Chapter 151 Sister Lives a Hundred Years, Xie Yao Trains a Dog

In front of Xu Susu, Ming'er told her in detail about how she had been keeping an eye on Fang'er for the past two days.

"The chefs in the kitchen are preparing the dishes right now. She went to the backyard to fetch water, and I came to report to the princess."

After Ming'er finished speaking, she was suddenly shocked: "Oh no, she's not going to take this opportunity to poison the well water and kill the princess and the lady!"

Xie Yao: "...That won't happen."

She tapped the edge of the table lightly with her fingertips, again and again.

Fang'er is Aunt Sun's person, and was transferred to the kitchen by Nanny Zhu. Now her behavior is suspicious.

It seems that Xie Mingan and Aunt Sun are planning to tamper with the food at the return banquet.

Aunt Sun's father, Sun Yaoling, was in the Bo's house, so no matter who was poisoned or ate something wrong, he could provide timely treatment.

The blame fell on the mother who was in charge of the banquet, but Aunt Sun was credited with the merit.

Xie Yao asked Ming'er to wait in the outer room and said loudly, "Guard Bai."

Bai Zhu, who had been guarding the courtyard, was about to enter the house when Xie Yan came to Wanxiang Courtyard.

"Get out of the way, I want to see my sister and mother."

Xie Yao waved to Bai Zhu and let Xie Yan in.

The young man was wearing a bright goose yellow robe with a pattern of egrets flying over the water embroidered on the collar. His black hair was tied up with a jade hairpin. He had a handsome face with a childish look and delicate eyebrows and eyes.

"Meet mother, sister."

Xie Yan and Xu Susu bowed politely.

Xu Susu looked at her son and recalled that after giving birth to Xie Yan, she was in very poor health and her son had been raised by a wet nurse.

When she grew up a little, he followed his daughter around all day.

His daughter ran so fast that he couldn't keep up with her. The more she cried, the less willing she became to pay attention to him.

Later, Xie Yao was sent to the border. She begged the Xie family to revoke their decision, but was imprisoned in Jingzhuxuan for a whole year.

After coming out, Xie Yan was raised by Sun Xinlan, calling the concubine's daughter sister. Although he would call her "mother" when he saw her, the relationship between mother and son had been separated for many years.

Xie Yan turned to Xie Yao, his expression suddenly brightening: "Sister, you're back home today, but you're only busy chatting with mother and ignoring me."

Xu Susu said softly, "Your sister and I were just chatting about some trivial matters at the banquet. The private school starts today. Why are you here at this hour?"

"Sister comes home, of course I have to come."

Xie Yan said this with a cold look in his eyes. He asked seriously, "Prince Jingbei rode a horse and granted Mother an imperial decree before, so he could marry Sister. Why didn't he accompany Sister today? Could it be that he doesn't cherish her after marrying her? Sister, is he good to you?"

"The prince received the Queen Mother's oral order early this morning and went to the palace to receive his reward." Xie Yao narrowed her eyes slightly, "Xie Yan, you are meddling too much."

"I don't want my sister to feel wronged."

Xie Yan showed a bright and innocent smile on his face, and his eyes became more and more passionate.

"Sister, you've been busy these past two days, so you probably haven't noticed..." He said, changing his tone to one of smugness and taking credit. "The night before yesterday when the Xie family ancestral hall caught fire, Xie Chengbai went crazy. Sister, do you still think I'm useless?"

A faint, almost joyful light flashed in Xie Yan's eyes.

Xu Susu's expression changed slightly. From what Xie Yan said, Xie Chengbai was crazy and it was he who did it.

The second branch of the Xie family only discovered that something had happened to Xie Chengbai at three o'clock in the morning. They had been looking for a doctor and making a fuss all day yesterday, saying that Xie Chengbai cried and screamed when he saw anyone he saw, and even took off all his clothes and kowtowed in the snow to beg for mercy.

In the end, the servants were saying that the second branch was disrespectful to their ancestors, and the tablets in the ancestral hall were burned, so the wronged spirits of the ancestors who died unjustly came to find Xie Chengbai.

In just a few days, Mr. Xie lost a lot of weight.

But Xu Susu never thought that this matter would be related to Xie Yan. She hesitated to speak: "Yan'er, you..."

Xie Yao had already known about this from Qi Liang's mouth. At this moment, she just looked at Xie Yan quietly with a calm expression: "The work was done too crudely, and it's still a waste."

It is easy to detect if someone is drugged and driven crazy. Now, perhaps no one knows who did it to the second branch of the Xie family.

When Xie Yan heard his sister calling him a waste, a blush flashed across his face, and there was joy in his eyes.

He said slowly, "When the fire started that day, everyone went to put it out. I thought Xie Chengbai must be lonely lying in bed after being beaten with twenty sticks, so I brought some wine and went to visit him."

"I didn't expect him to be so ungrateful. He was so stubborn, saying that he didn't let my sister fall into the water before, and that he would cause trouble for her after his injury healed. So, I definitely have to drink a few more glasses with him."

The scene of that night involuntarily emerged in Xie Yan's mind.

