"As the saying goes, 'One's face reflects one's heart.' Isn't it because that ugly woman has a vicious heart and harms her own sister that she looks like this!" Someone nearby chimed in.
Hearing this, Bai Di's eyes flashed with a cruel and vicious light.
If it weren't for the fact that she was too badly injured to even get up, she would have surely torn the speaker to pieces.
Instead, all she could do now was grit her teeth and glare fiercely in the direction of the voice.
"Ugly woman, who are you glaring at!"
A smelly egg hit Bai Di on the shoulder. Before she could react, she heard someone scold.
"You evil woman should have died long ago. How dare you glare at others!"
Once someone took the lead, soon, rotten vegetables and fruits were thrown at Bai Di one after another.
The guards who were originally escorting her quickly dodged nimbly. As for Bai Di, who was completely weak, she could only be hit head - on.
Song Yiqing stood idly by, fanning himself. It was not until he saw that she was about to collapse that he stepped forward to stop them.
"Everyone here hates evil so much. I am very grateful. However, this evil woman has not fulfilled her bet yet. It would be too easy for her to die like this. Let's wait for her to finish what she should do first, and then you can do as you please."
The onlookers had only been incited to throw things. After being persuaded by Song Yiqing, they quickly stopped.
By now, Bai Di was on the verge of collapse from the impacts.
"Ginseng soup." Song Yiqing ordered.
Soon, someone stepped forward, pinched Bai Di's chin, and poured a bowl of ginseng soup down her throat without caring whether it was hot or not.
Bai Di struggled desperately. Her tongue was scalded and blistered, but she still swallowed the ginseng soup.
"Madam Chen, please."
Song Yiqing spoke. Although there was a smile on his lips, there was no trace of it in his eyes.
Bai Di stared at him fixedly, her eyes as if filled with venom, and she didn't move a muscle.
"Not willing to move? Well then, Madam Chen is so badly injured. How could she have the strength?" Song Yiqing smiled faintly and said to the two guards who had originally escorted her, "Help her then."
The two strong guards stepped forward. Just like they had carried Zisu before, they lifted Bai Di up, took three steps forward, and then threw her on the ground like a rag.
Bai Di let out a muffled groan. Just as she managed to maintain her balance, she was lifted up again, taken another three steps forward, and thrown on the ground once more.
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"You want me to kneel and kowtow all the way from the West Gate to the East Gate if I lose the bet?! You're dreaming!"
The scene of making the bet with Bai Zheng yesterday was still fresh in her mind.
Who would have thought that she would fulfill her promise to Bai Zheng in such a pathetic state today.
The two guards beside her lifted her up and threw her down like a rag. Each time they threw her, they would also kick her and shout on her behalf, "Bai Di is guilty. She framed Bai Zheng."
Surrounded by contemptuous and disgusted looks and pointing fingers, the stench on her body assailed her nostrils.
Bai Di closed her eyes tightly.
She wished she could die.
But now she was barely hanging on to a breath. She didn't even have the strength to bite her tongue.
She was in a state of neither being able to live nor die.
The sun gradually rose to the center of the sky.
Hearing the approaching noise outside, Zhuling quietly ran to the side door, opened a crack, and peeked out.
"What are you looking at?" Qingshao suddenly slapped her on the back, scaring her almost out of her wits.
Zhuling glared at her angrily, ignored her, closed the door by herself, and rushed into Bai Zheng's room in a hurry.
"Miss, Miss! Second Miss is on our street. Don't you want to go and have a look?"
Inside the room, there was no sign of Bai Zheng. However, there was a mountain of account books and scrolls on the table. From behind the mountain of books, there was an occasional rustling sound.
"Miss?" Zhuling called out again.
Only then did a head emerge from the mountain of account books. It was Bai Zheng.
She lowered her eyes and pondered for a moment, then shook her head. "No, I won't go."
Zhuling, still excited from watching the excitement and full of feelings about Bai Di's current situation, ran to Bai Zheng's side, clicked her tongue excitedly, and said,
"Why not go? Just go and have a look!
Back then, Second Miss bullied you and the young masters so much. Now she is no longer as arrogant as before!
Miss, you don't know. Just now when I was at the door, I saw that Second Miss was almost unrecognizable. She was being carried all the way here.
She was so badly injured by the guards yesterday. If this continues today, she may not live long!"
"She won't live through tonight." Qingzhi stepped into the room right behind and said calmly.
Bai Zheng was not surprised at this news, but Zhuling's eyes widened in disbelief. "Really?"
"Tuwu is a highly poisonous substance. She has been applying it on her face every day, which has already damaged her health. The spear went through her chest yesterday, and it's obvious that she didn't receive timely treatment after returning to the Duke's Mansion. If it weren't for the ginseng soup keeping her alive, she should have died long ago."
Qingzhi said calmly.
"Then... Miss, really won't go and see her for the last time?" Zhuling asked hesitantly.
As Bai Zheng's personal maid who had grown up with her, no one else knew better than she did how Second Miss had bullied her own miss on a daily basis.
She had had countless thoughts of hoping that this Second Miss would disappear from the world earlier.
She had also gritted her teeth in hatred when Bai Di repeatedly succeeded.
Now, Bai Di was really going to die.
Shouldn't Bai Zheng also feel a sense of revenge like herself?
Shouldn't she also want to stand in front of her as a victor and witness the most pathetic moment of her life?
But Bai Zheng obviously had no interest in this.
When she heard the news that Bai Di was critically ill, she was a bit stunned at first, but soon she came to terms with it.
Maybe she wasn't really a fifteen - year - old girl after all, so her thoughts were not as impulsive and simple as Zhuling's.
Especially regarding Bai Di's character, rather than saying she was vicious, it was more accurate to say she was stupid.
Bai Zheng remembered the past events about Bai Di that Princess Yunxi had shown her when they met on the boat.
In fact, this second elder sister had once truly regarded her as a younger sister.
It was just that human emotions could never remain so pure. Too many desires had blinded her conscience, which led to the estrangement between the sisters later.
Especially in the end, her suicidal attack in order to strike at her.
She sighed. After all, Bai Di was a pitiable person with her own detestable qualities.
"If she sees me, she may not be able to leave this world in peace. Since we are sisters, I won't go and annoy her."
Bai Zheng said leisurely.
The noise outside gradually faded away from the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion. Bai Zheng sat in the pile of account books from beginning to end, completely absorbed.
It was not until the sun set in the west that she stretched her body and asked Zhuling,
"How is Second Sister?"