Chapter 170 Dead Man tell no Tales (1/2)

Lin Mengya could see from Baishao’s expression that she had her reasons.

She just smiled and stopped pursuing the matter.

“Oh yes, Master, Madame Wang is still lying in the small room. Would she… would she really resurrect?”

At the mention of Madame Wang, Baishao and Baisu’s expression froze.

Baizhi was the only one out of the four who was oblivious and was still happily eating.

“I’ve no idea, but she cannot be left there any longer. Let me think of a place where we can resettle her.”

Baiji had claimed that the death-pretending drug had started to take effect.

However, miraculously, Madame Wang was still breathing weakly.

If not for Baisu’s careful observation that made her realize that Madame Wang was breathing, they would not believe that she had risen from the dead.

“But Master, why don’t you send Madame Wang home?”

Baiji shot a glance at Lin Mengya. Seeing that her master had managed to revive Madame Wang’s life after working so hard to save her life, it was time to send her home to recuperate.

However, Lin Mengya apparently did not have the intention to do so.

“I would go all the way if I intend to save her life. Moreover, she could lose her life anytime given the state she’s in now. Be discreet and careful of what you stay. In fact, to the outsiders, just say that Madame Wang had passed away.”

Having done some investigation on Madame Wang’s family background, Lin Mengya discovered that she had come from a family of valiant army generals.

She was doted upon by her parents because she was the firstborn in the family.

When she first met Wang Hanlin, he was still a poor scholar.

However, Madame Wang was a strong-headed girl. When her family failed to break them up, they yielded to her wishes and eventually, this was how Wang Hanlin obtained his current status and position.

Therefore, Madame Wang was naturally the assertive one at home.

Wang Hanlin, being a man who achieved his status relying on his wife’s family, could not help but have that bit of bitterness in him.

Although Lin Mengya did not know the full picture of the Wang family, she had the feeling that if she were to send Madame Wang back to her home, she would surely die.

“Er… Master, please excuse me!”

“Retch—Me too!”

While they were pondering over the matter of Madame Wang, Baiji and Baishao suddenly felt nauseous and quickly excused themselves.

“What’s happening to them?”

Lin Mengya shot a puzzled look at Qinghu, who pointed towards Baizhi.

“I have no idea too. It’s so strange.”

With a piece of pig’s heart in between her chopsticks, Baizhi looked at Lin Mengya with a perplexed expression.

Only at this moment did Lin Mengya see that sitting on the table were dishes made out of pig’s heart, pig’s liver, pig’s lungs and a big plate of braised pig’s intestines.

She snapped her head towards Qinghu only to catch the mocking smile on his face before he managed to hide it. Instantly, Lin Mengya threw her chopsticks at him.

“You did it on purpose, didn’t you?”

Qinghu dodged Lin Mengya’s chopsticks and continued drinking the fragrant tea in an elegant manner.

“As long as we follow you around, this kind of things are bound to happen in the future. Don’t tell me they would be fasting if this happens?”

Qinghu’s reasoning made sense. However, she had to go slow with them regarding this matter.

The four maidservants, apart from Baisu, had grown up like flowers in a greenhouse in this sense.

“You’re right. Such things may happen often. Oh yes, is there any progress on the investigation I asked you to do? Any news?”

The courtyards had been swept clean by the servants and Lin Mengya, being under house arrest, had the gates to her courtyard shut tight.

At this moment, Qinghu was the only one who could go in and out of the mansion freely to gather information.

“As you’ve expected, Wang Hanlin was indeed not as faithful to his wife as it appeared to be on the surface.”

Qinghu had first checked out Wang Hanlin.

“He owns a second house in the west of the city. I’ve checked out that place. Not only were there two beautiful ladies who were his concubines, they had actually borne and raised his children. From this, one could safely say that this arrangement had been around for quite some time. Wang Hanlin was very secretive about this so nobody had yet to find out. The neighbors also said that the ladies and children in the house do not come out often.”

Had Lord Wang gone to inform his concubines of the news of the death of Madame Wang so quickly?

What a hypocrite Wang Hanlin was! He was indeed heartless.

“Do Wang Han line and his wife not have any children?”

Qinghu shook his head and continued, “They only have one daughter, who did not come to attend the banquet in Prince Yu’s mansion because she was not feeling well. It was said that Madame Wang’s daughter was not someone to be trifled with too, and she would be getting married very soon.”

Now that the news of Madame Wang’s death had spread, so Miss Wang had to observe a year of mourning period before she could get married.

When Lin Mengya heard that Madame Wang’s daughter was not to be trifled with, she immediately had an idea.

“Please invite Miss Wang to come over to meet me in a while. I’ve something to discuss with her.”

The moment Qinghu saw the wicked smile on Lin Mengya’s face, he immediately knew that she had something up her sleeves.

“You are really a wicked girl.”

Having filled her stomach and quenched her thirst, Lin Mengya managed to sleep very soundly that night.

After Lin Mengya woke up the next morning and when two maidservants were getting her ready with cleaning up and changing, Lin Zhongyu dashed into her room.

“Elder Sister, Elder Sister, have you heard?”

Lin Zhongyu, who was apparently rejoicing over someone’s mishap, came into the room making a lot of noise.

“Did you stumble upon some gold? What are you so excited?”

Once Lin Mengya was done with grooming herself, she dragged Xiaoyu to the table to have breakfast with her.

“I heard that before they reached the prison yesterday, that lass passed away. The Crown Prince was furious, but what could he do?”

Lin Zhongyu narrated to Lin Mengya how Xing’er had suddenly died and how the Crown Prince was totally enraged.