Chapter 29: Visiting Manager Wang at night and discovering the affair

Riding a green horse, she arrived at the Earl's house. When the doorman saw the second young lady, he quickly opened the main door for her.

You can’t afford to offend me. You really can’t afford to offend me.

Xie Yao sent the blue horse to the stables of the Bo's Mansion. She happened to see Ming'er, the maid who had previously prepared medicine for Aunt Sun, so she asked her to help take care of the horse.

The reward she gave Ming'er that day was a lot for Ming'er. The maid asked her if she had any other requests. She asked her to add coptis chinensis to Aunt Sun's medicine.

Xie Yao didn't care whether Ming'er got off the bed or not.

She was just doing it casually, and sometimes, some casual actions, accumulated over time, can come in handy in the end.

Ming'er responded respectfully, "I will take good care of this horse."

Then, Xie Yao delivered the snacks from Yunhe Tower to her mother.

Xu Susu was about to refuse when Xie Yao took out the lung-calming ointment that Xu Zhixing had given her.

"This is the Qiong Yu Ping Fei ointment for treating tuberculosis. Keep it and give it to your mother every day." Xie Yao handed it directly to Sang Ruo.

Sang Ruo had been taking care of Xu Susu for many years, so she naturally knew that her wife's illness was tuberculosis. She had also heard of the name of this medicine, so she immediately accepted the bottle of medicine and said gratefully, "Thank you, Second Miss!"

Xie Yao then revealed a somewhat pitiful expression, blinking her watery eyes: "It's not fair that mother accepted my uncle's things but didn't accept my snacks."

Xu Susu's mouth twitched. She didn't expect that her daughter would become more and more naughty as she grew up.

She could only accept the snack: "The medicine belongs to the Xu family. Did you go to the Xu family?"

Xie Yao did not hide it: "Mother, my uncle said that the Xu family will always be our home."

Xu Susu's eyes dimmed. "A daughter who is married off is like spilled water. In order to marry Uncle, I acted on my own will and disobeyed my father. I almost made him faint from anger. I have no face to be a daughter of the Xu family anymore."

Xie Yao asked in return: "If I marry into the Jingbei Palace, will mother treat me like spilled water?"

Xu Susu was speechless.

She couldn't argue with the child and didn't want to say anything more.

Xie Yao: "Since you still regard me as your daughter, how come you don't know that the Xu family still recognizes you as their daughter?"

Before Xu Susu could refute, she had already grabbed her mother's left wrist: "Rosewood, come and see."

Honeysuckle had been waiting for a long time. Upon hearing this, she immediately rushed over and started taking the patient's pulse.

Xu Susu wanted to struggle, but seeing Xie Yao's serious and stubborn expression, she finally endured it.

"I've been examined by doctors from all the major medical clinics in the capital. What's the point of having your maid see me again? Could it be that she's better at treating illnesses than the doctors who've been practicing for decades?"

As she spoke, she began to cough stiflely.

Not wanting to show her vulnerable side in front of her daughter, Xu Susu turned her head away.

Sang Ruo also sighed, "I know the Second Young Lady loves her mother deeply, but over the years, the Madam and I have consulted many quack doctors, and they all say that the Madam suffered from an illness during childbirth, and her excessive worry has exacerbated her tuberculosis."

Xie Yao didn't believe it.

In her previous life, less than half a year after she got married, Xie Yan said that her mother was completely paralyzed and dying.

If someone said her mother had tuberculosis, she would believe it, but tuberculosis had been an old disease for more than ten years. Why did it suddenly get worse this year?

After a while, Honeysuckle finished taking the pulse and shook her head.

"I am incompetent and can only confirm that Madam is indeed suffering from tuberculosis. However, if you continue to take this lung-calming ointment from now on, perhaps it will be relieved," she said.

Xie Yao's face darkened.

On the contrary, Xu Susu had already anticipated this result, but there was a hint of bitterness in her smile.

