The little dark guard who travels between two lives

Chapter 21 Su Peiyun's Memories

Su Peiyun watched Qin Mingxuan and Ji Wanran arrange everything to pick up the child. She could only pretend to be surprised and thank the couple repeatedly.

Returning to her own courtyard from the main hall, Su Peiyun became angrier and angrier the more she thought about it. Qin Xinhe, this stinky girl, really deserved to die! She angrily smashed the teacup in her hand.

Damn Qin Xinhe! Damn Ji Wanran! It's all because of these two, mother and daughter, what a pair of bitches!

At the beginning, relying on the friendship between her family and Old Master Qin, although her father did not hold a high official position, she could often come to the Qin Mansion to visit Old Master Qin. She also had many opportunities to recite poems and compose couplets with Qin Mingxuan and Ji Wanran. She gradually fell in love with the talented and elegant Qin Mingxuan.

She had secretly fallen in love with him, and her heart and eyes were filled with Qin Mingxuan. But Qin Mingxuan only had eyes for that bitch Ji Wanran. Their two families were well matched, and they had been engaged since childhood, so there was no way she could get in between them.

Later, my father died to save old man Qin, and entrusted me to the Qin Mansion before his death. But how did the people in the Qin Mansion take care of me?

That damned old man Qin kept saying that he was grateful for his father's life-saving grace, but he found a small family for himself, saying that the husband's family had a good tradition and would not let him suffer. My husband is full of talent, as long as he studies hard, he will soar to the sky sooner or later and give me a rich life.

After marriage, my husband was gentle and considerate to me, and my mother-in-law also cared about me very much. But I was afraid of being compared with others. Every time I went back to the Qin Mansion, I saw Qin Mingxuan and Ji Wanran in love. Qin Mingxuan was the top scorer in the imperial examination and his career was promoted all the way. Seeing that Ji Wanran had also been promoted to the rank of wife as her husband's official position was promoted, the gap between them was getting bigger and bigger. I resented Mr. Qin more and more. He married Ji Wanran, who was a good match for his son, but why didn't he marry me into a wealthy family.

Isn't it because he feels that he is from a humble family and is not worthy of those nobles? The hatred in Su Peiyun's heart is like a spark that spreads across the prairie, burning him so that he can no longer face his hopeless life calmly.

Until that day, the master sent someone to find her and persuaded her to surrender to the master, so that she could take back everything she wanted with the help of the nobleman. Ji Wanran's husband, Ji Wanran's children, Ji Wanran's status, everything, would be taken away from her, and she would watch Ji Wanran suffer for the rest of her life.

Thinking of this, Su Peiyun pushed open the window of her room and looked at the pavilions, towers, and flowers of the Qin Mansion outside the window. All of this was what she longed to have, but now all of this belonged to that bitch Ji Wanran.

Why was she able to marry into a wealthy family, be loved by her husband, have daughters around her, and enjoy all the wealth and luxury, while she could only marry a scholar with no background, her husband died early, and she was miserable and lonely without children?

Just because of Ji Wanran's high birth? Just because of Ji Wanran's good fortune? Su Peiyun refused to accept it, she refused to accept it! Her hands tightly grasped the window frame, and the repressed hatred surged in her heart. I have the help of my master, and sooner or later all of this will belong to me, Su Peiyun.

Su Peiyun still remembers that day when it rained heavily. After visiting Old Master Qin at the Qin Mansion, she was returning to her husband's home. Unfortunately, the old carriage assigned to her by her husband's family broke down on the road. She had no choice but to sit in a roadside teahouse, waiting for the coachman to hire a carriage to take her home.

She sat in the empty teahouse, watching the heavy rain, her old carriage parked in the middle of the road, as broken and pitiful as her life. She thought of the luxurious clothes and delicious food she had seen in Qin's mansion, and the servants surrounding Ji Wanran and serving her carefully.

Old Master Qin also happily asked Ji Wanran to sit down quickly and not get tired. Qin Mingxuan gently held his wife's arm, his eyes full of uncontrollable love, which made Su Peiyun's eyes hurt. All this was because Ji Wanran was pregnant.

The tea bowl in Su Peiyun's hand was crushed with a snap. Su Peiyun looked at the wound on his hand silently, and didn't feel any pain. This pain was nothing compared to the pain in his heart.

Whenever she saw Ji Wanran, Su Peiyun felt that the hatred in her heart could not be suppressed. Why did Ji Wanran have everything, why did she have to endure such a life, she refused to accept it!

