Chapter 74 Mother Tao took poison

Upon hearing what the system said, the Queen, the Third Princess, and the Seventh and Eighth Princesses all frowned in confusion, all with a look of disbelief on their faces.

Everyone knows the eldest prince's wife's wet nurse. She nursed the eldest prince's wife from childhood to adulthood. She has done her best for the eldest prince's wife over the years. How could it be her?

Besides, ever since the eldest prince learned about this from Tong Tong, he has been conducting a strict investigation in the palace, not letting anyone go, and this Madam Tao is no exception. The empress has been sending people to inquire about it, but has never heard of any abnormal behavior from this wet nurse.

Unlike everyone else who was shocked, the eldest prince and his wife looked at each other with complicated expressions and mixed feelings. It turned out to be Mother Tao.

The Queen and others were puzzled, and the eldest prince and his wife were unwilling to believe it, but everyone knew that what Tong Tong said was absolutely true.

[Sister-in-law's wet nurse?] Ji Jinyou didn't understand. According to her understanding, wet nurses are usually the closest people to one's family, so it stands to reason that they wouldn't betray one so easily.

System answer: [This mother Tao originally treated the eldest prince's wife as her own child, and the eldest prince's wife also trusted her. When the eldest prince's wife got married, mother Tao and her family all became companions and followed her to the eldest prince's mansion. ]

The wet nurse and her family are all the eldest sister-in-law's companions, which means that the fate of their family is in the hands of the eldest sister-in-law.

Now, Ji Jinyou was even more confused: [Why did she want to harm her sister-in-law? ]

Or, how could she dare?

The eldest prince's wife frowned and was equally confused.

System answer: [Because someone is trying to take the lives of her only son and only grandson.]

The eldest prince's wife's face changed, and she immediately understood the key. The hand holding the handkerchief clenched unconsciously.

She said that the wet nurse would not harm her for no reason, but now it seems that she and her husband might have implicated the wet nurse's family.

The eldest prince saw that his wife looked unhappy and probably guessed what she was thinking. He gently held her hand and comforted her silently.

Ji Jinyou asked: [What exactly happened? ]

System: [The storyline from the day before yesterday said that Mother Tao's husband died of illness a few years ago, leaving her with only one son, Tao Dalin. Tao Dalin is smart and capable, and very loyal. He is highly valued by the eldest prince's wife, and has been the chief steward of the eldest prince's wife's dowry farm for many years.]

[Tao Dalin got married the year before last, and his new wife gave birth to a baby boy last year. A few days ago, the baby just turned one year old.]

[The eldest prince's wife also knew about this matter, and she specially gave Grandma Tao fifty taels of silver and gave her three days off, allowing her to go to the manor to accompany her children and grandchildren and enjoy family happiness.]

[Mother Tao was very grateful, and went to the manor, invited other managers and servants from the manor, and held a small birthday party for her grandson.]

[Who would have thought that after the banquet, the child would vomit continuously. Several doctors nearby were invited, but they all said that the child had eaten something bad and prescribed medicine, but the condition did not improve. However, within just one day, the child was already vomiting and dying.]

[Just as Mother Tao was preparing to take her child back to the capital to ask the eldest prince's wife to find a doctor for treatment, a boy of a few years old from the farm quietly slipped in when no one was around and handed her an envelope, saying that someone at the entrance of the village had given him some silver and asked him to deliver it. He didn't know the person, and he didn't know anything else.]

【Mother Tao opened the letter and found a letter and a pill inside. The letter said that her grandson was poisoned, and the pill could relieve the poison. She was told to find an opportunity to kill the eldest prince's wife's child. After the success, he would give her an antidote that could completely remove the poison. Otherwise, she would wait for her grandson to die from the poison. He also mentioned that no one could cure the poison, so she shouldn't waste her efforts. Finally, he threatened that if she didn't do what the letter said, her son would be the next to suffer.】

The eldest prince and his wife looked at each other, and their hearts sank.

Some time ago, Mother Tao had asked for leave to go to the manor for her grandson's full-month birthday, and the eldest prince's wife also gave her fifty taels of silver. All of these predictions came true.

When Mother Tao came back, she paid her respects to the Crown Prince's wife. Her face did not look good, as if something was on her mind and she looked a little dazed.

When the eldest prince's wife asked her about it, Mother Tao just said that she took care of her grandson for a few nights in order to be close to him. The child loved to make noises at night, and she had not had a good rest for several days.

