Black Lotus Concubine's Case-solving Notes

Aunt Liu couldn't do anything about it. She could only bend over, put her face to the ground, and kowtowed: "Young lady! Please forgive me! I didn't mean it!"

"Mammy, it hurts, my neck hurts... I can hardly breathe, Mammy..."

A faint, thin, cat-like voice sounded again, seeming even more creepy in the dark rainy night.

Another loud thunder roared, and Aunt Liu was frightened to death.

"My dear young lady! I know you died unjustly! But you can't look for me! I didn't mean to do that! It was the Prime Minister who said he wanted to strangle you to death! It was the Prime Minister!"

"It hurts so much, it hurts so much, Mammy, it hurts so much!"

"Ah, ah, ah! Miss, I know I was wrong! I know I was wrong! I dare not lie! It was the Prime Minister who strangled you to death with his own hands. Your face was blue and purple at the time, and you kept screaming in pain. Later, there was no movement. The Prime Minister thought you were unlucky! He threw you to me like a dead cat! He asked me to throw you into the river! Let your body be eaten by fish! So as to destroy the body and cover up all traces! He also told the public that you died of an epidemic!"

"But when I was about to throw your body away, I discovered that you were still breathing!"

"I was terrified! I hurried back to find the Madam, hoping that she would come up with a solution! I was thinking that you are her biological granddaughter after all! She loves you the most! She must have a way to save you! Either she can arrange for you to be raised in another farm! Or she can send you to the countryside to be raised! At least you can still survive!"

"But that vicious woman! She, she, she! She actually asked me to bury you alive like this!"

"I am only a servant! I dare not disobey! I could only dig a hole and put you in it! Then I pushed the soil up little by little, and your crying was intermittent like a cat! Then there was no sound...I was wrong! I was bewitched! But I did this under the instruction of the Madam! If you have any grievances, don't come to me, go to the Madam! Please! Go to that vicious woman!"

However, the cat-like female voice seemed to be inaudible and continued crying.

"I'm so hungry... I'm so hungry... Mammy, if you asked me to forgive you, then please go to my grave and bring me some food... It's been three years and no one has come to see me... I'm so hungry, I'm so hungry..."

Madam Liu was delighted and kowtowed her head loudly: "Okay, okay! As long as you let me go today, young lady, I will bring delicious food to see you tomorrow. I will bring you your favorite walnut cakes and butter cakes!"

The whistling sound of the wind was still blowing through the hall, but the sound of the cat was gone.

After a while, the thunder stopped and heavy rain fell. Matron Liu plucked up the courage to look into the distance, and the black shadow there had disappeared.

Really gone?

Nanny Liu went back to her room with a heavy heart, but she couldn't sleep at all. She was terrified the whole night and didn't even care about the stickiness and dampness on her quilt and pants. She tried to keep them dry all night.

Early the next morning, before daybreak, Matron Liu got up early, filled a basket with walnut cakes and butter cakes, and sneaked out of Xie's house through the back door while no one was noticing.

After leaving Xie's house, he hired a carriage and headed west. When he reached the west of the city and was about to leave, he walked again. He walked and stopped, made many turns, from morning to dusk, and finally arrived at the suburbs of Beijing, twenty miles west of the city.

It was an isolated grave with a blank tombstone in front of it.

The small Baotou stood there all alone. It must have been a long time since anyone came to worship it. The weeds were more than one meter tall.

Nanny Liu put down the basket, pushed away the dead branches and leaves on the tombstone, and placed all the food on it.

"Miss! I promised you last night! Look! I brought you a lot of delicious food today! Please let me go this time! Don't come to me at night! I didn't sleep all night last night!"

While kowtowed, Madam Liu took a handful of yellow paper from the basket and burned it: "Young lady! I know how hard your life was down there! I am burning paper money for you! Since you didn't become a lady of a noble family in this life, you must be reborn as a good person in your next life! Young lady! Rest in peace!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the paper money that was originally burning well was suddenly blown up by the wind and flew everywhere.

Nanny Liu was scared half to death. It was obvious that the young lady had not forgiven her!

Moreover, she always felt creepy along the way, as if someone was staring at her in the dark. There was a lonely grave in the wilderness and no one on the official road. Ma Liu did not dare to stay any longer. She kowtowed three times towards the tombstone and then fled.

Not long after Madam Liu left, two figures slowly walked out of the bamboo forest.

One of them was wearing a long green dress and had a pair of almond-shaped eyes with clear black and white. The other one was dressed like a maid, with long hair draped over her ears, and scars could be vaguely seen on both sides of her cheeks.

"Ninth Miss is really as good as a god! This Aunt Liu really came to pay tribute to the young lady!"

"How pitiful! Such a young child, I never thought that the Prime Minister almost strangled her to death with his own hands! He is worse than an animal! That is his granddaughter! And that eldest lady! Such a young child, who can already speak, but she ordered the young lady to be buried alive... What a sin!"

"...Ninth Miss?" Cui Chai then realized that the person next to her was silent. She was just looking at the wild grave, as if in a daze, and couldn't help but remind her.

Feng Jia said, "Cui Chai, please go and wait by the side. I want to pay my respects to this little niece alone."

Cuichai nodded and stood a little further away.

Feng Jia walked to the grave and gently touched the tombstone, as if she was touching a half-grown child. At this moment, guilt, anger, sadness and other emotions mixed together, and she felt that her heart was broken.

That's her child.

That was the child she gave birth to after ten months of pregnancy, the child she held in the palm of her hand when he was only the size of a palm, her darling, a piece of flesh that fell from her body, and an existence that was more important than her life!

But she was strangled to death by someone else and thrown casually in this lonely graveyard like a dead cat! How could she not hate! How could she not blame!

Feng Jia wanted to cry loudly, but not a single tear came out. Her tears had dried up in the prison in her previous life.

"My dear Yangyang, you blame your mother, don't you? I haven't come to see you for so many years, you blame your mother, don't you? Otherwise, why don't you want to come into your mother's dream?"

Feng Jia hugged the tombstone, just like the first time she hugged Yangyang, so nervous, so cautious: "Mother misses you, misses you very much, mother wants to hold you to sleep like before, mother wants to ask you, are you cold down there, are you hungry? Mother wants to ask you, do you hate it?"

"Yangyang, mother promises you that everyone who has hurt you in the past will be made to pay the price! Make them pay with blood!"

On the way back home, the maid Cui Chai hesitated.

Feng Jia said, "Just say whatever you want to say."

Cui Chai then said, "Ninth Miss, I am very nervous. We scared Madam Liu so much last night. If she had found out..."

"No problem."

"But... young lady, Madam Liu is the Madam's person. If Madam Liu reports this to the Madam... I would not regret dying, but I am afraid that it would implicate you, young lady!"

Feng Jia's eyes were filled with a hint of smile as she said, "I want her to find out. Not only do I want her to find out, but I also want her to know that I am the one behind the whole thing. Besides, the Madam will never help her with such a servant who is always causing trouble instead of helping her. The Madam is such a smart person, she will never let herself be tainted with a bad reputation for a piece of trash."

"Ah?" Cui Chai said, "I am even more confused."

Feng Jia said calmly: "Just wait and see, last night was just the beginning. Within three days, that Madam Liu will come to beg me!"