Chapter 143 (1/2)
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t.i.tle: The Dreamer in the Spring Boudoir
Chapter: 143 out of 513 - Mission accomplished with aphrodisiac (2)
Good, the matter could be simply settled. Ji Man looked at Chen-s.h.i.+ and said, ”Although Qingyun has married above his social status, mother, you haven't had to lower your head in front of Errong. On the contrary, Errong has acted very filial towards you in every aspect, so why are you making life difficult of her?”
”How have I made life difficult for her?” Chen-s.h.i.+ frowned. ”Don't spread venomous slander.”
”Checking her body.” Ji Man's gaze became slightly sharper and Chen-s.h.i.+ turned her face away. ”Mother, you must be thinking that because Errong deeply loves older brother, she won't tell her father about this. Nie Clan is the one that's in the wrong about this matter to begin with, and yet you made this matter even worse. Mother, aren't you afraid that one day Errong won't be able to tolerate your abuse and will report everything to the imperial courts? The emperor had even issued a celebratory decree for this marriage. Mother, don't you have any sense of what's considered appropriate behavior?”
These words left Chen-s.h.i.+ speechless. Nie Sangyu had guessed correctly. She had thought there was no reason to fear the consequences because this junzhu was deeply in love with Qingyun. It was Ning Errong's fault for being the person that Nie Sangyu had pushed Qingyun to marry. Although that girl wasn't bad, she was still unhappy with their marriage.
Chen Suqin pretended to be fierce while inwardly feeling cowardly. She scolded, ”When did it become the younger generation's turn to lecture someone older than them? Who cares if she's a junzhu? She married into Nie Clan, so it's only right for her to obey me. If she feels she's being treated unjustly, then I'll have Qingyun give her a divorce letter!”
Ji Man was feeling angered to death by this woman's stupidity. She wasn't showing the slightest consideration for her son and was letting her own feelings decide everything.
”Sangyu has tried her best to persuade mother. It's rare for a daughter-in-law to be good as Errong. If mother fails to appreciate her and loses her, it'll be too late to feel regretful later.” Ji Man stood up, saluted, and said, ”Mother, you should carefully reconsider.”
Ji Man saw resentment and fear flas.h.i.+ng through Chen Suqin's eyes and decided to stop looking. She turned her head away and left the courtyard.
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She ordered Dengxin to buy something for her. Two hours later, she went to the courtyard that Nie Qingyun usually stayed in.
Don't misunderstand. She wasn't going there to talk with him. Those two were a married couple. As his younger sister, she didn't have any basis to discuss this type of thing with him. She was just going to his room to place the drugs she had asked Dengxin to purchase.
Yes, it was aphrodisiacs. What was there left to say? If he wasn't willing to sleep with Errong, then she would simply force him to sleep with Errong, even if she had to drug him. These two were already married. There was no need to feel any apprehension about right or wrong. The sooner she drugged him, the sooner the matter would be completed.
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Nie Qingyun hadn't returned home yet. He was actually quite busy in the imperial court too and usually didn't return home until the evening.
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Ji Man had sent Dengxin to buy this drug at a high-cla.s.s brothel. Dengxin had been quite lucky. She had met a female brothel owner at the back entrance and was able to accomplish her task with just one silver ingot. There were two parts to the aphrodisiac. One part was for internal use and the other part was for external use.
After she personally poisoned, no, personally cooked a meal for Nie Qingyun, she called Errong over to take a bath. Dengxin personally attended to Ning Errong and rubbed the external use drug everywhere. She also rubbed a little bit of the remaining internal use drug onto Ning Errong's neck as well. The rest of the internal use drug had been already been added to the food. Ji Man had also added some of the external use drug into Nie Qingyun's courtyard's lamps.
Don't say she was treacherous. Sometimes, you had to act slyly in order to accomplish your objective. She was only taking an indirect method because the direct method wouldn't work.