Chapter 566 The Traitor

Hu Xin'er's mind was now preoccupied with Mother Lu's illness, and she hurriedly asked, "Yin Li, I have a favor to ask of you. My mother's condition worsened last night. Does your Wanjuan Pavilion have any suitable prescriptions?"

Yin Li dispelled her fantasy: "She hasn't been sick for just one or two days. If she had been sick, I would have told you long ago."

The light in Hu Xin'er's eyes gradually dimmed.

Yin Li jumped down, his expression unusually serious: "I came here today to tell you that there might be a traitor in your family."

"A traitor?" Hu Xin'er didn't quite understand what he meant.

Yin Li said solemnly, "This traitor is most likely someone from the Crown Prince or Liu Se's side. Madam Lu's condition has worsened, and it's very likely he's the one who did it!"

Hu Xin'er was shocked: "What should we do? Do you know who that person is? Or what his characteristics are?"

Yin Li shook her head: "I overheard it accidentally, and we need to continue investigating... Take care of yourself at the Lu family!"

Hu Xiner bit her lip and nodded vigorously.

Yin Li said that she had some urgent matters to attend to and left in a hurry.

Hu Xiner stood there, lost in thought. Yin Li had saved the Lu family from danger many times, and had also saved her own life. Hu Xiner absolutely believed in his words.

But who is that traitor?

"Madam, what's wrong with you?" At this time, the maid came in and saw her standing alone, so she went forward and held her arm.

Hu Xin'er shook her head: "Nothing, just thinking about something."

"Are you thinking about the old lady?" the maid sighed. "The old lady is usually kind and will definitely be able to get through this difficult time."

"Yes..." Hu Xin'er answered absentmindedly, looking at the maid beside her calmly.

This maid is called Xiao Liu. She was bought by the Lu family after they moved to Qingzhou because they were short of staff.

In the Lu Mansion, apart from the Lu family, the main people were the bought servants and the Du family's guards headed by Hu Lao San.

On weekdays, everyone gets along happily with each other, so who could be the problem?

In Lu's mother's room, the incense she liked to use was burning. Amid the curling incense, she lay quietly on the bed with her brows tightly furrowed.

Mu Qing and Lu Yunjue were both sitting beside her bed, and the room was eerily quiet.

Hu Xiner pushed open the door: "How is mother?"

Lu Yunjue had been guarding here the entire night. His eyes were now dark. Although it had only been a single night, he looked extremely haggard, perhaps due to his extreme worry. "Mother still hasn't woken up. She cried out several times last night, vaguely sounding like she was calling out Father's name."

Hu Xin'er walked to the bedside and called softly, "Mother? Mother?"

The fact that Mother Lu cried and screamed in her sleep meant that her consciousness still existed, but she was unable to break free from the dream.

But……

Seeing that Mother Lu didn't respond to her calls, she couldn't help but sigh, "It seems that Doctor He is right. Mother's condition has indeed worsened. Although she often fell into comas before, she never felt pain in her sleep."

Otherwise, how could the Lu family dare to bring her out?

Hu Xiner couldn't help but feel a little regretful. If she were in the capital, Lu's mother might be able to get better treatment. But now the time is far away, and even if she rushed back to the capital immediately, it might be too late.

She looked at Mu Qing and saw that he had dark circles under his eyes, probably because he hadn't slept all night.

Lu Yunjue pulled out a chair and said, "Sister-in-law, please sit down. Have you had breakfast?"

"I did eat it, how about you guys?" Hu Xiner asked. Seeing Lu Yunjue's expression, she knew that he definitely didn't eat it.

He hadn't even eaten yet he still remembered to ask about his sister-in-law. It was obvious that Lu Yunjue really treated her as a family member.

Seeing him so considerate, she couldn't help but feel even more distressed about their brothers' situation: "You and your brother have the same temper. Even if you are filial, you can't ignore your own health!"

"Sister-in-law is right." Lu Yunjue pursed his lips. "Brother came here very early. After I told him about mother's situation, he just stared at her quietly like yesterday, refusing to speak."

A trace of worry flashed across Hu Xiner's brows. Although Mu Qing usually didn't like to show it, as her husband's partner, she naturally knew how deep his feelings for his family were.

The words Yin Li had just said were still lingering in her mind. She wondered how Mu Qing would react after hearing the news.

She thought for a moment and said, "You guys go have breakfast first. I have something to tell you later."

After breakfast, she dismissed the servants and repeated what Yin Li had said to the two brothers.

"It's the Crown Prince and Liu Se again!" Mu Qing, who had a blank expression on his face, slammed the table hard after hearing that there was a traitor.

It was rare for him to get so angry. Hu Xin'er was caught off guard, but she also understood his feelings: "Let's not make this public for now, so as not to alert the enemy."

"Sister-in-law is right." Lu Yunjue's eyes were filled with resentment. "If I can catch that man, I will kill him myself!"

Hu Xin'er felt resentful, too. She lowered her voice and said, "Mother is usually kind to the servants, and we've already investigated their circumstances when we recruited them. If they weren't of clean family background and had no martial arts skills, we wouldn't have accepted them. I can't understand who could be so heartless!"

"Could they be disciples of the Du family?" The first thing Mu Qing thought of was those guards with great martial arts skills.

Hu Xin'er disagreed. "They usually stay in the outer courtyard. If they wanted to poison Mother to aggravate her condition, it wouldn't be convenient to do so."

"But they have martial arts skills," Mu Qing retorted. "What if they come in the dark and windy night to harm Mother?"

"But the Du family shouldn't have any reason to harm us." Hu Xin'er had a favorable impression of the Du family because of the previous Miraculous Medicine Conference. "If they were colluding with the Crown Prince, why would they send us so many medicines? They could have just sent people to hunt us down."

She added, "Besides, since they are already so skilled in martial arts that they can even reach the inner courtyard, why don't they poison our entire family?"

You know, the prince hated Lu Yunjue the most! Even if he wanted to poison him, he should have killed Lu Yunjue first.

Mu Qing felt that what she said made sense, but he was unwilling to let go of his suspicion of the Du family.

"Yun Jue, what do you think?" he asked.

Lu Yunjue pursed his lips and said, "Actually, I go to my mother's room and sit for a while every night. I also often pay attention to what's going on there on weekdays."

The implication is that it is unlikely that someone from the Du family sneaked in, because that would be too obvious.

Hu Xiner suggested, "We can't completely trust them. We can remain suspicious for now, but we can focus the investigation elsewhere."