Chapter 701
It is a voice like water and a song, with a soothing power.
It was clearly not loud, but penetrating.
“……”
There was a moment of silence in the courtroom.
The knights guarding the sides of the tribunal turned back in unison, and at this look, they all froze.
The woman entered with slow steps.
She wasn’t dressed in anything flashy or extravagant.
It was a simple plain dress, with a jewelled sash around her waist that framed her figure.
But there was a peculiarly majestic, unruffled air about her.
Once the number one beauty of the City of Worlds, Su Man!
These nearly twenty years had pa*sed, and the woman’s appearance had not changed in the slightest.
But the baptism of the years had made her appear even more mature and charming, possessing a powerful maternal glow.
The Inquisitor jerked to his feet, his pupils contracting violently in shock: “Lady Su Wen!”
The Inquisitor was fifty years old and of the same generation as Su Wen.
And there was no one in their generation who did not know Su Man’s name.
At that time Su Man was the dream girl of all men and the object of many elders’ affection.
“Mr. Inquisitor.” Su Man nodded and smiled, “I have just recovered my body, please forgive me for coming late.”
“No, no, no, no apologies.” The Inquisitor was also excited to the point of being incoherent, “Madam Su Man, it’s wonderful that you’ve woken up!”
This news would surely rock the entire City of Worlds!
Su Wen took a few steps forward and took Ying Zidian’s hand in hers, smiling again, “Inquisitor this is my saviour, the young girl is very young but very good at healing, thanks to her I was able to wake up.”
Ying Ziji lowered her eyes and looked at the woman’s hand, her eyelashes twitching slightly.
There was a warmth that she coveted.
One could not let go of it.
On the side.
The third madam and the doctor’s faces had gone completely green, their faces filled with disbelief.
How could Su Man have woken up?
Shouldn’t she have died of poison?
The inquisitor barely calmed down, “Madam Su Man, so it means you are actually fine.”
“No, of course there is.” Su Man curbed her smile as she glanced faintly at the doctor who kept shivering, “I had gained some consciousness at that time, I couldn’t move yet but I could hear very well.”
“This person, she was poisoning me.”
“Flop!”
With a heavy thud, the doctor slammed to his knees, his body limp: “Su, Madam Su Man, I, I didn’t, I really ……”
The Inquisitor’s sharp gaze locked onto the doctor.
The doctor’s blood ran cold, and in her panic, she fiercely grabbed the Third Lady’s clothes, “Third Lady, I did what you told me to do! You can’t just see death and not save it!”
“Nonsense!” The Third Madam also panicked and kicked the doctor away, “This is my sister-in-law, how could I have instructed you to poison my sister-in-law?”
When she looked up and met Su Man’s clear black eyes, her body also went cold.
It was over.
If Su Man could hear, then he must have also heard her conversation with the doctor.
But Third Lady still couldn’t understand how Su Man could be awake!
“Take it down!” The presiding judge made a snap decision, “No need for a trial, impose the death penalty immediately.”
Once the toxin broke out, Su Man would definitely die.
Not to mention, Su Man’s status was one of the best in World City’s celebrity circles.
To lay hands on her was not only to go against the celebrity circle, but also to defy the authority of the House of Magi.
Death penalty, all light.
“Third Mistress! Third Mistress save me!” Hearing this pronouncement, the doctor broke down at once, and she tore her heart out as she screamed, “Third Mistress, you said you would still give me a good word in front of the Sages when you took control of House Leingold.”
“Third Lady, I don’t want to die!”
All eyes were focused on the Third Lady, and the manacle was on her back.
The Third Lady wanted to rip the doctor’s mouth off, but she was being watched by Su Man and was frozen in place, not daring to move at all.
D*mn, this stupid thing had pulled her down completely and utterly!
“Mr. Inquisitor, now that the matter has been settled, I would like to go back.” Su Wen withdrew her gaze, “This is someone from our own family, I’ll just handle it.”
The Inquisitor nodded, his expression serious, “Madam Su Man, I will report to the Sage House that you have awakened.”
He personally sent Su Wen and Ying Zigui back to the Leingel family before going to the House of Magi.
Su Wen had awakened, which was indeed a big event.
It was worthy of a city-wide celebration.
**
The Leingold family.
In the main hall.