At this time, a woman wearing a veil sat opposite her. The woman said that her master knew Su Peiyun's life experience and felt sorry for her. She said that if Su Peiyun could become her master's disciple and be used by her, her master would take back everything she wanted.

Su Peiyun didn't believe a strange woman, but everything the woman said deeply attracted her and made her moved.

Everything she wanted was simply impossible to achieve by her own efforts. She was born in a humble family and had no one to rely on. The only person she could rely on in the capital was Old Master Qin.

While she was hesitating, the woman said that her master also hated Ji Wanran and had the same goal as hers, and that her master was from the palace and only asked her for help because it was inconvenient for him to travel, and that her master had a strong backer. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and Su Peiyun finally made up her mind to follow the master the woman mentioned.

Su Peiyun didn't know who the master she followed was, or what kind of backer he had. At first, the one who contacted Su Peiyun was the woman in the veil.

At the beginning, the master only asked Su Peiyun to pay attention to which ministers Qin Laoshen and Qin Mingxuan often interacted with every time she went to the Qin Mansion. This was not difficult. Her identity as a cousin was still very useful in the Qin Mansion. She could move freely in the Qin Mansion and could also get all kinds of information through some servants who loved money.

Later, she learned that there were other people in the Qin Mansion who were also planted by the master, such as the inconspicuous guard Zhang Gan. She felt more and more that her master was far-sighted and must have planned for a long time, and his purpose was definitely not just that little bit of information.

After several attempts to inquire about the master's situation, the woman in the veil said that if she wanted to be truly trusted by the master, she had to first submit a pledge of loyalty. Su Peiyun did not expect that the pledge of loyalty they wanted was to have an attack on the pregnant Ji Wanran when Qin Mingxuan was away from Beijing for work.

Such a request was what Su Peiyun wanted, and now someone came to help her, which was even better. She happily accepted the task. The master sent Zhang Gan to help her.

She first asked Zhang Gan to spread the news that Qin Mingxuan was in danger when leaving Beijing, thinking that Ji Wanran was so weak and was seven or eight months pregnant. When she learned the news of her husband's danger, she would definitely be shocked and angry, and might even have a miscarriage and die.

Who would have thought that Ji Wanran was actually very lucky, and she managed to survive even though she had been bedridden since hearing the news. When one plan failed, she came up with another one, and lied that she was pregnant, and that the incense in the temple outside the capital was effective, so she burned incense and prayed for a son.

As expected, Ji Wanran, who had been worried about Qin Mingxuan, believed it and followed him out of the capital to burn incense and pray for blessings. Originally, he asked Zhang Gan to arrange for his master's people to create a false impression of frightened horses on the way, so that the carriage carrying Ji Wanran fell off the cliff and died.

But when she heard Ji Wanran say that she might be pregnant with twins, her jealousy reached its peak. She felt that it would be too easy to let Ji Wanran die like this. Moreover, after Ji Wanran's death, it would not be easy for her to enter and leave the Qin Mansion at will.

So she proposed to her master to spare Ji Wanran's life and take away Ji Wanran's child to raise with her, so that Ji Wanran could experience the pain of losing a child, and she could have an excuse to visit Ji Wanran and frequently go in and out of Qin's house. At the same time, she also had a trump card in her hand, and the child might be able to play a big role in the future when she raised him.

The master agreed and arranged a midwife and a doctor for him. Ji Wanran had a miscarriage in the frightened carriage, and it was difficult to give birth to two children. The first child was not in good condition after being held for a long time. The midwife used the excuse of handing the child over to the doctor for emergency treatment. At that time, Liu Niang and the others were all in a hurry to take care of Ji Wanran and wait for the second child to be delivered. As a result, the doctor replaced Ji Wanran's first daughter with a dead child prepared in advance as he requested, and he easily stole her first daughter from Ji Wanran.

When she secretly sent the child away, she returned to the house and looked at Ji Wanran crying bitterly after she learned that her first child had died, and she felt relieved.

Ji Wanran was frightened and had a difficult delivery during her pregnancy, and she also learned that she had lost a daughter. Although her actions did not kill Ji Wanran, they also cost her half her life.

Even now, Ji Wanran is still sickly and weak, and has not been able to get pregnant and have a child again.

Su Peiyun thought of Ji Wanran's weak and unflappable appearance, and couldn't help but chuckle with pride. Afterwards, the master praised her for doing a great job. He praised herself a lot.

