New widow

"Actually, we don't care whether you say it or not." Zhang Qing looked at the maid and said word by word: "If a slave sues his master, according to the law, he must be beheaded."

"I didn't sue my master as a slave." The maid said eagerly.

"You've already done this just now." Zhang Qing exposed the maid's lie. The maid suddenly panicked and bit her lower lip tightly with her teeth.

"In fact, we don't care whether the child in Aunt Su's belly is the Duke's. After all, we came in just to investigate why the Duke was missing." Zhang Qing saw the maid's panic and simply squatted in front of the maid. , looking at her without blinking.

"I, how could I have the courage to kill the Duke?" the maid stammered.

"But you have the courage to say that the child in Aunt Su's belly is not the Duke's, and you also have the courage to falsely accuse Aunt Su." Seeing that Zhang Qing had frightened the maid, Su Du spoke slowly.

The maid looked pale, and Su Du said slowly: "Let me guess, is it Mr. Song who doesn't want the child in Aunt Su's belly to be born, or someone else in the clan who has a son?"

"No, no, I didn't, I didn't do these things." When the maid heard Su Du's words, she covered her ears with her hands and screamed, as if she could not hear Su Du's words.

Su Du did not intend to let her go, and continued: "The Duke has no son. This huge Duke's mansion needs someone to inherit it. Whoever inherits the title can get everything. What do you think..."

"No!" The maid fell into extreme panic at this time. At that time, the man clearly said that at a critical moment, a

If you hit your head and die, the secret will never be discovered, and your family will get a lot of money, enough to make the family live a prosperous life.

If he doesn't want to, or if he confesses to him, then he has many ways to make sure that his family can live or die.

The maid knew how powerful this man was, so naturally she had no choice but to obey his orders. But the maid never thought that it would be so frightening when the words "can't live but can't die" come true in her body.

"She fainted." Zhang Qing stretched out his hand to feel the maid's breath and said to Su Du. Su Du glanced at the maid and shook his head slightly: "This Duke's Mansion is really wonderful."

"Two adults, you are still, but you are still..." The ladies looked aside for a long time. Now seeing that the maid had fainted, they had the courage to step forward and ask.

"Watch her carefully, and tell us when she wakes up." Su Du ordered, and the two women looked at Su Du and others leaving.

After everyone left, a woman said softly: "Tell me, what is this?"

"Young children, without any experience, really think that someone can cover the sky with one hand." Another woman said disdainfully. They are all women who have been in the palace for many years and know what to say at what time. . They could tell at a glance that this maid was being coerced, but they had no intention of reporting it to Su Qiao. After all, Su Qiao herself was not yet established.

The wife of the Duke of this country has changed several times. It would be better for these women to continue to serve people safely here.

The mother-in-law sighed again, glanced at the maid lying on the ground, and took a blanket

He put the cover on her. Since Suqiao said that she wanted this maid to be well, she naturally couldn't let her get sick.

Suqiao was not as calm as she seemed. When she returned to the mourning hall, Suqiao looked at the incense on the candles in front of the coffin. Not many people in the market would be willing to use such a thick candle, but here they are just lit every day before the funeral.

Prosperity and wealth, these four words are written everywhere in the Duke's mansion, and for these glory and wealth, there is no telling how much evil will happen.

"Madam, we have already ordered people to go to the maid's house to check." Madam Huang reported softly. Suqiao lit a stick of incense and inserted it into the incense burner. After a while, she said: "Every time I go there, I have to go back." Two or three days.”

"Yes!" Mrs. Huang replied, and Su Qiao said calmly: "Tell me, who in this clan has thought of such a sinister idea?"

When a child is still in the mother's womb and it is not known whether it is a boy or a girl, some people will not understand it and want to get rid of it. Madam Huang's lips opened. She had many people's names in her mind, but at this moment, Madam Huang couldn't say any of them.

"You dare not say it because you are afraid that that person's son will inherit the Duke's mansion." Su Qiao pointed out pointedly, and then Su Qiao smiled: "But it won't be the eldest master."

Naturally, Lord Song also wanted his people to inherit the Duke's Palace, but Lord Song knew how to poison Song An. Once this matter was exposed, it might even cause the title of Duke's Palace to be lost. Once there is no title, the Song family will lose their protection.

Anyone who could come up with this idea must not know this. his thoughts

Be meticulous and even find a scapegoat early on. And Aunt Su is the scapegoat.

Seeing that Su Qiao's expression changed again and again, Mrs. Huang did not dare to say anything, but accompanied Su Qiao to burn incense again.

"Madam, don't worry, Aunt Su is also being watched carefully." That's all Madam Huang can do.

Suqiao smiled: "I'm not worried about other things in this house, because everything happens with you."

Suqiao is worried about people outside the house. This Duke's Mansion looks like it can't be penetrated by a needle or splashed by water. I'm afraid it's been leaked into a sieve for a long time.

"Madam, many of the servants in this mansion are related to each other and to families outside." Such layers of relatives make the servants in this mansion very complicated.

Su Qiao smiled again. Madam Huang was a little afraid of Su Qiao's smile at this moment. This smile seemed to be a kind of ridicule, mocking Madam Huang for letting the Duke's palace leak into a sieve for the sake of profit and balance.

"This person is not Mr. Song." Su Du and Zhang Qing returned to the courtyard, and this was the first sentence Su Du said. Zhang Qing nodded: "It can't be him. If it were really him, he wouldn't be so worried if he knew that the Duke of Guo was poisoned to death."

"How many houses does the Song family have in Beijing?" Su Du himself was born in the Nanyang Marquis Mansion, so he naturally knew that there were many clan members living in each of these mansions in Beijing.

Zhang Qing had checked this a long time ago and said: "The Song family has been in the capital for more than a hundred years, and now they have 24 rooms. There are also promising people in these 24 rooms, who can be small officials or do small businesses. Not that promising. Yes, we rely on the Duke’s government to live.”

"How many of these 24 houses can a son be chosen as his heir?" Although

When it comes to establishing heirs, there is a practice of establishing virtuous people and establishing heirs, but for such a large family, most people choose from close relatives to avoid quarreling and being laughed at later.