Ma Dazhuang pursed his lips. If he hadn't recently made money thanks to Zhang Caiyun, he wouldn't have bothered with her.
“Mr. Mu, judging a case requires evidence, not just your words. You can convict someone just by opening and closing your mouth.”
Mu Wanting smiled and said, "How about you give me seven days, sir? I will definitely find the evidence."
Ma Dazhuang said, "Okay."
As for how to do it, Mu Wanting already had a plan in mind.
"Qin'er, Qin'er!"
Just then, Shen Mingjiao's heart-wrenching cries came from the other side.
Mu Wanting hurried over and saw the three emaciated people lying on the trolley with pale faces and sunken cheeks.
Qin'er fared even worse. When Mu Wanting was around, she was a chubby little girl who was well-fed.
Forty days after Mu Wanting and Shen Xinglan left, Qin'er developed a pointed chin, became thin and small like a monkey, and had pale lips.
Now, there's absolutely no response.
Let me take a look.
Shen Mingjiao was taken aback, but upon hearing Mu Wanting's voice, she immediately turned around, her dull eyes instantly brightening.
"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, you're back! Please save Qin'er, I beg you!"
After saying this, he kowtowed three times to Mu Wanting while on the cart, as if he had gone mad.
Mu Wanting quickly helped her up, her brows furrowed.
"What are you doing? Give Qin'er back to me right now."
Shen Mingjiao watched Qin'er's life force slowly slip away, and she was extremely anxious, holding Qin'er all day long and refusing to let go.
When she handed Qin'er over, her hand instinctively pulled back slightly, but upon seeing that the person was Mu Wanting, she forced herself to hand Qin'er over to Mu Wanting.
Mu Wanting reached out and touched her, only to find that Qin'er's breathing was weak.
"Hurry up and feed her, she's very hungry."
Shen Mingjiao's tears flowed again.
"Sister-in-law, I have no breast milk. We don't have much food, so how could we possibly have breast milk? Thank goodness you gave me two cans of formula earlier, otherwise Qin'er would have starved to death long ago."
Mu Wanting then noticed that Shen Mingjiao had bitten all ten of her fingers, and there were also several wounds of varying depths on her wrists.
Mu Wanting felt a pang of pain in her heart. She had no choice but to take out glucose from her bag and feed some to Qin'er. She also dissolved some life-saving pills in water, poured them into a baby bottle, and fed them to Qin'er.
Fortunately, Qin'er still has the instinct to suck, and soon drank some milk powder in big gulps.
After a while, Qin'er's body temperature finally stopped being so low, and her breathing calmed down.
Mu Wanting then prepared a small amount of milk powder for her and fed it to her.
Shen Mingjiao watched from the side, already sobbing uncontrollably.
“It’s my fault as a mother. If I had begged my husband’s family to let me stay when they were discussing divorcing me, instead of resolutely taking Qin’er with me into exile, things might have been different.”
"Now I'm in exile with Qin'er, and I don't have the ability to protect her. I feel ashamed as her mother."
Mu Wanting shook her head: "I know your husband's family. They are all short-sighted people who value their future above all else. They would never leave you and your daughter behind. It's no use begging them."
“Your family is full of loyal martyrs, but now there are people who cannot tolerate you.”
With Qin'er out of danger, Mu Wanting bandaged Shen Mingjiao's hand wound.
She couldn't say anything to Shen Mingjiao. It was maternal love; Shen Mingjiao couldn't possibly watch Qin'er starve to death, so feeding Qin'er her blood was understandable.
Mu Wanting felt sorry for her. She was originally a bright and cheerful woman, but she had been tortured into this state.
She patted Shen Mingjiao on the shoulder.
"Mingjiao, don't be afraid. Your second brother and I are here now. We've bought a lot of supplies, so you won't go hungry anymore, and the baby will get better and better."
Shen Mingjiao's tense body finally relaxed, and she burst into tears. After she had cried herself out, Mu Wanting handed her a meat bun. Gone was her former elegance; she wolfed it down.
Seeing Mu Wanting holding and comforting the child, she finally closed her eyes and was able to get a good night's sleep. She no longer had to worry about Qin'er waking up frequently and had to check Qin'er's breathing several times a day.
A moment later, Shen Xinghe also opened his eyes groggily, looking heartbroken and dejected.
Mu Wanting took his pulse and found that he was suffering from depression and his spleen and stomach had become weak. Then, Mu Wanting raised her eyebrows.
"Are you... poisoned?"
His poison was extremely well hidden; if she hadn't examined his pulse, she really wouldn't have been able to detect it.
Shen Xinghe's eyes lit up, moved slightly, then dimmed again, and then there was no further reaction.
His eyes lit up when he saw Shen Xinglan limping towards him, and he straightened up.
Then he pinched his thigh, which made him gasp in pain, but his smile grew wider and wider.
"Second brother, sister-in-law, you're alright! That's wonderful."
His voice choked with emotion.
"I thought I was hallucinating again."
Shen Xinglan lightly punched his chest.
“You brat, now that I’m gone, you should be standing up to protect your family, not giving up.”
Shen Xinghe looked guilty, and Mu Wanting, unusually, spoke up for him.
"He was poisoned, there was nothing that could be done."
Shen Xinghe looked at Mu Wanting with shock and fear.
"I?"
Shen Xinglan's eyes were full of worry: "What kind of poison did he get?"
"Laxatives, and for a long time."
As soon as she finished speaking, Shen Xinghe sat up, clutched his stomach, and went into the grove.
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