Chapter 25 The Real Culprit of the Poisoning

"This is Hongye, the head maidservant serving in your second brother's courtyard." Seeing his son, Song Shuqing couldn't hold back any longer and tears rolled down.

Song Shuqing listened to his daughter's thoughts and knew that someone in his second son's courtyard had poisoned him, which caused his second son to be weak and sickly.

However, over the past two years, the court doctor had visited him many times and had also invited the imperial physician to see him, but he had never noticed it.

Because Hongye used bitter almonds, every time it was brewed in tea, the tea also had a certain bitterness, hiding the taste of bitter almonds, and the eleven-year-old Feng Yuanhan didn't understand at all, he just thought that the tea brewed by Hongye tasted like this, and he got used to it after a long time.

These days, Feng Zuwen arranged two secret guards to hide in Feng Yuanhan's courtyard.

Unexpectedly, for several consecutive days, it was discovered that Hongye secretly put a kind of powder when brewing tea.

While she was not in the room, the secret guard searched her room and found a packet of medicine powder. They took it to Doctor Zhou and found out that it was bitter almonds.

It is okay to take a little, it is still a good medicine, it can quench thirst, but it is poison if used improperly.

Hongye took advantage of this loophole, but did not give too much, so Feng Yuanhan was sick for a long time.

Then he was arrested and interrogated directly, but nothing could be found out.

Hongye only said that the second young master punished her too severely once, and she hated him, so she wanted to retaliate.

But even a fool knew that she was lying.

That time she just broke Feng Yuanhan's favorite inkstone and punished her to kneel for two hours. How could she hate him so much that she wanted to kill her master? How is this possible?

From Tianxing's inner voice, she knew that her second son died of illness five years later.

When she thought of this, Song Shuqing felt very distressed.

How could she bear it? Song Shuqing, who was always lenient to others, beat the maid with a stick for the first time.

Even so, she didn't want to beat her to death, but just wanted to teach her a lesson so that she could tell the truth.

After fifty sticks, Hongye was already breathing heavily. Although Song Shuqing punished her with fifty sticks, she told the maid not to use too much force.

"Are you going to tell it or not?" Nanny He squatted beside Hongye, took off the handkerchief that was gagged, and asked again.

She was Song Shuqing's dowry nanny, a very loyal old servant, and the housekeeper in Luoxia Courtyard. She was already fifty years old.

"I..., I..., I don't know..., what do you want me to say." Hongye's weak voice was still so ignorant.

"Mother, you can't get anything out of this. Why don't you check her family? I guess she was also coerced." Feng Yuanhao suggested.

Song Shuqing asked Cuiping to go to the outer courtyard to find housekeeper Chen immediately.

When Chen Shiming heard that the lady was looking for him, he immediately trotted in.

An old man who was almost fifty years old ran very fast. He ran to Song Shuqing with a fat body and was a little out of breath.

"Madam, what do you want to talk to me about?"

"Housekeeper Chen, do you have a list of Hongye's family members? And where are they?" Song Shuqing asked.

"Madam, Hongye's life story is a little special. She was born as a servant in our mansion. Her biological father's surname is Liu, and his name is Liu Dahe. When the old lady was in charge, she sent that family to the manor, saying that he was a good hand at managing the manor. Later, I didn't know the situation of that family.

Because it was the old lady's dowry manor. When Hongye was four years old, she was adopted by Zhang Sheng's family as a daughter by her parents because Zhang Sheng's wife could not give birth." Chen Shiming reported everything he knew.

He was a responsible butler, and he knew the origins of the servants in the mansion.

Hongye served in Feng Yuanhan's courtyard for many years, and Song Shuqing almost forgot about her situation.

When Butler Chen said it, she also remembered.

"Is Zhang Sheng good to her?" Feng Yuanhao asked.

"Not very good. He often beat and scolded her when she was little. She always went to her biological mother. Later, when she grew up and got a job, she got better."

Chen Shiming felt pity and sympathy for Hongye, but when he saw the dying person lying on the bench, he retracted his thoughts and guessed that the girl had made an unforgivable mistake.

