Chapter 1679 - 1508: Female Rule 12 (4,000 Words)_3
She also remembers lying on her father’s thin back, burning hot yet shivering from the cold, as he carried her running through the snow.
That time, after Fang Miaqing recovered, her father fell seriously ill, and it took him a full six months to recuperate.
Although due to the illness, fearing Fang Miaqing and her father might die in the village, her mother sent someone to bring them back home, but from then on, Fang Miaqing harbored a grudge against her mother.
However, the filial education Fang Miaqing received prevented her from being unfilial to her mother, so over the years, Fang Miaqing maintained a respectful yet distant attitude towards her mother.
After her father fell ill for her, not even two years passed before he died suddenly while Fang Miaqing and her mother were out learning how to inspect their business.
What chilled Fang Miaqing the most was that just three months after her father’s death, her mother welcomed a new main husband, making Fang Miaqing even more cold-hearted towards her mother.
But no matter how cold-hearted she was, Fang Miaqing never thought her father had been killed by her mother! Even her grandmother was still being bled dry year after year by people sent by her mother!
Fang Miaqing’s body was trembling, her eyes filled with deep sorrow and suppressed hatred, if her stance on her mother was forced obedience to filial-piety, then her father was an untouchable pain in her heart.
Nobody knew, Fang Miaqing was always blaming herself, blaming if it weren’t for treating her illness, allowing her father to catch a chill and fall seriously ill in the snow, perhaps he wouldn’t have died suddenly.
Fang Miaqing gritted her teeth, still struggling to refuse believing: "What you said is nothing but black and white words combined with your few empty statements, asking me to believe my father was killed by my mother, it’s too far-fetched."
Qi Guanshuang lightly curled up the corners of her mouth, took out another stack of papers from her sleeve and placed it in front of Fang Miaqing: "I know you don’t want to believe a word without proof."
In here are the locations of everyone who can testify what I said, you can send someone to find them, and individually verify the truth or falsity of my words."
About Fang Miaqing’s father, it’s something in the past life that Qi Guanshuang unintentionally discovered while investigating the Fang Family’s weaknesses to defeat them.
Including these witnesses’ locations, it was the past life’s Qi Guanshuang who gathered these witnesses, found Fang Miaqing, and persuaded her to join hands to bring down the Fang Family.
In Fang Miaqing’s heart, the position of her father was far more important than her mother, so Qi Guanshuang was certain, for her father, in this life Fang Miaqing would surely cooperate with her.
Qi Guanshuang watched the trembling Fang Miaqing reach for the witnesses’ addresses, sighed, and with some pity said: "I will be staying here these few days, after you’ve verified, you can come to the villa to find me."
Fang Miaqing said nothing, holding the stack of papers, her mind was in a daze as she left the villa, Qi Gongshuang shut her eyes and let out a long breath.
Fang Miaqing’s verification was swift, three days later, she returned to Qi Guanshuang’s villa, but this time Fang Miaqing’s spirit was noticeably different from before.
The previous time Fang Miaqing looked very spirited, but now in just a short three days, she appeared much more haggard, her cheeks visibly thin, and her gaze contained an eerie calm suppressing madness.
She immediately cut to the chase and said to Qi Guanshuang: "What exactly do you want me to do, just say it, do you want me to help you bring down the Fang Family?"
Qi Guanshuang didn’t beat around the bush, directly nodding: "Exactly, the Qi Guan Family and the Fang Family have long been at odds, considering how much your mother dotes on Fang Miaozhen, there’s bound to be endless trouble in the future.
So instead of waiting for your mother to cause me trouble at some unknown time, it is better to solve the problem at its root in advance.
Actually, you don’t need to do much, I gave the Magistrate 300,000 taels of silver, asking Lord Prefect to fully investigate the cause of death of Boss Zhang’s family.
This matter, I don’t need to say and you already know who did it, Fang Miaqing, although your mother didn’t support you, but you’re not a simple person, a very large part of the Fang Family’s power has been taken over by you, right.
The thing I need you to do is very simple, let these forces detach from the Fang Family, facilitate the Magistrate’s investigation, make the Fang Family’s guilt indisputable."
Fang Miaqing looked at Qi Guanshuang with a peculiar gaze, after a while suddenly laughing twice: "Qi Guanshuang, you’re ruthless enough, you really want the Fang Family dead.
But on what basis do you think I’d help, after all, I’m also part of the Fang Family, if the evidence is established, wouldn’t I too be unable to escape?"