For more than twenty years, Mother Tao has always been loyal, reliable, and never said anything false. Therefore, the Crown Prince's wife only asked her to go back and have a good rest, and did not think much about it.

But when she told the eldest prince about it, he was still wary and asked the guards to secretly investigate Mother Tao again.

Later, they found out something unusual. On the day that Mother Tao came back from the farm outside the city, she did not go back home directly. Instead, she walked around the city and went to a remote clinic, where she bought an abortion drug and a poison that could kill people.

The eldest prince sent people to the manor to check, but the people came back to report that Tao Dalin and his family of three were all normal and there was nothing unusual.

The eldest prince wanted to bring Mother Tao in for questioning, but Mother Tao was a loyal servant who had served the eldest prince's wife for twenty years. The eldest prince's wife had deep feelings for her and was afraid of wrongly accusing her, so she asked the eldest prince to wait a little longer. The eldest prince secretly ordered people to keep a close eye on Mother Tao.

Previously, the couple were not sure, but now thinking back carefully, they believed that Mother Tao's grandson must have been killed on the day he turned one year old, and the abortion drug she bought was prepared for the eldest prince's wife.

I just don't know if it was because the eldest prince's wife was protected too closely and it was impossible to do anything, or if Mother Tao felt guilty and changed her mind on her own initiative. In any case, she has not taken any action until today.

Ji Jinyou was very angry when he heard this.

Indigo

The little hand could not help but clench tightly, and half of the pea yellow was broken into pieces: [This is terrible. ] The villain is so vicious that he actually used a child to threaten others.

System: [Who said it wasn't? ]

Seventeen sat on the couch next to Xiaojiu, and was terrified when he heard this terrifying secret. Seeing that Xiaojiu's hands were dirty, he wanted to help her wipe them, but seeing that no one had moved, he dared not move either.

The young master was unaware of this and cried out in surprise, "Aunt Xiaojiu, your hands are dirty. Let Yu'er wipe them for you."

As he spoke, he took out a handkerchief from his arms, held Xiaojiu's chubby little hand, helped her wipe the pea-yellow stains off her hands, and wiped her hands.

Ji Jinyou looked up at everyone, and seeing that no one was looking at her, she perfunctorily explained in a low voice, "Auntie was too strong, thank you Yuer."

Then he asked: [Tongzhe, what happened next? ]

System: [After reading the letter, Mother Tao was still a little bit happy at first and was unwilling to believe it. She was ready to take the child and the letter back to the capital immediately to find the eldest prince's wife and tell her everything.]

[However, her grandson was breathing out more than breathing in, and he might die before he could even return to Beijing. Helplessly, Tao's mother had to secretly feed the pill to the child. After a quarter of an hour, the child really stopped vomiting. After another hour, he actually cried out that he was hungry and could eat.]

[Tao Dalin and his wife saw that their son's condition had improved, and they thought that the medicine prescribed by the doctor behind him was finally effective, so they did not suspect anything.]

[Mother Tao had been with the eldest prince's wife for many years and had come into contact with many of the secret affairs of the royal family and the noble families. In this way, she was very sure that her grandson was poisoned. ]

[She pondered for a while and realized that the eldest prince only had one wife, the eldest prince's wife, and no other women. It couldn't be a struggle within the inner house, so she guessed that her family must have been involved in the struggle for succession.]

【Seeing that the poison had eased and her grandson's life was temporarily safe, Mother Tao decided to bring her son, daughter-in-law and grandson back to the capital the next morning to confess to the eldest prince's wife. She knew that the eldest prince and his wife were kind-hearted and valued her very much. After they knew about it, they would definitely ask the imperial physician to treat her grandson. There were so many powerful imperial physicians in the imperial hospital, and maybe they could cure her grandson's poison.】

[Who would have thought that when Tao Dalin went to the farm to arrange farm affairs in the evening, he was chased by a ferocious mad dog that jumped out from nowhere. Thanks to several farm owners who heard the noise and rushed over with sticks, they beat the mad dog to death, and Tao Dalin was saved from being bitten. A piece of rag was hung on the rope around the mad dog's neck. It was exactly a corner of the clothes that Tao Dalin had lost a few days ago. It had a pattern embroidered by his wife. Tao Dalin was still in shock. He went home and mentioned the incident in a swearing manner, thinking that the mad dog had taken his clothes away.]

[But when Mother Tao heard this, she immediately knew that this was no coincidence, but a warning from that person. She sat with her grandson in her arms all night, but in the end she didn't dare to risk her son's and grandson's life, and made a difficult decision.]

