Reborn Lady: Unparalleled Daughter of Concubine Chapter 111 - Plot Revealed

Chapter 111 Plot Revealed

What result did she expect? Tong felt astonished when she heard the words.
“Third Miss, I said something wrong? I just think that now you have engaged with General Leng, and many people must come to flatter you. So naturally, I did that….”
“So you naturally accepted bribes from those maidservants and promised them that you could arrange them to be the maidservants in my courtyard?” Qin Yunuan just said all out. She had found earlier that Tong did something dirty, but she ignored it because she was busy handling Dou Qing’e at that time. Qin Yunuan paid much attention to the use of talent and she must use that kind of person who was trustworthy and valuable. Tong had touched her bottom line, so now she had to cope with this issue.
“Third Miss, Third Miss… I…” Tong turned to be nervous and shuddered, and she could not control herself. She looked at Qin Yunuan frightenedly and then suddenly knelt on the ground. She kowtowed towards Qin Yunuan and grumbled, “I won’t do that anymore. I just wanted to save some dowry for my future marriage. Third Miss, you know that I am too menial. If I were to have no enough money, I would not find a good husband through a well-qualified matchmaker.”
Maner looked out to make sure there were no people outside. She did not want anybody else to hear something.
“Humph, marriage?” Qin Yunuan turned back and then sat on the Zen chair near the tea-table. She sat straight and looked down at Tong who knelt on the ground, “I have said that you and Maner have suffered a lot with me so I will care much about your marriages. When you get married, I will give each one of you two a piece of Five Golden Accessories. Your weddings will be very glamorous, just like those ordinary maidens. And, you have much money and accessories I award you. Besides, I give you many bonuses in the profits from the shop each time. Do you really lack the money?”
“Third Miss, actually I just…” Tong suddenly became speechless. She even could not palter with some reasons.
“Tong, I remember your advantages and kindness because we have stayed together for many years. But how dare you hurt Baochuan!” Qin Yunuan took a deep breath and her eyes turned slowly to be cold like ice, “I know better than you that what you did about the food of Baochuan when I went to the hunting ground.”
“Third Miss, I…” Tong could not speak more and seemed to confess. She gritted her teeth heavily and then said in a high voice suddenly, “So you have known what I have done. It is a pity that I have disguised myself around you for a long time.”
“You are so kind all the time,” Qin Yuan said in a regretful voice, “I don’t know why you change yourself.”
“People always want to be in a higher position,” Tong’s voice was not simple and straight like before, but more sophisticated and tackier like an experienced old woman. “Third Miss, you may do not know my life before Concubine Yang saved me. Actually, my homelessness was not due to a flood in my hometown. My mother was not a simple countryside woman but a prostitute in a whorehouse. I did not know who my father was. My mother had a deal with the procuress of the whorehouse when I was eight years old. She wanted me to be a prostitute with her. I was only eight years old and she let me start to do prostitution. I knew that if I had not escaped from the place, I would have lived such a miserable life like her, namely having sex with different men for gaining money. Third Miss, do you know what I did for escaping from there?”
Tong showed a little of a bitter smile now without caring about the cold eyes of Qin Yunuan.
“I deceived the door-nanny and let her drink a bowl of arsenic. I told her that was a bowl of syrup and she drunk it. Finally, she died and I escaped,” Tong said with tears dripping from her eyes. She had never talked about her previous life because she thought that was very humiliating. Her mother was a cheeky prostitute. She still remembered her previous miserable life. Those carnal men looked her up and down when she was only eight years old. They seemed to look at a chick and were ready to maltreat her.
Qin Yunuan turned her head, “There are many misfortunes in this world but not all the people lose their confidence and hope about life. Tong, I feel very disappointed with you.” Qin Yunuan would not tell Tong what she had suffered in her previous life. At the beginning of her rebirth, she always dreamed about her miserable experience in her last life repeatedly. But now, or after she met with Leng Changxi especially, her nightmare had vanished. She believed that there would be a unique warmth waiting for her in this world if she did not give up.
Actually, there were many people like Tong. Qin Yunuan had met with so many such kinds of people. They made themselves dirtier to fight against the dirt and filth in this world. They would finally destroy themselves.
“Third Miss, I have no such kind of luck like you to meet with the man who loved you so much,” Tong said coldly.