“Sister-in-law.” Confirming that Soojung was alright, Sinai breathed a sigh of relief, “Just now you ……”
“It’s the poisoned blood in the body.” Ying spoke slowly, “If you don’t vomit it out, it will affect your heart and other organs.”
“It’s like this, I feel that my body is a lot easier, even better than before.” Su Wen looked soft and serious, she looked at the girl and whispered, “Little divine Doctor, thank you so much, I will personally cook for you tonight and invite you to be my guest in our house, is it okay?”
Ying Ziji looked into those watery eyes and paused, “Good.”
“Then it’s a deal, there’s something else I want to say to you.” Su Wen shook the girl’s hand again and smiled again, “I’ll take care of some things first, so you can take a look around at your leisure, Little Divine Doctor.”
Having said that, she turned around, lifted her skirt and mounted her throne.
“Ying, you can wait a while before you turn around.” Sinai stepped back, “Sister-in-law is going to pack up the people.”
Ying Ziji looked at Su Wen on the throne and couldn’t help but be slightly lost in thought.
Su Wen looked indifferently at the Third Lady kneeling on the ground and ordered the guards, “Lock her up first, and when Mo Qian returns, execute her straight away.”
Hearing this, the Third Lady’s face changed: “No…… no! You can’t lock me up! You can’t execute me either!”
“What she said was all one-sided, I have absolutely no second thoughts about the Leingold family! I couldn’t possibly want to harm you, sister-in-law!”
“In the absence of the Grand Master, the First Lady has the power of life and death in this house.” Sinai smiled icily, “I don’t think you’ll forget that, Third Lady.”
Right now the House of Magi had not ordered the Reingel family to re-elect the Grand Master.
The power naturally remained in Su Wen’s hands.
The life and death of anyone other than the direct members of the Lehngar family only required a word from Su Wen.
The Third Lady’s face was instantly as white as paper, she shivered and raised her head, and her temper weakened: “First Lady ……”
It was clear that in her plan, Su Man had already gone to meet the King of Hell by this time!
How could it be possible to sit here and decide whether she would live or die?
Su Man’s fingers tapped on the armrest of the throne, lowering her eyes and smiling faintly, “Third sister-in-law is late to the party, so it’s understandable that she doesn’t know what my style of dealing is.”
The Third Lady knelt on the floor, sweat breaking out on her forehead and her clothes soaked with cold sweat.
Soojung’s style?
She had actually heard of it before she had entered the Leingold family.
Soman came from a prestigious family and had always been a lady of the house.
She was dignified and elegant, out of the house and into the kitchen.
What a woman could do with flowers and tea, she could do.
She could ride and shoot a horse, as could a man.
Su Wen was gentle, but not weak.
The Third Mistress had heard her husband, Mo Qian, mention this.
In particular, the year Su Wen first married Lu Yuan, there was a riot in the Leingel family.
Without Lu Yuan’s help, Su Wen shot the traitor dead with a few shots.
Such a woman was a thorny rose, not at all easy to bully.
But only after experiencing it herself did the Third Mistress feel Su Man’s fear.
“Sister-in-law, I was momentarily possessed!” Third Madame kowtowed desperately and began to beg, “Sister-in-law, please spare me, spare me.”
“I’ve been married to Mo Qian for over ten years, you can’t do this!”
Su Wen was not touched and spoke again, “Take it down.”
The guards forcefully dragged the wailing Third Lady down, not giving her a chance to struggle at all.
There was silence in the hall.
None of the servants dared to speak either.
With this awakening of Su Wen, the situation of the Lehngar family was completely shattered.
Everything would have to be reshuffled and started all over again.
Su Wen was silent for a long time before he stood up: “Little Sinai, come with me to the cemetery for a walk.”
Sinai’s eyes faintly stared, “Good.”
Su Wen smiled again, “Little Divine Doctor will come along too, okay?”
**
The cemetery at the back of the hill was huge.
There were burials here for generations of the first members of the Leingold family.
Ying followed Su Wen and Sinai inside and looked at the hundreds of tombstones in the cemetery.
Su Wen walked to the far end of the cemetery and stopped in front of a very small tombstone.
She looked down, stroked the headstone and whispered, “This is my daughter’s name.”
Sinai was stunned: “Sister-in-law?”
Ying Zigui was at the back and could see very clearly.
