Chapter 281: Let you be a clear ghost

After interrogating Lou Shi and confirming that she had remembered every detail about the Jiang family, Su Jin Xiu withdrew from the torture room.

Behind her, Lou Shi shouted with a trembling voice: "Eldest Miss, don't forget what you promised me, you must save Feng'er safely! Otherwise, even if I become a ghost, I won't let you go!"

Su Jin Xiu paused slightly and shook her head with amusement.

This Dong'er, she really was naive her whole life...

"Princess Consort, how to deal with her?" Shang Chun, who was following on the side, asked.

In the night, a fierce light flashed in Su Jin Xiu's eyes. "The events of back then must never be leaked out, Dong'er... I'm afraid she cannot be kept."

Shang Chun was not surprised by this.

The Princess Consort's way of doing things was always thorough.

"Then shall this servant go and solve her?"

Su Jin Xiu said "um." "Go, do it cleanly and neatly. Also, don't let her die too painfully, no matter what, she can be considered to have helped me."

"Understood, Princess Consort, you, you are just kind-hearted!" Shang Chun laughed.

Su Jin Xiu sneered at the corners of her mouth.

Kind-hearted?

Horses are ridden by people, people are bullied by people, is kindness useful?

"Tomorrow morning, tell Li Xiao, let him go to Wutou Xian, and inquire carefully to see if what Dong'er said is true."

Li Xiao is the long-term attendant of the Commandery Prince's mansion, and also Shang Chun's son. Only by handing over such an important and secret matter to him can she feel at ease.

Shang Chun responded respectfully, and after thinking, asked again: "Then what about Yang Dian Feng? Do we need to inquire about him as well?"

"No need." Su Jin Xiu's attitude was cold. "Dong'er and her stepson seem to have a good relationship, saving him, if he finds out Dong'er's true cause of death in the future, I'm afraid he will become our enemy instead. Let him fend for himself."

Shang Chun nodded in agreement. "The Princess Consort is right."

She handed the lantern in her hand to Su Jin Xiu, as considerate as ever. "Then you hurry and rest, you're tired after being busy all day, leave the rest to this servant."

Su Jin Xiu was still at ease with Shang Chun's way of doing things.

So she took the lantern and walked alone toward the main courtyard where she lived.

The flickering fluorescent light, in this pitch-black and quiet night, was like a misty ghost fire, making one's heart tremble with fear.

Shang Chun turned around and returned to that torture room.

"Are you going to do it?" Lou Shi sat on the damp ground in a sorry state, her tone surprisingly calm.

Shang Chun squatted down, patted her thin face, and sighed with disdain: "I said you, knowing that coming back is a dead end, why did you still come back? Just to save a stepson who has absolutely no blood relationship with you?"

Lou Shi turned her face away forcefully. "If you want to kill, then kill, why talk so much nonsense."

"Killing is definitely going to happen, but before killing you, I have two things I can't help but say."

A proud look appeared on Shang Chun's face. "There was more than one maid serving by the second young lady's side back then, so do you know why we chose you as the inside agent to frame the second young lady?"

Lou Shi's heart thumped violently.

What does this mean?

Wasn't it because her younger brother had an accident and was just caught by the Eldest Miss's weakness?

"Anyway, you're going to die, so let me let you be a clear ghost."

Shang Chun continued, "The reason for choosing you was my suggestion to the Eldest Miss. Do you know why? Because I like Li Rong, but Li Rong, he just happened to take a fancy to you!"

Li Rong?

Lou Shi frowned in confusion, and it took a long time before she finally remembered this person, it seemed to be the nephew of a manager in the Su mansion.

But she had no private affair with Li Rong, and hadn't even spoken a few words to him.

She didn't even remember what that man looked like.

Just because of such an absurd reason, Shang Chun hated her?

"Oh right, you don't know yet, right?" Shang Chun happily spilled an even crueler truth. "The reason your brother became addicted to gambling was because we found someone to lure him, and even the huge gambling debt he owed was secretly designed by us. How is it, are you very angry?"

Lou Shi's body trembled violently, her eyes wide open, full of horror and disbelief.

How could this be?

It can't be... it can't be!

"You're lying to me, you're deliberately lying to me, right? My brother was to save up a dowry for me, that's why he accidentally went astray, no one lured him, no!"

She shouted with all her might, as if as long as the sound was loud enough, she could overturn Shang Chun's statement.

Shang Chun sneered. "Believe it or not, anyway, I've told you the facts, otherwise why don't you go to the underworld and ask the King of Hell, to see if I lied to you."

As she spoke, she sighed pretentiously. "You really are a pathetic worm, back then the second young lady treated you so well, even when your father died, she borrowed money to buy you a good coffin. And what happened? A kind heart raised a white-eyed wolf, and in the blink of an eye, you sold her out."

"The most ridiculous thing is, you thought you were forced to choose between your closest relative and your master; but you didn't know that you fell into someone else's trap from the beginning, becoming an accomplice in the death of the second young lady."

"Lou Dong'er, you are a complete and utter idiot!"

"Don't say it, don't say it anymore!" Lou Shi was heartbroken, tears of regret rolling down the corners of her eyes. "I beg you, kill me quickly!"

"Can't take it anymore? There's more exciting stuff."

Shang Chun wouldn't let it go.

"You really think the Eldest Miss will keep her word and save your Feng'er? Don't dream, your Feng'er will soon go to the underworld to see you."

Lou Shi's spirit finally collapsed completely.

"Why? Su Jin Xiu swore a poisonous oath!"

"A poisonous oath is worth a fart." Shang Chun's smile grew even wider. "You really don't understand the Eldest Miss, the Eldest Miss never believed in ghosts and gods since she was a child; she only believes in herself."

"Ahhh!" Lou Shi couldn't take these stimuli and bumped into her like a madman.

Although her hands and feet were tied, caught off guard, Shang Chun was still bumped to the ground.

Ouch, her old waist!

Shang Chun grimaced in pain, and it took a long time before she climbed up in anger, grabbed a thick wooden stick from the wall, and smashed it heavily on Lou Shi's head.

Lou Shi didn't even make a sound, and fell to the ground.

She didn't move.

Shang Chun reached out to check her breathing, it seemed she was dead, but just in case, she added another stick.

Now she should be dead through and through, right?

After doing all this, she spat at Lou Shi's corpse with disgust. "Bitch, died well."

Thinking that her husband Li Rong had called Dong'er's name in his dreams several times, she felt as uncomfortable as if she had eaten a fly, wishing she could tear this woman who was used to pretending to be weak into pieces!

Thinking it still wasn't enough to vent her anger, Shang Chun kicked Lou Shi's corpse several times.

Only then did she turn and leave the torture room.

Not long after, a sturdy young man in his twenties, wearing night clothes, walked in, skillfully stuffed Lou Shi's corpse into a sack, carried it on his shoulder, and went out.

At the gate of the side courtyard, Shang Chun carried a lantern and exhorted: "Xiao'er, be careful on the road, don't let anyone see you."

"Rest assured, Mother, this isn't the first time your son has done this kind of thing, back then in the mansion, those concubines, which one wasn't carried out of the mansion by me?"

Li Xiao didn't care at all, bouncing the sack on his shoulder. "Besides, this side courtyard is a forbidden area of the Commandery Prince's mansion, without the Princess Consort's order, who dares to trespass? It's not like they don't want their lives."

That's true.

Shang Chun waved her hand. "Then fine, take advantage of the fact that the sky isn't bright yet, go early and return early, tomorrow we still have to set off for Wutou Xian."