The daughter of the first wife is a black lotus, reborn and remarried to kill

Shen Changyun slowly raised his eyes to look at him, with a warning in his eyes, "Prime Minister Li, you are Qianqian's father and my father-in-law. You have been an official for so many years, I think you should be a smart man."

Li Zhengkang sat down and seemed to consider what Shen Changyun said.

Li Shuyue's eyes shot fiercely at Shen Changyun, "What are you doing? Are you threatening my father? You two, one framed my mother, and the other threatened my father. You really don't take this Li Mansion seriously!"

Li Zhen's voice sounded calmly: "Fourth sister, you have to think carefully about what you said today. Madam just disobeyed the imperial decree, do you still want to protect her?"

Li Shuyue certainly knew the price of disobeying the imperial edict, not to mention that Shen Changyun had just threatened that he would not listen to the emperor's orders because of her mother. This was clearly an attempt to kill her and her mother!

But Li Shuyue was unwilling to give in, and her mother was locked up again.

Recalling the first time I was under house arrest, I was not released until the Chinese New Year.

She was only three months younger than Li Qingqian. She should have held her coming-of-age ceremony on the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month, but because she was under house arrest, the old lady just came to her yard to simply tie her hair into a bun and ended the ceremony hastily.

But on the third day after Li Qingqian returned to Beijing, the old lady was almost too sick to get out of bed, but she still personally tied her hair into a bun and pinned it up for her.

Although Li Qingqian's coming-of-age ceremony was not lively due to her mother's obstruction, and even the noble families in the capital were not invited to the house, it was still well-mannered.

Li Shuyue simply couldn't accept such a gap.

Similarly, she could not accept Shen Changyun who was protecting Li Qingqian like this.

In his previous life, he rode his horse into the streets on the eve of his wedding and was ordered by the emperor to become a monk. His family also disliked him.

She had lived a hard life in the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion for so many years, and now Shen Changyun had changed his attitude from his previous life and was so nice to Li Qingqian, which made her angry to the point of going crazy.

She was unwilling to accept this, so she had to make things difficult for Shen Changyun. So she sneered and looked at him and said, "Brother-in-law just said that he and sister love each other? Hahahaha, brother-in-law is so good to sister, have you ever thought that sister doesn't treat you the same way?"

Li Qingqian raised her eyebrows, "What kind of dirty water are you trying to throw on me again, little sister?"

"You know whether it's a dirty trick or not," Li Shuyue turned around, took a brocade bag from Cui'er, and threw it in front of Li Qingqian, "Take a look for yourself, what is this?"

Li Qingqian calmly took out a jade ring from inside, took a look at it, and said calmly: "My maiden name is engraved on it. Is it a gift from my younger sister to my elder sister? Then I will accept it first."

"You are really shameless," Li Shuyue's lips curled up with a smug arc, "Master Shen, your newlywed wife has bad conduct. She actually committed such a shameful act of adultery before marriage. This ring is the evidence of her adultery!"

"Shut up!" Li Zhengkang slammed the table angrily.

Shen Changyun took the jade pendant from Li Qingqian and looked at it, then said disdainfully, "It's just a jade ring with my wife's name engraved on it. What can it mean?"

Li Xi and Li Zhen really couldn't understand it. Not to mention that exposing their sister in public would do no good to Li Shuyue herself.

Just talking about this ring, how did it become evidence of Li Qingqian's affair with someone?

Li Shuyue did not think that she did anything wrong. She pointed at the jade ring and said confidently, "This was given to me by the Seventh Prince at the palace banquet on New Year's Eve that day. It was originally meant to be given to Li Qingqian, but because Li Qingqian was called away by the Queen, she asked me to pass it on. Isn't this enough to prove that my sister and the Seventh Prince have been secretly in love for a long time?"

Li Qingqian was amused. "So what Fourth Sister means is that you have kept this jade ring just to embarrass me today?"

"Li Qingqian, since you can do this, are you afraid that I will expose you?"

Li Shuyue thought she had caught Li Qingqian's handle, but she didn't expect that the other party would slowly take out an identical ring from his sleeve pocket, which also had Li Qingqian's name engraved on it.

"Chang Yun has already given me a ring like this."

Shen Changyun took out a piece of paper from the brocade bag and read out the words on it: "This is something that cousin Changyun gave to the third lady. It was previously left at the emperor's brother's place in the East Palace. Huairong is returning it specially."

He shrugged, "I had intended to give this ring to Qianqian, but it was lost for some reason. It turned out to have been left in the East Palace. Fortunately, the Fifth Princess returned it to me."

Li Zhengkang breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that Shen Changyun was planning to give it to Li Qingqian.

He just said that he had originally planned to marry Li Qingqian to the Seventh Prince, and he didn't tell anyone about it, just to make Li Qingqian more valuable as a marriage partner.

Li Shuyue stood there in a daze. Fifth, Fifth Princess?

That’s not right. When I received the brocade bag, there was no note inside.

