Xiao Lingyu prepared breakfast and served it on a plate using a set of white ceramic tableware from the cupboard that could not identify the dynasty.
After eating half a bowl of millet porridge, it was already bright outside, so I turned around and went into the room.
"Have you thought about it?"
"Princess, I can't imagine what evil deeds I've done for the Cui family. I'm a renowned doctor, not a poison doctor. How could I possibly kill someone? If I did do anything, it was that I struck you... knocked you unconscious yesterday."
Xiao Lingyu reached out and pinched the back of his neck. "You hit me pretty hard! This doesn't look like something you'd do if you've never hurt anyone before!"
"Princess!" Wu Youshu begged for mercy. "I have done nothing wrong. Please show some mercy and let me live."
Xiao Lingyu looked down at him, his words like the morning dew in late autumn, chilling. "I guess you're old now, and you don't remember some things. I can remind you that back then, you treated my mother for only a few days before you hurriedly retired and returned home to become the court physician at the Cui Mansion."
Wu Youshu's heart trembled. "My Wu family's ancestral home is in Wu County, Huayang County. I was invited by Master Cui to be the court physician."
"But you suddenly retired back then. That's not like you. You always see things through to the end. No matter how urgent the patient's matter, you won't delay them until you're at your wit's end. Is that right?"
"Yes." Wu Youshu's palms were covered in cold sweat.
"But back then, my mother's condition wasn't so bad that there was no cure. You passed away suddenly. I was young then, and my thoughts were completely on my mother. I didn't notice your abnormal behavior. After you left, my mother's condition only got worse. However, I only found out yesterday that you came to the Cui Mansion to serve as the court physician. This makes me doubt your true intention of retiring back then!"
"My Lady, that was the year I retired to my hometown to enjoy my remaining years. Your mother's illness was incurable, and I was helpless. I was anxious to leave because of the urgent letters from home, and my old father couldn't wait any longer."
Xiao Lingyu frowned slightly, thinking he was lying. "The poison in your body will take effect in three hours. If you tell the truth, I will give you the antidote. Otherwise, you will die here."
After Xiao Lingyu finished speaking, he turned around and was about to leave.
"Princess! Don't go!" Wu Youshu called out to Xiao Lingyu anxiously.
The Princess Protector of the Country never jokes when she speaks. He will really die in this mountain valley.
Xiao Lingyu turned around and looked at him, "What? Are you willing to tell the truth?"
Wu Youshu said, "As long as the princess can spare my life, I will tell you the truth."
Xiao Lingyu frowned and said coldly, "What qualifications do you have to negotiate with me? You attacked me yesterday, which was already disrespectful to me. And now the Emperor hasn't ordered me to revoke my title of Protector of the Nation. I'm not an ordinary princess. I can kill you at will."
"Princess, I'll tell you, I'll tell you."
"Hurry up and tell me! Don't delay my family and I from having breakfast!"
Wu Youshu said: "This was all arranged by Concubine Cui!"
It’s her!
Xiao Lingyu became a little suspicious after seeing Wu Youshu at Cui's residence yesterday."
"Although your mother's illness was acute, it wasn't incurable. Imperial Concubine Cui didn't want you to marry the eldest prince smoothly, and she didn't want the eldest prince to gain the support of the Xiao family. Although the Xiao family has always supported the emperor and stayed out of the fight for the throne, if you married the eldest prince, it would be difficult for the Xiao family not to take sides. That's why Imperial Concubine Cui didn't want your mother to get better..."
"That's why I let you do something that would worsen my mother's condition!" Xiao Lingyu was so angry that she kicked him on the shoulder blade.
Wu Youshu was in so much pain that tears came out...
"Indeed, Concubine Cui threatened the lives of my entire family, and I had no choice but to obey! I was also forced into a corner! I beg Princess to spare my life..."
Xiao Lingyu ignored Wu Youshu's plea for mercy and walked into the yard with his hands covering his chest.
He stared blankly at the still slightly steaming breakfast in front of him, his mind constantly recalling the scene of the original owner and Xiao's mother together, and he was unaware that tears were falling.
Why does my heart hurt so much?
She is not the original owner, why is she so sad? !
If the clues had been discovered earlier, my mother would not have died.
Why did you find out so late?!
"Xiao Yu."
"Mother."
The father and his two sons watched Xiao Lingyu crying silently from afar, feeling heartbroken.
Called a few times.
Xiao Lingyu seemed not to hear and was still immersed in his own emotions.
"Xiao Yu, I'm here, don't be afraid." Su Xingyi quickly took her into his arms and comforted her softly.
"Xingyi, my mother was killed by them!"
Su Xingyi's warm embrace dispelled the chillness from Xiao Lingyu's body.
Perhaps it was because Su Xingyi's embrace was warm and gave her a sense of security, Xiao Lingyu's tense nerves relaxed, and her originally silent crying was no longer suppressed and released.
"My mother was killed by them. You have to avenge me... Woo..."
"Okay, I'll help you get revenge."
This was the first time Su Xingyi saw Xiao Lingyu so vulnerable. He didn't know how to coax her and felt extremely panicked.
"Don't cry, your eyes are swollen and it won't look good. The children are still here..."
"Daddy, I'm here. My elder brother has gone to avenge Mom. I'll help you coax..." Mom.
Before he could finish his words, painful howls rang out in the room one after another.
Suningan cruelly crushed the index fingers of Cui's family members!
The Cui family members who were still asleep were woken up by the pain.
If anyone dares to make his mother cry and fails to comfort her, he will not let the Cui family have an easy time!
Cui Zhehan never expected that the Su family would find them so quickly.
Su Ning'an came to Cui Zhehan, grabbed his collar, lifted him up from the bed, and threw him heavily to the ground.
"You old bastard, if you weren't still useful to me, I would have killed you with one punch. How dare you kidnap my mother and poison my third brother? Today, I'll cut off both of your index fingers!"
"Wait! It's true that I kidnapped mother and your third brother, but when did I ever poison your third brother?"
Su Ning'an looked at his old face and gritted his teeth, "You know what you've done. How could you be so vicious? You poisoned my third brother to death at birth and threw him into a mass grave. Luckily, my third brother was lucky enough to be rescued by my father from the mass grave!"
"What? This is impossible. How could your third brother be that child? How could he survive? I personally fed him poisonous chicken soup."
Su Ning'an sneered, "Are you admitting that you murdered the heir of the Meng family?"
"I……"
Cui Zhehan realized that he had been cheated.
"The evidence is all here, so it doesn't matter if you deny it."
"ah--"
Cui Zhehan couldn't bear the pain of broken fingers and fainted.
Su Ning'an was still angry, so he went to a few rough old women including Aunt Gui and cut off their index fingers without mercy.
Not only that, he also broke one of the arms of the women who tied up his mother!
If anyone dares to bully his mother, he will never show mercy!
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