Shang Shixu took Lin Jingmo's hand and squatted down to look at her and said, "Madam, calm down. I will find out everything for you."
Lin Jingmo couldn't calm down in her heart. She wished that everything was just a dream. After waking up from the dream, her eldest sister had given birth to the prince safely, and her mother Li was still by her side...
Thinking of this, tears still flow down uncontrollably.
Shang Shixu got up and went to the table to pour a glass of water, adding calming medicine to it as usual. In order to calm down Lin Jingmo, this was the only way.
He handed the teacup to Lin Jingmo: "Madam, drink some water first."
Lin Jingmo looked forward with blank eyes, and Shang Shixu handed the tea bowl to her mouth.
Lin Jingmo opened his mouth to drink some, and suddenly someone outside announced: "Sir, the old lady is ill and is making trouble to burn down the house again!"
"Why is it this time..." Shang Shixu looked at Lin Jingmo who was sitting beside the bed, thinking that she had swallowed some water just now, so he said: "Madam, I will go to the backyard to see my mother first. If I feel tired, I will take a nap.
,I’ll be back soon.”
After that, he hurriedly left the room.
The moment he walked out of the room, Lin Jingmo spit out some water from his mouth.
For a long time, she wanted to pretend to be stupid, but she knew in her heart that what Shang Shixu gave her to drink was not just water.
Every time she drinks the water Shang Shixue feeds her, she falls asleep.
Her sister is dead, and so is Li’s mother. This time she doesn’t want to sleep anymore.
Maybe she didn't understand what kind of person Shang Shixu was from beginning to end, she just loved him like a fool, but why did the tenants from Nanling seek revenge on him? Why did he protect Zhang Yiqian's son Zhang Renhuai? Why...
…He wants to recognize Zhongshu Ling Chen Mianzheng as his adoptive father?
She turned to look at Shang Shixu's desk. She knew that there was a mechanism next to the desk that could open a secret compartment.
She had never thought about opening that secret compartment, nor had she ever thought about prying into the secrets about Shang Shixue, but there were many secrets about him.
Somehow, Lin Jingmo stood up and slowly walked towards the desk. She pressed it lightly, and the secret compartment was opened. In the center of the secret compartment lay a golden phoenix hairpin, with a book underneath the golden phoenix hairpin.
Account books.
She had seen this account book before. When she was in the main courtyard that day, she personally handed the account book to Shang Shixu.
She reached out and took out the golden hairpin. The flying phoenix stood tall in the clouds, waiting for the opportunity to spread its wings and fly high.
Why does your husband want to hide this hairpin in a secret room?
Lin Jingmo held the gold hairpin in her hand, and then took out the account book from the secret compartment. She sat at the table next to the soft couch, facing the bronze mirror where Shang Shixu usually tied his hair.
Slowly flipping through the account book, she couldn't believe it. It clearly recorded how much more food needed to be collected from Nanling, the number of northern soldiers who needed to be lied to His Majesty, and the money and food that could be distributed to the third prince of Beiyan and King Zhao Qi Xuanyi...<
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This is...
With a creak, the door was suddenly pushed open. Lin Jingmo closed the ledger in a panic. He looked up and saw Shang Shixu's cold eyes just in front of the bronze mirror...
The two images in my memory overlap...
There was such a night in the past, when Shang Shixu looked at himself like this in the mirror...
Lin Jingmo clenched the phoenix hairpin in his hand, and memories surged in like a flood that burst a bank...
"Lin Jingmo, you know so many of my secrets, aren't you afraid that I will kill you?"
"Kill me?"
"How can you climb up when I'm dead? Do you think you can get away with it if you kill me? That ledger...don't you want to know where I put it? If you can really kill me, I will
I admire you, Mr. Waiter!"
"Then...go to hell!"
All the memories come back as if they happened yesterday...
Lin Jingmo looked at Shang Shixu in the mirror with a horrified expression.
Shang Shixu glanced at the opened secret compartment and walked slowly towards Lin Jingmo.
With the sound of his footsteps approaching step by step, Lin Jingmo's hand holding the golden hairpin tightened.
"Madam, you..."
Before he finished speaking, Lin Jingmo turned to look at him with a horrified expression.
"Are you afraid of me?"
Before he could finish speaking, Lin Jingmo had already inserted the gold hairpin into his chest.
Shang Shixu looked down at the gold hairpin on his body in disbelief, then at the account book on the table, and slowly said: "Madam... it's not what you think."
Lin Jingmo shouted almost crazily: "You are the murderer! It was you who killed Mother Li, and it was you who killed...me!"
"No..." Shang Shixu opened his mouth to explain, but he didn't know how to explain.
"I have remembered it all! Everything!" Lin Jingmo pointed to the account book on the table and said: "You are the one who harmed the people of Nanling, and you are the one who colluded with King Zhao to betray the country and seek glory! When I learned about this,
, I didn’t report you for the sake of our relationship as husband and wife. It’s good to ask you for a thousand taels of gold, but I want to use these things to help the people of Nanling! But you stuck the gold hairpin into my brain because of this. If I hadn’t been lucky, I would have died long ago.
Oh! Shang Shixu, you deceived me so badly! It’s not enough that you’ve harmed so many people. You not only killed me, but you also killed my sister and Mother Li!”
"No, Her Majesty the Queen, I didn't kill Mother Li." The blood on Shang Shixu's chest continued to seep out. He endured the pain and slowly approached Lin Jingmo.
Lin Jingmo said angrily: "Because my sister is the Queen and my father is the Minister of Civil Affairs, there are so many people who want to harm our Lin family. They are ruining my reputation outside in order to bring down my father and sister. One of them is Chen Mianzheng!"
He hates that he is the daughter of a noble family. His daughter can only marry King Zhao, but his sister is the queen. You are his adopted son, don’t you want to get rid of this thorn in his side? Mother Li said it herself, kill me.
She must be in the house, and she must still be holding the hairpin. In order to prevent the truth from being revealed, you killed her so cruelly? You clearly know how important she is to me! Why did you kill the most important person around me so cruelly?
”
"I didn't..." Shang Shixu put his hand on Lin Jingmo's shoulder and wanted to hug her, but she pushed him away.
Lin Jingmo's anger has reached its peak: "You didn't? You didn't kill Mother Li? You didn't kill the eldest sister? Or... you didn't kill me?"
"Why...why do you want to kill me?" Tears finally burst out of Lin Jingmo's eyes. At this moment, she realized that the person who always wanted her to die was Shang Shixu, the husband she longed for: "I am crazy about you.
In the past three years, although I have never expressed my love to you, no matter how you treat me, I have tried hard to be a good wife. Whether you ignored me or misunderstood me, I have never done anything to feel sorry for you.