Chapter 1364 Xiao Family Poisoning
Madam Xiao never expected that the Second Prince was still alive, let alone that the Xiao family and the Third Prince would be so bold as to hide him in the mansion.
She went to the head of the household, pretending to know nothing, and asked him why he had taken away his nanny and maid.
However, the patriarch who used to treat her kindly and said she was the only daughter of the Xiao family now had a gloomy look in his eyes, like a venomous snake, telling her not to meddle or ask questions, and forbidding her from stepping out of the Xiao family compound.
If she dares to say or do anything reckless, not only will her servants be in danger, but even her parents will be at risk.
Xiao was terrified. After returning home, she thought about it again and again and felt that the head of the family was risking the lives of the entire Xiao family.
That wasn't all; what was worse, Xiao suspected she had been poisoned.
She suddenly lost weight, and it was true that she couldn't eat or sleep well. But it wasn't that she didn't have an appetite or didn't want to eat; rather, she felt nauseous every time it was mealtime.
She knew her father wasn't sick, so how could he be so sick that he couldn't eat or drink? But her nausea was definitely not normal.
Not only her, but her father's expression also looked very strange.
The Xiao family suspected that the head of the family wanted to eliminate their entire family as a precaution.
But she was helpless; she was being watched, her confidants had been taken away, and her parents were being held hostage. Even if Xiao knew that the head of the family was harming them, she couldn't find a way out.
Her relatives are all from the Xiao family, and they won't help her.
Her friends were turned away when they came to visit the Xiao family.
The only person who came to take her back was her mother-in-law, but Xiao knew that her mother-in-law disliked her, and she herself could not trust her either.
At that moment, Madam Xiao truly longed for Xiang Weinan to return; he was the only person she could trust and entrust with her own life.
Perhaps heaven heard her prayers, because Xiang Weinan really did return.
Xiao was overjoyed. She knew that her relationship with Xiang Weinan was not good. But she also knew her husband's character, that he was intelligent and prudent.
She even... knew that he might have already been the new emperor's man all along.
The trip to Jiangyuan County was not entirely fruitless for the Xiao family.
When the new emperor ascended the throne, she noticed her husband was visibly pleased. As the son-in-law of the Xiao family, he had no fear of being purged by the new emperor.
Despite finding it unbelievable, Ms. Xiao trusted her intuition and believed that her husband's trip to Jiangyuan County might have been intentional.
Sure enough, Xiang Weinan came to the Xiao family after returning to the capital.
The day before, Xiao had used the limited tools at hand to write a message on a handkerchief.
After learning the whole story from Wei Nan, he told the emperor about it.
After some discussion, they all felt it was not a good time to alert the enemy. The emperor intended to take advantage of this opportunity to capture the third prince as well.
However, Xiao was saved.
She has been poisoned and cannot stay in the Xiao family for long, otherwise her life will be in danger.
The emperor didn't care about the Xiao family; sacrificing them for the greater good wasn't a difficult decision for him. But he did care about Xiang Weinan, his trusted subordinate. Xiang Weinan wanted to save his wife; would the emperor really be so cold-blooded as to advise him to give up?
But how to save people is a problem.
However, the letter ended there, and Shu Yu had no idea how they had saved Xiao Shi.
She didn't care; these were things she shouldn't have known anyway.
She even felt that Xiao Shi's discovery of the Second Prince's communications with Xiang Weinan was not something she should have known.
She couldn't understand why Qi Lie would tell her these things.
(End of this chapter)
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