Chapter 44: Forcing the Master and Servant to Counterattack
"No. I don't know." Li Jiaojiao immediately questioned Shaoyao, "Shaoyao, tell me honestly, what is this? Why did it appear in your hand?"
Shaoyao knelt down with a plop, trying to find a solution while looking at Li Jiaojiao. She gritted her teeth and said, "This is a medicine box I opened for an illness. I hid it in my sleeve to avoid misunderstanding."
"What medicine is this?" Su Luo asked while weighing the medicine box.
The pharmacist was right beside her. Shaoyao didn't dare lie, but she couldn't tell the truth either. She let her hands hang down on her legs, clutching her knees tightly. "I have a strange disease that needs to be treated with this medicine. I don't know what it is exactly."
"Please ask the pharmacist to take a look." Su Luo smiled with a hint of coldness and handed it to the pharmacist.
The pharmacist opened it, smelled it, and immediately said, "It's a lacquer poison that can cause rashes on the skin. If you apply it on your body, you will quickly get rashes all over your body..."
The pharmacist hesitated to speak, and soon realized that this matter was not that simple.
"Pharmacist, just tell me what you want. I will take care of anything for you." Su Luo advised gently.
Seeing he couldn't evade the situation, the pharmacist simply said, "The symptoms caused by this lacquer poison...are the same as the rash that young lady has."
Zhou Yan's eyes suddenly became a little sinister!
Li Ziyan's face also fell instantly!
The next moment, Shaoyao immediately shouted in panic, "I, I know nothing! The doctor prescribed this medicine for me, and I had no idea it could cause a rash all over the young lady's body!"
"What disease do you have? Which clinic got the medicine? How do you use this medicine?" Su Luo asked.
Shaoyao was becoming increasingly panicked by the interrogation and lowered her head, saying, "It was given to me by a traveling doctor. I had a shortness of breath disease, and I took this medicine..."
She was smart enough to know that it was a traveling doctor who gave it to her, and since the doctor was a doctor everywhere, she couldn't confront him.
Su Luo gave Yun Ran a look: "Since it is to be taken, then just eat it!"
Yun Ran unscrewed the medicine box, Qing Xue and Qing Ya grabbed Shao Yao's arms on both sides, Yun Ran clamped Shao Yao's chin with one hand, forcing her to open her mouth, and with the other hand poured the medicine directly into her mouth -
"Pooh!" Shaoyao struggled and spit out the medicine! She screamed in horror, "Miss! Miss, save me!"
Li Jiaojiao looked at the scene with a pale face.
Save? How?
"Enough! Sister-in-law, are you trying to force my maid to death?" Li Jiaojiao's mouth trembled slightly, and her tone became sharper. "Tell me! Shaoyao, did you accidentally touch the medicine and hugged Sister Nan without washing your hands, causing Sister Nan to have an allergic reaction?"
Shaoyao shuddered at first, then kowtowed hurriedly: "Yes! Yes, that's right, it's my fault. I shouldn't have hugged Sister Nan without washing my hands after using the medicine."
Now Li Jiaojiao just wanted to make a big deal out of a small matter. She stepped forward and slapped Shaoyao: "You slut, how can you hold a child after using such dangerous drugs? You almost made me misunderstand my sister-in-law!"
Shaoyao was beaten and cried. She knelt down and kowtowed in fear, making the ground bang bang loudly: "It was my carelessness. It was my fault——"
Zhou Yan breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, it was not Li Jiaojiao or Su Luo who poisoned him, otherwise he really didn't know how this situation would end.
There was a hint of inquiry and suspicion in Li Ziyan's eyes.
Shaoyao uses medicine that can cause allergies. Don’t you know how to wash your hands before holding the baby?
Even if Shaoyao accidentally got the medicine on the child, why did she come to Su Luo's yard with this medicine box?
Li Zi Yan, who was used to the secrets of the backyard, frowned and said nothing. After all, Li Jiaojiao was her niece, so she would not delve into some things. Let's see if Su Luo can let her go.
