Seeing her daughter in such a state, Mrs. Dong felt heartbroken. She stepped forward and cried out with tears streaming down her face, "Daughter, what's wrong with you? Don't scare me! Master, please think of a solution!"
Dong Zhanqing's face turned pale. He had originally thought that the female corpse was just a substitute found by someone else to cover up his daughter's elopement scandal. However, it now seemed that the death of this woman named Chunhong was inextricably linked to his daughter.
"Did you really kill her?" His voice trembled.
Dong Xinhui calmed down a little in her mother's arms. She sobbed and said, "Dad, I didn't think of hurting her... It was all Liu Lang's fault. He did it! I really didn't know he would do this!" At the end, she couldn't help but burst into tears again.
"Miss Dong, please tell me the truth about what happened that night!" The majestic and firm voice of the captain of the Royal Guards rang out in the inner hall of Dong's mansion and echoed in every corner.
Dong Xinhui slowly raised her head, swallowed, and began to recount the night that changed her life with a trembling voice. Her words gradually became clearer, filled with endless pain and self-blame.
It turned out that Chunhong's mother suffered from heart disease, and Dong Xinhui also suffered from this disease since childhood. The Dong family had been going to Baolintang in the south city of Beijing to seek medical treatment, and Chunhong often got medicine for her mother here.
As time went by, Chunhong would occasionally meet Miss Dong and Mrs. Dong who came to the pharmacy to take her pulse, but because of their different statuses, they did not have much interaction.
After early spring this year, the number of times Miss Dong came to Baolintang for medical treatment decreased significantly. According to the clerk in the pharmacy, the Dong family seemed to have found a folk remedy with remarkable efficacy, and Miss Dong's heart disease was greatly improved as a result.
This news filled Chunhong with anticipation. She also longed to obtain this prescription for her mother. However, with her status, she feared she would be driven out by the servants before even setting foot in the Dong Mansion, so she had been suffering from a lack of connections...
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