"On the first day of the month, our family ate together, but two poisonous dishes appeared on the table. The concubines and my mother all collapsed after eating them."
"I hurriedly sent someone out to fetch a doctor to take a look, but I never expected that the poison in those two dishes was from the small kitchen in Rui'an."
"Finally, the doctor examined Rui'an and said that he was indeed seriously poisoned and that he could not be cured. The doctor said that he would be like this forever."
“But Mother is innocent; she says the head chef poisoned her.”
“The head chef was specially sent by my mother to give us a good life. That day, before the dishes were served in Rui’an’s kitchen, I reminded everyone, but in the end, when something went wrong, the head chef was wrongly blamed.”
"That makes no sense!"
"So I sent the cook back to the general's mansion and hired another cook instead."
"Now that Mother can't stand the food of my new chef, why did you wrong him in the first place?"
Ye Lanyin looked at them with red eyes.
Everyone present was terrified.
I'd heard about all sorts of things happening in wealthy families, but I never imagined it would actually happen in my own home.
"Lanyin, I... misunderstood him."
“The doctor said there was something wrong with the vegetables that day, but you still wouldn’t admit it. Mother didn’t say that.”
"Luckily, Mother loves me dearly, otherwise I would have almost misunderstood and thought you knew that the cook had poisoned the food."
The old lady swayed in fright upon hearing her words.
Madam Ye wiped away her tears and continued to sob: "Our household is not so wealthy to begin with, so I was thinking of hiring a decent cook."
"Unexpectedly, all my hard work went down the drain."
Seeing her appearance, everyone panicked. The elder in charge spoke up: "Young lady of the Ye family, we didn't say the food was bad. Don't blame yourself."
"Yeah yeah."
[Don't cry, Mother.]
My older brother's illness has long been cured.
Don't be sad.
Lin Wanwan was so angry that she almost threw her favorite milk bottle on the ground.
It's all Father's fault, he hasn't shown up yet.
Ye Lanyin took a deep breath, as if she had made a very important decision.
"As the mistress of a noble family, I took the key to the storeroom. I originally thought that Mother wanted me to manage the household, but I guess I was overthinking it and made Mother unhappy."
"Today, all the clan elders are here, so please bear witness as I return the key to my mother."
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