Unexpectedly, Song Yihuan could tell what had happened in Changyue Nunnery. Abbess Mingfa's face changed drastically, and she immediately retorted, "Don't talk nonsense, benefactress. Spreading slander will land you in hell!"
Abbess Mingfa's reaction further confirmed that in March, Song Nanxin had had a secret tryst with Cui Taizhu of the Qionglimei Troupe in Changyue Nunnery, and Abbess Mingfa knew all about it.
"Land in hell?" Song Yihuan got up and walked towards Abbess Mingfa. She pinched the old nun's chin, bent down to look at her, and murmured, "I've already been in hell."
Although she was a bright and charming beauty, there was a fierce look in her clear and pure deer - like eyes as she said this, making her look like a revenge - seeking Asura, which made Abbess Mingfa not dare to underestimate her.
Song Yihuan ran her fingers across Abbess Mingfa's throat and said, "Abbess, think it over. What exactly did my elder sister do and experience in Changyue Nunnery? Do you really want to pretend you don't know?"
"If you refuse to admit it, I'll have to report to the authorities on the charge that Changyue Nunnery connived at a scoundrel to rape a civilian girl and let the officers from the prefectural yamen investigate. Just this charge alone is enough for the Prince Ning's Mansion to massacre Changyue Nunnery and take your life, Abbess."
Abbess Mingfa tightly closed her eyes and finally relented, "What on earth do you want, miss?"
"What I want is very simple." Song Yihuan straightened up and wiped her hands with a handkerchief.
"I want you to tell me everything you know without reservation and cooperate with me to catch the ghost causing trouble in the Marquis's Mansion."
Abbess Mingfa rolled her eyes, trying to muddle through. But then she heard Song Yihuan say:
"While you were unconscious just now, I fed you a poison. This poison will flare up every three days. If you don't take the antidote in time, your intestines will rot and you'll die. If you don't believe me, feel if your abdomen is aching faintly?"
Abbess Mingfa's face changed. She felt it and indeed found that her abdomen was aching faintly.
Tightly closing her eyes, knowing that she had no way out, Abbess Mingfa had no choice but to say, "I'll follow your words, miss. Just ask whatever you want to know."
Song Yihuan sat back down satisfactorily and asked, "Four years ago, you visited the Marquis's Mansion. What did you do then?"
It was indeed not Abbess Mingfa's first visit to the Ding'an Marquis's Mansion.
The last time she came was four years ago.
At that time, the mistress of the Marquis's Mansion invited her to the mansion to preach scriptures. She asked about the fate of the fetus in her womb. Abbess Mingfa calculated it with her fingers, and the result was not very good.
After learning this, the mistress of the Marquis's Mansion didn't say much. Instead, she asked Abbess Mingfa to calculate the fate of the fetus of a concubine in the Marquis's Mansion. The result was that the child had an extremely good fate, with the star of literary excellence. In the future, he might very well be an official of the first rank and achieve great things.
After that, she left the Marquis's Mansion. She didn't know what happened in the mansion later. She only heard that the concubine died of difficult childbirth later.
The mistress of the Marquis's Mansion then asked her if there was any way to change the fate. Abbess Mingfa pointed out a way for her. To change the fate, she had to avoid giving birth in that month. As for how to do it, that was not her concern.
After hearing this, the hatred in Song Yihuan's eyes was clearly visible: "It was this illusory theory of fate that killed my mother and almost caused my younger brother to die in the womb. He has been troubled by heart disease all his life. Abbess, it's you who should go to hell and suffer retribution."
When Abbess Mingfa knew that Song Yihuan was a young lady from the Marquis's Mansion, she knew that the retribution for her reckless words years ago had finally come. Now that her life was in Song Yihuan's hands, she had nothing to defend. She lowered her head and chanted a Buddhist mantra.
"Abbess, do you know what 'Beimantuo' is?" After asking this question, Song Yihuan stared intently at Abbess Mingfa's face, trying to detect any clue from her expression and eyes.
When Abbess Mingfa heard the words "Beimantuo", she obviously paused and looked blank, "What is this?"
Abbess Mingfa's gaze and expression didn't seem to be fake, which made Song Yihuan frown again.
Didn't Abbess Mingfa recognize "Beimantuo"?
Wasn't this poison given to Meng by Abbess Mingfa?
If not, how did this poisonous herb from Beidi enter the Ding'an Marquis's Mansion and be used by someone?
Meng flatly denied that she had poisoned her mother with Beimantuo. Although Abbess Mingfa provided Meng with a plan to change the fate, she had nothing to do with "Beimantuo". Who else would have attacked her mother?
A very familiar name came to Song Yihuan's mind.
Song Nanxin.
What role did this elder sister of hers play in all this back then? On the day her mother was about to give birth, she intended to go out to find a doctor but met Song Nanxin who was also about to go out.
It seemed that this was not a coincidence at all, but Song Nanxin's deliberate act. It was to hold her back and prevent her from successfully finding a doctor to treat her mother in the mansion. Because Song Nanxin was afraid that a doctor would diagnose that her mother's difficult childbirth was due to poisoning!
Once this thought formed, it lingered in Song Yihuan's mind and wouldn't go away.
Recalling the situation that day years ago, she felt a chill seep into her bones, and her teeth chattered.
Looking coldly at Abbess Mingfa in front of her, Song Yihuan didn't untie her. She got up and walked out.
Walking into the garden of the Ding'an Marquis's Mansion, Song Yihuan looked at the vast and open lake in front of her and let out a long breath.
Feixue stepped forward to wrap her cloak tighter and asked with concern, "Miss, are you okay?"
Song Yihuan shook her head but still didn't say a word.
The events that happened on the day of Lesser Fullness four years ago had always been a demon haunting her. She took the blame for not being able to save her mother, but she had also been grateful to Song Nanxin, who drove the carriage and took her out to find a doctor.
What if all this was a scheme set by Song Nanxin, and the medical clinics they went to were all pre - arranged? Or perhaps the medicine boys and the clerks in the medical clinics were all disguised by others?
Yes, she remembered that when she followed Song Nanxin's carriage out to find a doctor four years ago, she fell into a daze soon after getting on the carriage. When she was asleep, she seemed to hear the sound of an opera.
She hadn't thought much about it before. Now that she knew that Cui Taizhu of the Qionglimei Troupe had a different gender and identity, perhaps Cui Taizhu had been following them that day, using his disguise skills and ventriloquism to deceive her!
Cui Taizhu's origin was unknown. The concubine of the family that had previously used "Beimantuo" to harm people was also from an opera troupe. She had previously inferred that the opera troupe was the spy and minion of Beidi hidden in the capital. It seemed that perhaps the "Beimantuo" poison was obtained by Song Nanxin from Cui Taizhu!
This inference stirred up a storm in Song Yihuan's heart. She silently digested it for a moment before calming down.
Song Nanxin.
Thinking of this half - sister, there was no sisterly affection in her heart at all, only a cold killing intent!