Honeysuckle was also a little silent.

Mrs. Bo's pulse and symptoms indicated tuberculosis, but she always felt something was wrong and couldn't put her finger on it, so she couldn't tell the second young lady.

After leaving her mother's room, Xie Yao felt worried for the first time.

Could it be that my mother is really terminally ill?

Is it possible that no matter what she does, she cannot change her mother's fate?

Xie Yao couldn't help but feel a bit angry.

This resentment and hatred had been accumulating in her heart for a long time, and was only temporarily suppressed by her mother's affairs, but she never forgot it for a moment.

Is the mother overly worried? What she is worried about must be related to Xie Mingan.

Xie Yao returned to the house, found her nightgown from her bag, and dressed up carefully.

Late at night, Xie Yao, wearing a nightgown and a mask, came to Xie Mingan's study.

Unexpectedly, at the third hour of the night, there were still two teams of guards patrolling outside the study, and two servants were guarding the door, dozing off while standing.

She narrowed her eyes, turned around, and headed straight for the servants' quarters in the Bo Mansion.

Manager Wang has been with Xie Ming'an for half his life and has a separate residence in the Bo Mansion.

Xie Yao had previously broken one of his legs with a knife handle, and Xie Mingan fined him half a year's salary. He is still recovering from his injuries.

Before she got close, she heard some movement in the house——

"It's a good thing you came to accompany me. Do you know how scared I was before? Look at my legs and arms, they hurt so much."

"The Second Young Miss is such a vicious woman! You were just following Master Bo's orders, yet she actually harmed you like this... But wait, sooner or later, Auntie will teach her a lesson!"

"We servants are born to be dogs for our masters. If you follow me, you will be wronged."

"I don't feel wronged, I just want you to be kind and considerate..."

Judging from the voice, the man was Manager Wang, and the woman's voice also sounded familiar.

Xie Yao listened for a while, but couldn't bear it any longer, so she picked up a stone, exerted her strength, and flicked it with her finger, sending it directly into the house!

The sound stopped abruptly.

“Who, who is it?”

Steward Wang's voice was tense but low.

It is not a glorious thing for the steward of the Earl's Mansion to have an affair with a servant, especially now that his leg has been broken by the second young lady and he has lost the support of the Earl, so everyone in the mansion wants to step on him.

A moment later, a woman with messy hair and disheveled clothes ran out of his door and left in a hurry.

In the moonlight, Xie Yao saw her face clearly - it was Nanny Liu!

In her previous life, Xie Yao had seen Madam Liu smilingly handing a handkerchief to Steward Wang and wiping his sweat.

He looked so familiar, not like an ordinary servant in the mansion.

So, when she saw Aunt Liu for the first time in Madam Xie's greenhouse after her rebirth, she took a closer look.

She spared Manager Wang's life because in her previous life, when he killed her, he said: The master wants you to die, he was just following orders.

Apart from Xie Mingan, whose orders was he following?

Since Madam Liu was Steward Wang's mistress, was his own death also related to Aunt Sun?

After waiting for a while, Manager Wang didn't even have the courage to go out and check.

This is not right. No matter how much Wang Guanshi feared that his affair with Madam Liu would be exposed, he would not be afraid to go out after Madam Liu left.

She pushed the door open and walked in.

Steward Wang has already put on his clothes.

After seeing Xie Yao, who was masked and dressed in black and whose gender was difficult to tell, he slammed his knee to the ground with a "thump".

"Please spare my life, sir, please spare my life. I have confessed everything I know! Are you coming back to silence me?"

Before Xie Yao could speak, Manager Wang asked with tears in his eyes.

Go, and then, come back?

Xie Yao smiled.

Just now she heard Manager Wang say: It’s a good thing you came to accompany me. I was almost scared to death before, so I felt strange.

His leg has been broken for several days. What's there to be afraid of if Nanny Liu doesn't come to accompany him?

It turned out that someone had already contacted Manager Wang before she came.