Feng Yuanhao had a rough guess in his mind after hearing this.

He put Feng Tianxing down and turned the wheelchair to Hongye's side.

"What do you think about this prince taking your biological parents back from the old lady and selling them to the bitter cold land of the Ice and Snow Country?" Feng Yuanhao said in a gloomy voice.

"No..., no." Hongye raised her head with difficulty and looked at Feng Yuanhao in horror.

Her adoptive parents treated her badly, so she often went to her biological mother because only her biological mother really loved her. However, her biological mother gave birth to five children and could not take care of them at all, so she gave her away.

"If you don't want your family to be in trouble, you'd better tell the truth." Feng Yuanhao would not sympathize with her. A servant dared to poison the master. She was looking for death.

"Wuwu..." Hongye cried softly.

She was also very sad. If she didn't do this, her family would be poisoned to death. The old lady threatened her with her biological parents. Her

parents promised her that if she handled this matter well, she could go back to her own home and didn't have to call others her parents.

She was afraid. She was afraid of her current home. She really wanted to go back to her original home, the home where her mother loved her.

And Nanny Zhao said that the medicine would not kill people, but would only make the second young master weak.

However, if she didn't tell, the prince would still destroy her dream.

"Still not telling?" Feng Yuanhao asked again.

Hongye just cried.

"Madam, the old lady is here." Cuixiang hurried to Song Shuqing and reported.

"You are well-informed." Feng Yuanhao sneered.

"Ah Qing, what's wrong?" Ruan Ruoying asked as soon as she reached the door.

"Mother, this maid made a mistake, and my daughter-in-law is punishing her." Song Shuqing replied expressionlessly.

"You have always been kind, why are you so heavy-handed today?" Ruan Ruoying walked quickly to the center of the yard and looked at the half-dead Hongye.

"Old, old lady, save this servant."

Hongye could still ask for help, and it seemed that she would not die for a while.

"Mother, Hongye was found to have poisoned Yuanhan tea. This servant who murdered her master should have been killed, but my daughter-in-law took pity on her young age and gave her a chance. As long as she told who ordered her to do

so, she could be spared." "Did she confess?" Ruan Ruoying asked with a cold face.

"Not yet."

"Then continue to beat her until she confesses. Ah Qing, you are too soft-hearted." Ruan Ruoying patted Song Shuqing's hand, "Madame Huang, Madame Xu, you two continue to beat her until she is willing to confess."

Ruan Ruoying took over the task and ordered the two strong maids she brought with her.

When the two heard the old lady's words, they didn't wait for Song Shuqing to say anything. Without saying a word, they picked up the boards they had used before and started beating her. The boards hit her bones and her screams echoed through the sky.

Song Shuqing was frightened and felt cold all over.

Feng Yuanhao immediately winked at Wang Jiang.

Wang Jiang stepped forward to take the boards from the two women, but the two women avoided him and beat her a few more times.

This time Hongye fainted.

"Mother, what do you mean?" Song Shuqing's face turned cold, and she no longer wanted to pretend to be harmonious with the mother-in-law.

"This kind of servant girl won't confess unless you take drastic measures.

You are too soft-hearted. I have told you many times that you should not be so kind in the future.

You have only been in charge of the family for more than a year, and your prestige is not enough. Mother is teaching you how to discipline servants, otherwise they will be arrogant." Ruan Ruoying preached as an elder. "What

mother said is right. I heard that the biological parents of this maid are in the dowry farm of mother. Can you please hand over that family to your daughter-in-law?" "

What biological parents?" Ruan Ruoying pretended to know nothing.

Chen Shiming stepped forward to explain.

"Oh, I have some impression that Liu Dahe's family seemed to have committed a crime a few years ago and was sold. Now if you want to find them, you may not be able to find them.

What? Do you suspect that it was her biological parents who ordered it? What reason do they have to harm Yuan Han?"

Ruan Ruoying was "confused" and no one would think of her.