The dim light shone on Xue Hanyu's face, and he didn't look as pale as before.
It might be because he slept and drank medicine, or it might be because he drank the water in Cheng Yue’s palm.
"Hanyu, are you hungry?"
Cheng Yue sat on the bench, facing each other, and asked.
Xue Hanyu shook his head.
"If you're not hungry for a while, you should drink a bowl of porridge to fill your stomach. Your body won't be able to bear it if you don't eat."
Cheng Yue felt very distressed when she saw Xue Hanyu like this.
"Ayue, grandma, is she still here?"
Xue Hanyu looked up at Cheng Yue, and tears welled up in her eyes as soon as she said that.
"Well, this case isn't over yet. The bodies of Madam Shen and the Shen father and son must be kept at the government office. So, Hanyu, cheer up. Only when this case is over can Madam Shen be buried soon. Lord Ji has already sent someone to Jiangnan to inform your aunt and cousins. But the weather is getting warmer now, and Madam Shen will have to be buried before they arrive."
Cheng Yue said.
"I, I want to go see my grandmother..."
Xue Hanyu couldn't stop her tears from falling.
"Hanyu, what you need to do now is not to go see Madam Shen. You need to tell her everything that happened today and let Master Ji find out the truth. Only then can Madam Shen rest in peace. What's the point of you going to see her now? What happened? Why are you unwilling to tell her?"
Cheng Yue asked.
"I don't know, I don't know. It was Sister Yunxiang who was with my grandmother who told Xiaotao that my grandmother had suddenly fallen ill and asked me to go see her for the last time. When I arrived, my grandmother was already vomiting blood. She told me to observe mourning for her and not to get married if I didn't want to. She told me where the tokens of management for Ruyi Manor were hidden, as well as the deed to the manor house that my mother had brought as a dowry. Then my second uncle and second aunt came."
"They said Xiaotao had poisoned my grandmother and wanted to beat her to death. I knelt down and begged them, but they insisted on having someone carry out the execution right in my grandmother's yard. I rushed forward, but they dragged me away and locked me up in the woodshed."
"Later, later..."
"Then my oldest cousin came over and said he wanted to have sex with me. I scolded him, saying that my grandmother was poisoned, and he was still such a jerk!"
"He said my grandmother was dead and hadn't breathed a word yet, and that the mourning hall was being set up outside. He would make it a foregone conclusion that I was his before anyone from the Xue family arrived from the capital. Then he untied the ropes that bound me and tried to defile me. In desperation, I pulled out the hairpin from my head and stabbed him twice. I didn't know where I stabbed him, but the restraints on my body felt lighter, and I wanted to escape. I wanted to see my grandmother and Xiaotao."
"But as soon as I left the house, I was hit with a stick and passed out. When I woke up, I was holding a dagger. My second uncle and eldest cousin were lying on the ground, and my youngest cousin was lying next to the coffin. My second aunt fell down in fear and ordered someone to arrest me."
"They said Xiaotao put arsenic in the bird's nest and that I stabbed my second uncle and eldest cousin to death! Then they fed me a powder that made me unable to speak."
"By the time I could speak, I was already here!"
"Ayue, are grandma and my second uncle and eldest cousin really dead? Was Xiaotao really beaten to death by them?"
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