Chapter 629 If the upper beam is crooked, the lower beam will be crooked too.
"What nonsense are you spouting, child!"
Madam Qi looked displeased and scolded Shen Mingxuan: "How could I possibly poison your father? Can't you use your brain? This must have been done by your sister. Instead of joining me in identifying your sister, you turn around and bite me. Are you trying to make me angry to death?"
As she spoke, she gave her daughter a sharp look, signaling her to shut up.
Shen Mingxuan stared intently at her, her mind in turmoil, but she ultimately didn't reveal that she had seen her mother come to her father's courtyard last night.
She never actually suspected that Shen Wantang had poisoned her father. After all, she was about to get married and wouldn't do something so foolish as to harm others without benefiting herself.
She initially thought that her father must have eaten something wrong, which was why he was vomiting and having diarrhea.
It turns out the person who poisoned her was her mother!
Could it be that she intends to poison her father so that Shen Wantang will observe three years of mourning and be unable to get married?
But she also has to observe three years of mourning. And her brothers, who were already engaged, will all have their marriages delayed after their father's death!
Why did my mother do this?!
At this moment, Madam Qi was also extremely agitated, because she had indeed administered the poison, but she had not expected Shen Guannian's reaction to be so severe. If she had known this would happen, she should not have lit a second incense stick last night!
This time, she went too far with the poisoning; she only intended to make Shen Guannian sick for a few days.
This would give her an excuse to proceed with the next step of her plan.
Just as things were at a stalemate, Santu returned with the doctor.
After examining Shen Guannian's pulse and asking questions, the doctor indeed said that the poison in Shen Guannian's body was horsetail. In fact, the doctor had a very keen sense of smell and could even smell a faint scent of horsetail still lingering in Shen Guannian's room.
While the doctor was taking her pulse, Shen Wantang looked around the room and then showed the incense burner to the doctor.
The doctor examined it, then smelled it, and was greatly surprised: "This is a calming incense made from horsetail! This incense does sell well in the market, but usually only a small amount of horsetail is used. However, this incense contains far too much horsetail, to the point that even after it has been burned to ashes, it still smells of horsetail!"
Shen Guannian rarely used incense, and he was both shocked and angry. His gaze involuntarily fell on Shen Mingxuan again. Clearly, he still believed that Shen Mingxuan had given him the poison.
But he was in so much pain that he couldn't speak, and he didn't even have the strength to curse Shen Mingxuan.
The doctor, aware of his suffering, quickly prescribed an antidote.
San Tu took the prescription and rushed off to get the medicine.
After returning, they decocted the medicine and fed it to Shen Guannian. Within half an hour, Shen Guannian's headache and nausea symptoms were greatly relieved.
Now he finally had the energy to curse.
"Shen Mingxuan, you unfilial daughter! I've always doted on you so much, how dare you treat me so cruelly! You heartless wretch, I'll break your legs today!"
While cursing, Shen Guannian picked up a stick and started hitting Shen Mingxuan.
Shen Mingxuan knelt on the ground, screaming and crying, "I didn't poison her! Why won't Father believe me?"
"You still dare to deny it? I'll beat you to death! I'll teach you to deny it! Do you admit it or not?!"
"I don't admit it! Why should I admit it if it wasn't me?"
Shen Guannian was about to continue hitting her when Qi Shi rushed over and hugged Shen Mingxuan tightly: "Master, if you want to hit someone, hit me, don't hit Xuan'er! She has always respected you the most, how could she possibly poison you? It was clearly Tang'er who poisoned you, how can you be so biased and hit Xuan'er instead of Tang'er!"
"Tang'er has gone mad, that's why she poisoned me on the eve of her wedding!"
Shen Guannian was furious and decided to hit both of them together: "I think it's because you didn't raise your daughter well, letting her be willful and unruly all day long. If you hadn't spoiled her, she wouldn't be so lawless!"
"A few days ago, she insisted on taking Tang'er's place to treat the Duchess at the Duke's mansion, and as a result, she ended up being sold to Chichun Lane. This is all your fault!"
"If the upper beam is crooked, the lower beam will be crooked too. If your mind is crooked, Mingxuan will also follow you and become bad!"
Qi and Shen Mingxuan screamed in agony as they were beaten. Eventually, the mother and daughter embraced and wept bitterly, especially Shen Mingxuan, who cried pitifully.
Shen Wantang looked at the lively scene and a slight smile appeared on her lips.
Then, she turned and walked out of Shen Guannian's courtyard.
Even after she returned to her own courtyard, she could still hear the crying and commotion from the other side.
Qin Xin asked curiously, "Miss, did the eldest young lady really poison the master?"
Shen Wantang smiled and said, "Of course it's not her. Although Shen Mingxuan is stupid and vicious, she wouldn't use her viciousness on her father. After all, for the past ten years or so, her father has truly cherished her like a treasure."
"Huh? Isn't it the young lady? Then why are you saying it's her?"
"Because the one who poisoned him was our good wife, Shen Mingxuan's biological mother. If I say it was Shen Mingxuan, Father will also think it was Shen Mingxuan. Shen Mingxuan will feel wronged and hate the person who really poisoned Father. I was just trying to sow discord between the mother and daughter, not to really find the murderer."
"But how do you know that the young lady will believe that it was the madam who actually poisoned her, and not you?"
“It’s very simple. I’m about to get married, and at this time, the person who least wants anything to happen to my father is me. To poison my father, there must be a reasonable motive. I don’t have that motive, but Shen Mingxuan and the Qi family do.”
As Shen Wantang spoke, she said thoughtfully, "Moreover, I think Shen Mingxuan must know some inside information that we don't know, otherwise she wouldn't have asked Qi Shi first when I framed her, whether she poisoned Father."
Qin Xin nodded in agreement. After a while, she went out again and returned to Shen Guannian's courtyard to listen to the sounds inside.
While listening, she secretly slipped a piece of silver to the servant Sanshui.
Sanshui quietly put the poison away, glanced inside, and then whispered, "They absolutely refuse to admit it, insisting that the Second Miss poisoned them. I don't know what's wrong with Master this time; he doesn't believe a word they say. It wasn't like this before. Before, Master would believe whatever Madam said, never bothering to distinguish between truth and falsehood. I think things are about to change!"
Qin Xin curled her lips in disdain: "He was too lazy to distinguish between truth and falsehood before because it was not him who was suffering, but the Second Miss. Now that the knife is stabbing himself, he naturally knows the pain and knows how to distinguish between truth and falsehood."
She really wanted to yell "Serves him right!", but since Sanshui was Shen Guannian's servant, she held back.
Unexpectedly, she held back, but Sanshui couldn't hold back and said directly, "He deserves it. Madam has deceived him about so many things and tormented the Second Miss countless times, but he never cared. That's why Madam has become bolder and bolder, and now she even dares to poison him directly."
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