Chapter 49 (2/2)

(TN: Baidu is the Chinese version of google.  She is basically telling him to google it.)

”Who is baidu?” Chu Ling Xiao asks with an earnest face.

Mo Qi Qi bursts out in laughter before waving her arm away, ”n.o.body.  It was just a joke!”

Chu Ling Xiao feels like he is being teased.  He clears his throat awkwardly, ”I'm afraid, once the question is asked, Your Ladyship will no longer be in the mood to joke around.”

”The Prime Minister is so serious; did you find anything incriminating against bengong?” Mo Qi Qi calmly asks though her heart is already in a furore.

”Not really.  This matter is not really incriminating, but this official still has to question you.”

Mo Qi Qi is an impatient girl; her patience runs thin at the way Chu Ling Xiao drags things on, ”Just say whatever it is you need to say.  Stop beating around the bush.  Bengong is a very busy person, bengong has no time to chat idly with you!”

Chu Ling Xiao chokes a little before he smiles, ”Since Your Ladyship wants to get over this quickly, this official will go straight to the point.  When we autopsied Dong Fei's corpse, we discovered injuries on her body.  It is as though someone had purposely hit her before she died.  Did you punish her when she was here?”

Eh?  It has been so many months and they still finds out?  But yeah, it isn't really mind-blowing.  In her field of work, a person can die 2000 years ago and they can still figure out how.

Mo Qi Qi decides to be honest, ”Yes.  Bengong had summoned her here, prior to her death.  Because she was disrespectful, bengong ordered her to be hit twenty times.  Bengong also slapped her a couple of times.  But it wasn't serious enough to cause her death.”

Chu Ling Xiao nods lightly, ”It really wasn't grave enough to endanger her life, but investigation shows that before Dong Fei died, she suffered a miscarriage.”

Mo Qi Qi is so shocked that she has to hold the hand-rail to remain calm, ”What?  Dong Fei was—- Dong Fei was pregnant?”

Chu Ling Xiao's tone is firm as he speaks, ”Yes.  She was 2 months pregnant when the miscarriage happened.  Your Ladyship doesn't know that?”

”How was I supposed to know?  If I had known, I wouldn't have asked people to hit her!” Mo Qi Qi weeps tearlessly.  All of these are the disasters brought by the previous owner! Why is she so unlucky as to entered her body?  Great, just great.  One corpse but two lives; she is so going to die for this!  No wonder Ban Xiang said that Dong Fei was bleeding back then, she was having a miscarriage!  The previous owner was too cruel; if she knew Dong Fei was pregnant, that means she purposely did that to harm both the mother and the child.  Huhu, what is she going to do now?

Mo Qi Qi forces herself to appear calm.  She looks at Chu Ling Xiao before calmly saying, ”Even if bengong did cause the miscarriage, Dong Fei was only at the early stage of pregnancy.  The miscarriage shouldn't have posed any risk to her life.  Dong Fei's death is another completely unrelated matter.”  Even though she has never been pregnant before, she knows that a miscarriage at the early stage of pregnancy will not pose any risk to the mother's life.

Chu Ling Xiao respectfully replies her, ”It is up to His Majesty to determine whether there is another reason or not.”

”What?  Everything is up to Jun Qian Che?” Mo Qi Qi's heart immediately tenses up.  Jun Qian Che has been looking for excuses to get rid of her.  If he finds out that she had not only punished Dong Fei, but had also killed his child, he will not let her off.  Huhu, why is her life so tragic?