Qing He glanced at the basil peach cake on the plate and whispered, "Since Dad has remarried and had children, I won't bother him. Aunt Xian'er, you don't have to tell him about this. Just pretend we didn't meet today!"

Li hurriedly stopped him, "Why are you leaving just like that? Stay with Auntie for a while. It's not easy for us to come out. We need to ask for leave from the housekeeper in Yao's mansion. It's good for us to meet again as master and servant and reminisce about the past! Come, have some tea!"

As she spoke, Li brought the fragrant cup of Spring Snow Tea to Qing He and said with a smile, "I have served Madam since I was young, so I am considered an elder in the family. I recognized Miss at first sight that day! I didn't expect that we are so predestined to meet here again today. Even if Lian'er pushed Miss, it was not intentional. Let me use tea instead of wine today to apologize to Miss on behalf of Lian'er..."

As he said that, he drank the tea in one gulp!

Qinghe, thinking of the many years she had served her mother, picked up the teacup and drank as well.

Li was overjoyed when she saw this. She nudged Yao Bilian beside her and said, "Lian'er, you should also toast the young lady! Apologize to the young lady!"

Yao Bilian put down the cake in her hand, raised the teacup, and said in a hoarse voice: "Okay, I'll also offer a cup to Sister Qinghe. I hope you will be magnanimous and bless us mother and daughter to escape from the sea of ​​suffering as soon as possible and live a good life!"

This is wrong!

After listening to this, Qinghe couldn't help but frown: What does it mean that I will protect them from suffering as soon as possible? Am I the one who caused them to suffer now?

Just as she was about to speak, she saw Yao Bilian's face change, she suddenly shook twice, and then fell down limply...

Li was shocked and called out, "Lian'er, Lian'er!"

Yao Bilian's face gradually turned pale and she fell into a coma...

Qing He wanted to go out and call for help, but Li came up and grabbed her clothes and said with gritted teeth: "You still want to run! Why did you want to kill Lian Er?"

Qing He was stunned for a moment, and asked in confusion: "Aunt Xian'er, I wanted to go out and call for help, but how come I ended up killing her?"

Li said with a frown, "It's you! If not you, who else could it be? There are only three of us in this room. How could I, her own mother, harm her?"

Qing He thought that she was probably a little confused because she was so angry when she saw her daughter was poisoned, so she frowned and said, "She may still be saved now. If we delay for a while longer, it may be too late!"

Li's eyes were red as she held onto her hand tightly. Yao Bilian was poisoned by the highly toxic Michelia odorata, and there was no antidote! Jingying had made it clear when she gave them the powder that they had to leave before the little village girl was poisoned, otherwise it would be hard to explain.

But what Li didn’t understand was why the cheap girl wasn’t poisoned, but her Lian’er fell down instead?

But since Bilian is now beyond help, we can’t let this little village girl go!

Letting her pay with Bilian’s life is also a good choice!

Li made up her mind in a short moment. She grabbed Qinghe's clothes tightly and shouted, "Someone come! Someone is poisoning people!"

Her shouting quickly attracted a group of people, including waiters from the teahouse and customers who were drinking tea. They squeezed in to take a look and saw a fat girl with a strange expression and a sallow face lying on the ground. They were immediately frightened and started talking at once: "What's going on?"

"Why did he die so suddenly?"

Li pointed at Qinghe and shouted, "She killed my daughter!"

When everyone saw Qing He, they found that she was young, beautiful, gentle and generous. They all didn't believe that she would hurt anyone. They shook their heads and sighed, "Could it be a mistake? How could such a pretty girl hurt someone?"

Li said indignantly, "She was resentful that my daughter had pushed her, causing her to fall to the ground and hit her head, so she had evil thoughts and used some unknown method to kill my daughter!"

At this time, someone suddenly said loudly: "You got it wrong, didn't you? Originally, you and your daughter were planning to kill someone, but somehow you ended up making things worse and ended up killing yourselves!"

As soon as this was said, someone in the crowd nodded and said, "It's hard to say for sure! It would be better to report it to the authorities first and let them make the decision..."

Li was startled and quickly turned around, only to see that the man who had just spoken was the man who came with Qinghe!

She was stunned and thought to herself, "How did he know that?"

Yan Shixun stepped forward and pried Li's hands apart, saying righteously, "It was obviously you and your daughter who did this! After you asked Qinghe out, you wanted to poison her tea and kill her, but you ended up drinking the poisoned tea and died instead, and you're trying to turn the tables and frame my cousin!"

Seeing that the scandal had been exposed, Li simply denied it to the end. She grabbed Yan Shixun and said, "Everyone, please help report it to the authorities! This man is in cahoots with the murderer! Don't let him get away!"

Yan Shixun pushed her hand away and sneered, "Okay! I plan to go and tell the government how you and your daughter secretly murdered Qinghe!"

As he was about to pull her downstairs, Li hesitated for a moment because of her guilty conscience, and just stood there and shouted stubbornly: "Your cousin murdered my daughter, the evidence is irrefutable, there is no way to deny it!"

Suddenly, there was a series of "thump thump thump" noises on the stairs, and a group of yamen runners came up with iron chains in their hands. They shouted as they entered the door, "Get out of the way! Get out of the way! The yamen is investigating a case, and all irrelevant people must get out of the way! Where is the murderer?"

Li pointed at Qing He beside her and said, "She was the one who killed my daughter!"

There was a clang of iron chains, and the yamen runners came forward and locked Qing He up, saying, "Come on! Come with us to the yamen!"

Seeing this, Yan Shixun hurried forward and shouted, "Wait! You have no evidence, what right do you have to arrest my cousin?"

The leading yamen runner said impatiently, "It seems you are involved too! Take them all away!"

Then he said to his men, "Take the dead body away!"

The bailiffs came up, some carrying the corpse, some locking people up, and pushed and shoved Qinghe and Yan Shixun away.

The leading yamen runner turned to Li and said, "Poor man, come with us!"

Li said cautiously, "Oh, okay!"

After a while, the originally noisy teahouse returned to its silence. Jingying walked out of the elegant room next door, and looked at the backs of the yamen runners disappearing downstairs, with a smug smile on her face!

Her trick of making a feint to the east and attacking in the west really worked! Not only did she list the little village girl as a suspect, but she also got rid of the fat girl with a crooked neck!

She had also informed the yamen runners in advance, and they came as soon as they were called. Without saying a word, they directly listed the little village girl as a suspect!

Wait! The best is yet to come...

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