"Little meow."
Gu Yunran ran over, squatted down and hugged it. The cat was spitting blood from the corners of its mouth. It curled up in Gu Yunran's arms and kept twitching, looking very painful.
Everyone was stunned, not knowing what to do for a moment. Madam Mu had been through many storms, so seeing this situation, she quickly calmed down and ordered, "Go get a veterinarian to take a look at what's going on."
A maid ran out to get a veterinarian, and Madam Mu said, "Everyone, don't eat for now."
In this situation, she didn't know if there was something wrong with the food, so she asked someone to call the court physician. In a moment, Doctor Li came hurriedly carrying a medicine box.
"Old lady."
Doctor Li came in and bowed respectfully to Madam Mu, then placed the medicine box beside her. Madam Mu said, "The cat vomited blood after eating this plate of eels. Can you please take a look at what's wrong with the eels?"
"yes."
Doctor Li took out a silver needle and began to test for poison. He not only tested the eel three times, but also all the dishes three times. He said, "There is no problem with these dishes."
Madam Mu frowned. "What's going on? How could a perfectly healthy cat vomit blood after eating an eel?"
Thinking of this, Madam Mu felt a pang of fear. Fortunately, it was the cat that was in trouble. If... Madam Mu looked at Gu Yunran, her eyes slightly narrowed...
Doctor Li frowned and couldn't think of a solution for a moment. At this time, the veterinarian arrived. Because the stable was a bit far from here, he came a little late.
When he arrived, Madam Mu didn't ask him to bow but asked him to examine the cat directly. After a while, Madam Mu asked, "Does this cat have any serious illness?"
Zhuye frowned. "The lady's cat is very healthy, how could it be sick?" He was still jumping around this morning. "I just don't know if this veterinarian will tell the truth."
She looked at the veterinarian, a young man about her age, and heard him say, "Madam, the cat is in good health and has not contracted any serious illness."
"Then why did it suddenly vomit blood?" Gu Yunran hugged the cat, her eyes swollen from crying.
Since she married into the shogunate, Mu Qianceng has been busy with affairs. She mostly stays in the courtyard with a few maids and is not very familiar with the people in the mansion. After what happened with Song Ge'er, she is unwilling to get too close to people in other courtyards to avoid any more accidents.
Mu Qianchen gave her a cat to keep her company, and they had developed feelings for the cat after raising it for so long.
The young veterinarian frowned, thought for a moment, and said, "What did it eat?"
"Eel." Third Miss Mu Qianshuang pointed at the eels on the table. "Here, that's the plate. Doctor Li has already checked it. There's nothing wrong with it."
The young veterinarian thought for a moment and then asked, "Have you ever eaten anything else before, like schizonepeta?"
"I've eaten." Zhuye hurriedly took over. "This morning, the second young lady specially brought breakfast to our grandmother. One of the special dishes was nepeta porridge. I've never eaten it before."
"The kitten was greedy and ate a lot."
Mu Qianxue had been standing nearby like an invisible person, her eyebrows lowered, her mind unsettled. At this moment, she stepped out from the crowd and admitted, "Yes, that's right. I made some nepeta porridge this morning and ate it with my second sister-in-law." She looked at the young veterinarian and asked innocently, "Why, is there something wrong with that?"
The young veterinarian nodded. "That's right. That's the problem. Schizonepeta and eel cannot be eaten together. They are mutually exclusive. Eating them together will cause nausea and vomiting in the mildest case, and vomiting of blood and death in the worst case. No medicine will help."
After hearing what the young veterinarian said, Mu Qianxue shook for a moment, her face turned pale, her eyes red, and she cried aggrievedly: "So it's my fault." She walked up to Gu Yunran and looked at the dying cat, and said guiltily: "I'm sorry, second sister-in-law, I didn't know, I really didn't know..."
Qin's face darkened, and she walked forward to hold Mu Qianxue. "Xue'er, why are you apologizing? Who knew that these two foods were incompatible? You're not a doctor."
"I don't want you to make an unintentional mistake."
"But..." Mu Qianxue's eyes were red, and she felt guilty, "If it weren't for me..."
Madam Mu also said, "Forget it. You didn't mean to do this. It's just a cat. Tomorrow I'll ask Mama Mu to go to the market and buy another one for Yun Ran."
The cat was already lifeless, with blood still flowing from the corner of its mouth. Until the last moment, it was still looking at Gu Yunran and smiling at it, and even reached out to touch her cheek. Unfortunately, it didn't have the strength to lift its hand and it dropped down.
Gu Yunran sobbed softly. After hearing what Qin and the old lady said, she held back the tears in her eyes, stood up, looked up at Mu Qianxue, and smiled: "Grandma is right. It was an unintentional mistake on your part. Don't take it to heart."
Mu Qianxue looked at the cat in Gu Yunran's arms, "But, in the end, I was the one who killed it." She reached out to pull Gu Yunran's hand, "Second sister-in-law, Xue'er will give you another cat someday."
"No need." Gu Yunran refused, pulling his hand back from Mu Qianxue's, and said calmly, "I'll bury it."
She looked at Madam Mu and Qin again, bowed slightly, and said, "Grandma, Auntie, Yun Ran will take her leave first."
After she finished speaking, without waiting for Madam Mu and Qin to speak, she carried the cat and Zhuye away.
Old Madam Mu looked at her departing back and said nothing in the end. Finally, she glanced at Mu Qianxue with a hint of disappointment in her eyes.
Qin snorted, "Mother, look at her, look at how noble she is. She's just a beast, it's dead, we can just buy a new one. Qianxue didn't do it on purpose. She made breakfast for her out of kindness, so what's wrong with that?"
"Really, really...what's so great about it? If it weren't for Chen'er, who would give her the face? She dared to be so disrespectful to me after marrying into our Mu family."
Qin's chest was heaving with anger. She had long disliked Gu Yunran, and now she had seized the opportunity to criticize him non-stop. Madam Mu frowned slightly and shouted, "Enough!"
The originally good family dinner turned into this, and she lost her mood and ordered the maid: "Clear all the tables."
"yes."
The maids went forward to clear the things away, but Madam Mu said again, "Everyone, please leave. I'm tired."
After saying that, Mother Mu helped the old lady to the inner hall, leaving everyone in the room looking at each other in bewilderment. Qin was still scolding Gu Yunran, and she even took the hand of the third wife Wang and said, "Old Third, do you think this is our Xue'er's fault? Is it, huh?"
"Xue'er meant well but ended up doing something bad. She wanted to have a good relationship with Gu Yunran, so she got up before dawn to make breakfast for her and even brought it to her personally. Really, who knew it would be like this? It's really unreasonable."
Third Madam Wang pulled Qin's hand away and said calmly, "Yun Ran didn't say anything, and she didn't blame Xue'er. You keep explaining to Xue'er as if she really did it on purpose."
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