I thought I had gained the master's trust, so I kept asking about the master's information and wanted to know his true identity. But the master gave me another task, asking me to poison Mr. Qin.

No matter how much Su Peiyun hated Ji Wanran, she also felt a little resentful towards Old Master Qin. But Old Master Qin really loved her, just like his own daughter. Now she was about to poison the old master herself, but she hesitated.

The woman sneered at her hesitation and told her clearly: "The master is planning something big. He will not easily trust someone unless you give this letter of surrender to the master. The master will only truly accept you when he sees your means and loyalty, and you will get everything you want."

Then, the woman left a packet of poison and told her that drinking the poison would cause a heart attack and would not arouse suspicion. It was up to Su Peiyun to do it or not, as this was her only chance.

Su Peiyun returned home with the poison like a wandering soul, just as her husband fell seriously ill and vomited blood. Her mother-in-law was so frightened that she was at a loss what to do. She could only hold Su Peiyun's hand and beg her to go to the Qin Mansion to invite a skilled doctor to treat her son.

Su Peiyun looked at her husband lying sick in bed and her panicked mother-in-law, and everything in the Qin Mansion appeared before her eyes again.

She ran to the Qin residence crying and asked for the skilled old doctor. When the old man Qin heard that her husband was seriously ill, he immediately sent an old doctor back with her to treat her husband.

After her husband fell ill, he never recovered. Su Peiyun had no time to think about the matter of the letter of surrender, so she could only focus on taking care of her husband. Unfortunately, despite the careful treatment of the old doctor, her sick husband died soon.

Since her husband's death, she couldn't wait to return to Qin Mingxuan. She first tricked her mother-in-law into taking her husband's coffin back to her distant ancestral home for burial, and took her mother-in-law far away from the capital.

Then, in order to gain the sympathy and pity of Mr. Qin, she wrote a letter to the capital, telling Mr. Qin all kinds of lies and telling him how badly her husband's family treated her.

After reading the letter, Old Master Qin really felt pity for her being a widow at such a young age, so he sent someone to her husband's family to bring her back to Beijing and settled her in the Qin Mansion. She was treated the same as before and was even cared for and loved more than before. The servants in the mansion all respectfully called her "Miss Cousin".

When she first returned to the Qin Mansion, Su Peiyun thought that such a life was not bad. It was good to stay by Qin Mingxuan's side and live without worries about food and clothing. So she put her master's task behind her, and her master never urged her.

But after entering the Qin Mansion, he inevitably met Qin Mingxuan and Ji Wanran every day, and saw their love and affection.

That bitch Ji Wanran was pretending to care about her and showing off her affection in front of her. The feeling of envy, jealousy and hatred gradually flared up like a prairie fire, burning her to unbearable pain.

At this time, Mr. Qin began to look for a husband for her, wanting to marry her off again. Su Peiyun could no longer tolerate Mr. Qin marrying her off, and she no longer asked for anything else, but just wanted to stay by Qin Mingxuan's side and watch him from afar.

But even this tiny wish was to be shattered. She could not tolerate and accept that her fate was once again arranged by others.

She panicked and said that she was worried about her daughter at home and couldn't get married, so she first calmed down Mr. Qin. Then she went to find the contact person according to the previous contact information, told the nobleman in the palace that she was willing to follow him and would present the letter of surrender.

That night, Su Peiyun took advantage of Mr. Qin's inattention and sprinkled some of the poison into Mr. Qin's teacup with trembling hands.

The next morning, a servant from the Qin Mansion came to the courtyard where Su Peiyun lived to announce the death of the old man. He said that the old man had a heart attack in his sleep. Qin Mingxuan and Ji Wanran were heartbroken, and Su Peiyun also cried and wailed.

Su Peiyun was afraid that someone would discover that there was something fishy about the old man's death, so she waited anxiously for a few days. She found that, as the nobleman had said, the poison was very difficult to detect and could kill people without them even noticing.

Old Master Qin was already old and had a heart disease, so no one suspected that someone could poison someone in the Qin Mansion.

Su Peiyun handed in her pledge of allegiance smoothly. She knew that she had already gained the trust of her master, and based on what she had done, once it became known to others, especially to Qin Mingxuan, he would definitely not let her go.

What he did became an important handle for his master to control him. No matter which aspect he analyzed, he could only be loyal to his master and be driven by him. He could not have two hearts, because that would only lead to his death.

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