"Why are you apologizing to me? Apologize to the Crown Prince's wife! It's all your fault. I almost misunderstood my sister-in-law." Li Jiaojiao looked at Su Luo with panic and trepidation, "Sister-in-law, I'm sorry, Jiaojiao was wrong..."
Trying to confuse the situation? No way.
Su Luo curled her lips, but there was no hint of a smile on her face: "Wait, no need to apologize yet. If you are taking this medicine because you are sick, then don't delay your treatment. Why don't you feed Shaoyao the medicine quickly?"
The medicine would cause rashes when applied to the body, and if swallowed, all the internal organs would become red and swollen. Shaoyao was so scared that her face turned pale.
"Why are you so scared? Isn't it said that medicine can cure diseases and can be taken? It's okay for you to take a little, right?" Su Luo said.
Qingxue and Qingya forcibly grabbed Shaoyao's arms. After Yun Ran opened the medicine box, he didn't dare to touch the medicine. He carefully picked out a piece with a handkerchief and forced it into Shaoyao's mouth!
"No! Don't!" Shaoyao shouted, shaking her head and pushing like crazy!
"I don't want to eat! I can't eat!" Shaoyao was very panicked.
What would people around her not understand when they see her like this?
"This medicine isn't for curing illnesses, is it?" Su Luo's tone was calm, yet it gave people an unreasonable fear. "If you bite it to death today and it can cure an illness, then you must take it. If it can't cure an illness, then you don't have to take it!"
Su Luo was about to force Shaoyao to admit in person that it was not medicine at all, but poison.
As soon as the lacquer poison touched her mouth, Shaoyao felt a piercing burning pain on her lips. If she really swallowed it, wouldn't she be dead?!
Shaoyao cried out in fear: "Please, Princess, please let this servant go! I am just a servant! Please, Princess, please spare this servant..."
"Let me ask you again! Can you take this medicine?" Su Luo's tone became a little sharper.
Shaoyao was horrified and trembled, "No. I can't!"
Li Jiaojiao closed her eyes tremblingly in despair, twisted her silk handkerchief to cover her pounding heart, and two words exploded in her mind: It's over.
Li Jiaojiao immediately took the initiative and scolded, "Peony! Why did you lie to everyone and say this medicine is edible?"
If Li Jiaojiao wasn't saved, she would be tortured to death when she returned. Shaoyao could only turn pale, her lips trembling as she said, "It was this servant... This servant wanted to frame the Crown Prince's Consort..."
"What nonsense! You are just a mere servant. How dare you frame the Crown Prince's Consort without your master's permission? Who are you? Who is the Crown Prince's Consort? How could you possibly frame her without authorization?" Yun Ran retorted with a cold face.
"No, no, my lady didn't instruct..." Shaoyao cried, "My master didn't do that!"
"Okay, no, right? You just acted on your own and plotted to murder the master. Even so, you will be taken to the government."
Su Luo said calmly, "You poisoned Sister Nan, which is attempted murder. According to the law,
"You will be sentenced to life imprisonment, and then you framed your master. This is betrayal, and you will be flogged sixty times. Don't underestimate these sixty lashes. They are iron whips covered with barbs and coated with chili oil. If you hit someone, thirty lashes can be fatal."
Shaoyao was so scared that she collapsed on the ground like mud, with the corners of her mouth trembling for a long time, and she was too scared to say a word.
If she betrayed Li Jiaojiao, she might be tortured half to death. If she didn't betray Li Jiaojiao, she would die directly. Between half death and death, Shaoyao subconsciously chose half death and gradually looked at Li Jiaojiao...
Li Jiaojiao clenched her fists slightly, staring at her with murderous eyes.
Dare! You dare to betray me!
Li Jiaojiao roared in her heart, but she gritted her teeth and said, "Peony, you better think before you speak."
"Yes..." Shaoyao looked timid, not daring to look at Li Jiaojiao. She just kowtowed with her forehead on the ground, but raised her hand and pointed at Li Jiaojiao.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