“Luck did not help me always,” Qin Yunuan said lightly. She knew that at this moment, Tong could not understand any word. Tong’s heart had been clouded and could not be clear any longer, “I rely on my effort and sincere heart. Tong, I have ever treated you sincerely, just like what I did to Maner, nurse Liao and Ting Xue. But now…” Qin Yunuan turned her head and said, “You go away to receive your punishment.”
To the surprise of Tong, she thought that she would be executed or punished by some more crucial way in view of Qin Yunuan’s heartless and decisive characteristics. But she quickly understood. Qin Yunuan could not kill her because they were in the Xiangguo Temple instead of the mansion of Grand Commandant. It was harder for Qin Yunuan to handle her easily. Tong seemed to feel lucky and then straightened her body. She kowtowed toward Qin Yunuan heavily and said, “Thanks, Third Miss.”
In a moment, the sound of board-banging came from outside. It would be very painful when the board hit the body heavily.
Qin Yunuan sitting inside the room heard the sound clearly.
Maner passed a boiled cup of Honeysuckle tea to Qin Yunuan. Qin Yunuan seemed to be inflamed recently because she always stayed up late.
“Third Miss, will you let Tong continue to serve you?” Maner looked worried. Afterall, Tong made big mistakes and for more critical, Tong touched the bottom line – the Second Young Master, which could not be accepted by Qin Yunuan entirely. But in the meanwhile, Maner had stayed with Tong for a long time. Though they had some disputes recently, they were close sisters. Maner frowned after she heard the sound outside.
“Do you think it is possible?” Qin Yunuan took out the unique embroidering pattern that was carried with her. She browsed it, “She is not willing to serve me any longer. Why should I let her be on my side? Now she hurt Baochuan and I think she will dare to kill you and me in the future.”
Maner felt chilled. Qin Yunuan was right. Maner felt frightened after she heard the experience of the previous life of Tong.
“And then, Third Miss… Since you did not want Tong to stay with you, why did you not kick out Tong?”
Qin Yunuan raised her head and looked outside the window. A lush locust tree was planted outside the window. A big green mantis was staring at the food in front of it – a chirping cicada in the summer. But above the mantis, there was a vertin which was preparing to hunt the mantis.
“A vertin is hunting a mantis when the mantis is hunting a cicada,” Qin Yunuan smiled, “Though Tong was so vile, she dared not to hurt Baochuan. If I killed her, it would be very laborious and the person behind Tong would be happy to see this result. I’d better let her alive because I can investigate the whole thing, and,” Qin Yunuan sipped the tea and said slowly, “And there will be someone else helping us to handle her.”
Qin Yunuan believed strongly that person was not a simple role since the person had settled his spy into the courtyard of Qin Yunuan. Such kind of person had the characteristics of decisiveness, cleanness and practiced means. When the spy was exposed or cheated him, the only way to handle this case for the person was to kill the spy.
The Xiangguo Temple was not so large and the room was very close to other rooms. Quickly, Infanta Shuhua and Imperial Concubine Jing dispatched people to know about the situation here respectively. Infanta Shuhua thought the room of Qin Yunuan was so noisy and bothered her rest. She was venting her anger now. Imperial Concubine Jing dispatched people to ask what happened here.
When the maidservants of the two sides went back, Qin Yunuan leaned against the door and saw Tong at her last gasp. She waved her hands to let the two servants stop and then stepped down along the stairs slowly towards Tong.
The moment Tong looked at Aunty Qing, she seemed to know that she would be killed in a short time. She lay on the long bench and felt extremely painful on her bottom with sweats dripping from her head. The smell of aerugo made her more unalive.
“Third Miss, if you gave me another chance….”
“I have given you many chances,” Before Tong said, Qin Yunuan said first. She glimpsed at Tong coldly and then went back to the room.
“Prison her in the side room,” Qin Yunuan ordered, “Someone will come to handle her in the evening.” And then Qin Yunuan let Maner find Leng Wu and ordered him to monitor the side room carefully in the evening.
At late night, Qin Yunuan still read the book by the candlelight, but she still thought about the issue related to Imperial Concubine Jing and Tong. She thought there must be some certain connections between them. When she was pondering, the candlelight went out, which seemed to be caused by shooting. The room became silent quickly. In the dark, Qin Yunuan tried to find the dagger hidden under her pillow. But when she touched the hilt of the dagger, her lips were covered heavily by a flaming thing.
So familiar, so aggressive. Qin Yunuan knew that he came.