The tombstone was well protected, but after a long period of time in the wind and rain, the corners were already slightly torn.
It had been standing here for nearly twenty years.
The words on the tombstone are carved, and there are a few indentations with blood on them.
This proves that Su Man wrote these six words on this piece of white jade with his own hand, stroke after stroke, in a raw manner.
The tomb of his beloved daughter Tanxin.
24 March 2003.
Chapter 702
Ying Zigui’s eyes fluttered.
She remembered the date.
It was the day and year of her birth.
Ying Ziyi recalled the question Yu Xuesheng had asked her –
“Have you ever thought that Madam Su Wen could very well be your mother?”
What the answer was, she hadn’t deliberately tried to find out.
Because sometimes expectations, in fact, represented more disappointment.
Now it seemed that Su Man’s daughter, obviously, was buried deep beneath this land.
There was no relationship between them.
Su Man’s hand stroked the tombstone, her eyes distant, with a hint of memory.
Half a moment later, she returned to her senses and smiled faintly, “I had already chosen this name when your elder brother and I got married.”
“The reason for naming her Tanxin was that I wanted her to be peaceful and have a naked heart all her life and not be subjected to any aggression.”
Sinai jolted, “Sister-in-law, so it was you ……”
After she returned from the Institute’s preparatory cla*s, she learned of Su Wen’s coma and the baby’s early death.
She was too young at the time for the Sage House to even consider handing over the power of the Leingold family to her.
The full details of what had happened were not clear to Sinai.
But now it seemed clear that the tombstone had been erected by Su Man’s own hand.
It was also Su Man’s own hand that had buried her daughter here.
“Well, I did move my foetus at that time and my qi and blood were greatly depleted, but it was not after giving birth to Tan Tan that I fell unconscious.” Su Wen whispered, “until I found out that Tan Tan had ……”
She paused, her voice adding a bit of huskiness, “So I held on to my last breath and buried Tan Tan here, so that Tan Tan could rest in peace.”
“Tell her that Mama will always be there for her and that Mama didn’t mean it.”
Sinai’s fingers tightened, the tips of her eyes grew crimson, and she murmured, “Sister-in-law ……”
So the anonymous message she had received was really just a prank.
Her niece had, indeed, died at birth.
“I’m sorry.” Su Man slowly squatted down and buried her head against the tombstone, choking out a sob, “Mum …… Mum didn’t protect you well and let you leave this world at such a young age.”
There were dark clouds gathering in the sky at this moment, and then pouring rain fell from the sky.
Ying stood quietly, allowing the rain to fall on her drop by drop.
She looked at the sky in silence.
She had never had a mother, nor had she ever known what a mother’s love was.
The year she had lived in the Ying family had made her resist even the word “mother”.
In this world, there were really such mothers who could sacrifice everything for their children.
After a long time, Su Wen got up, dried her tears and said in a very soft voice: “Tan Tan, mommy will go and take care of some things first, and then come and keep you company every day, okay?”
There was no answer.
“Okay, mama knows.” Su Wen’s voice was softer, “When your father comes back, we’ll move you to a new home again.”
She turned back and was about to ask Sinai to leave with her.
When she saw that the girl was dripping water from the tips of her hair to her whole body, Su Wen’s expression changed slightly, “Why are you getting wet?”
Without any further ado, she opened her umbrella and stepped forward to take hold of the girl’s hand, her manner for the first time very forceful: “Quickly, come with me to take a hot shower and change your clothes.”
Hearing these doubly caring words, Ying Ziji was slightly stunned for a moment.
By the time she came back to her senses, she had already been pulled out of the cemetery by Su Wen.
“Little divine Doctor, this is the automatic bathing machine.” Su Wen led Ying Zigui into the bathroom, “Don’t catch a cold.”
Ying Zidian didn’t say that she had ancient martial arts training in her body, so all this wind and rain was nothing to her.
She nodded her head and smiled lightly, “Madam, thank you.”
“Don’t call me madam, just call me auntie.” Su Man smiled back, “Go and take a shower first, just in time to eat afterwards.”
Thirty minutes later.
Ying Ziji changed into her bathrobe and came out.
Su Wen was sitting outside on the sofa.
This was a woman who was too gentle, no one could resist her concern.
“The bath is done.” Su Wen stood up, “Your clothes are all wet, I sent the maid to wash them, come and get a new one.”
