vrcanaries Chapter 618: Meng's Scheming
Chapter 618: Meng's Scheming
They had originally agreed that after the servant delivered the letter to Ji Nanchuan, they would go to the pavilion at the city gate to meet them and then leave together.
Unexpectedly, Xia Chuhe and her parents waited at the pavilion for two or three hours, but did not see the servant.
Seeing that it was already too late, they had no choice but to drive away in the carriage, hoping to find out about the servant later when they had a chance.
Unexpectedly, the other party died at Meng's hands that night.
Xia Chuhe's hands were shaking with anger, but Meng's face was full of smugness.
She smiled and said, "So what if it was my wife who did it? You are a daughter of a merchant, with only a few pretty faces. How can you be the mistress of the Yongning Marquis's mansion?"
"This position should be occupied by a daughter of an official family like me, it would be more appropriate."
Having said this, she paused for a moment, and then continued to mock Xia Chuhe: "The reason why the Marquis likes you is because he has not met this lady before. If he had met this lady instead of you, there would be nothing between you and him."
"I fell in love with him when I first saw him at the palace banquet. I swore to marry him, but at that time, he only had you in his heart."
"If he saw your letter, would he abandon everything and run to find you? You will bring him fatal disaster, don't you know?"
Xia Chuhe was already shocked by what Meng said. She didn't know that Meng also liked Ji Nanchuan and that she had always been Meng's imaginary enemy.
Now, when she heard that she would bring him fatal disaster, she felt even more uneasy.
Xia Chuhe asked: "What do you mean, what fatal disaster?"
Her intuition told her that the fatal disaster mentioned by Mrs. Meng must be related to the death of her parents.
But she couldn't understand why she said that.
Meng especially liked to see Xia Chuhe's flustered and anxious expression. She always felt that at such times, she was the winner.
She hoped she could be better than her, so she said: "Your parents offended the wrong people, so the people in black killed your family."
Xia Chuhe felt cold all over. It turned out that Mrs. Meng knew the truth of the matter.
She hurriedly asked: "Who is that person? How do you know about this?"
When she asked this question, her heart was trembling, she was afraid that this was a conspiracy.
She had a vague answer in her heart, because the man's name was mentioned on the jade pendant note left by her parents.
I'm asking this question now just to confirm it.
Seeing that what she said really whetted Xia Chuhe's appetite, Mrs. Meng sneered, "Who is that person? Why should I tell you?"
"You just need to know that I burned the letter you wrote and concealed the matter in order to protect Ji Nanchuan. If he goes to find you, he will definitely become an accomplice of your Xia family."
"It's a pity that he doesn't understand my love and good intentions for him. If it weren't for me, he would have died like your parents."
When Meng said this, she was filled with resentment.
Over the years, she had wanted to tell Ji Nanchuan about this countless times so that he would know her love for him.
But every time the words came to her throat, she held them back.
She didn't dare to say.
On the one hand, it concerns Xia Chuhe, Ji Nanchuan's white moonlight. Ji Nanchuan always loses his mind inexplicably when he hears about her.
Meng couldn't guarantee that if Ji Nanchuan knew that she had taken the letter but didn't tell him, he would kill her.
On the other hand, there is the man behind it.
Meng still remembers clearly that night when she had just come out of her house and was about to go for a walk on the street with her personal maid.
Then, I saw a middle-aged couple running towards me in a panic. They looked terrified, as if someone was chasing them.
At first, it was too dark and Meng didn't recognize that the other party was Xia Chuhe's parents.
She didn't want to pay attention to it, but by chance, she heard the woman calling the man's name.
She instantly knew that the other party was Xia Chuhe's parents.
Because at that time, Meng also liked Ji Nanchuan, so she specially sent someone to investigate the identity information of the Xia family.
She often wondered how she could snatch Ji Nanchuan away from Xia Chuhe, but she had no good ideas.
The relationship between the two of them was too good, and she knew very well that it would be difficult for her to interfere. She was not willing to be a concubine.
But just when Xia Chuhe's parents ran away, Meng knew that the opportunity she had been waiting for had come.
She made an excuse and asked her maid to go back first while she waited there.
She guessed in her heart that since Xia Chuhe's parents ran away, it meant that someone would come looking for them later, and she would act accordingly.
Meng waited for about two quarters of an hour, and sure enough, she saw several men in black chasing after her.
They were strong and sturdy, exuding murderous aura and sharp edges. The way they looked at her was as if they were looking at a prey. Meng was scared at that moment.
She wanted to leave, but a sword was placed across her chest. One of the men in black asked, "Did you see a man and a woman running past here just now?"
Meng was extremely panicked. She originally thought that the people who pursued Xia Chuhe's parents were some ordinary guards or something.
But she didn't expect that the other party was actually a specially trained killer, and she knew at first glance that he was not someone to be trifled with.
Seeing that she didn't speak, the man in black said again: "If you don't speak again, I will kill you with a knife."
She was so scared that she quickly said, "I've seen it, a middle-aged man and woman just ran past here and went over there."
Meng pointed the other party in a direction, but suddenly a dark idea came to her mind.
Why doesn't she take this opportunity to get rid of the Xia family?
In this way, wouldn't Ji Nanchuan belong to her alone?
Thinking of this, she pretended to hesitate for a moment, and then continued: "My Lords, those two people just now looked familiar to me. I seem to have seen them somewhere."
"If I tell you their identities, can you please not kill me?"
Upon hearing her words, several men in black immediately agreed to her request.
Then, Meng told the other party the name and identity of Xia Chuhe's parents, and also kindly told them the location of the Xia family.
The man in black got the information he wanted and originally wanted to kill Meng with one sword.
But unexpectedly, at the critical moment, Meng's maid came.
"Miss, Miss, where are you?"
Hearing the maid call her Miss Meng, several men in black guessed that she must be the daughter of an official.