Ji Jinyou: [Didn’t Mother Tao tell her son and daughter-in-law about this? ]

System: [She didn't say anything. She was afraid that the truth would be revealed and her son and daughter-in-law would be implicated, so she planned to take it on herself. That person knew that she could read, and could poison her grandson without her knowing, and also mentioned stealing her son's clothes. All these made her shudder. She didn't know where that person was watching her, and she didn't dare to take her son and his family out. She thought that the weather was hot and the road was bumpy, and it was not good to let the child who had just been sick run so far. She went back to the capital to ask for a doctor, and then returned to the capital alone. ]

Ji Jinyou: [How did she harm my sister-in-law? ]

System: [In the original plot, Mother Tao went to the clinic and bought a dose of the mildest abortion medicine, and put it in the nourishing medicated diet that the eldest prince's wife usually ate, and the eldest prince's wife's child was gone just like that.]

[The eldest prince and his wife had their first child after many years of marriage, and the sudden miscarriage was a huge blow to them. The eldest prince's wife was so heartbroken that she fainted from crying. The eldest prince was furious and ordered the entire palace to be closed, no one was allowed to enter or leave, and a strict investigation was carried out one by one.]

[Looking at the girl she had raised from childhood in such pain, Mother Tao felt extremely remorseful and guilty. Without waiting to find out what happened to her, she left a letter to explain the situation and her guilt, then took the poison they had bought earlier and understood herself.]

Ji Jinyou: [So she won't care about her grandson anymore? ]

System: [At that time, the Grand Prince's Mansion was heavily guarded. She couldn't get out, and the news from outside couldn't get in. She also figured out one thing: the person behind the scenes saw that she succeeded and achieved her goal, so why would he expose himself again? She estimated that her grandson was doomed.]

[It turned out just as she expected. Just a few days after her death, her grandson died of poison, and the person who promised to send the antidote never showed up again.]

[Ah.] Ji Jinyou sighed deeply in her heart: [This is really...] She didn't know what to say.

Ji Jinyou asked again: [Do you know who is behind this? ]

Everyone had the same doubts and nodded slightly unconsciously. Yes, who is the vicious person behind the scenes?

The system looked through it carefully: [I don't know yet. It is known that there is no mention of this in the plot. ]

Ji Jinyou: [Ah.] Once the wet nurse dies, the clues are gone. I’m afraid it will be difficult to investigate.

Ji Jinyou: [Now that my sister-in-law is fine, I wonder if Mother Tao's grandson is okay? ]

System: [I don’t know.]

Ji Jinyou asked a few more questions, but when she saw that the system could not answer any more questions, she stopped asking. When she came to her senses, she found that the young master was still wiping her hands.

The pampered little boy obviously had never taken care of others in his daily life. His movements were extremely clumsy. Her hands became dirtier and dirtier as she wiped them, and several of her fingers were covered with pea-yellow residue.

She sighed softly and reached out to take the handkerchief: "Good boy, auntie will wipe it herself."

Originally, everyone held their breath, and the atmosphere in the hall was depressing. However, these words from Nai Huhu made everyone burst out laughing.

The young master thought that everyone was laughing at him for being stupid, and he felt angry and embarrassed. He stomped his feet, turned his back, and sulked with his arms folded.

Upon seeing this, the third princess hurried forward and took her own son aside to coax him, while the eighth princess took Xiaojiu to wash her hands.

The eldest prince and his wife were full of things on their mind and could no longer sit still. They looked at each other, found an excuse to get up and say goodbye, and left the palace.

Ji Jinyou looked at the two people's hurried backs, feeling very puzzled. Didn't the elder brother and sister-in-law come to talk to them? Why did they leave without saying anything?

But she didn't understand adult matters, and after washing her hands, she was carried back to the couch by the Eighth Princess to sit and eat snacks.

The eldest prince deliberately went to the Imperial Hospital and invited two imperial physicians who were good at detoxification to accompany him. After leaving the palace, he went straight back home.

As soon as they entered the palace, the eldest prince's wife ordered the maid beside her: "Go and call Mother Tao over quickly, and tell her that there is something important."

"Yes." The maid replied, turned around and hurried away.

Before he could take a few steps out, he saw the guards who stayed in the mansion approaching him with a cold face. When they came close, they bowed, stood up, and reported in a low voice: "Master, Mother Tao has taken poison."