Next door to the bedroom was a special wardrobe.
It was hundreds of square metres in size.
Inside were all sorts of everyday day clothes, dresses and shoes.
It was full of luxury.
“When I was young, I liked to buy some clothes.” Su Man spoke softly, “After I married into the Ben family, Abuchi specially prepared such a place for me to put my clothes.”
Ying Ziji surveyed the woman’s face which was not the least bit old but rather more elegant and beautiful, “You are also very young now.”
The ice bed curbed the speed of Su Wen’s cell division.
Su Man’s physical quality now was no different from her twenty years ago.
No one would believe that she was already fifty years old.
“The person is not old, the heart is old.” Su Man’s eyelashes twitched and she smiled gently, “I have slept for so long, I am not completely oblivious to the outside world.”
“A while ago, I dreamed again of Tan Tan when she died young, it was a nightmare.”
Su Man was blaming himself.
The blame for Tan Tan’s premature death lay entirely with her.
If she hadn’t had a great movement of the foetus at that time, her Tan Tan would not have suffocated and died.
“It’s all twenty years old and probably a bit out of fashion for you youngsters now.” Su Wen returned to her senses and took out a dress, “This one, I bought it and haven’t worn it yet, try it on and see if you can wear it.”
Her eyes were bright and her gaze was full of expectation.
Ying Ziji couldn’t bear to refuse and went into the changing room.
Su Man’s custom-made dresses are not luxurious, and there are no unnecessary embellishments.
But they are elegant and noble.
After she had changed, her hair was tied up.
With black hair and pale lips and porcelain white skin, she looked like a beauty coming out of an ink-splashed ancient painting.
“So pretty.” Su Wen’s eyes brightened even more as she sighed in admiration, “The little divine doctor has such a nice figure.”
Her clothes were all made to her own size.
I didn’t expect Ying Zigui to be able to hold it up perfectly.
“Go.” Su Wen took the girl’s hand again and winked towards her, “Go eat, I haven’t cooked in a while, I hope it’s not to the point where it’s hard to eat.”
**
Soman went into the kitchen.
At the dining table, Sinai was already sitting there, her head hanging down, “Ying, I’m sorry, and I don’t need your help to find someone.”
“It’s alright.” Ying shook his head slightly, “You don’t know either.”
Sinai knitted her brows, “But who on earth would send me a message like that? What does he want?”
Ying Zidian raised his eyes, “Then how can you be sure that the source of the message is reliable?”
Sinai was a super genius at the Institute, there was no way he would search for Tanxin for ten years just for an anonymous message.
“Because it has my big brother’s exclusive seal on it.” Sinai spoke, “It’s not to be imitated, and no one but myself can touch it.”
“I first thought it was a summons back from my elder brother, but it was not signed.”
Ying Ziji pondered.
Soon, Su Wen came out with the dishes.
Four dishes and a soup, all home-cooked, yet full of colour and flavour.
“Let’s eat.” Su Wen smiled and sat down, “I just tasted it, it’s not poisonous.”
“Ah Ying.” Sinai said, “Sister-in-law’s cooking is very good, my big brother’s stomach was made tricky at the time, he couldn’t eat anything else except the rice she made.”
Ying picked up his chopsticks and took a piece of Ma Po Tofu into his mouth, “It’s delicious.”
Su Wen looked at the girl in a daze, lost in thought, and never looked away.
Ying Zidian looked up as if he was aware of something, and his hand gave a start, “Auntie?”
“Nothing, little divine doctor.” Su Wen returned to her senses and smiled, “I was thinking, if Tan Tan were still around, she would be your age, I wonder what she would be like.”
Sinai’s heart was hard as she moved her lips, “Sister-in-law ……”
“It’s all in the past.” Su Wen patted her hand and turned her head again, asking with concern, “The young divine doctor is from outside the city? Do you have a place to stay now?”
“I’m at the Institute.” Ying Ziji said, “There are equipped dormitories.”
“The Institute?” Su Wen was slightly surprised, “What do you study?”
“Mechanical and aerospace engineering.”
“It’s really impressive that a girl can study such a program.”
The three of them had a good time at the dinner table.
After eating, Sinai also recounted to Su Wen about the anonymous message she had received
Su Wen frowned, “You haven’t received any more over the years?”
