The elder sister killed the whole family, and came back to be beaten to death

In the winter of the 20th year of Yongde,

It's snowing heavily.

The cold wind blew straight into the dilapidated woodshed.

Shen Tang, whose body was frozen stiff, looked even paler, with a hint of mocking smile on his lips.

Last autumn, Western Liang invaded the border, and Prince Jingyang led his troops to fight, but unfortunately died on the battlefield.

On the second day after Crown Prince Xie Guimo inherited the title, he asked for permission to go to the border. He was brave and good at fighting, invincible, and defeated Xiliang step by step. He surrendered and asked for peace, but won a great victory. On the way back to the capital, he suddenly died suddenly. As his widow, Shen Tang kept vigil for three days without taking off her clothes. After she fainted from grief, she was not helped back to the house, but thrown into a cold and damp woodshed.

She had been locked up all night.

She and Xie Guimo had been married for four years, but they had not gotten along and due to some strange circumstances, they had lost their children. He was in love with her eldest sister and had never taken a concubine. They had no children. Now that he was dead, the title had no one to inherit and had to fall into someone else's hands.

The title has already been taken by those people, and she has no right to hinder them. Although her father is gone, the Pingyuan Marquisate is still there and will not sit idly by and watch her, a legitimate daughter, being bullied. Her elder sister is the empress who is the mother of the country and is in the emperor's favor. Those people in the Jingyang Prince's Mansion are so bold as to dare to treat her like this.

Shen Tang felt uneasy.

"Squeak."

The broken door of the woodshed was pushed open.

The biting cold wind swept in, like an ice knife scraping against his body. Shen Tang looked at the person who came, a little surprised, but more of a delight.

"Eldest sister, why are you here at Prince Jingyang's mansion?"

The person who came was wearing an elegant phoenix robe. It was her elder twin sister, Shen Xian.

Shen Xian looked down at Shen Tang, her face devoid of the usual sisterly affection. "Prince Jingyang achieved brilliant military success and relieved the Emperor of the border crisis, but he died before he could return to the capital to receive his reward. I couldn't bear the thought, so I asked for your permission to be buried with Prince Jingyang and accompany him on his journey. The Emperor has granted my permission, and I'm here to see you off."

The joy on Shen Tang's face froze. She couldn't believe what she heard, "Let me be buried with you? Big sister, are you crazy? I'm your biological sister!"

Shen Xian laughed as if she had heard a joke, "If you were really my sister, of course I wouldn't want to let you go."

Shen Tang's face turned pale, and his voice was hurried, "What do you mean by this?"

"Can't you hear such straightforward words?"

"Well, today is the day you die, and I will let you die knowingly."

Shen Xian's face was filled with pride. "Back then, my mother... no, I should call her my aunt. She did give birth to twins, a boy and a girl. Unfortunately, no one believed her, and she eventually died of depression."

"Your second brother was buried alive right after he was born..."

"And your eldest brother, who disappeared at the Lantern Festival when he was only four years old, wasn't an accident either. But he's lucky enough to still be alive."

Every word was like a knife, piercing Shen Tang's heart, and her eyes were red.

If these words came from someone else, she wouldn't believe a word of it.

But this was what her eldest sister said herself, so she couldn't help but believe it.

When her mother was pregnant with her, she suffered from severe morning sickness and couldn't even leave the house. It happened that a lantern festival was being held in Kyoto, and her eldest brother went to her maternal grandparents' house and visited the lantern festival with his cousins, but he got lost at the festival and has been missing ever since.

The mother could not bear such bad news. In grief, she almost had a miscarriage and stayed in bed for several months to protect the baby. But after giving birth to the baby, she went crazy and wanted to strangle her daughter whom she had worked so hard to give birth to. She said that she had given birth to twins, a boy and a girl, and her son was switched.

But no one in the entire Pingyuan Marquis Mansion believed her. They all believed that her mother had gone insane due to grief over the loss of her eldest brother. Her father reluctantly locked her mother up and did not allow her to leave the room. As a result, her mother died with hatred in her heart when she was only two years old.

If Shen Xiang hadn't said it herself, Shen Tang would never have believed that what his mother said was true. How could someone dare to replace a newborn child right under his father's nose? Even the disappearance of his eldest brother was their doing!

These people are so cruel and ruthless!

Shen Tang wanted to pounce on Shen Xi and bite her to death, but she tried her best to hold back and asked in a trembling voice, "My eldest brother is still alive? Who is he?!"

Shen Tang knew that he couldn't escape today.

But she still wanted to know the whereabouts of her elder brother.

It's just that some people enjoy torturing others. The more Shen Tang wanted to know, the less Shen Ying wanted to tell her. "You're so anxious to know who your eldest brother is? You won't guess who he is."

"Don't worry, I'll send him down to reunite with your family soon."

Shen Tang's eyes were red, and she yelled hysterically, "How many people have you harmed?!"

Shen Xian looked at the newly painted nails with red nail polish, smiled charmingly, and turned her hands over and said, "So many people have died at my hands. Let me think about who they are..."

She looked like she was thinking seriously, but the words that came out of her mouth seemed to come from hell, "Father, grandfather, cousin, and your almost full-term child..."

Shen Tang's face turned three shades paler with every word he read.

Those people are her flesh and blood relatives.

Thinking of her own child who died after a fall while she was eight months pregnant, Shen Tang's reason was completely devoured by hatred. She rushed towards Shen Xi with all her might, wanting to avenge her father and child. Unfortunately, she was so weak that she couldn't even stand up and fell heavily to the ground.

With a sad smile, Shen Tang wiped away his tears and looked at Shen Xian, "What about Prince Jingyang? Did you kill him too?"

"He's deeply in love with you, and you have the heart to do that?!"

Shen Xian laughed when she heard this. She squatted down and grabbed Shen Tang's chin. "My dear sister, how could you tell that Prince Jingyang was so devoted to me? But I really have to thank him, Prince Jingyang. If he hadn't pushed me to Prince Qi back then, I wouldn't be where I am today."

Shen Tang struggled, but was held tightly by Shen Ying. The hatred in her eyes turned into strength, almost crushing Shen Tang's jaw. "I tell you, it wasn't me who killed King Jingyang, it was you."

"He was a meticulous person, but he was completely defenseless against you. He never left the purse you gave him. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been soaked in poison every day and died of it on the way back to the capital."

"When he died, he was still thinking of you in his heart. He dragged his poisoned body to give you a marriage certificate. But you thought that the person in his heart was me. You are so stupid. What is it about you that Prince Jingyang likes so much?"

Jealousy made her well-dressed face look ferocious.

Since receiving the news of Prince Jingyang's death, Shen Tang suspected that he was murdered, but he didn't expect that he was killed in this way.

She and Xie Guimo were not on good terms, and they had a fight before he went to the battlefield at the beginning of the year.

Two months ago, Xie Guimo defeated the enemy on the battlefield and news of victory came in frequently. The eldest sister knew that she and Xie Guimo had no correspondence. She said that he was a general and other generals wrote letters home, but he didn't say a single word, which damaged his prestige. If she really didn't know what to write, she would embroider a purse and send it to him.

Although she privately thought that Xie Guimo would not care about these things, she still listened to her elder sister and embroidered a purse.

Xie Guimo had never been kind to her, so why would he keep the purse she gave him...

She doesn't believe it!

This must be a lie to her!

She looked at Shen Xian, wanting to ask for clarification, but Shen Xian was unwilling to say another word.

"Send her on her way."

The two old women approached Shen Tang step by step with white silk in their hands.