Seeing Han Yiyi's appearance, and now knowing that Han Yiyi is the mother of the two children, Yun Wenshu was consumed by jealousy.
She had assumed that Han Yiyi was just a country girl, and her appearance must be unremarkable. Even if she had some beauty, she had already given birth to two children and would be past her prime. But to her surprise, the person in front of her had skin that was even more delicate and fair than her own. Yun Wenshu's fingernails under her sleeves seemed to be digging into her flesh.
Her lowered eyes flickered, and before anyone could react, she ran straight to Han Yiyi and knelt down, offering another round of apologies.
"Miss Han, it's my fault. I didn't take good care of Zicheng and Zihui. Please don't blame my maternal grandparents. I don't blame you for pushing me just now. I only beg you not to blame my maternal grandparents..." As she spoke, she rubbed her head, which she had bumped, with a pained expression. The meaning couldn't be clearer...
When Han Yiyi entered, the woman blocked her way, and she immediately sensed that she was no pushover. Now, before she could even say anything, the woman had come here to cause trouble for her again. So, she snorted coldly and spoke.
"Who are you? I don't want you to blame me. I haven't even asked you why you deliberately had your two maids stop me from entering the room. You're the one who's trying to make trouble for me. Besides, who do you think you are? Who do you think you are to take care of Zicheng and Zihui? Could it be that you deliberately caused their illnesses...?"
As she spoke, Han Yiyi looked at Nangong Yuan again and continued.
"Could it be that the General's Mansion doesn't want the two children, and instead has entrusted them to someone who clearly has ill intentions..."
Upon hearing Han Yiyi's words, Yun Wenshu's face flashed with panic for a moment, and he hurriedly began to explain.
“Girl, how can you make false accusations? I already said I don’t blame you for pushing me earlier. Besides, the two children are my cousin’s children, and they are the apple of their grandparents’ eyes. How could I deliberately harm them…” she said, and then she started to sob.
Han Yiyi looked at the two children on the bed, their faces already sunken from thinness, and felt extremely distressed. Now, seeing this scheming woman putting on an act in front of her, she was even more disgusted and spoke directly.
"Shut up, stop pretending in front of me. If you want to cry, go cry outside..." she said, turning to Nangong Yuan.
"In such a large general's mansion, only two children have contracted the same disease as those refugees outside the city. Don't you find that suspicious?"
Yun Wenshu hadn't expected Han Yiyi to dare reprimand him in front of Nangong Yuan and Old Madam Nangong, and for a moment, he forgot to react.
Seeing Yun Wenshu being scolded by Han Yiyi, Old Madam Nangong quickly spoke up to explain.
“Miss Han, you must have misunderstood. Wenshu is a cousin of the family. She came to the General’s Mansion after the flood. I saw that she got along well with the two children, so I let her get closer to them. She is usually a kind and gentle person and would never do such a thing. As for the two children being sick, that’s also…”
"Guards, take Miss Biao away..."
Before Old Madam Nangong could finish speaking, Nangong Yuan interrupted her.
No sooner had Nangong Yuan finished speaking than two old women entered from outside the door, and they were about to pull Yun Wenshu away.
Upon seeing this, Yun Wenshu hurriedly tugged at the sleeve of Old Madam Nangong.
“Grandmother, Grandfather, I didn’t, I didn’t, I really didn’t, she’s framing me…”
Yun Wenshu never imagined that Han Yiyi would dare to say something without any evidence, and he never expected that his cousin would have him arrested just because of a single guess made by this woman.
When Madam Nangong saw Yun Wenshu being taken away, she frowned. Just as she was about to speak, Nangong Ling stopped her.
Yun Wenshu was taken away, while the maid beside him knelt on the ground, trembling.
"explain……".
Hearing Nangong Yuan's cold voice, the girl trembled even more violently.
"This servant, this servant, this servant knows nothing..."
"If you tell the truth, I will send you out of the General's Mansion. If you conceal anything, I will send you to the underworld..." At this moment, Nangong Yuan's voice was like ice, cold to the bone, making the girl's teeth chatter.
"I'll say it, I'll say it's that water. Miss asked me to get it from outside the city and add it to the tea of the two young masters..."
“What kind of water? Explain clearly…”
Upon hearing that it was indeed Yun Wenshu who did it, Old Madam Nangong was so shocked that she stood up abruptly.
"That's right, it's after the day you said you were going to find a husband for Miss..."
"What does this have to do with this...?"
"Yes, it's because Miss has always, always, always liked the General. Miss had expressed her feelings to the General before, but the General said that he already had someone in his heart, namely the mother of the two young masters. But in Miss's opinion, the reason why the General did this was all for the sake of the two young masters. If it weren't for the two young masters, the General would, the General would..."
The girl didn't finish her sentence, but everyone understood what she meant...
Upon hearing the maid's words, Old Madam Nangong slumped back into her seat.
"It's me, it's my fault for being senile, it's my fault that they've both been ruined..."
In fact, Yun Wenshu was not Nangong Yuan's proper cousin, but the granddaughter of Nangong Old Madam's distant cousin. After the flood, she said she wanted to come and stay for a few days, but her real purpose was to ask Nangong Old Madam to find her a husband in the capital.
Little did anyone know that Yun Wenshu would fall for Nangong Yuan at first sight. After learning that Nangong Yuan had a child and that the two children were born to the same peasant girl, she began to harbor inappropriate thoughts.
The most common epidemic after a flood is intestinal infectious disease. Due to water pollution and poor sanitation, intestinal infectious diseases are prone to outbreaks after a flood. These diseases are mainly spread through contaminated food and water. This is why the two little ones got sick after drinking the water that the maid brought in from outside the city. This is also why only the two children in the entire General's Mansion got sick, while the others did not.
Hearing Han Yiyi's words, Old Madam Nangong became even angrier, her eyes reddening. She never expected that she would be the one to harm her two children in the end.
Realizing that she had brought trouble upon herself and nearly caused the deaths of her two precious great-grandchildren, Old Madam Nangong stood up abruptly and stormed out of the inner room, seemingly to settle scores with her beloved granddaughter...
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