A farmer's daughter travels through time, farming and dividing the family to fight for the best

Chapter 359: Poisoning and Revenge

"Please have mercy, sir. I really didn't do it." Chef Zhang cried and begged for mercy.

But how could a woman like her withstand the strength of two men? In a few moves, she was pressed onto the torture instrument, and then there was the sound of the board hitting her flesh, making a "puff puff" sound.

"Oh, stop it, sir, stop it."

Everyone present looked on coldly, and no one stepped forward to speak for her. There was indeed something wrong with this cook, and it was very likely that she was the one who poisoned the food.

Qiao Yueru was also full of questions. Wasn't it Li Xiaoxiao who poisoned her? Why did the chef Zhang show up halfway? Who poisoned her?

Chef Zhang's cries for help became weaker and weaker. She felt like she was about to faint from the pain, and beads of sweat dripped down her head.

"Stop hitting me, stop hitting me. I'll tell you everything." Finally, Chef Zhang couldn't hold on any longer and took the initiative to confess.

"Stop!" The prefect gave an order, and the two yamen runners who were carrying out the execution immediately stopped.

The torture instruments were removed, and Chef Zhang lay on the ground, gasping for breath and wailing from time to time.

"Tell me, what's going on?" The prefect's majestic voice sounded again.

"I'll tell you, I'll tell you everything, it was indeed me who poisoned you." Chef Zhang knew that the truth had been revealed and she couldn't escape no matter what, so she could only confess, her voice choked with sobs and resentment.

"I have been a cook in the Qiao Mansion for more than ten years. My daughter is a maid beside Qiao Yueru. She is well-behaved and sensible, with a simple mind. Others think that being with the young lady is a blessing, but it is not the case."

"Qiao Yueru is cruel and merciless. She either beats or scolds her servants. My daughter is weak-willed, so she is beaten almost every day. There is no intact skin on her body and legs. She is always covered with bruises. After a long time, she has mental problems, and Qiao Yueru has become even more severe."

"In the end, they even used a hairpin to paint my daughter's face. She was a 13-year-old girl, at the age of loving beauty, how could she accept such a thing? Not long after, she died of depression. She was only 13 years old, the age of a flower, but she withered before she even blossomed."

At the end, Mrs. Zhang, the cook, actually burst into tears. She only had this one daughter and had been counting on her to take care of her in her old age and see her to the end of her life. But now, her daughter had to send her child away, which completely put an end to her hopes.

Now that her daughter is gone, she lives like a walking corpse every day, but Qiao Yueru is still as carefree as ever. Whenever I see Qiao Yueru, I will think of her tragically dead daughter.

She just felt that God was so unfair to her. She served others all her life, but in the end her daughter did not have a good ending. As time went by, hatred arose in her heart, a hatred towards the Qiao family.

So she was looking for an opportunity, an opportunity for revenge. She usually hid it very well and did not show her negative emotions. Everyone thought she had forgotten about it, but she hadn't.

A few days ago, she heard that Qiao Yueru bought a bottle of concealer and couldn't put it down. After using it, all the freckles on her face disappeared.

Looking at that face which was not good-looking but had no flaws, Chef Zhang's desire for revenge became stronger.

Thinking of her daughter's broken face when she died, she wanted to destroy her face as well, so she bought poison, and when Qiao Yueru was out, she secretly ran into her room and poisoned the bottle of concealer.

She thought she had done it very secretly, but she didn't expect that she would be discovered.

Qiao Yueru didn't expect that it was Chef Zhang who poisoned her. She was so angry that her eyes turned red and she rushed over to hit her.

She was stopped by the yamen runners on both sides, blocking her way.

"You two, get out of here! Let me beat this bitch to death. She actually dared to poison me. I'm going to kill her entire family." Since Qiao Yueru couldn't beat Chef Zhang, she vented her anger on the two yamen runners.

He punched and kicked the two yamen runners without showing any mercy, beating and cursing them at the same time.

The two yamen runners were just ordinary people. Knowing that Qiao Yueru was a daughter of an official, they did not dare to fight back and just let her beat them.

"Qiao Yueru, you are so brave that you dare to beat the bailiff in front of me." The prefect was angry and stood up.

Qiao Yueru reluctantly let go of her hand and glared at Chef Zhang with gritted teeth. It was just a maid, so it was up to her to die, but they actually dared to poison her. Even if she couldn't do anything to her now, she would definitely make her live a life worse than death later.

"Chef Zhang, your daughter is Qiao Yueru's servant. It is only natural for the master to punish the servant. Although her death later had a lot to do with Qiao Yueru, you can't do this." The prefect glanced at Qiao Yueru coldly and strongly disapproved of her style of doing things.

She relied on her status as a lady to beat servants at will and destroy their appearance. This result was her own retribution and she could not blame anyone else.

It was common for the maids and servants in his own house to be punished, and not a few were beaten to death. Once they signed the indenture contract, their life and death were no longer in their own hands.

"Now that the truth has been clarified, I will pronounce the verdict. Chef Zhang deliberately poisoned her master, causing Qiao Yueru to be disfigured. Chef Zhang is sentenced to ten years in prison. The incident has nothing to do with Li Xiaoxiao and her shop. She is acquitted." The prefect and the lawyer discussed the matter before announcing the verdict.

"I don't agree." When Qiao Yueru heard that Li Xiaoxiao was not guilty, she immediately stood up to object. Why was her face ruined while Li Xiaoxiao was fine?

"Why don't you agree?" Li Xiaoxiao raised her eyebrows with a look of contempt. She really took herself too seriously and even dared to question the prefect.

"Even if you didn't poison me, you still have to be punished because you were the one who sold me the concealer. If it wasn't you, how would Chef Zhang have the chance to poison me?" Qiao Yueru thought for a long time before coming up with such a lame excuse.

Li Xiaoxiao was so angry that she almost laughed. She really wanted to knock open Qiao Yueru's head to see what the structure inside was. It was a pity that she could figure it out.

Just turn your back on her and ignore her. If your IQs are not on the same level, there will be communication barriers.

"You bought the things yourself. What does it have to do with others? Did Li Xiaoxiao put a knife to your neck and asked you to buy them?" The prefect asked with impatience. Qiao Yueru was simply making trouble.

"Sir, even if Li Xiaoxiao is not directly responsible, she is indirectly responsible. If you don't want to sentence her to jail, let her accompany my family Yueru for 2,000 taels of silver as a punishment for her."

Si Shuiqing also spoke up. She had the same idea as Qiao Yueru that Li Xiaoxiao could not be forgiven easily.

Now Li Xiaoxiao finally understood who Qiao Yueru inherited her personality from. Are Si Shuiqing and her daughter taking advantage of her?

Their train of thought is surprisingly consistent, they are truly mother and daughter.