Chapter 600 The Second Madam is No Easy Person
When Shu Yu arrived, the rest of the Shu family didn't say anything.
Although everyone looked grim, the presence of Zhao Xi yesterday, the equally formidable old lady, and the fact that Shu Yu herself was not someone to be trifled with, all made the Shu family back down.
Madam Hou and the Sixth Miss immediately came over and led her back to her room before asking, "Ayu, what brings you here?"
Shu Yu handed over the oil paper package, saying, "My grandma asked me to bring this over to you. Please eat it, and we can talk while we eat."
Seeing the glistening, oily meat, even Madam Hou couldn't help but swallow hard.
"this……"
Shu Yu didn't allow her to refuse, pushing her towards him, then lowered her voice and asked, "Has there been anything unusual about the Second Madam these past two days?"
Hou was taken aback. She took a bite of the pancake, frowned, and thought for a moment before saying, "It seems there's nothing unusual. Just like the past few days, I get up early to work in the wasteland, and then come back to eat and sleep."
There's really no other time or energy to do anything else.
Shu Yu pondered for a moment, then changed her question, "Did she go out, or cook?"
"Yes." Before Madam Hou could speak, the Sixth Miss said, "When I went to collect firewood last night, I found the Second Madam at the foot of the mountain. Also, although she didn't cook last night's meal, she distributed it."
The Shu family was large, and although the food was cooked together, the distribution of food was determined by the eldest and second wives.
Although I left the Shu family, this inexplicable rule still exists.
Shu Yu narrowed her eyes. "As expected."
She then asked, "After the second young lady vomited blood and fainted yesterday, who went to fetch the doctor?"
Madam Hou was startled, "She's also the second wife."
Her mind worked quickly, and a terrible thought soon popped into her head: "Ayu, do you mean that the Second Miss's illness is related to the Second Madam?"
Shu Yu suddenly stuck out her index finger and shushed her.
Hou and the sixth daughter both looked towards the door, and saw a shadow drift by outside, as if someone had stopped at the door.
Although they spoke in hushed tones, so low that no one outside could hear them, the three of them temporarily stopped talking.
The person outside paused at the door for a moment, probably because they couldn't hear anything, cursed under their breath, and then turned and left.
Shu Yu then said to the Hou family, "I had someone examine her. The second young lady didn't suffer from a stroke due to anger; she was poisoned."
Poisoning?
Madam Hou and the Sixth Miss gasped in shock. "You mean, it's the Second Madam..."
Shu Yu nodded. "It must be her. I didn't expect her to act so quickly. It seems that the death of the Seventh Miss has made her hate the Second Miss to the extreme."
The second wife was never a kind person; she had previously poisoned Aunt Liu's child.
When Lady Hou gave birth, the doctor she had booked in advance did not come to her home, which was also a tactic employed by the second wife.
Don't be fooled by her quiet demeanor during her exile; it's because her core interests haven't been threatened. Her resentment towards Shu Yu isn't as strong as that of the First Madam and the others, after all, they were originally from two different households.
But now that the second young lady dared to kill her daughter, no matter how difficult the circumstances, the second madam will not let her go.
From the moment she overheard the truth to the moment she poisoned the second young lady, only a single day had passed—a remarkably swift action.
Hearing this, Madam Hou became worried, "What if she also targets us?"
(End of this chapter)
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