bayedsolid Chapter 494 Zhao Ting'er is imprisoned!
Chapter 494 Zhao Ting'er is imprisoned!
"Uncle, what nonsense are you talking about? My sister had a hemorrhage during childbirth because of her own body. So many years have passed, how can you suddenly blame me for my sister's death?"
Zhao Ting'er, who had been staring at Cao Fangruo viciously, felt a pang in her heart when she heard the old prime minister's words. She walked up to him and said with a look of surprise and anger.
"Old Prime Minister, this concerns human lives, please be careful with your words!" The prefect originally thought that today's matter was over. Today's scene was too exciting. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and was about to ask everyone to disperse when he heard the old Prime Minister's horrifying words.
"Here is the petition, please read it carefully, Your Excellency the Prefect!" Zhao Che pulled out the petition that had been prepared for many days from his sleeve and handed it to the Prefect.
The prefect quickly took it with both hands and looked down to examine it.
"Hmph! Zhao Ting'er, do you recognize this?" The old prime minister snorted coldly at Zhao Ting'er and took out a longevity lock from his arms.
Looking at the longevity lock dangling in front of her, Zhao Ting'er widened her eyes and took two steps back.
Isn't this Zhao Yan'er's longevity lock? She is very familiar with this lock.
"Uncle! This is the longevity lock that Sister Yan'er always wears. I see it often, so of course I recognize it. What's wrong with this lock?"
Zhao Ting'er looked at the old prime minister with pretended confusion, but she regained her composure in just two breaths. So many years had passed since the incident, and she didn't believe that the old prime minister could still find evidence. Even if she was the one who put the medicine in there, so what? She was the only one present at the time!
"Zhao Ting'er, Yan'er treated you like a sister back then, and wanted to share with you any good things she had. What about you? How did you treat her? You knew Yan'er was pregnant, but you deliberately put something that would activate blood circulation in this longevity lock. Yan'er wore it close to her body every day, which eventually led to her death from hemorrhage during childbirth!"
As the old prime minister spoke, he walked towards Zhao Ting'er, forcing her to retreat continuously.
After that, he bowed to the prefect and said, "Please ask the prefect to ask the imperial physician to test the blood-activating medicine in this longevity lock."
The prefect had finished reading the petition. He looked at Zhao Ting'er in disbelief. Could it be that the person he loved when he was young was so vicious? At this moment, after hearing the words of the old prime minister, he took a deep breath and ordered the official beside him: "Come here, take my token and go invite the imperial physician."
The official respectfully took the token from the prefect, trotted out of the yamen, mounted his horse, and left quickly.
"How could there be such a drug in this longevity lock? This longevity lock has passed through several hands. Uncle, are you sure someone didn't put it in later? Even if there was already this drug in it when Sister Yan'er wore it, what does it have to do with me? Why did you put the blame on me? As you said just now, Sister Yan'er was very kind to me when she was alive. How could I harm her?"
Zhao Ting'er looked at the old prime minister with an innocent face, and even a hint of grievance on her face.
"Zhao Ting'er, look who this is. Put away your hypocritical and disgusting look!" General Cao, who was sitting nearby, saw Chen Youfu and Chen Qing coming with a hunched old woman. He pointed at the woman and asked Zhao Ting'er to look.
When Zhao Ting'er heard General Cao say that she was disgusting, her heart was broken. She wanted to ask him why he said that about her, but when she saw the person he was pointing at, she was shocked.
"Haha! Miss Ting'er, you didn't expect that I am still alive, did you?"
The old woman gave Zhao Ting'er a creepy smile and spoke in a hoarse voice.
"Who is in the hall?" The prefect sighed and knocked the gavel lightly. It seemed that the old prime minister had prepared all the witnesses and evidence, and Zhao Ting'er could not escape death.
"I pay my respects to the prefect. Many years ago, I had the honor of serving Miss Yan'er and gained her trust. One day, Zhao Ting'er tricked me into buying this longevity locket and placing it in the temple for worship. She then asked her to wear it every day. I thought Zhao Ting'er and Miss Yan'er had a deep sisterly relationship, but who knew she had evil intentions and secretly hid this harmful thing in the longevity locket."
The old woman's face was full of regret, and tears kept flowing from her cloudy eyes.