Xie Chengbai was lying on the bed. When he saw him come in, he raised his neck and roared, "Get out, you motherless thing. And your sister, marrying that lunatic King Jingbei, I want to see how long she can live!"

Xie Yan didn't say anything, just picked up the wine jug.

"Bang!"

The white porcelain wine jug shattered on Xie Chengbai's head.

He fainted without even being able to scream.

The fragments scratched his scalp, and blood mixed with wine flowed down and dripped onto Xie Yan's hand.

Xie Yan walked to the bed and picked up the belt next to him.

The belt is made of cowhide and is very sturdy.

He tied Xie Chengbai's hands behind his back to the bed frame and poured tea on him to wake him up.

"Hiss...Xie Yan, what are you going to do? Just try to touch me! Someone, someone, brother, save me!"

Xie Chengbai opened his eyes wide, his eyes full of blood, and struggled and roared.

But at this moment, everyone in the second courtyard had gone to the ancestral hall to put out the fire, leaving only him and Xie Chengyu, who was also seriously injured and paralyzed in bed.

Xie Chengyu's house was in a separate side courtyard, so he couldn't hear what he said.

Even if he heard it, Xie Yan wouldn't care.

He didn't mind giving his cousin another ride.

He pinched Xie Chengbai's chin and concentrated on pouring another pot of wine mixed with the sleeping pills he had asked his uncle for into this chattering mouth.

This is just an ordinary drug, but Xie Yan read in a book that if you take too much of it, it will destroy a person's mind.

He wanted to try and see how many drugs would be effective.

I don’t know if half a pound is enough, or a whole pound.

Xie Yan drank very slowly, admiring Xie Chengbai's attitude changing from arrogance to fear, then to a desperate plea for mercy, and finally to tears.

It's so ugly.

"Brother Yan, no, Brother Yan, I was wrong. I shouldn't have scolded you, shouldn't have scolded your sister... I shouldn't have... shouldn't have pushed Grandma into the water. I did it, it was all my fault! Please let me go!"

Xie Yan felt bored and suddenly laughed. He leaned close to Xie Chengbai's ear, deliberately lowered his voice, and said in Xie Chengyu's tone: "Brother, I know you have always hoped that I would die, but now the one who died has become you."

Xie Chengbai's face turned from red to pale, saliva hung from the corners of his mouth, and he began to foam at the mouth and talk nonsense.

His head was covered in blood, and his wrists were bleeding from lacerations. Finally...

Completely crazy.

"My sister will live a long life, and as for you, you are just dust and mud under your feet. Who cares?"

Xie Yan finally said this, washed his blood-stained hands with tea, and left leisurely.

"My sister's lesson is that next time, I should be more decisive. Torturing people to the point of madness is truly cruel."

Xie Yan came back to his senses and spoke in a soft tone.

"But it was him who tried to push my sister into the water before. Killing him would be too easy for him."

Xu Susu was originally shivering all over, but when she heard him say that Xie Chengbai still wanted to harm her daughter, the chill she had originally felt because of her son's cruelty was replaced by another emotion.

For so many years, there has always been a layer of politeness between her and Xie Yan.

As Xie Yan grew up, his face became more and more similar to that of Xie Mingan when he was young, which made them feel more and more distant.

But no one expected that he actually remembered that someone wanted to harm Ayao and solved Ayao's trouble.

"You did the right thing in this matter." Xu Susu said.

Xie Yan didn't expect his mother to say that. He was delighted and the smile on his lips became more and more obvious.

"Sister, even mother said I did the right thing. You've been back in Beijing for so long, and you can have your people do so many things, and you can order the guards of the Jingbei Palace. Why am I the only one who is like an outsider, knowing nothing and being unable to do anything?"

Xie Yan's eyes flushed crimson, and paranoia was revealed in his eyes: "Even if I'm a loser, I still want to help my sister. How about I kill Aunt Sun for my sister?"

There was an innocent cruelty in the boy's eyes, and his voice was very calm, like a quiet pool of water.

Xie Yao sat on the chair, understanding everything.

Xie Yan deliberately told her about Xie Chengbai, just like when he was a child, he would chase her and ask, "Sister, why did you beat them and not me?"

She thought at the time that Xie Yan was just a little kid, and beating him up would feel useless and there would be no sense of accomplishment.

But since he begged, I had no choice but to beat him.

The art of war says that if the soldiers are loyal but the punishment is not carried out, they cannot be used.

She deliberately ignored Xie Yan's grievances and instead shouted outside the door: "Guard Bai, Ming'er."

Bai Zhu walked in, his posture straight and he clasped his fists and said, "What are your instructions, Princess?"

"There's a maid named Fang'er in the kitchen of the Bo's Mansion who's suspicious. Have Ming'er take you to identify her. Tie her up in the woodshed and keep her under strict guard. Don't alert anyone else about this."

Xie Yao then looked at Xie Yan: "If you want to know what I'm going to do, then go ask Fang'er yourself."

Xie Yan's expression suddenly became excited, like a solitary little animal that suddenly found a reason to move forward.