Quick Transmigration: The Cannon Fodder Female Supporting Character's Revenge

Qi Jingyu didn't even glance at Qi Jinglin's deliberately condemning words.

On the contrary, the old lady was somewhat skeptical for a moment, after all, what the old woman said was not entirely unreasonable.

Even Zeng Wanqing glanced at Qi Jingyu, her eyes filled with a hint of suspicion.

Just then, Qi Congming burst into laughter: "Hahaha..."

"That's utter nonsense!" he shouted angrily.

"My lord, I... I'm not talking nonsense, everything I said is true," the old woman argued.

"Jingyu, is that true?" the old lady asked Qi Jingyu.

Qi Jingyu looked at the old lady and replied, "Grandmother, I am not interested in Father's title. How could I drug Mother because of the title?"

Qi Congming also said to the old lady, "Mother, Jingyu is a concubine's son. When I brought him back from outside, I made it very clear to him that a concubine's son is not qualified to inherit the title of Marquis of Changping."

"Do you mean you've never considered passing the title to Jingyu?" the First Madam asked incredulously.

“That’s right,” Qi Congming replied.

"Therefore, Jing Yu would never harm Wan Qing for the title. Even if he secretly coveted the title and drugged Wan Qing, I would not give him the title."

The First Madam's eyes darted around, her mind racing.

How could this be? It turns out that Qi Congming never intended to give the title to Qi Jingyu.

Then all their previous efforts were in vain.

The previous scheme to make Qi Jingyu fall off the cliff, and this time the framing of Qi Jingyu for drugging Zeng Wanqing, were both in vain...

Qi Congming ignored what the First Madam was thinking and looked at the old woman kneeling on the ground: "What else do you have to say? Or can you produce evidence to identify the Second Young Master?"

"This servant..." the old woman stammered. She was just making false accusations and trying to sow discord with words, so how could she possibly produce any evidence?

If it weren't for Qi Congming's words, that he never intended to give the title to Qi Jingyu and that Qi Jingyu never coveted the title, then the old woman's words of instigation would have been effective. But once Qi Congming said those words, the old woman's words of instigation immediately lost their effect.

Seeing this, the First Madam gave a wink to the old woman kneeling on the ground.

The old woman, having received a hint from the First Madam, immediately changed her tune: "Yes, this servant admits that it was not the Second Young Master who instructed me."

"Who instructed you to do that?" the old lady asked.

“No one instructed me to do this; I decided to drug the Second Madam myself.”

"Why did you want to drug the Second Madam?" The old lady was even more confused.

“When the Second Madam was alive, I was taken care of by her and vowed to repay her kindness. But she passed away. Seven years later, the Marquis returned to the manor and hastily married Zeng. Now Zeng is pregnant again. I feel sorry for the Second Madam.”

The old woman continued, "Therefore, I am speaking out for the sake of the late Second Madam, and also for the sake of the children she left behind, and for the sake of the Second and Third Misses! If Zeng Shi were to give birth to the child, the Marquis would surely neglect the two young ladies!"

Qi Ning raised his eyebrows slightly upon hearing this explanation.

The First Madam's attempt to eliminate two rivals by slandering Qi Jingyu failed, and she subsequently turned her attention to Qi Jingyu.

Moreover, this new explanation is quite interesting. Instead of directly saying that Qi Ning ordered it, it says that the old woman took the initiative to drug Zeng Wanqing for the sake of Qi Ning and her sister.

In this way, the matter was implicated in Qi Ning without the need to provide any so-called evidence. After all, the old woman had said that she was standing up for them and took the initiative to do so.

Upon hearing the old woman's words, Qi Congming's expression visibly stiffened for a moment.

He knew perfectly well that the old woman was talking nonsense, but her words still left Qi Congming speechless.

Yes, he has wronged Mrs. Zhou and their two children; that is an undeniable fact.

So much so that even though he knew the old woman was lying, he was momentarily speechless, as if his sore spot had been hit.

Seeing that Qi Congming was unable to cope, Qi Ning slowly stood up.

She walked up to the old woman and said, "You, lift your head so I can take a good look at you."

The old woman hesitated for a moment before slowly raising her head: "Second...Second Miss."

Qi Ning stared at her face for a while: "You said that you were taken care of by my mother before, but you were a servant in the kitchen and never served my mother personally. When and why did she take care of you? Since you remember your mother's kindness, you should remember it very clearly, right?"

“This…this…” The old woman lowered her head.

She really had no interaction with the late Second Madam before. The late Second Madam didn't even know her, so how could she have taken care of her? That was just something she made up.

At this moment, when Qi Ning asked her to explain in detail when and what happened, she naturally couldn't say.

"Can't tell me? Let me guess. I heard you have a son who's a gambler. Is it because your son has gambling debts that my mother helped you?"

Upon hearing this, the old woman quickly replied, "That's right, that's exactly why."

"Oh, I see." Qi Ning paced back and forth in front of her.

She suddenly stopped and asked, "Since you wanted to repay my mother's kindness by drugging the Second Madam, why didn't you just take all the blame yourself instead of dragging me and the Third Miss into this?"

"You keep saying that you drugged the Second Madam for my mother's sake, for me and the Third Miss's sake, but wouldn't saying that cause the Second Madam and Father to resent us sisters?"

Is this what you call repaying a debt of gratitude?

"I... this servant..."

The old woman lay prostrate on the ground, her head bowed low.

Qi Ning ignored the old woman and turned around: "Grandmother, Father, you should have realized it by now. This old woman is not honest. She deliberately said that she was doing this to repay a debt of gratitude and for me and Tang'er, and even dragged my mother into it. In reality, she has ulterior motives, and there is someone else behind the scenes."

After saying that, she flicked her handkerchief and returned to her seat.

Qi Jingyu kept a close eye on her every move, a faint smile in his eyes.

The old lady naturally saw it too; the old woman was still making baseless accusations.

She comforted her, saying, "Ning'er, Grandmother knows that this matter has nothing to do with you."

The First Madam and Qi Jinglin were secretly furious. They hadn't expected Qi Ning to be so eloquent.

Qi Congming emerged from his silence, his face cold as he looked at the old woman and said, "I see you won't shed a tear until you see the coffin. Do you think I have no way to deal with you just because you're not telling the truth?"

"Since I knew in advance that there was something wrong with the soup, there couldn't have been only one piece of evidence. I gave you a chance to redeem yourself, but you didn't cherish it, so be it."

As he spoke, Qi Congming gestured to his men to bring in two other people.

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