She paused and continued, "I only found out about this after Zhao Ting'er married into the general's mansion. I wanted to tell the general about this, but Zhao Ting'er found out. She asked her servants to take me to the hot spring manor that Miss Yan'er gave her and ordered them to drown me. But she didn't expect that I grew up by the river and was an excellent swimmer. I faked my death and escaped. Even so, I was injured. I have been hiding in an abandoned vegetable cellar in the hot spring manor for so many years, just looking for an opportunity to report the truth to the general. But after Miss Yan'er passed away, the general never came to the manor again. It was not until some time ago when Miss Yan'er's aunt took over the manor that I dared to show up in public."
"So, you are just hearsay, which cannot prove that I was the one who put the medicine in there! Please be careful and don't wrongly accuse a good person!"
After hearing the old woman's words, Zhao Ting'er was not panicked. Instead, she bowed to the prefect and asked him not to wrongly accuse her.
The prefect looked at Zhao Ting'er with a slight twitch of the corner of his mouth. Has she forgotten the case just now? She was involved in the murder of the eldest daughter of the Cao family. How can she have the nerve to say that she is a good person? What was so distorted in his eyes back then? He just thought that she was elegant, gentle and kind.
"Don't worry, someone will be able to prove that you put the medicine in there yourself!"
Leng Linglong snorted coldly and waved at Chen Yan outside the yamen.
"Amitabha! I greet the prefect!"
There was a bald monk standing next to Chen Yan. When he saw Leng Linglong waving at him, he walked into the yamen, clasped his hands together, and saluted the prefect.
"Who is this master?"
"Many years ago, the donor Zhao Yan'er once offered this longevity lock in the temple where I stayed. I was young and playful at that time. I hid under the altar and stole the offerings. I saw with my own eyes that the female donor put these medicines into the longevity lock. However, I was young at that time and didn't know how powerful it was. I missed the opportunity to save the donor Zhao Yan'er."
The monk finished speaking slowly and sighed.
"Your Excellency, the Imperial Physician is here!"
At this time, the official who came to invite the imperial physician came in with an old man.
This imperial physician was the one who had been treating Zhao Ting'er during this period.
"Please ask the imperial physician to check the efficacy of the medicine in this longevity lock?"
The prefect ordered someone to place the tray containing the longevity lock in front of the imperial physician, and bowed to him and said.
The imperial physician had a general idea of what was going on in the hall when the official went to invite him. He couldn't help but sigh secretly, why did he always get involved in such things? He had to speed up his retirement and return home.
When the officer brought the tray to him, he examined it carefully.
Everyone's eyes were focused on him, only Zhao Ting'er lowered her head, trying hard to think of a solution.
"Your Excellency the Prefect, the medicine in this longevity lock is the blood spirit seed, the seed of the blood spirit grass, which is a sacred blood-activating object. It has a very strong blood-activating effect."
After studying it for a while, the imperial physician put the longevity lock back to its original place and bowed to the prefect.
"If a pregnant woman wears this for a long time, will it be dangerous during childbirth?"
The prefect narrowed his eyes and looked at the imperial physician and asked.
"If a pregnant woman wears this for a long time, she will either have a miscarriage or die from hemorrhage during childbirth!"
The imperial physician answered with certainty.
"Okay, thank you for telling me the truth, I won't waste your time. Come on, send the doctor back!"
After sending the imperial physician away, the prefect looked at Zhao Ting'er coldly, "Zhao Ting'er, do you have anything else to say?"
"Humph! You can always find a pretext to accuse someone of something! Who knows if this monk was brought here to act? I didn't put anything in this longevity lock!"
Zhao Ting'er held her head high and refused to plead guilty.
"Amitabha! Monks do not tell lies! The prefect can send someone to investigate my temple. I grew up in a temple."
The bald monk looked at the prefect and Zhao Ting'er and said calmly.
"Come here, arrest Zhao Ting'er first, and send someone to go to the temple with this master. Old Prime Minister and General Cao, please take your families back first. I will go to court and make a verdict after I have investigated thoroughly!"
The prefect first sent someone to take Zhao Ting'er away, and then asked several officials to follow the monk away. Then he stood up and bowed to the old prime minister and others, asking them to go back and wait for news.
"Thank you for your hard work, sir. I and the others will go back first."
"Thank you for your trouble, sir!"
The old prime minister and General Cao stood up at the same time, bowed to the prefect, and left the yamen.