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

With the emperor's order, the trip to Yunzhou became urgent, and Li Qingqian and Shen Changyun set off early the next morning.

But when returning home yesterday, Li Qingqian suddenly remembered ***'s instructions, so she left Yunyi and Yunshang with her.

Firstly, Wanxiangyuan had more secret guards to guard it, and it would be more convenient to have two more maids around to take care of it;

Secondly, not only can these two girls win the favor of ***, but they can also increase ***'s liking for themselves.

Yunyan had difficulty walking, so Li Qingqian asked her to stay in the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion.

So this time when she went to Yunzhou, she only brought Yunwu with her.

Because the purpose is not only to investigate Jiang Chan's case, but also to retrieve the fifth princess, the action is relatively covert.

There was no accompanying motorcade, only her and Shen Changyun's carriage slowly drove out of the city gate at 11:00 a.m.

"There are many ghosts by the river. They often call out people's names. If someone answers, they will be dragged into the water and drowned. This is the dead soul trying to lure the living to die together."

"In Bailian Town, Yunzhou, a man stopped his boat by the river. The moonlight was very bright. Suddenly, he saw an old woman and a man emerge from the water. They looked around and whispered that there were living people here. Then they ran quickly on the water as if walking on flat ground, got ashore and left."

"Also in Yunzhou, a man from a family by the river was returning home at night. The moonlight was very bright and he saw a beautiful woman with her hair loose and her clothes soaked, as if she had just come out of the water. The man joked, "Are you a water ghost?" The woman said angrily, "How dare you say I'm a ghost?" Then she ran towards the man as fast as she could, until the man ran and tumbled and ran into the night watchman, and saw the beautiful woman returning to where she came from."

In the carriage, Shen Changyun told her about Jiang Chan in Yunzhou.

Li Qingqian lowered his head, as if thinking about something.

Shen Changyun thought she was frightened, so he hugged her in his arms and comforted her.

But Li Qingqian was not upset because of Jiang Chang.

Bailian Town... Who did she remember being in Bailian Town?

Oh, by the way, Jiang Lin came to Beijing from Bailian Town to take the exam, and Ling Ling was also born and raised there.

Li Qingqian thought about it again in her mind. In her previous life, Aunt Jiang was killed by Jiang Lin with a cup of poisoned wine, and she had visited her.

That's right, I went there to laugh at her.

Because her daughter was gone, she regarded Jiang Lin as her daughter's relic. She knew nothing at the time, but she and Ling Ling regarded her as a thorn in their eyes. In the disputes between her and Ling Ling, she always used herself as a shield.

Therefore, Li Qingqian had to watch her die with her own eyes no matter what. If she was unwilling to drink the poisoned wine, he was willing to fulfill their inexplicable malice towards him and force her to drink it himself.

Perhaps because she felt extremely sad, after drinking the poisoned wine, before the poison took effect, Aunt Jiang revealed her past to Li Qingqian.

Li Qingqian then learned that Jiang Lin and Ling Ling had been childhood sweethearts, and that Aunt Jiang's little daughter, Nannan, had also grown up with them in Bailian Town.

For some reason, this girl had not been weak since she was young, but she suffered from cough and asthma, and no amount of medicine had worked to cure her.

Aunt Jiang made a living by selling rice cakes and raising money for her daughter's medical treatment.

Because of this problem, Nannan had few friends since childhood. Only Jiang Lin, who was staying at her house, and Ling Ling, who was from the same town, were willing to play with her.

At first, Aunt Jiang thought Ling Ling was kind-hearted, but as time went on, things seemed to become increasingly strange.

For example, every time Ling Ling left, some strange things would appear in Nannan's medicine; for another example, every time after playing with Ling Ling, Nannan would struggle and refuse to take the medicine, saying that there was no point in living with her tuberculosis body, and that dying would relieve Aunt Jiang of some of the burden.

Aunt Jiang was a little reluctant to let Ling Ling come to her house to play, but because Jiang Lin liked to be with her and she raised Jiang Lin as her own son, she couldn't say anything.

But she has also learned to be smart. Every time Ling Ling wants to take Nannan out to play, no matter how reluctant Ling Ling is, she will let Jiang Lin go with them.

What's even more strange is that since she forced Jiang Lin to go out with them every time, Nannan has never behaved strangely again.

Aunt Jiang became more and more certain of her guess, and she disliked Ling Ling more and more.

In the late autumn when Nannan was twelve years old, Aunt Jiang's rice cakes sold exceptionally well and could even be transported to places outside Bailian Town for sale.

As the family business got better, Aunt Jiang became more and more unable to take care of her daughter. Fortunately, Jiang Lin was sensible enough, so Aunt Jiang asked him to help look after her daughter.

The accident happened at this time. Ling Ling said that according to medical knowledge, osmanthus can be used as medicine, and perhaps it can cure Nannan's cough.

She urged Jiang Lin to take her daughter to the river to play, and pick some osmanthus flowers to make medicine for her daughter.

When autumn came, the river bank itself became even colder. Nannan didn't want to go near the water, but Ling Ling told her not to be so pretentious and that only with the willpower to fight the cold could one fight the disease. She forced her to go to the osmanthus tree by the water to collect osmanthus flowers.

But Jiang Lin was so focused on talking to Ling Ling at the time that they ignored Nannan who was picking osmanthus flowers alone nearby.

Not long after, Nannan saw that they had almost picked all the osmanthus flowers, so she wanted to take Jiang Lin and Ling Ling home, but Ling Ling, in a corner where Jiang Lin wasn't paying attention, pushed Nannan hard with one hand, pushing her into the freezing water.

Aunt Jiang said to herself with tears in her eyes: "When Nannan came back, she told me with certainty that Ling Ling did it on purpose. I also misjudged Jiang Lin's character. He was clearly protecting Ling Ling at that time!"

Aunt Jiang also said that when she heard that Nannan fell into the water that day, she rushed back from outside the town in a hurry. Nannan was already extremely weak, and only Jiang Lin was feeding her medicine. Ling Ling was nowhere to be found.

She originally thought it was just an accident, but if she hadn't smelled the scent of osmanthus in the air.

Aunt Jiang stepped forward and pulled Jiang Lin away, asking harshly, "What are you feeding your daughter?"

Jiang Lin stammered that this was a medicine with osmanthus in it, because Ling Ling told him that osmanthus could be used as medicine.

But after Nannan drank the medicine, she coughed even more violently.

Aunt Jiang was terrified and hurried to find a traveling doctor who was staying in the town.

It rained heavily that day, and the wind was chilly. When Aunt Jiang came back, she was already mostly soaked, and her face was broken because she slipped on the rain.

However, she seemed to feel no pain and quickly asked the traveling doctor to treat her daughter.

But after checking Nannan's pulse, the itinerant doctor frowned and asked unhappily, "Did osmanthus get into your daughter's medicine?"

Aunt Jiang then learned from the traveling doctor that Nannan was suffering from a cough, and now that autumn had arrived, one had to be extra careful with things like osmanthus.