Chapter 50: You leave quickly!

The man paused, realizing he was wrong, and immediately changed his words, "Apologies, young lady, I recognized the wrong person." Lin Jiaojiao didn't care about recognizing the wrong person, but hearing that Mo Siniang's mother was ill, she felt an itch to treat the patient.

She continued to ask about the relevant condition, and after receiving the answer, she roughly understood what the problem was.

"Her illness can be cured, but excessive worry has damaged her lungs. Besides medicine, this illness also requires adding a few other things," Lin Jiaojiao said while looking at Mo Siniang in the next cell. "Hey, take something from your body and let him take it back to your mother; I reckon the illness will be more than half cured."

Seeing that Mo Siniang made no move, still singing lullabies with empty eyes, Lin Jiaojiao suddenly got angry, "That is your mother! If your Nannan were still here, she would definitely want you to get better too!"

"Don't you dare mention my Nannan!!" Mo Siniang suddenly let out a roar like a mother beast!

The sound was so loud that it startled the dozing jailer, and even the other female prisoners were stunned by her roar.

Lin Jiaojiao, however, was not afraid of her lioness-like roar. Every word she said next made the prisoners in the women's prison feel deafening.

"Listen, every daughter who has been loved by her mother wants her mother to get better. I am also a daughter. If my mother were ill, I would definitely try every possible way to save her! If she were harmed by someone and something happened to her, I would be the first to tear the person who harmed her into a thousand pieces!"

Speaking of this, she felt a wave of sadness in her heart: ever since she traveled to this world, she hadn't seen her mother for more than a month. There were no mobile phones here, no messages from her mother urging her to eat well and not lose weight, and no videos of her mother dancing in the square...

Thinking that she had been in a car accident before traveling, how sad her mother must be if she found out about the accident...

Suddenly, a "rip" sound came from Mo Siniang's side; it turned out she was tearing a piece of cloth from her prison uniform!

Just then, the jailer came to drive people away, "You leave quickly! That roar of hers just now almost deafened me! Don't attract other colleagues and cause me trouble!"

Seeing the jailer driving people away, Mo Siniang threw the torn piece of cloth out through the gap in the cell door.

After the visitor picked it up, his heart was filled with mixed feelings. Before leaving, he bowed to thank the jailer, "Thank you for your trouble."

Before leaving the dungeon, he didn't forget to turn back and thank Lin Jiaojiao.

When the women's prison returned to peace, Lin Jiaojiao's heart could not be calm for a long time.

She felt Mo Siniang's gaze following her, making her feel as if hundreds of insects were crawling over her, extremely uncomfortable. She subconsciously hugged her shoulders and stayed far away from Mo Siniang's cell, "What are you looking at? Isn't what I said reasonable?"

"Hee hee hee," Mo Siniang suddenly let out a chilling giggle, startling Lin Jiaojiao so much that goosebumps rose all over her body!

Mo Siniang giggled and approached Lin Jiaojiao's cell, suddenly pinching her nose and speaking in a little girl's voice, "Fourth Sister, shall we go fly a kite today?"

"Fourth Sister, shall we go for an outing tomorrow?"

"Fourth Sister, I caught a cicada, look, how noisy it is!"

Lin Jiaojiao felt it was inexplicable, and she felt creeped out being stared at, "I am not your Fourth Sister..."

Mo Siniang, however, still giggled, imitating a young girl's tone, calling out "Fourth Sister" with every breath.

Lin Jiaojiao watched her for a long time, and after confirming that she wasn't doing anything else strange, she shook her head helplessly and muttered in a low voice, "Hopeless, even if she were put in a mental hospital, she would need to be fed tranquilizers every day..."

Outside the Dali Temple prison, Qin Yuan had already returned to the Yangxin Hall in the Imperial Palace.

He sat on the dragon throne, holding the handkerchief under his nose, sniffing it constantly. Suddenly, he stood up and paced, then fell into deep thought. The head eunuch, Eunuch Gao, noticed: could it be that His Majesty was about to have a new favorite?

