12dz Chapter 119 Song Pingping with a Human Face
Chapter 119 Song Pingping with a Human Face
The next morning, Qin Yizhen went to visit Song Pingping.
As spring transitions into summer, the sun gradually warms.
Song Pingping was helped to lie down on a recliner in the corridor. Lü Qiao sat by a small table, took a celadon Ru kiln teacup, and boiled water to make tea.
Qin Yizhen sat on the balustrade under the eaves, leaning to one side, squinting at the clear sky and the pomegranate tree in the corner of the courtyard.
She gently waves a silk fan and drinks tea with her delicate hands.
If Song Pingping hadn't been a bedridden, injured patient, she would have been incredibly comfortable.
The maid handed the tea to Song Pingping. She took a sip and sighed, "Springtime is so beautiful, but it's a pity I'll probably have to stay in bed for a few more days."
"I think you brought this on yourself." Qin Yizhen took a sip of tea and looked down at the tea leaves unfurling in the teacup.
The soup was a deep blue-green, with a wafting fragrance, as if it were a cup of springtime.
Drinking a sip of tea is like savoring the beauty of all things in spring.
"I asked you to find an imperial censor to stand up for you, but instead, you jumped in yourself."
Song Pingping took another sip of tea, looked at the scenery in the courtyard, and said with a smile, "If I, the aggrieved party, don't come forward, this case will be difficult to investigate."
Qin Yizhen put down her teacup, leaned back on the chaise lounge, and fanned herself twice with a round fan. She asked, "How confident are you about this matter? Do you need my help?"
Song Pingping thought for a moment and said, "Originally, I was 50% sure, but if Lin Yuansheng walks into the trap, the chances will be about 80%. If the princess wants to help, I only need a dozen or so people."
"Yes, I will have someone arrange it for you."
"Thank you, Princess. I can never repay your kindness. If you have any requests, I will do my best."
Qin Yizhen laughed: "Then it's settled. If I ever need your help in the future, I absolutely mustn't refuse."
“Of course.” Song Pingping thought for a moment and said, “Princess, what do you think about me opening a teahouse in the future? We’ll find a house, get some food and books, and invite some dancers, musicians, storytellers, and chess players to come over. When the princess has free time, she can go there for a stroll.”
Song Pingping had been thinking about her future these past few days. Although she was most comfortable as a concubine here, Cheng Yan and Qin Yi really didn't want her friend to be a hindrance between them, so she couldn't continue to linger.
She wanted to stay by Qin Yizhen's side as a maid, but Qin Yizhen disagreed. Upon reflection, she realized that the only option was to find a job outside, preferably one that would lure Qin Yizhen out frequently.
“That’s feasible.” Qin Yizhen had always been quite lenient in this regard. “If you want to do it, then do it. If you need money later, I can lend you some.”
"Borrow?" Song Pingping clicked her tongue, looking somewhat aggrieved. "The princess didn't even offer to give it to me. Does the princess not care about me at all? My life is so miserable..."
Qin Yizhen, Lü Qiao, and everyone else present shuddered, almost getting goosebumps.
Green Qiao shuddered and rolled her eyes at her: "You're not really crying. If you keep doing this, I'll spill a cup of tea on you when I can't stand you anymore."
This steaming thing in the tea.
Song Pingping laughed heartily: "You flatter me. I'm a thousand faces, I can look any way I want. If you asked me to roll up my sleeves and fight, I could also do a few fancy moves."
Song Pingping is someone who rose from the lowest rungs of society. At a young age, she took on the heavy responsibility of supporting her family and paying for Lin Yuansheng's education. From childhood, she developed the ability to speak to people in a way that suited them.
When she's showing weakness, she cries and whine like a baby, but when she's being fierce, she can roll up her sleeves and get into a fight.
When she's arguing, she's incredibly witty and sarcastic.
Green Qiao snorted: "Although you had a hard life before, now that you've met the princess, it's not so bad anymore. With the princess as your backer, very few people in Qin capital will dare to bully you. As long as you don't kill, set fires, or bully others, your life will be secure."
In the past, Fang Shixin was close to Qin Yizhen. In just two years, her father was promoted to the fourth-rank position of Vice Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, which was enviable. Now that the Lady of Changting and Lady Min have become acquainted with Qin Yizhen, it will bring more benefits to their family.
Putting everything else aside, with this person in charge, those who secretly plotted against their family dared not make a move, fearing that if they asked this ancestor to intervene, they would end up losing more than they gained.
Fang Shixin and Qin Yizhen had a falling out. Countless people in Qindu secretly laughed at her for being foolish. With a princess as a backer, why didn't she try to please her? Instead, she dared to covet her husband. She was incredibly stupid.
Song Pingping closed her eyes and smiled, "That's true. My first half of life was full of storms and hardships. After meeting the princess, it was as if all the disasters had gone away."
She met the princess when she fell off a cliff and was on the verge of death, but she thought she had met a fairy from heaven.
At that time, she wondered if she had lost her mind to support Lin Yuansheng's education. If she had such free time, she would have preferred to admire the princess's stunning beauty.
She probably used up all her luck in this life.
The princess is her benefactor, and she is now the most important person in her life.
“Princess, you need not worry about my case. Even if Lin Yuansheng is ultimately convicted of attempted murder, it is a certainty that he abandoned me and married someone else. With this stain on his record, he can forget about ever climbing any higher in his life.”
At noon that day, Madam Zhou and Lin Yuansheng came to see Qin Yizhen, but Qin Yizhen declined their request, saying that she was not feeling well that day.
Left with no other option, Madam Zhou settled for second best and asked to see Song Pingping.
Song Pingping wanted to know what else Madam Zhou had to say today, so she nodded in agreement.
"You withdrew the complaint." Madam Zhou's first words were these: "Just say that you resented Lin Yuansheng for abandoning you and marrying someone else, and that you harbored resentment and wanted revenge. Now, what can we say to each other? You know you were wrong."
“Mrs. Zhou,” Song Pingping raised her eyelids slightly, “how can you still be having such wishful thinking at a time like this?”
Madam Zhou took a deep breath: "Lin Yuansheng has already agreed to recognize you as his sworn sister, and the Zhou family will also give you a sum of money. What do you think?"
This was the final result that Madam Zhou and Vice Minister Zhou had discussed.
Regardless of whether the story of Lin Yuansheng sending someone to kill Song Pingping is true or false, it's best to treat everything as a hoax at this point and minimize or eliminate these incidents.
The couple might not care whether Lin Yuansheng lived or died, but he was still their daughter's husband, and Zhou Ning was newly pregnant.
Originally, Vice Minister Zhou intended to adopt Song Pingping as his goddaughter, but Madam Zhou looked down on Song Pingping and naturally disagreed.
"You want me to become the Lin family's adopted daughter? And you'll even give me a sum of money?" Song Pingping found it all amusing. "Madam Zhou, if you have such a good deal, why didn't you mention it at all when I came to visit?"