But it was clearly imprinted with the glazed seal that belonged to the legitimate princess. He had also seen this glazed seal in his previous life, so it couldn't be fake.

Li Qingqian lowered her eyes secretly for a moment. During the time she had been in the palace waiting to get married, Jiang Huairong had always been willing to do everything for her. How could he refuse by just writing a note as a show of agreement?

Just now, she quietly slipped the note into Shen Changyun's hand, and he tacitly slipped the note into the brocade bag when no one was paying attention.

"Even if this is not the item you acquired through your affair, you must have other tokens of love. It's not like there has been any rumors about you and the Seventh Prince!" Li Shuyue said stubbornly.

After hearing this, Li Zhengkang's eyes flashed with surprise, and then he cast a cold gaze at her.

But Li Shuyue didn't answer. She knew that the Seventh Prince had always liked Li Qingqian in his previous life, so she insisted that Li Qingqian and the Seventh Prince were having an affair.

But Shen Changyun was so angry that he laughed. He took out a jade pendant from his waist and shook it in front of her, "Look carefully, this is called a token of love."

Li Xi looked over and recalled, "Yes, I remember this was the birthday gift my mother gave to Chang Yun before she passed away, and it was used to arrange his engagement with A Qian."

Li Xi was four years old at that time and had already started to remember things.

Li Qingqian nodded and said, "It was not until I returned to Beijing that Changyun engraved my name on the back of this jade pendant and gave it to me. Fourth sister, is this the token of love you are talking about?"

Li Shuyue was speechless.

How come this is different from what I thought?

How could Shen Changyun, a person who cannot tolerate any sand in his eyes, defend his wife like this when she was suspected of committing adultery with an outsider?

Li Qingqian shook her head gently, "Since Fourth Sister is so sure that I am having an affair, then please produce other evidence?"

But Li Shuyue had slandered her in the first place, so what could she prove now?

Li Zhen saw Cui Er behind her, who looked uneasy, and asked, "You are the fourth sister's personal maid. What's wrong? Do you have something to say?"

Cui Er shook her head in panic, "No, no, nothing."

"You have to think it through. Today, Fourth Sister accused me of having an affair with someone, and the other party was His Majesty's Seventh Prince. If you know about it but don't report it today, when Fourth Sister can't cover up her lie in the future, you will not be able to escape the blame either."

Cui Er seemed to be frightened, and quickly knelt on the ground to explain: "I don't know, I really don't know."

But the bigger her reaction was, the more suspicious it seemed.

This idiot!

Li Shuyue cursed inwardly.

But we cannot panic at this moment. We need to think carefully about how to turn the situation around.

So she bowed to Li Zhengkang and said, "Since Third Sister suspects that I framed her, I am not afraid of being wrongly accused. Third Sister can just ask someone to search my boudoir."

Her words were really laughable. She was the one who wronged Li Qingqian first, but now she turned the tables and said that Li Qingqian wronged her.

A dangerous gleam of light flashed in Li Qingqian's eyes. It was you who asked me to look for it. If I find something special, don't blame me for being angry.

She didn't hesitate and directly instructed Yun Yi and Yun Shang behind her: "In this case, the two of you should follow the maidservant Fourth Sister and search. Don't really wrongly accuse my sister."

Without giving Li Shuyue a chance to react, Yunyi Yunshang immediately took Cui'er and walked towards Jinyuyuan.

Li Shuyue glared at Li Qingqian with dissatisfaction, thinking that if she couldn't find anything soon, she could turn around and accuse her of being aggressive. Even though she didn't gain any advantage now, she, Li Qingqian, was still unpopular.

Just one stick of incense later, Yunyi and Yunshang returned to Qingzhu Hall with Cui'er behind them.

Yun Yi held Cui Er to prevent her from escaping. Yun Shang held a box in her hand and looked at Li Qing Qian with some entanglement: "Madam, the Crown Prince..."

Li Qingqian stared at the wooden box curiously, "What is that?"

The Li family's two sons and Shen Changyun also looked over here. Yun Shang had no choice but to open the wooden box and reveal the contents.

"This, is this a voodoo doll?" Li Zhen said in surprise, frowning.

Voodoo doll? Li Shuyue subconsciously looked at Cui'er. Why was this thing still in the mansion? Shouldn't it be disposed of before she got married?

But Cui'er was "clamped" and just lowered her head, not daring to say anything.

This cowardly guy! Li Shuyue felt very disappointed.

Li Zhengkang stood up suddenly, walked forward to check the thing, and found that Li Qingqian's birth date was written on it.

If Li Qingqian and Li Shuyue had not yet married, they could have just closed the door and resolved the matter privately.

But it’s different now. Li Qingqian is already the wife of the prince of the Duke of Zhenguo’s Mansion, and Shen Changyun is also present. This is not a small matter that she can settle privately on her own!

Li Qingqian glanced at him indifferently. This was her plan. She wanted to expose this matter after marriage so as not to give Li Zhengkang a chance to smooth things over.