When Shen Yuyao saw Ling Xiao walk out, she lowered her head and whispered softly in her mother's ear, "Mother, Yuyao is here, no one can hurt you anymore!"
Upon hearing this, Mrs. Shen unexpectedly showed a childlike smile on her face.
She clapped her hands: "Good, good! Yuyao, be good!"
Shen Yuyao instantly had two lines of tears rolling down her face.
She bent down and lay on Mrs. Shen's shoulder, with her hands folded on Mrs. Shen's chest.
"Don't worry, mother. Yuyao will definitely avenge father and the Second Madam! No one who harms my father will escape unscathed!"
Shen Yuyao was behind Madam Shen, chattering on and on.
She knew her mother no longer understood.
But she still wanted to tell her mother everything that had been in her heart for a long time.
Strangely, as Mrs. Shen listened, she stopped clapping.
Instead, he gently patted the back of Shen Yuyao's hand twice.
Shen Yuyao raised her head in surprise, pulled back her arms that were hugging Madam Shen, and quickly turned around and walked up to Madam Shen.
When he looked down, he found that Mrs. Shen had fallen asleep due to sleepiness.
She smiled helplessly and could only cover Madam Shen with a thin silk quilt, then walked out the door and softly called the servant.
"Carry the lady to the bed in the inner room."
"yes!"
After everything was arranged, Shen Yuyao sat on the soft chair and waited.
It was a long time before she heard Ling Xiao come in.
“Miss, where is Madam Shen?” Ling Xiao had been serving Madam Shen for nearly ten years, and Madam Shen was in his eyes and heart. When he entered the room and didn’t see her, he hurriedly asked.
"Mother has fallen asleep." Shen Yuyao said, "Ling Xiao, have you brought all the cakes?"
"Oh! Don't mention it. I was just walking out of the front hall with a box of cakes when I was knocked down by a new servant!"
Ling Xiao said bitterly, "Not only was the cake box smashed, but that boy somehow managed to roll all over the floor, crushing all the cakes that spilled out!"
"I really don't know how Butler Li could have invited such a clueless servant!"
Shen Yuyao was secretly shocked when she heard this, "What about the broken cakes? You didn't throw them all away, did you?"
"It's all broken into pieces, so of course we can't keep it." Ling Xiao replied.
"How did you deal with the servant?" Shen Yuyao asked in a deep voice.
The suspicion in Ling Xiao's eyes grew even stronger. "I reported this to Steward Li, and I heard he's been apprehended and locked in the woodshed!"
"Let Butler Li bring that servant here! I want to question him carefully." Shen Yuyao said coldly.
"Yes, Miss should punish that boy. He is too reckless!" Ling Xiao was extremely angry, but he suppressed it deliberately in front of Shen Yuyao.
She couldn't understand how she could bump into someone while walking normally.
The collision was so severe!
Not only did the camphor wood carved food box fall to the ground and break, but the unlucky servant also stepped on it.
The food box was stepped on and smashed to pieces in an instant.
It would have been bad enough if he just stepped on the food box, but the boy even tripped over himself!
After falling to the ground, he continued to crush the cakes scattered on the ground while wailing, until they were all broken into crumbs, and then he barely got up.
If Ling Xiao hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she would really think that the servant must have a grudge against her!
He ruined my good mood for the whole day.
Ling Xiao almost jogged all the way to the front hall.
Before they found Butler Li, the servants in the palace started shouting and yelling.
"Dead...dead..."
"The blood coming out of his mouth is all black. It looks like he's been poisoned!"
"Oh my god! Someone poisoned the mansion!"
Ling Xiao was already a little anxious at this time. The things that the young lady asked him to do had not been done yet, and something happened in the front hall again.
She stumbled back to the Zen room and shouted to Shen Yuyao in a trembling voice: "Miss... something happened!"
Shen Yuyao had just picked up the teacup and before she could take a sip, she saw Ling Xiao almost falling into the room.
She quickly put down the teacup, stood up and reached out to support Ling Xiao.
"What's the panic?"
"Miss, this is bad. Someone has been poisoned to death! Go to the front hall and take a look."
Ling Xiao thought to himself that Madam Shen was unconscious, fortunately the eldest lady came back in time.
Otherwise, who knows what kind of chaos the Duke's Mansion would be in.
"You go to the Zen room and take care of Madam. I'll go to the front hall to take a look." Shen Yuyao ordered.
Ling Xiao nodded hurriedly.
When Shen Yuyao hurried to the front hall, many maids and servants had already gathered in the courtyard.
They formed several circles.
Everyone stretched their necks to look in the middle.
"The lady is here."
Someone suddenly saw Shen Yuyao and called out to her.
The crowd then made way for Shen Yuyao to enter the circle.
She walked into the pen and found a dark dog lying on the ground.
The dog's head was tilted, motionless, with a pool of black blood at the corner of its mouth.
"How did you get poisoned?"
Anyone could tell without even a close look that the dog had been poisoned.
Shen Yuyao secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing Ling Xiao's panic-stricken look, she really thought someone in the mansion had been poisoned to death.
"To answer Miss, this dog is usually well behaved and very lively and active."
A boy who was in charge of sweeping the front yard stood up and said, "I just swept up those broken cakes and thought it would be a pity to just throw them away, so I mixed the cake crumbs with the dog food and fed it to the dog."
"What's your name?" Shen Yuyao asked.
"My name is Lu Lian, and I've been working at the Duke's Mansion for two years."
Two years?
This timing is also a bit of a coincidence.
"Are you sure you mixed in all the pastry crumbs?"
"Yes, the housekeeper asked me to clean the front hall today. I cleaned it very carefully, sweeping up almost all the cake crumbs and mixing them with the dog food."
"So, where's the rest of the dog food?"
"When I saw the dog drop dead just minutes after eating, I was terrified. But, fearing that other dogs might accidentally eat it, I gathered up the remaining dog food and carefully put it in this box."
A servant named Lu Lian picked up a square wooden box at his feet and handed it to Shen Yuyao.
When the maids and servants around heard this, they all took several steps back in horror.
He was afraid that the poison in the box would evaporate and he would accidentally get contaminated.
In fact, the poison was too strong. Even such a strong black dog could be killed in an instant, let alone a human?
But Lu Lian seemed not worried at all. Instead, he opened the box so that Shen Yuyao could take a closer look.
Shen Yuyao suddenly understood.
The pastries sent from the palace today turned out to be highly poisonous!
If it weren't for the boy locked in the wood room who bumped into her, the person lying on the ground right now might have been his mother!
But why is Mrs. Lu suddenly so anxious?
Just poison it directly!
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