Just then, a young eunuch brought tea. Eunuch Gao took the tea and brought it to Qin Yuan, advising, "Your Majesty, you have been back from outside for a long time, drink some tea to moisten your throat."

Qin Yuan took the tea and sipped it a few times, suddenly thinking of Weiying. He had sent him to investigate Lin Jiaojiao that day, and he didn't know if he had returned yet.

He asked the eunuch beside him, "Eunuch Gao, has Weiying returned?"

Eunuch Gao understood, "Your Majesty, Weiying returned at noon today. I will summon him in now."

After speaking, he went out to pass the message, "Tell Weiying to come to the Yangxin Hall."

"Yes." The young eunuch took the order, and in less than a stick of incense, Weiying arrived before Qin Yuan.

He performed a neat audience bow, "Your Majesty, are you summoning me because of that woman's matter?"

"Yes," Qin Yuan felt a surge of joy and walked directly from behind the desk, "Weiying, how did your investigation go?"

Weiying nodded, "I have investigated clearly. The woman named Lin Jiaojiao was originally named Wang Zhiyue, the daughter of the former Minister of Revenue, Wang Ye."

"... Minister of Revenue Wang Ye?" Qin Yuan pondered, "Is that the Wang Ye who swapped grain for sand and committed treason? Wasn't he executed along with his nine clans...?"

"Yes, Your Majesty. Back then, before the government troops arrived at the Wang Mansion, someone heard the wind, privately took Wang Ye's daughter away, raised her in the countryside, and changed her name to Lin Jiaojiao."

"Later, her foster parents passed away, so she sold herself to bury her father and entered the Pei Mansion as a concubine. When I returned to the Capital this morning, I heard people outside saying that the Pei Mansion had given her a Letter of Release for Concubine, returning her to freedom."

Qin Yuan listened carefully and nodded slowly, thinking that since Lin Jiaojiao was a free person, that was better than being a concubine.

But at the same time, he couldn't help but wonder, "When they counted the Wang family's population back then, wouldn't they have discovered the one who escaped?"

"Back then, they used a child from another family who had died of illness to replace her." Weiying cupped his hands and asked, "Your Majesty, this case is an old case from the previous dynasty, and omissions are inevitable. Should I go and finish the job?"

"No need." Qin Yuan waved his hand and shook his head. Now that Lin Jiaojiao was locked up in the Dali Temple, she was already suffering. He didn't want to see her die young.

But thinking that Lin Jiaojiao was the daughter of a criminal from the previous dynasty, he felt a bit of regret. This background was afraid that she wouldn't be able to enter the Imperial Palace.

"A young woman, she may not have the ability to overturn an old case from the previous dynasty. Let her live for now!"

But the Dali Temple Minister wanted to put her to death, and Qin Yuan was very clear about the stakes involved.

So how could he help her overturn the case in a legitimate way?

He muttered to himself, "How could a woman like her have the strength to press a male witness to death...?"

Weiying thought he was asking a question, so he loyally replied, "Master, she might have used a hidden weapon, like a long needle. Just pressing it into the heart would kill with one blow. I heard this woman has excellent medical skills, perhaps she was carrying..."

"Impossible." Before he could analyze further, Qin Yuan stopped him and denied his words.

Weiying lowered his head and pondered for a while, only able to say, "I cannot think of any other way to press someone to death."

Qin Yuan finally asked, "Besides you and me, does anyone else in the Capital know her background?"

"There shouldn't be..." Weiying saw that his master didn't seem to want the woman to die, but according to his investigation, there were indeed people outside who wanted to put her to death.

He hesitated, "However..."

"However what?" Qin Yuan urged, "Speak quickly!"

"However, during my investigation, I inadvertently discovered that the Su family has always wanted to put her to death..." ===== CHAPTER 51 =====