Sinai shook her head, “No, I asked the Hacker Alliance to check the source of that anonymous message and it showed that it was unknown, no clues whatsoever.”
“With your big brother missing, it’s hard not to ensure that someone has taken advantage of him.” Su Wen was calm, “Tan Tan was buried by my own hands, so how could he have gone to o continent.”
As much as she wanted Tan Tan Xin to be alive too.
But it was clearly impossible.
“Little Sinai, you also decided to look for Tan Tan before you were dosed with an unknown alchemical drug.” Soto spoke again, “If you hadn’t gone in search of Tan Tan, you would have been at the Institute, or at the home.”
“These are two places where no one would dare to lay a hand on you.”
Ying Zigui’s eyes narrowed slightly.
Not bad.
The Biogenetic Institute certainly obeyed the Sage Magician.
But there was no way they would be bold enough to use drugs on an SS-rank researcher at the Institute.
“It seems that someone wants to get rid of everyone in the Lehngar family.” Soojung blandly, “First your elder brother, then me and Tan Tan, and next you.”
Sinai shuddered.
Su Wen thought for a long time, tapping her fingers on the table, her eyes steepled, “This matter, it must be investigated.”
She turned her head and apologised somewhat, “Little divine Doctor, I’m sorry to involve you in this.”
“Auntie is polite.” Ying Zigui nodded, “I was going to look into it too.”
Su Wen was about to speak when the communicator rang.
“First Lady.” The housekeeper reported respectfully, “The Third Master has returned.”
“Good.” Su Wen rose, her eyes gentle, “Little Sinai, you take the little divine doctor back to the Institute first, the family has seen blood recently, it’s not good.”
Sinai’s expression was slightly austere, “Yes, sister-in-law.”
The Leingold family, about to be purged of blood.
**
Mo Qian waited just outside in the hall on the ground.
Footsteps sounded.
The gorgeous woman walked in.
Mo Qian looked up and his heart fluttered fiercely.
Su, ask!
“Third brother is back.” Su Man took off her cloak and handed it to the butler at the side, sitting herself on the upper seat and smiling, “I haven’t seen you for so many years, you’ve aged quite a bit.”
As Mo Qian listened, cold sweat also broke out on his forehead.
He had rushed back from the office after receiving the news that Su Man had woken up.
Mo Qian did not want Su Wen to wake up, but he did not dare to do anything to Su Wen either.
He really didn’t expect the Third Madam to have so much guts.
She was simply a stupid woman!
She had left traces of what she had done, and not only had she got herself involved, she had gotten him involved as well.
Mo Qian cursed in his heart.
Su Wen had always been quick to cut the Gordian knot.
A woman with a very ruthless heart.
Not even close to Lu Yuan.
“Sister-in-law has finally recovered.” Mo Qian lowered his head, “We’re all very happy.”
“Happy? Not really.” Su Wen raised her hand lightly, “Bring it up.”
Within minutes, the Third Mistress was dragged up from the mechanical cell by her guards.
It had only been less than half a day since she had been locked up, and the Third Mistress had almost aged ten years.
When she saw Mo Qian, a hopeful light appeared in her eyes, “Mo Qian, please beg for your sister-in-law’s mercy, I really didn’t do it, really!”
“Shut up!” Mo Qian gritted his teeth and snapped, “Be thankful that your sister-in-law is safe and sound now, otherwise, you wouldn’t have ten lives to pay for it!”
In the Lehngar family, the Grand Master and the First Lady represented all the iron rules.
No one dared to disobey them.
“This is the family members you have brutalised, over the years.” Su Wen threw down a piece of paper, “You don’t dare to touch the first family, but the lives of the side family are not lives?”
The third madam trembled and looked horrified, “Sister-in-law, I ……”
Su Man has only been awake for how long, and he has already found out this information?
Su Man’s expression was faint: “Do it, don’t see any blood.”
“Yes, First Lady.” The butler stepped forward and took out the prepared laser pistol.
“Boom!”
There was a loud pop and the Third Madam fell down.
Mo Qian’s body was chilled.
Su Wen’s eyes fell on his body, his eyes slightly cold.
And at that moment, the head escort hurried in.
“First Lady, it’s not good!” He said anxiously, “The car that Fifth Miss and the Divine Doctor were in just now exploded in the air!”