The Herbal Scents of Farm Life
Chapter 1416: It’s Not Me

Chapter 1416: Chapter 1416: It’s Not Me

Ling’er: "!!"

Upon hearing Madam Chen’s inquiry, she fell silent.

"It seems, it’s true after all."

Seeing her silence, Madam Chen already knew the answer, and she smiled with her head lowered.

"Madam, please listen to Ling’er’s explanation."

Ling’er, seeing her mistress’s despondent expression, urgently spoke out.

"When you saved me, I was truly close to death, I did not deceive you, I was abandoned by my clan, left alone to be sent to the Human Clan, if it were not for you, Madam, I would have died long ago.

That’s why I am grateful to you, Madam, I am willing to stay by your side, to serve you for a lifetime."

"But I am already dead, am I not?" Madam Chen asked her again.

At those words, Ling’er fell silent again.

She couldn’t refute Madam Chen’s words because everything had been exposed.

"Ling’er, I think we should just sit down, and you can tell us carefully about all of this, what exactly is going on," Lin Caisang, seeing the gloomy expressions of both the mistress and servant, suggested.

Grinding her teeth, Ling’er raised her eyes to her upon hearing her words.

"Heh."

She let out a bitter laugh.

"It’s all my fault, why did I have to bring up Wuzhu Forest to Madam?"

Her original intention really wasn’t to have the people from Wuzhu Teahouse harm her Madam, she just wanted those people from the Chen Family to receive the retribution they deserved.

But she had never anticipated that the first person she would end up betraying to Lin Caisang and Sui Zimo would be her own Madam.

"Ling’er, just tell the truth, I also want to know, what exactly is going on," Madam Chen lightly stepped up and said when she saw her like this.

"Madam..."

Ling’er, looking at Madam Chen, took a deep breath before she could only nod her head.

Now that it had come to this, everyone had guessed it, and it seemed pointless to keep hiding it, didn’t it?

"Alright, Madam, if you wish to listen, then I will tell."

...

Shortly after, the four of them stood around the table, with the room door already closed to prevent anyone from outside coming in.

Of course, in the courtyard where Lin Caisang and the others were, aside from Madam Chen, truly no one dared to come to eavesdrop, even Grand Old Master Chen wouldn’t dare.

"Actually, all of this started two months after Madam saved me. I discovered that Grand Old Master Chen from the Chen Residence was, just like me, a person from the Ghost Clan."

"What?!"

Upon hearing this, Madam Chen immediately cried out in shock.

Grand Old Master Chen was a person from the Ghost Clan? How could he be from the Ghost Clan?

"It’s not unheard of for members of the Ghost Clan to remain among the Human Clan, but like Old Master Chen, having married and fathered children, it truly has not happened before, especially... I did not sense any power of the Ghost Clan in Old Master Chen’s body," Ling’er said, glancing at Madam Chen before continuing.

"Miss Lin, Young Master Ya, you may have already investigated. The old Grand Old Master of the Chen Residence has long passed away, whom I have never seen, but I dug up the grave of the old Grand Old Master, and from his skeletal remains, I saw no trace of Ghost Clan power whatsoever."

"Hiss!"

Madam Chen gasped in shock.

This girl, young as she is, actually dared to dig graves.

"Ling’er, the corpse of the Old Master...was it you...?"

She couldn’t help but wonder if it was Ling’er who had cremated Old Master Chen’s body and then tidily collected the ashes and put them back into the coffin?

But Ling’er shook her head.

"Not me."

How could she possibly have burned a dead body just like that?