Traveling through ancient times, the spy princess had everything going smoothly

Shang Yajun's words were so powerful that Mrs. Cui and Cui Linlang felt even more guilty.

Qin Minglang nodded, and said to the servant: "Come here, bring the person up."

The servant left in response, and soon several guards came up with a few people.

As soon as they came in, they knelt on the ground in fear, not daring to look up.

Qin Minglang looked at them and said coldly:

"Tell everyone everything you know and have done today, or you will be severely punished."

After all, Qin Minglang had been on the battlefield and stepped on mountains of corpses and seas of people. When his aura came out, he felt the temperature around him dropped a lot.

Several people said timidly, "Yes."

One of them knelt down and spoke first:

"I am Cui'er, the maidservant of the eldest lady of the Minister's Mansion."

When Mrs. Cui and Cui Linlang heard the name, their pupils shrank and they were extremely panicked. How could Cui'er still be alive?

Didn't she die on the way back home? How did she end up here?

Suppressing the panic in her heart, Mrs. Cui stepped forward, took Cui'er's hand, and said with tears in her eyes:

"Cui'er, it's really you. At the beginning, you said that the eldest lady was no longer at home and wanted to ask for my grace to let you go home. Time flies so fast. It's been almost four years in a blink of an eye."

Cui'er shrank back, pulled her hand back, lowered her head and said nothing.

Qin Minglang looked at Cui and said coldly:

"Mrs. Cui wants to reminisce about the past. There will be plenty of time later. Let Cui'er explain everything first. Cui'er, go on!"

Cui Er responded, swallowed her saliva, and continued:

"Yes. Ever since the eldest daughter was brought back to the mansion, the second daughter has been jealous of her beauty and disliked her for taking up the position of a legitimate daughter, so she has always been unwilling to let her find a good marriage.

The lady also regarded the eldest daughter as a thorn in her side, and wanted her to marry someone worse, but she also didn't want to be criticized for not being able to tolerate the eldest daughter. So she wanted to plot outside the mansion to make the eldest daughter lose her innocence.

Fortunately, when the Shangshu Mansion held a flower-viewing banquet, the lady and the second daughter planned to make the eldest daughter embarrass herself at the banquet, so that the eldest daughter would definitely not be able to marry into a high-ranking official or noble family.

On the day of the flower-viewing banquet, the second young lady gave me a packet of aphrodisiac and asked me to put the drug in the tea when she and the eldest young lady were drinking tea in the pavilion. After she left with an excuse, I would go find the servant in the mansion and ask him to go to the pavilion to find the eldest young lady and fight with her. Then the second young lady could bring people to catch them in the act.

That day, everything went smoothly, except that when the second young lady led the other young ladies to the pavilion, the eldest young lady and the servant were nowhere to be seen.

When they returned to Cui's house that day, the eldest lady did not come back all night.

The mistress and the second young lady told the master about the eldest young lady's behavior and said she was not respectful enough and had not returned home all night. The master was furious and put the eldest young lady in solitary confinement for a month.

Unexpectedly, a few days later, the eldest daughter was diagnosed with pregnancy.

The master, at the instigation of his wife, drove the young lady out of the house."

Cui Linglong listened to Cui'er's story. Although she already knew what happened, she still felt great pain in her heart. The wound she had inflicted step by step was torn open again and exposed to everyone's sight. She couldn't help but burst into tears.

Qin Minglang listened to what happened that year and looked at Linglong crying, and his heart was broken beyond words.

He stepped forward, gently embraced Cui Linglong in his arms, patted her on the back and said:

"Don't cry, don't be sad, I'm here, and I will never let you be sad again."

Cui Linglong nestled in Qin Minglang's arms, nodded, and said:

"I'm not sad, I just feel a little sad when I think about the past. I'm fine."

Thinking of the ladies around her, she broke free from Qin Minglang's arms, her red eyes glowing with tenderness, and said to Qin Minglang: "Let them talk first!"

Qin Minglang took her hand and said to Cui'er, "Go on."

Cui Er responded and continued:

"After the eldest daughter was kicked out of the house, I felt sorry for her, so I hid in a corner and secretly watched her.

Unexpectedly, before she walked out of the alley, she was knocked unconscious from behind by the housekeeper beside the lady. Then two people came out, put the eldest lady into a bag and carried her away.

I was scared to death and knew I couldn't tell anyone else about this.

Now that the eldest lady has left, the maids and servants in her yard have to find another place to work.

The Madam and the Second Miss were afraid that someone who knew about the eldest miss's affairs would leak the secret, so they came to me and asked me whether I wanted to leave the Cui Mansion or stay.

I thought of what happened to the eldest daughter and didn’t want to stay, so I asked for Madam’s grace and wanted to go home.

The lady kindly gave me one hundred taels of silver and asked me to keep my mouth shut and not say a word to anyone else. She also considerately sent the servant who had been used to defile the young lady to send me home.

I was grateful for the silver given by the lady, and after giving thanks, I set off.

On the way, when we stayed overnight in a temple, I was warming myself by the fire when I saw a shadow behind me raising a knife and slashing at me.

I dodged his knife and asked him why he wanted to kill me. He said it was the order of the madam and the second young lady. Only the dead cannot speak, so I can only blame my bad luck.

I was so scared that I ran away, but was chased to the edge of a cliff. There was no way to retreat, so I had no choice but to jump off the cliff.

I was lucky. After I jumped off the cliff, I fell into a deep pool. I had lived by the river since I was a child and was a good swimmer, so I was able to escape. "

She looked up at the man kneeling beside her and immediately recognized the servant who had chased her. She pointed at him and said excitedly:

"It's him, it's him, it's him. He was the one who chased me back then."

The servant who was identified was already stunned when he saw Cui'er who had come back to life. He knelt on the ground and dared not look up.

Cui Er went on to say, "Perhaps that servant thought I was doomed. After I escaped from the cliff and returned to my hometown, I was too timid to show my face at first. After half a year, no one from Cui's mansion came to look for me, so I lived my life in peace.

This is all I know, please understand, sir."

Mrs. Cui saw that Cui Er had confessed everything, and she had a glimmer of hope in her heart. She said angrily:

"Cui'er, I never thought you would repay kindness with enmity and actually put such a big pot of shit on me."

She looked at Qin Minglang and said:

"General Qin, don't believe her words. She is just holding a grudge against me because I didn't keep him as a concubine for the master."

After hearing her words, Cui Er looked at Madam Cui angrily, took out a bag from her sleeve pocket, and when she looked inside, she found that it was actually silver bills and silver ingots. She said bitterly:

"This is the one hundred taels of silver that my wife gave me, five silver ingots, and a fifty-yuan silver note. After I escaped from the cliff that day, I thought I might be able to use this silver in the future, so I saved it and never dared to spend it."

She looked at Qin Minglang and said, "Your Excellency can see the Cui Mansion's mark on it and tell the authenticity at a glance."

Mrs. Cui saw Cui Er took out all the silver and said to everyone:

"No wonder there was a hundred taels of silver missing from the mansion when Linglong was driven away. I thought it was taken away by Linglong when she left home, but I didn't expect it was stolen by you, a bitch. General Qin, this person's words cannot be trusted."