Chapter 2: Beaten To Death!
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Qu Fulan was quickly dragged over.
It couldn't be helped. She was injured and hungry, so she looked listless and pale.
However, when she entered the room and saw the evidence, Qu Fulan did not show any signs of panic.
"Who said that it's mine just because it was found on my bed?"
"You still dare to quibble!" Yue Yuan said angrily, "I advise you to tell the truth as soon as possible. Maybe the old lady will spare your life!"
"Please find an old woman with a sensitive nose and go to each bed to smell it, including everyone's cabinet."
Yue Yuan saw Hai Tang's calm appearance and thought that if she didn't have a clear conscience, then she must be very scheming.
No matter what the reason was, she had to investigate it thoroughly before she could find out.
Yue Yuan was not stupid and immediately did as Hai Tang said.
She didn't expect things to turn out like this. A maidservant's hand subconsciously clenched. Seeing the old woman go to the beds to smell the scent, her expression began to become nervous and panicked. She bit her lip and her heart began to race.
Finally, when the old woman finished smelling, Yue Yuan said, "How is it?"
"I smelled pollen on the two beds," the old woman said.
She pointed at one of the beds.
"Then whose bed is it?" Yue Yuan's face immediately sank.
This time, there was no need for the maidservants to say anything. The maidservant knelt down, drenched in cold sweat. "That is my bed, but I was wronged. I didn't have any pollen. It must have been Hai Tang who framed me in order to get away with it!"
"You said that she had wronged you, but why was the pollen found on her bed instead of yours?"
Sweat slid down the servant girl's forehead, and she couldn't say a word with a pale face.
What else did Yue Yuan not understand? She immediately called for someone to take this girl away.
"Beat her up until she confesses!"
The little maidservant was taken away, screaming that she had been wronged.
She couldn't help but confess after less than ten beatings.
The maidservant's name was Hai Dong. She had entered the manor in the same batch as Hai Tang, but Hai Tang was beautiful. They were both inferior maidservants. Because of her beauty, Hai Tang often received the care of the steward's son.
Hai Dong liked the son of the steward and was jealous of Hai Tang. She wanted to destroy Hai Tang so that the steward's son would like her.
She had brought the pollen with her when she entered the residence. She liked the smell of the pollen and had brought it with her at night because it was easy to fall asleep from the smell.
It was only after entering the residence that she found out that the old lady would get rashes when she smelled the pollen. Later, she wanted to frame Hai Tang and used this method. She said that she didn't know it would almost kill the old lady, and she thought it would only be a little uncomfortable.
"The truth is like this, this servant really didn't do it on purpose. I beg Big Sister to let me go!" Hai Dong begged for mercy.
What a silly girl. This matter concerned the old lady's safety. It was no longer important whether she did it on purpose or not.
Either way, she would die.
"Take her away and beat her to death!" Yue Yuan said coldly.
Hai Dong was stunned. She did not expect to be beaten to death after confessing. She immediately cried and begged for mercy.
"I beg Big Sister to spare my life! I beg Big Sister to spare my life! I know I was wrong. I won't do it again. Please give this servant a... Wuu..."
In the end, she was still mercilessly pulled down. As she was flogged one after another, Hai Dong's heart-wrenching screams echoed throughout the yard.
In the end, only the sound of the board could be heard in the air, and that person could no longer make a sound.
Yue Yuan had even specially let the other maidservants watch in order to kill the chicken to warn the monkeys.
The effect was also very obvious. The maidservants all showed fear on their faces and their bodies trembled.
After that, Qu Fulan was left behind to talk to her alone.
"We have wronged you in this matter. You can rest assured that I will explain the situation to the old lady and give you justice. You saved the old lady yesterday, so the reward will not be less. You can rest at ease and recuperate."
"Hai Tang would like to thank you first, Sister," Qu Fulan said.
Yue Yuan said, "You are very smart. You know how to clear your name."
"I am not smart, otherwise I would not be used to harm old lady. The reason why I can clear my name now is also because I have a clear conscience."
"I know. I'll go back to see the old lady first. I'll come back to see you later."
Qu Fulan lay on the bed to recuperate, and at the same time, she took the opportunity to assess her current situation.
She was able to clear her name this time not only because she had a clear conscience, but also because of the plot of the novel.
She had become the heroine of the ancient novel, [The Noble Daughter Falls From Grace], which she had read before she went to bed. She had mastered the plot, so she knew the way to get out of this situation.
In the novel, the female protagonist didn't have any medical skills, but she was fine in the end, because the old lady wouldn't die this time.
The symptoms looked serious, but when the famous doctor arrived, she was saved.
The female protagonist didn't say anything after being beaten unconscious for a day and a night. Yue Yuan ordered people to search the room, thinking that with irrefutable evidence, she would speak.
Even if the pollen was gone, as long as it had been collected before, there would definitely be a smell left. She would find an old woman with a sensitive nose to smell it.
With this sniff, she could smell the scent of Hai Dong's bed, which finally proved the female lead's innocence.
Now, Qu Fulan had merely borrowed the plot of the book and cleverly used a time difference to save the old lady before the doctor arrived.
Because of this change, Hai Dong was afraid that Hai Tang would be able to atone for her crimes, so she transferred the powder to Hai Tang's bed, hoping that there would be witnesses and physical evidence so that Hai Tang would have no way to turn things around.
Unfortunately, she was still stupid. Whether she had the powder or not, the blame would eventually be on herself.
Because of how long the powder had been stored, the concentration of the smell left was different, so it could also be determined who was the culprit.
Just like that, the first difficulty of transmigration was solved.
After lying in bed for four days, Qu Fulan got out of bed and started to work.
In the past four days, she had basically been well fed, so her injury recovered faster. In addition, she was a doctor herself, so she knew what medicine to take to recover faster.
During this period, Sister Yue Yuan also kept her promise and got her a reward from the old lady. Qu Fulan put it in her own cabinet, but the cabinet was not locked.
None of the maidservants' cabinets could be locked. If they wanted to lock it, they would have to buy it themselves after they received their monthly allowance.
Qu Fulan didn't mind. She put the money in the cabinet and went to work.
She didn't notice that there was a servant girl outside the window who saw her put the reward money into the cabinet. The servant girl's eyes turned red when she saw so much reward money.
The third-rank servant girls had to do all kinds of chores, such as burning the tea stove, cleaning the house, the yard, wiping the table, washing clothes, and all kinds of other menial work.
Qu Fulan had just finished her work and was returning to the shared house when she heard the conversation coming from inside.
"I remember that she left the money here. Why can't I find it now?"
"Did you see wrong? There's nothing here."
"That's impossible. I took a peek when she was hiding the money. There was so much money hidden in the cabinet. I could see them clearly... How could it be gone now?"
"Maybe she changed her hiding place? Maybe it's under the mattress? Let's go to her bed and look for it!"
"Right!"
"What are you two looking for? Do you want me to help you?"
The two of them instantly froze and subconsciously turned around. They saw Hai Tang walk in from the door.
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