a shocked expression on his face.

If it wasn't for the man in black chasing him just now, trying to kill him fiercely, he wanted to save his life, so he had no choice but to run to the guards of the prime minister's mansion.

Taoist Ling Xiao lost the pretense of yesterday, and begged for mercy with tears in his nose and tears: "Old madam, I know I was wrong... I don't dare to bluff and deceive you anymore. Your lord has a lot, so please forgive me." Life, the little one will repay your kindness even if he is a cow or a horse."

The old lady was unmoved, and said coldly: "Say, do you know the maid who is kneeling beside you? What relationship do you have with her?!"

Taoist Ling Xiao belatedly realized that there were still two people kneeling beside him. When he looked sideways, his face turned pale.

Yesterday Lily brought poison to his resting room, and the man in black who was chasing and killing him outside the mansion today flashed through his mind.

Taoist Ling Xiao's first reaction was to think that this is to kill him!
Taoist Ling Xiao was so frightened that he fell to the ground, moved his body back, and cried to the old lady: "As long as the old lady spares my life, I will explain everything to you. I just ask the old lady to save my life." what!"

"Quickly and honestly explain clearly, maybe I can be lenient, or I will let the guards drag you down now!"

"Yes, explain everything about the small ones, and explain everything about the small ones..."

Taoist Ling Xiao sniffled and cried, "The little one was selling yellow talismans to exorcise evil spirits at a stall on the street a few days ago, and this maid found the little one and gave 100 taels, saying that I would let the little one go to the house to drive away evil spirits." , after the matter is completed, I can give the little one another 100 taels."

Taoist Ling Xiao paused for a moment, then continued: "The little one is obsessed with money, so I agreed in a moment of confusion, and made up a lie according to what she said, and regarded the third lady as an evil spirit, saying that she caused a lady in the house, the young lady The purpose of giving birth was to kill the third lady. I was a little confused at the time, but I never thought of killing someone. I beg the old lady to spare her life..."

(End of this chapter)