Everyone's face changed drastically when they heard this, and they looked at the master and servant with unfriendly expressions.
Xu Wanqing was half leaning on the bed, her head was already dizzy from the pain, and she was so angry when she heard such words out of the blue that her whole body was shaking.
Zhu'er's words made it sound as if she had deliberately taken poison to commit suicide!
She yelled in a breath, "When did I want to commit suicide?"
"I know you are suffering..." Zhu'er cried and wiped her tears: "The Xu family is so cruel, pushing you into the fire pit!"
"Lord Hua favors his concubine over his wife, and he's old enough to be my young lady's father!" Zhu'er crawled forward on her knees, grabbed the hem of Hua Yuanzhao's skirt and cried, "Miss Hua, please help my young lady escape from this sea of suffering for the sake of your acquaintance..."
"Please, don't save my lady anymore..."
The room was so quiet that one could hear a pin drop, leaving only the intermittent sound of Zhu'er's crying.
Aunt Su crossed her arms and sneered sarcastically: "It turns out that our Hua family is marrying up. That's why Miss Xu is so reluctant to marry. She even thought about committing suicide on her wedding night."
Xu Wanqing was so angry that she almost fainted. She used all her strength to smash the porcelain pillow at Zhu'er.
She had no strength in her hands, and the porcelain pillow didn't hurt Zhu'er at all when it hit her.
"My lord...I didn't..." Xu Wanqing supported herself and grasped Prime Minister Hua's sleeve tightly.
"I married you willingly... I never thought of dying... She was the one who was harming me..." Xu Wanqing said intermittently.
Prime Minister Hua looked at Xu Wanqing with tears in her eyes and couldn't help but feel a little soft-hearted, but he couldn't agree with her statement.
"She is your dowry maid. How could she harm you?" Prime Minister Hua pulled out his sleeves coldly.
Not only him, but almost everyone present, including Old Madam Hua and the Hua family's servants, thought so.
The maidservant who came with the bride was the young lady's confidant. Which confidant would harm her master for no reason? Especially on such a sensitive occasion as the wedding night!
Hua Yuanzhao glanced at Zhu'er who was grabbing his clothes and scolded coldly: "You are such a weird maid! Your young lady asked me to save her, why are you stopping me here! Do you mean that if she wants to die, she must die?"
Just looking at Xu Wanqing's appearance, it doesn't look like she is performing a duet with the maid!
"Besides, there are so many poisons that kill instantly when exposed to blood! If your young lady really wanted to commit suicide, why would she use this?" Hua Yuanzhao glanced at the powder in the nanny's hand and added with disdain.
"Even if she took all the medicine, she would have to wait for more than an hour before she died! What's more, she only took a little?" Hua Yuanzhao sneered: "You left me so much time to rescue her. Do you think less of my medical skills?"
Zhu Er was dumbfounded, and stammered for a long time before saying, "This... Miss was afraid that a sudden death would cause dissatisfaction among Lord Hua, and that he would vent his anger on the Xu family, so she resorted to this method..."
This reason was totally untenable. Zhu'er panicked after she said it and couldn't help but steal a glance at Aunt Su.
Aunt Su looked away and pretended she didn't see it, but she said, "Miss Xu is very filial. At this time, she still thinks about not wanting the Xu family to be implicated."
Xu Wanqing cursed in pain: "With your medical skills, can't you tell whether I died of illness or poisoning? I'm not that confused!"
Zhu'er has been with her since she was a child. Who has bribed her to harm her like this?
Hua Yuanzhao looked at Zhu'er coldly: "Could it be that you were bribed by someone and came up with this excuse to get away with it because you failed to harm others?"
She turned around and looked at Prime Minister Hua: "Father, instead of speculating here, why not ask someone to investigate this maid carefully first."
After she finished speaking, she did not give Prime Minister Hua time to react, and continued: "Although this medicine will not be fatal in the short term, the poison will enter the heart and lungs and is extremely harmful to the body. If we delay any further, I am afraid it will damage the body."
"Why don't you, father and grandmother, go out first? We still have time to investigate this matter slowly." Hua Yuanzhao spread out the needle bag and chased them away with quick movements.
Prime Minister Hua glared at her unwillingly, then flicked his sleeves and walked out.
It would be a trouble if Xu died today. It would be better to let this evil girl rescue her first, and then he would slowly settle the score after she is rescued!
Without anyone noticing, Aunt Su raised the corner of her mouth slightly and looked at Hua Yuanzhao with contempt in her eyes.
A little girl is just a little girl. She relies on the little medical skills she has learned and looks down on everyone!
She couldn't wait to see Hua Yuanzhao's next expression!
Hua Yuanzhao first fed Xu Wanqing a pill of detoxification that he prepared, and then said, "I'll give you acupuncture first. It will be a little painful, so bear with it."
Xu Wanqing nodded with tears in her eyes and said weakly: "Miss, that medicine was not prepared by me..."
The Xu family wanted to rely on her to win over Prime Minister Hua, and this was definitely not done by anyone in the Xu family.
For a moment, she couldn't figure out who bribed Zhu'er...
"Please, help me..." Xu Wanqing spoke with difficulty: "I can't die today..."
Silver light flew from Hua Yuanzhao's fingertips. She inserted the needle without any hesitation. She looked calm and composed, not like a little girl, but more like an elderly doctor.
She did not distract herself from answering until the last needle was placed. When she stopped the needle, she asked back: "This little bit of poison will not kill you. Why, don't you believe in my medical skills?"
Xu Wanqing smiled weakly. She looked at Hua Yuanzhao's calm appearance, but her eyes gradually became distracted. She suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood from the corner of her mouth, and her breath, which had been able to be maintained, suddenly became weak.
"I...I don't want to die..."
"Please...save...me..."