Long Live the Empress

Chapter 147: A Shabby Funeral

Aunt Su and Yue Jinghong went to Yue Tianhong's yard together. They wanted to tell Yue Tianhong the good news!

Yue Tianhong has recovered about 80% and is now walking slowly in the yard. When Aunt Su entered the yard, Yue Tianhong saw the uncontrollable joy on Aunt Su's face. "What happened? What makes Aunt Su so happy?"

Aunt Su and Yue Jinghong looked at each other and burst into laughter. "Hong'er, that bitch will never bother your sister again!"

Yue Tianhong was overjoyed, "Father drove her away? No way... After all, she is still my father's daughter..."

Aunt Su burst out laughing, "Silly child! What's the point of kicking her out? The real thing is to cut off her backing!"

Aunt Su told Yue Tianhong about the Second Aunt's story, and Yue Tianhong clapped his hands after hearing it, "Aunt, this move is too powerful! Humph, now that the old bitch is dead, let's see how Yue Yuyan can still act so rampantly!"

Just as Aunt Su picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, Yue Jinghong asked, "Then...how did Second Aunt get poisoned?"

Aunt Su looked at Yue Jinghong proudly, "Jinghong, this is what you need to learn, killing people without being seen!"

Yue Jinghong took Aunt Su's arm and said coquettishly, "Ah, Aunt Su, please stop keeping me in suspense! Tell your daughter now!"

"Yes, aunt! My son wants to know too!" Yue Tianhong thought about it over and over again in his mind, but he couldn't figure out the reason.

"The problem is naturally with the bowl of soup I served!" As soon as Aunt Su said this, Yue Jinghong rejected it, "Impossible! The doctor has checked it, and there is no problem with the soup! Oh, my daughter knows, the doctor is Aunt Su's man!"

"Haha, Jinghong guessed half right. Those doctors are my people. It's just that... the poison was not put in the soup, but smeared on the bowl. If we only test the soup, of course we can't detect it!"

Aunt Su told Yue Jinghong about her plan from a few months ago and today's plan, and finally said: "Killing people must be done perfectly! Don't kill people and then get yourself killed. In the future, the prince's mansion and even the harem will need women. If they are useless or against you, you don't have to show mercy! Jinghong, do you remember this?"

As soon as Aunt Su mentioned that the prince would have another woman, Yue Jinghong felt extremely jealous.

How could Aunt Su not understand Yue Jinghong's thoughts? "Jinghong, it's normal for an ordinary man to have three wives and four concubines, let alone a prince? As long as you can capture the prince's heart and use some tricks, you won't have to worry about not having a chance to succeed!"

Yue Jinghong nodded. She understood what Aunt Su said, but she just couldn't get over it. "Aunt, Jinghong has taken note of it!"

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The Yue Mansion did not announce the death to the public, and did not even hang white banners. On the early morning of the next day, they quietly buried the Second Aunt in a thin coffin in a wasteland, and did not even bury her in the Yue family's ancestral tomb.

In the entire Yue Mansion, Yue Yuyan was the only one who wore coarse cloth and knelt in front of the second aunt's grave and cried.

Generally, the tombstones of wealthy families are made of granite, but the second aunt’s tombstone was just a few words written in black ink on a cheap wooden board.

Yue Yuyan looked at the shabby tombstone and tears couldn't stop flowing down.

"Third sister, I'm here to see off the second aunt!" Yue Jinghao wore plain clothes, took off her hairpin, and personally placed incense, candles, and paper money in front of the second aunt's tombstone.

"Big sister, tell me...was I too bad to Second Aunt in the past, so God punished me like this?" Yue Yuyan looked straight at Yue Jinghao, trying to get comfort from her.

Yue Jinghao lit a stick of incense and said, "Third sister, as a parent, there is no way we don't think about our children! Second Aunt also wanted to save you..."

Yue Yuyan murmured, "Save me? It's all Yue Jinghong's fault. If she hadn't framed me in front of the princess, I wouldn't have been sent to Changqing Temple, and my aunt wouldn't have..."

Yue Jinghao shook her head, "Third sister, don't think too much about it now. You must be more careful and cautious in the future!"

Yue Yuyan did not answer, but just burned the paper money silently.

At the same time, Doctor Zhao and Li Gouzi, who were protecting the second concubine's pregnancy, also disappeared overnight, and Yue Mansion returned to its former tranquility...